The story of Coventry

by Mary Dormer Harris

[585] Poole, 292-301.

[586] Leet Book, 658; Fretton, Mayors, 14.

[587] Thomas White, alderman and vintner, of Coventry, Henry Over, and others.

[588] Poole, 303

[589] Corp. MS. A. 79, f. 63.

[590] Rogers, Six Cent., 165. Leach in his Schools of the Reformation gives this theory substantial support.

[591] Green, ii. 13-16. The drapers had a school at Shrewsbury, the merchant-tailors in London. The guild of S. Laurence of Ashburton had charge of the grammar school, founded by Bishop Stapeledon in 1314. Other schools—as far as we know—not immediately connected with guilds were at Hull, Rotherham, Ewelme, Canterbury, Reading, Appleby, Preston, Liverpool, Cambridge.

[592] Leet Book, 190; Vict. Coun. Hist. Warw. ii., 318.

[593] Ib., 101.

[594] Leet Book, 118.