A. D. I loi. 315 



the peaceable enjoyment of their jurifdictions with all their cuftoms ; 

 and it is declared, that no citizen fhall ever be amerced in any fum 

 above a hundred fliillings, that being the amount of his -were *. They 

 are direded to hold the court called hujlitig f every Monday. And their 

 right of hunting (a diflinguifhed and highly-valued privilege in thofe 

 times) in the Chiltern, Middlefex, and Surry, was confirmed to them 

 as amply as their anceftors had enjoyed it. — The charter alio contains 

 feveral other privileges very favourable to the citizens with refped to 

 the recovery of their debts, and a power to recover tolls and cuftoms 

 unlawfully exadled from them in any burgh or town. \Wilkhis, Leg. 

 Atiglo-Sax. p. 235.] 



1 1 02 — In the beginning of the twelfth century (and how long, be- 

 fore we know not X) paper made of cotton was commonly ufed for books 

 and other writings. A charter, dated in the year 1102, is exprefsly 

 faid to have been written upon cotton paper (' charta cuttunea' §) in a 

 renovation of it by Roger king of Sicily in the year 1 145. This paper, 

 which had now become common in the Eaftern empire, in a great mea- 

 fure fuperfeded, or rather made up for the want of, the Egyptian pa- 

 pyrus and parchment. It is perhaps to the invention of it that we owe 

 the prefervation of fuch of the authors of antiquity as have come down 

 to us, as the fcarcity and high price of parchment had been the de- 

 ftrudion of many of them ; for the monkilh librarians never fcrupled 

 to erafe the writing of the moft valuable claflic author, in order to cover 

 the fame parchment with the more pretious miracles of a favourite 

 faint. The cotton paper, however, was found not fufficiently flout 

 and durable for important writings ; and therefor the emperor Frederic 

 II, in his Sicilian conftitutions in the year 1221, ordered that public 

 writings and fecurities fhould be written on parchment only. Still, 

 however, the cotton paper maintained its ground for other purpofes, till 

 it was in its turn fuperfeded by the invention of a better kind, made 

 of linen rags. [^Montfaucon, EJ'aifur le papyrus in Mem. de litterature, V. 

 y\, p. 605 ||. — Schwandneri Specimen linecE charta antiqiiijfimce , p. 6.] 



cularly in the year 1258 he calls all the citizens, China i6co years ago, according to Raynal. \_H\fi. 



affembled in Gildliall, barons. The infcription ph'dof. et polil. F. m, p. ii^6, ed. i']82.'\ 



• Sigillum baronium Londoniarum', on the city's § It was alfo called charla hombycina, the word 



feal, appended to a leafe in the year 1373, {_Stotu's bombycina being in thofe ages extended to cotton, 



fur-vey of London, p. 586, ed. 1618] does not clear which is ftill called bambaccta by the Italians, from 



the doubt. ^ whom we probably got the word bombqft (now on- 



* JVere, the price of a man, or fum payable ly known in its metaphorical fciife) for cotton, 



for killing him. See above, p. 314, note |. and bombajline for a lUiif made of cotton, feeming- 



f Hujl'mg (not huttings) is compounded of the ly the fame which was called afterwards i^/w and 



Anglo-Saxon words hus, bnufe, and tlu'ng, legijla- fuJTian. 



ti-ve, ov judicial, affembly. The two words have the || Montfaucon carries the ufe of cotton paper 



fame meanmg in the Icelandic language, and with as high as the ninth century, and that of linen 



little, or oftner no, variation of fpelling, in all the paper as high as the twelfth. For the later he 



i)tlier Gothic languages. quotes Petrus Mauricius [Contra jfudaos) who 



t The art of making paper has been known in wrote about the year 1140, and fays, that booki 



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