ook away with them a linen cloth, value 18_d._ The said Katharina
immediately raised hue and cry, from street to street, from parish to
parish, and from house to house, until she came into the presence of the
bailiffs and coroners. They also stole a lined cloth of the value of
5_s._, and one hood of _Pers_ (Persian) with squirrel's fur, value
10_s._"

A writer in the Archaeological Journal describes the houses of this
period as possessing only a ground floor, of which the principal
apartment was the aire, aitre, or hall, into which the principal door
opened, and which was the room for cooking, eating, receiving visitors,
and the other ordinary uses of domestic life. Adjacent to this, was the
chamber which was by day the private apartment and resort of the female
portion of the household, and by night the bed room. Strangers and
visitors generally slept in the hall, beds being made for them on the
floor. A stable was frequently adjacent to the hall, probably on the
side opposite to the chamber or bed-room.

Another memorandum on the rolls, records the deaths of Henry Turnecurt
and Stephen de Walsham, who "were killed in the parish of St. George,
before the gate of the Holy Trinity, St. Philip and James' day, in the
same year. The coroners and bailiffs went and made inquisition.
Inquisition then made was set forth in a certain schedule. Afterwards
came master Marc de Bunhale, clerk, and Ralph Knict, with many others,
threatening the coroners to cut them to pieces, unless the schedule was
given up, and then they took Roger the coroner, and by force led him to
his own house, with swords and axes, until the said Roger took the
schedule from his chest; and then they took him with the schedule to St.
Peter of Mancroft church, and there the aforesaid Ralph tore away the
schedule from the hands of Roger, and bore it away, and before his
companions, in the manner of fools, cut it into small pieces; and with
much ado, Roger the coroner escaped from their hands in great fear and
tremor. The coroners say they cannot make inquisition, by reason of the
imminence of the war." The disturbances alluded to were the dissensions
going on between the king and barons.

Another describes an attack of four men, one of them a priest, upon one
man in his shop in the market, where he was killed. Among many other
similar accounts of these troubled times, stands the description of
various felons, who sheltered themselves within the walls