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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-

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