48. Ibid., p. xxxviii.

49. Stonor Letters, II, p. 2.

50. Ibid., II, p. 4.

51. Cely Papers, pp. 112-13.

52. Ibid., p. 106; compare ibid., p. 135.

53.  ’Sir, the wool ships be come to Calais all save three, whereof two be in Sandwich haven and one is at Ostend, and he hath cast over all his wool overboard.’—­Ibid., p. 129.  ’Item, sir, on Friday the 27 day of February came passage from Dover and they say that on Thursday afore came forth a passenger from Dover to Calais ward and she was chased with Frenchmen and driven in to Dunkirk haven.’—­Ibid., p. 142. (There are many records of similar chases; see Introd., pp. xxxiv-v.)

54. Ibid., p. 135.

55.  ’Sir, I cannot have your wool yet awarded, for I have do cast out a sarpler, the which is [ap]pointed by the lieutenant to be casten out toward the sort by, as the ordinance now is made that the lieutenant shall [ap]point the [a]warding sarplers of every man’s wool, the which sarpler that I have casten out is No. 24, and therein is found by William Smith, packer, a 60 middle fleeces and it is a very gruff wool; and so I have caused William Smith privily to cast out another sarpler No. 8, and packed up the wool of the first sarpler in the sarpler of No. 8, for this last sarpler is fair wool enough, and therefore I must understand how many be of that sort and the number of the[m], for they must be packed again’ (12 Sept., 1487).—­Ibid., p. 160.  Item, sir, your wool is awarded by the sarpler that I cast out last, etc.  Item, sir, this same day your mastership is elected and appointed here by the Court one of the 28, the which shall assist the Master of the Staple now at this parliament time.’-Ibid., p. 162.

56.  Gower, op. cit., p. 281.

57. Cely Papers, pp. xii, xxiv-v.

58. Stonor Letters, II, pp. 62-3; see also Cely Papers, pp. 1, 10, 13.

59. Stonor Letters, II, p. 4.

60.  Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Shipman’s Tale) LL, 1243-6.

61. Stonor Letters, II, p. 48.

62. Cely Papers, p. xxiii.

63. Lybelle of Englysshe Polycye in loc. cit., pp. 179-81.

64.  With deference, I think that Mr Malden in his introduction to the Cely Papers, App.  II, pp. lii-iii, is mistaken in seeking to identify Synchon Mart with a particular fair at Antwerp on St John’s Day, Bammes mart with the fair at St Remy (a Flemish name for whom is Bamis) on August 8, and Cold Mart with Cortemarck near Thourout.  The names simply refer to the seasons in which there were fairs in most of the important centres, though doubtless in one place the winter and in another the spring, summer, or autumn fair was the more important.  That the names refer to seasons and not to places appears quite clearly in various letters and regulations