[Footnote 245: Thomas Littleton, of famous memory, whom Coke made familiar to all. This official was the exponent of the law in the mayor's court.] [Footnote 246: Ramsay, _op. cit._, ii. 147.] [Footnote 247: _Leet Book_, 264-5.] [Footnote 248: _Leet Book_, 264-5.] [Footnote 249: _Leet Book_, 265-6. The city and the adjoining hamlets were joined together as a county. The mayor, according to the charter, was made steward and marshal of the king's household.] [Footnote 250: There were great preparations for the civil strife during this year (Ramsay, ii. 169). The prince of Wales was invested with the appanage of Cornwall in 1455 (_Ib._, ii. 219). The Coventry men henceforth owned him as their lord and protector.] [Footnote 251: _Leet Book_, 283.] [Footnote 252: Ramsay, ii. 199.] [Footnote 253: _Leet Book_, 285.] [Footnote 254: _Ib._, 292.] [Footnote 255: _Leet Book_, 287; first printed in Sharp, _Antiq._, pp. 228-231.] [Footnote 256: _Leet Book_, 292.] [Footnote 257: Beheaded on Gosford Green, 1469.] [Footnote 258: York and Warwick swore to keep the peace (Ramsay, ii, 199).] [Footnote 259: _Paston Letters_ (ed. Gairdner), i. 408.] [Footnote 260: _Leet Book_, 297.] [Footnote 261: The Archbishop of York, the Bishops of Winchester, London, Lincoln, Norwich, Exeter, Worcester, Chester, Hereford, and Salisbury; the Abbots of Glastonbury, Bury S. Edmunds, Gloucester, Malmesbury, Cirencester; Lawrence Booth, privy seal; the Dukes of Exeter, Buckingham, Somerset; the Earls of Shrewsbury, treasurer, Stafford, Northumberland, Arundel and Devonshire; the Lord of S John's, the Lords Roos, Suydeley, steward of the Household, Stanley, Beauchamp, Berners, Grey de Ruthyn, Lovell, Wells, Willoughby, and Dudley, were present.] [Footnote 262: _Leet Book_, 298.] [Footnote 263: _Ib._, 299.] [Footnote 264: _Leet Book_, 300.] [Footnote 265: Fine white bread; _panis dominicus_, lord's bread.] [Footnote 266: Fat.] [Footnote 267: Rous, _Hist. Reg. Angliæ_ (Hearne), 120.] [Footnote 268: _Leet Book_, 308.] [Footnote 269: _Ib._, 309.] [Footnote 270: Query?] [Footnote 271: _Leet Book_, 309.] [Footnote 272: Henry was at Coventry when he heard of the landing of the Yorkist lords Salisbury and Warwick on June 23 (Holinshed, iii. 654).] [Footnote 273: Afterwards Edward IV. (_Leet Book_, 313).] [Footnote 274: _Ib._, 315.] [Footnote 275: Thompson, _Leicester_, 88.] [Footnote 276: _Leet Book_, 316.] [Footnote 277: Sharp, _Mysteries_, 152.] CHAPTER XI _The Last Struggle of York and Lancaster--the Tudors and Stuarts_