vol.ii.

p,451.

But it is certain that this union was not even then final: in 1372, the burgesses acted by themselves, and voted a tax after the knights were dismissed.
See Tyrrel, Hist, vol.iii.p.

754, from Rot.Claus.46 Edward III.
n.9.In 1376, they were the knights alone who passed a vote for the removal of Alice Pierce from the king's person, if we may credit Walsingham, p.189.There is an instance of a like kind in the reign of Richard II.

Cotton, p.193.The different taxes voted by those two branches of the lower house, naturally kept them separate; but as their petitions had mostly the same object, namely, the redress of grievances, and the support of law and justice both against the crown and the barons, this cause as naturally united them, and was the reason why they at last joined in one house for the despatch of business.