[145] Shrewsbury Corporation Records. [146] State Papers, Domestic, 1566? (p. 285). [147] State Papers, Domestic, 1619, Oct. ? [148] _Ibid._, 1620, Jan. ? [149] _Ibid._, 1620, Jan. ? (There are several petitions against other intruders also, by the countenance of the City of London, "who wish to engross all markets.") [150] _Ibid._, 1620, Jan. ? [151] _Ibid._, 1620, Jan. 28. [152] _Ibid._, 1620, Feb. 21. [153] State Papers, Domestic, 1622. Several petitions from North Wales against the Proclamation. [154] _Ibid._, 1621. Petition of Drapers of Shrewsbury. [155] _Ibid._, 1621, May 21. Petition of Clothiers of North Wales: the Drapers of Shrewsbury are trying to draw all trade to Shrewsbury, which will be their ruin. [156] State Papers, Domestic; Oswestry Corporation Records, printed in _S. A. S._ Vol. III. [157] In 1622 the Bailiffs had requested a loan from the Mercers towards the establishing of a market for Welsh cloth in Shrewsbury. [158] The traders of Liverpool seem to have been the first to do this, so far as the Welsh trade of Shrewsbury was concerned. Cf. Owen's _Shrewsbury_. [159] Orders of Corporation (collected by Godolphin Edwardes, Mayor in 1729). _S. A. S._ Vol XI. [160] _Ibid._ [161] _Ibid._ [162] Orders of Corporation (1689). [163] _Ibid._ (1729). [164] _Ibid._ [165] "1619. That the Corporation endeavour to compel the wardens of the Bakers' Company to pay their old annuity of L4. 6_s._ 8_d._ (sic) to the Corporation." Orders of Corporation printed in Phillips' _History of Shrewsbury_, p. 170. [166] Orders of Corporation printed in Phillips' _History of Shrewsbury_. [167] Cf. supra, p. 44. [168] Glovers' records, 1681. [169] 1782. Two members were called upon to show cause why they practise a profession contrary to that they have sworn to follow. [170] _Britannia Languens_, p. 355. [171] p. 88. [172] Consisting however of masters only. [173] Macaulay, _History of England_, Vol I. p. 204, n. [174] Cf. Howell, _Conflicts of Capital and Labour_, pp. 16, 62, 79, 103, 109, 472. [175] Resolution of Saddlers in 1798, voting L50. [176] This sentiment finds expression even in some of the compositions. [177] That is, masters only, not workmen. [178] _The Happy Warrior_ of Wordsworth gives us probably a very true idea of the mediaeval conception of the perfect knight. [179] Cf. Stubbs' _Lectures on Constitutional History_. [180] Cf. supra, p. 47. [181] Scott's _Marmion_. [182] Brentano, p. 21. [183] _Ibid._ p. 21. [184] Toulmin Smith, p. 192. [185] It is a curious coincidence that these two towns which earlier evinced such jealousy towards one another's procession (cf. supra, p. 63) should have maintained it longest. [186] The festivities of the Preston Gild were held at intervals of twenty years. The last took place in 1882 (cf. Abram, _Memorials_), but many features place the Preston pageants in a different class from that to which those of Shrewsbury and Coventry belong. [187] i.e. Coventry.