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Title: London and the Kingdom - Volume I

Author: Reginald R. Sharpe

Release Date: November 13, 2006 [Ebook #19800]

Language: English

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[Illustration: CHARTER OF WILLIAM I TO THE CITIZENS OF LONDON.]

CHARTER OF WILLIAM I TO THE CITIZENS OF LONDON.

[Illustration: CHARTER OF WILLIAM I GRANTING LANDS TO DEORMAN.]

CHARTER OF WILLIAM I GRANTING LANDS TO DEORMAN.

London and the Kingdom

A HISTORY--DERIVED MAINLY FROM THE ARCHIVES AT GUILDHALL IN THE CUSTODY OF
THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

By REGINALD R. SHARPE, D.C.L.,
RECORDS CLERK IN THE OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK OF THE CITY OF LONDON;
EDITOR OF "CALENDAR OF WILLS ENROLLED IN THE COURT OF HUSTING," ETC.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

_PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE CORPORATION UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE LIBRARY
COMMITTEE._

London
LONGMANS, GREEN & Co.
AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16TH STREET.

1894

LONDON:
PRINTED BY BLADES, EAST & BLADES,
23, ABCHURCH LANE, E.C.

PREFACE.

Of the numerous works that have been written on London, by which I mean
more especially the City of London, few have been devoted to an adequate,
if indeed any, consideration of its political importance in the history of
the Kingdom. The history of the City is so many-sided that writers have to
be content with the study of some particular phase or some special epoch.
Thus we have those who have concentrated their efforts to evolving out of
the remote past the municipal organization of the City. Their task has
been to unfold the origin and institution of the Mayoralty and Shrievalty
of London, the division of the City into wards with Aldermen at their
head, the development of the various trade and craft guilds, and the
respective powers and duties of the Courts of Aldermen and Common Council,
and of the Livery of London assembled in their Common Hall. Others have
devoted themselves to the study of the ecclesiastical and monastic side of