Henry B. Wheatley, Mediæval Towns: London (1904)
“ The solid foundation of facts priving the condition of the earliest London are the waste, marshy ground, with little hills rising from the plains, and the sense forest on the north—a forest that remained almost up to the walls of the city even in historic times, animal remains, flint instruments, and pile dwellings. ”
Henry B. Wheatley, Mediæval Towns: London (1904)
“ The City of London is still the centre and heart of London, and the only portion of the town which has an ancient municipal history.Other cities have shifted their centres, but London remains as it always was. The Bank, the Royal Exchange and the Mansion House occupy ground which has been the ‘ Eye of London ’ since Roman times.There is no greater mistake than to suppose that things were quiescent during the Middle Ages, for these pages at least will show that that was a time of constant change, when great questions were fought out. ”
Henry B. Wheatley, Mediæval Towns: London (1904)
“ Then for a century and a half there is no further men-tion of London in the Chronicle. We are not told what became of the fugitives, nor what became of the city ; as Lappenberg says : ‘ No terrirory ever passed so obscurely into the hand of an enemy as the north bank of the Thames.’It is as difficult to suppose what some have supposed—that the city was deserted and remained desolate for years—as to imagine that trade and commerce continued in the city while all around was strife. ”
