[121] See, for example, Hardy and Page, London and Middlesex Fines, p. 3. This volume also shows that Norton Folgate was formerly called Norton Folyot from a well-known family.
[122] Calendar of St. Paul’s Documents, p. 25.
[123] A sixteenth-century London document has “stoop or post.”
[124] Athenæum, 8th July 1899.
[125] Compare “portmeadows” and lands belonging to citizens elsewhere. At Colchester in 1086 there was a strip eight perches wide surrounding the town wall. As late as 1833 the borough of Bedford included “a broad belt of land.” For a full account of the commonable fields of Cambridge and a discussion of the subject generally, see Maitland’s Township and Borough. The London boundary was called the Line of Separation.
[126] The common pasturage of Westminster is mentioned in a charter.
[127] London and Middlesex Archæological Society Trans., vol. v. See also for these documents Dr. Sharpe’s Letter Book C.
[128] See also Stow’s account of the alienation of common lands. Mile-End, according to Froissart, was “a fair plain place where the people of the city did sport them in summer.”
[129] Fenchurch also seems to have been connected with this land, or at least the eastern suburb.
[130] The Friday fair of horses still lasted when Froissart wrote his account of Wat Tyler.