AAbjuration of the Realm,285Aldersgate,117Aldgate,30,56,76,77,93ff.,116,117;tower,78,266All Hallows Stonechurch,77Angle, Sir Guichard de,51Anne of Bohemia, Queen,56,208Antwerp,13,14Archery,232,235,236,240Architecture,119Arundel, Archbishop,142"Earl,311Attechapel, Bartholomew,26BBadlesmere, Lord,297Banastre, Katherine,184Becket, St. Thomas à,142,143,169,288Bedfellows,87,140Belknap, Chief Justice,264Berkeley, the family of,52,179,195ff.,239,240Bishopsgate,15Black Death,304Black Prince,17,176Blanch Apleton,78Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster,37Blountesham, Richard de,96Boccaccio,47,48Books, cost of,99Boughton-under-Blee,167Brembre, Sir Nicholas,60,94,135,193Brerelay, Richard,63Bribery,200Bristol,239,240Buckholt, Isabella,65Bucklersbury,16Bukton,68Burley, Sir John,51Burley, Sir Simon,54,60Burne-Jones,29CCadzand,133Caen,77;siege of,248,249Calais,10,174,183Cambridge,8,77,274,302Canterbury,76,140,143,145,167,169,170,271,297Chandos, Sir John,175Charing Cross Mews,61Charles V. of France,33,52,122"VI. of France,70"de Blois,252Chaucer, Geoffrey, and Aldgate,56,93ff.,101;his aloofness,69,95;his birth,3,15;and Boccaccio,47;and books,95ff.;his childhood,17;clerk of Love,222;his Clerkship of Works,60;his Comptrollership,54;at Court,173;at the Custom House,76,79;and Dante,43,74;his death and tomb,73;in debt,54,59,64,65;his debt to Dante,45;his family,12;his favour from Henry IV.,66;his freshness,114;at Greenwich,62;his house at Westminster,72;his last poems,68;his literary development,137;in London,53;loses Clerkship,63;loses Comptrollership,58;in love,22;his love of Nature,112;and Lynn,15;his marriage,27;optimistic,10;origin of name,12;his originality,39,45;as page,21;in Parliament,56;his pathos,246;and Petrarch,46,48;his philosophy,70;and Piers Plowman,71;his raptus,54;and religion,44,149,309ff.;his retractation,72;robbed,63;as royal yeoman,27,31;as squire,32;his times,1;his travels,35,40ff.,51;in war,25;his wide experiences,74;his wife’s death,59;and wine,79;and women,119;his writings,36,56,64;and Wycliffe,308Chaucer, Elizabeth,74"John,14,15,17,20,21,22,26,27,193"Lowys,55,64,73"Philippa,27,28,29,30,59,96,101,103,104,178"Richard,13"Robert Malyn le,12,13"Simon,283,284"Thomas,31,73Chaumpaigne, Cecilia,54,55Chausier, Elizabeth,74Cheapside,16,81,88,89,90Child-marriages,198,204,206,207Children beaten,215Chiltern Hills,117Chimneys,86Chivalry, decay of,190;golden age of,189;and marriage,202;theory of,188Church, buildings decayed,297;corruption of,296;talking in,140Churchman, John,79Clarence, Lionel of,13,21,22,48,49,52Clergy, and hunting,280,281;in Parliament,7;unpopular,306,308;youth of,299Clerical, criminals,288ff.;education,300ff.;immunity,288ff.;influence, decay of,8ff.;morality,156,157,159,197,281,291,296,297,298,303Clerkenwell,264Comfort, ideal of,191,192,257Compostella,140,141,142Compurgation,289Conscription,234ff.;and liberty,251,253,263;and peace,250Constance, Duchess of Lancaster,30Contrasts,176Cornhill,81,107,112,291Crécy,232,233,238,239,240,242Crime and punishment,283Cripplegate,77,93,94Crusades, decay of,190DDancing,108Dartford,154Dartmouth,133,134David, King of Scots,17Dennington,13Despenser, Bishop,237"Edward,49Dilapidation,297Divorce,205Douglas, Sir James,238Dovecotes, manorial,196Du Guesclin, Bertrand,241,242,244EEavesdroppers,83Edward I.,6,77,122,194,213,234,235,290"II.,179,254,297,311"III.,4,6,9,10,13,14,16,25,26,27,32,33,35,38,42,53,59,70,88,122,123,126,133,172ff.,191,194,197,234,235,237,238,240ff.,249,263,275,292,298;bankrupt,126;his character,173;his court,33;his marriage,178;his Rhine journey,13England, growing wealth of,126;unsettled state,67English, commerce,122ff.;democratic,253;fickleness of,134;language,3ff.;language in Chaucer’s poems,74;in war,244,254Epping,116Exeter,99,182,301FFastolf, Sir John,211,212Florence,40,42,43,48Food of the poor,268Foreigners in England,123Forrester (Forster), Richard,52,94Frederick II., Emperor,190Free-thought,44,125,309ff.French and English nobles,33;language, decay of,3ff.Friars,294,298;and usury,124GGames,109,272ff.,275Gascoigne, Chief Justice,211,212Gaston, Count of Foix,175,209,211Gauger, William le,15Gaunt, John of,13,17,22,30,37,54,59,60,73,74,96,227,264,308Genoa,40,42,78,122Giffard, Bishop,278,299Gisers, John,16Glass windows,83Gloucester, Thomas, Duke of,60,186,187,239Gower, John,52,73,117,145Gravesend,80Greenwich,62,64HHampstead,116Harbledown,169Hatfield, William of,184Hawkwood, Sir John,52,242Henry II.,235"III.,72,193"IV.,4,59,66,67,68,72,73"V.,73,243,278,297"VI.,311Heriot,260Highgate,116Hoccleve,73,175Holborn,19,115,117Holidays,273Holland, Sir Thomas,248Home life,84,96,104,218Hornchurch, Prior of,78Hospitals, and bad meat,132IInfidelity,313Inns,139Invasion of England threatened,94Ipswich,12,13Irreverence,140,141,157,275,276,277ff.,297,298Isabella, Queen,21,51,178Isle of Wight,133JJean de Saintré,23,223John XXII., Pope,206John, King of France,17,32,33,41,194,197,223Justice,282ff.;and money,197,200KKent, John,80Knighthood, of boys,212;cheapening of,193;decay,242;imperfect,252;and trade,194,210,211Knightsbridge,115Knolles, Sir Robert,265LLa Rochelle, battle of,133Lancaster, Thomas of,311Langham, Bishop,279Laws and penalties,129Lisle, Lord,198Lollardy, popularity of,306London, its byelaws,126;citizens’ furniture,85;city walls,77;its churches,82;