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Illustrations of the Mediæval Municipal History of London from the Guildhall Records
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
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The title of this Paper, which was suggested to the present writer many months ago, was framed in rather vague terms in order to afford him an opportunity of selecting a particular topic at his leisure. It would be no easy matter to deal with the whole subject,—to catch in a single lecture the spirit of mediæval London, or to speak adequately of a mass of Records, which even for this restricted period, are very numerous. Happily, as regards the latter, something has already been done. Some sixty years ago Mr. H. T. Riley contributed to the Rolls series four volumes containing the essential matters in the Liber Custumarum and Liber Albus, two custumals of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, which are a treasury of information for the student; a life's work, directed by fine scholarship, is represented in Dr. R. R. Sharpe's Calendars of Wills in the Court of Husting, his Calendars of Coroner's Rolls and Mayor's Correspondence, and the nine volumes of Letter Books abstracted by him; and other portions of the City's Records have been freely quoted in standard works on social, political and economic history. In view, therefore, of the abundance of evidence available for those well qualified to interpret it, I trust you will allow me to take a narrower and more modest subject, yet within the wide boundaries of the title given.
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page 83 note 1 Miss Kate Norgate: England Under the Angevin Kings, ii. 472.
page 83 note 2 Stubbs: Const. Hist., iii. 635.
page 83 note 3 Liber Custumarum, fo. 187.
page 83 note 4 J. H. Round: Geoffrey de Maundeville, where evidence is given relating to the several Justiciars.
page 84 note 1 a.d. 1275—1321.
page 84 note 2 Letter Book, F, fos. 217–225b.
page 84 note 3 City Charters: First Charter of Edward III, 6 March, a.d. 1327.
page 84 note 4 Laws and Customs of the City of London, a.d. 1765, p. 162.
page 85 note 1 J. H. Round: The Commune of London, p. 235. Add. MSS. 14252 fo. 112d.
page 85 note 2 Thomas Emerson: Courts of Law of the City of London, a.d. 1794, p. 7.
page 85 note 3 Camden Society: New Series V, a.d. 1872, Ricart's Kalendar.
page 85 note 4 Henry Calthrop: Reports of Special Cases, a.d. 1670. Strype's Stow. John Greene: The Priviledges of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, a.d. 1722. Bohun's Privilegia Londini, a.d. 1723, etc.
page 86 note 1 Lib. Cust., fo. 43b, quoted from Mayor's Court Rolls.
page 86 note 2 Letter Book, C, fo. 48b.
page 86 note 3 Plea & Memoranda Rolls, A 4, mem. 4.
page 86 note 4 Lib. Cust., fo. 42a.
page 86 note 5 J. H. Round: “Origin of the Mayoralty, etc.” Archæol. Journal, vol. 50, p. 259.Google Scholar
page 86 note 6 Lib. Cust., fo. 40. Cf. Letter Book, B, fos. 35–36; confirmed and enlarged, G, fos. 25b–26b; a new agreement, K, fo. 33.
page 87 note 1 Mayor's Court Rolls, A, mem. 3.
page 87 note 2 Ibid.
page 87 note 3 M.C. Rolls, E, mem. 6b.
page 87 note 4 M.C. Rolls, B, mem. 5b.
page 87 note 5 Ibid., mem. 6.
page 87 note 6 Ibid., mem. 4b.
page 88 note 1 Statutum de Falsa Moneta, “Statutes of the Realm,” i. 131.
page 88 note 2 Lib. Cust., fo. 95a; Letter Book, C, fo. 38b.
page 88 note 3 M.C. Rolls, C, mem. 3b.
page 88 note 4 Ibid., mem. 5.
page 88 note 5 Ibid., mem. 4.
page 88 note 6 Ibid., mem. 5b.
page 89 note 1 Lib. Cust., fo. 97a; Letter Book, C, fo. 39b.
page 89 note 2 M.C. Rolls, D, mem. 12b.
page 90 note 1 Stubbs: Const. Hist., ii. 323; Letter Book, D, fo. 134b.
page 90 note 2 M.C. Rolls, D, mem. 1.
page 90 note 3 Stat. 15 Ed. III, cap. v.; Letter Book, G, fos. 107, 108b, 256b.
page 90 note 4 Letter Book, H, fos. 30b, 31b, 35b, 36, 36b, 155b, 159b, 188b, 260.
page 90 note 5 P. & M. Rolls, A 49, mems. 7–12, where the cases are fully set out.
page 91 note 1 “Parlaymentum.”
page 91 note 2 “Propter putridinem carbonis marine.”
page 92 note 1 M.C. Rolls, B, mem. 6.
page 92 note 2 M.C. Rolls, C, mem. 2b.
page 93 note 1 M.C. Rolls, A, mem. 5b.
page 93 note 2 M.C. Rolls, C, mem. 3; D, mem. 8.
page 93 note 3 M.C. Rolls, A, mem. 5b.
page 93 note 4 M.C. Rolls, C, mem. 15b.
page 93 note 5 Ibid., mem. 7b.
page 93 note 6 M.C. Rolls, E, mem. 6.
page 93 note 7 M.C. Rolls, A, mem. 2.
page 93 note 8 P. & M. Rolls, A 30, mem. I.
page 93 note 9 M.C. Rolls, C, mem. 7.
page 94 note 1 M.C. Rolls, C, mem. 6b.
page 94 note 2 M.C. Rolls, C. mem. I. A century later surgery was still as primitive. In the Plea & Memoranda Rolls we have the case of a barber-surgeon who knows no better cure for a severed artery than a hot iron, and enters at length into the history of the case to prove that his treatment had been carried out with due observance of the fluxes and refluxes of the signs of the Zodiac, his defence being supported by the several Masters of the Arts of Surgery and Physic in the City. A 52, mem. 5.
page 94 note 3 M.C. Rolls, E, mem. 4.
page 96 note 1 P. & M. Rolls, A 1, mem. 12.
page 96 note 2 Ibid., mem. 28.
page 96 note 3 Ibid., mem. 23b.
page 96 note 4 But see Stubbs: Chron. Ed. I & Ed. II, introd. i. p. cxx.
page 96 note 5 P. & M. Rolls, A 1, mem. 31.
page 96 note 6 P. & M. Rolls, A 27, mem. 3b.
page 97 note 1 P. & M. Rolls, A 1, mems. 27, 30.
page 97 note 2 P. & M. Rolls, A 15, mem. 3.
page 97 note 3 P. & M. Rolls, A 32, mem. 1.
page 97 note 4 Letter Book, F, fo. 39.
page 97 note 5 Ibid., fo. 37.
page 97 note 6 Ibid., fo. 22.
page 97 note 7 Ibid., fo. 3.
page 97 note 8 P. & M. Roll, A 3, mem. 19d.
page 97 note 9 Aungier's French Chronicle (Riley's transl.), 277.
page 98 note 1 P. & M. Rolls, A 1, mem. 34.
page 98 note 2 P. & M. Rolls, A 5, mem. 27b.
page 98 note 3 Cal. of Letters, fo. 67.
page 98 note 4 P. & M. Rolls, A 5, mem. 3b.
page 98 note 5 Especially during the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V.
page 98 note 6 Laws and Customs of the City of London, a.d. 1765, pp. 113–140.
page 99 note 1 P. & M. Rolls, A 33, mem. 1b.