[485] As in Romney (Hist. MSS. Com. v. 539).
[486] In 1386 the Cinque Ports paid for the copying of Magna Charta (Ibid. 533).
[487] Nottingham Records, ii. 340.
[488] Hist. MSS. Com. vi. 489.
[489] Ibid. ix. 223-4.
[490] First paper roll in Reading accounts 1463. (Hist. MSS. Com. xi. part 7, 175.) Accounts at Bridport, Southampton, and Hythe on paper under Richard the Second. (Ibid. vi. 492; xi. 3-8; iv. 1, 438-9.) Some of the guild returns were on paper in 1389. (English Guilds, 132-3.) In 1467 there was a rule in Worcester that the town clerk must be a citizen, and do his own work with daily attendance and not by simple and inefficient deputy, and must engross on parchment. (Guilds, 399.)
[491] Hist. MSS. Com. vi. 477.
[492] Ibid. ix. 108.
[493] Ibid. vi. 603.
[494] The difference is seen by comparing with their accounts such documents as presentments at sessions, bills for goods and the like. (Nottingham Records, iii. xiv.) See also entries in the records made by Roger Bramston, mayor of Wycombe, in 1490.