[[482]] Black Book of Admiralty (Rolls Ser.), ii. 187, 197.
[[483]] There was an 'omanseterowe' in the Drapery at Norwich as early as 1288.—Rec. of Norwich, ii. 8.
[[484]] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 4, 40. Narrow 'Osetes' were also made at Salisbury.—Exch. K. R. Accts., 344, no. 34.
[[485]] Liber Custumarum, i. 125; ii. 549.
[[486]] At Northampton the cloth trade, which in the time of Henry III. employed 300 men, had almost died out in 1334.—Rot. Parl., ii. 85.
[[487]] Liber Custumarum, i. 424.
[[488]] As early as 1331 special protection was granted to John Kempe of Flanders and any other clothworkers who wished to settle in England.—Pat., 5 Edw. III., p. 2, m. 25.
[[489]] Statutes, 11 Edw. III.
[[490]] Rot. Parl., ii. 449, Close 13 Edw. III., p. 3, m. 11.
[[491]] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 3.