The Commune of London, and other studies

by John Horace Round

[500] “Quicumque predictorum, sine licentia majoris abierit de congregacione aliorum, tantundem paccabit,” etc. (‘Établissements,’ § 4).

[501] “Si quid major celari preceperit, celabunt. Hoc quicunque detexerit, a suo officio deponetur,” etc. (‘Établissements,’ § 2).

[502] See Liber Albus, i. 307–8.

[503] Compare the case quoted in Palgrave’s ‘Commonwealth,’ II. p. clxxxiii.

[504] Arch. Journ., ix. 70.

[505] Ibid. p. 81.

[506] Historic Towns: Winchester, p. 166.

[507] In his valuable ‘Étude sur les origines de la commune de St. Quentin,’ M. Giry has shown that this early example, with those derived from it, was distinguished by the separate existence and status of the échevins. Nor have the Établissements as much in common with the London commune as those of Rouen.

[508] Archæological Journal, L. 256–260.

[509] Feudal England, 552 et seq.