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Commonalty, as forming' the confraternity of St. George, and to the 

 inhabitants of the city, for the benefit of their prayers. The sale 

 of the property was left to William Warm well, his executor, a 

 citizen of note and substance. Alicia, the widow of Teynterer, mar- 

 ried in second nuptials George Meriot, and died in 1406. Warm well 

 having" for several years neglected to fulfill the injunctions of her 

 first husband, she adopted a singular expedient to recal him to a 

 sense of his duty. As all wills and other instruments were publicly 

 read in the Mayor's Court, she directed hers to be written in Latin, 

 the legal language of the period, but in the midst of it she introduced 

 an apostrophe, in English, to Warmwell ; which, as if coming from 

 the grave, could not fail to raise against him the horror and indig- 

 nation of the city/ 9 A literal copy of this pungent document then 

 follows. 



About the period of the building of Ludlow's house the city was 

 honoured with several royal visits. In 1445 all citizens keeping 

 house within the town were ordered to provide a gown of blood- 

 colour, for the advent of the Queen, under a penalty of 6s. Sd. In 

 1448, also, all the citizens, and all of sufficient substance, were en- 

 joined to provide themselves with a good gown of blood colour, and 

 a red hood, in anticipation of the arrival of the king, under a penalty 

 of 135. 4;d. The marriage of Henry VI. with Margaret of Anjou 

 was unpopular, and, together with the reverses of the English arms 

 in France, led to the Cade rebellion. In the following year (1449) 

 turbulent spirits were not wanting in this city to imitate the example 

 in other quarters. Ayscough, Bishop of Salisbury, whose unfortunate 

 connexion with the Court had already rendered him unpopular, was 

 murdered by a party of miscreants, led by a Salisbury " brewer,'" at 

 Edington. After the suppression of the rebellion, the remains of 

 Cade were exposed in several places; among them was Salisbury, 

 where the populace had given so sanguinary a proof of an evil dis- 

 position. The King appears to have visited Winchester soon after 

 the establishment of order; from thence he came to Clarendon, and 

 during his stay he is reported to have inflicted condign punishment 

 on the wretches concerned in the murder of the late Bishop. 



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