[42] Printed in Gross, II. 114-123.
[43] Select Charters, 166 (Charter of Henry II. to Lincoln).
[44] Gross, II. 235, and cf. [note 2 to this Chapter].
[45] Cf. the “Chepgauel” at Totnes. Gross, II. 236.
[46] Gross, I. 57.
[47] Owen and Blakeway, I. 169-174. Erskine May, Const. Hist. III. 276-77.
[48] This close relationship of, and actual difference between, the two bodies is very distinctly seen at Bristol in the reign of Edward IV., when it was the custom for the Mayor and Council of the town to choose the chief officers of the Merchant Gild, and to pass ordinances for its regulation. Gross, II. 25.
[49] On the early use of coal, cf. Work and Wages, p. 124.
[50] The Statutes of Labourers first gave a recognised position to the “men who neither held land, nor were free burgesses,” but who had a dwelling, and paid the rates of some town. Cf. Cunningham, 193-4. Supra, p. 19.
[51] Quarterly Review, Vol. 159; Economic Interpretation, p. 298.