[583] Gross, ii. 214. Davies, 163.
[584] Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, pp. 40-2, 43, 46. Compare Nottingham.
[585] Davies, 154, 238.
[586] Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, p. 42.
[587] Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, p. 45.
[588] Ibid. pp. 46, 81, 84, 87, 106.
[589] Gross, ii. 222-5.
[590] In 1302 a lease of the ferm of the town to certain persons is granted by consent of twenty-two men named, but without any mention of their position, “and all the community of the town.” (Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, 56.) Ordinances were made in 1349 by the mayor, aldermen, and community. (Ibid. 9.)
[591] Gross, ii. 220, 223, 225.
[592] Gross, ii. 220-3.