Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Customs of London
That Arnold's book is not an original composition is extremely clear. A copy of what seems to have been his prototype, as to the list of Mayors, &c. Is still remaining among the Cotton manuscripts, Julius, B. I. It commences at the same period, is continued to the twenty-third year of Edward IV. And is interspersed with a great deal more historical matter than Arnold has given. His details of the controversy between Humphrey Duke of Gloucester and the Cardinal of Winchester are also extracted from it; and it has beenjustly remarked that these are much more ample than any others to be found in print. It is likewise probable that Arnold made use of another work on the customs, laws, &c. Of the city of Lon don, compiled by Robert Bale, Recorder of London in the reign of Edward IV. But now considered as lost, unless it may happen to exist among the city archives.
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