The story of Coventry

by Mary Dormer Harris

[331] Ib.

[332] Foxe, Martyrs (1823), xxxix.

[333] Harl. MS. 6,388, f. 28. The more probable date is 1519 or 1520. In 1521, the next year, one Robert Silkeb was taken and burnt for not believing in transubstantiation (Ib.).

[334] He twice visited the city to see the Corpus Christi plays (Sharp, Mysteries, 5).

[335] Corp. MS. A. 79, f. 17.

[336] Corp. MS. A. 79, f. 20.

[337] S. Paul's.

[338] Leet Book, 625-6.

[339] Corp. MS. B. 60.

[340] In Henry VIII.'s reign the woollen manufacture of Norwich was at a low ebb; the principal cause of this was the manufacture abroad, which led to the export of the raw material to Flanders (Burnley, Hist. of Wool and Wool Combing, 66-7).