[Footnote 506: Rough stones were used for paving (Riley, _Liber Albus_, xliv.). The _Chamberlain's Accounts_ (Corp. MS. A. 7) contain frequent allusions to paving: "Item, paid for paving within the Bablake gate, iii_s._" "Item, ii lods pebuls for the same, xviii_d._"] [Footnote 507: Built 1812 (Poole, _Coventry_, 345).] [Footnote 508: Poole, 345.] [Footnote 509: "Daily hurt" comes from having goats at large (_Leet Book_, 361). In London only the swine of S. Antony's hospital were allowed to be at large in the streets, and "chiens gentilz," _i.e._ dogs belonging to the gentry (Riley, _Liber Albus_, xlii.).] [Footnote 510: _Leet Book_, 306.] [Footnote 511: In London the length of inn-signs was limited to seven feet (_Liber Albus_, lxv.). Signs were also affixed to shops to attract the eye; of this custom the barber's pole is a relic. Merchandise was usually kept in cellars partly underground beneath the solar or front dwelling-room. In great thoroughfares goods were displayed in covered sheds projecting in front of the dwelling-place (Turner, _Dom. Arch._ i. 96; iv. 34). Shops were usually open rooms on the ground floor, with wide windows closed with shutters (_Liber Albus_, xxxviii.).] [Footnote 512: _Leet Book_, 272, 100.] [Footnote 513: We hear of the "daybell" rung probably at dawn, and the curfew rung by the clerks of S. Michael's and Trinity churches (_Ib._, 338). A "larum bell" was rung on the occasion of the quarrel between Somerset's servants and the watch (_Paston Letters_, i. 408). Probably there was a recognised "change" in the ringing for each of the various summonses. The ringing of changes is said to have been peculiar to this country. Bells, before they were hung up, were baptized and anointed with holy oil, blessed and exorcised. Their uses were expressed in the Latin lines: "Laudo Deum verum--plebem voco--congrego clerum Defunctos ploro--pestum fugo--festa decoro." (Strutt, _Sports and Pastimes_, 291, 292.)] [Footnote 514: _Leet Book_, 234.] [Footnote 515: In 1450 the chamberlains requested that four men should be appointed out of each ward to guard the gates, and these four were to choose one man to keep the keys and close them every night at nine (_ib._, 254).] [Footnote 516: Jusserand, _Wayfaring Life_, 169.] [Footnote 517: Sharp, _Antiq._ 131. In 1362 licence was given to a recluse, Robert de Worthin, to inhabit a dwelling adjoining the church.] [Footnote 518: Miracles were worked at S. Osburg's shrine, and her birthday was a local holiday. Palmer Lane and the Pilgrim's Rest preserve in their names token of ancient customs. For the wooden image of our Lady of the Tower see Fretton, _Memorials of the Whitefriars' Monastery_, Harris, _Troughton Sketched_, 6.] [Footnote 519: _Leet Book_, 422.] [Footnote 520: There is a specimen at Berkswell, near Coventry, and at Malvern.]