[565] Rogers thinks that rebellions were often planned at fair time.
[566] Rogers Six Cent. 136-7; Ashley, Econ. Hist. pt. I. 98.
[567] Gasquet, Monasteries, ii. 96. It seems that the amount of assistance rendered to wayfarers by monasteries has been much exaggerated.
[568] Wright, Domestic Manners, 333-4. Larwood and Hotten assign another reason for this practice. Great men's town houses were frequently let during their absences from home (History of Signboards, 4).
[569] Corp. MS. C. 202; Leet Book, 386.
[570] Fretton, Mayors of Coventry, 10.
[571] Ib., 12; Poole 403.
[572] Paston Letters (ed. Gairdner), I. cxiii. Worcester often preferred to call himself by his mother's maiden name.
[573] Rot. Parl., v. 569.
[574] Leet Book, 550.