[616] Hudson’s Leet Jurisdiction of Norwich (Selden Soc.).
[617] Cutts’ Colchester, 149. Hudson’s Norwich Leet-Jurisdiction (Selden Soc.), 17. See pp. xxxvii., xli. The constables of Nottingham at the court leet present the “Master Official (of the archdeacon) for excessive and extorcious taking of fees” for probate of testaments, and for over assessing poor folks and men’s servants at Easter for their tythes. (Records, iii. 364.)
[618] 13 Richard the Second, 1, c. 18. Statute 4 Henry the Fifth, c. 5, repeats with some alterations that of Richard.
[619] 1454, Cutts’ Colchester, 150-1.
[620] Hist. MSS. Com. v. 496.
[621] Freeman’s Exeter, 165.
[622] Freeman’s Exeter, 84-5, 165-6.
[623] Shillingford’s Letters (Camden Society), p. 68. An order of the town had been issued in 1339 that no clerk of the consistory court was to be chosen mayor or bailiff or allowed to meddle with the elections. Freeman’s Exeter, 147.
[624] The bishop had taken an action years before in 1432-3. Shillingford’s Letters, xiv.
[625] Shillingford’s Letters, xxii.-iv.