The story of Coventry

by Mary Dormer Harris

[545] Ib., 518-9.

[546] Leet Book, 771.

[547] Wright, Domestic Manners, 337.

[548] Leet Book, 306. Probably carts made for town use were always narrow; see illustration in Wright's Domestic Manners, 344. Compare the trollies made for the "Rows" at Yarmouth.

[549] The old name for the thoroughfare between Trinity church and Butcher Row. A spicer is equivalent to the modern grocer.

[550] Cf. Milk Street, Fish Street and S. Margaret Pattens in the city of London; Bridlesmith Gate and Fletcher Gate (fletcher = an arrow maker) in Nottingham. See on this subject Mr Addy's Evolution of the House. It was customary for the members of each calling to live close together.

[551] Poole, 396.

[552] Leet Book, 233

[553] Ib., 798.

[554] See Corp. MS. B. 75 for description of the Trinity guild lands, of which the Drapery was a parcel. The annual rent payable to the Trinity guild of a half bay in the Great Drapery was 6s. 8d. (C. 194).