... offered and his lordes also, he sende the lorde Bemond,his chamburlen, to the Meyre, seying to him, "hit is the Kynges wille that ye and your bredurn com and offer;" and so they didde; and ... good Lord," he says, "help me and the City both in this and that the church maystand, whereby I may keep my name, and the City have commodity and ease to their desire, which shallfollow ... comfort."CHAPTER I. 11But his entreaties, and those of the mayor and corporation, were all in vain, the church and monastic buildingswere dismantled and destroyed piecemeal, and like so many other magnificent...