[543] Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, 90.
[544] Hist. MSS. Com. vi, 551-569.
[545] Davies, 294. This may have supported nearly 140 people.
[546] Davies, 82. For supplies for the King’s ship see Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, 113.
[547] Davies, 79. Archers sent to the castle for the defence of the townsmen were charged to their account, and they had to submit patiently to their exactions; a letter from Edward the Fourth ordered the town to release one of the Bowers who had been committed to prison “for his inordinate demeaning,” and to go on paying him his wages like other Bowers. (Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, 99.)
[548] The castle wall was not pulled down before the end of the fifteenth century. Finally the castle hill itself, after its mound had been lowered and planed, was crowned in 1818 with a Zion chapel on the site of the Norman keep. (Davies, 76, 84.)
[549] Ibid. 81. For the inconvenience which a constable might cause to the town if he wished, see p. 83.
[550] See for one example among many, Davies, 81.
[551] Davies, 216.
[552] Ibid. 79.