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