Note 547 — Chapter XII
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Davies, 79. Archers sent to the castle for the defence of the townsmen were charged to their account, and they had to submit patiently to their exactions; a letter from Edward the Fourth ordered the town to release one of the Bowers who had been committed to prison “for his inordinate demeaning,” and to go on paying him his wages like other Bowers. (Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, 99.)