“William Dilcocke, 1412-13. In his year died King Henry.”
The later entries are not dated, and John Yardeley was the last mayor mentioned.
Add. MS. 11364, “presented by Mr. Joseph Gibbs,” contains:
“A brief History of Ye city of Coventry from Ye most early accounts of it,” which tells about Leofric and Godiva.[103]
It begins in 1348 the story of the mayors with John War. It gives:
1412. John Horneby. He arrested ye Prince in ye Priory of Coventry.
1512. Richard Horsfell Draper seven burned in little parke and one did penance for heresy, viz. for hearing ye Lords prayre &c. in English.
1597. John Whitehead and John Breers. (Here is much writing of scarcity and its causes—great differences from roll.)
1703. Jonah Crynds (the last mayor mentioned).
Miss Dormer Harris, in the year after my paper, brought out her “Story of Coventry and the Kingdom,” in which she discusses the arrest, from the point of view of the fact that the later recorded arrest of the Earl of Warwick can be proved to be an error, and an explicable one.