[Footnote 167: _Leet Book_, 521. The recorder was the legal adviser of the corporation.] [Footnote 168: _Ib._, 642.] [Footnote 169: _Ib._, 180.] [Footnote 170: _Ib._, 455.] [Footnote 171: _Ib._, 27.] [Footnote 172: _Ibid._] [Footnote 173: _Ib._, 24.] [Footnote 174: _Leet Book_, 28.] [Footnote 175: Green, _Town Life_, i. 127.] [Footnote 176: The bailiffs by their oaths were compelled to pay all due ferms and fees, and to be present on court days and sessions of the peace (_Leet Book_, 224).] [Footnote 177: See the chamberlains' accounts (_Ib._, 54-5).] [Footnote 178: _Leet Book_, 107. Knight's fees to be paid by wardens, and not by chamberlains.] [Footnote 179: _Ibid._] [Footnote 180: _Leet Book_, 334. If the cap cost more than 13s. 4d., the surplus was to be paid by the mayor.] [Footnote 181: Round, _Commune of London_, 237-8.] [Footnote 182: Bateson, _Rec. Leic._, i. 34-5.] [Footnote 183: Hudson, _Norwich_, xxxv.] [Footnote 184: See below, p. 93.] [Footnote 185: Any business touching the public weal--such as the payment of a royal debt, granting away of town property and the like--could not be transacted without the official consent of the community. Thus in 1422, when the mayor summoned sixteen of the magnates to weitness the sealing of deds relating to town property, "it was perceived by the mayor and all present that it would be more expedient ... for the mayor to summon these following and many concitizens" (_Leet Book_, 40).] [Footnote 186: Those who were summoned for purposes of consultation came according to their wards. Thus in 1384 it was determined that the mayor should summon four or six citizens out of every ward (vico), who should testify "tam pro seipsis quam pro tota communitate ville," what the general will was concerning the enclosure of certain meadows by the Trinity guild (_Ib._, 5).] [Footnote 187: _Leet Book_, 5.] [Footnote 188: _Ib._, 20.] [Footnote 189: The commons destroyed Julius (? Giles) Allesley's gardens without the Grey Friar Gate (Harl. MS. 6,388, f. 16). Giles Allesley was mayor in 1426. Attilboro, a member of the usual council of twenty-four, who took part in the election of the mayor (_Leet Book_, 22), and Southam, a justice of the peace (_Ib._, 44), had gardens which encroached on the common lands, for which they were allowed, when the survey was taken, to pay a composition (_Ib._, 50-1).] [Footnote 190: _Leet Book_, 42. These grants were given to enable certain citizens to dispense with the ordinary regulations of leet; probably much favour and affection were shown in the granting of them.] [Footnote 191: We cannot tell whether this council even met. In 1423 we hear that the chamberlains' accounts were audited in the presence of the mayor and "48 honest and legal men" elected by the aforesaid mayor to hear the accounts (_Ib._, 54). Query, were these the commoners, or the mayor's council of Forty-eight?] [Footnote 192: _Leet Book_, 44.] [Footnote 193: _Ib._, 520.]