[723] Hudson, Leet Jur. in Norwich, lxxi., note.
[724] Ibid. xv. 1365. Arch. Journ. xlvi. no. 184, 322. In reference to the election of bailiffs or the “twenty-four” the word “leet” means a division of the city, not a court.
[725] Leet Jurisdiction in Norwich, xli.
[726] Besides the deed of 1290 (p. 367 n. 2) Mr. Hudson has kindly sent me the following extracts. Saturday, Vigil of Palms, 27 Edward I. 1298—John the carpenter and Alice his wife grant a messuage next the gates of Nedham to “Ballivi, Cives, et Communitas Norwici” “ad asiamentum muri civitatis erigendi.” (City Domesday, fol. lxxiii.) On folio lxviii. of the same book there is a grant of a messuage near the cathedral to the commonalty, 31 Edward, 1302, in the following form: “to the four Bailiffs (named), Henry Clark, Robert de Holveston, ... Adam de Blicling, citizens of the said city (15 persons), and all the Commonalty thereof.”
[727] Norwich Town Close Evidences, printed privately, 1885. (British Museum), 18.
[728] Arch. Journ. xlvi. no. 184, 322.
[729] They state in 1378 that this had already been the custom. (Town Close Evidences, 30.)
[730] Arch. Journ. xlvi. No 183, 315.
[731] Town Close Evidences, 7. The phraze used in 1218 (p. 5), “men of the city,” is not the same.
[732] Ibid. 7, 13, 17, 18, 25, 26, 30. Arch. Journ. xlvi. no. 184, 325. See Note A at end of chapter.