Mediæval London, Volume 2: Ecclesiastical — John Shaqi
Mediæval London, Volume 2: EcclesiasticalBesant, Walter
History
Mediæval London, Volume 2: Ecclesiastical
Besant, Walter
London (England) -- History -- To 1500; London (England) -- Social life and customs -- To 1500
Since this list was prepared, the Corporation have undertaken the
publication of Riley’s _Memorials of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and
Fifteenth Centuries_; Sharpe’s _Calendar of Wills_; the _Calendar of
Letters_; Sharpe’s _London and the Kingdom_; Price’s _Descriptive
Account of the Guildhall_; Agas’s “Map of London”; Riley’s _Chronicles
of Old London_. In addition to these volumes, one must not omit
Arnold’s _Chronicle of Customs_, published in 1811; the publications
of the Camden Society, which include many documents invaluable to
the student of City history; other Chronicles translation has made
accessible, such as the “Dialogue de Scaccario,” published in full in
Stubbs’s _Select Charters_.
CHAPTER II
THE CHARTER OF HENRY THE SECOND
The Charter granted by Henry the Second, though apparently full,
contained certain omissions which are significant and important. Round
has arranged this Charter side by side with that of Henry the First,
dividing their contents into numbered clauses, italicising the points
of difference (_Geoffrey de Mandeville_, pp. 368-369).
HENRY THE FIRST HENRY THE SECOND
(1) Cives non placitabunt extra (1) Nullus eorum placitet extra
muros civitatis pro ullo placito. muros civitatis Londoniarum de
ullo placito _praeter placita de
tenuris exterioribus, exceptis
monetariis et ministris meis_.
(2) Sint quieti _de schot et de (2) Concessi etiam eis quietanciam
loth de Danegildo et_ de murdro, murdri, [_et_] _infra urbem et
et nullus eorum faciat bellum. Portsokna_, et quod nullus faciat
bellum.
(3) Et si quis civium de placitis (3) De placitis ad coronam
coronæ implacitatus fuerit, per [spectantibus] se possunt
sacramentum quod judicatum fuerit disrationare secundum antiquam
in civitate, se disrationet homo consuetudinem civitatis.
Londoniarum.
(4) Et infra muros civitatis nullus (4) Infra muros nemo capiat
hospitetur, neque de mea familia, hospitium per vim vel per
neque de alia, nisi alicui liberationem Marescalli.
hospitium liberetur.
(5) Et omnes homines Londoniarum (5) Omnes cives Londoniarum sint
sint quieti et liberi, et omnes res quieti de theloneo et lestagio per
eorum, et per totam Angliam et per totam Angliam et per portum maris.
portus maris, de thelonio _et
passagio_ et lestagio _et
omnibus aliis consuetudinibus_.
(6) Et ecclesiæ et barones et cives
teneant et habeant bene et in pace
socnas suas cum omnibus (This clause is wholly omitted).
consuetudinibus ita quod hospites
qui in soccis suis hospitantur
nulli dent consuetudines suas,
nisi illi cujus socca fuerit, vel
ministro suo quem ibi posuerit.
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