[610] This matter of the candles seems to have roused dissensions at an early date. In 1282 the corpse of a woman to be buried in the friars' cemetery at Dunstable was first conveyed to the priory church there for the funeral mass. The monks boasted that out of eight candles they only gave two to the Franciscans, keeping all the rest for themselves (Cornh. Mag., vi. 835.)
[611] The MS. annals note that in 1438 "Friar Bredon got the old strike again" (Harl. MS. 6388, f. 18).
[612] Leet Book, 228.
[613] Leland, Collectanea, v. 304; Sharp, Antiq., 207.
[614] Leet Book, 338. The old archery ground is commemorated in "the Butts," now a street, but once outside the walls. A "butt" is properly a mound on which the target is set up. In Edward IV's reign butts were ordered to be made in every township, and the inhabitants were to shoot on all feast days under pain of 1/2d. at every omission (Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, 57).
[615] Chamberlains to make a ring for the "baiting of bulls as heretofore" (Leet Book, 83).
[616] No one to shoot arrows in "le cokfyting place" (ib., 196).
[617] Ib., 656.
[618] Chamberlains' and Wardens' Accounts (Corp. MS. A. 7b, f. 2). "Paid to Sir ffoulke Grevile Bearewarde iiis. iiiid."
[619] Corp. MS. A. 7b, ff. 2, 8.