| A royal charter of 1447 was acquired by the townsmen in order to try to overcome local disputes. |
| In 1287 the bishop and the king were suing the townsmen for infringing various traditional lordly rights. |
| The townsmen invested in communal halls, one for each of the four guilds, which served social, charitable, and religious purposes. |
| Harrod blamed the Bishop for exploiting hostilities between groups of townsmen, so as to consolidate his own lordship over the borough. |
| It would seem that on request of the King, a ship had to be made to fulfil the obligations of the townsmen. |
| He and his partner continue to thuggishly interrogate the local townsmen, attempting to pin the crime on the local town dunce. |
