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[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’sRoman 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’sLondonspeaks of a list amongst the British Museum MSS.

[209]See Round inDict. Nat. Biog.andCommune 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 alsoNotes and Queries, 1871. Cripp’sEnglish Plateseems 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 inLondon 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[219]I may say here that the drawing of the Roman pavement (Fig. 35) was originally made for Roach Smith by Fairholt.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 markP. 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.


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