th. But he could
not take the City. But the Treaty of Partition between Edmund and
himself was agreed upon and the Dane once more obtained the City. He has
left one or two names behind him. The church of St. Olave's in Hart
Street, and that in 'Tooley,' or St. Olave's Street, Southwark, and the
Church of St. Magnus, attest to the sovereignty of the Dane.

[Illustration: SAXON HORSEMEN.

(_Harl. MS. 603._)]

At this time the two principal officers of the City were the Bishop and
the Portreeve: there was also the 'Staller' or Marshal. The principal
governing body was the 'Knighten Guild,' which was largely composed of
the City aldermen. But these aldermen were not like those of the present
day, an elected body: they were hereditary: they were aldermen in right
of their estates within the City. What powers the Knighten Guild
possessed is not easy to define. Besides this, the aristocracy of the
City, there were already trade guilds for religious purposes and for
feasting--but, as yet, with no powers. The people had their folk mote,
or general gathering: their ward mote: and their weekly hustings. We
must not seek to define the powers of all these bodies and corporations.
They overlapped each other: the aristocratic party was continually
innovating while the popular party as continually resisted. In many ways
what we call the government of the City had not begun to be understood.
That there was order of a kind is shown by the strict regulations, as
strictly enforced, of the dues and tolls for ships that came up the
river to the Port of London.

10. THE ANGLO-SAXON CITIZEN.

The Londoner of Athelstan and Ethelred was an Anglo-Saxon of a type far
in advance of his fierce ancestor who swept the narrow seas and harried
the eastern coasts. He had learned many arts: he had become a Christian:
he wanted many luxuries. But the solid things which he inherited from
his rude forefathers he passed on to his children. And they remain an
inheritance for us to this day. For instance, our form of monarchy,
limited in power, comes straight down to us from Alfred and Athelstan.
Our nobility is a survival and a development of the Saxon earls and
thanes; our forms of justice, trial by jury, magistrates--all come from
the Saxons; the divisions of our country are Saxon, our municipal
institutions are Saxon, our parliaments and councils are Saxon in
origin. We owe our language to the Anglo-Saxon, small additions from
Latin, French, a