[1] But whereas the malice which the earle of Corne|wall bare to the citie, was, for that they would not exchange with him c [...]rteine grounds that belonged to their communaltie, they were glad to agree with him, and paie vnto him six hundred marks. After which agréement concluded, about the nintéenth daie of Nouember, they were shortlie after restored to their liberties. This chanced before the kings com|ming ouer, who at his comming to London, lodged in the tower, and vpon new displeasure conceiued a|gainst the citie for the escape of a prisoner (being a clearke conuict) out of Newgate, which had killed a prior, that was of aliance to the king, as cousine to the queene, the king sent for the maior and the shirifs to come before him to answer the matter. The ma|ior laid the fault from him to the shiriffes, for so much as to them belonged the kéeping of all the prisoners within the citie: and so the maior returned home a|gaine,The shiriffes of London imprisoned. but the shiriffes remained there as prisoners by the space of a whole moneth or more, and yet they excused themselues, in that the fault cheefelie rested in the bishops officers: for whereas the prisoner was vnder his custodie, they at his request had granted him licence to imprison the offendor within their [page 252] ward of Newgate, but so as his officers were char|ged to see him safe kept. The king notwithstanding demanded of the citie thrée thousand marks for a fine.