Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Municipal Records
Burgi (1726) ranks easily first. It presents a valuable collection of extracts from pipe rolls and other public records relating to the cities and boroughs of England. It does not profess, how ever, to draw upon local as well as national sources, and even in respect of the national sources it is fairly complete only for the thirteenth and four teenth centuries. Among the partisan treatises two are specially eminent. One is Robert Brady's Historical Treatise of Cities and Boroughs written in defence of civic and burghal charters at a time when conflict between Whig and Tory, Conformist and Nonconformist, central and local government, caused party passion to wax particularly hot. The other is Merewether and Stephen's History of the Boroughs and Municipal Corporations of the United Kingdom This is a massive work in three volumes composed as a contribution to the controversy concerning the reform of town administration which culminated in the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835. It is of incomparably more value than Brady's treatise, but it is vitiated by a persistent determination on the part of the authors to see in every kind of mediaeval court or council evidence of the existence of an original popular assembly or folkmoot. 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.
