[463] Leet Book, 658.
[464] Leet Book, 639.
[465] Rot. Parl., iv. 75. I am indebted for the explanation of the significance of this petition to parliament against the dyers to Mrs J.R. Green.
[466] The terms "degree of a mayor—of a bailiff" were used in assessing fines. In the year 1449 a list of the craftsfolk of the city enables us to find out to what calling the members of the corporation belonged (Leet Book, 246 sqq.)
[467] Leet Book. The mayor, recorder, and bailiffs were to take eight or twelve of the general council of the city, and to summon before them the wardens of the crafts with their ordinances, and these "poyntes that byn lawfull, good and honest for the cite be alowyd hem and all other throw[n]asid [sic], and had for none." And this order was in substance repeated many times.
[468] Leet Book, 657.
[469] This rule was embodied in the fullers' rules. See Book of the Fullers (in possession of the fullers' company at Coventry), f. 6.
[470] Leet Book, 698.
[471] Ib., 697-8.
[472] Leet Book, 654. A part of the proceeds of the craft fines frequently went to the repair of the town wall in the early fifteenth century. Among the cappers fines for breach of regulations went "half to the mayor and half to the craft" (ib., 573.)