The story of Coventry

by Mary Dormer Harris

[221] Two versions are printed, and there are at least seven in MS. For the former, see Fordun Scoti-chronicon (ed. Hearne). V. App.; Dugdale, Warw. (1730), i. 147-53; for MS. versions, see British Museum Harl. MSS. 6,388 (a compilation of several previously existing copies made in 1690 by Humphrey Wanley); Add. MSS. 11,364; Birmingham Free Library, Warw., MSS. 115,915 (see Athenæum, No. 4328); Coventry Corp. MSS. A. 37, A. 43, A. 48. An eighteenth-century version in the hands of Mr Eynon of Leamington has relatively correct dates. See also Solly-Flood, op. cit., 50-1.

[222] Sharp, op. cit., 205.

[223] Sharp, Antiq., 205; Leet Book, 96-7.

[224] Thompson, Hist. Leicester, 78.

[225] Proc. Privy Counc., iv. 89; Ramsay, Lanc. and York, i. 437.

[226] Leet Book, 83.

[227] Ibid.

[228] The surety for the loan "might not be gotten without great cost," and the different emissaries of the citizens spent, one 40s., one 13s. 4d., and another £6, 2s. 2d. in journeys to London, Boston, and Sandwich about this business (Ib. 86).

[229] Leet Book, 119-20.

[230] Ib., 129-30.