[Footnote 601: In 1391 the prior agreed to pay an annual pension of 100s. for eight years and to provide six trees if the parishioners would rebuild the chancel of Trinity church at their own charge, providing the materials and paying for workmanship (Sharp, _Antiq._, 71).] [Footnote 602: Besides parochial chaplains there were six chantry priests at S. Michael's in 1522; two at Trinity; a warden and seven secular priests at Bablake; and, at the Reformation, according to one account, fourteen or fifteen chaplains at S. Nicholas' church (_ib._, 5, 72, 129, 132).] [Footnote 603: _Ib._, 25.] [Footnote 604: Sharp, 81.] [Footnote 605: Green, i. 154.] [Footnote 606: The scissors of the shearmen may yet be seen in a clear-story window in S. Michael's.] [Footnote 607: Sharp, _Antiq._, 30. The girdelers paid 3s. for their chapel to the churchwardens (_ib._, 33). The company of the cappers is still in existence; and one day in every year the members repair to the parvise adjoining the chapel and eat bread and butter and drink wine there.] [Footnote 608: Sharp, _Antiq._, 92.] [Footnote 609: The drapers, mercers, dyers, cardmakers, and saddlers (later the cappers), smiths, and girdlers had chapels in S. Michael's church; the butchers, dyers, and tanners in Trinity. The fullers held the chapel of S. George on the Gosford Gate. Some of the inferior crafts, viz. the pinners, tilers, and coopers, had their annual mass and drinking at Whitefriars.] [Footnote 610: This matter of the candles seems to have roused dissensions at an early date. In 1282 the corpse of a woman to be buried in the friars' cemetery at Dunstable was first conveyed to the priory church there for the funeral mass. The monks boasted that out of eight candles they only gave two to the Franciscans, keeping all the rest for themselves (_Cornh. Mag._, vi. 835.)] [Footnote 611: The MS. annals note that in 1438 "Friar Bredon got the old strike again" (Harl. MS. 6388, f. 18).] [Footnote 612: _Leet Book_, 228.] [Footnote 613: Leland, _Collectanea_, v. 304; Sharp, _Antiq._, 207.] [Footnote 614: _Leet Book_, 338. The old archery ground is commemorated in "the Butts," now a street, but once outside the walls. A "butt" is properly a mound on which the target is set up. In Edward IV's reign butts were ordered to be made in every township, and the inhabitants were to shoot on all feast days under pain of 1/2d. at every omission (Strutt, _Sports and Pastimes_, 57).] [Footnote 615: Chamberlains to make a ring for the "baiting of bulls as heretofore" (_Leet Book_, 83).] [Footnote 616: No one to shoot arrows in "le cokfyting place" (_ib._, 196).] [Footnote 617: _Ib._, 656.] [Footnote 618: _Chamberlains' and Wardens' Accounts_ (Corp. MS. A. 7b, f. 2). "Paid to Sir ffoulke Grevile Bearewarde iii_s._ iiii_d._"] [Footnote 619: Corp. MS. A. 7_b_, ff. 2, 8.] [Footnote 620: "Paid for 3 sermons of Mr Butler's and ringing to them 35s. 3d." (_ib._, f. 1).] [Footnote 621: _Leet Book_, 271.]