[Footnote 573: _Rot. Parl._, v. 569.] [Footnote 574: _Leet Book_, 550.] [Footnote 575: Sharp, _Antiq._, 61. It seems an incredible sum, and the statement should be received with caution.] [Footnote 576: _Leet Book_, 302.] [Footnote 577: Harl. MS. 6388, f. 13. Onley is said to have been the first Englishman born in Calais after it was taken by Edward III.; his father was a standard-bearer in the English army.] [Footnote 578: _Proceedings Privy Council_, i. 355.] [Footnote 579: Rogers, _Six Cent._, 99.] [Footnote 580: _Archæological Journal_, iv. 69.] [Footnote 581: Sheppard, _Litteræ Cantuarienses_ (Rolls Series, 85), iii. 81.] [Footnote 582: Besant and Rice, _Sir Richard Whittington_.] [Footnote 583: Dugdale, i. 194.] [Footnote 584: The City of London school was founded on Carpenter's devise.] [Footnote 585: Poole, 292-301.] [Footnote 586: _Leet Book_, 658; Fretton, _Mayors_, 14.] [Footnote 587: Thomas White, alderman and vintner, of Coventry, Henry Over, and others.] [Footnote 588: Poole, 303] [Footnote 589: Corp. MS. A. 79, f. 63.] [Footnote 590: Rogers, _Six Cent._, 165. Leach in his _Schools of the Reformation_ gives this theory substantial support.] [Footnote 591: Green, ii. 13-16. The drapers had a school at Shrewsbury, the merchant-tailors in London. The guild of S. Laurence of Ashburton had charge of the grammar school, founded by Bishop Stapeledon in 1314. Other schools--as far as we know--not immediately connected with guilds were at Hull, Rotherham, Ewelme, Canterbury, Reading, Appleby, Preston, Liverpool, Cambridge.] [Footnote 592: _Leet Book_, 190; _Vict. Coun. Hist. Warw._ ii., 318.] [Footnote 593: _Ib._, 101.] [Footnote 594: _Leet Book_, 118.] [Footnote 595: _Ib._, 190.] [Footnote 596: Rogers, _Six Cent._, 165; _Agric. and Prices_, iv. 502. Even artizans could draw up accounts.] [Footnote 597: _Leet Book_, 658.] [Footnote 598: _Ib._, 652.] [Footnote 599: _Ib._, 677. "A token of ther bagge of the signe of the Olyfaunt."] CHAPTER XV _Daily Life in the Town (continued)--Religion and Amusements of the Townsfolk_ High above market-place and churchyard, above booth and stall, and the life and movement of a busy crowd, rose a forest of magnificent spires, three from the cathedral and one from either parish church. And after the day's chaffer many a busy trader would turn aside and enter the long aisles to listen to the chanting of vespers or tell his beads before the image of his patron saint.