Note 867 — APPENDIX B.
Reading edition
Coke's statement is not strictly accurate. Before 1327 knights of the shire were in the habit of receiving sums varying from 1̃s. to 6̃s. 8d. a day. From the year 1327 their allowance was 4̃s. a day exclusive of travelling expenses, and this sum appears to have been paid as long as members received payment for attendance in Parliament.—See Preface to Modus tenendi Parliamentum, p. viii and Notes to the same, pp. xxvii, xxviii.