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.;