AAbingdon, monastery at,16;letter sent to,152Actors, Coventry,288Aelfgar,23Alchemist, an,240Aldermen,77;appointment of, proposed,115;police duties of,267,279Aldgyth,23Ale-tasters,247Ale-wives,228,249Almshouse,263"Angel" inn,131Annals, or mayor-lists, unreliability of,106(and note)Annunciation,82;pageant of,287,299Apprentices, swear to franchises,200-1,226;morals of,227,279;number of, limited,225;on setting up shop, pay fine,226and note;treatment of,227Archery,278Armour, provided by citizens114-115;delivered to captains,311-2Arms, view of,311Arthur, Prince of Wales,307Assize of ale,246;of bread,51,71,98,246,248Assumption,82;pageant of,287,299Audley, Lord,130Bablake, church of St John the Baptist at,seeChurches, Hospital;gate at,8Baginton,102,248Bagot, Sir William,102Bailiffs, duties of,88;see alsoSheriffsBakers, offend against assize of bread,98;take sanctuary at Baginton,248;rules of,251(note).Ball, John, taken at Coventry,97;discourse of,98Banbury,144,151;Puritanism at,279Barnet Field,151,152Baron's Field,179Bath, Roman town,15Battle, trial by,53Beam, wool weighed at the,250Bear-baiting,278Bearward,88,278Beaumont, Lord,120,128Bedford, Duke of,110;Duchess of,111,149Bedon, William, quarrels with Huet,137Belfry, symbol of independence,74(note).Bell, church,158,234and 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 alsoCoventry, Monks, Priors, Priory"Benevolences,"155Beverley, plays at,290Bishopric of Coventry, title of,167Bishops of Coventry,seeCoventryBlack Death,13,244Blood, Holy, of Hales,238Bloreheath, battle of,130Blue thread, special colour used in dyeing,252Bolingbroke, Henry, 9,101,102Bond, John,216;see alsoAlmshouseBonfires on S. John's Eve,285Books sold at fairs,253Bordars,37(note)Boston, ship of,259Bosworth Field, battle of,157,256Boteler, Henry,seeRecordersBotoner, family of, trade with Bristol,256;build S. Michael's steeple,257;purchase estate,ibid.—— Adam,257Botoner, William,257Brakemen, workers in iron,221-3Brass, memorial, to Sir William Bagot,102Braytoft, Richard,176Breauté, Faulkes de,95-6Bredon, Friar John, opposes the hermit's preaching,107;attacks monks,276-8;nails bills on the church door,277Brethren, of the mayor,seeMayor's CouncilBrewers, forbidden to take water from conduits,246;forestall barley,249;trade of, lucrative,248Bridgman, Sir Orlando, house of,6Bristol, cannon brought from,115;trade with,215,252,256;toll demanded at,257Bristowe, 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 alsoWhitleyBroadgate,73Bruges, staple for cloth at,258Buckingham, 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,132Bull-baiting,278Bull-ring, poulterers stand near the,250Burgage, free,46Burgundy, wool trade with,140,150Bury S. Edmund's, monastery at,16;men of, get concessions from the abbot,66CCade, Jack,114;quarters of, exposed on town gates,243Caen, abbeys at,16Calais,143,146;see alsoStapleCaludon Castle,102Cannock Chase, robbers at,258Canterbury, Archbishop of,210;Arundel,103,104Cantilupe, Fulk de,34Cappers,225;company of, survives,232;fines for admission to freedom of craft,226(note);treatment of apprentices among,227(note);see alsoApprentices, Chapel, Journeymen, PageantsCaps, making of, by journeymen forbidden,232Cardmakers, bill concerning abuses of the,222;see alsoJourneymenCard-wiredrawers,seeCardmakersCarmelites, habit of,238Carpenter, John, of London,263Carpenters, apprentices of,232;feasts of,284,309(note)Carthusians, house of, at Coventry,100;habit of,238;see alsoCharter-houseCartwright, Presbyterian, at Warwick,165Castle, of Coventry,40Catesby, John,178,180Catherine of France, Queen,107Chamberlain, duties of,88,187;see alsoSaunders, LaurenceChapel Fields,41Chapel of S. George on the Gosford Gate,83,275(note)—— of S. James and S. Christopher,8—— of S. Mary Magdalene, at Spon,41Chapels of the crafts in the parish churches,274,275(note)Chard,152Charity of the merchants,259,263;of the corporation,268Charles I. is refused entrance to Coventry,6,166—— II. orders the walls to be dismantled,7,166Charter, 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,59,60Charter-house,6,100,278;see alsoCarthusiansChester, 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,291Cheylesmore, officers of,135-6;becomes royal manor,96;Earl of Chester's dwelling at,44,95(note),101;Princes of Wales at,154Chimneys, 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,49,250Clapham,144,243(note)Clarence, Duke of, conspires with Warwick,142,143;pledges jewel,146;deserts Warwick,151;mediates with Edward IV. for Coventry men,152Cloth 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 alsoDrapery, FriezeClothiers, company of, survives,232Clothmakers,seeClothCock-fighting,278"Cofantreo,"16(note)Coket, bread,248and noteColchester,15Coleshill,128,129;pillory at,240Combe, abbot of,179Commission of array,312-3Common Council,204Common labour,310Common 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 alsoEnclosures, Lammas lands, Prior's Waste, Saunders, Laurence, Stint, SurchargingCommon seal,92Competition, rules against,225;of outsiders,251Compurgation,51(note)Conduits,1,246Coniers, Sir John,141Cook, Laurence,109,258Cookery in Middle Ages,283Coopers, feast of, at Whitefriars,275(note)Coroner,59Corpus Christi, eve of,282;procession on feast of,287-8,see alsoPageantsCorpus Christi guild,seeGuildCorrody,63(note)Corvesars,283Council, great, held at Coventry,126,127;see alsoMayor's Council, Prince of WalesCourt, of the royal household,101;of statute merchant,253-4 and note;spiritual, for trial of craftsmen,218;see alsoLeet, PortmanmoteCoventry, 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 alsoCharters, Mayors, Recorders—— send to,3—— bells, flower name,3Cox Street, or Mill Lane, pageant houses in,12,293Crafts, 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,226and note; power of corporation over,217-23;rules of, overlooked,218(note);see alsoApprentices, Cappers, Dyers, etc., PageantsCucking stool,240DDanes,15,308Dartmouth,141(note)Daubers and rough masons forbidden to form a fellowship,231Daventry,6Despensers, plot to kill by witchcraft,64Dieulacres,42Dissolution of the monasteries,161-2Domesday Survey, Coventry in,37and note;Prior's-half not in,ibid.Doomsday, pageant of,129,295,305,306Drama, liturgical,seePageantsDrapers, apprentices of,226(note);chapel of,275(note);influence of,75,216;overlook searchers of cloth,217;survival of company of,232Drapery, cloth sold in,202,212,250and note;and Trinity guild,82;drapers live near,250Drayton, Michael,1,14Drogheda,252and noteDublin,252(note),254Dugdale, Sir William, attributes theLudus Coventriæto the Grey Friars,297Dunstable,56,276(note);play at,290Dunster,22Dye, French,218,257Dyers, men of, ride in armed watch,286;chapel of,275(note);raise price of dyeing cloth,220and note;combinations of,217,220and note;payment of, to minstrels,309(note);petition against abuses of,217,220(note);treatment of, by corporation,220-1;see alsoJourneymen, SaundersEEadric Streona,15Earl's-half of Coventry,7,38,57;becomes a royal manor,67;see alsoPrior's-halfEdgcote, 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;