25, 33, from the records.

The writs of the parliament immediately preceding, remain: and the return of knights is there required, but not a word of the boroughs: a demonstration that this was the very year in which they commenced.

In the year immediately preceding, the taxes were levied by a seeming free consent of each particular borough, beginning with London.

Brady of Boroughs, p.

31, 32, 33, from the records.