[Footnote 521: _Leet Book_, 643. The prisoners paid the gaoler 1d. a week for their lodging when they had their own bed, 3d. a week if the gaoler provided them with one; over and above, debtors paid the gaoler 5d. for fee, if the debt for which they were liable exceeded 40d.] [Footnote 522: _Ib._, 192. See also for punishment of immorality, _Ib._, 219] [Footnote 523: Harl. MS. 6388, f. 22. The other lists have Eliphane. I have no doubt that the right reading is Clapham. This man was an ally of Warwick, and led the rabble of Northampton to the battle of Edgecote in 1469. He was beheaded next year.] [Footnote 524: _Ib._, f. 25.] [Footnote 525: Harl. MS. 6388, f. 8. A slight exaggeration, no doubt.] [Footnote 526: _Ib._, f 23.] [Footnote 527: _Leet Book_, 775.] [Footnote 528: _Ib._, 447] [Footnote 529: _Ib._, f. 11. The filth and street sweepings were ordered to be carried "beyond the stake set in the dyke beyond the Friars' Gate," or to pits without the gates (_ib._, 30).] [Footnote 530: _Leet Book_, 455. The worthy men of the leet besought the mayor that there might be certain citizens appointed to have oversight of the river, each in their several district, and that the rules for cleaning it should be duly kept (_ib._, 108).] [Footnote 531: Such as timber frames for houses, trunks of trees, etc. (Green, ii. 29, 30).] [Footnote 532: In London the bedels of each ward had a hook to tear down burning houses (Riley, _Liber Albus_, xxxiv.).] [Footnote 533: _Leet Book_, 389.] [Footnote 534: The spring was called Cunduit Head (Corp. MS. C. 227).] [Footnote 535: There is still a yard called Cunduit Yard close to Bablake church.] [Footnote 536: _Leet Book_, 208, 338.] [Footnote 537: _Ib._, 157.] [Footnote 538: Rogers, _Six Cent._ 140.] [Footnote 539: Green, _Town Life_, ii. 36. Profits on wine were in some cases 2d., in others 4d. a gallon.] [Footnote 540: _Leet Book_, 33.] [Footnote 541: _Leet Book_, 23. The three most common kinds of bread were _wastel_,--bread of the finest quality; _coket_ (seconds); and _simnel_, twice-baked bread, used in Lent (Green, ii. 35).] [Footnote 542: _Leet Book_, 24.] [Footnote 543: _Ib._, 25.] [Footnote 544: _Ib._] [Footnote 545: _Ib._, 518-9.] [Footnote 546: _Leet Book_, 771.] [Footnote 547: Wright, _Domestic Manners_, 337.] [Footnote 548: _Leet Book_, 306. Probably carts made for town use were always narrow; see illustration in Wright's _Domestic Manners_, 344. Compare the trollies made for the "Rows" at Yarmouth.] [Footnote 549: The old name for the thoroughfare between Trinity church and Butcher Row. A spicer is equivalent to the modern grocer.] [Footnote 550: Cf. Milk Street, Fish Street and S. Margaret Pattens in the city of London; Bridlesmith Gate and Fletcher Gate (fletcher = an arrow maker) in Nottingham. See on this subject Mr Addy's _Evolution of the House_. It was customary for the members of each calling to live close together.] [Footnote 551: Poole, 396.]