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Excerpt from Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis, Vol. 1: Liber Albus, Liber Custumarum, Et Liber Horn; Containing Liber Albus, Compiled A. D., 1419 From these same records too - seeing that there was hardly a dealing between man and man, however trivial, that was not interfered with by sumptuary laws (many of them of absurd, almost grotesque, form and shape) hardly a transaction or existing relation in private life that was not the subject of legal enactment and civic surveillance we m ay become more intimately acquainted with the early form and subsequent development of our municipal institutions the principles and growth of taxation in this country; the mediaeval relations of prices and labour the remote history of trades, guilds and mysteries the progress of arts, manufactures, and commerce; the gradual expansion of our national wealth and the history of the manners, usages, habits, and opinions, of our impulsive forefathers. A. Very considerable amount of information may also be gathered from these documents in reference to our genealogical history, and certain indications may be derived from them, perhaps incidentally rather than otherwise, rela tive to various points connected with the progress of religious opinion and belief. 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.