TEMPORARY WARNING: technical problems are currently producing many "ghost" footnote numbers--numbers not referring to actual footnotes and therefore resulting in footnote blanks--when (and only when) the Company/Occupation search function is used. We are working to eliminate these ghost numbers; meanwhile please be assured that no actual footnotes are missing. Also the companies for the two 2024-25 sheriffs are the Leathersellers for Gregory Jones and the Drapers for David Chalk.
The MASL database includes the mayors, sheriffs, and wardens of the City of London from 1190 to the present: their names, years of office, and companies (in the early years, craft/trade guilds) or (in the earliest years) occupations. For details on the types of information provided, including the sources for them, use the site menu bar above.
Searches may be done by name, office, year, range of years, and company, and also by combinations of these. See the site menu bar on Year-of-Office Dates for information on how mayoral and shrieval terms of office are dated.
Research is ongoing in some areas, and periodic updatings of the database take place, to incorporate new information. The most recent update was on 14 Oct. 2024. (When citing MASL as a source, include access date.) Users are invited to provide additional information or corrections; these will be checked and, if adopted, credited to their contributors. Contact the editor, Anne Lancashire: anne.lancashire@utoronto.ca .
The occasional pdf of additional information will be provided, through a link at the foot of this page. Currently there is one pdf: on the Westminster oath-takings and presentations of the mayors and sheriffs, 1273--1558, in relation to Sundays and to the occasional substitution of the Tower of London for Westminster.
If you experience any technical problems, please report these to the editor.
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