Then there used to be the shooting at the butts, and the shows, and the Mayday revels, and all sorts of things.

The people were more merry than you are here, and much more free.

You see, the barons, who are the same to us that your great families are to you, had no influence in the city.

You are a nation of traders, and so are we; but in London the traders have the power, and are absolute masters inside their own walls, caring nothing for the barons, and not much for the king.

If anyone did wrong he got an open and fair trial.