FOOTNOTES:
[322] Crowley, The Way to Wealth (E. E. T. S.).
[323] Registrum Malmesburiense, vol. ii. pp. 220–221: “Quod ... dictus abbas de Malmesburia non debet de cetero colere terram de Niwentone ... nisi antiquitus consueverat coli. Et quod dictus Walterus de Asselegge habebit mariscum suum de Cheggeberge quietum a communia hominum de Niwentone. Dicti vero abbas et conventus Malmesburia habebunt mariscum suum iacentem ex Orientali parte stratæ publicæ quæ vocatur Fos quietum et exceptum a communia hominum de Asselegge. Habebunt etiam ... campum Australem in Niwentone quietum et exceptum a communia hominum de Asselegge. Omnes vero aliæ terræ ad dictas villas pertinentes ... erunt in pastura communi.”
[324] Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Gloucestriæ, i. 147–149.
[325] Hoare, History of Wiltshire, Hundred of South Domerham.
[326] Hist. MSS. Com., Cd. 5567 (Report on the MSS. of Lord Middleton), pp. 61–62. This agreement was made in 1231.
[327] Coventry Leet Book (edited by Mary Dormer Harris).
[328] In their book, The Village Labourer from 1760 to 1832.
[329] Bacon, History of King Henry VII.
[330] See e.g. Starkey’s England in the Reign of King Henry VIII., p. 173 (E. E. T. S.): “Ye, and though our cloth, at the fyrst begynnyng, wold not be so gud peradventure, as hyt ys made in other partys, yet, in processe of tyme, I cannot see why, but that our men, by dylygence, myght attayne therto ryght wel; specially yf the Prince wold study thereto, in whose powar hyt lyeth chefely such thyngys to helpe.” Also The Commonweal of this Realm of England (Lamond), and Pauli, Drei Denkschriften, &c.