[372] “ . . . Par colour de certains exemplificacions faitz hors de livre de Domesday des manoirs et villes deinz queux ils sont demurantz, et par vertue d’icelles exemplificacions et lour male interpretacion d’icelles, ils s’aferment (affirm) d’estre quites et outrement deschargez de tout manere de servage due sibien de lour corps come de lour tenures. . . . Et qe plus est, ils se coillient ensembles à grantz routes et s’entrelient par tiel confederacie qe chescun aidra autre à contester lours seignurs à fort mayn.” Rich. II, chap 6, year 1377; “Rolls of Parliament,” vol. iii. pp. 17, 46, 65. [373] Statute 7 Rich. II, cap. 5. [374] Statute 12 Rich. II, cap. 3. [375] “Gleanings from the Public Records,” by Mr. H. Hewlett, in the “Antiquary,” March, 1882, vol. v. p. 99. Concerning ill-treatment inflicted on prisoners, see a petition of the Commons, 1 Ed. III, A.D. 1326–7, “Rolls of Parliament,” vol. ii. pp. 9, 12. [376] See, besides the plates here, representations of these instruments of punishment in, e.g. Foxe’s “Actes and Monuments.” London, 1563, fol. pp. 390, 1272, etc., and in Butler’s “Hudibras, adorned with cutts designed and engraved by Mr. Hogarth,” London 1761; at p. 140, the knight and his squire, “check by joul,” says the poet, in the stocks. [377] 12 Rich. II, cap. 7. [378] 12 Rich. II, cap. 7. Cf. above, p. 236. [379] On which see, e.g. André Réville and Ch. Petit-Dutaillis, “Le soulèvement des travailleurs d’Angleterre en 1381,” Paris, 1898; G. M. Trevelyan, “England in the age of Wycliffe,” chapters vi and vii; “The Peasants’ rising and the Lollards, a collection of unpublished documents,” edited by E. Powell and G. M. Trevelyan, London 1899, with data not only on the great rising, but on some later troubles (1392, 1398) of lesser magnitude, but important as signs; C. Oman, “The Great Revolt of 1381,” Oxford, 1906. [380] Statute 3 Ed. I, stat. 1, cap. 34, A.D. 1275. [381] Statute 2 Rich. II, chap. 5. [382] Document published (but only in an English translation) by W. E. Flaherty: “Sequel to the great rebellion in Kent, of 1381,” “Archæologia Cantiana,” vol. iv. pp. 67 ff. The author interprets _peregrini_, at one place by strangers, at another by pilgrims; the latter is the real meaning.