Transcriber’s Note
Footnote 51 is referenced twice in the text.
Entries in the table of contents do not all match the headings in the text.
The following printing errors have been corrected:
- p. x “to empty” changed to “to “empty”
- p. xviii “S. Androwes” changed to “S. Androwes.”
- p. 13 (note) “1st.” changed to “1st”
- p. 17 “Glibert” changed to “Gilbert”
- p. 46 “recepit” changed to “receipt”
- p. 72 “default, of” changed to “default, of”
- p. 76 (note) “Liber Constitutions. Liber Horme.” changed to “Liber Constitutionis. Liber Horne.”
- p. 91 “kept a” changed to “kept at”
- p. 92 (note) “Decretat,” changed to “Decretal.”
- p. 107 “First, Through” changed to “First, through”
- p. 113 (note) “Rech Altherthümer” changed to “Rechtsalterthümer”
- p. 136 (note) “10s.” changed to “10s.”
- p. 162 (note) “p. 141” changed to “p. 141.”
- p. 173 “Enchange” changed to “Exchange”
- p. 174 “expect the steeple” changed to “except the steeple”
- p. 189 “s a principal” changed to “is a principal”
- p. 231 (note) “16s.” changed to “16s.”
- p. 231 (note) “p. 207” changed to “p. 207.”
- p. 243 “so called.” changed to “so called,”
- p. 260 “Kery lan” changed to “Kery lane”
- p. 264 “Rowlard” changed to “Rowland”
- p. 266 “ncroachments” changed to “encroachments”
- p. 269 “1546:” changed to “1546;”
- p. 287 (note) “Hountjoy” changed to “Mountjoy”
- p. 298 “buck,and” changed to “buck, and”
- p. 299 “chantry there,” “chantry there;”
- p. 331 “low sheds” changed to “low sheds,”
- p. 355 “partiarch” changed to “patriarch”
- p. 364 "he dieu” changed to “de dieu”
- p. 376 “h ll” changed to “hill”
- p. 382 “this our city.” changed to “this our city.””
- p. 390 (note) “inn.” changed to “inn.””
- p. 392 “fair buildings.” changed to “fair buildings.””
- p. 407 “Richard, Bishop” changed to “Richard, bishop”
- p. 407 “younds” changed to “pounds”
- p. 411 “by thi” changed to “by this”
- p. 442 “French and English” changed to “French and English.”
- p. 448 “Richard Handle” changed to “Richard Hardle”
- p. 454 “Sr John Pultney” changed to “Sir John Pultney”
- p. 461 “Waltar Chartesey” changed to “Walter Chartesey”
- p. 473 “mayor Sir William” changed to “mayor, Sir William”
- p. 480 “aldermen Darby” changed to “alderman Darby”
- p. 482 “mænia” changed to “mœnia”
- p. 483 “cætus” changed to “cœtus”
- p. 487 typography of the paragraph beginning “Nam ea annis“ was regularised.
- p. 493 “liberœ“ changed to “liberæ“
- p. 500 “proper colour” changed to “proper colour.”
- p. 511 “Bassett, Robert” changed to “Basset, Robert”
- p. 511 “Benbridge’s inn” changed to “Benbrige’s inn”
- p. 511 “Bollein Godfrey” changed to “Bollein, Godfrey”
- p. 512 “Chesters’ inn” changed to “Chester’s inn”
- p. 512 “Crosley place, 155” changed to “Crosby place, 155”
- p. 512 “Crosley, Sir John” changed to “Crosby, Sir John”
- p. 513 “Elies’ inn” changed to “Elie’s inn”
- p. 513 “Gutuhrons” changed to “Guthurons”
- p. 513 “Stephanides,)” changed to “Stephanides),”
- p. 513 “208 261” changed to “208, 261”
- p. 513 “243, 244,” changed to “243, 244”
- p. 514 “Horsepool” changed to “Horsepoole”
- p. 514 “Lomsberry” changed to “Lomsbery”
- p. 515 “Church of 130” changed to “Church of, 130”
- p. 515 “Oldeborne bridge” changed to “Oldborne bridge”
- p. 517 “Single- Woman’s” changed to “Single Woman’s”
- p. 518 “Waxchandler’s hall” changed to “Waxchandlers hall”
- p. 518 “Wolfesgate, 39” changed to “Wolfes gate, 39”
- p. 518 “Noble) street 34,” changed to “Noble) street, 34,”
Many instances of inconsistent punctuation have not been changed.
The following possible printing errors have not been changed:
- p. xi his memory,
- p. 11 reparing
- p. 62 where thither
- p. 158 Three needle street
- p. 196 John Merston. knight
- p. 259 Ienet and Agnes
- p. 356 mother’s-jewels
- p. 462 and 463 respectively: Godfrey Bolaine and Godfrey Boloine
- p. 466 Raphe Austrie and Raph Astrie
- p. 488 straglers
- p. 514 “See also Marke lane” refers to a non-existent entry
The book includes many inconsistent spellings, including:
- 32d and 32nd
- Aeldresgate and Ældresgate
- Arcubus and Arches
- Bank’s side and Bankside
- Bridwell and Bridewell
- clothworker and cloth-worker
- commonalty and commonality
- Cordewainers, Cordwainer and Cordwayner
- four-pence and four pence
- Howe, Howes and Howse
- Knight riders and Knightriders’
- Meduvanus and Meduvius
- Needlar’s. Needelars and Needler’s
- Sherington and Sherrington
- Surrey and Surry
- Totehil and Totehill
- Tunstal and Tunstall
- Turnebase and Turnebasse
- Walbrook and Walbrooke
- West Cheape and Westcheape
- Wokendon and Wokenden