[[52]] Such partnerships were not uncommon; e.g. in 1351 W. de Allesworth demanded 2s. 10½d. from Geoffrey Hardyng, as the seventh part of 20s. paid to Geoffrey and his partners for coal got at Nuneaton.—Add. Ch. 49532.

[[53]] Galloway, op. cit., 70.

[[54]] Add. Ch. 48948.

[[55]] Galloway (op. cit., 113-14) gives a late sixteenth-century case in Wakefield, where the 'heads, pillars, and other works ... for bearing up the ground' being cut away, the ground suddenly fell in.

[[56]] Galloway, op. cit., 45.

[[57]] V. C. H. Durham, ii. 324.

[[58]] Foreign R., 42 Edw. III., m. E.

[[59]] Pat., 8 Rich. II.

[[60]] Rot. Parl., iv. 148.

[[61]] Galloway, op. cit., 70, 87.