Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli has always claimed he can name his predecessors back to 1278, if you put a list in front of him.
Now you can do this party trick too!
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-aldermen/hen3-1912/pp70-79
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Simon Eyre, Draper, Alderman of Broad Street 1446-1449.