[867] Coke's statement is not strictly accurate. Before 1327 knights of the shire were in the habit of receiving sums varying from 1̃s. to 6̃s. 8d. a day. From the year 1327 their allowance was 4̃s. a day exclusive of travelling expenses, and this sum appears to have been paid as long as members received payment for attendance in Parliament.—See Preface to Modus tenendi Parliamentum, p. viii and Notes to the same, pp. xxvii, xxviii.
[868] Chamber Accounts (Town Clerk's Office), Vol. II, fos. 21b, 22. The same fees had been authorised by the Court of Aldermen three years before.—Repertory 20, fo. 183. After the Restoration, when more than two aldermen were frequently returned, the junior members (whether aldermen or commoners) received the burgess fee of two shillings a day, as witness the case of Sir John Robinson—the only City member sitting in the first Parliament after the Restoration whose name has come down to us.—See Chamber Accounts, Vol. 1/11, fo. 145. The expense was defrayed, in early days, by the exaction of one penny in the pound from every individual who had been assessed for the last fifteenth.—Letter Book E, fos. 20, 22.
[869] Journal House of Commons, i, 894.
[870] Repertory 8, fo. 210b. Repertory 20, fo. 183.
[871] "Solebant cives esse pares et equales cum militibus comitatuum in expensis veniendo morando et redeundo."—Modus tenendi Parliamentum, p. 13.
[872] Repertory 20, fo. 183. Chamber Accounts, Vol. II, fos. 21b, 22.
[873] Letter Book C, fo. 22b. See Frontispiece. The writ and proceedings thereon are printed from the City's Records in Palgrave's Parl. Writs, Vol. 1, p. 49.
[874] Letter Book B, fo. 93b. (xxxviiib.)
[875] Letter Book H, fo. 245. (See "Memorials," pp. 511, 512).
[876] Journal 6, fo. 166b.