his cell and preached
for five days in the "lyttell parke." He was opposed by the prior of
St. Mary's and by a Grey Friar who however were attacked and nearly
killed by the mob.

The royal visits which earned for Coventry the title which it still
bears as its motto 'Camera principis' were frequent in this century.
In 1436 we hear of Henry VI being there, and in 1450 he was the guest
of the monastery and after hearing mass at St. Michael's Church
presented to it for an altar-hanging the robe of gold tissue he was
wearing. The record in the Corporation Leet book is interesting enough
to quote:

The King, then abydeng stille in the seide Priory, upon Mich'as
even sent the clerke of his closet to the Churche of Sent Michel
to make redy ther hys clossette, seying that the Kynge on Mich'as
day wolde go on p'cession and also her ther hygh masse. The Meyre
and his counsell, remembreng him in this mater, specially avysed
hem to pray the Byshoppe of Wynchester to say hygh masse afore
the Kynge. The Byshoppe so to do agreed withe alle hys herte;
and, agayne the Kynges comeng to Sent Michel Churche, the Meyre
and his Peres, cladde in skarlet gowns, wenton unto the Kynges
Chambar durre, ther abydeng the Kynges comeng. The Meyre then and
his peres, doeng to the Kyng due obeysaunse ... toke his mase and
bere it afore the Kynge all his said bredurn goeng afore the
Meyre til he com to Sent Michels and brought the Kynge to his
closette. Then the seyde Byshoppe, in his pontificals arayde,
with all the prestes and clerkes of the seyde Churche and of
Bablake, withe copes apareld, wenton in p'cession abowte the
churchyarde; the Kynge devowtely, with many odur lordes, followed
the seyd p'cession bare-hedded, cladde in a gowne of gold tissu,
furred with a furre of marturn sabull; the Meyre bereng the mase
afore the Kynge as he didde afore, tille he com agayne to his
closette. Att the whyche masse when the Kyng had offered and his
lordes also, he sende the lorde Bemond, his chamburlen, to the
Meyre, seying to him, "hit is the Kynges wille that ye and your
bredurn com and offer;" and so they didde; and when masse was
don, the Meyre and his peres brought on the Kynge to his chambur
in lyke wyse as they fet hym, save only that the Meyre with his
mase went afore the Kynge till he com withe in his chambur, his
seyd bredurn abydeng atte the chambur durre till the