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[The Sixth Part, which occupies 40 closely written leaves, for the most part in Ricart's own hand, is in ten (unnumbered) sections, the headings or titles to eight of which are written in red ink, in the same stylo as in the earlier portion of the volume. Several of the initials are ornamental letters, and spaces are left for others that have not been filled up.
Of these sections, nine out of the ten are already in print; they are contained in different parts of the Liber Albus of London,‡ in many cases word for word, though here and there, besides a few obvious errors of the copyist, are differences in spelling, grammar, and occasionally in wording, which give interesting variations of reading. They have not however seemed of sufficient importance to justify the reprint of those parts here; all that has been done therefore is to give the titles and to indicate the pages of the Liber Albus or otherwise where they may be found. But of the remaining section, which stands fifth among the rest ([5], p. 94), none, with the exception of a few sentences, is found in either the Liber Albus or Liber Custumarum of London, though Parts III. and IV. of the former contain many portions touching on some of the same subjects: much of it being of great interest it is here given entire. It bears evident marks of being, as Eicart says, “wretin oute of a boke,” for not only is there no direct reference to Bristol, but several parts which have special application to London only have been copied with the rest. Such are the passages relating to the Thames, the King's coronation, the payments from foreign merchants, &c.; doubtless he may have thought that these too would not bo useless as “grete presidents” for the City of Bristol.
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- Camden New Series , Volume 5: The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar, By Robert Ricart, Town Clerk of Bristol 18 Edward IV. , June 1873 , pp. 92 - 113
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Page 92 note * “Little Red Book.”
Page 92 note ‡ Edited by H. T. Biley, 1859, for the Rolls' Series of Chronicles.
Page 93 note * The words “Henry Daarcy” are written upon an erasure, in the same hand as the rest, however. See before, p. 6.
Page 106 note a The subject-titles to paragraphs which occur very frequently in the Liber Albus, have been omitted by Bicart throughout.
Page 96 note * Sec Lib. Alb. pp. 233, 475.
Page 97 note * Sic.
Page 98 note * This passage between the brackets is found in Liber Albus, p. 180, where however it seems to have been inserted by a later hand than that of the compiler of that work.
Page 98 note † See the last paragraph, which must be the unknown passage referred to in note 2, p. 180, of Liber Albus.
Page 102 note * In Lib. Alb. p. 393, there is a decision in a case which illustrates this Ordinance. See also ib. p. 68.
Page 102 note † See an Ordinance of 28 Edw. I. as to the enrolment of apprentices, Lib. Custwmarum (Rolls Series) p. 93.
Page 103 note * A Byelaw of a Worcester Gild, in the 17th century, points to the same custom of selling the interest in articles of apprenticeship. “English Gilds,” p. 209.
Page 104 note * Illustrations of the practice of this custom may be found in Lib. Alb. pp. 188, 619, 670.
Page 104 note † See another form of this ordinance in Lib. Alb. p. 417; also ib. pp. 433, 478.
Page 105 note * In 11 Edw. III. a Petition was made in Parliament by Richard de Bettoyne, Mayor of London at the time of Edward's coronation, which shows the reason for this ancient right : “come au coronement nostre seignour le Roy q' ore est, il adonqe Meire de Londres fesoit l'office de Botiller, ove CCC e LX vadletz vestutz d'une sute, chescun portant en sa mayn un coupe blanche d'argent, come autres Meirs de Londres ount faitz as coronementz des progenitours nostre seigneur le Roy, dont memoric nc court;“and he complains that ”le fee q' appendoit a col jorne, e'est assavoirun Coupe d'or ove la covercle, et nn Ewer d'orenamaille,” was delivered to him and afterwards charged upon him. Bolls of Parliament, vol. ii. p. 96. On the Thursday before the coronation of Richard II., John of Gaunt as Steward sat to hear claims and bills as to customary offices of right at the King's coronation, among which “Major Londini clamabat officium Pmcornoo, et executus est, accipiens cupam aurcam.” Lei. Coll. vol. i. pp. 254, 255. See also Taylor's Glory of Regality, pp. 140, 225.
Page 103 note * See a regulation as to “Appenticii” in Lib. Ald. p. 432; also ib. p. 323.
Page 102 note † Laws similar to this were made in Bristol in 1575 and 1581. See MS. Brit. Mus. Egerton, 2044, fo. 5, and “Bristol Biographies : Whitson,” by J. F. Nicholls, Bristol, 1870, p. 11. Probably there had been one earlier. See the last clause of these ordinances, also the precautions against fire in Worcester, temp. Edw. IV., in “English Gilds” (Early Eng. Text Society), pp. 382, 385, 386.
Page 108 note * See the Agreement between the citizens of London and the merchants of Amiens, Corby, and Nesle, made in 1237, set out at length in Liber Custninarum, p. 64, and Liber Albus, pp. 418–428. A curious commentary on the words “in time of peace” is found in a petition in 13 Edw. III., on the Close Rolls, quoted in the French Chronicle of London, ed. G. J. Aungier (Camd. Soo. 1840), p. 69, note ‡, where it is stated that the fifty marks are lost to the Mayor, owing to the King's wars in France.
Page 109 note * See ordinauces as to wearing arms, Lib. Alb. p. 387.
Page 109 note * This Agreement, made 10 Edw. I., is printed in Liber Albus, p. 485.
Page 111 note * See before, p. 99.
Page 111 note † See before, p. 102.