[606] Archæologia, i. 91, 93-4.
[607] Gross, ii. 260-1.
[608] Payments for stalls went to the King’s ferm. (Ibid. 262.) The question was therefore one of revenue and not one of protection.
[609] Archæologia, i. 102.
[610] The fraternity of St. John allowed nearly £35 a year towards the maintenance of the bridge and walls.
[611] Hist. MSS. Com. xi. part 3, 77.
[612] Ibid. vi. 595-605.
[613] Gregory’s Chronicle of London, ed. Gairdner, Early English Text Soc. 199.
[614] A charter of Edward the Fourth still speaks of Winchester as now being “quite unable to pay the fee-farm rent of 100 marks.” (Kitchin’s Winchester, 174.)
[615] See the case of Lincoln, Rot. Parl. i. 156-7.