Note 707 — Chapter XIII
Reading edition
Ibid. iv. 408-9. The burgesses seem to have twice at least acted with the people against or apart from the aldermen—once in the settlement about the town accounts in 1504 (iii. 325-6); and once in the complaint drawn up by the Mickletorn jury in 1527 against the mayor and aldermen (iii. 358-60.) The people may have hoped to strengthen this element of resistance.