[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.