its reputed antiquity, [321];
poverty, [190];
decrease of freemen, [ib.];
dispute between bishops and burghers, [323];
fight between citizens and monks, [324], note 2;
distress and poverty in fifteenth century, [326-330];
Lancastrian sympathies, [326], note;
heavy burdens, [327-9];
petition of burghers to Henry VI., [328], [329];
ferm, fines, and expenses in 1450, ib.;