[666] Ibid. 79.
[667] Shillingford’s Letters, 96.
[668] Ibid. pp. 98, 108.
[669] For the mayor’s defence, see p. x. 107-9.
[670] The tenants of the hospital of S. John in Worcester refused to aid in tallages, to submit to the assize of bread and beer, under the town’s officers, and to keep watch and ward. In 1221 they were ordered to do all these things. (Select Pleas of the Crown, Selden Soc. p. 97.) In 1331 Norwich resisted the handing over of three houses to the prior and convent “for that a very great part of the same city which is inhabited, is in the hands of the prior and convent and of other religious persons, whereby the inhabitants are at their distress, and cannot be tallaged to the tallages and aids of the lord the King and of the city aforesaid as tenants should be, nor can they be in assizes, juries, and recognizances, whereby others dwelling in the same city are burdened and grieved more than usual by such gifts and assignments.” (Norwich Documents, Stanley v. Mayor, pr. 1884, 24, 25).
[671] Shillingford’s Letters, 44-45.
[672] Ibid. 52.
[673] Shillingford’s Letters, 91-2, 104-5.
[674] Ibid. 92.
[675] Ibid. 100, 109.