til that we don’t have a surviving record of the City of London Corporation’s charter or anything we’ve just got an unbroken record of documents asserting that it’s a thing that already exists
there is a lady near me who is convinced the railroads didn't properly deed the land to the city and she does all kinds of guerilla gardening and argues with cops about weird quantum grammar sovereign citizen stuff and I really hope some brilliant crank thinks they're the king of London or something