The story of Coventry

by Mary Dormer Harris

[525] Harl. MS. 6388, f. 8. A slight exaggeration, no doubt.

[526] Ib., f 23.

[527] Leet Book, 775.

[528] Ib., 447

[529] Ib., f. 11. The filth and street sweepings were ordered to be carried "beyond the stake set in the dyke beyond the Friars' Gate," or to pits without the gates (ib., 30).

[530] Leet Book, 455. The worthy men of the leet besought the mayor that there might be certain citizens appointed to have oversight of the river, each in their several district, and that the rules for cleaning it should be duly kept (ib., 108).

[531] Such as timber frames for houses, trunks of trees, etc. (Green, ii. 29, 30).

[532] In London the bedels of each ward had a hook to tear down burning houses (Riley, Liber Albus, xxxiv.).

[533] Leet Book, 389.

[534] The spring was called Cunduit Head (Corp. MS. C. 227).