The whole ditch and plain without the Tower within the Postern,. called Romeland; in and of the City (Cal. L. Bk. K. p.83), c. 1428.
First mention: " le Roumelond," near the Tower, 1330 (Ct. H.W. I. 358).
See Romelands.
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.