3.  The Lord Mayor and Aldermen are
for ever exempted from serving in all fo-
reign assizes, juries, or attaints, and from
the offices of assessor, collector of taxes,
overseer, or comptroller of all public duties
without the jurisdiction of the city.

4.  The citizens are allowed the privi-
lege of holding an annual fair in the bo-
rough of Southwark, together with a
court of Pye-powder, with the rights and
customs thereto belonging, &c. all at the
ancient fee farm of 10l. per annum.

Afterwards, in the year 1479, the city
gave the same Prince 1923l. 19s. 8d. for
the liberty of purchasing lands, &c. in
mortmain, to the value of 200 marks per
annum; and also purchased of the King,
for 7000l. the offices of package, portage,
garbling, gauging, wine-drawer and coro-
ner, to be enjoyed by them and their suc-
cessors for ever.

In the same year, a dreadful pestilence
raged in London, which swept away an
incredible number of people.

On the death of Edward IV. the Duke
of Buckingham strove in vain to make
the citizens join in raising the Duke of
Gloucester to the throne, to the prejudice

In the beginning of the reign of Hen-
ry VII. the sweating sickness first raged in
London, carrying off great numbers with-
in twenty-four hours; but those who sur-
vived that time generally recovered; and
of this disease died two Lord Mayors and
one of the Sheriffs, in the space of the
year.

The next year the privileges of the ci-
tizens were struck at by their own ma-
gistrates, in a very extraordinary act of
Common Council, which enjoined the ci-
tizens, under the penalty of an hundred
pounds, not to carry any goods or mer-
chandize to any fair or market within the
kingdom, for the term of seven years;
but this scandalous and unjust by-law was