London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 / A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.

by Reginald R. Sharpe

Anglo-Sax. Chron., ii, p. 120.

-Id. ii, p. 120. Cf. "Ad hæc principes se non amplius Danicum regem admissuros in Angliam unanimiter spoponderunt."—Flor. Wigorn., i, p. 169.

The Heimskringla or Chronicle of the kings of Norway, translated from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson, ii. pp. 8-11.

Anglo-Sax. Chron., ii, 120.

Anglo-Sax. Chron., ii, 121.

-Id. ii., 122.

Malmesbury, Gesta Regum (Rolls Series, No. 90), i, 215.

Freeman, Norman Conquest, i, 308.

Thorpe, Ancient Laws and Institutes, 127, 128.

In course of time the natives of Denmark acquired the privilege of sojourning all the year round in London—a privilege accorded to few, if any other, foreigners. They enjoyed moreover the benefits of the 'the law of the city of London' (la lei de la citie de Loundres) in other words, the right of resorting to fair or market in any place throughout England.—Liber Cust. pt. i, p. 63.