The City of London’s role as the ‘Secular Arm’ in the burning of heretics”

The events in the City of London during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I focusing on the years 1529-1558 when the largest number of burnings occurred in West Smithfield.

St Paul’s and the City before 1300

An account of the development of St Paul’s in the early centuries, from 604 to 1300. St Paul’s was a major focal point in the life of the City and a meeting place of the folkmoot, a political and judicial institution which faded away by 1300.