on the said 21st. day of Decr. in the 20th year aforesd. and
long before and always after until the day of the taking of this
Inquisition was inhabiting and resiant paying scot and bearing
Lot within the sd. parish of St Botolph without Bishopsgate in the said Ward of
Bishopsgate in London aforesd. and that within the Ward of
Bishopsgate afsd. there is and from the time whereof the Memory of
Man is not to the contrary there hath been a certain Court of our
said Lord the King and his Predecessors called the Wardmote held and
to be held in every year upon the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle
(unless the said Feastshallhappened to be unfell on a Sunday and in that
case upon the day next following the said Feast) before the Alderman
of the Ward aforesd. for the time being or his Deputy In which said
Court according to the Custom within the said Ward for all the time
aforesd. used and approved to wit in the parish of St. Hellen
in the Ward aforesd. all the Men inhabiting
& resient paying Scot & bearing Lot for the time being within the ward
aforesd. have been accustomed and ought and were bound by reason of
their Residence there to appear in the said Court and do their Suit
there and in the said Court according to the Custom of the sd. Court
yearly for all the time aforesd. the Men inhabiting & resident paying [..]