Note 2256 — Scene V.[2254]
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“a. d. 1419. This year Sir Symon Eyre built Leadenhall, at his proper expense, as it now appears, and gave the same to the City to be employed as a public granary for laying up corn against a time of scarcity.”—Maitland’s History and Survey of London, II. 187. According to Stow, Eyre was a draper, became Mayor in 1445, and died in 1459.