[703] Ibid. iii. 365; iv. 10.
[704] Ibid. iv. 106, 191, 223. The free school was left to the guardianship of the mayor, aldermen, and common council, and if they were negligent to the Lenton convent, now of course suppressed. (Ibid. iii. 453 et sq.)
[705] Nottingham Records, iv. 108.
[706] Ibid. iv. 238.
[707] Ibid. iv. 408-9. The burgesses seem to have twice at least acted with the people against or apart from the aldermen—once in the settlement about the town accounts in 1504 (iii. 325-6); and once in the complaint drawn up by the Mickletorn jury in 1527 against the mayor and aldermen (iii. 358-60.) The people may have hoped to strengthen this element of resistance.
[708] Mr. Stevenson thinks that the Clothing about this date became a portion of the council. Nottingham Records, iv. xiii. The other explanation seems to me to meet difficulties which this leaves unsolved.
[709] Ibid. iv. 171, 172.
[710] Ibid. iv. 191.
[711] Nottingham Records, iv. 191.
[712] Ibid. iv. 214, 237-8.