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Fitzailwin twice in the 'Rot. Cur. Reg.' (pp. 171, 432), viz. in 1198 and 1199, and once in an Essex charter of 1197 (Harl Cart. 83 A, 18). His last dated appearance in the first capacity is 30 Nov. 1191, and he first appears as mayor in April 1193 (, iii. 212). He probably therefore became mayor between these dates. This is fatal to the well-known assertion in the 'Cronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum Londoniæ' (Liber de Ant. Leg.) that 'Henricus filius Eylwini de London-stane' was made mayor in '1188' or 1189, and is even at variance with Mr. Coote's hypothesis that the mayoralty originated in the grant of a communa 10 Oct. 1191 (vide infra). Dr. Stubbs, however, leans to this date as the commencement of Henry's mayoralty (Sel. Chart. p. 300; Const. Hist. i. 630). Though he continued mayor, as far as can be ascertained, uninterruptedly till his death, the only recorded event of his mayoralty is his famous 'assize' (Liber de Ant. Leg. p. 206 ; Liber Albus, p. 319). And even this is only traditionally associated with his name. In 1203 he is found holding two knight's fees of the honour of 'Peverel of London' (Rot. Canc. 3 John). He derived his description as 'de London-stane' from his house, which stood on the north side of St. Swithin's Church in Candlewick (now Cannon) Street, over against London Stone. He also held property at Hoo in Kent, Warlingham and Burnham in Surrey, and Edmonton in Middlesex. He is found presiding over a meeting of the citizens, 24 July 1212, consequent on the great fire of the previous week (Liber Custumarum, p. 88). The earliest notice of his death is a writ of 5 Oct. 1212, ordering his lands to be taken into the king's hands (Rot. Pat. 14 John). It is often erroneously placed in 1213. His wife, Margaret, survived him (Rot. Claus. 14 John), as did his three younger sons, Alan, Thomas, and Richard (ib. 15 John), but his eldest son, Peter, who had married Isabel, daughter and heir of Bartholomew de Cheyne, had died before him, leaving two daughters, of whom the survivor was in 1212 Henry Fitzailwin's heir. [Patent Rolls (Record Commission) ; Close Rolls (ib.); Testa de Nevill (ib.); Palgrave's Rotuli Curiæ Regis (ib.) ; Rot. Canc. (ib.) ; Pipe Roll Society's works; Duchy Charters (Public Record Office) ; Roger Hoveden (Rolls Series) ; Riley's Munimenta Gildhalle Londoniensis (ib.) ; Reports on Historical MSS. ; Stapleton's Liber de Antiquis Legibus (Camd. Soc.) ; Stubbs's Select Charters and Constitutional Hist. ; Freeman's Norman Conquest; Antiquary, 1887; Academy, 1887 ; Coote's A Lost Charter (London and Middlesex Arch. Trans, vol. v.); Loftie's London (Historic Towns).]  FITZALAN, BERTRAM (d. 1424), Carmelite, said to have been a member of the great family of the Fitzalans, entered the Carmelite fraternity at Lincoln, and studied at Oxford, presumably in the house of his order, where William Quaplod, also a Carmelite, who became bishop of Derry (not of Kildare, as Bale has it) in 1419, was his friend and patron. Fitzalan, after proceeding to the degree of, master, seems to have returned to Lincoln, and to have there founded a library, in which Bale saw the following works of his : 'Super quarto Sententiarum liber i.,' 'Quæstiones Theologiæ,' and 'Ad plebem Conciones.' Pits also assigns to him a volume of 'Excerpta quædam ex aliis auctoribus,' which he mentions as existing in the library of Balliol College, Oxford. The book has, however, either been lost, or else Pits was misled by a codex there (clxv. B) of miscellaneous contents, some of which are by Cardinal Peter Bertrand. Fitzalan died on 17 May 1424. [Leland, Comm. de Scriptt. Brit. dxxviii. p. 436 (ed. A. Hall, 1709); Bale, Scriptt. Brit. Cat. vii. 64, p. 558 ; Pits, De Angl. Scriptt. p. 610 et seq. ; Tanner's Bibl. Brit. 282.  FITZALAN, BRIAN, (d. 1306), was descended from a younger branch of the Counts of Brittany and Earls of Richmond. His father, Brian Fitzalan, an itinerant justice (, Judges, ii. 326), and sheriff of Northumberland between 1227 and 1235 and of Yorkshire between 1236 and 1239 (Thirty-first Report of Deputy-Keeper of Records, pp. 321, 364), was grandson of Brian, a younger son of Alan of Brittany, and brother, therefore, of Count Conan, the father of Constance, wife of Geoffrey of Anjou (, Baronage, i. 53 ; cf. Harl. MS. 1052, f. 9). He was summoned to the Welsh war of 1282, and in 1287 to the armed council at Gloucester. In 1290 he was appointed by Edward warden of the castles of Forfar, Dundee, Roxburgh, and Jedburgh. They remained in his custody till 1292 (, Doc. illustrative of Scott. Hist. i. 207-8, 350). In 1292 he was made by Edward one of the guardians of Scotland during the vacancy of the throne (Fœdera, i. 761 ; cf., p. 250, Rolls Ser.) He took a leading share in the judicial proceedings which resulted in John Baliol being declared by Edward king of Scotland, and after witnessing the new king's homage to Edward surrendered his rolls and official documents to the new king (Fœdera, i. 782, 785). In 1294 he was summoned to repress the Welsh revolt. In 1295 he received a summons to the famous parliament of that year. Henceforth he was regularly summoned, but always as 'Brian 