The Story of London

by Henry B. Wheatley

[375] G. M. Trevelyan, England in the Age of Wycliffe, p. 139.

[376] Dictionary of National Biography (Anne), vol. i. p. 424.

[377] Riley’s Memorials, p. 630.

[378] Cal. Letter Book B, pp. xiii.-xv.

[379] Ibid., p. 215.

[380] In Gross’s Select Cases from Coroner’s Rolls (Selden Society, Introduction, p. xxx.), instances are given of the part played by the privilege of sanctuary in thwarting criminal justice.

[381] Constitutional History of England, chap. xxi. para. 496.

[382] Master Hugh de Whytington was master of the scholars of St. Martin-le-Grand in 1298 (Cal. Letter Book B, p. 73).

[383] Survey, ed. Thoms, pp. 27, 28.

[384] Foxe, Acts and Monuments, ed. 1597, p. 1885; Holinshed, p. 1142. This incident will be recognised as the groundwork of Mr. Weyman’s delightful romance of Francis Cludde.