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Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 307 — Chapter V

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A citizen of Preston was obliged to show a frontage of twelve feet to the street; in Manchester or Salford he was bound to own at least an acre of land. Custumal in Hist. of Preston Guild, 75. Thomson’s Mun. Hist. 165; Gross, i. 71, note.

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