[793] Ibid. iii. 156.
[794] Paston Letters, i. 151, 156, 158.
[795] Ibid. i. 151.
[796] Ibid. i. 123, 183-4, 199-200, 206, 211-2, 225.
[797] In 1460 Heydon left Norfolk for Berkshire. (Paston Letters, i. cxlii.)
[798] In 1456 the common stock was so much wasted that several of the aldermen remitted debts to the city. (Blomefield, iii. 160.) And even the guild of S. George was scarcely able to pay its way. (Hist. MSS. Com. i. 104.)
[799] All ex-mayors were allowed to be justices of the peace. Four of the justices of the peace were to have the powers of King’s justices, and the aldermen were allowed to elect the under sheriffs, town clerks, and sheriffs’ bailiffs. (Blomefield, iii. 158.)
[800] Hist. MSS. Com. i. 104. In 1452 it was ordered that no brother should wear a red gown save the alderman of the guild or any of the twenty-four aldermen of the city.
[801] The first attempt at a settlement was in 1205 about the rights of common of the townspeople. (Town Close Evidences, 4-5.)
[802] Town Close Evidences, 52-64.