London Before the ConquestLethaby, W. R. (William Richard)
History
London Before the Conquest
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard)
London (England) -- History -- To 1500
[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.
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