[853] Ibid. 167.
[854] Ibid. 168. The use of the word communitas in 1463 is here explained as showing how the term had “already lost its original meaning and was used to designate the humblest and least influential class of the burgesses.” But community was used in exactly this sense in 1305. (Ibid. 187.)
[855] For some details of the seventy-five guilds of Lynn see the Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany, edited by Walter Rye, Part I., pp. 153-183.
[856] Lyon’s Dover, I. xi.; ii. 267-8, 287, 312, 370.
[857] In Dover the common assembly summoned in the same way was called a Hornblowing. (Boy’s Sandwich, 797.)
[858] Ibid. 538.
[859] Ibid. 783-4. In 1565 291 households were English and 129 Walloons. But there were many foreigners in Sandwich at a far earlier time.
[860] In 1466 and 1492. Boys’ Sandwich, 675, 679.
[861] Ibid. 787.
[862] Ibid. 673-6. In 1469 the commons of Sandwich at a Shepway court desire that the mayor may be kept in safe custody for such charges as they will allege against him. (Ibid. 676.)