18 September 1377

If anyone is summoned by the common sergeant to come to a session of the mayor and community in the gildhall, he should come before St. Margaret's clock strikes nine, under penalty of 4d. [fine] to the use of the community.

[In 1444 the corporation issued an order to move the orlagium anglice also known as "the clokke" from the new bell-tower where it then was back to the lantern where it had anciently been.]