[[534]] The suspension of worsted weaving for a month from 15 August was enforced in 1511 to avoid a shortage of agricultural labour during harvest.—Rec. of City of Norwich, ii. 376.

[[535]] Liber Custumarum, i. 423.

[[536]] Ibid. Candlewick Street (now Cannon Street) was the centre of manufacture of a coarse cheap cloth used for horse trappings, and also bought in large quantities for the King's almoner from 1330 to 1380.—Enrolled Wardrobe Accts., L. T. R., 2-4.

[[537]] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 40, 123.

[[538]] Statutes, 8 Hen. VI.

[[539]] V. C. H. Shrops., i. 428.

[[540]] Statutes, 3 and 5 Henry VIII.

[[541]] Toulmin Smith, Engl. Gilds, 179. The gild was founded in 1297, but this regulation was probably of later date.

[[542]] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 127.

[[543]] Liber Custumarum, i. 128-9.