made these rules for London:

1. Be it known that within the space of three miles from
all parts outside of the city a man ought not to hold or
hinder another, and also should not do business with him if
he wish to come to the city under its peace. But when he
arrives in the city, then let the market be the same to the
rich man as to the poor.

2. Be it also known that a man who is from the court of the
king or the barons ought not to lodge in the house of any
citizen of London for three nights, either by privilege or
by custom, except by consent of the host. For if he force
the host to lodge him in his house and there be killed by
the host, let the host choose six from his relatives and let
him as the seventh swear that he killed him for the said
cause. And thus he will remain quit of the murder of the
deceased towards the king and relatives and lords of the
deceased.

3. And after he has entered the city, let a foreign
merchant be lodged wherever it please him. But if he bring
dyed cloth, let him see to it that he does not sell his
merchandise at retail, but that he sell not less than a
dozen pieces at a time. And if he bring pepper, or cumin, or
ginger, or alum, or brasil wood, or resin, or incense, let
him sell not less than fifteen pounds at a time. But if he
bring belts, let him sell not less than a thousand at a
time. And if he bring cloths of silk, or wool or linen, let
him see that he cut them not, but sell them whole. But if he
bring wax, let him sell not less than one quartanum. Also a
foreign merchant may not buy dyed cloth, nor make the dye in
the city, nor do any work which belongs by right to the
citizens.

4. Also no foreign merchant with his partner may set up any
market within the city for reselling goods in the city, nor
may he approach a citizen for making a bargain, nor may he
stop longer in the City.

Every week in London there was a folkmote at St. Paul's
churchyard, where majority decision was a tradition. By 1032, it
had lost much of its power to the husting [household assembly in
Danish] court. The folkmote then had responsibility for order and
was the sole authority for proclaiming outlaws. It met three times
a year at St. Paul's churchyard and there acclaimed the sheriff
and justiciar, or if the king had chosen his officer, heard who
was chosen and listened to