Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social

CHAPTER I

HENRY II

[In considering the reigning Kings in order, I have found it necessary to reserve for the chapters on the Mediæval Government of the City the Charters successively granted to the Citizens, and their meaning.]

From his effigy at Fontevrault.]

The accession of the young King, then only three-and-twenty years of age, brought to the City as well as t...