[381] Gross, i. 109.
[382] Ibid. i. 33.
[383] Ibid. i. 31. See also Bury St. Edmunds, ii. 30-3.
[384] See p. 219, note at end of Chapter.
[385] Barnstaple, Gross, ii. 12.
[386] Bury St. Edmunds, Gross, ii. 33-4.
[387] Gross, i. 117. Is there any reason to think that if the enjoyment of monopoly was split up and divided among the crafts, the exercize of authority was split up and transferred in the same proportions?
[388] When wealthy individuals of a craft, men perhaps almost in the position of merchants, were admitted to the Guild, no argument can be drawn from this as to the relation of the craft itself to the Guild.
[389] Gross, i. 114-5. In the instances here given (p. 116, note 1) of regulations made for craftsmen by the Guild Merchant it is necessary to define the exact relation between the Guild and the governing body of the town. (See Andover in 1314. Gross, ii. 308. Compare Leicester, ibid. 144.)
[390] Gross, i. 125-6, 159-60.