[Footnote 308: Widow, first of the Duke of Bedford, and then of Lord Rivers.] [Footnote 309: Sanctuary.] [Footnote 310: _Leet Book_, 362.] [Footnote 311: _Ib._, 364.] [Footnote 312: _Leet Book_, 366. 33s. was paid to gunners, to "riders in the country and watchmen."] [Footnote 313: Holinshed, iii. 682.] [Footnote 314: _Leet Book_, 367.] [Footnote 315: Dugdale, i. 143. In the _Leet Book_ (370-1) there is the record of a collection evidently made for this fine.] [Footnote 316: _Leet Book_, 381.] [Footnote 317: Corp. MS. (Not in Mr. J.C. Jeaffreson's catalogue.) See also _Leet Book_, 381.] [Footnote 318: _Leet Book_, 393. It must be remembered that S. George, according to legend, was born at Coventry. See _Seven Champions_. S. George's day is April 23. All the characters of the pageant are taken from the shearmen and tailors' play. See below, chap. xv.] [Footnote 319: _Leet Book_, 393.] [Footnote 320: _Ib._, 405.] [Footnote 321: _Ib._, 407.] [Footnote 322: Harl. MS. 6,388 f. 23.] [Footnote 323: _Leet Book_, 409 _sqq._] [Footnote 324: Ramsay, ii. 535.] [Footnote 325: Corp. MS. A. 79, i. 8. Written from Burton Monastery, April 2.] [Footnote 326: _Leet Book_, 523-4.] [Footnote 327: Fretton, _Mayors of Coventry_, 12. They presented him with £100 and a cup.] [Footnote 328: _Leet Book_, 530-2. It is not quite certain that the words are to be understood as implying that the citizens fed Richard's soldiers.] [Footnote 329: Gardiner, _Henry VII._, 53.] [Footnote 330: Harl. MS. 6,388, f. 24.] [Footnote 331: _Ib._] [Footnote 332: Foxe, _Martyrs_ (1823), xxxix.] [Footnote 333: Harl. MS. 6,388, f. 28. The more probable date is 1519 or 1520. In 1521, the next year, one Robert Silkeb was taken and burnt for not believing in transubstantiation (_Ib._).] [Footnote 334: He twice visited the city to see the Corpus Christi plays (Sharp, _Mysteries_, 5).] [Footnote 335: Corp. MS. A. 79, f. 17.] [Footnote 336: Corp. MS. A. 79, f. 20.] [Footnote 337: S. Paul's.] [Footnote 338: _Leet Book_, 625-6.] [Footnote 339: Corp. MS. B. 60.] [Footnote 340: In Henry VIII.'s reign the woollen manufacture of Norwich was at a low ebb; the principal cause of this was the manufacture abroad, which led to the export of the raw material to Flanders (Burnley, _Hist. of Wool and Wool Combing_, 66-7).] [Footnote 341: Harl. MS. 6,388, f. 30.] [Footnote 342: Corp. MS. A. 79, f. 27.] [Footnote 343: _Ib._, f. 28.] [Footnote 344: Harl. MS. 6,388, f. 29_a._] [Footnote 345: _Ib._] [Footnote 346: Gasquet, _Monasteries_, ii. 427.] [Footnote 347: _Ib._ ii., 265.] [Footnote 348: Dugdale, _Warw._ i. 146.] [Footnote 349: Harl. MS. 6,195, f. 7.] [Footnote 350: Vol. of correspondence, Corp. MS. A. 79, f. 63.] [Footnote 351: The schoolmaster's salary was discharged by the Trinity guild.]