Walter de Gray Birch
Published: 2016-06-22
Total Pages: 400
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Excerpt from The Historical Charters and Constitutional Documents of the City of London For some time now The Historical Charters and Constitutional Documents relating to the City of London have attracted the attention of those among us who have been interested in watching the growing and by this time universally admitted desire for the revision and augmentation of the Privileges which this ancient Corporation enjoys. Hence the opportunity seems appropriately to have arisen for giving English readers - whether they be citizens, historians, politicians, lawyers, or antiquaries, or simply readers desirous of acquiring general information upon a subject prominently before thorn, and likely, if we read the direction of popular feeling rightly, to become before long very prominent among the subjects of current legislation - a new and revised edition of the English translation of the City Charters and Documents concerning the constitution of the Corporation. In proof of this fact, so universally admitted, reference may he made - if, indeed, proof be required - to a speech made as recently as the 9th of November in 1883, by the Lord Chief Justice, on the occasion of the reception of the new Lord Mayor in accordance with the "Fifth Charter of King John" (see page 19), wherein he is reported to have said: - "What may be in store, if anything is in store, in the way of change, for tho great Corporation over which you preside, is yet entirely uncertain. Such things must be left where Homer left them, i On the knees of the gods;' or as an Englishman would translate it, to the wisdom of Parliament. 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.