Note E170 — 35.
Reading edition
"Doue houses." The Norfolk and Suffolk rebels, under Kett in 1549, say in their list of Grievances: "We p[r]ay that noman vnder the degre of a knyght or esquyer, kepe a dowe-house, except it hath byn of an ould aunchyent costome."—See Ballads from Manuscripts, ed. Furnivall, i. 149.