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The London Jubilee Book, 1376-1387: An Edition of Trinity College Cambridge MS O.3.11, Folios 133-157

The London Jubilee Book, 1376-1387: An Edition of Trinity College Cambridge MS O.3.11, Folios 133-157

Barron, Caroline M.
Wright, Laura
Barron, Caroline M.

Hardcover

Series: London Record Society, Book 55

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 090095261X
ISBN13: 9780900952616
Publisher: Lincoln Record Society
Published: Oct 29 2021
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
Edition and translation of a copy of a vastly significant document for our understanding of fourteenth-century England, long believed lost.

In the summer of 1376 a spirit of reform was abroad in the city of London. A number of measures were taken to make those who were elected to govern the city more responsible to its citizens as a whole. A committee was set up to examine the ordinances at the Guildhall and present to the Commonalty those that were profitables and those that were not. Two years later, the committee produced a volume known officially as the Liber de Ordinancionibus, but popularly as The Jubilee book, because it had been initiated in the jubilee year of Edward III's reign. But the reforming measures introduced in the book caused so many controversies and disputes that eventually, in a bid to restore order in the city, in March 1387 the Jubilee Book was taken outside the Guildhall and publicly burnt.

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