[103] Soap was made in the neighbourhood of Coventry about 1300. "Sope about Couentre." Robert of Gloucester, Chron., i. 143.
[104] Dugdale, Warw., i. 138.
[105] Parl. Writs, i. lii.
[106] Lawrence de Shepey summoned to attend a council of merchants at York in 1303 (Ibid. i. 135). He had been burgess for Coventry in 1300.
[107] Froude, Short Studies, iii. 54. Edward II.'s overthrow was the signal for a rising against this abbot.
[108] Dugdale, Warw., i. 162.
[109] It is probable that there were no shops, in our sense, in the fourteenth century. The traders' goods were kept in a cellar below the ground floor (Turner, Domestic Architecture, iii. 36). See also, Dormer Harris, Troughton Sketches, 53.
[110] The value of £60 would represent more than £700 at the present time. In the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries the average price of an ox was 13s. 1-1/4d,; of a sheep, 1s. 5d.; of a cow, 9s. 5d.; and a fowl, 1d. (Rogers, Agriculture and Prices, i. 361-3).
[111] Probably a corrody or daily allowance of food from the monastic table during the life of an individual. This ensured for the individual who held it a share in the prayers of the brethren, and sometimes included lodging within the monastery.
[112] Lansd. MS. 290, f. 533. It is the earliest trial for witchcraft extant in England. See also Parl. Writs, ii. Div. 2, App. 269-70.