When theatres were established the lord mayor took care that they should not be built within the city.
The first attempt at a census was in August 1631 when the lord mayor returned the number of mouths in the city of London and Liberties at 130,268, which is only about half the number given above.
The lord mayor of London has certain very remarkable privileges which have been religiously guarded and must be of great antiquity.
His uncle or great-uncle was Sir Richard Deane, lord mayor of London, 1628-1629.1629.
In 1387 the duke of Gloucester, uncle of Richard II., assembled in Hornsey Park the forces by the display of which he compelled the king to dismiss his minister de la Pole, earl of Suffolk; and in 1483 the park was the scene of the ceremonious reception of Edward V., under the charge of Richard, duke of Gloucester, by Edmund Shaw, lord mayor of London.
