[199] Lick up the penny—Howell writes, “Some call London a Lickpenny, as Paris is called a Pick-purse, because of feastings and other occasions of expense.”

[200] Book now disappeared. See for this and Stone generally, Price’s Roman Pavement in Bucklersbury. It is not necessary that the note should be as old as the book.

[201] London and Middlesex Archæological Society, vol. v.

[202] Parentalia.

[203] This must be just the meaning of Berefridam—Burhfrid—Town-peace.

[204] Domesday and Beyond, p. 192.

[205] Ibid. p. 184.

[206] Lincoln also had a gerefa in the seventh century (Bede, ii. 6).

[207] Geoffrey de Mandeville.

[208] Maitland’s London speaks of a list amongst the British Museum MSS.

[209] See Round in Dict. Nat. Biog. and Commune of London.

[210] F. Palgrave, Rotuli Curiæ Regis, vol. i. p. 12.

[211] Skeat says the weight was called from Troyes, but gives no conclusive reasons. See also Notes and Queries, 1871. Cripp’s English Plate seems to prove this point.

[212] In Rolls Series.

[213] Illus. Rom. Lond. and valuable article, Archæol. xxix.

[214] There may have been a tower on the Bush Lane site: I am speaking of a large walled castrum.

[215] Like the one which has left us its bath in Essex Street, Strand. The 1681 Catalogue of objects in the Museum of the Royal Society describes a mosaic pavement found in Holborn near St. Andrew’s.

[216] At Bucklersbury, described by Price.

[217] As many discoveries of walls and pavements have shown; as, for instance, at the south end of Bishopsgate Street, in Threadneedle Street, Lombard Street, at the Bank, the Royal Exchange, Bucklersbury, Cannon Street, and the north side of Thames Street.

[218] Roach Smith in London and Middlesex Archæological Trans. vol i.

[219] I may say here that the drawing of the Roman pavement (Fig. 35) was originally made for Roach Smith by Fairholt.

[220] The mark P. LON. is first found on a coin of Diocletian.

[221] Other plans by A. Ryther, Norden, and Porter are small, and of little use except for giving the extent of suburban building at the moment of the execution of each.