Lundenceaster
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Ēac seoh Lunden.
Lundenceaster is ceaster þæs Geānlǣhtan Cynerīces, æt Lundenbyrige heortan. Hēo is lȳtlu burg be landgemete ac sēo rīcoste stōwe þæs rīces.
Lundenceaster is Lundenes stærfæst cyrnel hwǣrymbe, mid Westmynster ætgædre, tōdæges Grīetran Lundene wēox. Sēo Ceastre landgemearce hæfþ āwunedon oþþæt þā Middelieldran, and sēo is nū lytel dæl þæs Lunden burgscipes. Oft hātte man Lundenceaster ānfealde Sēo Ceaster.
Oft brūce man "Sēo Ceaster" swā naman for þæs Geānlæhtan Cynerīces feohgestreōngeornesse, sēo fyrmeste hæfþ his stōl þǣr. Man sægþ þæt hēo is sēo rīcoste mīle þǣre worulde.
Lundenceaster is in Lundenes heorte, ac būtan feohgestreōngeornes, Lundenes mǣste ceasterlicu geornes hæfþ his hām on Lundenes Westende.
Todæg is Lundenceaster micel bisgu and fēohhūs stede. Hēo is se fyrmesta staðolwang for woruldewidan fēohhūscræfte[1]. (Se nīehste, Nīwe Eoforwīc Burg, is nēah ōþer.)
Lundenceaster hæfþ 10,000 onwonendas oððe læssa (in 1700 wæron 208,000). Nōþylæs in þære Ceastre weorcaþ 340,000 gidworþigan menn, mæstan in fēohbisgu, þa farað in dælice. Þy is Lundenes þurhbregdungbegang oferbisig binnan summum hēahtīdum.
[ādihtan] Se Lundenceasteres Gild
Lundenceaster astyraþ þæt Lundenceaster Gild. Þæt Gild hæfþ riht ofer eallum stōwlicum tōþegnungfeldum and ofer þǣm burgwac. Hit hæfþ onweald ofer ealdfæstum ceaster ceapstōwum begeondan þa ceastre and āh micel land begeondan þæt ceastre mearc.
Æfter Beadwe Hæstinga, Willelm Bastarð cōm to Lundene, ac þa Lundenburhware āmieredon hine æt Suþweorce and he ne ofercierrede Lundenbrycg. Willelm ofercierrede Temes ēa æt Wallingford and hergade ealne þone ende þe he oferferde, oð þæt he com to Beorhhamstede, and þær him com ongean Ealdred arcebiscop, and Eadgar cild, and Eadwine eorl, and Morkere eorl, and ealle þa betstan men of Lundene, and bugon þa for neode þa mæst wæs to hearme gedon. In 1075 geaf Willelm Lundenwarum nīwu bōc.
In 1132, geaf Heanrig I Lundenceastre scīr-weald, and be 1141 hycgeþ man ealle burgware swa swa an gild. Þes wæs Lundenceaster Gildes frymþ.
Þæt Gild nis gelīc anum ōðrum stōwlicum geþinge þæs rīces. His ǣrost gesceap wæs þæt Cnihtagild in Eadgares Cyninges dagum. Siþþan þǣm dagum hæfþ Lundenceaster getæl cynelicra bōca tō āfæstnienne his staðol and onweald.
Lundenceastre Gildes cwide is "Domine dirige nos", þæt meahte man āwendan swā "Hlaford, gestīere us".
[ādihtan] Glēsing
- ↑ Z/Yen Limited (November 2005). The Competitive Position of London as a Global Financial Centre (PDF). CityOfLondon.gov.uk. Retrieved on 2006-09-17.
