Note 208 — Chapter VIII · The Governors of the City
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‘Nunc primum in sibi indulta conjuratione, regno regem deesse cognovit Londonia, quam nec rex ipse Ricardus, nec prædecessor et pater ejus Henricus pro mille millibus marcarum argenti fieri permississet.’—Richard of Devizes, p. 416 (Commune of London, p. 223)