London and the Kingdom - Volume 2
A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.
London and the Kingdom, Volume 2 is the middle volume of the history Reginald R. Sharpe, records clerk to the Corporation of the City of London, compiled from the Guildhall archives and published in 1894 and 1895. It covers the seventeenth century, from the accession of James I in 1603 to the proclamation of Queen Anne in 1702, and it shows the City's dealings with the Crown through the forced loans of the early Stuarts, the Civil War in which London's money and militia decided the issue, the Commonwealth and Restoration, the plague, the Great Fire and the rebuilding, the attack on the City's charter under Charles II and James II, and the Revolution of 1688. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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