The story of Coventry

by Mary Dormer Harris

[201] The name of Ball occurs in Coventry deeds. It is, of course, a common name.

[202] On the Trinity guild enclosure of 1384, see Leet Book, 6; on the formation of the first of the defiant artizan guilds about this year, see above and Vict. County Hist., Warw., ii. 154.

[203] Berners, Froissart's Chron. (1901) ii. 224.

[204] Warwickshire may have been a county addicted to Lollardry. John Lacy, vicar of Chesterton, near Warwick, was charged with receiving and harbouring the famous Oldcastle, Lord Cobham (Diocesan Hist. Worcester, 103).

[205] Trevelyan, Age of Wycliffe, 315; Knighton, Chron. ii. 198.

[206] Eng. Hist. Rev. xx. 447.

[207] Trevelyan, op. cit., 310; Dict. Nat. Biog., s.v. Hereford, Nicholas.

[208] Vict. Coun. Hist., ii. 84.

[209] Knighton, Chron. ii. 235.

[210] Leet Book, 3.