LOVDOS ^
Hw city meetiogB are held in the Guildhall (erected 141 1 , rebuilt 1789, wiUk B Gothic facade added in 1867) . It contains the great ball UBed for Danquet« and other oercnKMiial occosioDa, the common council chamber and some oourts of justice. The official residence of tJhe lord mayor, known as the Mansion House, was built m 1740. The chief cine officials are the recorder (first appointed in 1298), the chamberlain or treiLStirer, the town clerk, and the common serjeaiit. The juris- diction and aaminiatnition of the corporation is re- stricted to the ancient limits of the City of London which cover about one square mile. As London grew beyond these in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nine- teuith centuries, the corporation rnadc no effort to ex- tend its activites. So greater London has now its own
the ancient church in nhich the Romano-British bish-
already referred to. Theanus Eluanus, Cadar, Obi-
nus, Cimanus, Palladius, Stephanus, lltutua, Theo-
dwinua, Theodredua, and Hilarius are said by vague
tradition to have been predecessors of Rcstitutus who
attended the Council of Aries in 314, while he, it is
said, was succeeded by Guitelinus, Fastidius, Wodinua,
and Theonus. A century and a half had elapsed be-
tween the flight of the lost British bishop and the com-
ing of MclUtus, aad after his death nearly half a cen-
tury- elapses l>efore we find the name of St, Cedd (q. v.)
as Bishop of the East SaxonsexereisingepiMCopaljuriB-
diction, though he does not seem to have been called
Bishop of London. After him the line is unbroken:^ —
government, and the "City of London" is a city within
a city, retaining ite autonomy, hut in no way con-
trolling the rest of the metropolis. The arms of the
city are argent, a cross gules charged on the first quar-
of the corporation from the earliest (lays of their
office exercised military command, luid the corpora- tion has always been reudy to contribute grants of ■hipe, men and money in moments of national omei^ aeoey. The trained-Sands formed for the defence of the citywerc originally divided into six regiments con- sisting of eight companies each. These regiments known as the Blue, Yellow, Green, Orange, Whitc.and Bed n^iments, included at their full strength ten Ihou- Mnd men. From them cmanal^t^d five regiments which bold the privilege of marching (hroueh the city with " the pomp of war ", colours fiving and bayonets fixed, liieae were 3rd Battalion Orenodier Guards, 3n) East Kent (Bufts), Royal .Marines, Royal West London Militia, and Royal Kast Ix>ndon Militia. The two last namedf were united in 1820 as the lioval Lon- don Militia which about 1880 vtan made the 4th Bat- talim Royal Fusiliers.
II. AjfCiKNT Catholic Diocese. — The consecra- tion of St. Hellitus as Bishop of London by St. Angus- tine in 604 has aiready l>een mentioned. Vcnerul>le Bede adds that "when this province n-n-ivMl the wonl of truth by the ptvaching of Mellit u.s. King V.I helliert built the churcli of 9t. Puiil in (lie <'ity of London wbere be and his succesaont should have their episcu-
Wine, 66Q
St. Erkcnwald, 075
Waldhere, 693
Ingwald, 705
Eggwulf, 745
Sighaeh, 772
Eadbert, 774
Eadfmr, 785 or 789
Coenwalh, 789 or 791
Eadbald, 793
Heathobert, 794
Osmund, 802
iCthilnotb, 811
Coelberht, 824
Deorwulf, 860
Swithwulf, 861
Hcahstan, 898
Wulfsige, 898
Theodred, 926
Bj-rrthelm, 953
St. Dunsten, 958
jElston, 961
Wulfatan, 996
^Ifhun, 1004
MKvdg, 1014
iElfward, 1035
Robert, 1014
William the Norman, 1051
HughdeOrivalle, 1075
Maurice, 1085
Richard deBelmeis 1, 1108
Gillwrt the Univeisal,l 128
rnmncp/, 1135
Rol>ert dc Sigillo, 1141
Richard dcBelmeiall, 1152
Gillwrt Foliot, 1103
Richard de Ely (Titz-
neale), 1189 William dc S. Maria, 119S Eustace de Fauconberg,
1221 Roger Niger, 1229 ---
Of this long list two stand out as eanoniicd samts. St. ErkenwakI (14 Nov.), whose shrine was the centre of devotion in the catliwlral, and St. Dun.itan (19 May). Another, Roger Niger, was popularly vener- ated as a saint. Six of the bi.ihops became archbish- ops of Canterbury; St. Dunstan, Itol>crt of Jumteges, Simon de Sudbury, Courtenay, John Kempe, and Wareham. The Saxon cutheiiral was burnt in 9(J2 and rebuilt to I* destroyed again in the tire of 1087. Bishop Maurice thenerectal a great Nonnan eatlwdral, scn-e<l like its predecessors by secular canons. By the end of the twelfthcentur\' there were 30 en(lov,-ed preb- ends and the chapter held 24,000 acres of lanii us its corporate property. The Norman nave ^vas again re- built after tlulflre of 1136. Here il was that John r^ signed his kingdom to the pope and received itback trSm Pandulph as a vassoT. In St. Paul a. t«.. Vos,
Pulk Basset, 1242
Henry dc Wingham, 1259
Henry de Sandwich, 1263
John de Chishul, 1274
Richard de Gravesend,
1280 Ralph <le Baldoek, 1306 Gilbert de Segra\-e, 1313 Hichard de Nen-port, 1317 Stephen de Gravesend,
1310 Richard de Bcntwoith,
1338 Ralph de Stratfoid, 1.340 Michael deNorlhburg, 13a Simon de Sudbury, 1362 William Courteniiv, 1375 Robert Bravbrookc, 1381 Roger Walden, 1405 Nicholas Bubbewich, 1406 Richard Clifford, 1407 John Kcnipc, 1422 William Grey, 1426 Robert Fitzhugh, 1431 Rol)ert Gilbert, 1436 Thomas Kempe, H50 Richard Hill, 1489 Thomas Savage, 1496 William Wareham, 1501 William Barnes, l.'iOl Richard Fitz James, 1506 Cuthbert Tunstall, 1522 John Stokesley, 1530 Etimund Bonner, 1539
schismatical Nicholas Ridley, 1550
sehismalical Edmund Bonner, 1553,
with whose death on 5
Sept.. 15R0. the linr of
Catholic bisliops of Lon-
[lon ended.
