A

Abingdon, monastery at, 16;
letter sent to, 152

Actors, Coventry, 288

Aelfgar, 23

Alchemist, an, 240

Aldermen, 77;
appointment of, proposed, 115;
police duties of, 267, 279

Aldgyth, 23

Ale-tasters, 247

Ale-wives, 228, 249

Almshouse, 263

"Angel" inn, 131

Annals, or mayor-lists, unreliability of, 106 (and note)

Annunciation, 82;
pageant of, 287, 299

Apprentices, swear to franchises, 200-1, 226;
morals of, 227, 279;
number of, limited, 225;
on setting up shop, pay fine, 226 and note;
treatment of, 227

Archery, 278

Armour, provided by citizens 114-115;
delivered to captains, 311-2

Arms, view of, 311

Arthur, Prince of Wales, 307

Assize of ale, 246;
of bread, 51, 71, 98, 246, 248

Assumption, 82;
pageant of, 287, 299

Audley, Lord, 130


Bablake, church of St John the Baptist at, see Churches, Hospital;
gate at, 8

Baginton, 102, 248

Bagot, Sir William, 102

Bailiffs, duties of, 88;
see also Sheriffs

Bakers, offend against assize of bread, 98;
take sanctuary at Baginton, 248;
rules of, 251 (note).

Ball, John, taken at Coventry, 97;
discourse of, 98

Banbury, 144, 151;
Puritanism at, 279

Barnet Field, 151, 152

Baron's Field, 179

Bath, Roman town, 15

Battle, trial by, 53

Beam, wool weighed at the, 250

Bear-baiting, 278

Bearward, 88, 278

Beaumont, Lord, 120, 128

Bedford, Duke of, 110;
Duchess of, 111, 149

Bedon, William, quarrels with Huet, 137

Belfry, symbol of independence, 74 (note).

Bell, church, 158, 234 and note;
daybell, rung at dawn, 234;
"larum" bell, 126 (note)

Benedictines, house of, at Coventry, 16, 24;
life among the, 27-8;
habit of, 238;
see also Coventry, Monks, Priors, Priory

"Benevolences," 155

Beverley, plays at, 290

Bishopric of Coventry, title of, 167

Bishops of Coventry, see Coventry

Black Death, 13, 244

Blood, Holy, of Hales, 238

Bloreheath, battle of, 130

Blue thread, special colour used in dyeing, 252

Bolingbroke, Henry, 9, 101, 102

Bond, John, 216;
see also Almshouse

Bonfires on S. John's Eve, 285

Books sold at fairs, 253

Bordars, 37 (note)

Boston, ship of, 259

Bosworth Field, battle of, 157, 256

Boteler, Henry, see Recorders

Botoner, family of, trade with Bristol, 256;
build S. Michael's steeple, 257;
purchase estate, ibid.

—— Adam, 257

Botoner, William, 257

Brakemen, workers in iron, 221-3

Brass, memorial, to Sir William Bagot, 102

Braytoft, Richard, 176

Breauté, Faulkes de, 95-6

Bredon, Friar John, opposes the hermit's preaching, 107;
attacks monks, 276-8;
nails bills on the church door, 277

Brethren, of the mayor, see Mayor's Council

Brewers, forbidden to take water from conduits, 246;
forestall barley, 249;
trade of, lucrative, 248

Bridgman, Sir Orlando, house of, 6

Bristol, cannon brought from, 115;
trade with, 215, 252, 256;
toll demanded at, 257

Bristowe, John, draper, 172, 216;
encroaches on common lands at Whitley, 172-3, 180;
drives cattle on Coventry pastures, 173

—— William, of Whitley, 172, 174;
offends the corporation, 174-5;
the mayor and citizens break into his closes, 175-6, 177-8;
appeals to the privy council, 177;
suit between, and the community about the ownership of enclosed lands, 178-80;
keeps meadows, several, 194;
further suit, 196-7;
see also Whitley

Broadgate, 73

Bruges, staple for cloth at, 258

Buckingham, Duchess of, 128

—— Duke of, Humphrey Stafford, quarrels with Coventry men, 113;
retainers and badge of, 113, 238;
attends Henry VI., 119, 128;
assists Duke of York to escape, 126;
visits Coventry, 131;
dies at Northampton, 132

Bull-baiting, 278

Bull-ring, poulterers stand near the, 250

Burgage, free, 46

Burgundy, wool trade with, 140, 150

Bury S. Edmund's, monastery at, 16;
men of, get concessions from the abbot, 66


C

Cade, Jack, 114;
quarters of, exposed on town gates, 243

Caen, abbeys at, 16

Calais, 143, 146;
see also Staple

Caludon Castle, 102

Cannock Chase, robbers at, 258

Canterbury, Archbishop of, 210;
Arundel, 103, 104

Cantilupe, Fulk de, 34

Cappers, 225;
company of, survives, 232;
fines for admission to freedom of craft, 226 (note);
treatment of apprentices among, 227 (note);
see also Apprentices, Chapel, Journeymen, Pageants

Caps, making of, by journeymen forbidden, 232

Cardmakers, bill concerning abuses of the, 222;
see also Journeymen

Card-wiredrawers, see Cardmakers

Carmelites, habit of, 238

Carpenter, John, of London, 263

Carpenters, apprentices of, 232;
feasts of, 284, 309 (note)

Carthusians, house of, at Coventry, 100;
habit of, 238;
see also Charter-house

Cartwright, Presbyterian, at Warwick, 165

Castle, of Coventry, 40

Catesby, John, 178, 180

Catherine of France, Queen, 107

Chamberlain, duties of, 88, 187;
see also Saunders, Laurence

Chapel Fields, 41

Chapel of S. George on the Gosford Gate, 83, 275 (note)

—— of S. James and S. Christopher, 8

—— of S. Mary Magdalene, at Spon, 41

Chapels of the crafts in the parish churches, 274, 275 (note)

Chard, 152

Charity of the merchants, 259, 263;
of the corporation, 268

Charles I. is refused entrance to Coventry, 6, 166

—— II. orders the walls to be dismantled, 7, 166

Charter, Ranulf's, 47-9, 61, 62;
confirmation of, 59;
privileges granted by, 69, 70, 74, 121;
probably purchased by Guilds, 80;
of 1621, 75;
to prior, 59, 60

Charter-house, 6, 100, 278;
see also Carthusians

Chester, bishop's seat transferred from, 30;
canons of, 32;
S. Werburgh's at, 18 (note);
Earls of, 38;
Hugh rebels against Henry II., 40-1;
builds lazar-house, 41;
Hugh Lupus, 39;
Ranulf Blonvil's career, 42;
gives charter to burghers, 47;
Ranulf Gernons, his career, 39-40;
Ranulf Meschines, 39;
plays at, 290;
written by Higden, 291

Cheylesmore, officers of, 135-6;
becomes royal manor, 96;
Earl of Chester's dwelling at, 44, 95 (note), 101;
Princes of Wales at, 154

Chimneys, wooden, 245.

Churches, of Coventry, 269-78

—— S. John the Baptist's, 8, 82, 270;
priests of, 120

—— S. Michael's, bell brought to, 158;
chapels of crafts in, 274;
door of, verses nailed to, 204, 208, 277;
priests of guilds employed in, 82-3, 270 (note);
royal visits to, 120, 167;
sale of cloth in porch of, 202

—— S. Nicholas, supported by Corpus Christi guild, 163 (note);
chaplains of, 270 (note)

—— Holy Trinity, 269-70;
fresco in, 273, 306;
priests employed in, 83, 270 (note)

Churchyard, S. Michael's, 49, 250

Clapham, 144, 243 (note)

Clarence, Duke of, conspires with Warwick, 142, 143;
pledges jewel, 146;
deserts Warwick, 151;
mediates with Edward IV. for Coventry men, 152

Cloth of Coventry, 212-5;
drapers, merchants of, 215;
dyers, makers of, 203 (note), 220;
Florentine, 315;
makers of, 203 (note);
manufacture of, 61;
sale of, 202, 212;
sealing of, 214-5;
weaving of, how paid, 230;
see also Drapery, Frieze

Clothiers, company of, survives, 232

Clothmakers, see Cloth

Cock-fighting, 278

"Cofantreo," 16 (note)

Coket, bread, 248 and note

Colchester, 15

Coleshill, 128, 129;
pillory at, 240

Combe, abbot of, 179

Commission of array, 312-3

Common Council, 204

Common labour, 310

Common lands, enclosures of, 170-3;
part of, held by Trinity guild, 91-2;
old men testify to the extent of, 179-80;
ploughed up, 160;
technical possessors of, 171 (note);
see also Enclosures, Lammas lands, Prior's Waste, Saunders, Laurence, Stint, Surcharging

Common seal, 92

Competition, rules against, 225;
of outsiders, 251

Compurgation, 51 (note)

Conduits, 1, 246

Coniers, Sir John, 141

Cook, Laurence, 109, 258

Cookery in Middle Ages, 283

Coopers, feast of, at Whitefriars, 275 (note)

Coroner, 59

Corpus Christi, eve of, 282;
procession on feast of, 287-8, see also Pageants

Corpus Christi guild, see Guild

Corrody, 63 (note)

Corvesars, 283

Council, great, held at Coventry, 126, 127;
see also Mayor's Council, Prince of Wales

Court, of the royal household, 101;
of statute merchant, 253-4 and note;
spiritual, for trial of craftsmen, 218;
see also Leet, Portmanmote

Coventry, bishops of, Blythe, 158;
Durdent, 32, 40;
Limesey, 30;
Nunant, expels monks from Priory, 30-2;
la Pucelle, 33;
elections of the, 32-5;
burgesses of, protest against confiscation of guilds' lands, 162;
cathedral of, 18, 25;
derivation of, 11;
see also Charters, Mayors, Recorders

—— send to, 3

—— bells, flower name, 3

Cox Street, or Mill Lane, pageant houses in, 12, 293

Crafts, combinations of, suppressed, 220 (note);
companies of, now existing, 232;
members of, tried in spiritual courts, 218;
feasts of, 284;
fines paid by, 219;
fines paid on admission to freedom of, 226
and note; power of corporation over, 217-23;
rules of, overlooked, 218 (note);
see also Apprentices, Cappers, Dyers, etc., Pageants

Cucking stool, 240


D

Danes, 15, 308

Dartmouth, 141 (note)

Daubers and rough masons forbidden to form a fellowship, 231

Daventry, 6

Despensers, plot to kill by witchcraft, 64

Dieulacres, 42

Dissolution of the monasteries, 161-2

Domesday Survey, Coventry in, 37 and note;
Prior's-half not in, ibid.

Doomsday, pageant of, 129, 295, 305, 306

Drama, liturgical, see Pageants

Drapers, apprentices of, 226 (note);
chapel of, 275 (note);
influence of, 75, 216;
overlook searchers of cloth, 217;
survival of company of, 232

Drapery, cloth sold in, 202, 212, 250 and note;
and Trinity guild, 82;
drapers live near, 250

Drayton, Michael, 1, 14

Drogheda, 252 and note

Dublin, 252 (note), 254

Dugdale, Sir William, attributes the Ludus Coventriæ to the Grey Friars, 297

Dunstable, 56, 276 (note);
play at, 290

Dunster, 22

Dye, French, 218, 257

Dyers, men of, ride in armed watch, 286;
chapel of, 275 (note);
raise price of dyeing cloth, 220 and note;
combinations of, 217, 220 and note;
payment of, to minstrels, 309 (note);
petition against abuses of, 217, 220 (note);
treatment of, by corporation, 220-1;
see also Journeymen, Saunders


E

Eadric Streona, 15

Earl's-half of Coventry, 7, 38, 57;
becomes a royal manor, 67;
see also Prior's-half

Edgcote, battle of, 144, 243 (note)

Edward I., 61

—— II. borrows from citizens, 61;
supports prior, 62;
plot to kill by witchcraft, 64

—— III., 68

—— IV. and jurisdiction, 135-136;
citizens embrace cause of, 132-3;