[Footnote 42: Guy of Warwick also freed Coventry from a fabulous monster. In the last century there was still shown there "a great shield-bone of a bore (_sic_) which "he" slew in Hunting, when he (_i.e._ the boar) had turned with his Snout a great Put or Pond which is now called Swanswell, but Swineswell in times past." Gough, _Collect. Warw._ (Bodleian Library).] [Footnote 43: _Vic. Count. Hist. Warw._, ii. 319.] [Footnote 44: For a popular account of a monastery _v._ Jessopp, _Coming of the Friars_, 113-165.] [Footnote 45: _Leet Book_, 448-9.] [Footnote 46: The chronicler, whose name--Walter of Coventry--seems to attest some local connection, was not a monk of this house. Stubbs, _Pref._ to Walter of Coventry (Rolls), I. xxii.-xxxiii.] [Footnote 47: Jessopp, 138.] [Footnote 48: Luard, _Annales Monastici_, iii. 90; i. 89-90.] [Footnote 49: Dugdale, _Monasticon_ (1846), iii. 178.] [Footnote 50: Beresford, _Diocesan Hist. Lichfield_, 54.] [Footnote 51: Beresford, _Diocesan Hist. Lichfield_, 78.] [Footnote 52: Dugdale. _Warw._, i. 161. Rather an improbable story. More likely after Nunant's fall the monks found some one to plead their cause with the King.] [Footnote 53: Beresford, 69.] [Footnote 54: Which may be paraphrased: "I have but one diocese, and must I have but one cathedral?" (Beresford, 76).] [Footnote 55: Cott. MS, quoted Dugdale, _Monasticon_, VI. iii. 1242.] [Footnote 56: _Ibid._ 1242-3.] [Footnote 57: Luard, _op cit._, iii 104.] [Footnote 58: _Vict. County Hist._, ii. 55.] [Footnote 59: For the disputes between ecclesiastics and their tenants see Mrs Green, _Town Life_, i. 333-383; Thompson, _Municipal History_, _passim_. This feature is not confined to England. For the disputes between the men of Rouen and the chapter see Giry, _Établissements de Rouen_, 34.] CHAPTER III _The Chester Lordship_ The place where the monks settled was probably little better than a village. We may picture it as a couple of straggling streets intersecting one another, with small wooden houses on either side of the highway, which was comparatively empty of people except on market days when country folk would come in to sell their wares in the "Cheaping" at the monastery gates. Domesday records that there were only sixty-nine heads of families living in Godiva's estate at Coventry in 1086,[60] though Leicester and Warwick were fair-sized towns, as towns were accounted then. Of the two parish churches, existing probably at the Conquest, S. Michael's served maybe for the tenants of the lay lord, and Trinity for those of the ecclesiastical estate. For from the beginnings of its history the town had been divided into two lordships, whereof the convent held the northern part or Prior's-half, not mentioned in Domesday, as the gift of their founder, Earl Leofric; while the southern portion, the Earl's-half, which Leofric retained, became a part of the Earl of Chester's vast inheritance.