1471.

A dispute between Corpus Christi College and William Godfrey a burgess, respecting a piece of land in St. Mary's, was referred to John Connyngesburgh clerk, Doctor of Law, President of the University, and John Croft mayor of the town, who made their award respecting it on the 15th of November in this year. To this is affixed the mayor's official seal. It is about the size of a penny piece, is circumscribed “Sigillu. Majoritatis Villæ Cant.” and represents a four-arched bridge in the water, and thereon an escocheon of France and England quarterly, supported in base by two lions sejant.

1472.

In the Proctors accounts, £3. 8s. 4d. is charged as “paid the Pope's nuncio and his servant in reward.”

In or about this year, Margaret wife of Roger Fawkener founded an almshouse for four poor women near Great St. Mary's church on a site now occupied by the Senate House. This almshouse was in 1504 taken down and conveyed to King's College, the Provost and fellows of which erected another adjoining that College.

1473.

On the 12th of July, the King issued a writ directed to the sheriffs of London, by which he commanded that they should make public proclamation (amongst other things) that sturdy mendicants, feigning to be scholars of some University, in want of necessaries to sustain them in their studies, should not wander about without letters testimonial from their Chancellors, under pain of imprisonment.