The story of Coventry

by Mary Dormer Harris

[211] Green, op. cit., i. 209.

[212] Holinshed, iii, 494.

[213] Dugdale, Warw., i. 142. The only reference to Coventry in the business of this parliament is a petition from the convent against the men of Coventry, who injured the conduit built by the people of the priory (Corp. MS. B. 34).

[214] Trokelowe and Blaneforde, Chron. S. Albani (ed. Riley), 394.

[215] Leet Book, 70. Issue Roll of Exchequer, H. III.-VI., 402.

[216] Shakespeare I. Hen. IV. iv. 2.

[217] Ib., iii. 2. See my letter in Athenæum 4330, p. 489.

[218] Henry Peyto was mayor in 1423. The Peto family came from Chesterton.

[219] Kingsford, Early Biographies of Henry V., in Eng. Hist. Rev., xxv. 78. Although Stow's Chronicle, where this story first occurs, was not published until 1570, the author relied on early authority ultimately derived, it seems, from the Earl of Ormond, who died 1452.

[220] See Solly-Flood, "Henry V. and Judge Gascoigne," Trans. R. Hist. Soc., iii. 49; Harcourt, "The Two Sir John Fastolfs," Ib. 3rd Ser. iv. 47; Kingsford, Henry V., 80-93. The Gascoignes subsequently settled at Oversley, Warwickshire.