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_Formatting._ The Chronicle section of the original utilizes unique
page headers indicating the name of the monarch and the years covered
on that page, e.g., REX HENRICUS T'CIUS [1238-1242]. These have been
retained in this e-book and inserted in the appropriate chronological
place.

The original contains numerous sidenotes. In the Chronicle section,
sidenotes marked with an asterisk were added by the editors and are
here treated as footnotes. Otherwise, sidenotes are marked as such and
have been moved above the paragraph to which they refer. Where a
paragraph is very long, as in the documents at the end of the Notes
section, the sidenotes have been placed above the lines to which they
refer.]

A

Chronicle of London,

FROM 1089 TO 1483;

WRITTEN IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY,

AND FOR THE FIRST TIME PRINTED

FROM MSS. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM:

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

Numerous Contemporary Illustrations,

CONSISTING OF ROYAL LETTERS, POEMS, AND OTHER ARTICLES DESCRIPTIVE OF
PUBLIC EVENTS, OR OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE METROPOLIS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR
LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER-ROW;
AND HENRY BUTTERWORTH, No. 7, FLEET STREET.

M.DCCC.XXVII.

[ONLY TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES PRINTED.]

RICHARD TAYLOR, PRINTER,
SHOE-LANE.

[Illustration: ALERE FLAMMAM.]

[Illustration: Fac-simile of a page of the Chronicle of London in the
Harleian M.S. 565, fol. 37.

_J. Shuttleworth & Co. Lithog^{rs}. 28 Poultry._]

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND COMMON COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

This Volume presents to your notice an early Chronicle of the great
Metropolis over which you preside.

The rising taste for literature, and particularly that part of it
relating to the History of your ancient City, which has lately been
evinced by you in the formation of a Library, as well as in the
private Collections made by several of your members on the same
subject, renders it probable that the publication of this Chronicle,
which has never before been printed, may not be deemed unacceptable.

Amongst the "Illustrations" will be found some interesting and
important documents taken from the Archives of your Corporation;--they
give a faint idea of the valuable historical information contained in
your Records; and it may be hoped that these specimens will induce you
to follow the example set by the Great Council of the Nation in
printing the Parlia