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At this time also,
another Parliament was held at Oxford between his lordship the King
and the Barons aforesaid. The Londoners however, and the Barons of
the Cinque Ports, and nearly all the middle class of people throughout
the kingdom of England, who indeed had not joined in the reference to
the King of France, wholly declined his award.
Wherefore, the Londoners appointed one of their number, ^
Thomas de Piwelesdone by name, to be their Constable, and as
Marshal, Stephen Buckerel, at whose summons, upon hearing the great
bell of Saint Paul's, all the people of the City were to sally forth, and not
otherwise; being prepared as well by night as by day, [and] well armed,
to follow the standards of the said Constable and Marshal wheresoever
they might think proper to lead them. |