Bibliography

Bibliography.

[This list is far from exhaustive of the authorities from which information has been derived.]

MSS. Records of the Corporation of London preserved at Guildhall:

a. Letter Books. b. Journals. c. Repertories. d. Common Hall Books. e. Husting Rolls.

R. R. Sharpe. Calendar of Letter Books, A to L, 10 vols., 1899–1912.

" London and the Kingdom, 3 vols., 1894–5.

" Calendar of Wills proved in the Court of Husting (1258–1688), 1889–90.

G. Norton. Commentaries on the History, Constitution and Chartered Franchises of the City of London, 1829.

W. de Gray Birch. Historical Charters and Constitutional Documents of the City of London (revised ed.), 1887.

Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's (Historical MSS. Commission Appendix to 9th Report), 1883.

Report on the Royal Commission, 1893: City of London. Statement on the Origin, Powers, Duties and Finance of the Corporation of London, 1893.

Report of the Committee of Common Council on the Origin, Nature and Duties of the Office of Alderman and of the Court of Aldermen, 1834.

Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office, 4 vols., 1890–1902.

Sir John J. Baddeley. The Aldermen of Cripplegate Ward, 1900.

" " The Guildhall of the City of London, 1899.

J. Noorthouck. New History of London, 1773.

J. Stow. Survey of London, ed. J. Strype, 2 vols., 1720.

" " " ed. C. L. Kingsford, 2 vols., 1908.

Dictionary of National Biography and Supplements, 69 vols., 1885–1912.

W. J. Loftie. History of London, 2 vols., 1887.

" London ('Historic Towns' Series), 1906.

H. T. Riley. Memorials of London and London Life in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries (1276–1419), 1868.

J. H. Round. Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1892.

" The Commune of London and other Studies, 1899.

G. E. Cokayne. Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of the City of London, 1601 to 1625, 1897.

Bishop Stubbs. Constitutional History of England, 3 vols., 1875–8.

Original Wills preserved at the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House.

MSS. preserved in the City Library, Guildhall (particularly the Stocken MSS.).

Harleian, Lansdowne, Additional and other MSS. preserved at the British Museum (particularly Lansdowne MS. 558).

Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I. and II., ed. Stubbs (Rolls Series), 2 vols., 1882–3.

Historical Collections of a Citizen of London in the 15th century (Gregory's Chronicle) ed. J. Gairdner (Camden Soc. New Series, vol. 17), 1876.

Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles, ed. J. Gairdner (Camden Soc. New Series, vol. 38), 1880.

C. Wriothesley. Chronicle of England during the reigns of the Tudors (1485–1559), ed. W. D. Hamilton, 2 vols. (Camden Soc. New Series, vols. 14, 20), 1875–7.

H. Machyn. Diary, 1550–1563, ed. J. Gough Nichols (Camden Soc. Original Series, vol. 42), 1848.

R. Smyth. Obituary, ed. Sir H. Ellis (Camden Soc. Original Series, vol. 44), 1849.

Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 1188 to 1274 (fitz-Thedmar's Chronicle), and The French Chronicle of London, 1259 to 1343, trans. H. T. Riley, 1863.

Liber Albus, trans. H. T. Riley, 1861.

Liber Custumarum, 2 vols., ed. H. T. Riley, 1859–62.

G. Kearsley. Wards of the City of London, 1787.

W. H. Overall and H. C. Overall. Analytical Index to the Remembrancia, vols. 2 and 8, 1870.

C. Welch. Modern History of the City of London, 1896.

B. B. Orridge. Some Account of the Citizens of London and their Rulers from 1066 to 1867, 1867.

Sir W. Besant. Early London, 1908.

" Mediæval London, 1906.

" London in the Time of the Tudors, 1904.

" London in the Time of the Stuarts, 1903.

" London in the 18th century, 1902.

" London in the 19th century, 1909.

Sir G. L. Gomme. The Governance of London, 1907.

" The Making of London, 1912.

W. Maitland. History of London, 2 vols., 1756.

W. Herbert. History of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of London, 2 vols., 1836–7.

G. Unwin. The Gilds and Companies of London, 1908.

G. R. Stirling Taylor. An Historical Guide to London, 1911.

H. B. Wheatley. The Story of London (Mediaeval Towns Series), 1904.

H. Douglas Irvine. History of London, 1912.

J. G. White. History of Walbrook Ward, 1904.

Sir J. Watney. Some account of the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon, 1892.

W. W. Grantham. List of the Wardens of the Grocers' Company from 1345 to 1907.

Inquisiliones post mortem relating to London, 3 vols. (British Record Soc., vols. 15, 26, 36).

A Chronicle of London, 1089–1483, ed. Sir N. H. Nicolas and E. Tyrrel, 1827.

Visitation of London, 1568 (Harleian Soc., vol. 1), 1869.

" " 1633–5, 2 vols. (Harleian Soc., vols. 15, 17), 1880–3.

J. Howell. Londinopolis, 1657.

W. Bohun. Privilegia Londini, 1723.

R. Johnson. The Nine Worthies of London, 1592 (Harleian Miscellany, vol. 8).

The Little London Directory of 1677, 1878.

Proceedings in Scales' Case, 4 pts., 1832–1839.

Proceedings in Salomons' Case, 2 pts., 1838, 1839.

City Biography, 2nd ed., 1800.

Sir W. S. Prideaux. Memorials of the Goldsmiths' Company, 2 vols., 1896.

C. M. Clode. Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors, 1875.

" Early History of the Guild of Merchant Taylors, 1888.

J. Ewing Ritchie. Famous City Men, 1884.

Concise View of the Origin, Constitution and Proceedings of the Irish Society, 1832.

Memoranda relating to the Royal Hospitals of the City of London, 1863, and Supplement, 1867.

Transcript of Records of Grocers' Company, 1345–1463, ed. by J. A. Kingdon, 1883–4.

The Citizens' Pocket Chronicle, 1827.

R. C. Dillon. The Lord Mayor's Visit to Oxford, 1826, 1827.

S. Young. Annals of the Barber Surgeons of London, 1890.

C. Holford. A Chat about the Broderers' Company. By an Old Boy and Past Master. 1910.

S. E. Atkins and W. H. Overall. Some account of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of the City of London, compiled principally from their own records. 1881.

A. W. Gould. History of the Fruiterers' Company, 1912.

C. Welch. History of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers of the City of London, based upon their own records. 2 vols. 1902.

W. D. Smythe. An historical account of the Worshipful Company of Girdlers, London, 1905.

W. H. Black. History and Antiquities of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers of the City of London; with facsimiles of Charters and other Illustrations, 1871.

W. H. Pitman. The Worshipful Company of Painters, 1906.

J. W. Sherwell. A descriptive and historical account of the Guild of Saddlers of the City of London, 1889.

I have not included in the above the numerous Histories of England (e.g., Rapin, Echard, Gardiner, Hume, Macaulay, Lord Stanhope, Massey, Adolphus, Hallam, etc.), which necessarily deal more or less fully with incidents in or series of events connected with the civic history of London.