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The London Jubilee Book, 1376-1387 - An edition of Trinity College Cambridge MS O.3.11, folios 133-157 (Hardcover)
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The London Jubilee Book, 1376-1387 - An edition of Trinity College Cambridge MS O.3.11, folios 133-157 (Hardcover)
Series: London Record Society
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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. Historians have long
debated the possible contents of this contentious but hugely
significant volume, widely believed to be lost. However, recently a
fifteenth-century copy of the "Jubilee Book", possibly of an
earlier draft put together in the course of the two years, but
superseded by the final version, was discovered in a manuscript
held at Trinity College Cambridge (Ms O.3.11).
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