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surety. In the following year (1385) four new masters were 
sworn: Roger Crane, “Sayeure” Neumann, John Fair- 
auntre, and John Pountfret. 1 Crane was a surety in 1371. 2 
That he was a man of means we can infer from the follow¬ 
ing. In 1398 his executor, William Crane, is suing the widow 
of Roger and her present husband for £32. 3 
The career of John Pountfret 4 was more eventful. In 
1380 he was an executor, 5 and a member of the Common 
Council in 1384. 6 He was one of those summoned to the 
King’s Council at Reading in 1384 ; 7 apparently a member 
of the Common Council in 1385. 8 In the following year he 
was among those (from Bridge Ward) summoned “to at¬ 
tend in the Chamber of Common Council at the Guildhall”, 
for the purpose of determining whether John Northampton 
and his associates should be allowed to remain within forty 
miles of the City. 9 In 1386 he was one of a number (Hugh 
Fastolf, 10 William More, 10 Henry Vanner, 10 John Organ 10 , et at.) 
who “entered into a bond in the sum of £10, ... for the 
sum of £500 borrowed . . . in order to safeguard the City.” 11 
Again in this year (1386) he was among those (Henry Van- 
ner, William Venour, et al.) appointed to see that the sched¬ 
ule of murage chargeable on goods be carried into effect. 12 
In 1388 he was summoned to the Guildhall by the Mayor 
and Aldermen “to consult on certain matters touching the 
coming Parliament (at Cambridge) and the City itself.” 13 
The Weavers were an ancient organization in London. 
As early as 1347 we learn of foreign weavers in the City who 
1 Ibid., H, p. 273. Not until 1394 were masters again appointed. 
{Ibid., p. 416); then again in 1416 {Ibid., I, p. 144). 
2 Ibid., G, p. 286. 
a Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1396-9, p. 438. 
4 Pountefreyt, Pountfract, Pontefreit, Pounfret, etc. 
6 Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1377-81, p. 493. 
6 Letter-Book, H, p. 235. Cf. p. 238. 
7 Ibid., p. 246. 
8 Ibid., p. 270. 
9 Ibid., p. 281. 
10 See Index to the Life Records of Chaucer {Modern Philology, Yol. X, 
No. 4, pp. 527 ff.). 
11 Letter-Book, H, p, 287. 
1 2 Ibid., p. 299. 
13 Ibid., p. 333. Cf. p. 332. There was also a John Pountfreyt, saddler 
{Ibid., pp. 42,108,393); another, a cornmonger {Ibid., p. 443). Cf. Calendar 
of Wills, Court of Hustings, etc. II. p. 877 (Index). 
