[6] “All at Coventry.” By W. T. Montcrieff.
[7] Green. “Town Life in the Fifteenth Century,” II, 126.
[8] “Burnet’s Own Times,” II, 426.
[9] MS. 10. E. IV.
[10] “Piers the Plowman.” Text B., Passus V.; Text C., Passus VII.
[11] Literally “Harbourers.” Compare the French Auberge.
[12] “History of Signboards,” II, 45.
[13] Charles Lamb, who delighted in the old Queen’s Head, suggests that the liquid was not water but “Black Jack.”
[14] “Twelfth Night”; Act III, Sc. 3.
[15] Some of the rival establishments at Colnbrook contend that the above honours belong to them, and not to the Ostrich.