The Commune of London, and other studies

by John Horace Round

[470] Const. Hist., i. 407.

[471] “Facta conspiratione quam communionem vocabant sese omnes pariter sacramentis adstringunt et ... ejusdem regionis proceres, quamvis invitos, sacramentis suae conspirationis obligari compellunt.”

[472] See my paper in ‘Academy’ of 12th November, 1887.

[473] Transactions of the London and Middlesex Arch. Soc., v. 286.

[474] Ibid. p. 286–7.

[475] Mr. Loftie’s argument (‘London,’ p. 53) that Glanville’s words prove that London, if not other towns as well, had already a ‘Commune’ under Henry II. is disposed of by Dr. Gross (‘The Gild Merchant,’ i. 102).

[476] £125 and £5 10s. respectively for a quarter in 19 Hen. II. p. 183, and £375 and £16 10s. respectively for three-quarters in 20 Hen. II. (p 7).

[477] ‘Geoffrey de Mandeville,’ p. 297.

[478] 20 Hen. II., p. 9. The official list (Deputy Keeper’s 31st Report) omits to mention that they answered “ut custodes” for this quarter.

[479] ‘Geoffrey de Mandeville,’ pp. 297–8.