[653] Ibid. i. 1.
[654] Nottingham Records, i. 8.
[655] Ibid. i. 22, 24.
[656] Ibid. i. 40-46.
[657] Ibid. i. 56, 58, 124, 168. The wife’s dower differed in each. Inheritance went by borough English in the English town; in the French town it went to the eldest son. (Ibid. i. 186.) The jurors from the eastern and western sides always remained distinct. (Ibid. ii. 322, etc.; iii. 344.) By 1330 one of the boroughs had fallen into such poverty that it could no longer find a bailiff, and leave was given by charter to elect the bailiff from the inhabitants of any part of the town that seemed best. (Ibid. i. 109.)
[658] Nottingham Records, i. 78-80.
[659] Ibid. ii. 2-10.
[660] Nottingham Records, ii. 186.
[661] The land was let for thirty years at the yearly rent of a rose, and the corporation was to make enclosures of ditches and hedges. The agreement was made by the mayor, sheriff, and aldermen, “with the assent and consent of the entire community of the town.” Ibid. iii. 408-410.
[662] Ibid. i. 56.