[Footnote 552: _Leet Book_, 233] [Footnote 553: _Ib._, 798.] [Footnote 554: See Corp. MS. B. 75 for description of the Trinity guild lands, of which the Drapery was a parcel. The annual rent payable to the Trinity guild of a half bay in the Great Drapery was 6s. 8d. (C. 194).] [Footnote 555: _Leet Book_, 666. All people dwelling outside the town liberties were called "foreign."] [Footnote 556: For regulations concerning "foreign" bakers, _ib._, 717, 799.] [Footnote 557: _Leet Book_, 646.] [Footnote 558: Rogers, _Six Cent._, 340.] [Footnote 559: Rogers, _op. cit._ 152. In Leicester there were no pleas held when the great merchants were absent at fairs (Green, ii. 25).] [Footnote 560: Merchants from Dublin, Drogheda, London, and Kingston-on-Hull, were members of the Corpus Christi guild; so were many local country gentlemen and yeomen.] [Footnote 561: Devon and Ireland supplied coarse cloth sold in the Drapery (Burton MS. f. 98-103).] [Footnote 562: Gasquet, _Monasteries_, ii. 285. This took place shortly before the dissolution.] [Footnote 563: The "Marprelate" printing press was for some time at Coventry (Morley, _Sketch of Literature_, 431). Rogers thinks unlicensed books were sold at fairs. "I cannot conceive how the writings of such an author as Prynne could have been disposed of except at the places which were at once so open and so secret" (_Six Cent._, 149).] [Footnote 564: Corp. MS. E. 6. This court was kept in accordance with the Statute of Merchants of 1283. A merchant had the power of bringing a debtor before the mayor, when the debtor bound himself to pay the debt by a certain day; if he failed to do so, the mayor caused all his movables to be seized to the amount of the debt and sold. If, however, he had no movables within the mayor's jurisdiction, application was made to the chancellor, who caused a writ to be sent to the sheriff within whose county the debtor had movables, ordering these to be seized. If the debtor had no movables, he was detained in prison until terms were made, the creditor meanwhile providing him with bread and water, the cost of which was added to the amount of the debt (Ashley, _Econ. Hist._ pt. I. 204).] [Footnote 565: Rogers thinks that rebellions were often planned at fair time.] [Footnote 566: Rogers _Six Cent._ 136-7; Ashley, _Econ. Hist._ pt. I. 98.] [Footnote 567: Gasquet, _Monasteries_, ii. 96. It seems that the amount of assistance rendered to wayfarers by monasteries has been much exaggerated.] [Footnote 568: Wright, _Domestic Manners_, 333-4. Larwood and Hotten assign another reason for this practice. Great men's town houses were frequently let during their absences from home (_History of Signboards_, 4).] [Footnote 569: Corp. MS. C. 202; _Leet Book_, 386.] [Footnote 570: Fretton, _Mayors of Coventry_, 10.] [Footnote 571: _Ib._, 12; Poole 403.] [Footnote 572: _Paston Letters_ (ed. Gairdner), I. cxiii. Worcester often preferred to call himself by his mother's maiden name.]