Upon having performed a fair amount of research into the history of London, tracing the city’s past back to both it’s usage as a tidal port by Danish sailors during the early tenth century and through the Abbey System established along the banks of the Thames by Norman builders throughout the course of the following two hundred years, I have, as may well be imagined with regards to such matters, inevitably found myself drawn to attend the details of the Archbishop “Thomas a Becket’s” accidental murder by the cohorts of the English King “Henry The Second” beneath the eves of Canterbury Cathedral during the mid twelfth century, an event that, in formalizing the beginning of the Plantagenet reign upon English soil, may, in keeping with the conventions of record keeping that pertain to such things, correspondingly be observed to represent something of a standard without which any appraisal of London’s medieval heritage would appear strangely incomplete…
