A. D. 1172. 343 



whenever any veflel fliould be wrecked upon the coafl of England, Poic- 

 tou, Gafcoigne, or the illand of Oleron, if any one human creature, or 

 even a bcafl:, belonging to her, were found alive, the property fhould 

 be preferved for the owners, who fhould be allowed three months to 

 make their claim ; failifig which, the wreck fhould belong to the king. 

 [^F^edern Angl'ue, V. i, p. ^^J] 



It is not unworthy of remark, that in this equitable proceeding, which 

 was a revival of the Rhodian law and the law of the good Roman em- 

 peror Antoninus, Henry fet an example, which was followed by the 

 Greek emperor Andronicus and the Roman pontiff Alexander III. 



1 1 75 — About this time William king of Scotland made the village 

 adjacent to the cathedral church of Glafgow a burgh fubjedt to the 

 bifhop. In the charter there is no mention of a gild, or any mercantile 

 privileges, or of any trade whatever, except the liberty of having a mar- 

 ket on the Thurfdays. A fubfequent charter of the fame king grants 

 the biihop the privilege of holding an annual fair. [C/jart. in Gid/on's 

 Hijl. of Glafgow, pp. 299, 302.] Such was the infant flate of the great 

 and flourifhing commercial city of Glafgow. 



1 176 — A new bridge of ftone was begun on the weft fide of the old 

 wooden bridge of London *. It appears to have had a wooden draw- 

 bridge f at each end for allowing vcflels to pafs up the river to Edrcd's 

 hithe, or Queen-hithe, which was then, and long after, a principal land- 

 ing-place, where the velTels of the Cinque ports and others dil'charged 

 their cargoes of corn, fifh, fait, fuel, &c. and to the other wharfs or 

 landing-places above the bridge. In thofe days the art of conflrud;ing 

 piers in the water was not known, and therefor the river was turned 

 into a new channel, fuppofed to have been drawn between Batterfea 

 and RedrifFe, during the building, which was not finiflied till the year 



1209. \^An. Waverl. ap. Gale, p. 161 Stow's Survey, pp. 50, 52, 682, 



ed. 1 61 8.] 



1 1 77 — The vanity of Venice and the arrogance of the church of 

 Rome were gratiiied by the duke accepting a ring from Pope Alexan- 

 der III, whom the republic had aflifled in his war againft the emperor 

 and the rival popes, as an emblem of the marriage of the republic to 

 the Adriatic fea, which his holinefs, in imitation of his predeceffors 

 (who had lately made gifts of the iflands of Sardinia, Corfica, Sicily^ 



* Fabyan \_Cronycle, f. xv b] fays, the wooden port of London, fays, that \.\\t prefenl bridge ftands 



bridge was under the management of a fraternity on the original bottom, though it was very unfci- 



or college of priefts, and the ftone building was entifically conftruded. {Third Report of the com- 



undertaken by the great aid of the citizens and miltee, (sfc. />. 29.] 



others paffing the bridge. He dates the com- f The draw-bridge was cut down in the year 



mencement of the building in 1210. But the au- 1553 to prevent Wyat from entering the city., 



thority of annals, apparently contemporary, is fure- But it was rebuilt ; and Stow defcribes it as exill- 



ly preferable, unlefs contradicted by any record re- ing in his own time, {^nnaks, p. 1046 ; Survey,. 



inaining in the archives of the city. Mr. Mylne, p. 53.] 

 in his Report to the committee for regulating the 



