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Henry B. Wheatley. The Story of London
The Story of London
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I. Introduction: Early History of London to the Norman Conquest
CHAPTER II. The Walled Town and its Streets
CHAPTER III. Round the Town with Chaucer and the Poets of his Time
CHAPTER IV. The River and the Bridge
CHAPTER V. The King’s Palace—The Tower
CHAPTER VI. Manners
CHAPTER VII. Health, Disease and Sanitation[125]
Hospitals
Sanitation
CHAPTER VIII. The Governors of the City
I.—The closing of Temple Bar to the Sovereign
II.—The Mayor’s position in the City
III.—The Mayor’s summons to the Privy Council on the accession of a new Sovereign
IV.—The Mayor s position at the Coronation Banquets
Aldermen
Sheriffs
Common Council
Arms of London
CHAPTER IX. Officials of the City
CHAPTER X. Commerce and Trade
CHAPTER XI. The Church and Education
Friars
CHAPTER XII. London from Mediæval to Modern Times
INDEX
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Henry B. Wheatley
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The great difficulty in this passage is the word gesette, which probably means occupied, but may mean much more, as founded or settled. Some authorities have therefore changed the word to besaet, besieged.
Professor Earle proposed the following solution of the problem, which seems highly probable. London was a flourishing, populous and opulent city, the chief emporium of commerce in the island, and the residence of foreign merchants. Properly it had become an Angle city, the chief city of the Anglian nation of Mercia, but the Danes had settled there in great numbers, and they had many captives whom they had taken in the late wars. Thus the Danes preponderated over the free Angles, and the latter were glad to see Alfred come and restore the balance in their favour. It was of the greatest importance for Alfred to secure this city, not only the capital of Mercia, but able to do what Mercia had not done, to bar the passage of pirate ships to the Upper Thames. Accordingly, Alfred in 886 planted the garrison of London, i.e., introduced a military colony of men, and gave them land for their maintenance, in return for which they lived in and about a fortified position under a commanding officer. Professor Earle would not have Lundenburh taken as merely an equivalent to London. Alfred therefore founded not London itself but the burh of London.[8]
