Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Calendar of Letter-Books: Preserved Among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall
The main feature of the volume is the record of admissions to the freedom of the City by redemption between 1309 and as well as of the binding and discharge of apprentices for the same period.3 This is the earliest record of its kind extant among the City's archives. In the Town Clerk's custody there is a book of recognizances of those admitted to the freedom by redemption between 1666 and 1678, and six volumes of accounts of money received on such admissions between 1694 and 1757, but nothing of an earlier date; whilst the earliest original documents relating to the freedom of the City preserved in the Chamberlain's office date from 1681. There is, however, in the Chamberlain's custody a transcript (made in 1879) of admissions to the freedom circa a.d. 1551 - 1554, taken from a manuscript preserved in the Egerton Library at the British Museum.' This manuscript, at one time the property of the Corporation, has, like other volumes of the City's archives.
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