[693] In September, 1514, John Rose, mayor, and the burgesses of the town gave a licence to John Sye to enclose part of the common ground for his use at a rent of 2s. a year. (Nott. Rec. iii. 125.) But in February, 1515, when leave was given to the guardians of the free school to enclose land express mention is made of the mayor, burgesses, and community. (iii. 457.) The agreement in 1516 about the Lenton fair was made between the convent and the mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty. (iii. 345.) See also 439-40.
[694] June 1513 to Dec. 1514. Again in 1520.
[695] Nottingham Records, iii. 342, 463.
[696] Ibid. iii. 423, 463-4.
[697] Ibid. iii. 357. He apparently neglected their entreaties. 358.
[698] Nott. Rec. iii. 359.
[699] Nott. Rec. iii. 358-60.
[700] Nottingham Records, iv. xiii. For a case in which this certainly happened see p. 356. The same thing seems to have happened in 1504. A law of 1442 had ordered that if the mayor and bailiffs did not render up their accounts before leaving office they should be fined, £20 for the mayor, £10 for the bailiffs; in 1504 the mayor and aldermen together issued a new ordinance reducing the fine to one half, an ordinance which was assented to by three common councillors, while for the commonalty appear the names of seventeen burgesses, of whom one was certainly one of the sheriffs. (Ibid. ii. 424; iii. 325.)
[701] Nottingham Records, iv. pp. xiii. xxvii. xxviii. 100, 101, 1552.
[702] Ibid. iv. 106-8, 215 et sq.