The Charterhouse of London

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Excerpt from The Charterhouse of London: Monastery, Palace, and Thomas Sutton's FoundationLondon, In the fourteenth century, has been described in a modern poet's words as London, small, and white, and clean. It was indeed small, and it was known as the White City, and it may even have been cleaner inter nally than is Often admitted. But though small to our eyes, London, like England generally, had in the early years of the fourteenth century reached a prosperity and a population which it was not to surpass till Tudor times. The country from its insular position had been able to avoid the disturbances and desolations of the more frequent warfare Of continental Europe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.