According to the common law of the land, no market could be erected so as to be a "nuisance" to another market within a less distance than six miles and a half and a third of another half.—Bracton "De Legibus Angliæ" (Rolls Series No. 70), iii, 584.
Dated 4 March, 1326-7.
Chron. Edward I and II, i, 325.
The king's letters asking for assistance were dated from Nottingham, 29 April and 2 May.—City's Records, Pleas and Mem., Roll A 1, membr. iv dors, and ix.
The names of the troopers are set out in full, under the several wards, in Pleas and Memoranda, Roll A I, memb. ix. The compiler of the "Annales Paulini" (Chron. Edward I and II, i. 333), gives the number of the City contingent as 100 men, adding feelingly "sed proh pudor! nil boni ibi facientes sine honore revertuntur."
Dated Topclyf, 10 July.—Pleas and Mem., Roll A 1, membr. ii (4).
-Id., Roll A 1, membr. iii.
Writ dated Lincoln, 23 September.—Id., Roll A 1, membr. v (7) dors.
-Id., Roll A 1. memb. iii.—In July, 1323, the Exchequer had been transferred from York to Westminster, "and great treasure therewith."—Aungier's Fr. Chron. (Riley's transl.), p. 258.
Pleas and Mem., Roll A 1. membr. iii, and v (7).