12.  See Magna Vita S. Hugonis Episcopi Lincolniensis, ed.  J.F.  Dimock (Rolls Series, 1864), pp. 170-7.

13.  For these extracts see a vastly entertaining book, Child Marriages and Divorces in the Diocese of Chester, 1561-6, ed.  F.J.  Furnivall (E.E.T.S., 1897), pp. xxii, 6, 45-7.

14. Stonor Letters, II, pp. 6-8.

15. Ibid., II, pp. 28, 64.

16. Ibid., II, p. 64.

17. Ibid., II, pp. 42-43.

18. Ibid., II, p. 44.

19. Ibid., II, pp. 61, 64-5.

20. Ibid., II, pp. 46-8.

21. Ibid., II, p. 53.

22. Ibid., II, p. 28.

23. Ibid., II, p. 47.

24. Ibid., II, p. 53.

25. Ibid., II, pp. 54-5.

26. Ibid., II, pp. 56-7.

27. Ibid., II, p. 69.

28. Ibid., II, pp. 87-8.

29. Ibid., II, pp. 88-9.

30. Ibid., II, p. 89.

31. Ibid., II, pp. 102-3, 117.

32.  See Richard Cely’s amusing account of the affair in a letter to his brother George, written on May 13, 1482, Cely Papers, pp. 101-4.  For other references to the wool dealer William Midwinter see ibid., pp. 11, 21, 28, 30, 32, 64, 87, 89, 90, 105, 124, 128, 157, 158.

33. Stonor Letters, II, p. 3.

34. Ibid., II, p. 64.

35. Testamenta Eboracensia (Surtees Soc.), II, p. 56.  He was a well-known wool merchant of York, at different times member of the town council of twelve, sheriff and mayor, who died in 1435.  He is constantly mentioned in the city records; see York Memorandum Book, ed.  Maud Sellers (Surtees Soc., 1912 and 1915), vols.  I and II, passim.

36. Cely Papers, pp. 30-1.

37. Ibid., p. 64.

38.  See his will (1490) in Test.  Ebor., IV, p. 61, where he is called ’Johannes Barton de Holme juxta Newarke, Stapulae villae Carlisiae marcator,’ and ordains ’Volo quod Thomas filius meus Johannem Tamworth fieri faciat liberum hominem Stapulae Carlis,’ ibid., p. 62.

39. Ibid., p. 45.

40. Ibid., p. 48.

41. Ibid., pp. 154-5.

42. The Lybelle of Englysche Polycye in loc. cit., pp. 174-7, passim.  Compare Gower’s account of the machinations of the Lombards, op. cit., pp. 281-2.

43.  See the clear account of all these operations in Mr Malden’s introduction to the Cely Papers, pp. xi-xiii, xxxviii.

44. Ibid., p. vii.

45. Cely Papers, pp. 194-6; and see Introd., pp. xxxvi-viii.

46. Ibid., pp. 71-2.

47. Ibid., pp. 174-88, a book entitled on the cover ’The Rekenyng of the Margett Cely,’ and beginning, ’The first viage of the Margaret of London was to Seland in the yere of our Lord God m iiijciiijxxv.  The secunde to Caleis and the thrid to Burdews ut videt.  Md to se the pursers accomptes of the seide viages.  G. Cely.’