[600] Perhaps to Bishop Patteshull, who died 1238. Beresford, Diocesan Hist. Lichfield, 127.
[601] In 1391 the prior agreed to pay an annual pension of 100s. for eight years and to provide six trees if the parishioners would rebuild the chancel of Trinity church at their own charge, providing the materials and paying for workmanship (Sharp, Antiq., 71).
[602] Besides parochial chaplains there were six chantry priests at S. Michael's in 1522; two at Trinity; a warden and seven secular priests at Bablake; and, at the Reformation, according to one account, fourteen or fifteen chaplains at S. Nicholas' church (ib., 5, 72, 129, 132).
[603] Ib., 25.
[604] Sharp, 81.
[605] Green, i. 154.
[606] The scissors of the shearmen may yet be seen in a clear-story window in S. Michael's.
[607] Sharp, Antiq., 30. The girdelers paid 3s. for their chapel to the churchwardens (ib., 33). The company of the cappers is still in existence; and one day in every year the members repair to the parvise adjoining the chapel and eat bread and butter and drink wine there.
[608] Sharp, Antiq., 92.
[609] The drapers, mercers, dyers, cardmakers, and saddlers (later the cappers), smiths, and girdlers had chapels in S. Michael's church; the butchers, dyers, and tanners in Trinity. The fullers held the chapel of S. George on the Gosford Gate. Some of the inferior crafts, viz. the pinners, tilers, and coopers, had their annual mass and drinking at Whitefriars.