Part II

, Chap. I and II; Gross, _The Gild Merchant_; Abram, _Social England in the Fifteenth Century_; Mrs. Green, _English Town Life in the Fifteenth Century_; Dunlop and Denman, _English Apprenticeship and Child Labour_; Unwin, _Industrial Organization in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries_, and _The Gilds and Companies of London_; Webb, _English Local Government, The Manor and Borough_; Brentano, _Gilds and Trade Unions_; Toulmin Smith, _English Gilds_; Rogers, _Six Centuries of Work and Wages_.

Bibliographies are given in Gross, _op. cit._ (the most complete); Cunningham _op. cit._, Vol. II, pp. 943-998; Ashley, _op. cit._, pp. 3-5 and 66-68; Abram, _op. cit._, pp. 229-238; Dunlop and Denman, _op. cit._, pp. 355-363; Unwin, _Industrial Organization in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries_, pp. 263-270.

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The student may also consult the following:--

(1) _Documentary Authorities_:--The records of numerous towns and gilds have been published, and only a few can be mentioned here:--Stevenson, Records of Nottingham; Tingey, Records of Norwich; Bateson, Records of Leicester; Morris, Chester in the Plantagenet and Tudor Reigns; Turner, Select Records of Oxford; Harris, The Coventry Leet Book (E.E.T.S.); Bickley, The Little Red Book of Bristol; Guilding, Records of the Borough of Reading; Publications of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report 14, App. viii (Bury St. Edmunds); 15, App. x (Coventry), 12, App. ix (Gloucester), 13, App. iv (Hereford); 9, App. i (Ipswich); 14, App. viii (Lincoln); 15, App. x (Shrewsbury).

(2) _Literary Authorities_:--The number of contemporary writers dealing with gild and town life is not large. The most important are: Drei Volkswirthschaftliche Denkscriften aus der Zeit Heinrich VIII, von England, edited by Pauli; Starkey, A Dialogue Between Cardinal Pole and Thomas Lupset (E.E.T.S.); England in the Reign of King Henry VIII; The Commonwealth of this Realm of England (edited by Lamond); Crowley, Select Works (E.E.T.S.); Lever's Sermons (in Arber Reprints: where criticisms will be found on the confiscation of gild property); Harrison, A Description of Britain; Roxburghe Club, A Dialogue or Confabulation Between two Travellers.

1. A PROTEST AT COVENTRY AGAINST A GILD'S EXCLUSIVENESS [_Coventry Leet Book, Vol. II, pp. 566-7_], 1495.

1495. Mem.: that within vii days after Lammas there was a bill set upon the north church door in St. Michael's Church by some evil disposed person unknown, the tenor whereof hereafter ensueth:--

Be it known and understand This city should be free and now is bond.

Dame Good Eve made it free, And now there be customs for wool and drapery.

Also it is made that no prentice shall be But xiii pennies pay shall he.

That act did Robert Green,[269] Wherefore he had many a curse, I ween.

[Footnote 269: Robert Green was chosen Mayor of Coventry in 1494.]

2. A COMPLAINT FROM COVENTRY AS TO INTER-MUNICIPAL TARIFFS [_Coventry Leet Book,