Memorials of London and London Life in the 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries. Originally published by Longmans, Green, London, 1868.
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'The first Common Council (1347)', in Memorials of London and London Life in the 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries, (London, 1868) pp. liii-lv. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/memorials-london-life/liii-lv [accessed 24 April 2024]
A LIST OF THE FIRST COMMON COUNCIL ELECTED IN THE CITY OF LONDON.
A.D. 1347. Letter-Book F. fol. cxxxvi.
At a Congregation of the Mayor, Aldermen, and an immense number of the Commonalty, on Wednesday in the first week of Lent, in the twenty-first year of the reign of King Edward, after the Conquest the Third, in presence of Geoffrey de Wychingham, Mayor, Sir John de Pulteneye, Reynald de Conduit, Henry Darci, Andrew Aubrey, John Hamond, Richard Lacer, Roger de Depham, John Syward, Thomas Leggy, Walter Turke, John de Caustone, and Adam Brabazon, Aldermen, the persons underwritten were chosen in their respective Wards to come to the Guildhall of London, when they should be warned thereto, to treat of business touching the City; namely, from the Ward of—