[1] [2] [3] [4] About the same season the citizens of London found themselues greeued verie sore, Matth. Paris. Strife be|twixt the Lõ|doners and the abbat of Westminster for such liber|ties as the king granted to the abbat of Westmin|ster, to the great hinderance and decaie of the fran|chises of their citie. The maior and communaltie re|sisted all that they might against those liberties, and finallie by the good helpe and fauour of the lords, as the earles of Cornewall and Leicester, they obteined their purpose.William de Kilkennie keéper of the great seale. This yeare maister William de Kil|kennie, a sober, faithfull and learned man, was made keeper of the great seale. ¶ The same yeare vpon in|quisition made by Geffrey de Langley, one of the kings councell of transgressors in forrests and cha|ses, manie that had offended were presented, and most gréeuouslie punished by imprisonment, fines, and exceeding great amercements, and namelie in the north countrie.