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Cabot, John, 502
Caesar, 20, 57-8

Calais, 147, 253, 402, 480 seg., 494, 499,
502

Cambridge, 105, 167, 169, 172, 176, 195,

200, 202, 218, 222, 224, 227, 229, 253,
262, 275, 307

Canterbury, 165-6, 169, 172, 176-7, 187-9,
254, 262, 270, 310, 311, 332, 365,
479

Canute, 199, 447

Canynges, W., 289, 504

Capital, 32, 93, 103, 115 seq., 295, 345,
528 seq.

Capitalists, industrial, 380 seq., 412 seq.;
trading, 380, 383 seq., 455, 493 seq.
See Capital

Cardiff, 178, 208, 235, 240, 253, 393, 477
Carlisle, 192, 219, 321

Carriage duties, 34

Carta Mercatoria, 224, 231, 451, 523
Caursines, 530

Celtic influences, 6, 75

Chester, 27, 178, 192, 198, 226, 245, 267-
269, 271-2, 291, 298, 304, 315, 341,
366, 369, 389, 390

Bakers, 335, 390; butchers, 335,
390; drapers, 316; goldsmiths, 293;
meere merchants, 387; tailors, 316;
weavers, 341, 361;

slaters, 350
Chesterfield, 258
Chichester, 169, 479

wrights and

Church, 13, 16, 23, 31, 132 seq., 150, 152,
167-8, 178 seq., 197-8, 202, 204 seq.,
210, 254, 327

Cinque Ports, 168, 230, 240, 254, 256
Cirencester, 165, 183-4, 206, 252, 393,
422

Clock-makers, 453

Cloth, 221, 278, 289, 324, 327, 347, 390

seq., 494, 501, 503

Cloth halls, 408 seq., 433
Clothiers, 316, 377, 412 seq., 499
Coggeshall, 393, 396, 414

Coke, E., 201, 224, 254, 264, 391
Colchester, 163, 165-6, 202, 257-9, 274,

393, 396, 424, 436-7; fullers, 298
Cole, Thomas, 420

Cologne, 222, 464-5

Coloni, 2, 9

'Colouring,' 242, 466

Combination acts anticipated, 359
Comitatus, 20

Commendation, 18-19, 48

Commercial Grievances, 401, 456, 462
Commons, 12, 33, 51, 69, 71-5, 140-41
Communalism, 66, 243 seq., 308
Commutation, 52, 77 seq.

Companies, chartered, 370 seq., 379,

499. See Joint-stock, regulated
Companies of dealers, 385 seq.

Competition, restraints on, 246, 308,

351, 367

Confirmatio Cartarum, 523
Consuls, 505

Copyholders, 135 seq., 148
Cottars, 43-5

Court of the borough, 176, 193, 249; of
the fair, see Piepowder; of the gild,
248; of the manor, see Seigniorial
jurisdiction

Coventry, 151, 165, 208, 217, 244, 257,

269-71, 275, 285, 304-5, 309, 311-12,
314, 316, 317, 342, 356, 365, 368, 408-
409, 424-5, 439, 440

Crafts-Bakers, 317, 335, 366, 390;
barbers, 303, 376; butchers, 335, 366,
390; candle-makers, 332; cappers,
280, 287, 300, 313, 350-52; card-
makers, 332, 376; cardwire drawers,
362, 377; carpenters, 335; drapers,
291, 416; dyers, 302, 315, 358, 416;
fullers, 344, 416-17; girdlers, 362,
376-77; haberdashers, 366; iron-
workers, 362, 377; leather-tanners,
332; masons, 349, 358, 376; painters,
376; pewterers, 332; saddlers, 376;
smiths, 313, 377; tailors, 416; tilers,
332; weavers, 286, 316, 344, 350, 352,
354, 356, 359, 362, 416

Control of crafts, 331-3; repression
of yeomen gilds, 358-9
Craft gilds, 279 seq.

Craftsmen, 52, 295, 345, 363, 374-5, 378,
386 seq.

Cromwell, Thomas, 129, 430
Custom, 36-7, 139, 149

Customs, collectors of, 472, 484-6;
duties, 521 seq.; on wool, 127, 403;
on woollen cloth, 402, 466; on wine,
487, 522 seq.

Danegeld, 14-16

Danelaw, 49, 172

Danish influences, 11, 49, 171-2, 445 seq.
Debasement, 98, 146, 460

Debts, 227, 260 seq., 480

Deloney, Thomas, 420

Demesne, 23, 31, 32, 51, 77, 101 seq.,
130 seq.

Denchered, 58

Denmark, 464-5, 489, 504

Derby, 172-3, 241, 275, 438

Despenser, Hugh, 191, 202, 476-7
Dialogus de Scaccario, 41, 509 seq.

Discourse of the Common Weal, 123 seq.,
157, 367

Dolman, Thomas, 421

Domesday Book, 1, 10, 12, 22, 28, 32,

47-9, 70, 75, 121, 168, 198, 212, 219,
252, 268

Douai, 222, 263, 450

Dover, 252, 461, 499

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Draperies, the new, 435 seq.
Drapers. See Clothiers, London

Dublin, 203, 231, 259, 262, 280, 321, 450
Dunstable, prior of, 183
Dunwich, 170, 212, 220, 262

Dutch immigrants, 435 seq.
Dyeing industry, 427

Easterlings. See Hansards
Economic oppression, 321 seq.
Edgar, 176, 199, 210, 223, 232, 500
Education, 307

Edward I., 192, 200, 202-3, 205, 208,
263, 317, 382, 397, 406, 449, 465, 472-
473, 484, 486, 523-4; treatment of
aliens, 451

Edward II., 191, 194, 202, 252, 254, 397,
405-7, 431, 461, 465, 484, 524; in-
dustrial policy, 398; the staple, 473
seq.; treatment of aliens, 451-2
Edward III., 98, 191, 202, 209, 211, 326,
366, 370, 379, 391, 395-7, 413, 460-61,
488, 500, 524, 529; industrial policy,
399 seq., 427; and staple, 477 seq.;
treatment of aliens, 452-3

Edward IV., 227, 319, 333, 401, 470,
482, 491, 497

Edward VI., 141, 156, 373-4, 387, 425,
442, 497, 508

Edward the Elder, 199, 205

Elizabeth, 113, 152, 387, 427, 460, 462,
498, 508, 531
Enclosures, 56, 118 seq.

England's Commercial Policy, 423, 501
Engrossing, 270 seq.
Essart, 51

Eton College, 208, 257
Exchequer, 509 seq.

Exeter, 167, 188, 203, 205, 280-81, 356,
387, 477, 479, 480, 490

Cordwainers, 334, 355-6; merchant
venturers, 308, 387; tailors, 286, 288,
298, 313, 333-4, 354, 371, 387

Control of crafts, 333-4
Extensive cultivation, 57-9

Factory system, 413, 417, 420, 422
Fairs, 196 seq., 268, 277, 346

Farms, growth of large, 115
Firma Burgi, 190 seq., 278
Firma unius noctis, 516
Fishmongers, 273. See London
Fitzherbert, 60, 69, 112, 122, 124, 130,

144

Fitzherbert, A., 255
Fitz-Thomas, T., 340

Flanders, 128, 396-9, 444, 502; galleys,

468 seq., 500, 506

Flemings, 221, 227, 309, 399 seq., 429,
462, 467, 472, 483-4. See Alien
Weavers

Fleta, 260, 264

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'Garrison' theory, 169
Gascon, 221, 452, 467
Gascony, 487, 507

Gaunt, John of, 103, 454
Genoa, 221, 481

Genoese, 463-4, 470, 500
Gerefa, 54-5

German, 486, 496. See Cologne, Han-
sards

Germany, 488, 498, 502

Ghent, 128, 222, 263, 407, 478-9
Gibraltar, Straits of, 469, 505
Gild merchant, 238 seq., 320 seq.
Gild system, merits and defects, 276
seq., 388 seq.; and the capitalist
system, 417. See Gild merchant and
Craft gild

Glanville, 41, 81, 194, 527

Gloucester, 165, 168, 177, 187, 251, 404,
shoemakers, 300; tanners, 306, 366;
weavers, 306, 360
God's penny, 230-31

Gold, export prohibited, 460 seq.
Granaries, 273, 405

Grimsby, 168, 192, 243, 258, 321

Hale, C. J., 395

Hales, John, 125, 140, 141, 155, 369.
See Discourse

Halifax, 392, 441

Hansards, 234, 264, 427, 444, 450, 457-8,
463 seq., 488, 495 seq., 503-4
Hat-making, 434

Henry I., 173, 200, 208, 220, 232, 240-41,

252-4, 259, 322, 515-16

Henry II., 199, 200, 204, 208, 240-41,

253, 257, 322, 394-5, 397, 457, 464,
510, 525-6

Henry III., 191-2, 202, 204, 233, 262-3.

267, 322, 329, 450-51, 465, 472, 486
Henry IV., 184, 382, 408, 456, 462, 468,
488-9, 496, 505, 508

Henry V., 184, 456, 462, 500
Henry VI., 192, 206, 208, 257, 370, 382,
405, 494; and aliens, 456, 462

Henry VII., 112, 126, 154, 192, 221, 382,
402, 430, 457, 489, 493; commercial
treaties, 502 seq.

Henry VIII., 153, 234, 236, 373, 419,
422, 424, 441, 495, 504, 508
Hereford, 177, 179, 187, 202, 214, 218,
242, 247, 250, 261-2, 265, 275, 304,
326, 354, 356
Hervy, Walter, 340
Holland, 472, 488
Hosting of aliens, 457

Hours of labour, 350-51

Hull, 208, 255, 259, 265, 356, 472, 479,
490, 505; glovers, 311; merchants,
387; weavers, 285, 355

Hundred Rolls, 29, 189, 198, 223, 255,
261, 486

Hundred Years' War, 278, 452, 478
Huntingdon, weavers, 322

Hutton (Essex), 37, 79, 86, 93, 117

Iceland, 445, 504
Ill May Day, 463

Immobility of rural society, 91, 93, 100
Industrial protection, 319, 400 seq., 470
Industry, control of, 247, 296 seq.
Ine, 5, 17, 199

Ing theory, 22
Insurrections, 151 seq.
Intensive cultivation, 57-60
Interloper, 491 seq.

Ipswich, 172, 177, 189, 204, 224, 242,
250, 255-6, 281, 290-91, 392, 396, 409,
439, 459, 472, 490

Ireland, 290, 389, 395, 398, 476, 479,
487, 507

Irish cloth, 430
Isaiah, 143

Italian merchants, 456, 469, 486. See
Florentines, Genoese, Lombards,
Venetians

James I., 399, 419, 427

John, 190, 204, 210, 233, 240, 250, 253,
258, 322-3, 327, 397, 465
Joint husbandry, 66, 68
Joint-stock company, 245, 493
Journeymen, 286, 293 seq., 300, 416;
gilds, 342, 347 seq., 380
Just price, 346

Justice, profits of, 524 seq.
Justices of labourers, 97

Justices of the peace, 97, 155-6, 347, 370,
418

Kempe, John, 399, 413, 430
Kent, men of, 12, 50

Kent, weavers of, 423-4
Kett's revolt, 112, 141, 151, 156

Labour exchange, 309
Lammas land, 71

Lancastrians, 401, 456, 463
Lauder, 58-9

Law merchant, 230, 467, 480
Laws of the Northumbrian priests, 206;
of Oleron, 224; of the Scottish
boroughs, 199, 224; of the weavers
and fullers, 323 seq.
Leasehold, 102, 131 seq.
Leeds, 234, 441

Leicester, 88, 164-5, 172, 187, 190, 216,
222, 227, 243, 245, 247-8, 250-51, 258,
260-61, 263, 265, 280, 301, 326, 396,
528; fullers, 248, 328, 398; water-
carriers, 329; weavers, 248, 299, 300,
327, 392, 398

Leland, 125, 234, 421-2, 433, 440, 442,
497

Lenton fair, 209, 217, 219

Libelle of English Polycye, 456, 459, 469,
499 seq.

Liber burgus, 195

Lincoln, 165, 168, 172-3, 176, 192, 195,

200, 204, 208, 219, 235, 255, 259, 262,
320, 369, 396, 409, 475, 477, 479;
fullers, 327; weavers, 310, 322, 369,
397, 411, 413
Liverpool, 203, 245

Livery, 371, 378 seq.
Loans to Crown, 405, 495
Lombards, 318-19, 457, 462, 469
London, 88, 150-51, 163, 165-6, 171, 174,
176, 191, 193, 195, 198, 206, 211-12,
217, 222, 224, 226, 228, 233, 236, 240,
242, 247, 251-3, 256-60, 264, 266-8,
272-6, 282-3, 290-91, 293, 314, 323, 342,
366, 370, 378, 383, 385, 390, 394, 400,
404, 406, 409, 410, 423, 426, 444
passim

Common council, 341

Conflict with aliens, 448 seq.
Control of crafts, 336 seq.
Crafts-Armourers, 336; bakers,

322, 349, 353, 356-8, 369; barber-
surgeons, 281, 287, 306, 308, 316, 353;
blacksmiths, 301, 312, 356, 360;
bladesmiths, 292; bottlemakers, 376;
brasiers, 360; burellers, 316, 323;
butchers, 336, 355; cappers, 336;
carpenters, 284, 288, 293, 305, 309,
313, 315, 336, 379, 380; cloth-
workers, 382, 421; coopers, 288, 292,
294, 298, 336; cordwainers, 315, 356-
357, 360; cutlers, 292, 336; drapers,
379, 382-3, 385, 407, 409, 428; em-
broiderers, 228; fishmongers, 285;
337-9, 372, 379, 382, 454; founders,
285, 288, 292, 294, 302, 360, 372, 380;
fullers, 382; girdlers, 287, 318;
glovers, 376; goldsmiths, 306, 346;
379, 382, 385; grocers, 298, 305, 341,
379, 382, 384; haberdashers, 379,
382, 385; hatters, 293, 299, 336;

heaumers, 294; horners, 228, 376;
ironmongers, 361, 382; joiners, 377;
leathersellers, 228-9, 286, 351, 376,
379; lime-burners, 302; lorimers,
283, 290-91, 343, 377; mercers, 379,
382, 384, 405, 490; merchant taylors,
229, 306, 308, 355, 357, 361, 374, 379,
380, 382-3; painters, 377; paviors,
288, 293, 297; pepperers, 384-5;
pewterers, 228-9, 287-8, 292, 294, 297,
299, 314, 336, 361, 379; pouchmakers,
294, 376; pursers, 376; saddlers,
350, 357, 377; salters, 382; shear-
men, 287, 298, 301, 306-7, 309, 314,
349, 360, 382, 424; shoemakers, 457;
silkweavers, 318 seq.; skinners, 228,
298, 379, 382; vintners, 379, 382-3,
385; weavers, 316, 322 seq., 337, 355,
370, 391, 398, 400, 410 seq.; white
tawyers, 303, 306, 309, 376

Foreign weavers. See Alien

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Machinery in industry, 426
Magna Carta, 264, 394, 449, 474, 477,
522, 526

Magnus Intercursus, 502
Maltolte, 522

Malus Intercursus, 503

Manchester, 70, 178, 203, 209, 216, 393,
397, 404

Manor, decay of, 77 seq.; description,
30-76; origin, 1-29; types, 22-24;
officials, 51 seq.
Manumission, 81
'Mark' theory, 66
Markets, 196 seq., 268, 277
Marlborough, 257, 262; weavers, 323
Mary, 442, 464, 497
Masterpiece, 294
Mayor-authority superseded, 214;
control of crafts, 328 seq., 370 seq.;
election, 193; victuallers excluded
from office, 269 seq.; regulation of
prices, 271, 339; and wages, 339
Meadows, 69-71
Mediterranean, 504-5

Men of the Emperor. See Hansards

Mercantile system, 402, 452, 461, 501
Merchant adventurers, 403, 426-8, 472,
488 seq., 502-3

Merchant staplers. See Staple
Merchants, 197, 445. See Capitalists,
trading
Merchet, 40

Michaelmas land, 71
Middleburgh, 481-2
Millers, 267

Mirror of Justices, 264, 449
Molmen, 80, 106
Monasteries. See Church
Monday-men, 44

Money economy, 77, 79, 83, 87 seq.,

522

Movables, taxes on, 519 seq.

Natural husbandry, 31, 77, 79, 83, 522
Navigation acts, 487, 507 seq.
Navy, 446, 469, 500, 506 seq.
Netherlands, 491, 502 seq. See Flanders,
Burgundy

Newbury, Jack of, 419 seq.

Newcastle, 192, 208, 212, 220, 241-2,
265, 316, 326, 472, 477, 479, 486;
hostmen, 459; merchant adventurers,
280-83, 293, 308, 386, 490
Newcastle-under-Lyme, 259, 275
Night-work, 299

Norman influences, 1, 24 seq., 172 seq.,
240

Northampton, 164, 172, 203-4, 209, 218,
226, 233, 258-9, 262-3, 356, 409, 424,
438; dyers, 326; fullers, 283, 326;
tailors, 332; weavers, 283, 326, 354,
356, 359, 397

Northampton, John of, 454-5
Norway, 486-7, 489, 496

Norwich, 172, 174, 188, 194, 206, 214,
227, 235, 240, 243-4, 248, 257, 262,
269, 271-3, 275, 282, 290, 301, 304,
310-13, 344, 368, 375, 378, 394, 409,
424, 432 seq., 438-9, 450, 454, 459,
460, 463, 477, 479, 490

Control of crafts, 329-30

Crafts-Chandlers, 302; cobblers,
329; fullers, 329; saddlers, 329;
shearmen, 283, 292, 370, 426, 436;
shoemakers, 352; smiths, 375;
weavers, 163, 283-4, 287, 372, 392,
400, 423. See Worsted

Nottingham, 172, 194, 199, 208-9, 216,
218, 240-41, 262-3, 275, 394, 438;
weavers, 322, 391, 413
Nova Custuma, 452, 523-4
Nucleated villages, 75-6

Oath of craftsmen, 314
One field system, 4, 60

Open field system, 4, 24, 56 seq., 121 seq.
Ordainers, the lords, 452, 473, 524

Oxford, 164, 167, 169, 173, 184, 195,214,
216, 229, 241, 256, 262, 270, 275-6,
289, 315, 324, 356, 368, 393, 438

Crafts-Butchers, 372; glovers,
372; shoemakers, 312, 322, 334, 353,
356, 360, 367; weavers, 322 seq., 397

Pageants, 268, 303 seq., 365, 376, 421,
464

Paris, Matthew, 204, 232, 267
Parliament, the Good, 227, 321, 371,
401, 453, 480; the Merciless, 455,
482; the Oxford, 396
Partnership, 242, 528
Payment by piece work, 362
Peace of the fair, 198

Peasants' Revolt, 82, 103 seq., 454, 462,
467

Peterborough, 181, 186, 210, 391
Picketing, 303

Piepowder, 223 seq., 235
Pilgrimage of Grace, 148, 152
Ploughing, 34, 38, 44, 46, 63-4
Plymouth, tailors, 298-9
Poleye, Robert de, 431-2
Poll-taxes, 104, 404, 520

Poor relief, 149, 151, 246, 305 seq.
Poundage, 523

Preston, 194-5, 202, 231, 275

Prices, 98-9, 271, 300 seq., 339, 372, 389
Prisage, 522 seq.

Proclamation of the fair, 215-16

Prussia, 273, 489, 496

Reading, 182, 256, 258, 410

Crafts-dyers, 426; fullers, 332

Reading, Thomas of, 420

Redcliffe, 236, 275

Reeve, 53-5, 176, 194

Regulated companies, 490 seq.
Rents, 79, 144 seq.

Retail trade, 241 seq., 386 seq., 448 seq.,
466, 490

Richard I., 127, 253, 327, 394-5, 465,
519

Richard II., 103, 226, 338, 382, 401, 408,

461, 487, 489, 494, 507; and the
staple, 481 seq.; treatment of aliens,
454-5

Richard III., 126, 192, 319, 457, 505
Richard, king of the Romans, 253,
465

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St. Cuthbert fair, 197, 201, 216
St. Denis fair, 222

St. Frideswide, 169, 209, 214, 229
St. Giles's fair, 204, 208-9, 214, 216, 222,
228, 232-4

St. Ives fair, 197-8, 201, 204, 213, 216,
222-3, 227, 231-4, 236
St. James's fair, 233

St. Omer, 222, 253, 263, 457, 475
St. Ouen (Rouen), 254

St. Paul's Church, 31, 117
St. Swithun, 180, 232
Saladin Tithe, 519

Salisbury, 185, 275, 414

Sandwich, 265, 274, 438, 468, 470,

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Slaves, 28-9, 45-6

Smith, Sir T., 112, 281
Sokemen, 15, 27, 47-51
Somerset, 154, 156-7

Southampton, 174, 192, 214, 216, 241-6,

248, 255, 257-8, 262, 266, 272, 274-5,
384, 409, 430, 438, 456, 463, 468-70,
472, 479, 516

Spaniards, 221, 395, 468, 481, 495
Speculation discouraged, 270 seq.
Spinners, 317, 417

Springs of Lavenham, 421
Stafford, 259

Stallage, 218

Stamford, 172, 176, 216, 262, 391, 394-5,

438

Staple, 278, 407, 471 seq., 505; mayor
of, 473, 480, 484 seq.; merchants of,
428, 472 seq., 477, 484 seq., 491, 493
seq.; ordinances of (1313), 473, 484-5,
487; (1326), 398, 407, 476 seq.;
(1353), 479, 482, 487; working of,

483

State intervention, 100, 267, 300, 372,
406 seq.
Statutes-Acton-Burnell, 264; Appren-
tices, 286; of Labourers, 96 seq., 348;

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