Localities are given under their modern names.

A.

Abjuring the realm, 6

Abraham, John, 421

Abyndone, Simon de, Sheriff, 133

Abydone, Stephen de, Alderman,94, 107, 127; Sheriff, 113,116; Mayor, 118, 119; Johanna, his wife, 44

Accidents. See Coroners' Rolls and Inquests

Adryan, Walter, sale by, 203

Agincourt, the Victory of, 620

"Agnes," the old form of the name, 68

Agnes le Clair, the spring of, 451

Agnes, the Parish of St., in Aldersgate, 248

Akatur, Joce le, Alderman, 23

Albany, the Duke of, his alleged compact with Henry V., 639.

Albon, John, request by Edward II. in favour of, 69, 70

Albon, John, in the Poultry, 264

Albon, John, Alderman, 345

Aldermanbury, 476; the Postern, 614

Alderman, an, dismissed for deafness, 661

Aldermen, sentences and punishments, for insults offered to, 46, 78, 500, 506, 605, 663; for defamation and slander of the, 40, 423, 433, 474, 507, 576, 585, 592; sentence for assault upon, 490, 595; duties of the, 143, 144, 410; order sent to the, as to setting the watch, 420, 433, 488; to accompany the Mayor, newly-elected, to Westminster, 424; directed to make inquisition, 478; regulation for the election of, 545; charge sent to the, as to the watch, 561, 662; imprisonment for refusing the office of Alderman, 601; the, enjoined to reside within the City, 654

Aldersgate, 207, 248, 389, 436, 527; the Ward of, 11, 230; grant of the dwelling-house over the Gate of, 388

Aldgate, 190, 414, 449; the Foss at, 187; the Gate of, 148; the Ward of, 9, 468; lease of the dwelling-house over the Gate of, to Geoffrey Chaucer, 377

Ale, not to be sold by regrators on London Bridge, 137; regulation for the sale of, 347; pretence of being a taker of, 536

Alestakes, regulation for the length of, 386

Aleyn, Thomas, Alderman, 676

Alianor, Queen, wife of Edward I., 26

All Hallows Barking, the Parish of, 16, 453

All Hallows Bread Street, the Parish of, 536, 661

All Hallows the Great, the Parish of, 455

All Hallows the Less, the Church of, 67

All Hallows London Wall, the Parish of, 484; the Church of, 615

Amiens, the merchants of, 151

Andreu, James, Alderman, 345

Andrew, John, Alderman and Sheriff, 14, 17

Andrew, St., Castle Baynard, the Parish of, 4

Anelace, 15

Antholin, the Church of St., 480

Antiphonar, 263

Antonine, St., the House of, 83

Appealer, or false accuser, charges by a, 504

Appeltone, William, a Friar Minor, slain, 450

Apple-bloom, the colour, 206

Apprentice, repudiation of the acts of a runaway, 629

Apprenticeship, false indentures of, 397

Aqueduct, the, in Fleet Street, 503

Araz, Robert de, Sheriff, 503

Arbalest, 48

Arbalesters, sent by the City to Berwick upon Tweed, 114

Armagh, the Archbishop of, intercedes for an offender, 503

Armourers, 145

Arms, proclamation as to the wearing of, 268

Arrow-head, the Government mark, 489

Arundel, Edmund Fitz-Alan, Earl of, 104

Asheby, Sir Robert de, 208

Ashridge, the College of Bons Hommes at, 24

Askham, William, Sheriff, 546, 548;Alderman, 565

Assault, arrest for, 126; sentence of imprisonment for, 371; on a Ward constable, 522

Asshurst, John, 383

Assisa Panis, the, 162

Aswy, Richard, Alderman, 26

Aswy, or Eswy, Sir Stephen, Alderman, 26, 36

Attachment by sureties, 4

Attack upon the City expected, 204, 344

Atte Watre, Walter, claim of benefit of clergy, by, 470.

Aubrey, Andrew, Sheriff, 185; Alderman, 188, 191, 222, 253; Mayor, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 260, 269

Aubrey, John, Alderman, 345, 390, 413

Austin, Thomas, Alderman, 515

Austin, interruption of the service in the Church of St., near St. Paul's, 228

Austin Friars, the 30, 108, 184; Prior of the, 312

Auvergne, Anketil, or Anketin, de, Alderman, 8, 11

Avoirdupois goods, 26, 458

B.

Babutz, Sir Nicholas de, a theft committed on, 296

Bacinet, 40, 145

Backwell Hall, 51, 289; Ordinances of, 550

Bacoun, John, keeper of the royal jewels, 429, 443

Bacquelle, delivery of a chest by Cecily, widow of Sir John, 110. See Banquelle

Bacquelle, Thomas, 110

Bacun, Nicholas, painter, 23

Bacun, Walter, Chaplain, theft by, 24

Baddeby, John, indenture made by, as to his Lock, 383

Baddebyesloke, 383

"Bail," meaning of the word, 48

Bakehouse, lease of a, on Cornhill, 129

Bakers, 36, 180, 323, 423; See Bread

Balancer, Ralph le, 94

Balass rubies, 411

Baldoke, Robert de, delivery of coffers and books lately belonging to, 168

Bamme, Adam, Alderman, 515, 520, 524, 526, 548; Mayor, 523, 533; insult to, 506; Member for the City, 511; dies in his Mayoralty, 544

Bamme, Henry, 515

"Banker," meaning of the word, 44, 179

Banquelle, Sir John de, Alderman, 23, 26, 36; his residence near the Guildhall, 51. See Bacquelle

Baptism, fees for, 463

Bar of the Old Temple, 642

Barbers, the, 67, 295, 393, 593, 606. See Surgeons.

"Barbette," meaning of, 44

Bardi, Society of the, 197

Barefoot, punishment of walking, 528

Barentyn, Drew, jeweller, 550; Alderman, 565, 620; declaration as to his Christian name, 533; Mayor, 574, 597

Barge, a, built by the City for the King's service, 368, 373, 374, 380, 409, 478

Barking, 135, 244, 245

Baroncin of Lucca, theft of plate belonging to, 24

Barons, the, of London, 37

Barrels ordered to be burnt, 597

Bartholomew, the Mayor's Clerk, 139

Bartholomew, the Hospital of St., 436; the Prior of, 311

Bartholomew the Little, the Parish of St., 524

Bartlot, Richard, his barrels burnt, 597

Bartone, Henry, Sheriff, 562; Alderman, 565, 585, 620, 676; Mayor, 647, 648, 649, 653, 655

Bartone, John, the elder, Recorder, 620, 638, 641, 647, 660, 676

Bartone, Ralph, Alderman, 676

Bartone, William, Friar, compact made by, 495

Baselard, theft of a, 430, 531

Basinge, Robert de, Alderman, 23

Basinge, Thomas de, Alderman, 3

"Basinghall," origin of the name 520

Basse, John, fined for stopping a procession, 509

Bassishaw, the Ward of, 12, 15, 50, 88; origin of the name, 520

Bat, Thomas, indemnifies the City against fire, 46

Bath, John Harewell, Bishop of, 430

Bathe, John de, and Cristina, his wife, 527

"Batterie," copper so called, 155

Battersea, 483

Bazen, 136

"Bear at the Bridge Foot," the, 131

Beauchampe, Sir John de, 187

Beauchampe, Roger de, 410

Beauchaumpe, Thomas, 323

Beauchaumpe, William de, acquittance by, on sale of his prisoner, 392

Beauflour, John, 61

Beauflour, Ralph, 182

Beauflur, James, 123, 130, 131

Beche, Nicholas de, Constable of the Tower, 199

Bedel, a, discharged for spreading false reports, 507

Bedels of Wards, 41, 42

Bedford, Isabel, Countess of, 275; pretended message to, 431

Bedford, John, Duke of, 604

Bedlem, lands of the Bishop of, 39

Bedlem, pretence of being a collector for the Hospital of, 586

Beds of the humbler classes, 8

Beer, early mention of, in England, 666

Beggars, common, regulations as to, 390

Bekeryng, Thomas, charge of treason against, and death in Newgate, 638

Belhomme, William, 365

Bell, agreement for founding a, 100

Bells on the swine of St. Antonine, 83

Benedict Fynke, Parish of St., 30, 184

Benedict, Gracechurch Street, Parish of St., 645

Benedict Shorhogge, Parish of St., 661

Benefit of Clergy, claim of, 25, 229, 470, 562

Benyngtone, Simon de, Commoner, 280; Sheriff, 302, 303

Bereford, Sir William de, Justiciar 63

Berkinge, Richard de, 188; Alderman, 195, 197, 222; Sheriff, 213

Bernard, John, punishment of, mitigated for old age, 446

Bernardestone, Peter de, Marshal of the King's household, 89

Bernes, John de, Sheriff, 305; Alderman, 313, 345

Bernes, John, Commoner, 378

Berneye, Walter de, Sheriff, 305

Berteville, David, Keeper of Newgate, 467, 491, 505

Berwardeslane, 374

Berwick upon Tweed, 26, 79, 80; arbalesters supplied for, 114

Beste, Henry le, 89

Betoyne, or Betoigne, Richard de, Mayor, 151, 162, 164, 166, 167; his speech to the Bishop of Winchester, 152; Member for the City, 169; Alderman, 183

Betoyne, William de, Sheriff, 24; Alderman, 25, 38, 41

Betoynne, Imgram de, 26

Betoynne, William de, grant to, of the Small Beam, 26

Betrothal, possible notion as to, 497

Bever, Henry, his legacy to Newgate, 466

Bible, pledge of a, 525

Bickering, in Lincolnshire, 638

Billets, sale of, 437. See Faggots

Billingsgate, 21, 345, 371, 437; the hythe of, 34, 95, 144; the Ward of, 18, 88

Birchin Lane, 222

Bishop's Hatfield, 446

Bishopsgate, 39, 43, 115, 116, 374, 586; the Gate of, 56, 57, 127, 615; the Bishop of London to find the hinges of, 43; the Ward of, 30, 88

Bisshes, a fur, 49

Black Friars, House of the, 36, 90, 229, 382, 645; the wall at, 98; congregation of journeymen Cordwainers at, 495. See Friars Preachers

Black Paper, the, of purchases of the freedom, 554

Blacksmiths, the, 361, 537

"Blader," meaning of the word, 148; mistake as to, 474

Bladesmiths, the, 568, 569

Blakamour, Beatrix, delivery by, of goods, 647

Blakehalle, the, in the Tower, 460

Blakethorn, John de, Alderman, II

Blankets, false, 212

Blankpayn, Master William, 525

Bleeding, death from, 14

Blome, John, Parish clerk, indicted for riot, 54; a common night-walker, 87

Blomville, Richard, 434

Blound, Blount, or Blund, Johanna, daughter of Walter le, 44

Blound, Blount, or Blund, Sir John le, Alderman, 26, 28, 39; Mayor, 47, 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 65

Blound, Blount, or Blund, John, son of Walter le, the Younger, 44

Blound, Blount, or Blund, Ralph le, Sheriff, 3; Alderman, 23, 26

Bluet, 49

Boar's head, annual payment of a, 214

Bocardo, in Newgate, 474

Bokbyndere, John, 33, 334

Bokebyndere, Dionisia le, 89

Bokerelesberi, 25. See Bucklersbury

Bolet, Simon, Sheriff, 59; Alderman, 95, 102

Bolfynch, Edward, 599

Bond, forgery of a, 404, 412

Bondmen, claim of born, 23; loss of the freedom by, 58

Boner, John, 457

Bonere, Thomas, 521

Bones of the Dead, a gown granted to the Chaplain of the Chapel on the, 660

Books, binders and sellers of, 557. See Bokbyndere

Boots and shoes, the making and mending of, 572. See Cobblers and Cordwainers

Bordeaux, 288, 409

Boseham, John, Sheriff, 430, 476

Boston, the Fair of, 154, 637

Boteler, John, Sheriff, 676

Botild, William, 467

Bottlemakers, 421

Bottles of hay, 166

Botolph Without Aldersgate, the Parish of St., 527

Botolph, the Feast of St., the Husting of London formerly closed at, 637

Botolph's Wharf, St., 186, 409

Boune, John de, 326

Bourchier, Sir William, 585

Bourtone, William, Sheriff, 673

Bowstrings, punishment for false, 486

Bowyers, the, 348. See Stringers

Box, Martin, Alderman, 26

Box, Thomas, Alderman, 25, 26

Brabason, Robert, sentence upon, for assault in presence of the Mayor, 371

"Bracegirdle," meaning of the word 134

"Bracers," meaning of the word 283

Brademore, Master John, 519

Braelers, the, 277

Braels, false, burnt, 249

Bramptone, William, Alderman, 533, 546, 565

Brandone, Thomas de, Sheriff, 290

Bransby, John, 425

Brasil wood, 364

Brasiers, the, 624

Brayeler, Stephen le, 88

Braynford, William de, 244

Bread, deficient in weight, 39, 71, 72, 119, 122; French, of light weight, 108; of rotten materials, 90, 121; not to be made by hostelers, 323; the weight fraudulently added to with iron, 498; certain kinds of, forbidden to be made in Lent, 644. See Bakers

Bread Street, 61, 266, 464, 525, 661; the Ward of, 19, 661; the Cooks of, 438, 448

Bregerdelere, John le, 134

Brembre, Nicholas, Alderman, 400, 490; Mayor, 405, 410, 414, 417, 419, 423, 483, 484; contumacy shown to, by one of the Sheriffs, 416; charge against, by Thomas of Woodstock, 424, 427; is knighted, 451; executes John Constantyn, 482; a petition against, 494; his execution, 499, 605; charge against, 500; proclamation that no one shall speak about, 526

Bret, Berard de la, a prisoner, sale of, 392

Bretask, the, 206, 207

Bretun, Sir John le, Warden, 31, 32, 34

Breviary, legacy of a, for the prisoners of Newgate, 466

Brewers, complaint as to the, 225

Brewsters, the, 36

Briclesworthe, John de, Common Serjeant, 317

Bride, or Brigid, the Church of St., 75, 280, 595; the Parish of St., 8, 442, 518

Bridge, the. See London Bridge

Bridge House, the old, 261

Bridge House, the, in Bishopsgate, 375

Bridge, the, in Broad Street Ward, 43

Bridge at the Temple. See Tempelbrigge

Bridge Street, 83, 116, 133, 219, 268, 296, 325, 484, 517

Bridge Ward, 3, 16, 191, 336

Briggewater, John, Chaplain, a gown granted to, 660

Bright, John, 220

Bristol, 196, 413

Broad Street, 15, 466; conveyance of a dwelling-house in, 183

Broad Street Ward, 15, 30, 41, 43, 89, 116, 184, 185, 484, 524

Broke, Geoffrey, 534; Sheriff, 565; Alderman, 566

Broken Cross, the, 435, 521

Broun, John, 483

Brussels, cloths of, 197

Buckingham, the Earl of. See Gloucester, and Woodstock, Thomas of

Bucklersbury, 418, 501; origin of the name, 25

Buk, Robert, false accusation against, 504

Bukerel, William, Alderman, 15

Bukerels, tenement of the, in Walbrook, 25

Bukke, John, 483

Bukskyn, Richard, saddler, 160

Bukstone, John, 420

Burelman, John, 88

Burford, John de Sheriff, 55, 94

Bury, Adam de, Mayor, 315, 318, 325, 328, 377, 379, 381, 409

Bury, Sir Richard de, 187

Bury, William, 622

Bush, the, of taverns, 387

Butchers, the, 141, 214, 222, 226, 356; petition of the, of Stocks Market, 179; the, of St. Nicholas Flesh Shambles, 339; Ordinance as to the, 426; market of the, in East Cheap, 599

Butchers' Bridge, order for the removal of, 339

Butter, sale of, 432

Byndo of Florence, his punishment, 221

Bysshe, Thomas de, 260

C.

Cade, John, 494

Caen, capture of, 157

Cage, the, 532

Calais, 621

Callere, Robert le, 94

Cambridge, 195, 497; Parliament at, 511

Camerwelle, William de, 123

Camise, 22, 50, 422

Candle, sentence to carry a lighted, 493, 501

Candle, meat not to be sold by light of, 141, 426

Candlemas, 359

Candlewick Street, 355

Candlewick Ward, 3

Cannon at the Guildhall, 205, 207

Canterbury, 65, 107, 212; cope presented to Walter, Archbishop of, 148; victuals presented to the Archbishop of, 198; Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of, 443; slain by the rebels, 450; Thomas Arundel, letter from, as to the barbers working on Sundays, 593; Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of, 604; sentences John Claydone, 618

Canvas, varnish painting on, 23

Canynge. See Kanynges

Cauntbrigge, William, Alderman and Sheriff, 620

Cauntebrigge, John, executor of Michael, Bishop of London, 313

Cauntebrigge, John, Chamberlain, 337, 352, 374, 379, 380, 381, 390

Cappers, 558. See Hurers

Caps, false, 529, 667

Carbonelle, John, 526

Carfukes, the, at Leaden Hall, 300, 389

Carlelle or Karlelle, Adam, Alderman, 431, 533; late Alderman, sentence upon, 468

Carlisle, Thomas de Appleby, Bishop of, 415

Carolling, 106

Carpenter, John, Town Clerk, his probable composition, 580, 603, 668; proclamations signed by, 664, 665

Carpenter, John, of Holborn, 661

Carts employed at the New Work at Guildhall, 592

Castle Baynard, 229, 254, 299, 450; the wall at, 98; the wharf at, 100; the Ward of, 4, 6, 19

Caumpes, Richard de, 55

Caustone, Alice de, 319

Caustone, Aubin de, 47, 91

Caustone, John de, Alderman, 159, 162, 175, 180, 181, 187, 191, 197, 217, 228

Caustone, John, of East Cheap, 599

Caustone, Robert de, 319

Caustone, Walter, 530

Caustone, William de, 61

Caustone, William de, Alderman, 188

Caustone, William de, 288

Cavendisshe, Robert, 380

Cavendisshe, Stephen, Mayor, 311, 312; Alderman, 345

Caxtone, John de, 180

Caxtone, Thomas de, 180, 226

Centenars, 196

Cesario, Bishop of Sancta Maria de Rosis, 273

Chalice, contract for making a, 29

"Chalon," meaning of the word, 179

Chamberlain, the City, 9, 17, 38, 40, 47, 48, 55, 108, 149, 169, 176, 177, 183, 190, 193, 195, 235, 260, 337, 352, 377, 379, 380, 384, 390, 435, 436, 448, 462, 479, 503, 563, 577, 631; office of the, 3;accounts of expenditure by the, 185, 186, 196, 197, 198, 206; order given to the, 676

Chantry founded in the Chapel of the Guildhall, 288

"Chaplain," meaning of the word, 24, 87

Chaplains, deficiency of, in the Church of St. Paul, 224

Chapter-house, the, at Westminster, 209

Charcoal, the sale of, 335, 408, 446, 560, 669, 673

Charm, a pretended, 465

Charney, John, Common Hunt, 428, 437; Coroner, 505

Charter to the City, sealing and writing the, temp. Edward III., 197

Chase, rights of, 62

Chaucer, Geoffrey, lease to, of Aldgate, 377

Chaucer, Henry, 353

Chaucer, John, 214

Chauntecler, Roger, Sheriff, 162, 164, 166

Cheap, 20, 39, 57, 106, 134, 172, 195, 210, 220, 250, 254, 347, 365, 415, 416, 435, 450, 459, 470, 493, 508, 521, 562, 592, 617, 630, 640, 642, 646; the melters excluded from, 22; sweeper of the litter in, 41; markets forbidden in, 75; furs not to be scoured in, 77; hats burnt in, 91; the road to Westminster from, 99; procession of the Fishmongers through, 107; nets burnt in, 108; dorsers burnt in, 116, 117; affray in, 156; tournament in, 187; taverns in, 386; caps burnt in, 529; Evechepynges in, 532

Cheap, the Ward of, 9, 14, 15, 41, 49, 206, 582

Cheesemongers, 405

Chelse, John de, 22

Chequer-board, cheating with a false, 395, 455

Cheshunt, 19, 336, 673; the Convent of, 40

Chest, delivery of a, 110

Chester (Lichfield and Coventry), the Bishop of. See Lichfield and Coventry

Chesthunte, Sir Walter de, 333, 334

Cheyne, William, Alderman, 430; Recorder, 404, 490, 515

Cheyne, William, Justiciar, 638, 641

Chichele, Robert, Alderman, 565, 579, 620, 647, 660, 676; Mayor, 581, 584, 585; his intended gift, 648

Chichele, William, Sheriff, 574; Alderman, 620, 676

Chichestre, John de, Sheriff, 302, 303; Mayor, 341, 344, 345; goldsmith, 350, 362; Alderman, 398, 399, 400, 404

Chietesmyth, John, 571

Chigewelle, Hamon de, sheriff, 113, 116; Mayor, 127, 133, 137, 138, 142, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 169, 170; Alderman, 159, 164, 166, 177

Chigwelle, Thomas de, 187

Child-stealing, 368

Chimneys, 66

Chircheman, John, Alderman, 507

Chiswick, 214

Chopyns, ordered to be burnt, 347

Christ Church, Aldgate, 415, 620

Christmas, proclamation at, 669

Christmas presents, practice of begging for, 670

Chrismatory, 242

Christopher, St., the Church of, 385

Claveryng, Richard, 316

Claveryng, Roger, 385

Claydone, John, a Lollard, condemned for heresy, 617, 630

Cleanliness enjoined, near the Tower, 338

Cleaungre, Richard, Letter of the City in behalf of, 252

Clament VI., Pope, Letter to, from the City, 251

Clement's Lane, St., 355

Clenhond, John, Member for the City, 511

Clerkenwell, 321. See John of Jerusalem, Hospital of St.

Clerks of the City, their counter, 207, 208

Cloaks of the Aldermen, pattern of, 420, 469; lining of, 466

Cloth of Candlewick Street, 190

Clothes, old, 324

Cloths, embroidered, sale of, 52; inventory of, 130, 131; with patent defects, 341

Cobblers, the 539, 570, 571

Cock Lane, 119, 535

Cock-threshing forbidden, 571

Cocoa-nut, cups made of, 200, 203

Codnet, 220, 508

Coffin, or casket, 423, 429

Coggs, ships so called, 194, 198, 380

Cokayn, John, Recorder, 546, 638, 641

Cokkow, John, pedlar, 662

Colbrok, Peter de, 317

Cold Herbergh, the, 517

Coleman Street, the Ward of, 302

Colerettes, 114

Collar of gold, a, security for money lent, 613

Columbers, Matthew de, Chamberlain, 17

Combemartyn, Henry de, Alderman, 162, 164, 188; Sheriff, 175

Combemartyn, William de, Sheriff, 55; Alderman, 61, 95, 102

Common Cheat, confession by a, 661

Common Clerk, the, 105, 113, 313

Common Council, the, exceptionally chosen from the Trades, 435

Common Crier, the, 387

Common Hunt, the, 428, 437, 650

Common Serjeant, or Countor, the, 186, 236, 317, 333, 376, 388, 396, 408, 414, 490, 527, 529, 537, 576

Common Women. See Women of bad repute

Compters of the Sheriffs, 413, 416, 458, 506, 522, 595, 663, 676

Conduit, Geoffrey de, taverner, his contumacy, 31

Conduit, Geoffrey de, Sheriff, 59; Alderman, 95, 102

Conduit, Reynald de, Alderman, 149, 159, 162, 164; Mayor, 188, 190, 193, 194

Conduit, leave to build a, 521. See Great Conduit

Confects, the sale of, 458

Congregations and conspiracies, proclamation against, 480

Constantyn, John, executed for riot, 482

Cooks, 257, 426, 432, 438, 448

Cooper's shop, stock of a, 74

Coopers, the, 541, 597

Cope, agreement as to a, 60; a, presented to the Bishop of Worcester, 65; a, presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 148

Copper-gilt cup, delivery of a, 337

Corder, the trade of, 61

Cordewanerestrete, 333, 334

Cordwain, 136

Cordwainers, the, 391, 420, 539, 570, 571; affray of the, with the Tailors, 54; illegal fraternity of the journeymen, 495

Cordwainers' Ward, 9

Cornewaleys, Walter le, Sheriff, 17

Cornhill, 46, 129, 138, 212, 221, 235, 241, 304, 311, 315, 316, 330, 339, 361, 459, 460, 466, 486, 498, 519, 536, 640, 642, 646; market to be held there, 75; the Stocks on, 390, 408; assault on the servants of Thomas de Woodstock on, 427; Evechepynges at, 532

Cornhill, the Ward of, 25, 30, 184, 185, 507

Cornmarkets, 236, 314, 317, 646

Cornwaleys, Thomas, Sheriff, 430

Cornwall, Edmund, Earl of, 23

Cornwall, the Earl of. See Gaveston

Coroner, 3, 24, 505, 520

Coroners' Rolls, 3–20

Corp, Simon, Sheriff, 85, 86, 94

"Corporal," meaning of the word, 264

Cosin, William, Alderman, 95

"Coster," meaning of the word, 375

"Costret," meaning of the word, 40

Cosyn, John, Alderman, 533

Costantyn, John, delivery of deeds to, 390

Costantyn, Richard, Sheriff, 145, 147; Alderman, 164

Cotiller, Salamon le, Alderman, 61

Cottone, Walter, Sheriff, 585, 587; Alderman 620

Coulee, Johanna, 435

Counters, or pleaders, 58

Coursers, or horse-dealers, 366, 597

Court-hand, writers of, 295, 372

Courteney, John, elected Common Hunt, 650

"Courtepie," meaning of the word, 212

Courts, false law in the City, 29

Coventre, Henry de, Alderman, 7

Coventre, Henry de, Rector, 184

Coventre, John, Sheriff, 647

Coventre, Seld of the Lady Roisia de, 22, 134

Coxi, Peter, 109

"Craier," meaning of the word, 380

Crepin, Edmund, conveyance by, 183

"Crepine," meaning of the word, 44

Cressewyk, William, 550

Cressy, George, 504

Cressy, John, 596

Cripplegate, 254, 314, 553; affray in, 156; the Gate of, 59, 197, 207, 289, 454, 478; expulsion of an intruder from the Gate of, 136; grant of the dwelling-house over the Gate of 387

Cripplegate, the Ward of, 12, 14, 48, 86

Crocards, injunctions as to, 42

Crooked Lane, 433, 599

Cros, Thomas, Sheriff, 23

Cross, the true, 264

Cross at the North Door, the, 397. See Broken Cross

Crosses in Cheap, 106, 172. See Stations

Croydon, 336, 408

Croydone, John de, 221

Crowmere, William, Sheriff, 562; Alderman, 565, 620, 676; Mayor, 598, 599

Crusade, the, in Flanders, 479

Crutched Friars, theft at the, 303; House of the, 489

Curfew, 21, 34, 93, 140, 141, 144, 193, 272, 273, 298

Cursing before the Mayor, surety exacted for, 53

Curtains in taverns, 132

Curteys, Walter, 206

Cushions, 422

Cusyn, John de la, 250

Cutlers, the, 438, 567, 568, 597

Cutpurse, a, 344

"Cuve," meaning of the word, 74

"Cuver," meaning of the word, 8

D.

Dagenham, 171

Dalyngrugge, Sir Edward, Warden of the City, 555

Dantzic, 655

Darcy, Aleyse, quitclaim to, as to embroidered cloth, 52

Darcy, Henry, Alderman, 188, 207, 209, 222; Mayor, 201, 204, 205, 206; charges against, by Gerard Corpe, 207

Daubers, 254

De la Pole, Hugh, his offence and punishment, 479

De la Pole, Richard and William, delivery of a box by, 183

Debtors' Prison at Ludgate, ordered to be abolished, 673; re-established, 677

Debts, transfer of, 326

Defamation, punishment for, 472

Denecombe, Henry de, 160

Deodand, 5, 6, 7, 656

Depham, Roger de, 197; Alderman and Recorder, 210, 213, 217, 222, 226, 228, 275, 285, 291

Derlyng, Thomas, 585, 647

Derneford, John, 504

Despencer, Lady le, 518

Despenser, Sir Hugh le, 69

Deveros, Sir John, his funeral, 532

Dice, gambling with, 86, 193; cheating with false, 395

"Dicker," meaning of the word, 343

Dilapidation of the City Wall and Gates, 79

Dinner, an Alderman sentenced to find a, 466

Dionis, St., the Parish of, 430

Dissard, David de, a suspected Welchman, 22

Disshere, John le, 54

Disshere, Ralph le, 235

Disshere, Robert le, 235

Doblere, John, 550

Dod, Richard, assents to his wife's profligacy, 566

Dode, John, Chamberlain, 108

Doget, John, taverner, 12

Doget, Walter, 318; Sheriff, 453

Dolsely, Simon, Alderman, 275

Dolsely, Thomas, Sheriff, 291

"Dominus," or "Dompnus," the title, 61

Donestaple, John de, Chamberlain, 48; Alderman, 41, 61

Donne, John, 530

Dorsers, unlawful, burnt, 116

Dorset, Thomas Beaufort, Earl of, 620

Double Feasts, 217

Dough, stealing of, 162

Dover, 635

Dowgate, 223, 254; the quay of, 95, 299

Dowgate, the Ward of, 85; the Wardmote, 87

Drawbridge, the, at London Bridge, 640, 643

Draytone, John de, 222, 275, 276

Drunkenness, deaths from, 8, 11

Drury, Neel, Alderman, 95

Drynkewatre, Thomas, lease by, 131

Duchewoman, Katherine, charge against, 375

Ducket, Laurence, sureties found by, 40

Dufhous, Thomas, a Fishmonger, admitted to be a Brewer, 555

Duke, Thomas, Sheriff, 574

Duket, Laurence, the murder of, 7. See Ducket

Dumfries, 457

Dunstan in the East, the Parish of St., 18; the Church of, 664, 665

Dunstan in the West, the Church of St., 490, 493; the Parish of, 638

Duntone, Henry, charge against, 495

Durham, Richard de Bury, Bishop of, a gift of provisions to, 199

Durham, Henry de, Alderman, 95

Durham, William de, Alderman, 19

Dyce, John, 582

Dyers, the, 309, 364

Dyne, John, 396, 412

E.

Earthen Wall, an, in Finch Lane, 30

East Cheap, 235, 314, 318, 355, 497; Inquisition as to boundaries of the Butchers' Market in, 599

Easterlings, the, 127

Ebbegate, the Wharf of, 95; the Watergate of, 616

Edmund, Lombard Street, the Parish of St., 457

Edward I., Letter from, 26; Proclamation of, 29, 31; injunctions from, to the citizens, 31, 32; answer thereto, 32; his arbitrary attempts at taxation, 34; his purchase from the Hospital of St. Katherine, 487

Edward II. (when Prince of Wales) assumes the defence of the Southern coasts, 31; his anger against Walter de Langton, 62, 63; Proclamation before his Coronation, 64; requests that an office may be granted, 69; answer thereto, 70; a similar request, 172; his Letter on behalf of the Clergy of St. Paul's, 76; Letter to, from the City, with 1000 marks, 84; at variance with his nobles, 91; Letter from, as to the safe-keeping of the City, 93; Letter of the City to, 97; hides purchased for, and then declined, 101; his indignation against certain nobles, 104; his Letters Patent in favour of the Friars Preachers, III; injunctions by, as to the ransom of Thomas de Wight, 113; acknowledgment by, of aid from the City, 128; Letter from, as to arrears of a pension, 140; interview of the Mayor and Aldermen with, 142; Letter of, prohibiting the export of materials for making cloth, 149, 150

Edward III., the birth of, 105; presents to, from the City, 170, 198; his departure for France, 172; negotiation for a loan to, from the City, 208; Letter of, to Andrew Aubrey, commending him for the execution of two offenders, 210; request made by, to the City authorities, 274; moneys given by the Trades to, 314; at Havering at Bower, 315; order by, for the arrest of William de Wyndesore, 402; sale by, to the Hospital of St. Katherine, 487

Edward, Prince, son of Edward III., Earl of Chester, 189, 190; Letter of, announcing his victory at Poitiers, 285; plate given to, by the City, 350

Edward, birth of Prince, eldest son of Edward the Black Prince, 326

Edythe, Richard, 325

Eels to be sold by weight, 580

Eldedeneslane (Old Dean's Lane), 98

Eleanor. See Alianor

Elias, John, 308

Elm, near Bishopsgate, removal of an, 116

Elsynge, William de, 222

Eltham, John de, 186, 198

Eltham, the King's residence at, 431

Elys, Roger, Alderman, 528, 533

Enefelde, John de, 200

Enfield, 401

Enfield Well, 4

Engleys, Walter le, Sheriff, 14

Epilepsy, 9

Equipment of soldiers, 188, 189

Erith, 135, 171, 219, 220

Essex, Wolmar de, Alderman, 18, 26

Essoiners, 58

Estanes, Thomas de, Alderman, 26

Eswy. See Aswy

Eton, felonies near the Park of, 505

Eucharist, irons for making the, 283

Evechepynges, 33, 339, 440, 532, 547

Everard, Alan, Alderman and Sheriff, 620; dismissed for deafness, 661

Evote, William, Alderman, 533, 534, 546

Ewen, or Iwayn, the Parish of St., 386

Exchange of trades, 555, 624

Execution of offenders in Cheap, 210

Exeter, Thomas Brantingham, Bishop of, 410, 429

Expenses of the City Representatives in Parliament at Cambridge, 511

Extone, Nicholas, 473, 474; Mayor, 400, 490, 494, 496, 503, 504, 506; Alderman, 515; charge against, 325; slander against, 491; with the Aldermen, summoned before the King, 499

Eynesham, William de, Chamberlain, 380, 384, 390

F.

Faggots, sale of, 560. See Billets

Falkirk, news of the Battle of, 37

False accusation, cases of, 139, 315, 462, 518, 676; pretences, 464, 531, 536, 586, 645; reports, 454

Fanelore, Peter, his foundation, 288

Fannere, Walter le, 146

Farndone, Nicholas de, Alderman, 38, 41, 76, 86, 102, 116, 137, 138, 139, 145, 147, 159, 164, 166, 169, 180; Mayor, 67, 109, 113

Farndone, William de, Alderman, unites two Wards into one, 22, 26

Farriers, the, 292

Farringdon Within, the Ward of, 19, 206, 386, 470

Farringdon Without, the Ward of, 8, 11, 641; Ralph Lobenham resigns the Aldermanship of, and John Gedeney is elected, 602

Farthing, the, of gold, 418

Fastolfe, Hugh, Alderman and Sheriff, 507, 515

Fauconer, Thomas, Alderman, 565, 566, 586, 609, 624, 676; Mayor, 606, 612, 613, 620; offence committed against, 576; summoned to the Tower, 604; his buildings near Oystergate, 616; his charge against John Russell, 630; offence committed against, 663

Felon, goods forfeited by a, 199

Felonies perpetrated in St. Martin's le Grand, 600

Feltone, Robert, false accusation by, 504

Feltone, Thomas de, acquittance to, on his purchase of a prisoner, 392

Fenchurch, 10

Fencing-school, 88

Fermail, 249

Feron, Sibil le, 16

Fevere, Ralph le, Sheriff, 9; Alderman, 19

Ficket Field, 642

Fiffyde, Richard, 473

Figge, Simon, his punishment, 454

Filiol, John, 471; his offence and punishment, 473

Finch Lane, 30, 311

Finchingfeld, Walter de, Alderman, 38, 41, 61, 92

Fine, punctuality at the Guildhall enforced by, 274; for stopping a procession, 509; for swindling, given to the New Work at the Guildhall, 624

Finsbury, the Moor of, 23, 43, 146. See Moor

Fire, agreement to indemnify against, 46

Firewood, landed at Castle Baynard's Wharf, 100; rates of carriage of, 254. See Billets and Faggots

Fish, the sale of, 267, 436, 508, 599; the free sale of, 481; sale of putrid, 464, 471, 516

Fishmarkets, 268

Fishmongers, the, 222, 325, 327; their procession through Cheap, 107; affray of the, with the Pelterers, 210; monopoly of the freemen, 468; the, of the two streets, 667

Fithyan, Johanna, 567

Fitz-Peter, John, Alderman, 23

Fitz-Walter, Johanna, wife of Robert, 170

Fitz-Walter, John, the wardship of, 178; loss of his asserted privileges in the City, 236

Fitz-Walter, Sir Robert, Castellain of London, 53

Flambard, Edmund, leader of the City troops to Scotland, 188, 189

Flambard, Robert, mace-bearer, Letter in behalf of, 203

Flanders, 194; furs from, 330; Crusade in, 479. See Flemish Women, and Weavers

Flawner, John, 599

Fleet Bridge, 265

Fleet, Inquisition as to the Foss surrounding the Prison of, 279

Fleet, the river, 214, 299, 676

Fleet Street, 89, 196, 280, 306, 406, 442, 490, 493, 518, 524, 595, 638; the Aqueduct in, 503; the inhabitants of, 504

Fleet Street, the Ward of, 8

Flemish women, in London, of bad repute, 535

Fletchers, the, 348, 556

Flour, Simon, 662

Flourman, William, 397

Football, forbidden, 571

Forcermakers, the, 563

Forcers, 50

Foreign merchants removed from the freedom of the City, 181

Foreland, the North, 344

Forester, Walter, Sheriff, 290; Alderman,

Forfeiture of goods, for violating the custom

Forgery, cases of, 333, 404, 412, 442, 459, 527,

Fosses, the City, regulations as to, 299, 389; proclamation against bathing in the, near the Tower, 260; money given for cleansing the,

Founders, the, 512

Fountain, the, near Newgate, 389

Fox, John, 588, 656

Foxtone, Robert, a pension to, in arrear, 141

France, Proclamation as to treating the envoys from the King of, 29; departure of Edward III. for, 172; intended invasion of, by Henry V., 603. See Henry V.

Frank-almoigne, 98

Franke, Thomas, inquest upon; at Limehouse,

Frankeleyn, John, 534

Frankpledge, 174

Fraternities of journeymen in trades, forbidden, 495, 542, 609, 653

Fraud, cases of, 133, 201, 319, 320, 332, 337, 363, 390, 397, 408, 418, 430, 446, 474, 475, 489, 498, 523, 599, 601. See Swindling.

Fraunceys, Adam, Mayor, 271, 273, 275; Alderman, 313, 344, 345, 363; his endowment of the Chapel at the Guildhall, 288; devisee of John de Oxenford, 310

Fraunceys, Henry, 313

Fraunceys, John, Alderman, 515, 523, 546; Sheriff, 522

Fraunceys, Parnel, 313

Fraunceys, Richard, 447

Fraunceys, Simon, Sheriff, 175, 188; Mayor, 213, 214, 279, 280, 285, 290; Alderman, 222, 228

Fraunceys, Walter, vadlet, 536

Freedom of the City, loss of, by born bondmen, 58; renunciation of the, 137; withdrawn, as having been fraudulently obtained, 597. See Foreign merchants

Freke, Thomas, 383

Frere, Richard, 164, 212

Fresfisshe, John, 107

Fresshe, John, Mayor, 537

Frestlyng, Bartholomew, Alderman, 378, 400

Frestone, John de, Alderman, 188

Friar, unlawful compact by a, 495

Friars, theft by, 303; incontinent, 484

Friars, Carmelites, the, near Fleet Street, 312

Friars Minors, the, 312, 339, 646; Church of the, 317, 532

Friars Preachers, the, 111, 252, 312. See Black Friars

Friday Street, 57, 314, 343, 396, 416, 470, 644

Fripperers, or Phelipers, the, 47, 153, 324

Friscobaldi, the Company of the, 89

Frowyk, Henry de, Alderman, 12

Frowyk, Henry, 288

Frowyk, John, 290

Frowyk, Roger de, Alderman, 102; and Mary his wife, Chantry founded for the souls of, 437

Fryday, William, 362

Fulham, Adam de, Alderman, 26, 41

Fulham, Benedict de, Alderman, 175

Fullere, wardship of the son of William le, 177

Fullers and fulling, 341, 400, 402, 530, 559, 667

Fullers' earth, the exportation of, prohibited 150

Furbishers, the, 258

Furs, 267, 329; regulations as to wearing, 20; not to be scoured in Cheap, 77; enumeration of, 153; old, 324

Fychet, William 417

Fyffudlere, Robert, II

Fynche, John, of Winchelsea, 229

Fyssher, William, tried and executed as an accomplice of Sir John Oldcastelle, 641

G.

Galeys, or Waleys, Henry le, Alderman, 9, 26, 27; Mayor, 21, 36, 38, 39, 41; his houses near St. Paul's, 98

Galoches, 554

Gambeson, 35, 145

Game, imprisonment for selling, contrary to ordinance, 643

Gaming table, See Quek

Gandre, Thomas, 292, 365

Garden, the King's, near the City Wall, 117

Garden, lease of a, 382

Gardeners, Petition of the, 228

Gardens in London, 7

Garendone, John, Abbot of the Monastery of, 553

Garland, 44, 133

Garlick Hythe, 610, 611

Gartone, Hugh de, Alderman, 139, 162, 164

Gates, the City, 21, 34, 79, 92, 102, 103, 104, 127, 143, 190, 291, 384, 451, 489

Gavestone, Piers de, Earl of Cornwall, precept of, 63; request made by him of the City, 70

Gaytone, Robert, Sheriff, 345

Gedeney, John, imprisonment of, for refusing the office of Alderman, 601; Alderman, 620, 660, 676; Sheriff, 673

Geese, forestalment of, 387; in pasties, ordinance as to, 438; sale of, 644

Genoa, 270

Genoese, keeping taverns in the City, 270

George, the Parish of St., in Southwark, 498

"Gernemue," the ancient name of Yarmouth, in Norfolk, 55

Gest, John, 522

Geyte, John, 518

Ghent, 211

Gidyheued, William, 235

Gilder, Ralph le, 160

Giles, the Hospital of St., 510

Girdler, penalty inflicted on a

Girdlers, 154, 216, 656

Gisors, Thomas, 214

Gisorz, Anketyn de, Alderman, 95, 102, 164,169, 188

Gisorz, Henry de, 185

Gisorz, John de, Mayor, 74, 89, 93, 94, 95, 99, 102, 107, 115, 116, 117; Alderman, 109, 127, 138

Glaswryght, Nicholas le, 280

Gloucester, Parliament at, 424

Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, 604

Gloucester, Thomas, Duke of, false allegation as to, 507. See Woodstock, Thomas of

Gloucester, tenement of the Earl of, 288

Gloucester and Hertford, Letter to Johanna, Countess of, 45

Gloucestre, Henry de, Alderman, 95

Gloucestre, Richard de, Alderman, 41, 55, 85, 89, 95, 102, 147; insult to, 78

Gloucestre, Walter de, Escheator, 75

Gloves, for holding moneys presented, 198; false, burnt, 249

Glovers, 245, 249

Go in the Wynd, John, 189

Godchep, Hamon, Letter of Edward II. to, 94; seizure upon, 109; lease to, 134; Alderman, 164

Godchild, Richard, 355

Godefray, John, his offence, 529

Godessone, John, 487

Godgrom, John, 135

Godmanchester, 459

Godrich, Alice, sentence upon, for slandering William Walworth, 433

Goldeneghe, Richard, 226

Goldsmithery, the, 206

Gown, grant of a, to a Chaplain, 660

Gracechurch Street, 136, 236, 361, 460, 461, 489, 645

Gradal, 263

Grantham, John de, Alderman, 162, 188, 190, 197, 209, 213; Mayor, 171, 174

Grantham, John, Alderman, 409

Grantone, John de, 394

Great Beam, the, 26

Great Conduit in Cheap, the, 14, 77, 107, 148, 177, 200, 222, 225, 264, 436, 501, 503, 508, 521, 617; mart for shoes near the, 392

Great Pestilence, the, 219, 240, 253, 293

Great Vair, 20

Great Windmill Street, 265

Green Chamber, the, at Westminster, 142

Greenhythe, lime from, 174

Greenford, Letter as to making a park at, 61

Greenwich, 244; East, 656; West, 655

Grenecobbe, Henry, 425

"Gressoir," probable meaning of, 44

Grey, John, his punishment, 418

Grey-work, 110, 330

Gris, 44

Grobbelane, William de, 136

Grosteste, Robert, quoted, 8

Guardians, accounts of, 378, 446, 448

Guildhall, the old, 24, 237, 288, 427, 494, 523, 577, 585, 595; Chamber of the, 41; site of the, 51; new Chapel at the, 42; grant to the Chapel of, 152; the Chapel at the, 187; removal of timber and stone at the, cellar of the, cannon in the Chamber of the, 205; punctual attendance at the, enforced by fine, 274; the name of an offender placed on a tablet in the, 274; the Great Hall of the, 319, 454. See Mary, St., the Chapel of

Guildhall, the present, crypt of the, 195; support of the New Work at the, 589, 592, 624, 674

Guns, early mention of, 205, 207

Guydichon, quitclaim by Thomasin, to Aleyse Darcy, as to an embroidered cloth, 52

Guynes, the Castle of, 506

Gyngyver, Walter, 496

Gyngyvere, Agnes, 347

Gysorz. See Gisorz

H.

Haberdasher, wares in the shop of a, 422

Haberdashers, the 91, 354

Hackney, Lazar-house at, 384, 510; dealers in cheese from, 406

Hackneyman, the trade of, 63

Hadestok, Simon de, Alderman, 4, 6

Hadestok, William de, Alderman, 5, 7, 9, 16, 18

Hadlee, John, Commoner, 378; Alderman, 385, 400, 490, 498, 515, 546, 562, 565, 566; Sheriff, 387; Member for the City, 427; Mayor, 436, 437, 441, 442, 468, 537

Hagemakere, William le, 49

Hakeneye, Agnes de, 310

Hakeneye, Alice de, 248

Hakeneye, Isabel de, daughter of Richard wardship of, 248

Hakeneye, Richard de, Sheriff, 145, 147; Alderman, 164

Hakeneye, Richard de, son of Richard, 248; executors of, 310

Hakeneye, Robert de, 249

Hakeneye, Thomas, 249

Haketon, 35, 145

Haldene, William de, Alderman and Recorder, 338, 344, 345, 390, 398, 399, 400

Hales, Robert de, Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, 376; slain in Wat Tyler's Insurrection, 450

Haliwelle, the Moor of, 146

Hall, the, of John de Bretagne, Earl of Richmond, 125

Hallingbyry, Adam de, Alderman, 41

Hallokestone, Robert, 491

Halpace. See Hautpas

Hamme, 406

Hamond, Henry, 455

Hamond, John, Mayor, 216, 217, 221, 222, 226, 228, 229

Hanap, 132

Hand, sentence of loss of the, 490

Hanging, the punishment of, 196, 211, 221, 230, 520

Hapeneye, Osbert de, 7

Hardi, William, 107

Hardingham, Sir Gilbert de, grant to, 117

Harfleur, the capture of, by Henry V., 619; supply of stores to, 628; the victualling of, 645

Harmere, Thomas, 229

Hart, a, the cognizance of Richard II., 429

Harwich, 655

Haselshawe, Robert de, Provost of Welles, imprisonment of, 167

Hastevilleyn, Richard, 220

Hastynges, Sir John de, 69

Hatfeld, Richard, Alderman, 400

Hatfield Broad Oak, 336

Hats, false, burnt in Cheap, 91

Hatters, the, 239. See Cappers and Hurers

Haunsard, Henry, 327

Haunsard, Thomas, son of John, executed by order of Andrew Aubrey, 211

Haunsard, William, 176, 198, 205

Hauteyn, John, Alderman, 181, 185

Hauteyn, Thomas, 201

Hauteyn, Walter, Sheriff, 23, 25, 26, 30

Hauteyn, William, 202

Hautpas, or halpace, leave to build a, 452; removal of a, 600

Havering at Bower, 315

Haveryng, Luke de, 130

Hawtyn, Richard, 548

Haymongers, the, 166

Hayne, John, 522

Heaumer, Manekyn le, leader of the City troops to Scotland, 128

Heaumers, the, 237

Hecham, Hugh de, extortion and intimidation by, 174

Helmets, the makers of. See Heaumers.

Heligoland, 458

Hemel Hempstead, 24

Hende, John, Alderman, 515, 546, 566

Hendone, Rothwell of, 662

Hengham, Sir Ralph de, Justiciar, mainprise for a tun of wine to, 55; acknowledgment of a debt due to, 60

Henley, citizens of London distrained upon at, 45

Henry V., speech of, on the intended invasion of France, 603; Letter to, from the Mayor and Aldermen, as to the conviction of John Cleydone, a Lollard, 617; Letter from, announcing the capture of Harfleur, 619; Proclamations enjoining attendance upon, 627, 635, 645; Letter from, on the surrender of the Castle of Toucques, 654; Letter from, announcing the capture of Caen, 657; Letter to, from the Mayor and Aldermen, 658; duplicate copy of a Letter from, to the Corporation, 674

Herbergeours, 323, 347, 348

Hereford, Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of, 104

Herle, Sir William, 187

Heremyt, Robert, 587

Hermit, an impostor pretends to be a, 584

Hermitage, on London Wall, 117; near Aldgate, 148; of Cripplegate, presentation to a Chantry in the, 553

Herrings, the sale of, 458, 467; intended sale of putrid, 471

Hert, Johanna, charge by, of oppression against Richard Whityngtone, 662

Hertpol, Geoffrey de, Alderman, 139

Hervey, Walter, an improver of the City, 25

Heryng, Richard, falsely accused, 87

Hethe, Master Nicholas de, Letter to, from the City, 252

Heylesdone, John, Sheriff, 442

Hides, purchased for Edward II., transaction as to, 101; forfeited, 135, 420

Higham Ferrers, 139

Highway robbery, punishment for, 229

Hille, John, Chamberlain, 631

Hiltoft, John de, Sheriff, 318

Hock Days, the, 562, 571

Hog Lane, 374

Hogges, the Prior of, 274

Hoking, Thomas de, 204

Hoklee, John, reconciled with certain persons, 386

Hokkyng forbidden, 561, 571

Holbeche, William, Alderman, 313

Holborn, 230, 333, 334, 387, 406

Holborn Bar, 642

Holborn Bridge, 357, 362

Holbourne, Nicholas, 352

"Holer," a nick-name, 87

Holy Island, 31

Holy Land, departure of a Knight for the, 68

Horn, Andrew, fishmonger, 116; a wardship granted to, 117; Chamberlain, 149; his house, 169; acquittance of the executors of, 176

Horn, John, Alderman, 3, 7

Horn, John, 85

Horn, John, 244

Horn, John, Alderman, 371, 374, 431

Horn, William, Rector of Rotherhithe, 177

Horseback, procession to Westminster on, 515

Horse-bread, 323, 348

Horsedealers. See Coursers

Horse-shoes, 256, 293

Horses not to be flayed in the City, 85

Horsleydown, 474

Horwode, John de, 249

Horwode, John, 491

Horwode, Robert, 623

Horwode, Richard, 528

Hosier Lane, 333, 334

Hosiere, John, 480

Hospitals, exemption of the Keepers of the, 510

Hostelers, the, 166, 323, 347, 348

Hostels, taken for the Coronation of Edward II., 64

Hottere, John le, 175

Houndesdiche, Richard de, 85

House, specifications for building a, 65; account for the repair of a, 305

Hugh the Bedel, suspended and pardoned, 41

Hugh of Limerick, 39

Hughlot, William, his serious offence, and sentence, 490

Huntingdon, John Holland, Earl of, 655

Huntingdon, William Clinton, Earl of, 209

Hurdle, fraudulent bakers drawn on the, 119, 120, 122, 423

Hurers, the, 401, 402, 529, 549, 558, 667

Husting, the Court of, 59, 162, 319, 366, 529, 578; the freedom to be conferred on aliens at the, 151; not to be closed on the Feast of St. Botolph, 637

Hyndstoke, John, 337

Hyngstok, Master John, 519

Hynxtone, John de, Sheriff, 191

I.

Ickham, 594

Iford, William de, Common Serjeant, 186, 222, 236

Iford, John de, Clerk of the Chamber, 186

Imprisonment, sentences of, 371, 473, 506, 522, 595, 605, 643

Impostors, punishment of, 445, 479, 496, 584

"Infangenthef," the meaning of, 195

Ingham, Sir Oliver de, 184

Innocent VI., Pope, Letter sent to by the City, 273

Inquests on death, 3–20, 655

Inquisition as to misdoers and nightwalkers, 86

Insult in the Sheriffs' Court, 27

Interludes forbidden, 669

Interest of money, 379

Invasion, expected, 202, 204, 445

Inventory, of goods, 44; of pledges sold for arrears on the tallage, 47; of household goods, 50; of goods, 74, 123; of cloths, 130; of goods belonging to a felon, 199; of jewels, 203; of plate and jewels, 248; of stores at London Bridge, 261; of articles in the Chapel there, 263; of ironmongery, 283; of jewels, 313; of silver plate presented to Prince Edward, 350; of the tackle and fittings of the City Barge, 369; of royal jewels, 411, 429, 443, 613; of wares in a haberdasher's shop, 422; of stock in a jeweller's shop, 455; of jewellery, 470, 550

Ipswich, 202

Iron of Pont Audemer, 49

Ironmonger, stock of an, 283

Ironmonger Lane, 11, 15, 266, 465

Isabel, Queen, wife of Edward II., her Letter on behalf of Richard de Redynge, 72, 73; her chariot, 99; Letter from, announcing the birth of a son, 105; her pilgrimage to Canterbury, 107; provisions presented to, 199

Islington, 548

Ismongere (Ironmonger), Agnes la, 440

Ivy Lane, inquisition as to a vacant place near, 98

Iwayn, St. See Ewen

J.

"Jacke," the form, for "James," 37

Jacob, John, 171

James Garlick Hythe, the Parish of St., 7

Jardevile, Richard, 491

Jerusalem, 584

Jet, 422, 455, 562

Jewels, indenture as to a sale of, 203. See Inventory

Jewry, the, 15. See Old Jewry

Jews, murder committed by, 15

Jober, Robert, the will of, 338

Joce (or Joseph), the serjeant, 136, 137

Johanna, Princess of Wales, Letter from, announcing the birth of a son, 325; Letter of thanks from, for an intended gift, 362; accompanies her son, King Richard, on the insurrection of Wat Tyler, 449

Johanna, one, charge by, against her mistress, 484

Johansone, Peregrine, 250

John II., King of France, present to, from the trades, 315

John the Clerk, murder by, 18

John in the Lane, his punishment, 122

John of Jerusalem, the Prior of the Hospital of St., owner of the Temple, 306; proceedings against, as to right of way through the Temple, 376

John of Jerusalem, the Hospital of St., destroyed by the rebels, 449; the Church of the Hospital, 653

John Zachary, the Parish of St., 230

Joignour, Robert le, 146

Joiners, affray of the, with the Saddlers, 156

Jolyf, John, 567

Jolyf, Thomas, arrested on suspicion of Lollardy, 666

"Jonette," the ship, 198

Jordan, Nicholas, 417

Jordon, John, 464

Journals, the, at Guildhall, 643

Jousts in the City, 522

"Jubile," a book called, ordered to be burnt, 494

Juliers, the Count of, a present sent to, 190

Jurdone, John, 646

Jury, trial by a mixed, 623

Juvenal, Thomas, 70

K.

Kanynges, John, 413

Katherine, prayer of the Warden of the Hospital of St., 487

Kayho, Richard, 244

Keleseye, Giles de. 260

Keleseie, Robert de, an enemy of the City, 138

Keleseye, Robert, Alderman, 94, 130

Kelleseye, Robert de, sworn Countor, 58

Kene, Isabel, 347

Kennington, 203

Kent Street, Southwark, garden near, 498

Kereswelle, John de, 226

Keu, Peter le, 266

Keu, Philip le, 266

Keu, Walter le, 160

Kidels, illegal, burnt, 107, 135

Kilburn, the Priory of, 535

King's household, delivery of lodgings for the, 125

Kissere, Richard le, 89

Knapet, Thomas, his slander of the Duke of Lancaster, 425

Knaresborough, 69

Knightsbridge, 356

Knives, foreign, imported, 39 See Bladesmiths and Cutlers

Knolles, Sir Robert, and Constance, his wife, leave granted to, 452; his advice as to the execution of John Constantyn, 482

Knolles, Thomas, Alderman, 533, 534, 546, 562, 565, 569, 620, 676; Mayor, 553, 577, 579, 592

Knyghtcote, William, Sheriff, 453

Kynge, John le, 160

Kyngesbrugge, Thomas, 421

Kyngescote, William, deprived of the keepership of Ludgate, 574; re-enabled to hold office in the City, 579

Kyngestone, John de, Alderman, 188

Kyslyngbury, Richard de, Mayor, 264, 266

L.

La Grave, 51

Lacer, Richard le, Alderman, 188, 191, 222, 285, 290

Lacir, Richard le, 19

Lambeth, attendance on Henry V. at, 627

Lambs, the sale of, 426

Lambyn, Edmund, 94

Lampreys, forestalment of, 83

Lancaster, John of Gaunt, Duke of, slander against, 425; his mansion destroyed by the insurgents, 449

Lancaster, Thomas, Earl of, 104

Landlords enjoined not to harbour tenants of evil life, 649

Lane, John, Sheriff, 547, 574; Alderman, 586

Langbourn, the Ward of, 9, 18, 49, 88, 222, 430

Langetone, Sir John de, Chancellor, 36

Langford, William, Chaplain, charged with adultery, 566

Langley, Edmund de, 518

Lapewater, Henry, 5

Laths, 261

Latoner, a, prohibited from interfering with the Goldsmiths, 378

Latrines, public, 614

Latten, 204, 216

Latymer, William, Lord, 410

Launde, Robert de la, 314

Launde, Robert, Sheriff, 409; knighted, 451

Laurence, Candlewick (now Cannon) Street, the Parish of St., 47

Laurence, Jewry, the Parish of St., 289

Laurence Lane, St., 133, 195, 501, 532; the Street of, 479

Laurence Pountenay (Candlewick Street), the Churchyard of St., 346

Lavender, Clement, 484

Law, false, in the City Courts, 29

Leaden Hall, the Court of the, 138; the Market at, 220, 221, 300, 389, 405

Leathersellers, the, 364, 547

Leche, John le, 285

Leddred (Leatherhead), Patrike, 265

Ledrede (Leatherhead), 327, 484

Leeds Castle, in Kent, 431

Leg, John, slain by the insurgents, 450

Leg of mutton, theft of a, 530

Legge, or Leggy, Thomas, Mayor, 239, 240, 275; Alderman, 222, 290, 331; Masses for the soul of, 384

Leicester, Council at, 197

Leire, See Leyre

Lent, certain bread forbidden to be made in, 644

Leonard, East Cheap, the Parish of St., 318

Lepers excluded from the City, 230, 365, 384

Lescrope, Sir Geoffrey, 186, 187, 197, 198

Lescrope, Sir Henry, 187

Lescrope, Richard, Chancellor, 429

Lesnes, 135; the Abbot of, 107, 312

Lestraunge, Stephen, 244

Letter-Book A, called the "Black Book," 83; the "Lesser Black Book," 215

Letter-Book B, numeration of the folios, 3

Leuesham, Thomas de, 374

Leukenore, imprisonment of the Lady de, 53

Leyre, Thomes de, Alderman, 159, 164, 169, 175, 180

Leyre, or Leire, William de, Sheriff, 25, 26; Alderman, 38, 29, 41, 44, 45, 47, 55, 59, 94, 95, 102, 107, 133; insult to, 46

Lichfield and Coventry, Walter de Langetone, Bishop of, 37; Letter from, to the Mayor and Sheriffs, 50; answer thereto, 51; Letter from, on the imprisonment of Lady de Leukenore, 53; Letter to, as to a park at Greneford, 61; indignation of Edward II. against, 62, 63; Proclamation against, 63

Lies, punishment for circulating, 352

Lillo, William de, 73

Lime, the making and price of, 174

Limehouse, inquest at, 655

Limerick, 39

Limners, the, 295, 557

Lincoln, provisions presented to the Bishop of, 198

Lincoln, Henry de Lacy, Earl of, purchase of embroidered cloth by, 52

Lincoln, John de, Sheriff, 54; Alderman, 94, 95, 97, 102

Lincoln, Richard de, 222

Lions, Richard, beheaded by the insurgents, 450

Liquid measures, made of wood, 78; enactment as to, 234

Lisbon, oil of, 458

Lisle, Lady Alice de, 196

Litle, John, Warden of London Bridge, 261, 262, 263

Little, John, Sheriff, 275; Alderman, 345, 374

Livery, to be received only from their own craft by officers of the City, 612

Loan to Edward III., negotiations for a, 208

Lobenham, Ralph, Alderman, 586; Sheriff, 595; resigns the Aldermanry of Farringdon Without, 602

Lock, the, in Southwark. See Loke

Lodelowe, Johanna, widow of Sir Thomas de, 110

Lodelowe, Thomas de, Alderman and Recorder, 308, 311

Loke, or Lokes, Hospital of the, 384, 510

Lokyer, Elena, 347

Lollards, the, 617

Lollardy, false accusation of, 658; arrest on suspicion of, 666

Lombard, punishment of a, 404

Lombard Street, 457, 644

Lombards, attack upon, 302

Lomelyn, Benedict, 523

London, Henry, serjeant of Richard Whityngton, 578

London, Master John de, 177

London, Richard de Gravesend, Bishop of, his petition to the City, 28; Ralph de Baldock, Bishop of, his Palace near St. Paul's, 98, 99; he celebrates Mass at St. Paul's, 106; Michael de Northburgh, Bishop of, 313; William Courteney, Bishop of, 410; Richard Clifford, Bishop of, 577, 617

London, the Bishop of, his mansion near St. Paul's, 36; bound to find the hinges of Bishopsgate, 43; Lord of the Soke of Cornhill, 129

London Bridge, 137, 365, 410, 483, 487, 508, 591, 640, 642; accident on, 16; the repair of, 38, 46; lease of a tavern at the head of, 131; stores belonging to, 261; the Chapel there, 262, 263; Auditors of the accounts of the Wardens of, 534

London, the Wall of, 43, 50, 77, 115, 116, 117, 187, 338, 382, 614; dilapidations of the, 79

Long, John le, 127

Long Lane, 436

Longe, John, 421

Longelee, William, 530

Lorimers, affray of the, with the Saddlers, 156

Loseye, Adam, 496

Lothbury, 15, 235

Louthe, Robert, 579

Louthe, William de, 89

Louthe, William, Alderman, 565, 620

Love, John Severelle, surgeon, 651

Love, days of, 173

Lovekyn, Adam, 343

Lovekyn, Geoffrey, 302

Lovekyn, John, 212; Mayor, 245, 302, 303; Alderman, 280

Loveye, Geoffrey, his offences and sentence, 576, 592

Loveye, John, Alderman, 515

Lucas, John, Common Clerk, 313

Lucca, 52; the Society of, 25

Lucius, King, 652

Lucy, Thomas, 375

Ludgate, Nicholas de, 244, 259

Ludgate, 75, 193; the Gate of, 100, 574; lease of a stall at, 382; the Prior of, 574, 579, 673, 677

Lue, Sir John de, disposition of his property by, 68

Lumbard, Jacobina la, intercession of Edward I. for, 26

"Luncheon," probable origin of the word, 265

Lydgate, John, quoted, 475

Lyghtefote, John, 371, 383

Lyndewode, Walter de, 167

Lyon, John, 349

M.

Maceler, Sir William le, 9. See Mazeliner

Mackerel, intended sale of putrid, 471

Maghfeld, Gilbert, Sheriff, 534

Magic, the practice of, 472

Magna Charta referred to, 108

Magnus the Martyr, St., the Parish of, 325; the Church of, 644; the Rector of, 651

" Mainour," meaning of the word, 195

Mainpernors, liability of, 633

Maiot the Brewyfe, 264

Malines, debt due from the Commune of, 130; cloth of, 197

Malveisin wine, 255

Manchet, 644

March, Edmund, Earl of, 410

Margaret, wife of Edward I., her apothecary, 55

Margaret, the Church of St., in Bridge Street, 83, 436

Mariners of the royal fleet, credit not to be given to the, 574

Mark Lane, 9, 338

Marlow, 45

Marriage, fees for, 463; cockthreshing to celebrate, 571

Marshalsea, pretence of being an officer of the, 531

Martin le Grand, the Church of St., 11, 21, 140, 141, 193, 272, 273, 298; record to be made by the City only at, 51; the locality not much frequented, 77; the Sanctuary of, 587; felonies committed at, and order for the removal of halpaces at, 600. See Curfew

Martin, Ironmonger Lane, the Parish of St., 465

Martin, Ludgate, the Parish of St., 193, 524

Martin Outwich, the Parish of St., 184

Martin Pomeroy, the Parish of St., 576

Martin Vintry, the Parish of St., 412

Martlesham, or Martesham, William, master of the City Barge, 369, 374

Martyrology, the, 263

Mary Abchurch, the Parish of St., 509

Mary Axe, the Church of St., 5

Mary, Bishopsgate, the Hospital of St., 311, 374

Mary le Bow, the Parish of St., 333, 334, 576, 630

Mary Colechurch, the Parish of St., 562, 576, 592

Mary at Hill, the Church of St., 310

Mary Somerset, the Churchyard of St., 346

Mary, Staining Lane, the Church of St., 17

Mary, the Chapel of St., near the Guildhall, 42, 52, 181, 288, 501, 503, 577; presentation of a Chaplain to, 436; service in the, before the election of the Mayor, 565, 566, 620

Mary, the House of St., Clerkenwell, 321

Mary, the House of St., in Southwark, 4, 498

Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, the Parish of St., 413

Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, the Church of St., 436, 599

Mary, the Cogge St., 198

"Mary Knyght," ship so called, 381, 655

Maryns, John de, Alderman, 400

Maryns, Thomas de, 170; City Chamberlain, 190, 195, 197, 199, 206, 235

Maslin, 122

Masons, the trade of, 280; reconciliation of two master, 38

Master, repudiation by a, of the acts of a runaway apprentice, 629

Master Surgeons, sworn, 337

Matins, 8

Maundeville, John de, 189

Maundeware, John, 494

Mayn, John, a leper, excluded from the City, 165

Maynard, Nicholas, 473

Mayor, conduct of the Sheriffs to the, 41; abuse and slander of the, 275, 423, 460, 473, 476; assault in presence of the, 371; makes assay of flesh and fowl, 381; accompanied by the Aldermen to Westminster, 424; his duty as to the assize of bread, 498; regulation for the election of, 560; order that service shall be performed before the election of a, 565, 566; seat of honour accorded to the, in presence of the King's brothers, 604; prohibition of avoiding service as, 635

Mayor and citizens, Letter of the, to the Countess of Gloucester, 45

Mayoralty, seal of the, a new one substituted, 447

Mayor's Court, charge of using abusive language in the, 81

Mazeliner, or Mazerer, William le, Coroner and Alderman, 24, 41. See Maceler

Mazer cups, 363, 398, 399

Meat, punishment for the sale of putrid, 133, 139; regulations as to the sale of, 141. See Butchers

Mechlin. See Malines

Mede, William, 214

Medley, a cloth, 48

Medway, the river, 483

Meldone, Thomas de, 302

Melters, the, excluded from Cheap, 22

Merchant Taylors' Hall, the site of, 184

Mereworthe, Simon de, Sheriff, 99

Meritatory, 263

Merivale, Richard, 579. See Mirivale

Merlawe, John de, 66

Merlawe, Richard, Alderman, 566, 620, 647, 676; Mayor, 607, 660, 666; exchange of trades by, 624

Merymouth, Richard, 464

Meshes of nets, 215

Mesne blue, 131

Messager, Thomas le, 88

Metingham, Sir John de, Justiciar, 30, 32

Mews, the, 265

Michael, Candlewick Street, or Crooked Lane, the Parish of St., 3, 433, 597

Michael, Cornhill, the Parish of St., 30, 283, 285, 300, 311

Michael Paternosterchurch, the Parish of St., 7; grant by Richard Whityngton for rebuilding the Church of, 578

Michael le Quern, the Parish of St., 19, 587; right of way through the Church of, 417; grant of leave to build a Conduit near the Church of, 521

Michel, John, Alderman, 676

Michel, John, Coroner, 548

Michelle, Richard, 656

Midsummer Eve, order for setting the Watch upon, 420, 433, 488; order for early closing on, 581

Mildred, Poultry, the Parish of St., 472

Mile End, 449

Milk Street, 266, 413, 416, 517, 525

Millers, 36

Miltone, Roger de, his fraud, 164

Minever, 20

Minstrels, 188, 189, 198, 352

Mirivale, a Commoner, 665. See Merivale

Mirourer, Richard le, 195

Misericorde, 64

Mitere, Richard le, 164

Mitforde, John de, Alderman, 345

Mocking, John de, 107; Sheriff, 185, 192

Mogwelle Street, now Monkwell Street, 50

Mokkinge, Robert de, 61, 107

Mokkyng, Thomas, 327

Molyns, Sir John de, 198

Monkwell Street, See Mogwelle Street

Montacute, Sir John de, 198

Montacute, Sir William de, 198

Moor of London, the, 374; lease of the, 379; order for laying out the, in gardens, 614. See Finsbury

Mordone, Simon de, Alderman, 345, 371; Mayor, 337, 338

Mordone, Thomas de, 371

Mordone, Walter de, 149, 191; Sheriff, 199

More, John, Alderman, 461

More, William, Alderman, 533, 546; Mayor, 543

Moreland, Henry, 657

Morlee, Sir Robert de, 187

Motoun, Robert, 130

Motun, Hugh, Chamberlain, 23

Moulding-boards, stealing dough from the bakers', 162

Mouton d'or, 297

Mumming forbidden, 658, 669

Munceny, Arnulph de, murder by, 10

Munceny, John de, 10

Munceny, Sir Robert de, 10

Munitions of war, 204, 207

Murrey, the colour, 411

Mussels, the price of, 666

Mustarder, Thomas le, 611

N.

Names, use of three, 651

Namur, a present sent to the Count of, 190

Nantes, lampreys from, 83

Natives, claimed by the Earl of Cornwall, 23; loss of the freedom by, 58

Naufretone, William, 474

Naylere, John, 408

Naylere, Stephen le, 54

Nets, unlawful, burnt, 57, 107, 171, 214, 220, 244, 482, 486; Inspectors of, 219

Neuport, William, Sheriff, 387, 398, 399

New Fair, the, 33

New Hospital, Without Bishopsgate, the, 43

New Work, the. See Guildhall, the present

Newark, tenement of the Prior of, 289

Newgate, 17, 119, 199, 207, 226, 314, 317; the Gate of, 100; the Prison of, 140, 165, 172, 173, 230, 285, 315, 316, 319, 321, 352, 367, 371, 396, 398, 416, 425, 428, 442, 446, 454, 456, 459, 460, 471, 474, 491, 505, 536, 548, 563, 595, 596, 646; the prisoners in, 121, 407; a Portifory left for the use of, 466; death of John Bikeryng in, 640; corrupt air of the Gaol, of, and death of the prisoners, 677

Newgate, the Market at, 317, 389, 405

Nicholas Acon, the Parish of St., 509

Nicholas Cold Abbey, the Church of St., 651, 662

Nicholas Flesh Shambles, the Church of St., 389; the Parish of, 386; the Market of, 214, 339, 358, 361, 381, 405, 502, 503

"Nichole," the old French name for Lincoln, 50

Night-walkers, proclamation against, 481

None, the hour of, 75

Noreys, Gervase le, the death of, 5

Noreys, John, 171

Norfolk, Margaret, Countess of, a pretended message to, 437

Normandy, supplies to the English army in, 664, 665

Northampton, Council at, 197; Statute made at, 269

Northamptone, John de, Alderman, 9

Northamptone, John de, Alderman, 400; draper, 404; Sheriff, 409, 413; Member for the City, 427; Commissioner for building a tower, 445; his banishment, 460; Mayor, 468, 471; charges against, 473; slander of, 476; proclamation that no one shall speak of him, 526

Northfleet, 327

Northhalle, John de, Alderman, 222

Northumberland, Henry Percy, Earl of, 454

Norton Folgate, or Fallgate, 127

Nortone, Geoffrey de, Alderman, 38, 39, 41, 44, 47

Nortone, Gregory de, Alderman and Recorder, 175, 180, 185, 188, 190, 194, 198, 199; increase of his salary, 177

Nortone, William, Sheriff, 574; Alderman, 586, 620, 676

Norwich, the Bishop of, presents made to, 186; Henry le Spenser, Bishop of, his Crusade in Flanders, 479; Richard Courteney, Bishop of, Treasurer, 613

Note, John, Sheriff, 266; Mayor, 315

Nottingham, Thomas Mowbray, Earl of, 531

Notyngham, Richard de, Sheriff, 291

Nouche, or Ouche, 124, 249, 313

Nuisance, an alleged, 355

Nun, an orphan of a citizen becomes a, 535

Nyppe, Robert, 598

O.

Oats, extortionate charge for, 460

Octave, the, 54

Odyham, Richard, Chamberlain, 448, 462, 503

Officers of the City not to beg for Christmas gifts, 670

Oil, the sale of, 458

Okkele, John, 475

Old Fish Street, 219, 268, 484, 517, 598

Old Ford, 401

Old Jewry, the, 302, 479, 501, 503. See Jewry

Oldcastelle, Sir John, the treason of, 641; accusation of harbouring, 676

Oldeiwherye, the, 353

Olneye, William, 249, 310

Ordinal, the, 263

Ordinances, the, temp. Edward II., 91

Organ, John, Alderman, 352

Oriole, 66

Ormond, an impostor pretends to be son of the Earl of, 496

Orphans of citizens, 535

Osculatory, 470

Otemonger, Denis le, 167

Ouche, or Nouche. See Nouche

Oundle, Reginald de, sworn Countor, 58

"Oure," safe-keeping of a beast so called, 320

Outlawe, John, his offence and punishment, 395

Overhee, Walter, 167

Oxenford, Alice, 435

Oxenford, John de, Alderman, 164, 183, 188; Mayor, his death, 212

Oxenford, John de, moneys expended for the soul of, 310

Oxenford, Matildis, widow of Hugh de, 123

Oxford, education at the Schools of, 379

Oynter, Michael le, 13

Oystergate, 95, 616

Oysters, the price of, 666

P.

Pain demaign, 120, 644

Painter, acknowledgment by a, 23

Painters, affray of the, with the Saddlers, 156

Pall, 44

Pancras, St., the Parish of, 622

Pancregge, John, 327

Papal Bulls, forgery of, 583, 587, 589

Paris, Peter de, Apothecary to Queen Margaret, 55

Paris, Simon de, Alderman, 55, 61, 102

Parliament, 56, 197, 339; Members for the City in, 169, 511; at Gloucester, 424; Ordinance of, in 1386, 492; the Petitions in, 494

Parker, William, Alderman, 533, 546

"Parnel," the Christian name, 270

Parsons within the City, restriction of the fees of, 463

Pastelers, or Piebakers, 426, 432, 438

Pastemakere, Gregory le, 88

Pasties, Ordinances as to, 266, 438

Paternoster Lane, in the Riole, 578

Paternoster Row, 435, 578

Paternosters, or prayer-beads, 20

Paternostrer, William le, 30

Paul, the Church of St., Sanctuary at, 24; mansion of the Bishop of London near, 36, 98, 99; Letter of Edward II. in behalf of the ministers of, 76; danger of fire to, 100; solemn service at, on the birth of Edward III. 106; publication of the King's Letter at, 113; secular business in, 113; a day of love appointed at, 158; Vespers at, 165; the Treasury of, 168; Letter to the Dean and Chapter of, 224; Chantry in, founded by Sir John de Pulteneye, 269; annual Procession to, 466, 651; wrestling forbidden in the Sanctuary of, 580

Paul, the figure of St., on the Common Seal, 400. See Peter and Paul

"Paul," the. See Barge

Paul's Churchyard, St., 288; preaching in, 415; a Chapel in, 660

Paul's Wharf, St., 425

Pavement within Newgate, the, 361, 389; Cornmarket there, 317

Paxbread, 263

Peace, preservation of the, in the City, 36. See Safe-keeping of the City

Pecche, Henry, 206

Pecche, John, Mayor, 308; Alderman, 390

Peck, Robert, Common Serjeant, 524, 527, 529, 537

Peintour, Henry, 292

Pekham, James de, and Lora, his wife, 412

Pelham, Edmund de, 88

Pellets of lead, 205

Pelterers, or Pellipers, the, 153, 328; affray of the, with the Fishmongers, 210

Pembroke, Aymer de Valence, Earl, and Mary de St. Pol, his wife, 553

Penne, John, Sheriff, 579; Alderman, 586, 620, 676; slander against, 585

Penne, William, 656

Pepper, mills for grinding, 422

Pepperers, the, 120

Perers, Alice, mistress of Edward III., 402

Perjury, the punishment of, 319

Perler, Thomas le, 99

Perset, the colour, 199

Perveys, John, Alderman, 676

Pestilence, the, of 1348. See Great Pestilence

Peter, Broad Street, the Church of St., 466

Peter, Cornhill, the Church of St., 138; annual Procession from the, 466, 651; has the highest rank among the City Churches, 651; the Parish of, 184

Peter the Little, the Church of St., 425

Peter, Wood Street, the Church of St., 54

Peter and Paul, the figures of Saints, on the Seal of the Mayoralty, 447

Peter and Paul, Order as to the Eve of Saints, 488, 581

Petewardyn, John de, 167

Petteleye, Stephen, 421

Pewter, vessels of, 259

Pewterers, the, 241, 259

Peyto, Sir John, 531

Phalaise, John de, messenger from Queen Isabel to the City, 105

Phelipers, or Fripperers, the, 47, 153

Phelipot, John, Mayor, 424, 425, 430, 431, 435; offers to build a tower for defence of the Thames, 444; is knighted, 451

Philip Lane, 61

Philippa, Queen, present of provisions to, 170; Coronation of, 186; debt due from, 326

Phippe, John, 421

Physician, punishment for pretending to be a, 624

Piebakers, See Pastelers

Piement, wine of, 255

Pigeons, putrid, sale of, 328, 448

Pillory, the, on Cornhill, 129

Pillory, punishment of the, 29, 79, 133, 139, 140, 165, 240, 266, 271, 314, 315, 317, 320, 328, 332, 333, 336, 337, 344, 363, 381, 390, 396, 404, 418, 430, 442, 445, 446, 448, 454, 455, 457, 459, 460, 462, 464, 472, 475, 479, 484, 486, 489, 498, 518, 523, 527, 530, 531, 536, 566, 576, 582, 585, 586, 587, 599, 601, 645, 668, 669, 672, 673; sentence of the, 471, 622, 630. See Thewe

Pillory and Whetstone, punishment of the, 316, 352, 423, 430, 433, 466, 476, 497, 584; sentence of the, 493

Pipes of the Great Conduit, use of the, 617

Pitch, thickening the bottom of a measure with, 319, 335

Plastrer, Adam le, his agreement, 125

Plays forbidden, 669

Pledges, for arrears of tallage, 108; of articles for money, redeemed, 657

Plumbers, 321, 355

Plumstated, 135, 220

Podenhale, Brother John de, 199

Podifat, Robert, 24

Poison, the Great Conduit slandered for, 265

Poitiers, account of the Battle of, sent by Prince Edward, 285; a prisoner taken at, 291

Poitiers, the Count of, 285

Polehulle, Robert, 528

Poletrie, Adam de la, Surgeon, 274

Pollards, injunctions as to, 42

Polle, Thomas, Alderman, 565

Pont Audemer, iron of 49

Pontefract, 169

Pool of the Thames, the, 298

Pope, John, mariner 194

Pope, John, waxchandler 360

Pope, John, cobbler, 540

Pope, William 164

Poppe, or Puppe, Geoffrey 382, 434

Population on the East and West sides of London, the relative 644

Portifory 263; gift of a, to Newgate,; 466; theft of a 485

Portlaunde, Roger de, 27

Portsmouth, 83

Portsoken Ward, 6, 49. see Christ Church and Trinity

"Posnet," meaning of the word, 48

Postern, the, near the Tower, 384

Postern, order for rebuilding the Little, 614

Posterns, dilapidation of the City, 79

Pot, Henry, his offence and punishment, 462

Potels, false, forfeited, 259

Poterel, Richard, Chamberlain, 55, 60, 61

Potters, the trade of the, 61; also bell-founders, 100; complaint of the, 118

Pouches, false, burnt, 249

Pouchmarkers, the, 360, 364, 554

Poulterers, see Poultry

Poultry, the highway of the, 126, 226, 264

Poultry, the sale of, 220, 221, 222, 300, 312, 389

Poumfreyt, William de, Alderman, 222

Pountfreyt, Henry, Alderman, 565, 566

Pourte, Hugh, Sheriff,; Alderman 61

Poyntel, John, Sheriff, 130; Alderman, 164, 175

Poyntel, Roger, his shop in Bishopsgate, 116

Presents given by the City, 170, 197, 198, 199 350.

Prest, John, 91

Preston, 368

Prestone, Henry de, 176

Prestone, John de, Sheriff, 133, 139; Alderman, 162, 164

Prestone, John, Recorder, 562, 565, 585, 596

Prestone, Richard de, 187

Priest, charge of felony against a, 639

Priests, incontinent, 484, 566, 567, 595

Prime, the hour of, 4, 106, 264

Priour, John, Alderman, 164, 18

Priour, Richard, 631

Prisoner, ransom of a, 290; sale of a, 392

Privy Seal, Letter under the, as to a dissension between the Cordwainers and the Cobblers, 570

Procession, annual, on Whit Monday, from St. Peter's Cornhill to St. Paul's, 466, 651; on the Feast of Corpus Christi, 509; on foot, to Westminster, to return thanks for the victory at Agincourt 620

Procuress, punishment of a, 484

Proffyt, John, Chamberlain, 577

Protection, the King's, claimed for a criminal, 506

Proverbs quoted, 8, 395

Prussia, 655

Pui, donation to the Brethren of, the, 42

Pulteneye, Sir John de, Mayor, 178, 180, 181, 183, 185, 188, 190, 196, 197; Alderman, 210; Chantry founded for the soul of, 269

Purification, usage at the Feast of the, 359

Purtreour, Geoffrey le, 160

Purveyor, pretence of being a King's, 645

Pycard, Henry, Mayor, 291, 295

Pycot, John, 599

Pycot, Nicholas, Alderman, 38, 41, 55, 60, 61, 95, 102; Chamberlain, 47, 48, 49; Sheriff, 63

Pyel, John, Alderman, 345, 404; Mayor, 368, 371

Pyke, or Pike, Thomas, Sheriff, 579; Alderman, 620, 676

Pykeman, Andrew, Sheriff, 416

Pykeman, Giles, attack upon, 325; order to ensure him from molestation, 327

Pykeman, Thomas, 325

Pynchon, Walter, 550

Pynchone, John, Alderman, 505, 515

Pyrie, Richard, 539

Q.

Quadewille, a spy, 190

Quarel, 204

Quays, regulations as to the, 435, 648

Queen Hythe, 4, 6, 21, 33, 34, 96, 144, 229

Queen's bridle, the holder of the, 168

Queldrik, John, 484

Quelhogge, Richard, 271

Querdelion, William, 56

"Quinzainev," meaning of the word, 7 3

R.

Rainham, 171

Ram, John, 198

Rameseye, William de, Master-mason of the works at St. Paul's, 185

Randolf, John, 631, 667

Randolf, Margery, 203

Ransom, receipt of, 290

Rantesbourne Shelp, 655

Ratcliffe, 345, 410, 445

Ratcote Bridge, Battle at, 499

Ray, cloth of, 109, 179

Reche, John, Common Countor, 490

Recorder, mention of the, 177, 213, 338, 344, 390, 398, 400, 404, 490, 520, 523, 546, 562, 565, 585, 596, 620, 647, 676; insult offered to the, 523

Red Paper, the, of purchases of the freedom, 553

Rede, Henry, Sheriff, 660

Redere, William le, 180

Rederesgate, the Wharf of, 95

Redhede, William, his offence and punishment, 645

Reeds, sale of, on land near Bishopsgate, 39

Refham, Sir Richer de, Sheriff, 41; Alderman, 61, 63, 94, 102; Mayor, 77, 78, 80, 81, 85, 86, 90, 91

Refham, Richer de, taverner, loss of his seal, 45

Regrators of ale, 137

Regulations as to wages and prices, 253

Reole, La, 7, 578

Replevin, 57

Reprises, 194

Respite of punishment, the offender being in the King's service, 471

Reynham, Thomas, Alderman, 351

Reynold, Sir Walter, Treasurer, 63. See Canterbury and Worcester

Reyns, 44, 102

Reynwelle, John, Sheriff, 586, 587; Alderman, 676

Richard, St., 264

Richard II., his badge or cognizance, 429; his intended marriage, 444; his conduct, on the Insurrection of Wat Tyler, 449; his marriage to Anne of Bohemia, 460; he summons the Mayor and Aldermen to Windsor, 499; assertion that Thomas Warde was represented as being, 638

Richard the Chaplain, murder by, 18

Richer, Richard, 658

Richmond, John de Bretagne, Earl of, his tenement, near St. Paul's, 98; his hall, 125

Ridere, John, 484

Rievaul, alleged appropriation by the Abbot of, 75

Right of way, obstructions of, 417, 509

Riot in the City, Inquisition as to, 54

Roads, collection for repair of the, 291

Roandi, Sir Ponce, 60

"Roarer," the term, 86

Robire, Sir Gilbert de, 66

Robyn, William, 496

Rochelle, 342

Rochet, 44

Rokele, John de la, 187; Sheriff, 213

Rokesle, Adam de, Alderman, 61

Rokesle, Sir Gregory de, Mayor, Chamberlain, and Coroner, 3, 9, 14; Alderman, 23, 26; Mayor, 83

Rokesle, Robert de, Alderman, 26

Rokesle, Roger de, 49

Rokesle, Walter de, Alderman, 95

Rokeslee, Isabel de, house held by, jointly with Andrew Horn, 169

Rokeslee, John de, a nightwalker, 86

Rolf, Simon, inspector of the Barber Surgeons, 607

Rolls of the Chamberlain, their probable fate, 207

Romeyn, Thomas, Sheriff, 25, 26, 27; Alderman, 38, 39, 41, 47, 55, 86, 90, 91, 94, 95, 102; Mayor, 73, 76

Roo, Stephen, 530

Roofing, the, of houses, 46, 308

Roos, John, Esquire, punished for forgery, 412

Ropery, the, 314, 455

Rote, John, Alderman, assault upon, 490; an inhabitant of Fleet Street, 504

Rotherhithe, 177

Rothing, Gilbert, 510

Rothinge, Richard de, Sheriff, 163, 164, 166, 167; Alderman, 188

Rouen, the siege of, 664, 665, 666

"Round-house," the term, 41

Rous, John, 371

"Royal," reason for this appellation of the Church of St. Michael Paternoster, 7, 578

Rushboats, order to the Chamberlain to seize the, 676

Rushes, the use and sale of, 367, 643

Russel, Elias, Mayor, 43, 44

Russell, John, his offence and retreat to Sanctuary, and final confession, 630

Russell, John, a juror, 643

Russelle, John, his offence and punishment, 328

Ryghtwys, John, charge against, 318

S.

Saddlers, the, 156, 542

Safe-keeping of the City, Ordinances and Regulations for the, 21, 34, 35, 80, 93, 142, 192, 202, 272, 298, 451, 453

St. Alban's, Adam de, 55

St. Alban's, William de, 264

St. Edmund's, the Fair of, 154

St. Ives, the Fair of, 154

St. Ives, Adam de, Alderman, 515

St. Omer, William de, his wife mistress of the royal children, 190

St. Omer, Lady Emma, Prioress of Kilburn, 535

St. Paul, Sir John de, 197, 198

Salisbury, London house of the Bishops of, 196, 504

Salmon in the Thames, 135

Salt, order as to the sale of, 666

Saltcellars, false, forfeited, 259

Sanctuary, the privilege of, 17, 24, 36, 633

Sand for ballast, leave to dig for, 589

Sandale, Sir John de, 52, 83; Chancellor, 115

Sandwich, Ralph de, Warden, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28; no longer Warden, 31, 32

Sarre, near Sandwich, 454

Savoy, the, destroyed, 449

Saxtone, John de, assault by, 126

Say, Geoffrey de, Admiral, Letter of, 194

Say, cloth of, 145, 254, 256

Scardeburghe, John de, Coroner, 520

Scheld, John de, murder by, 18

Schipwaysshe, Ernald, 244, 259

Schot, Adam, death of, 7

Scold, a common, punishment of, 385

Scone, 458

Scorfeyn, John, 477

Scot, a person taken for a, 661

Scotland, wars with, and aid given by the City, 128, 147, 187; the King of, detained in England, 629

Screveyn, Thomas, 461

Scrivener, forgery by a, 527

Scriveners, the, 372

Sea-coal, meters of, 338

Seacoal Lane, 207

Seal, notice of the loss of a, 45

Seal, Common, of the City, addition made to the, 400

Seal of the Mayoralty, a new one substituted, 447

Sealed box, delivery of a, 55

Seat of honour, the, accorded to the Mayor, 604, 605

Seccheford, Henry de, Alderman, 159, 169, 180, 181, 182, 187, 191; Chamberlain, 177, 183, 185, 193

Seething Lane, 68, 453

Selds, 22, 134, 343

Sely, John, Alderman, his offence, 466

Sely, Thomas, Sheriff, 41; Alderman, 55, 61

Sepulchre, the Church of St., 226; the Parish of St., 333, 334, 412, 641

Sequence, 263

Sequestration, breach of, 190

Serjeants of the Chamber, vestment granted to the, 414

Servat, William, Alderman, 94, 95, 102

Settere, Alexander le, 60

Sevenoke, William, Sheriff, 595; Alderman, 620; Mayor, 670, 676; insults to, 595, 605

Serville, oil of, 458

Seware, John, his offence and punishment, 524

Sewale, John, charge of disloyalty against, 548

Shadworth, John, Alderman, 515, 546, 565; Mayor, 576

Sharnefeld, Janian de, 325

Shearmen, the, 247, 250, 324

Sheathers, the, 567

Shedewater, William, 518

Shene, John de, 136

Shenfield, 668

Shepeye, John, 425

Sheriff, offences against a, 63, 595; mode of avoiding serving as, 635

Sheriffs, conduct of the, to the Mayor, 41, 416; their procession on horseback, 515; regulation for the election of the, 560

Sheriffs' Court, the, 27; assessors of the four benches of the, 27. See Compters

Sheryngham, William, Alderman, 515, 533

Shilling weight of silver, the, 29, 39

Shipping on the Thames, 409

Shirbourne, John de, Coroner, 199

Shirlok, John, 643

Shoe Lane, 75, 230, 235

Shoes forfeited, 136. See Boots

Shorne, Henry de, 184

Short, Hugh, Alderman, 546

Shout, a vessel so called, 223, 262

Shrympelmersshe, William, 383

Sibyle, Walter, Alderman, 413

Sigismund, the Emperor, in England, 627; his aid alleged to have been invoked for the restoration of Richard II., 639

Signs of houses in London, 264, 288, 480, 489, 497, 524, 578, 598, 599, 644

Silk, the Beam for weighing, 72, 73, 74

Silver plate presented to the Prince of Wales, 350

Sinople, the colour, 23

Skames, William de, 409

Skirmisour, Master Roger le, 88

Slaughtering of beasts, order for the prevention of, within the City, 356

Sloghtre, John de, Chaplain, put into the Tun and Newgate, 140

Small Beam, grant of the, 26, 69

Smel, Sir Thomas, Chaplain, 393

Smelt, Richard, Sheriff, 276

Smithfield, 311, 366, 449, 524, 641; sale of cattle in, 436; Richard II. meets Wat Tyler in, 450; Richard Surmyn, a Lollard, burnt in, 630

Smythe, John, 336

Smythe, Thomas the, 139

Soldiers sent by the City to the war in France, 202

Soles, putrid, sale of, 367

Sollar, 66

Somenour, Richard, slain by the insurgents, 450

Soper Lane, 33, 120; mart for shoes near, 392

Sopere, Aleyn le, his fraudulent dealings in metal pots, 118

Sorcery, the practice of, 462, 472, 518. See Magic

Soudan, John, 226

Soul-scot, 463

Southam Lane, Thames Street, 480

Southampton, 373, 664; proclamation that shipmen and soldiers be ready at, 628

Southern Coasts, the City requested to aid in defence of the, 31; opposition thereto, 31

Southwark, 4, 34, 119, 122, 131, 261, 323, 327, 449, 599; the Bar of, 498; the Stews in, 535

Spalding, 113

Spayne, Ralph, 631

Spectacles, 422

Spicer, John le, 274

Spices, 197

Spontoon, 40

Sporiere, Nicholas le, 280

Springald, 204

Sprot, John, 425

Sprot, Walter, 244

Sprott, Thomas, 135

Spryg, John, 430

Spurriers, the, 226

Spynola, Francisco de, 270

Stable, Adam, Alderman, 390, 400, 442; Mayor, 404

Staining Lane. See Mary, St.

Stairs on the banks of the Thames, 648

Stall, lease of a, at Ludgate, 382

Stamford, 187; Fair of, 154; Council at, 196, 197

Standolf, John, Alderman, 676

Standulf, Remund, 504

Stannowe, Brother Robert de, charge against, 303

Stations at the Crosses in Cheap, 435, 437

Statute Merchant, bond of, 185

Staundone, William, Mayor, 532, 533; Alderman, 546, 565

Stebenhethe (Stepney), John de, and Margery, his wife, 65

Stebenhethe, John de, Clerk, 148

Stephen, Walbrook, the Church of St., 14, 43, 44

Stepney, 59, 139, 187, 450; petition of the Bishop of London as to enclosing woods at, 28

Stews, the, in Southwark, 535

Stews, abolition of, in the City, 647

Stocks, punishment of the, 408

Stocks, the, on Cornhill, 304, 390

Stocks Market, 133, 141, 179, 222, 266, 314, 344, 468

Stodeye, John de, 214; Mayor, 298

Stokwelle, William de, 158

Stompcost, Handekyn, 250

Stone Cross, the, 220, 250, 347. See Broken Cross

Stone Wharf, the, 95

Stones before tenements in Bucklersbury, 25

Stongate, 96

Stonore, Sir John de, 187, 197, 209

Stool, punishment by standing on a, in the Guildhall, 319

Stow, John, the Chronicler, an error of, 474

Stowe, John, 404

Stowe, Thomas, 652

Strago, a street-sweeper, imprisoned for slandering the Alderman, 41

Strand on the Green, 214

Strangers, proclamation for the protection of, 56

Stratford, Master Robert de, 198

Stratford le Bow, 291, 357, 401, 498; murder at, 18; bread from, 71, 80, 121; butchers at, 180; meeting of journeymen Saddlers at, 543

Stratford, the Abbot of, 220, 312

Streets, regulations as to cleansing the, 20, 34, 67, 295, 435

Stringers, the, 634

Strode, Ralph, Common Serjeant, 376, 388, 396, 399, 408, 414, 417, 433, 448

Stronde, John atte, 214

Sturmy, John, lease by, 134

Suffolk, William de Ufford, Earl of, 429

Summoner, fraudulent pretence of being a, 321

Sureties, attachment by, 4

Surgeons, and surgery, 273, 337, 519, 606, 651. See Barbers

Surigien, Robert le, 12

Surmyn, Richard, a Lollard, burnt, 630

Suttone, John, Alderman, 596

Suttone, Robert de, sworn Countor, 58

Swalclyve, Robert de, Alderman, 145, 149

Swanlond, Simon de, Mayor, 178, 186

Swift, John, 401

Swindling, cases of, 465, 536, 622. See Fraud

Swine in the City, regulations as to, 20, 28, 35; of St. Antonine, regulations as to, 83

Swithin's Lane, St., Candlewick Street, 78, 123

"Swolne," a gutter called the, 616

Syward, John, Alderman, 222

Syward, John, pewterer, 244, 259

Symmes, William, 579

T.

Tabard, 5

Tabler, or Tableter, Bartholomew le, 92, 134

"Tables, turning the," 395

Tables, cheating with false, 395, 455

Tailors, affray of the, with the Cordwainers, 54; not to scour furs in Cheap, 77; the journeymen, form Fraternities, which are forbidden, 609, 653

Taker of ale for the King, pretence of being a. See Ale

Talbot, Sir Thomas, 506

Taleworth, William, shipwright, 374

Talgarth, 406

Tallage, arrears of, 47, 85

Tankard, 6, 201

Tanners and tanning, 314, 420

Tapers, borne on the Feast of the Purification, 359

Tapestry, false, 375

Tapicers, the, 178, 212, 260, 375

Taplow, 383

Tassyle (?) the Duke of, in England, 460

Tavern, lease of a, at the head of London Bridge, 131

Taverners, the, 180, 341

Taverns, the alestakes of, 386

Tawyers, 331, 391

Teasels, prohibition of the exportation of, 150

Tempest, the great, of 1362, 308

Temple, access to the Thames, through the, 305, 376

Temple Bar, 306

Temple Bridge, 306, 376, 509

Temple Gate, 306, 376

Tewels, 125

Text letter, writers of, 295, 557

Thame, Robert de, his name placed on a tablet in the Guildhall, 275

Thames, the river, 214, 261, 298, 299, 305, 486, 535, 664; regulations as to, 21, 223, 389; mooring of vessels in, 34; the bankside of, 93; drowning in, 102; guard on, 144; defence of the, 202, 207; proclamation against bathing in, 260; cleansing of, 295; access to the, 305, 376; pollution of, 367; lock on, 383; safe-keeping of shipping on the, 409; fish taken in, 135, 436, 508, 599, 667; proposal to build towers on the banks of, 444; fishing in, 483, 509; scouring of hures in, 549; leave to dig for sand on either side of, 589; wharves and stairs on the banks of, 648

Thames Street, 480

Thedmar, John, 164

Thewe, punishment of the, 319, 367, 368, 486, 525

Thomas, St., of Acon, in Cheap, 96, 104

Thomas, St., the Chapel of, on London Bridge, 262; inventory of articles there, 263

Thomas of Lancaster, St., 203

Threeneedle Street, 83

Thumb, raising the, in contempt, 28, 29

Thunderle, Reynald de, Sheriff, his reconciliation with the Mayor, 59; seizures upon him, 85, 109

Tilers, the wages of, 254, 308

Tiles, a game with, 3; roofing with, 46

Tilneye, John, fraud practised upon, 418

"Tipstaff," origin of the word, 531

Tithyngecombe, William, 190

Todenham, or Tudenham, William de, Alderman, 275, 276

Tonge, William, member for the City, 511

Tornegold, John, Alderman, 400

Toucques, surrender of the Castle of, 654

Tour, John de, the quay of, 16

Tour, Sir Nicholas de, charge against, 297

Tourelle, a, on London Wall, 50, 115; lease of a, near Bishopsgate, 56

Tournament in Cheap, 187

Tower of London, the, 6, 18, 190, 199, 261, 271, 303, 338, 345, 352, 449, 450, 453, 460, 489, 507, 604, 631, 640, 642

Tower, the Fosses of the, 260, 487

Tower Hill, 486

Tower Street, 664

Tower, the Ward of, 5, 7, 9, 16, 18, 49, 86, 174, 212, 382, 385

Tracy, Hugh, leaves a Portifory for Newgate, 466

Treason and felony, Inquisition on charges of, 658

Tremayn, John, Recorder, 520, 523

Trente, William, Alderman, 94, 102, 113

Tresilian, Sir Robert, Justiciar, 476, 480; his execution, 499

Trig, or Tryg, Alice, imposition practised on, 475

Trig, or Tryg, Andrew, 425, 475

Trig, Thomas, 517

Trig, William, 219

Trig, or Tryg, the family of, 425

Trigge, or Trygge, John, 484, 598

Trinity, the Prior of the Holy, bound to make a bridge, 43; an Alderman, by virtue of his office, 95, 102, 565; agreement for founding a bell for, 100; moneys received by, 311. See Christ Church and Portsoken

Trinkermen, 135

Triors of juries, 434, 506

Trompour, William le, 176

Tron, the, 26

Tropary, 263

Trugge, Adam, 86, 87

Trumpets, an offender preceded by, 316

Trumpington, Thomas Ward of, an alleged impostor, 638

Trumpyngtone, John, 638

Trumpyngtone, William, 464

Trustees, allowance to, 379

Tryg. See Trig

Trymnelle, William, 505

Tudenham. See Todenham

Tun, the, on Cornhill, 41, 89, 140, 187, 221, 339, 361

Turk, Walter, Sheriff, 191; Alderman, 222; Mayor, 244, 246, 248, 250, 251, 259

Turke, Nicholas, 517

Turke, Paulin, 149

Turke, William, 371

Turners, the, 78; liquid measures made by the, 234

Twyford, Nicholas, goldsmith, 351; Alderman, 400; contumacy shown by him as Sheriff to the Mayor, 415; Commissioner for building a tower near the Thames, 445; Mayor, 510, 515

Tyburn, water conveyed to the City from the springs of, 177, 503

Tyburn, executions at, 499, 640, 642

Tylneye, John, imposture practised on, 496

Tyne, a tub so called, 74, 200

U.

Uggele, replevin of John de, 57

Uggele, Letice de, 48

Uptone, Ralph de, Alderman, 188, 191; Sheriff, 199

Urine, the use of, in fulling, 401

Ussher, John, Chamberlain, 435, 436

V.

Vache, Philip la, 411

"Vadlet," meaning of the word, 70

Vagrants, proclamation against, 304

Van Tene, Henry, his punishment, 230

Vanaghte, William, 332

Vannere, Henry, Member for the City, 511; Alderman, 533

Vanthebrok, Peter, 308

Varnish-painting on canvas, 23

Vautort, John, 88

Vedast, the Parish of St., 288, 543

Venour, William, Member for the City, 427; Sheriff, 506; Mayor, 519, 520, 521; Alderman, 533, 565, 566

Vernage, wine of, 255

Victuallers, order for the early closing of the, at certain times, 581

Victuals, the prices and sale of, 312, 347, 426

Vigils, or wakes, 232, 463

Villenage, 23, 58, 59

Vintainers, 196

Vintners, the, 341

Vintry, the Ward of, 7, 86, 412, 489

Visors, the use of, forbidden, 193, 534, 658

Voudenay, Thomasde, taken prisoner at Poitiers, 290

Vygerons, John, 328

W.

Wade, John, Alderman, 41

Wade, John, Alderman, 546

Waits, the City, 420

Wake, Sir Thomas de, his grant to the Chapel at the Guildhall, 152

Wakes, or watches for the dead, 232, 463

Walbrook, 61, 330, 501; the Ward of, 14, 25, 49, 466, 500; the watercourse of, 23, 43, 44, 379, 478; the foss of, 615. See Stephen, Walbrook, the Church of St.

Walcot, or Walkot, John, 355; insult offered to, 500; Alderman, 515, 533, 546; Mayor, 555, 557

Waldene, Thomas de, Chamberlain, 248, 260

Walderne, William, Alderman, 565, 620, 676; Mayor, 590, 596

Walderne, William, 582

Waldeschef, Walter, 123

Waldeshef, John, sworn Serjeant, his punishment, 147

Waldeshefe, William, 54

Wales, the ancient princes of, 150

Wales, Princes and Princess of See Edward II., Edward, and Johanna

Waleys, Henry le. See Galeys

Waleys, William le, 13

Walford, William, 371

Walls of the City. See London, the Wall of

Wallace, William, imprisonment of, the night before his execution, 46

Wallocke, Roger, 265

Wallokesbernes, 516

Walpole, Adam de, 164

Walrain, William, 94, 120

Walssheman, William, 384

Walsyngham, Aleyn, 539

Walsyngham, Thomas, 529

Walter, John, his offence and punishment, 673

Waltham, 597

Waltham Holy Cross, 106

Waltham, Hugh de, Common Clerk, 105, 113, 129, 130, 183, 185

Walworth, John, 491, 504

Walworth, Richard, 640, 643

Walworth, William, elected Alderman, 336; Sheriff, 345; Alderman, 382, 390, 400, 404; Mayor, 381, 386, 387, 388, 445, 446, 447; slander of, 433; his residence, 433; slays Wat Tyler, 450; is knighted, 451

Wandsworth, 401, 464

Warde, John, Mayor, 233, 388, 390, 391, 398, 399, 400; Alderman, 345

Warde, Thomas, of Trumpington, said to have been represented as being Richard II., 638

Wardens of London, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 555

Wardrobe, the King's, 450

Wards, the, enumerated, 109, 110; colours of the lances borne by the, 420

Ware, 105

War-horses, 103

Warner, John, Alderman, 546, 565, 566

Warwick, Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of, 104; Thomas, Earl of, 209

Wat Tyler, his Insurrection and death, 449

Watch and ward, orders as to, 34, 91, 102, 451, 521, 561

Watch, setting the, 419, 433, 488

Watergate, the, 95

Watergate at Castle Baynard, the, 96

Waterleaders, 7

Watermills, fulling at, 402

Watlyngtone, John, Common Crier, 387, 409

Waxchandlers, the, 300, 358

Wayllyhs, Thomas de, 250

Wayte, Adam, 282

Weavers alien, the, 306

Weavers Flemings, the, 331, 345

Welburgham, John, his offence and punishment, 464

Welchman, sureties for a suspected, 22

Welchmen, capture of, in Fleet Street, 89

Welde, William de, Alderman, 275

Welesby, Sir William de, ransoms his prisoner, 290

Welford, Thomas, compelled to reduce the price of his herrings, 467

Welleford, Richard de, Sheriff, 89, 99

Wells, imprisonment of the Provost of, 167

Welyngtone, William, taken for a Scot and a spy, 661

Wengrave, Sir John de, Alderman, 53, 54, 59, 61, 63, 65, 73, 74, 76, 85, 89, 90, 94, 102, 113, 115, 133; Mayor, 126, 127, 128

Wenlok, John, 530

Wentbrygge, John de, Common Serjeant, 333

West Cheap. SeeCheap

Westerham, John, 471

Westminster, 91, 141, 142, 154, 156, 209, 213, 313, 339, 346; the road to, from Cheap, 99; the Abbot of, 194; the Palace at, proclamation as to bearing arms, or playing games, in, 268; mandate as to workmen at the Palace of, 271; the Mayor, newly elected, goes to, 424; procession of the Sheriffs to, 515; procession to the Minster at, 621; Service there, after the Victory at Agincourt, 621; Sanctuary of St. Peter at, 633

Westone, John de, Common Serjeant, 576, 630

Wharves and stairs on the Thames, exclusion of the people from the, 648

Wheat, fraudulent enhancement of the price of, 235, 314, 317

Whetstone, punishment of the. See Pillory and Whetstone

Whitby, John, Rector, 652

White Friars, the House of the, 402

White Tawyers, the, 232

Whitloke, John, 408

Whityngham, Robert, Sheriff, 676

Whityngham, Thomas, 610

Whittewellebeche, the spring of, 451

Whyte, John le, 195

Whyte, Richard, an Irishman, his offence and punishment, 530

Wighe, Nichol, his offence and punishment 668

Wight, Robert de, 113

Wight, Thomas de, injunctions as to his ransom, 113

Wilford, Thomas, Alderman, 515, 546

William, John, his offence, 337

Wilman, John, assault upon, 491

Winchelsea, 229

Winchester, the Fair of, 154

Winchester, John de Stratford, Bishop of, his grant to the Chapel of the Guildhall, 152; William de Wykeham, Bishop of, 429; Henry Beaufort, Bishop of, 604

Windesore, 105, 171, 499 John de, Alderman

Windsor 321

Windsor Castle, works at

Wines, regulations as to the sale of, 213, 255, 342; agreement as to the supply of, 132; a seller of unsound, made to drink it, 318; given to the City for the services of its Barge, 380; unsound, condemned, 408; presentment by searchers, of, 644; proclamation against the adulteration and mixing of, 670; punishment for so doing, 671

Wintone, Nicholas de, Alderman, 9, 18, 26

Wircestre, William de, Sheriff, 266

Wirdrawere, Emma, daughter of William le, committed to the Tun, 140

Wodecok, John, Sheriff, 546, 548; Mayor, 562, 565, 620

Wodehous, William, 385

Wodehouse, John atte, 164

Wodhawe, 355

Wolsy, Johanna, 472

Women of bad repute, enactments as to, 20, 267, 458, 488, 535

Wood Street, 54, 235

Woodmongers, the, 383

Woodstock, Thomas of, Earl of Buckingham, offence of the citizens against, 424, 427.See Gloucester, Thomas, Duke of

Wool, for Flanders, 194

Wool Wharf, 212, 254

Woolchurch Haw, 268

Woolwich, 135

Worcester, Walter Reynolds, Bishop of, a cope presented by the City to, 65

Workmen, rebellious, withdrawing from work, 271, 285

Worsele, John, 416

Worstede, Simon de, Alderman, 275, 290

Worthyn, John de, Letter to the Pope in his behalf, 251

Wottone, Nicholas, Sheriff, 565; Alderman, 586, 620, 636, 676; Mayor, 608, 621, 629, 638, 641; insult to, 663

Wottone, William, Alderman, 502, 515; insult to, 502

Wound, treatment of a, 273

Wrastelyngworthe, Dame Cecily, 265

Wrestling forbidden in the Sanctuary of St. Pauls's, 580

Wrothe, John, Mayor, 305

Wychingham, Geoffrey de, Sheriff, 222; Mayor, 234, 237

Wydingtone, Robert, Sheriff, 646; Alderman, 662, 676

Wykeham, Sir William de,. 321. See Winchester, Bishops of

Wykes, John, 505

Wylesdone, Richard, 385

Wymbish, Ralph de, 64

Wymbissh, Richard de, 100

Wympler, John le, 60

Wynge, John, 266

Wyndesore, William de, order for his arrest, 402

Wysman, William, fraudulently obtains the freedom, 597

Y.

Yakeslee, John de, conveyance to, 183, 184

Yantlet, 219

Yarmouth, debt due from the town of, 55; herrings from, 458

Yeevelee, or Yevele, Henry de, 281, 445

"Yeoman," suggestion as to the origin of the word, 542

Yonkere, John, 331

Ypres, the siege of, 479

York, 111, 128, 129, 170; in, Parliament at, 197

Yungelyn, Hermann, 380, 381

Yvinghoo, Robert, 510

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