Calendar of Letter-Books Preserved Among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall

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Excerpt from Calendar of Letter-Books Preserved Among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall: Letter-Book H, Circa A. D. 1375-1399 This Council had been returned by forty-one of the Misteries, but the number of commoners it comprised is not recorded. We are only told that a great number of the Commonalty from the principal Misteries was summoned. The change in the manner of election was effected by the citizens themselves without the sanction of Parliament, 2 by virtue of a clause in a charter granted to the City by Edward himself in 1341, which enabled the Mayor and Aldermen, with the assent of the Com monalty, to amend their customs whenever necessary.3 It was not the first occasion of the Council being elected from the Misteries. This had been done in 1351, and again in In 13 54, however, the election had again passed to the Wards, 5 and with the Wards it had remained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.