Politics of Stability A Portrait of the Rulers in Elizabethan London

By the fifteenth century, although ultimate authority over London rested in the crown's hands, the City's autonomy was no longer in dispute. The aldermen were the true rulers in London, and they further strengthened their hold on civic government. What had seemed an emerging democracy in the mid-fourteenth century was modified and reassembled around what proved to be the stabilizing influence of an elitist merchant oligarchy.Foster, Frank Freeman is the author of 'Politics of Stability A Portrait of the Rulers in Elizabethan London', published 1977 under ISBN 9780901050311 and ISBN 0901050318.