text: " It is not very evident whether the idea of civic army was suggested to the mind of the khan simply by the sight of the men in armour in the procession or whether dark rumours had reached his ear touching the prowess of the Lumber troopers and other warlike bodies which march under the standard of the Lord Mayor; but certain it is that this most pacific of potentates cannot fairly be charged with abusing the formidable privilege thus attributed to him--the city sword never having been unsheathed in mortal fray as far as our researches extend since Wat Tyler fell before the doughty arm of Sir William of Walworth