Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social

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The work offers a comprehensive historical and social survey of medieval London, opening with concise portraits of successive sovereigns and their interactions with the city, then shifting to civic life: port and trade, the rise of commerce and gentility, street plan and architecture, domestic furnishings, wealth and social customs, food and recreation, literature, libraries, medical practice, recurring disasters such as fire, plague, and famine, and systems of crime and punishment, concluding with onomastic notes and appendices; the text is supplemented by maps, illustrations, and documentary material to illuminate urban institutions and daily life.

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FOOTNOTES:

1 “The old,” i.e. “Senex.” It has been suggested that this is a Latin rendering of the name Vyel.

2 Say = a kind of serge.

3 Gairdner, Introduction to the Paston Letters.

4 In 1462 the Earl of Warwick was Lord High Admiral, in the following year his brother the Earl of Kent succeeded him, in the same year he was superseded in favour of the Duke of Gloucester; in 1470 Warwick was again Admiral, in 1471 Richard succeeded him.

5 Londina Illustrata, vol. i.

6 Buy (Flemish).

7 Candlewick Street, now Cannon Street.

8 Cologne.

9 Knightes Tale, p. 177, quotation from Sloan MS.

10 Joseph Strutt, Sports and Pastimes of the English People.

11 Steven’s edition of Dugdale’s Monasticon.—Ed.

12 A kind of knife worn at the girdle.—Ed.