Excerpt from Calendar of Letter-Books Preserved Among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London These titles were no doubt derived from the comparative size of each volume and the original colour of its binding. The value of these earlier records was fully realized by Andrew Horn, the well-known jurist and sometime Chamberlain of the City, no less than by John Carpenter, the City's famous Town Clerk, both of whom drew largely upon these volumes for their own respective compilations of City customs and ordinances, viz., the Liber Horn and the book known par excellence as the City's 'liber Albus.' Later on these books of Remembrances (as they were sometimes called) were utilized by F abyan, by Stow, and others. 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.