This Sir William Eastfield, knight of the Bath, a great benefactor to the water-conduits.
1438. The 17th, Hugh Diker, Nicholas Yoo; mayor, Stephen Brown, grocer.
Wheat sold for three shillings the bushel; but this man sent into Prussia, and caused to be brought from thence certain ships laden with rye, which did great relief.
1439. The 18th, Philip Malpas, Robert Marshal; mayor, Robert Large, mercer.
Philip Malpas at his decease gave one hundred and twenty pounds to poor prisoners, and every year for five years four hundred and three shirts and smocks, forty pairs of sheets, and one hundred and fifty gowns of frieze to the poor, to poor maids’ marriages one hundred marks, to highways one hundred marks, and to five hundred poor people in London every one six shillings and eight pence, etc.
1440. The 19th, John Sutton, William Wetinhall; mayor, John Paddesley, goldsmith, master of the works of money in the Tower of London.
1441. The 20th, William Combis, Richard Rich; mayor, Robert Clopton, draper.
1442. The 21st, Thomas Beamont, Richard Morden; mayor, John Hatherley, ironmonger.
1443. The 22nd, Nicholas Wilforde, John Norman; mayor, Thomas Catworth, grocer.
1444. The 23rd, Stephen Forstar, Hugh Witch; mayor, Henry Frowicke, mercer.