Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Notes.

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and spelling remain unchanged except where in conflict with the index.

Italics are represented thus _italic_, and superscripts thus 6^{th}.

The ancient documents reproduced, particularly in Appendix IX, contain abbreviations represented by symbols no longer in use. These have been represented by the tilde˜ .

Lower case Latin numbers surmounted by xx (score) are shown thus iiij∕xx.

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The Survey of London

MEDIÆVAL
LONDON

ECCLESIASTICAL

MEDIÆVAL
LONDON

VOL. II

ECCLESIASTICAL

BY

SIR WALTER BESANT

LONDON
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK

1906

CONTENTS

PART I

THE GOVERNMENT OF LONDON

CHAP. PAGE

1. THE RECORDS 3

2. THE CHARTER OF HENRY THE SECOND 8

3. THE COMMUNE 11

4. THE WARDS 24

5. THE FACTIONS OF THE CITY 35

6. THE CENTURY OF UNCERTAIN STEPS 66

7. AFTER THE COMMUNE 72

8. THE CITY COMPANIES 108

PART II

ECCLESIASTICAL LONDON

1. THE RELIGIOUS LIFE 127

2. CHURCH FURNITURE 159

3. THE CALENDAR OF THE YEAR 164

4. HERMITS AND ANCHORITES 170

5. PILGRIMAGE 179

6. ORDEAL 191

7. SANCTUARY 201

8. MIRACLE AND MYSTERY PLAYS 213

9. SUPERSTITIONS, ETC. 218

10. ORDER OF BURIAL 223