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 (»i;k;inal documents. 281 ]liutiiium,'" namely, near Fuster Lane, and not St. Leonard s, Slioreditch. Ve must leave it, however, to the archaeologists of the ancient liberties of the metropolis to define the precise position. Mention is made of the fee of the Canons of Newenhara, doubtless of the Austin Priory of that name, near Bedford ; and it tlms appears, as likewise by the charter of Thomas, Lord Mowbray, in 15 Kic. II., that these canons had land in London. In the latter document, a piece of land is described as " terram quam Jordan us Camerarius dedit eis in Londoniis, que vocatur Achesbiria.'"* In the Valor, however, no property in London is given as belonging to the Canons of Newenham at the Dissolution, leading to the inference that it had been disposed of previously. The document is not dated : the reference to the standard measure " domiui Heurici Regis '' would confirm the conclusion drawn from the writing, that it is of the time of Henry III., and the correctness of this notion is evinced by the names of the attesting witnesses. Laurence de Frowike, the second named, is doubtless the same who was sheriff in 30 and 3.J Plenry III. (1245 and 1250).''' Another witness, Richard Bonaventure, a name less euphonous in the more modern version of Goodluck, was pro- bably the citizen named as one of the party captured with the Mayor of London, in 1204, by Henry III., and kept some time in Wmdsor Castle as security for the tranquillity of the city.^ The standard measure of iron (ulna f erred) was kept, as it has been stated, in the Exchequer : the expression here occurs in regard to the measurement by the iron ell of King Henry, " ahsque imlUcihus Diensuratis," which is not found, to our knowledge, in other documents. Does it imply gross measurement, — inches not to be accounted ? or does it denote exact measurement, — without the intervention of the thumb, in setting off the respective ells ? An instance may be noticed, in a preNdous reign, of the like iron standard ell. In Walter Bruno's foundation charter of the Hospital of St. Mar-, without Bishopsgate, the bounds of the lands granted are defined throughout by admeasurement made according to " ulnas de ulnis ferreis regis Johannis Anglioe."^ The deed bears two endorsements, the first, in French, — " de la meson deuaunt la Egleise sein leonard." And another in a different hand, — " Cat [sic) Will'i Hereghes fact' Radulfo de Hoylond' de domo ex oposito eclesie S'ci leonardi." Sciant p'sntes & futuri Q'd ego Will's de Heryghes blaeter con- cessi dimisi & p'siiti carta coufirmaui Radulfo de Hoylond' monetario q'ndara placiam t re q 'm habui iux'^ puam uenellam sci Leonardi de feodo Canonicor' de Newenham int' gardinum meum u'sus austrum. & dictam uenellam u'sus aquilonem. Et int' domum d'ci Had' u'sus orientem. & fram Ade lescot* q»m de me tenet u'sus occidentem. Et continet in latitudine iuxta domum dci Rad' int' p'd'cam uenellam S: gardinum meum duodecim uln' de ulnis ferreis d'ni Henr' Reg' absq" pollicib'^ mensuralis. In longitudine extudente se a p'd'ca domo Rad' usq' ad t'ram p'dci Ade •'■ Liber do Antiquis Lcgibus. Sec also " Mon. Angl., new edit., vol. vi., p. 24. OiaOon's Tabic of Mavore and Sheriffs. " One of the attesting witnesses.
 * Mon. Angl., ncwedit., vol. vi.,p. 37.T. '^ Grafton's Cliron., p. 151.