[425] Corp. MS. A. 6. Corpus Christi guild accounts.
[426] Leet Book, 569. This order was re-enacted in 1497; Ib., 585. No tanner or butcher was "to make conspiracy ... contrary to this ordinance." Duddesbury had been a member of the Twenty-four, and was mayor in 1505.
[427] Leet Book, 553-4.
[428] Ib., 559. The continuation of this order shows how restive the people were becoming under the recent regulations, a like surety was to be taken from any one who would not obey orders of leet and be reformed by the mayor and council.
[429] Lists of all the living craftsmen who had held office were compiled in 1449: 16 drapers, 13 mercers, 7 dyers, 2 wire-drawers, 2 whittawers, and 2 weavers are mentioned (ib., 246-52).
[430] Drapery granted to the Trinity gild 1365-9 (Sharp, 131).
[431] Leet Book, 281.
[432] These words are almost identical with a gloss, written in the margin of one ordinance passed in 1495. For the profits arising from the Nottingham Drapery, see Nottingham Rec., iii. 62.
[433] Corp. MS. B. 75.
[434] Leet Book, 193. This order was passed in 1440.