[Footnote 412: Bristowe seems to have allowed his tenants of Whitley to share in his privilege of intercommoning with the people of Coventry. See above, p. 174.] [Footnote 413: _Leet Book_, 497.] [Footnote 414: _Ib._, 496.] [Footnote 415: Disputes concerning the common lands were usually settled by arbitration, and not before the judges of the King's bench, possibly because the "communitas" had no power to sue in law courts as a legal person (Green, _Town Life_, ii. 239).] [Footnote 416: Boteler filled the post of steward as well as that of town clerk.] [Footnote 417: _Leet Book_, 510-11.] [Footnote 418: _Leet Book_, 483.] [Footnote 419: It is noticeable that immediately after this the leet gave orders that some of the fields granted to the prior, _i.e._ the field by the New Gate, should be had again "in a perpetual ferm" of the convent.] [Footnote 420: He said "he had as much power as the mayor, and could arrest him at sessions sitting on the bench" (_Leet Book_, 520).] [Footnote 421: Unless he would submit to this condition and to take an oath at Candlemas--as the mayor did--he was to be dismissed. Boteler chose to submit.] [Footnote 422: _Leet Book_, 537.] [Footnote 423: The records are very meagre about this time. The fact that Laurence was a member of the Forty-eight is an indication that the corporation were well disposed towards him. The fact that the very same mayor who occasioned Boteler's disgrace enforced certain acts of leet against the bakers is also a proof that there was a change of policy in his time at least (_ib._, 518-9).] [Footnote 424: _Leet Book_, 554, 557.] [Footnote 425: Corp. MS. A. 6. Corpus Christi guild accounts.] [Footnote 426: _Leet Book_, 569. This order was re-enacted in 1497; _Ib._, 585. No tanner or butcher was "to make conspiracy ... contrary to this ordinance." Duddesbury had been a member of the Twenty-four, and was mayor in 1505.] [Footnote 427: _Leet Book_, 553-4.] [Footnote 428: _Ib._, 559. The continuation of this order shows how restive the people were becoming under the recent regulations, a like surety was to be taken from any one who would not obey orders of leet and be reformed by the mayor and council.] [Footnote 429: Lists of all the living craftsmen who had held office were compiled in 1449: 16 drapers, 13 mercers, 7 dyers, 2 wire-drawers, 2 whittawers, and 2 weavers are mentioned (_ib._, 246-52).] [Footnote 430: Drapery granted to the Trinity gild 1365-9 (Sharp, 131).] [Footnote 431: _Leet Book_, 281.] [Footnote 432: These words are almost identical with a gloss, written in the margin of one ordinance passed in 1495. For the profits arising from the Nottingham Drapery, see _Nottingham Rec._, iii. 62.] [Footnote 433: Corp. MS. B. 75.] [Footnote 434: _Leet Book_, 193. This order was passed in 1440.]