[[402]] Toulmin Smith, English Guilds, 399. At Lincoln, on the other hand, the tilers had formed a gild in 1346, and no tiler not belonging to the gild might stay in the town.—Ibid., 184.
[[403]] V. C. H. Essex, ii. 456.
[[404]] Statutes, 17 Edw. IV.
[[405]] Thorold Rogers, Hist. of Agriculture and Prices, i. 490.
[[406]] Mins. Accts., 899, 900.
[[407]] Possibly from the French, fétu = a straw, from their being moulded as hollow cylinders.
[[408]] Turf was evidently used by the Cambridgeshire tilers for fuel.—Sacrist Rolls of Ely, ii. 67, 93, 137.
[[409]] 'Pro luto tredando ad dictos vj furnos pro tegulis inde faciendis.' The meaning of tredando is uncertain, but as the process is always mentioned after the clay had been carried to the kilns, it may have been the rolling of the clay to the right thickness for cutting tiles from.
[[410]] The words used for burning, or baking, the tiles are eleare and aneleare, both connected with our word 'anneal.'
[[411]] V. C. H. Sussex, ii. 251.