The Story of London

by Henry B. Wheatley

[213] Ibid., p. 228.

[214] 1193. ‘Sacramentum Commune tempore regis Ricardi quando detentus erat Alemaniam’ (Add. MS., No. 14,252, f. 112 d.), 1205-1206. ‘Sacramentum xxiiij factum anno regni regis Johannis viiº.’ (Add. MS., No. 14,252, f. 110).—(The Commune of London, 1899, pp. 235-237.)

[215] Commune of London, p. 240.

[216] A curious point is that formerly the Leges Britolii were supposed to relate to Bristol, and the great English port obtained credit which it did not deserve.

[217] ‘The Laws of Breteuil [Britolium],’ English Historical Review, xv. (1900), pp. 73, 302, 496, 754.

[218] The seal is figured in ‘Rotuli Curiæ Regis. Rolls and Records of the Court held before the King’s Justiciars or Justices, ed. by Sir Francis Palgrave,’ vol. i., 1835 (plate 1), and is here reproduced.

[219] Constitutional History, chap. xiii. sec. 165.

[220] Cal. Letter Book B, p. 244.

[221] Cal. Letter Book A, pp. 89, 209.

[222] Rymer’s Foedera, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 892.