[13] A very instructive article on ‘The Conqueror’s Footprints in Domesday,’ which contains an account of his movements after the Battle of Senlac, between Enfield, Edmonton, Tottenham, and Berkhamsted, was published in the English Historical Review, vol. xiii. (1898), p. 17.
[14] See Dr. Reginald Sharpe’s London and the Kingdom, to the contents of which valuable work I am pleased to express my great obligations.
[15] Archæologia, vol. xxxii. p. 305.
[16] Riley’s Introduction to Liber Albus (Rolls Series), 1859, vol. i. p. cx.
[17] Political Poems and Songs, ed. T. Wright (Rolls Series), 1861, vol. ii. pp. 157-205.
[18] See Riley’s Memorials, pp. 21, 93; also Liber Albus, p. 240.
[19] Records of St. Giles’s, Cripplegate (1883).
[20] It is scarcely creditable to the city authorities that no mark of the position of the other gates has been set up. To place these memorials would be an easy thing to do, and this attention to historical topography would be highly appreciated by all Londoners. The mark of Aldgate should take the form of a statue of Chaucer, who lived at that gate for some years. The Corporation would honour themselves by doing further honour to the great Englishman, who was also one of the greatest of Londoners, if they placed at the great eastern entrance to London a full length effigy of the son of one of London’s worthy merchants. This would be in addition to the gift of a bust to Guildhall by Sir Reginald Hanson. The line of the wall should also be marked, but this would be a more difficult operation.
[21] Liber Albus, p. 603.
[22] William Fitz-Stephen’s invaluable work has been printed several times both in the original Latin and in an English translation. The most convenient form is the reprint in Thoms’s edition of Stow’s Survey, 1842 or 1876.