Nicholas Faringdon was never sheriff, yet four times mayor of this city, and so of other, which reproveth a bye word, such a one will be mayor, or he be sheriff, etc.
Then is there a chamberlain of London. A common clerk, or town clerk. A common sergeant.
OFFICERS BELONGING TO THE LORD MAYOR’S HOUSE
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Sword-bearer, Common hunt, Common crier, Water bailiff. | esquires, four. |
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The sword-bearer’s man. Common hunt’s men, two. Common crier’s man. Water-bailiffs’ men, two. The carver’s man. | gentlemen’s men, seven. |
Whereof nine of these have liveries of the lord mayor, viz., the sword-bearer, and his man, the three carvers, and the four yeomen of the water side; all the rest have their liveries from the chamber of London.
Thus far after my notes delivered by an officer of the lord mayor’s house, but unperfected; for I remember a crowner, an under-chamberlain, and four clerks of the mayor’s court, and others.
THE SHERIFFS OF LONDON; THEIR OFFICERS
The sheriffs of London, in the year 1471, were appointed each of them to have sixteen sergeants, every sergeant to have his yeoman, and six clerks; to wit, a secondary, a clerk of the papers, and four other clerks, besides the under sheriffs’ clerks, their stewards, butlers, porters, and other in household many.