7.  Five years shall be substituted for seven years as the time fixed for the maximum duration of Parliament under the Septennial Act of 1715[1] (S535).

See “The Public General Statutes,” of Great Britain and Ireland, for 1911; Chapter 13, pp. 38-40.

[1] This date is usually given 1716.

VI.  William the Conqueror’s Charter to London (S107).

“William, the King, greets William the Bishop, and Gosfrith the Port-reeve [or chief officer of the city] and all the burghers [or citizens] within London, French and English, friendly:  and I do you to wit that I will that ye twain be worthy of all the law that ye were worthy of in King Edward’s day.  And I will not endure that any man offer any wrong to you.  God keep you.”

Taswell-Langmead’s “English Constitutional History,” Chapter 1, p.18.  E.A.  Freeman, in his “Norman Conquest,” IV, 29, says that William signed this charter with a cross (in addition to his seal, which was attached to the document), but Dr. R.R.  Sharpe, in his “History of London and the Kingdom,” I, 34, note 1, states that “this appears to be a mistake.”  Dr. Sharpe is the “Records Clerk” of the City, and he shows that there is no trace of any cross on the charter, which is now preserved in Guildhall Library, London.

DESCENT OF THE ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS FROM EGBERT TO GEORGE V*

1.  Egbert (descended from Cerdic, 495), first “King of the English,”
     H 828-837
2.  Ethelwulf, 837-858
     H
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     H H H H
3.  Ethelbald, 4.  Ethelbert, 5.  Ethelred I, 6.  Alfred,
    858-860 860-866 866-871 871-901
                                                      H
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                H * *
     7.  Edward I, 901-925 15.  Sweyn, the Dane, 1013
                H |
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     H H H \
8.Ethelstan 9.  Edmund 10.  Edred, 17.  Canute,
  925-940 940-946 946-955 1017-1035
                H |
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     H H | * |
11.  Edwin, 12.  Edgar 18.  Harold * * 19.  Hardicanute 955-959 959-975 1035-1040 Richard I 1040-1042
                H Duke of Normandy
                H H
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    H * * H H H
13.Edward II Elgiva, ? m. 14.  Ethelred II, m. (2) Emma Richard II, 975-979 H