The last may be considered in abeyance as there has not been any
coronation banquet since that of George IV. In the case of the
coronation of King Edward VII. the claim was excluded from the
consideration of the Court of Claims under the royal proclamation. The
terms of the judgment on a further claim are as follows: "The Court
considers and adjudges that the lord mayor has by usage a right,
subject to His Majesty's pleasure, to attend the Abbey during the
coronation and bear the crystal mace."
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--The earliest description of London is that written by
the monk Fitzstephen in 1174 as an introduction to his life of
Archbishop Thomas à Becket. This was first printed by Stow in his
Survey. It was reprinted by Strype in his editions of Stow; by Hearne
in his edition of Leland's _Itinerary_ (vol. 8), by Samuel Pegge in
1772, and elsewhere. The first history is contained in _A Survey of
London_ by John Stow (1598, 1603). The author died in 1605, and his
work was continued by Anthony Munday and others (1618, 1633) and in
the next century by John Strype (1720, 1754-1755). Stow's original
work was reprinted by W. J. Thoms in 1842 and a monumental edition has
been published by C. L. Kingsford (Oxford, 1908).
The following are the most important of subsequent histories arranged
in order of publication; James Howell, _Londinopolis_ (1657); W. Stow,
_Remarks on London and Westminster_ (1722); Robert Seymour (John
Mottley), _Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster_ (1734,
another edition 1753); William Maitland, _History of London_ (1739,
other editions 1756, 1760, 1769, continued by John Entick 1775); John
Entick, _A New and Accurate History of London, Westminster, Southwark_
(1766); The City Remembrancer, _Narratives of the Plague 1665, Fire
1666 and Great Storm 1703_ (1769); _A New and Compleat History and
Survey_, by a Society of Gentlemen (1770, revised by H. Chamberlain,
folio revised by W. Thornton 1784); J. Noorthouck, _A New History_
(1773); Walter Harrison, _A New and Universal History_ (1775); J. P.
Malcolm, _Londinium Redivivum or an Ancient History and Modern
Description of London_ (1803); David Hughson (E. Pugh), _London_
(1805-1809); B. Lambert, _History and Survey of London_ (1806); Henry
Hunter, _History of London_ (1811); J. W. Abbott, _History of London_
(1821); Thomas Allen, _History and Antiquities of London_ (1827-1829,
continued by Thomas Wright 1839); William Smith, _A New History of
London_ (1833); Charles Mackay, _A History of London_ (1838); _The
History of London_, illustrated by W. G. Fearnside (1838); George
Grant, _A Comprehensive History of London_ (Dublin, 1849); John Timbs,
_Curiosities of London_ (1855, later editions 1855, 1868, 1875, 1876);
_Old London Papers, Archaeological Institute_ (1867); W. J. Loftie, _A
History of London_ (1883); W. J. Loftie, _Historic Towns_ (London,
1887); Claude de la Roche Francis, _London, Historic and Social_
(Philadelphia, 1902); Sir Walter Besant, _The Survey of London_
(1902-1908)--_Early London, Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman_
(1908); _Medieval London_, vol. 1, _Historical and Social_ (1906),
vol. 2, _Ecclesiastical_ (1906); _London in the Time of the Tudors_
(1904); _London in the Time of the Stuarts_ (1903); _London in the
Eighteenth Century_ (1902); H. B. Wheatley, _The Story of London_
[Medieval Towns] (London, 1904).
The following are some of the Chronicles of London which have been
printed, arranged in order of publication: R. Grafton, _Chronicle
1189-1558_ (1809); R. Arnold, _London Chronicle_ (1811); _A Chronicle
of London from 1089 to 1483 written in the Fifteenth Century_ (1827);
_William Gregory's Chronicle of London, 1189-1469_ (1876); _Historical
Collections of a Citizen of London_, edited by James Gairdner (Camden
Society, 1876); _Chronicles of London [1200-1516]_, edited by C. L.
Kingsford (Oxford, 1905).
Many books have been published on the government of London, of which
the following is a selection: _City Law_ (1647, 1658); _Lex
Londinensis or the City Law_ (1680); W. Bohun, _Privilegia Londini_
(1723); Giles Jacob, _City Liberties_ (1733); _Laws and Customs,
Rights, Liberties and Privileges of the City of London_ (1765); David
Hughson, _Epitome of the Privileges of London_ (1816); George Norton,
_Commentaries on the History, Constitution and Chartered Franchises of
the City of London_ (1829, 3rd ed. 1869); _Munimenta Gildhallae
Londoniensis_, edited by H. T. Riley--vol. 1, _Liber Albus_ (1419),
vol. 2, _Liber Custumarum_ (1859); _Liber Albus: the White Book of the
City of London_, translated by H. T. Riley (1861); H. T. Riley,
_Memorials of London and London Life in the 13th, 14th and 15th
centuries_ (1868); _De Antiquis Legibus Liber. Curante Thoma
Stapleton_ (Camden Society, 1846); _Chronicles of the Mayors and
Sheriffs of London 1188-1274_, translated from the _Liber de Antiquis
Legibus_ by H. T. Riley. _French Chronicle of London_ 1259-1343
(1863); _Analytical Index to the Series of Records known as the
Remembrancia 1579-1664_ (1888); _Calendar of Letter-Books_ [_circa
1275-1399_] preserved among the Archives of the Corporation of London
at the Guildhall, edited by Reginald R. Sharpe, D.C.L. (1899-1907); W.
and R. Woodcock, _Lives of Lord Mayors_ (1846); J. F. B. Firth,
_Municipal London_ (1876); Walter Delgray Birch, _Historical Charters
and_ _Constitutional Documents of the City of London_ (1884, 1887);
J. H. Round, _The Commune of London and other Studies_ (1899);
Reginald R. Sharpe, _London and the Kingdom; a History derived mainly
from the Archives at Guildhall_ (1894); G. L. Gomme, _The Governance
of London. Studies on the Place occupied by London in English
Institutions_ (1907); Alfred B. Beaven, _The Aldermen of the City of
London temp. Henry III._ (1908).
In connexion with the government of London may be noted works on the
following: Inns of Court. William Herbert, _Antiquities of the Inns of
Court and Chancery_ (1804); Robert P. Pearce, _History_ (1848).
Artillery Company, Anthony Highmore, _History of the Hon. Artillery
Co. of London to 1802_ (1804); G. A. Raikes, _History of the Hon.
Artillery Co._ (1878). William Herbert published in 1837 _History of
the Twelve great Livery Companies of London_, and in 1869 Thomas
Arundell published _Historical Reminiscences of the City and its
Livery Companies_. Since then have appeared _The Livery Companies of
the City of London_, by W. Carew Hazlitt (1892); _The City Companies
of London_, by P. H. Ditchfield (1904); _The Gilds and Companies of
London_, by George Unwin (1908). Separate histories have been
published of the chief London companies.
The following are some of the chief works connected with the
topography of London: Thomas Pennant, _Of London_ (1790, 1793, 1805,
1813, translated into German 1791); John T. Smith, _Antient Topography
of London_ (1815); David Hughson [E. Pugh], _Walks through London_
(1817); _London_ (edited by Charles Knight 1841-1844, reprinted 1851,
revised by E. Walford 1875-1877); J. H. Jesse, _Literary and
Historical Memorials of London_ (1847); Leigh Hunt, _The Town, its
Memorable Character and Events_ (1848, new ed. 1859); Peter
Cunningham, _A Handbook of London past and present_ (1849, 2nd ed.
1850, enlarged into a new work in 1891); Henry B. Wheatley, _London
past and present; Vestiges of Old London, etchings_ by J. W. Archer
(1851); _A New Survey of London_ (1853); G. W. Thornbury, _Haunted
London_ (1865, new ed. by E. Walford 1880); _Old and New London_,
vols. i.-ii. by G. W. Thornbury, vols. iii.-vi. by Edward Walford
(1873-1878); Walter Besant, _London, Westminster, South London, East
London_ (1891-1902); _East London Antiquities_, edited by Walter A.
Locks (_East London Advertiser_, 1902); Philip Norman, _London
vanished and vanishing_ (1905); _Records of the London Topographical
Society; Monographs of the Committee for the Survey of the Memorials
of Greater London._
The following books on the population of London have been published:
John Graunt, _Natural and Political Observations on the Bills of
Mortality_ (1661, other editions 1662, 1665, 1676); _Essay in
Political Arithmetick_ (1683); _Five Essays on Political Arithmetick_
(1687); _Several Essays in Political Arithmetick_ (1699, 1711, 1751,
1755); _Essay concerning the Multiplication of Mankind_ (1682, 1683,
1686), all by Sir William Petty; Corbyn Morris, _Observations on the
past Growth and present State of the City of London_ (1751);
_Collection of the Yearly Bills of Mortality from 1657 to 1758_ (ed.
by T. Birch, D.D. 1759); Graunt's _Observations_, Petty's _Another
Essay_ and C. Morris's _Observations_ are reprinted in this
collection. Graunt and Petty's _Essays_ are reprinted in _Economic
Writings_ of Sir W. Petty (1899). (H. B. W.*)