The Knight of Devonshire Square, London

Tonight I met 2 friends Anne and Tom for a quick curry after work meeting in Devonshire Square where this statue stands.

The plaque reads:-

King Edgar (959?75) granted this derelict land to thirteen knights, on condition that they each perform three duels, one on land, one below ground, one on the water. These feats having been achieved, the King gave the knights, or Cnihtengild, certain rights over a piece of land from Aldgate to the place where the bars are now, toward the east, on both sides of the lane and extended it toward the gate now known as Bishopsgate in the north, to the house of William the Priest?.. and to the south to the Thames as far as a horseman riding into the river at low tide can throw a lance. ?This sculpture by Denys Mitchell, commissioned by the Standard Life Assurance Company, commemorates the Cnihtengild and was unveiled by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Sir Alexander Graham G.B.E. D.C.L. on 21st November 1990.?