Mediæval London, Volume 2 Ecclesiastical
Mediæval London, Volume 2 Ecclesiastical
By Walter Besant
22 Sep, 2020
Before entering upon the government of London under the Plantagenet Kings, let us first ask what are the documents in which we shall find information at first hand.
No city in the world possesses a collection of archives so ancient and so complete
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Before entering upon the government of London under the Plantagenet Kings, let us first ask what are the documents in which we shall find information at first hand.
No city in the world possesses a collection of archives so ancient and so complete as the collection at the Guildhall. Riley, in his Introduction to the Liber Albus, begins his list of those who have consulted the archives with John Stow. Surely, however, the compiler of the Liber Albus itself, John Carpenter, also consulted archives even in his day valuable and ancient. Strype, in the preparation of his Edition of Stow, also consulted the City archives:— Less