[152] Sharp, op. cit., 159.
[153] Leet Book, 3.
[154] Rot. Pat. 16, Ric. II., pt. i. m. 19. The guilds of S. Mary and S. John were united as early as 1362 (Corp. MS. C. 159). Sharp says that the union took place between 1365 and 1369 (op. cit., 131); but in a deed executed in 1372 the guilds mentioned are SS. Mary, John the Baptist, and Catherine (Corp. MS. C. 165).
[155] Sharp, op. cit., 130-2.
[156] Sharp, op. cit., 24-5.
[157] Ib., 81.
[158] See Vict. County Hist. Warw., ii. 154-6.
[159] Corp. MS. B. 35. Letters patent against the formation of new guilds, dated Nov. 18, 8 Hen. IV. (1406), confirmed in 1414 and 1441 (B. 38 and 47). A great deal of confusion and wrong dating exists in the Hist. MSS. Com. Catalogue with regard to this point.
[160] Corp. MS. B. 40 (1406); B. 41 (1414); B. 43 (1424).