[766] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 182.

[767] Norwich Recs., ii. 237.

[768] Cf. Blackwell Hall in London, the sole market for 'foreign' cloth.—Riley, Mems. of London, 550.

[769] Liber Albus, ii. 444.

[770] Statutes, 37 Edw. III.

[771] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 117.

[772] Liber Cust., i. 118.

[773] Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 180-3.

[774] The 'brakeman' reduced the bar iron to rods, ready to be drawn into wire.

[775] i.e. bending.

[776] i.e. girdlers; middle = waist.

[777] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 85.

[778] Toulmin Smith, English Gilds, 184.

[779] Ibid.

[780] Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 27.

[781] Borough Recs. of Leicester, i. 105; Coventry Leet Bk., 95; Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 7, 8.

[782] Beverley Town Docts. (Selden Soc.), 53.

[783] Little Red Book of Bristol, 5.

[784] Ibid., 98.

[785] Early Chanc. Proc., 61, no. 478.

[786] Norwich Recs., ii. 289.

[787] e.g. Ibid., 199, 234; Woodruff, Hist. of Fordwich, 32-5.

[788] See e.g. Cal. of Pat. Rolls 1419-36, 537-88.

[789] Riley, Mems. of London, 346.

[790] Liber Cust., i. 423.

[791] Liber Cust., i. 423.

[792] A servant engaged by the year.—Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 43.

[793] Coventry Leet Bk., 573.

[794] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 106.

[795] Toulmin Smith, English Gilds, 179.

[796] Riley, Mems. of London, 278.

[797] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 127.

[798] Riley, Mems. of London, 549.

[799] Ibid., 234.

[800] Ibid., 244.

[801] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 84.

[802] Early Chanc. Proc., 19, no. 491.

[803] Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 560-1.

[804] e.g. Norwich Recs., ii. 290; Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 125.

[805] Early Chanc. Proc., 66, no. 244.

[806] Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 672.

[807] Early Chanc. Proc., 66, no. 244.

[808] Ibid., 38, no. 40.

[809] An ordinance of the fullers in 1418 forbade any master to take a stranger to serve him by covenant for more than fifteen days unless he engaged him for a whole year.—Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 142.

[810] In the case of the London founders an intending journeyman had to satisfy the masters of his skill; if he could not, he must either become an apprentice or abandon the craft.—Riley, Mems. of London, 514.

[811] They had to give, and were entitled to receive, eight days' notice.—Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 573.

[812] Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 185.

[813] Liber Albus, ii. 444.

[814] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 106; Norwich Recs., ii. 104; Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 656.

[815] Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 786.

[816] Riley, Mems. of London, 495.

[817] Ibid., 542.

[818] Riley, Mems. of London, 609-12.

[819] Ibid., 653.

[820] Hist. MSS. Com. Coventry, 117-18.

[821] Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 694.

[822] Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 656.

[823] Ibid., 95.

[824] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 151.

[825] Riley, Mems. of London, 248, 307; cf. Acts of P. C., 1542-7, p. 367.

[826] Riley, Mems. of London, 307, 514; Lambert, Two Thousand Years of Gild Life, 216.

[827] e.g. Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 13.

[828] See the proceedings of the court of the tailors at Exeter.—Toulmin Smith, English Gilds, 299-321.

[829] Liber Cust., i. 122; cf. Borough Recs. of Leicester, i. 89.

[830] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 14.

[831] Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 302.

[832] Riley, Mems. of London, 232.

[833] Ibid., 281.

[834] Ibid., 293.

[835] Lambert, Two Thousand Years of Gild Life, 205.

[836] Toulmin Smith, English Gilds, passim.

[837] Norwich Recs., ii. 230.

[838] Makers of 'skeps,' or baskets.

[839] Norwich Recs., ii. 280-2.

[840] Norwich Recs., ii. 111.

[841] Ibid., 173.

[842] Sute, probably = course.

[843] Douset = a sweetmeat of cream, eggs, and sugar.