Chapter XIII: Appendix: On Materials for the Construction of Maps of Early London

In bringing this topographical essay to a conclusion, it may be desirable to note a few observations on the materials we possess for making a map of early London, the reconstruction of which, with considerable fulness and accuracy, is possible. We have in the Survey of Leeke, made directly after the great fire, and engraved on two sheets by Vertue from a parchment original, now in the MS. room of the British Museum (5415. E.I.), an admirable starting-point. Even the widths of the streets are figured on this plan, and the forms of St. Paul's and the other old churches are given with fair precision. It is entitled "An Exact Survey of the Streets, Lanes, and Churches, comprehended within the Ruins of the City of London; first described in six platts in December, Anno Domini, 1666. By John Leeke.... And here reduced into one entire platt by John Leeke." This parchment was engraved by Hollar to a smaller scale, with the unburnt portions of the city added in isometrical projection. On this plan the ward boundaries are carefully laid down. As to the ground-plan of the portions left uninjured by the fire, we can supplement Leeke's Survey by the plan Wren made for reconstructing the city, now at Oxford, which shows the streets and churches of the uninjured areas; and from Ogilvie's large map, made only a few years later, details, such as the block-plans of the churches in the unburnt part, can be filled in with greater accuracy. From Faithorne's map, 1658, some additional facts, especially as to Southwark and the suburbs, can be obtained, as it is of large extent.[221] Putting all these together, we have an exact map of London as it existed at the moment of the fire. Afterwards a few modifications were made in the streets, but the plan of old London remained practically unchanged till Southwark Bridge was built and Queen Street made to lead to it.

We can now check our plan and add to the names of the streets from Stow's perambulation of every street and alley, and his account of ward boundaries and parishes. Further than this, however, we have in the remarkably clear plot of the city given in Braun and Hogenburghe's _Civitates Orbis Terrarum_ (1572), a survey of the city as it existed about 1570. It is often said that this view _must_ date back to 1561 at least, as St. Paul's spire, which was burnt in that year, is shown in it. But as it was known to be the intention to rebuild this famous spire at once, it seems probable that a view even in the interim would not leave it out. It is not quite certain who drew this admirable map. In the preface to a copy of the book which I have examined, George Braun of Cologne, January 1, 1575, speaks of the admirable industry of the painter Hogenburghe, and the living portraitures he had so carefully painted, so that the cities may be seen at a glance more easily than in reality. On comparing the prospects of other cities, it looks almost certain that London was drawn by the same hand which drew Paris, Brussels, etc. Hofnagle, who it is thought may have made this prospect, is known to have been in England in or before 1571. It is to be remarked in this connection that the plan of London is not numbered with the rest of the plates; it is marked A, and put in at the beginning of the series as if it came to hand late.

This valuable map, whoever it may have been drawn by, and whatever may be its exact date, is delineated according to a method which is still made use of at times--the buildings, trees, and other details being figured in perspective. This has resulted in giving the whole such a pictorial character, that the correctly planned basis is not at first apparent. I have not seen it pointed out that it is properly a map and not a view, and this method of projection may be what Braun refers to in the preface cited above. About this same time William Smith, the herald, made some drawings of cities; and on one of Bristol, which is drawn according to the same method as the London map we are now considering, he writes:--"Bristow, measured and laid in Platforme by me, W. Smith, at my being in Bristow the 30 and 31 July Ano Dni 1568" (Sloane MSS. 2596). Pictorial views of cities had been known for centuries; this "laying in platform" is, however, new. We may suppose that Smith, the Rouge Dragon, was not the first to make use of this method in his Survey of Bristol, and that there must even at this time have existed such a plan of London; it may also be pointed out that Smith's MS. _view_ of London, which may, however, have been made later than the one of Bristol, is plainly founded on Braun's plan, or on some original used in common. Bagford speaks of having seen a single sheet on copper, from Temple Bar to St. Katharine's and the Bank-side Southwark, which seemed to him the best of old London and perhaps the most ancient.

It is necessary to notice the large woodcut prospect usually called Aggas' plan, if only to criticise this ascription, which is accepted in the _Dictionary of National Biography_. It is plain on comparing it with Braun's plan that one of them is copied from the other, or a common original source, and this relation is made more certain when we notice that the large woodcut, which I shall call the Anonymous plan, has been cut down at the margins, and that it must originally have included Westminster and St. Katharine's exactly like Braun's. As the Anonymous woodcut plan is far inferior in workmanship to the other, and as it was still being printed from in the seventeenth century, there seems to be some likelihood that it is the copy, and yet, as we shall see, a "Large Mappe" existed before 1580. Although so little is known in regard to the Anonymous plan, there seems to be sufficient evidence to negative the idea propounded by Vertue that it was the work of Aggas. This idea he gained because a view of Oxford, drawn by Aggas in 1578, and published in 1588, speaks of his having had a desire to publish a plan of London, but (in 30 Queen Elizabeth, 1588) "meantime the measure, form, and sight I bring of ancient Oxford." A trained surveyor like Aggas would hardly have brought out an enlarged copy of Braun's map twenty years after the original. It is probable indeed, considering the spelling of the names, that Bagford's observation on the Anonymous plan, that it seemed to have been "done in Holland," is true. Mr. Thomas Dodd, in a MS. letter in the Crace Collection, points out a passage in Hakluyt where it is advised that the Pit and Jackman Expedition of 1580 should take with them the map of England and the "large Mappe of London." Mr. Dodd goes on to point out that Hakluyt also refers to Clement Adams as an engraver on wood, and he might have been the author of such a large map, which may be the Anonymous woodcut plan. Mr. Overall, in his inconclusive preface to the reproduction of the Anonymous plan, shows that Giles Godhed had submitted "the Carde of London," in 1562, to the Stationers' Company. We might conclude that this was a large plan on the same projection as Braun and Hogenburghe's plan, but this is uncertain, as just at this time there was published an engraved view of St. Paul's and the neighbourhood, of which there is a unique copy at the Society of Antiquaries. The most beautiful plan known to me, executed after the manner of Braun's cities, is a large plan of Bruges, signed by Marcus Gerard, pictor, 1562. Altogether I am inclined to think that there was such a plan of London existing before Braun's, and that the Anonymous plan is a coarse copy of one of those made in Holland for popular sale some time before 1580. Braun's plan, in any case, carries us back on firm ground to the end of the mediæval period, and by its aid we can check over our former results for an accurate plan of mediæval London.

Beyond this point we have an overwhelming mass of documentary evidence, by which the names of the streets, churches, and other landmarks, can be carried backwards by references in deeds, wills, patents, close-rolls, and Parliament-rolls, etc. etc. I have little doubt that almost every street and lane in London which existed in Stow's day could be carried back by this means to the thirteenth century, and a good many can be shown to have borne the same names in the century after the Conquest.

Then we have the complete list of city churches in the time of Edward I. given in the _Liber Custumarum_. The parish boundaries probably remain much as at that time, and the wards in their present form go back as far. It may be noted that a study of the boundaries shows that the parishes are in the main subdivisions of wards, and not that wards are aggregations of parishes. Such general documentary evidence can be further supplemented by the data which we have in regard to particular buildings which are still in part existing, or of which we have plans and other evidence.

We can accurately reinstate the City wall with its bastions and gates, the Bridge and the Tower of London. We have ample particulars as to the Cathedral and precinct of St. Paul's, with the line of the Close wall, the position of its gates, and the site of the Campanile in the north-east corner. The boundaries of the Conventual Establishments can be plotted, and the buildings within them can, in many cases, be laid down in detail. The plan of the Guildhall buildings may be reconstructed, and Hollar and Leeke's map gives the position of the Halls of the several Companies. An attempt has been made in the body of this work to sift out what can be learned of a still more remote London.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Mr. Green, from the long sections dealing with London in _The Making of England_ and _The Conquest of England_, must be reckoned among the specialists on London. I shall often have to criticise Mr. Loftie's conclusions, but I do so merely because those are the views in possession at the present time. His books have the distinction of having revived an interest in London topography.

[2] _E.g._ Mr. Loftie's most recent book, _London Afternoons_.

[3] _Origines Celticæ._

[4] Loftie, vol. i. ch. ii.

[5] Hearne actually says it is Long-town.

[6] Canon Isaac Taylor, _Dict. of Place-Names_.

[7] _Social England_, vol. i.

[8] Rhys, _Celtic Britain_.

[9] Ramsay, vol. i. p. 32.

[10] See Ludgate below.

[11] Now represented by Edgware Road.

[12] See _Dict. Nat. Biog._, and De la Moyne Borderie.

[13] Thorpe's _Ancient Laws_.

[14] Joceline de Brakelonde, p. 56, cited by Wright.

[15] _Cal. St. Paul's MSS._, Ninth Report Historic MSS. Com., p. 65.

[16] Rhys, _Celtic Britain_; Elton's _Origins_.

[17] Thomas Wright says the Billings, a Saxon people, settled at Billingsgate, and Mr. W. H. Stevenson derives the name from Billing, a Saxon name.

[18] There is probably some fact at the bottom of this story: perhaps the sword of St. Paul was carved on the Bishop's Gate. According to Geoffrey, the older Belinus had been placed in a golden urn on Billingsgate.

[19] Robert of Gloucester.

[20] See the story of Lludd in the Mabinogion.

[21] _English Hist. Rev._ vol. ii.

[22] _Episcopal Succession._

[23] _Celtic Britain_, p. 124.

[24] C. F. Keary, _Vikings_.

[25] Asser.

[26] Asser.

[27] See Ramsay, _Foundations of England_, vol. i. p. 126.

[28] Compare Tame, Tamar, Teme, Tean, Teign. See _Surrey Collections_, vol. v.

[29] _Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles_, Camden Society.

[30] See Green, _Making of England_, vol. i. p. 105; _Surrey Collections_, vol. iii.; and _Athenæum_, 1901, No. 3838.

[31] _Polyolbion._

[32] Bailey.

[33] _Calendar of St. Paul's MSS._

[34] Dugdale's _Monasticon_, art. "Temple"; and Round's _Geoffrey de Mandeville_.

[35] _Transactions of London and Middlesex Archæological Society_, vol. iv.

[36] Hardy and Page, _London and Middlesex Fines_, vol. i. p. 3; see also Dugdale.

[37] _London and Middlesex Fines._

[38] Kempe translates the same passage, "From the north angle of the City wall, where a rivulet of Springs near thereto flowing marks it out (_i.e._ the moor) from the wall as far as the running water which entereth the City" (_Sanctuary of St. Martin_).

[39] _Eng. Hist. Rev._, 1896.

[40] A.S. dictionaries give _Wylle-burn_ = Wellbrook.

[41] Other cases of churches called by personal names are St. Benet Fink, St. Martin Orgar, St. Martin Outwich, etc.

[42] St. Stephen's Walbrook is mentioned in a charter of _c._ 1100. See "Churches," below.

[43] Dr. Sharpe, _Letter Book A_.

[44] _Archæological Journal_, vol. i. p. 111.

[45] _Roman Antiquities on Site of Safe Deposit_, and _Roman Pavement in Bucklersbury_; see also _Archæological Review_, vol. iv.

[46] _Letter Book A._

[47] Price, _Safe Deposit_, p. 30.

[48] _Origines Celticæ_, vol. ii.

[49] Sir J. H. Ramsay.

[50] Maitland sounded the river, and thought that there had been a ford at Chelsea; and the large number of Celtic and Roman antiquities found from time to time at Battersea and Wandsworth incline me to the view that there was a passage here.

[51] Horsley's account of the Roman roads is still the best general authority; but see the _Antiquary_ for 1901-2. The subject is being carefully re-examined in the new Victorian County Histories.

[52] Thorpe.

[53] The last, like all names compounded of "street," is a significant name wherever found.

[54] Clark, _Military Architecture_, vol. i. p. 31.

[55] Hardy and Page, _Fines_; and see Stow.

[56] _London and Middlesex Archæological Society Trans._, vol. iii. p. 563.

[57] _London and Middlesex Fines._

[58] Ackerman's _Westminster_, vol. i. p. 74.

[59] For Old Ford see _London and Middlesex Archæological Society Trans._, vol. iii. p. 206.

[60] _Crawford Charters._

[61] Bentley's _Cartulary of Westminster Abbey_, p. 4.

[62] See _Archæologia_, vol. xxvi., and, on the Tyburn, the _London and Middlesex Archæological Society Trans._, vol. vi.

[63] _Surrey Collections_, vol. i.

[64] See Faulkner's _Chelsea_.

[65] Kemble, No. 872. See also Arnold's _Streatham_.

[66] _Eng. Hist. Rev._ 1898.

[67] See Rhys, _Celtic Britain_. The compiler of the pseudo-itinerary of R. of Cirencester writes Guethlin Street.

[68] It has been argued that if the Britons had chariots they must also have had roads; and it is generally held that the Icknield and other "Ridgeways" are of British origin. Mr. Boyd Dawkins has recently shown, from objects found in a camp with which the Pilgrim Way from Canterbury is associated, that this ridge-road is early Celtic at latest. It seems reasonable to suggest that it joined the Icknield Way, and that they formed an early road-system crossing the river at Wallingford.

[69] A paved way, thought to be the Watling Street, has just been found in Edgware Road. It was 20 feet wide, 3.6 below surface, and pitched with "boulders." A fragment was also found in Oxford Street.

[70] Kemble, _Codex Dip._ 591.

[71] Powell and Vigfusson's _Corpus_.

[72] I do not share this view as to Claudius and the bridge. Sir J. H. Ramsay even suggests that it may have been the work of Cunobeline.

[73] Roach Smith, _Archæological Journal_, vol. i. p. 112.

[74] Bruce, _Handbook to the Roman Wall_.

[75] See Price's _Bucklersbury_.

[76] _Making of England_, pp. 21, 105.

[77] Hermann, _De Mirac. S. Edmund_, p. 43; see _Eng. Hist. Rev._ vol. xii. p. 49.

[78] _Home Counties Mag._ vol. i.

[79] Leland.

[80] Earle, _Land Charters_; and _Codex Dip._ No. 280.

[81] _Cal._ p. 25.

[82] _Archæologia_, lii.

[83] In the A.S. dictionaries _Crepel_ stands for an underground passage: there is said to be a Cripplegate on the Wansdyke.

[84] _Archæologia_, lii.

[85] Loftie's _London_, and _London_ in "Historic Towns" series; maps in Green's _Short History_, and in Miss Norgate's _Angevin Kings_.

[86] It seems necessary to notice these points in such excellent books, as they are repeated in Sir W. Besant's _London_, p. 19, and more recent works, as if they were settled. Mr. Loftie, in a still later book, _London City_ (1891), writes: "We know that Aldgate was opened about sixty years before FitzStephen's time. Aldersgate must have been made soon after the Conquest, and Cripplegate, with its covered way to the Barbican, cannot have been much later." In "Historic Towns" volume he says: "The foundations of the North Gate were lately found in Camomile Street. The massive masonry of the West Gate was also lately uncovered in Giltspur Street." In his _London Afternoons_ Ludgate appears as probably the latest of the gates. All this is conjecture and, as I have shown, contrary to the evidence.

[87] _London and Middlesex Archæological Society Trans._ vol. iii.

[88] _Illustrations of Roman London._

[89] Thorpe's _Ancient Laws_.

[90] Earle, _Land Charter_.

[91] W. de G. Birch, _London Charters_.

[92] Kemble, _Codex Dip._ No. 1074.

[93] Leland, _Coll._ vol. i.

[94] J. H. Round, _Calendar of French Documents_.

[95] J. H. Round, _Feudal England_, p. 320.

[96] _London and the Kingdom._

[97] Pauli, _Pictures of Old London_.

[98] Price, _Hist. Guildhall_. In a deed, _temp._ Henry III., the Gildhall of the Cologne Merchants is said to be near Hay Wharf, for which see Stow.

[99] J. H. Round, _Calendar of French Documents_. See also _Soc de Waremanshaker_ and St. Peter Ghent in Dugdale, vol. ii. p. 384.

[100] _Calendar of St. Paul's Documents._

[101] Dugdale, vol. vi. p. 623.

[102] _Codex Dip._ ii. p. 3.

[103] _Heimskringla._

[104] C. F. Keary, _Vikings_, p. 125.

[105] J. Earle, _Saxon Chronicles_.

[106] It is true it has been shown by Mr. Round that about two centuries later than this time _Arx_ was a technical word for a military tower, and it is used by FitzStephen for the Tower of London itself: on the other hand, passages cited in _Domesday and Beyond_, p. 187, show that earlier it was convertible with _castrum_ or _burh_, and it is beginning to be believed that _burh_ means a _castrum_ rather than a mound. Grants of property run, "within Burh and without Burh, on Street and off Street." Alfred himself writes of "Romeburh" and "Babylonburh."

[107] It is usually said that the members of the gild entered Holy Trinity Monastery, but this Mr. Round has shown is a misconception.

[108] Alfred Memorial volume.

[109] _Journal British Archæological Association_, 1900.

[110] _Domesday and Beyond_, p. 192.

[111] "I have been in White Hill in the Court of Cynvelyn" (Taliessin). According to a Triad it was Arthur who disinterred the head of Bran, disdaining to be so protected.

[112] Dr. Maitland, _Domesday and Beyond_.

[113] The Anglo-Saxon chronicler under 878 tells how Alfred made a _geweorc_ at Athelney.

[114] As to the Danes holding the burh with London, see above, p. 68. I find London "and the Boro" mentioned together early in the thirteenth century.

[115] See G. R. Corner, _Archæologia_, vol. xxv.

[116] Saxon Chronicle.

[117] On the boundary of Paris Gardens was an embankment called the Old Broad Wall.

[118] See "House of Lewes Priory," _Archæologia_, vol. xxxviii.

[119] So well informed a guide as Baedeker says the Abbey was so named with reference to Eastminster by the Tower, which was only founded in the fourteenth century.

[120] See Sir J. H. Ramsay, vol. i. p. 422.

[121] See, for example, Hardy and Page, _London and Middlesex Fines_, p. 3. This volume also shows that Norton Folgate was formerly called Norton Folyot from a well-known family.

[122] _Calendar of St. Paul's Documents_, p. 25.

[123] A sixteenth-century London document has "stoop or post."

[124] _Athenæum_, 8th July 1899.

[125] Compare "portmeadows" and lands belonging to citizens elsewhere. At Colchester in 1086 there was a strip eight perches wide surrounding the town wall. As late as 1833 the borough of Bedford _included_ "a broad belt of land." For a full account of the commonable fields of Cambridge and a discussion of the subject generally, see Maitland's _Township and Borough_. The London boundary was called the Line of Separation.

[126] The common pasturage of Westminster is mentioned in a charter.

[127] _London and Middlesex Archæological Society Trans._, vol. v. See also for these documents Dr. Sharpe's _Letter Book C_.

[128] See also Stow's account of the alienation of common lands. Mile-End, according to Froissart, was "a fair plain place where the people of the city did sport them in summer."

[129] Fenchurch also seems to have been connected with this land, or at least the eastern suburb.

[130] The Friday fair of horses still lasted when Froissart wrote his account of Wat Tyler.

[131] _Township and Borough and Village Community._

[132] Hudson Turner.

[133] _Making of England._

[134] See Green's _Conquest of England_.

[135] In the summary of reigns at the end of Florence's Chronicle he speaks more than once of "London and the adjacent country" as going together.

[136] See L. Gomme, _Village Community_, p. 212.

[137] Munday. Loftie says there was another Romeland at Dowgate.

[138] _Calendar of Ancient Deeds._

[139] See J. H. Round, _Commune of London_, p. 99.

[140] Riley, Sharpe, Loftie's two books, _French Chronicle of London_, notes.

[141] Or Langbourne and Fenny-about, as the east and west halves of this ward seem to have been sometimes called.

[142] Sharpe's _Calendar of Wills_, vol. i.

[143] _Calendar of Ancient Deeds_, vol. iii.

[144] _Riley's Memorials._

[145] The _Liber Trinitatis_ states that the precinct of Holy Trinity Aldgate was "of old" (pre-Conquest) one parish of Holy Rood. Two adjoining parishes are mentioned in a twelfth century charter (_Commune of Lond._ p. 253)--St. Laurence de Judaismo and St. Marie de Aldermanebury.

[146] _Judicia civitatis Londoniæ._

[147] _Liber Albus_, p. 80.

[148] A document of about 1120-30 at St. Paul's gives us the name of "Salidus, Bedellus Warde."

[149] _Liber Albus_, p. 32.

[150] _Archæological Journal_, vol. iv. p. 278.

[151] Kemble, _Codex Dip._ 685.

[152] See Dugdale, who is wrong, however, in saying it was called a "Palatine tower." Stow applies this grant to Bridewell by mistake.

[153] See the genealogy as given by Mr. Round. It is interesting to find that the arms of Fitzwalter, the banner-bearer of London, a fess between two cheverons, is but a difference from the three cheverons of Clare.

[154] The arms of the Munfichets were similar to the arms of Clare, with the difference only of a label of five points. From this fact we may suppose that the families were allied. Munfichet Castle afterwards fell into the hands of the Fitzwalters.

[155] Howell's _Londinopolis_, 1657.

[156] Dr. H. J. Nicholson, _History of the Abbey of St. Albans_, Newcourt, and Maitland's _London_, vol. ii. p. 1051.

[157] Dr. Sharpe considers that the Royal was the name of a street near Dowgate, so called from La Reole, near Bordeaux.

[158] T. E. Price, _Safe Deposit_, p. 29.

[159] _Archæol._ xxix.

[160] J. Kempe, _Archæologia_, vol. xxiv.

[161] A large open Cheap is put in various parts by different writers. Mr. Joseph Jacobs, in an interesting inquiry as to the Jewry, makes the ground south of the Guildhall an open market.

[162] _Codex Dip._ i. p. 133. The Wilton Domesday gives a _Magnus Vicus_ at Winchester.

[163] _Parentalia._

[164] _London and Middlesex Transactions_, vol. ii.

[165] See J. E. Price, _Safe Deposit_. Price claims that the crypt found by Wren at Bow Church and described as Roman by him is not the now existing crypt. But the text and index of _Parentalia_ plainly prove that the present church was built _on_ it, and therefore it was the existing Norman structure.

Price says that remains of a bridge were found in Bucklersbury, and that a Roman road, possibly a continuation of that by Bow Church, passed here.

[166] Hudson Turner's _Domestic Archr._, vol. i. App.; _Calendar of St. Paul's Documents_, Sharpe's _Calendar of Wills_, _Calendar of Ancient Deeds_, etc. In the last it is called Aphelingestrate in 1232.

[167] Dr. Sharpe's _Calendar of Wills_.

[168] Sharon Turner, _History of the Anglo-Saxons_.

[169] Alfred Memorial volume, 1899.

[170] Riley's _Memorials_.

[171] Issac.

[172] Godefroi's _Dictionary_.

[173] It is designed on the pattern of the famous monogram of Justinian, having for basis the letter N.

[174] Still more recent finds at St. Albans seem to show that here also the forum was an important building in the centre of the city.

[175] See account of Saxon Winchester in Hudson Turner's _Domestic Archr._, vol. i., and of _Canterbury before the Conquest_, by Geoff. Faussett.

[176] Winton Domesday mentions Fishmongers' Street, Tanner Street, and Gold Street.

[177] _The Golden Legend._

[178] Right through the Middle Ages the close of St. Paul's is called _Atrium S. Pauli_.

[179] _Parentalia._

[180] Thorpes' _Analecta_.

[181] _Cotton Charters_, 11 Aug. 85.

[182] Richard of Cirencester, also Stow.

[183] See W. Maitland's _London_, and Green's _Conquest of England_.

[184] _London and Middlesex Archæological Society's Trans._ vol. ii.

[185] Sir H. Ellis, _Introduction to Domesday_.

[186] See _Eng. Hist. Rev._ vol. xvi.

[187] For the last see Round, _Geoffrey de Mandeville_.

[188] For many other churches mentioned in the twelfth century see _Calendar of St. Paul's Documents, Historical MSS. Reports_, which I have not drawn upon in this place. Several other churches may be presumed to be ancient from their dedication, such as St. Pancras (destroyed at the great fire). Green (_Conquest of England_) attributes St. Augustine, St. Gregory, St. Benet, and St. Faith, to Bishop Erkenwald.

[189] For Strand churches see Sanders in _Archæologia_, vol. xxvi. Gibbs found work which he thought was Roman under St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. For an early foundation at Smithfield see Malcolm.

[190] Dugdale, under Bermondsey.

[191] The "Pedlar of Swaffham" and some Welsh stories refer to the bridge in the same way. See Rhys, _Celtic Folklore_.

[192] _Hist. MSS. Report of St. Paul's Documents_, p. 49.

[193] See T. H. Round, _Commune of London_.

[194] _Geoffrey de Mandeville_, p. 436.

[195] Thorpe, pp. 97-103.

[196] _London and the Kingdom._ In Winton Domesday is written _Chenictes tenebat la chenictehalla ubi potabant gildam suam_.

[197] Does this mean the lost charter constituting the mayor?

[198] _Camden Society._

[199] Lick up the penny--Howell writes, "Some call London a Lickpenny, as Paris is called a Pick-purse, because of feastings and other occasions of expense."

[200] Book now disappeared. See for this and Stone generally, Price's _Roman Pavement in Bucklersbury_. It is not necessary that the note should be as old as the book.

[201] _London and Middlesex Archæological Society_, vol. v.

[202] _Parentalia._

[203] This must be just the meaning of Berefridam--Burhfrid--Town-peace.

[204] _Domesday and Beyond_, p. 192.

[205] _Ibid._ p. 184.

[206] Lincoln also had a gerefa in the seventh century (Bede, ii. 6).

[207] _Geoffrey de Mandeville._

[208] Maitland's _London_ speaks of a list amongst the British Museum MSS.

[209] See Round in _Dict. Nat. Biog._ and _Commune of London_.

[210] F. Palgrave, _Rotuli Curiæ Regis_, vol. i. p. 12.

[211] Skeat says the weight was called from Troyes, but gives no conclusive reasons. See also _Notes and Queries_, 1871. Cripp's _English Plate_ seems to prove this point.

[212] In Rolls Series.

[213] _Illus. Rom. Lond._ and valuable article, _Archæol._ xxix.

[214] There may have been a tower on the Bush Lane site: I am speaking of a large walled castrum.

[215] Like the one which has left us its bath in Essex Street, Strand. The 1681 Catalogue of objects in the Museum of the Royal Society describes a mosaic pavement found in Holborn near St. Andrew's.

[216] At Bucklersbury, described by Price.

[217] As many discoveries of walls and pavements have shown; as, for instance, at the south end of Bishopsgate Street, in Threadneedle Street, Lombard Street, at the Bank, the Royal Exchange, Bucklersbury, Cannon Street, and the north side of Thames Street.

[218] Roach Smith in _London and Middlesex Archæological Trans._ vol i.

[219] I may say here that the drawing of the Roman pavement (Fig. 35) was originally made for Roach Smith by Fairholt.

[220] The mark P. LON. is first found on a coin of Diocletian.

[221] Other plans by A. Ryther, Norden, and Porter are small, and of little use except for giving the extent of suburban building at the moment of the execution of each.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.

The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations.

The Maltese Cross used in the original text is noted in this version as [Maltese Cross].

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