Note 625 — Chapter XIII
Reading edition
For lists of new burgesses admitted in the latter half of the fifteenth and in the sixteenth century each paying 6s. 8d. and in the great majority of cases giving the names of two burgesses as pledges, see Ibid. ii. 303-305. In the fourteenth century only one pledge was needed. Ibid. i. 286. At the end of the sixteenth century strangers who were made freemen paid £10. Ibid. iv. 170-1.