Others had fled from justice, though of these one Richard Grauntpee, without doubt a near relative of the man who had lost his suit with the prior in the matter of the market, afterwards came and surrendered himself in court. Either the sympathy of the neighbourhood was with the accused, or it was thought that Robert's tale was unworthy of belief, for a jury taken from the neighbourhood returned a verdict of acquittal. But the trial greatly embittered the feelings of the citizens, and when the tide turned, and they were able to do the prior hurt, they availed themselves of the opportunity gladly. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 95: "Prior Richard and Monks" in _Cornh. Mag._, vi. 840.] [Footnote 96: Thomson, _Municipal History_.] [Footnote 97: Earl Hugh forbade his tenants to meddle with the prior's markets (Dugdale, _Warw._, i. 159).] [Footnote 98: Burton MS. f. 109_a_.] [Footnote 99: Dugdale, i. 138.] [Footnote 100: Quoted in _Inspeximus_, 17 Ed. II. (Corp. MS. B. 4); the date there given is Jan. 30, 52 H. III. (1268).] [Footnote 101: Dugdale, _Warw._, i. 162.] [Footnote 102: Merewether and Stephens, _Hist. Boroughs_, i. 469. The transcript of the MS. is given in Gross, _Gild Merchant_, ii. 365. The expression "with others" is very significant; these were probably men from the country, who had hitherto been allowed to trade in the town, and feared the establishment of the guild.] [Footnote 103: Soap was made in the neighbourhood of Coventry about 1300. "Sope about Couentre." Robert of Gloucester, _Chron._, i. 143.] [Footnote 104: Dugdale, _Warw._, i. 138.] [Footnote 105: _Parl. Writs_, i. lii.] [Footnote 106: Lawrence de Shepey summoned to attend a council of merchants at York in 1303 (_Ibid._ i. 135). He had been burgess for Coventry in 1300.] [Footnote 107: Froude, _Short Studies_, iii. 54. Edward II.'s overthrow was the signal for a rising against this abbot.] [Footnote 108: Dugdale, _Warw._, i. 162.] [Footnote 109: It is probable that there were no shops, in our sense, in the fourteenth century. The traders' goods were kept in a cellar below the ground floor (Turner, _Domestic Architecture_, iii. 36). See also, Dormer Harris, _Troughton Sketches_, 53.] [Footnote 110: The value of £60 would represent more than £700 at the present time. In the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries the average price of an ox was 13s. 1-1/4d,; of a sheep, 1s. 5d.; of a cow, 9s. 5d.; and a fowl, 1d. (Rogers, _Agriculture and Prices_, i. 361-3).] [Footnote 111: Probably a corrody or daily allowance of food from the monastic table during the life of an individual. This ensured for the individual who held it a share in the prayers of the brethren, and sometimes included lodging within the monastery.] [Footnote 112: Lansd. MS. 290, f. 533. It is the earliest trial for witchcraft extant in England. See also _Parl. Writs_, ii. Div. 2, App. 269-70.] [Footnote 113: Divers natives of Warwickshire and citizens of London went bail for them.]