[Footnote 384: _Ib._, 378.] [Footnote 385: _Leet Book_, 379-80.] [Footnote 386: _Ib._, 380.] [Footnote 387: Corp. MS. F. 4.] [Footnote 388: See Green, _Town Life_, ii. 315, for a similar case at Southampton. Here one "ancient" man was aged 104 years and more.] [Footnote 389: Baron's Field is now part of the old cemetery.] [Footnote 390: Corp. MS. C. 204. The varieties in the nomenclature of the various fields makes it difficult to pronounce decidedly whether Bristowe gained all he desired according to this arbitration.] [Footnote 391: _Leet Book_, 375.] [Footnote 392: Bristowe's case was again under discussion in 1475, see Corp. MS. D. 2. This time a verdict, given not by a Coventry jury, but by a jury of twenty-four knights from the vicinage of the city, was favourable to Bristowe, and acquitted him of the charge of assault, etc., brought against him by the corporation.] [Footnote 393: _Leet Book_, 156.] [Footnote 394: Laurence was a member of the "council of Forty-eight," _Leet Book_, 521, and a member of both guilds (Sharp, _Antiq._, 235; _Leet Book_, 578). In 1495 Saunders was discharged from all attendance at the mayor's council, the common council, and all other councils to be taken within the city (_Ib._, 564). The common council is first mentioned in 1477. Probably the "Forty-eight" and the common council were identical. The "mayor's council" consisted apparently of such of the "Forty-eight" as he cared to summon. There is no evidence that these councillors were elected by wards.] [Footnote 395: The prior, in 1498, is said to have refused to pay it for twenty years (_Leet Book_, 592).] [Footnote 396: _Ib._, 430 _sqq._] [Footnote 397: _Leet Book_, 436 _sqq._] [Footnote 398: _Leet Book_, 348. "Cattle surcharging the common to be driven to the pound and distress taken." And yet this very year the corporation declared to the prior that the citizens always had driven their cattle "without number" on the commons.] [Footnote 399: _Leet Book_, 439. The meadows in question were the Prior's Waste and the close by the New Gate. See above, p. 176.] [Footnote 400: _i.e._ "eyes."] [Footnote 401: _Leet Book_, 441.] [Footnote 402: _Leet Book_, 443 _sqq._] [Footnote 403: Mayor's reply, _Leet Book_, 457.] [Footnote 404: In the lord's outwoods, moors, and heaths, which were never under the plough, "he should not be stinted, for the soil is his" (Rogers, _Six Cent._ 90). It is extremely doubtful whether the common lands of Coventry should be included in this category; many of them had been "under the plough."] [Footnote 405: _Leet Book_, 454.] [Footnote 406: _Leet Book_, 470.] [Footnote 407: _Leet Book_, 474.] [Footnote 408: Corp. MS. C 209.] [Footnote 409: _Leet Book_, 490.] [Footnote 410: Fineux, one of the prince's council, was deputed to examine the title deeds on behalf of the town, and Catesby on behalf of Bristowe.] [Footnote 411: _Leet Book_, 492.]