[1053] Const. Hist., i. 406.
[1054] £327 3s. 11d. "blanch," plus £209 6s. 5½d. "numero."
[1055] "Infinitæ copiæ pecuniam ... cum ore imperioso ab eis exegit" (Gesta Stephani).
[1056] "Interpellata est et a civibus ut leges eis regis Edwardi observare liceret, quia optimæ erant, non patris sui Henrici quia graves erant" (Cont. Flor. Wig.).
[1057] London ("Historic Towns"), p. 38. The Master of University similarly writes: "He [Henry II.] renewed the charter of the city of London" (i. 90).
[1058] England under the Angevin Kings, ii. 471. The writer, being only acquainted with the printed copy of the charter (Liber Custumarum, ed. Riley, pp. 31, 32), had only the names of the two witnesses there given (the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London) to guide her, but, fortunately, the Liber Rubeus version records all the witnesses (thirteen in number) together with the place of testing, thus limiting the date to 1154-56, and virtually to 1155.
[1059] The omitted clauses are these: "Sciatis me concessisse civibus meis Londoniarum, tenendum Middlesex ad firmam pro ccc libris ad compotum, ipsis et heredibus suis, de me et heredibus meis, ita quod ipsi cives ponent vicecomitem qualem voluerint de se ipsis, et justitiarium qualem voluerint de se ipsis, ad custodiendum placita coronæ meæ et eadem placitanda; et nullus alius erit justitiarius super ipsos homines Londoniarum."
[1060] "Lond'" (Liber Rubeus).
[1061] "Et" omitted in L. R.
[1062] "Portsoca" (L. R.).