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their way across the Channel. Stonor exists no longer, except, I believe,
as the name of a field, but Professor Burrows and other competent
authorities place here the Lundenwic of Hlothzre. But Beda not long
afterwards speaks of London—this time there can be no mistake—as
the emporium of many nations, and King Alfred, who translated Beda,
renders emporium by Cheapstow. Probably while he thus named it,
the Cheapstow of London lay empty and desolate, but on his re¬
colonisation, re-settlement, and re-fortification of the city, trade, we
| may be sure, returned to the empty quays at Billingsgate and Dowgate.
Eadgar and /Ethelred ex¬
pressly mention in their
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edicts the miscellaneous
character of the cargoes
here landed.
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erew in spite of the Danish
invasions. Slaves were
prohibited merchandise
after 1008, and the estab¬
lishment of a colony of
German merchants on the
Thames’ bank increased
the regular traffic with the ~ wall
Elbe, and the punctual
payments and good money
of these " Easterlings " are
still commemorated in our
word " sterling " as applied
to silver and gold.
London must at that