[93] Riley, p. 65. See the specifications for some three-storied houses of a century later quoted by Besant. "Medieval London," i., 250. The furs here specified may well have come to £3 or £4 more (see Rogers, "Agriculture and Prices," pp. 536 ff.). The fur for an Oxford warden's gown varied from 26_s._ 8_d._ to 83_s._
[94] Besant, _loc. cit._, i., 257, mistakenly calls Hugh a "craftsman," and gives from his imagination a quite untrustworthy description of the inquest, the house, and the shop. He had evidently not seen the supplementary notice in Sharpe's "Letter Book," F.
[95] Riley, p. 199; cf. Sharpe, "Letter Books," F, pp. 19, 113. A list of furniture left by a richer citizen, apparently incomplete, is given in Riley, p. 123, and another on p. 283, but this is difficult to separate with certainty from his stock-in-trade. The inventory of a well-to-do Norman peasant-farmer is given by S. Luce, "Du Guesclin," p. 51. Here the strictly domestic items are only "four frying-pans, two metal pots, four chests, three caskets, two feather-beds, three tables, a bedstead, an iron shovel, a gridiron, a [trough?], and a lantern." This was in 1333.
[96] Addy, "Evolution of English House," pp. 112 ff. "A chamber with a chimney" was the acme of medieval comfort. "P. Plowman," B., x., p. 98, and "Crede," 209.
[97] "Oeuvres," ed. Buchon, p. 646. A century later, Thomas Elwood's Memoirs show that an English squire's family needed their warm caps as much indoors as outside.
[98] Cf. the affair in the hall of Wolsingham Rectory in 1370. Raine, "Auckland Castle," p. 38.
[99] A. F. Leach, "English Schools before the Reformation," p. 10; "Dame Alice Kyteler" (Camden Soc.), introd., p. xxxix. The choir-boys, it may be noted in passing, had only half an hour of playtime daily.
[100] It is interesting to note that, when Chaucer was Clerk of the Works to Richard II., he superintended the erection of scaffolds for the King and Queen on the occasion of one of these Smithfield tournaments.
[101] "French Chron. of London" (Camden Soc.), p. 52; cf. Walsingham, an. 1326.
[103] "Chronicles of London," ed. Kingsford, p. 15.
[107] Walsingham, an. 1382; Riley, p. 464.
[108] "P. Plowman," C., vii., 352 ff. For Clarice and Peronel, see Prof. Skeat's notes, _ad loc._, and cf. Riley, pp. 484, 566, and note 3.