[595] Ib., 190.

[596] Rogers, Six Cent., 165; Agric. and Prices, iv. 502. Even artizans could draw up accounts.

[597] Leet Book, 658.

[598] Ib., 652.

[599] Ib., 677. "A token of ther bagge of the signe of the Olyfaunt."


[CHAPTER XV]

Daily Life in the Town (continued)—Religion and Amusements of the Townsfolk

High above market-place and churchyard, above booth and stall, and the life and movement of a busy crowd, rose a forest of magnificent spires, three from the cathedral and one from either parish church. And after the day's chaffer many a busy trader would turn aside and enter the long aisles to listen to the chanting of vespers or tell his beads before the image of his patron saint.