The Story of London

by Henry B. Wheatley

[203] Constitutional History, chap. xiii. par 165.

[204] Ancient Charters prior to 1200, edited by J. H. Round. Part I, p. 27, 1888 (Pipe Roll Society).

[205] The Commune of London, p. 98.

[206] Round’s Commune of London, pp. 223, 224.

[207] ‘A London Municipal Collection of the Reign of John,’ part i., English Historical Review, July 1902, p. 480.

[208] ‘Nunc primum in sibi indulta conjuratione, regno regem deesse cognovit Londonia, quam nec rex ipse Ricardus, nec prædecessor et pater ejus Henricus pro mille millibus marcarum argenti fieri permississet.’—Richard of Devizes, p. 416 (Commune of London, p. 223)

[209] Bishop Stubbs’s Historical Introductions, pp. 200-309.

[210] The Commune of London, p. 224. The Beffroi of France was the symbol and pledge of independence. So was the bell-tower of St. Paul’s, which is styled in documents berefridum or campanile, p. 234.

[211] The Commune of London, p. 225.

[212] The Commune of London, p. 228.