English Industries of the Middle Ages / Being an Introduction to the Industrial History of Medieval England

by L. F. Salzman

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INDEX

• Abbetoft, Sir Walter de, grant to monks of Louth Park, [23].
• Aberystwyth siege, guns broken, [110].
• Abinghall, Forest of Dean, coal-working, [5].
• Adam of Corfe, marble-worker, [85].
• Adits: coal pits drained by, [8]-[9];
• lead mines drained by, [50];
• tin mines drained by, [65]-[6].
• Aketon, Nicholas de. See [Nicholas de Aketon].
• Alabaster industry, [86-90].
• Alcester, legend of punishment of iron-workers, [22].
• Aldebek, tilery, [125].
• Ale: brewing and trade regulations, [186]-[93];
• national drink, [184]-[5];
• price fixed by ordinance, [185]-[6];
• used in stained glassmaking, [132].
• Ale-conner or taster, duties of, [189].
• Ale stakes, use of, [189].
• Alston Moor: lead mines, [39], [40]-[8], [60];
• Scottish king's rights over, [41].
• Alum, use as a mordant in dyeing wool, [144].
• Alwold, 'campanarius,' [96].
• Amblecote, coal-mining, [7].
• Amesbury, lead sent to, from Shropshire, [39].
• Amiens, agreement of woad merchants with Norwich, [144]-[5].
• Apprenticeship regulations, [229]-[31].
• Appys, John, lease of tileries, [124].
• Ariconium, near Ross, iron industry, [21].
• Arnoldson, Cornelys, repair of guns, [112].
• Arundel, alabaster tomb at, [88].
• Ashburnham, tile manufacture, [123]-[4].
• Ashburton, tin sent to, for coinage duty, [69].
• Ashdown Forest, labour employed in iron mills, [32];
• water-hammer in, [30].
• Ashford, Derbyshire, lead mine, [39].
• Assize of Bread and Ale, Assize of Cloth, etc. See [Bread and Ale, Assize of];
• [Cloth, Assize of].
• Alkynson, John, gun-founder, [113].
• Aylesham, clothmaking industry, [161], [166].
• Bakers: frauds practised by, [204];
• use of trademarks ordered, [216].
• Bakewell, Derbyshire, lead mine, [39].
• Ballard, Blase, gunner, grant to, for injuries caused by gun accident, [110].
• Ballard, Simon, iron shot made by, at Newbridge, [111]-[12].
• Barbary, leather imported into England, [176].
• Bark for tanning, [174].
• Barmaster, of mine court, [40].
• Barmote. See [Berghmote.]
• Barnack, stone quarries, [77].
• Barnstaple, clothmaking industry, [158].
• Barri, Gerald de, cider mentioned by, [197].
• Bath: gild of smiths at, alleged, in Roman times, [21];
• Roman use of coal in temple of Minerva probable, [1].
• Bath Stone, quarries at Haslebury in Box, [78]-[9].
• Battle, Sussex, early iron-works at, [20].
• Battle Abbey: cider a source of income, [197];
• reference to bell casting, [96];
• stone quarry near, [76];
• tile manufacture, [123].
• Baude, Peter, discovery of method of casting cannon in entire piece, [113].
• Beare, Thomas, on alluvial tin, [65].
• Beauvale, prior of, lease of coal mine at Newthorpe, [15].
• Becket, Thomas, ale taken to French Court, in 1157, [185].
• Bedburn forge, conditions of labour, [32].
• Bedwin, Wilts., clothmaking industry, [137].
• Beer Alston, Devon, royal lead mines, [48]-[51].
• Beer, Devon, stone quarries, [78], [80].
• Beer, introduction into England and development of trade, [193]-[5].
• Bellows, method of using in iron smelting, [27].
• Bell pits, in coal-mining, [7];
• in iron-mining, [27].
• Bells: dedication ceremony, [101];
• manufacture of, [96]-[107];
• tuning of, [99]-[100].
• Bellyeter, term for a bell-founder, [97].
• Belper: iron industry, [25];
• terms of lease of coal mine, [15].
• Belsire, tileries owned by family, [124].
• Beneit le Seynter, early bell-founder, [96].
• Benthall, lease of coal working, [14]-[15].
• Berghmote or Barmote, mine court in Derbyshire, [40].
• Berkshire, clothmaking industry, [167].
• Berneval, Alexander de, sent to England for alabaster, [87].
• Berwick-on-Tweed, inventory of artillery, in 1401, [109].
• Beverley: building trade, hours of work, [211];
• clothmaking industry, [134], [139];
• list of standard measures for ale kept at, [188];
• regulations for control of industry, [223];
• tile manufacture, [124]-[5].
• Beverley, College of, new shrine for relics of St. John of Beverley, [93]-[4].
• Billiter Street, origin of name, [97].
• Birley in Brampton, grant of wood to monks of Louth Park, [23].
• Birlond, quarrying of slates at, [81].
• Bisham, stone quarries, [83].
• Bishop's Stortford, consecration of bells of St. Michael's, [101].
• Black Death, effect on industries, [11], [74], [201].
• Black Prince. See [Edward, Black Prince].
• Blacksmiths, control of industry, [211]-[12], [217].
• Blakeney, Forest of Dean, coal-working, [5].
• Blanket, Thomas, cloth-weaver in Bristol, [141].
• Blanket cloth, manufacture, [168].
• Blaunchlond, Northumberland, lead mine, [60].
• Bloom, in iron-working, meaning of term, [28], [30];
• variations in weight, [30]-[31].
• Bloomery, meaning of term, [29].
• Blund, William and Robert le, probable identity with William and Robert of Corfe, [85].
• Bocher, Robert, alabaster-worker, [89].
• Bodiam Castle, gun found in moat, [111].
• Bodmatgan quarry, slates from, [81].
• Bodmin, tin sent to, for coinage duty, [69].
• 'Boldon Book,' 1183, references to use of coal, [2]-[3].
• Bole furnace, type used in lead mines, [51].
• Bolerium of Diodorus Siculus, question of identity, [62].
• Bolles, William, legal action, [13].
• Bolsover, Manor of, [10], [11].
• Bordale, Edmund, of Bramley, glass purchased from, [130].
• Borde, Andrew, on ale, [184], [190];
• beer, [193];
• cider and perry, [196].
• Boston, Lincs., clothmaking industry, [139].
• Boughton Monchelsea, stone worked at, [80], [83].
• Boundary stones, custom of burying coal under, [3-4].
• Brabant weavers in London, [225].
• Bradley, Staffordshire, coal-mining, [7].
• Braintree, clothmaking industry, [157].
• Brasier, Richard, bell-founder of Norwich, [105]-[7].
• Bread and ale, assize of, beginning of national control of industry, [201].
• Bremerhaven, export of coal to, [18].
• Breton, Ralph, gift of money for bell to Rochester Cathedral Priory, [96].
• Brewing: ale, universal and regulation of, [186]-[93];
• beer, [193]-[5];
• cider, [196]-[8].
• Bricks, manufacture of, [125]-[6].
• Brill, iron sent to, from Forest of Dean, [23].
• Bristol: clothmaking industry, [141], [144], [145]-[6], [148], [150]-[1], [154];
• coal exported, in 1592, [18];
• gun-founding industry, [110];
• leather trade, [174];
• regulations for control of industries, [181], [182], [191], [216]-[19], [223], [227]-[9], [235].
• Bromfield, Shropshire, lead-miners recruited from, for Devon, [57].
• Brown, Roger, of Norwich, shoemaker, [181].
• Brushford, near Dulverton, lead mine, [59].
• Buggeberd, Adam, rector of South Peret, dispute over Whitchurch bells referred to, [100].
• Building industry: hours of work at Beverly, [211];
• reasons for not treating subject, [vi].
• Burel cloth, manufacture of, [136]-[7].
• Burford family, bell-founders, [102].
• Burges, Toisaunts, brought to England to teach art of calendering worsteds, [165].
• Burle, Nicholas, of London, seizure of hides, [175].
• Burnard, Richard, clothier of Barnstaple, [158].
• Burton-on-Trent, alabaster-workers, [89].
• Bury St. Edmunds: bell-founding industry, [105];
• quarry in Barnack owned by abbey of, [77].
• Buttercrambe, Plaster of Paris obtained from, [89]-[90].
• Byland, Abbey of, grant of iron mine to, 1180, [23].
• Caen, stone quarries, [78], [80].
• Calendering worsteds, introduction of art, [165]-[6].
• Cambrai, Siege of, 1339, guns used, [107].
• Cannons. See [Gun-founding].
• Canon, Richard, carver and marble-worker, [85].
• Canterbury: ale famous, [185];
• bell-founding industry, [105].
• Canterbury Cathedral, alabaster tomb of Henry IV. and Queen Joan, [88].
• Capitalists, conflict of interests in the gilds, [226]-[36].
• Cappers of Coventry, regulations for control of industry, [227], [231].
• Carlisle, Castle of, brass cannons for, in 1385, [108].
• Carretate, weight for lead, varieties, [56].
• Carving, English skill in Middle Ages, [87].
• Cassiterides or Tin Islands, question of identification, [62].
• Castor, Northants., Roman British pottery, [114]-[15].
• Causton, Alice, punished for selling short measure of ale, [188].
• Cavalcante, John, of Florence, cannon and saltpetre supplied by, [112]-[13].
• Chafery, in iron-smelting, [30].
• Chagford, tin sent to, for coinage duty, [69].
• Chalder or chaldron, measure, [17]-[18].
• Chaldon, stone quarries, [77].
• Chalk, quarrying for conversion into lime, [90]-[1].
• Chalons, cloth, origin of name and manufacture in England, [138].
• Chalons-sur-Marne, cloth manufacture, [138].
• Chamois (shamoys) leather, trade regulations, [176]-[7].
• Charcoal: confused with sea coal by Alexander Neckam, [3];
• only fuel used for iron-working, [26].
• Charcoal-burners employed in iron industry, [36]-[7].
• Cheapside, goldsmiths' shops, [95].
• Chellaston, alabaster quarries, [87].
• Chertsey Abbey, inlaid tiles discovered, [127].
• Cheshire, lead-miners recruited for Devon, [57].
• Chester: brewing-trade dues paid to castle of, [187];
• gild of smiths at, in Roman times, [21].
• Chichester Cathedral, Purbeck marble used, [84].
• Chiddingfold, glassmaking industry, [127]-[9].
• Child labour, order restricting, in 1398, [229].
• Chilvers Coton, coal-mining, [6].
• Chimneys, increase in number, in sixteenth century, [19].
• Chirche, Reginald, bell-founder, [101].
• Chislehurst, chalk quarries, [91].
• Choke damp, [8], [16].
• Cider industry, [196]-[8].
• Cistercian ware, distinctive features, [118].
• Clee, forest of, coal-working, [6].
• Cleveland, iron industry, [25].
• Clifford, Walter de, licence to Sir John de Halston (c. 1260), [5]-[6].
• Cloth, Assize of, beginning of a national control of industry, [201].
• Clothmaking industry: development and principal centres, [133]-[41];
• Edward III.'s efforts to improve, [140]-[1], [201];
• frauds and regulations against, [159]-[64], [204]-[6];
• legislative control, [136]-[7], [160]-[4], [201], [205], [216];
• numbers employed and output of cloth, [156]-[9];
• processes used, [141]-[56];
• quality of English cloth prior to time of Edward III., [136];
• subjection of workers evidenced by restrictive regulations, [134]-[5];
• varieties of cloth made, [164]-[70].
• Coal: burying under boundary stones, [3]-[4];
• discovery in 1620 of method of using for iron-works, [26], [37];
• early significance of the word, [2]-[3];
• restriction of use to iron-working and lime-burning, [4]-[5], [90]-[1];
• Roman use of, in Britain, [1]-[2];
• smoke nuisance complained of, [6];
• trade returns, [18]-[19];
• value, [13]-[14];
• weighing of, measures employed, [14], [17]-[18].
• Coal-mining: bell pits described, [7];
• choke damp mentioned, [8], [16];
• early methods of working, [7]-[11];
• first references to actual workings, [5]-[6];
• mineral rights, [11]-[18];
• terms of leases, [14]-[16].
• Coggeshall, clothmaking industry, [140], [157].
• Cogware, origin of term, [143].
• Coinage duty on tin, [68-9], [74].
• Colchester: clothmaking industry, [140], [156], [168];
• leather trade, [172], [173];
• Roman pottery manufacture, [115];
• tile industry regulations, [120]-[1].
• Coleford, Roman iron-works at, [20].
• Collard, Robert, tilemaker, [125].
• Collyweston, stone slates, [82].
• Colyn, Thomas, alabaster-worker, [88].
• Competition, efforts to restrict, [222]-[5], [226]-[7].
• Control of industry: gild regulations, [206]-[40];
• legislation for, [200]-[12].
• Cope, in bell-founding, [98].
• Corby, agreement of woad merchants with Norwich, [144]-[5].
• Cordwainers: journeyman fraternity formed, [233];
• origin of name, [180];
• trade regulations, [181]-[3].
• Core, in bell-founding, [98].
• Corfe, Dorset: Purbeck marble industry, [85];
• stone quarry, [79].
• Cornwall, Duke of, vested with supreme control of the stannaries, [72].
• Cornwall: brewing trade, [190];
• clothmaking industry, [158];
• gold, search for, [61];
• slate quarrying, [81]-[2];
• tin-mining, [62]-[74].
• Corvehill, William, bell-founder, [107].
• Costume of miners, depicted in Newland Church, [36].
• Courts. See [Law Courts].
• Coventry: brewing trade and regulations for, [187]-[9], [191];
• Cappers' gild regulations, [212], [227], [230]-[1];
• clothmaking industry, [146]-[7], [169];
• gilds controlled by civic authorities, [208];
• iron-workers, trade restrictions, [219]-[21], [232];
• journeyman gilds or confraternities, [234], [235];
• treatment of strangers, [222];
• trial of trade disputes in spiritual courts, [236].
• Cowick, Yorkshire, payment by potters for digging clay, [118].
• Crangs, Burcord, melting-house at Larian in Cornwall, [66]-[7].
• Créçy, battle of, guns used by English, [107].
• Crich, Derbyshire, lead mine, [39].
• Croker, Nicholas, coppersmith, [96].
• Crowchard, John, gun repaired by, [112].
• Crowland Abbey, quarry in Barnack, [77].
• Croxden Abbey, bell recast, in 1313, [99].
• Culhare, Emma, killed by choke-damp, [8].
• Culverden, William, bell-founder, [100].
• Cumberland, lead-mining, [46], [60]-[1].
• Customs and Duties: alien merchandise, on, [224]-[5];
• coal, [5], [18];
• coinage on tin, [68]-[9], [74].
• Dale, Abbey of, Derbyshire, inlaid tile manufacture, [127].
• Damlade, uncertain meaning of the word, [81].
• Darcy, Edmund, royal grant to, for searching and sealing leather, [179].
• Darlington, clothmaking industry, [134].
• Dean, Forest of: coal-mining, [5], [11];
• iron industry, [23], [29], [34]-[6].
• Dearns, meaning of term, [9].
• De la Fava, of Mechlin. See [La Fava].
• Denby: coal-mining accident, in 1291, [8];
• iron mine, [22]-[3].
• Derbyshire: alabaster quarries, [87];
• coal-mining, [6]-[8];
• iron industry, [25], [27];
• lead-mining, [39]-[48], [54], [56], [57]-[8].
• Devon: clothmaking industry, [144], [158], [167];
• gold discovered, [61];
• lead-mining, [43], [48]-[9], [50]-[8];
• slate quarrying, [81];
• stone quarry at Beer, [78];
• tin-mining, [62]-[74].
• Dewysse, Edward, beer brewer, [194].
• Diodorus Siculus, statements respecting British tin trade, [62].
• Dorset: clothmaking industry, frauds practised, [161];
• lead-miners recruited for Devon, [57];
• Purbeck marble industry, [84]-[5];
• stone quarries, [79].
• Douset, term explained, [240].
• Dover: bells cast for, [105];
• cannon for castle, in 1401, [108]-[9].
• Dowson, John, gun-founder, [113].
• Doys, John, beer brewer, case of theft against, [194].
• Dudley, Dud, discovery of methods of using coal for iron-works, in 1620, [26], [37].
• Duffield Frith: coal obtained from, in 1257, [6];
• iron industry, [25].
• Dunkirk, export of coal to, [18].
• Dunstan, St., patron of the goldsmiths, [92].
• Durham: coal-mining, [9];
• lead mines granted to bishop by King Stephen, [39]-[40].
• Dutch: beer a natural drink for, [193];
• expert gun-founders, [111].
• Duties. See [Customs and Duties].
• Dyeing industry: processes employed for cloth, [144]-[8];
• regulations for control of, [229], [234].
• Eastbourne, green sandstone quarry, [79].
• Ebchester, Durham, discovery at, of Roman use of coal, [1].
• Edmund of Cornwall, tin worked for, in 1297, [65].
• Edward III.: efforts to improve cloth trade, [140]-[1], [201];
• metal cast figure of, [95].
• Edward, the Black Prince, plate presented to, [94].
• Egremont, iron mine, [22].
• Egwin, St., legend of punishment of iron-workers of Alcester, [22].
• Egynton, John, dyer, trade dispute, [146]-[7].
• Eleanor, Queen: driven from Nottingham Castle by coal smoke, [6];
• metal cast figure of, [95].
• Eleanor Crosses, Purbeck marble supplied for, [85].
• Ely: bells cast, [103];
• wall tiles or bricks for, [125].
• Elyng, meaning of term, [28].
• Encaustic tiles, process of manufacture, [126]-[7].
• Essex, clothmaking industry, [157], [166], [168].
• Essex, straits, narrow cloths, [140].
• Eton college, stained glass for, [130].
• Eure, Sir William, lease of coal mines, [16].
• Exeter Cathedral: marble work for, [85];
• Portland stone used, [79];
• resident bell-founders appointed, [104]-[5]·
• Fairlight Quarry, near Hastings, stone for Rochester castle, [79], [80].
• Faringdon, William, renowned goldsmith, [93].
• Farriers: allowed to shoe on Sundays and feast days, [213];
• mutual assistance regulations, [237].
• Faudkent, Peter, Dochman, stained glass purchased from, [131].
• Fécamp Abbey, alabaster procured from England by abbot, [87].
• Fenby, Thomas de, dyer of Coventry, trade dispute, [146]-[7].
• Ferry, coal mines, [9].
• Finchale monks, coal-mining operations, [9].
• Fishmongers, regulation of trade, [219].
• Fiskerton, brewing-trade dues, [187].
• Fitz Odo, goldsmiths. See [Fitz Otho].
• Fitz Osbert, William, grant to abbey of Byland, 1180, [23].
• Fitz Otho, Edward, goldsmith of Henry III., bells cast by, [102].
• Fitz Otho family, king's goldsmiths and masters of the mint, [92].
• Flanders: beer introduced into England from, [193];
• glassmaker brought to England, in 1449, [130]-[1];
• settlement in England of craftsmen from, [225].
• Fletcher's lead mine in Alston, [60].
• Flushing, export of coal to, [18].
• Folkestone, stone quarry, [80].
• Forest Assize of 1244, references to coal-mining, [5].
• Forges, itinerant, in Forest of Dean, [29].
• Fortuno de Catalengo, purchase of cannon from, [112].
• Fotinel, weight for lead, [56].
• Founders of metal, notable examples of work, [95]-[6].
• Fountains Abbey, ware found in, [118].
• Franciscans in London, poverty evidenced by quality of their ale, [185].
• Frankwell, William, water for tanning at Lewes, [173].
• Frese, William, gunmaker, [112].
• Friezes, types manufactured, [169]-[70].
• Friscobaldi, Italian merchants, lease of Devon lead mines, [56]-[7].
• Fuller's earth, used for cleansing cloth, [154]-[5].
• Fulling of cloth: process employed, [153]-[5];
• use of trademarks ordered, [216].
• Furnaces, types employed, [28], [51]-[3], [66].
• Furness Abbey, iron industry, [25], [27], [31].
• Galloway, Mr., his Annals of Coal Mining, [ix.]
• Gateshead, coal-mining, [9], [11].
• Geddyng, John, glazier, [129].
• Gerard le Flemeng, cloth weaver, [137].
• Germans: expert gun-founders, [111];
• skilled miners, [59].
• Gildesburgh, Robert, dispute over tuning of bells, [99]-[100].
• Gilds: clothweavers, alien weavers in London, [225];
• charters granted by Henry I. and Henry II., [135];
• enforced holidays, [151];
• payments to the king, in twelfth century, [133]-[4];
• restriction of competition, [226]-[7].
• —— conflict of class interests in, [225]-[36].
• —— control of industry by regulations, [206]-[40].
• —— cordwainers at Oxford, [183].
• —— fullers of Lincoln, regulations, [153]-[4].
• —— journeymen's efforts to form, [233]-[5].
• —— origin of, [206]-[7].
• —— religious element in organisation, [237]-[40].
• Glasewryth, John, glassmaker in Chiddingfold district, [129].
• Glassmaking industry, [127]-[32].
• Glastonbury, lake village, evidences of weaving discovered, [133].
• Glaze, for pottery, process, [116]-[17].
• Gloucester: bell-founding industry, [103];
• brewing-trade regulations, [192];
• clothmaking industry, [134], [161].
• Gloucestershire: iron industry, [22], [24], [28];
• lead-mining, [39], [57].
• Gloucester, vale of, vine cultivation, [198].
• Goderswyk, William, mining grant to, [60]-[1].
• Gold-mining, [61].
• Goldsmiths, early records of, [92]-[4].
• Goldsmiths' Row, London, built by Thomas Wood, [95].
• Goodrich, Roman iron-works at, [21].
• Goryng, John, case against beer brewers, [194].
• Goykyn, Godfrey, English guns made by, [111].
• Graffham, Sussex, potteries, [117].
• Gray, Sir Thomas, lease of Whickham coal mines, [16].
• Green, Ralph, alabaster tomb in Lowick Church, [88].
• Greenwich, chalk and lime sent to London, [91].
• Griff, charge for sinking coal pits, [10].
• Guildford: chalk quarries, [91];
• clothmaking industry, [138], [168].
• Guildford Castle, tiles from Shalford, [124].
• Guildford cloths, reputation injured by frauds, [155], [205].
• Guildhall, London, ordnance at, in 1339, [107].
• Gun-founding industry: account of, [107]-[13];
• discovery of method of casting cannon in entire piece, [113];
• projectiles used, [80]-[81], [109].
• Gypsum, conversion into Plaster of Paris, [89]-[90].
• Hackington, tileries, [124].
• Halingbury, William, promotion of art of calendering worsteds, [165].
• Hall, Robert, clothier of Winchester, [158].
• Halston, Sir John de, licensed to dig for coals in Clee forest, [5]-[6].
• Hammers, water, for iron industry, [30].
• Hampshire: clothmaking industry, [167];
• stone quarries, [79].
• Hanbury, earliest sepulchral image in alabaster at, [86].
• Harrison, William: ale disparaged by, [195];
• cider and perry mentioned by, [196];
• his Description of England, [19].
• Hartkeld, coal mines, [16].
• Haslebury quarry, [78]-[9].
• Hassal, slate-quarrying at, [81].
• Hastings: kilns for making inlaid tiles discovered, [127];
• pottery, stamp decoration, [118].
• Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, lease of coal mines, [16].
• Hatters, use of trademark ordered, [216].
• Hawkin of Liége, metal-founder, [95].
• Helere, Edmund, lease of tileries, [124].
• Helston: brewing trade, [190];
• nomination of members for stannary parliament, [72];
• tin sent to, for coinage dues, [69].
• Henry III., metal cast figure of, [95].
• Henry IV., alabaster tomb at Canterbury, [88].
• Henry V., inventory of goods quoted, [139].
• Henry of Lewes, the king's chief smith, [24].
• Henshawe, William, bell-founder at Gloucester, [103].
• Hereford: blankets made at, [168];
• iron industry, [22];
• regulations for control of industry, [223].
• Hermann de Alemannia, lead mine worked by, [59].
• Herrings, Yarmouth monopoly of sale on east coast, [203].
• Heworth, charge for sinking coal pits, [10].
• Hides, trade regulations, [174]-[5].
• Hill, Nicholas, alabaster-worker, [89].
• Hogge, Ralph, discovery of method of casting cannon in entire piece, [113].
• Holewell, Thomas, alabaster-worker, [88].
• Holidays, regulations, [212]-[14].
• Hope, Derbyshire, lead mines, [39].
• Hops, restrictions on use, [194]-[5].
• Horsham, stone slate quarries, [82].
• Houghton, Yorkshire, customs respecting mineral rights, [12].
• Hours of labour, regulations, [211]-[12].
• Huddleston, stone quarries, [77].
• Hugh of Scheynton, lease of coal mine, [14]-[15].
• Hull: tile manufacture, [124];
• weaving trade regulations, [237].
• Humbert, Duke, lease of lead mines at Wirksworth, [39].
• Huntingdon, clothmaking industry, [133].
• Hussey, Sir William, action against, [13].
• Ictis of Diodorus Siculus, question of identity, [62]-[3].
• Industry, control of. See [Control of Industry].
• Inspection of goods in Middle Ages, [216]-[17].
• Ipswich, tolls on English cloth, [139]-[40].
• Irish friezes, manufacture of, [169]-[70].
• Iron, price of, and parliamentary attempt to regulate, [31], [208]-[9].
• Iron-mining: free miners of the Forest of Dean, their privileges, [34]-[6];
• methods of working, [26]-[30];
• numbers employed and conditions of labour, [31]-[6];
• places noted for, [22]-[6];
• Roman activity in Britain, [20]-[1];
• weight of the bloom, variations in, [30]-[1];
• wood consumption in sixteenth century, [36]-[7].
• Jack of Newbury. See [Winchcombe, John].
• Jervaulx Abbey: grant to, by Earl of Richmond, 1281, [29];
• ware found at, [118].
• John, King, tomb at Worcester, in Purbeck marble, [84].
• John de Alemaygne, of Chiddingfold, glassmaker, [128].
• John de Stafford, mayor of Leicester, bell-founder, [103].
• John, Duke of Bretagne, alabaster tomb at Nantes, [88].
• John Glasman of Ruglay, glass purchased from, [130].
• John of Chester, glazier, designs for stained glass, [131]-[2].
• John of Gloucester, bell-founder, [103].
• John, St., of Alexandria, mention in life of, of British tin trade, [63].
• John, St., of Beverley, new shrine for relics, in 1292, [93]-[4].
• Johnson, Cornelys, gun-founder, [113].
• Journeymen, regulation of employment, [231]-[5].
• Julius Cæsar, on iron in Britain, [20].
• Julius Vitalis, armourer of the 20th Legion, funeral at Bath, [21].
• Keel or coal barge, regulation of capacity, [17].
• Kendal, clothmaking industry, [143], [169].
• Kent: chalk-quarrying, [91];
• clothmaking industry, [137], [158];
• gun-founding, [113];
• iron industry, [24], [26];
• Roman British pottery in, [114];
• stone quarries, [77]-[8], [80]-[1];
• tile manufacture, [121]-[4].
• Kentish rag, stone, demand for, [77]-[8], [80].
• Kersey, village, clothmaking industry, [166].
• Kerseys, manufacture of, [166]-[8].
• Keswick, lead mine, [60].
• Kilns, types used, [90], [115], [116], [126].
• King's College, Cambridge, stained glass for, [130]-[1].
• Kingston on Thames, pottery manufacture, [117].
• Kipax, Yorkshire, customs respecting mineral rights, [12].
• Kirkstall Abbey, ware found at, [118].
• Labour, control of. See [Control of Industry].
• Labourers, Statute of, enactments, [201]-[2].
• La Fava, Lewis de, of Mechlin, purchase of cannon from, [112].
• Lanchester, Durham: discovery at, of Roman use of coal, [1];
• Roman method of smelting iron at, [26].
• Langton, Walter de, bishop of Chester, on yield of Beer Alston mine, [51].
• Larian in Cornwall, cost of a melting-house at, [66]-[7].
• Launceston, nomination of members for stannary parliament, [72].
• Laurence Vitrarius, glassmaker at Chiddingfold, [128].
• Law Courts: miners, [35]-[6], [40], [72];
• settlement of trade disputes, for, [236].
• Lead-mining: methods of working, [50]-[5];
• organisation of miners, [40]-[8];
• payments to the king and to the lord of the soil, [46]-[8];
• principal localities, [39]-[40];
• productiveness of mines, [56]-[61];
• prospecting regulations, [43]-[6];
• Roman workings, [38]-[9];
• wages and number of hands employed, [48]-[51].
• Leadreeve, of mine court, [40].
• Leakes of Southwark, beer brewers, [195].
• Leather industry: account of, [171]-[83];
• frauds in preparation and sale, [177]-[9], [205];
• night work prohibited, [215];
• regulations for control of, [215]-[16], [229], [237]-[8];
• shoemaking, regulations, [180]-[3];
• table of values of different kinds of leather, [179]-[80].
• Leathersellers' Company, inefficiency of control over trade, [177]-[8].
• Leeds, bell pits near, [7].
• Leeds Castle, cost of iron for repairs in time of Edward III., [31].
• Lewis, George Randall, indebtedness to acknowledged, [ix], [64].
• Lichfield Cathedral, dedication of bell, 1477, [101].
• Lime-burning, [4]-[5], [90]-[1].
• Limekilns, kind used, [90].
• Liminge, land at, granted to Abbey of St. Peter of Canterbury, [22].
• Lincoln: clothmaking industry, [133], [136], [139], [153]-[4];
• pottery, stamp decoration, [118];
• Purbeck marble for Eleanor cross, [85];
• regulations for control of industry, [222], [228].
• Liskeard, tin sent to, for coinage duty, [69].
• List, in cloth, term explained, [136].
• Liverpool, coal exported, in 1592, [18].
• Logwood, use as a dye forbidden, [148].
• London: ale brewing, regulations, [190]-[1];
• beer brewing in, [193-5];
• bell-founding industry, [101]-[2];
• cloth making industry, [133], [137], [140], [147], [154];
• regulations for control of industries, [204], [207]-[15], [219], [225]-[33], [236];
• roofing with tiles made compulsory, 1212, [119];
• shoemaking trade regulations, [181]-[3];
• walls built of Kentish rag, [77].
• Loop, in iron working, meaning of term, [30].
• Lostwithiel: nomination of members for stannary parliament, [72];
• slates probably quarried at, [81]-[2];
• tin sent to, for coinage duty, [69].
• Louth Park, grant to monks, [23].
• Low countries, settlement in England of craftsmen from, [225].
• Lowick Church, Northants., alabaster tomb in, [88].
• Lune, Galias de, mining grant to, [61].
• Lynne, clothmaking industry, [165].
• Madder, use in dyeing wool, [148].
• Magna Carta, cloth trade regulations in, [136].
• Maidstone, stone quarries, [77], [80], [81], [109].
• Maldon, clothmaking industry, [140], [168].
• Malemort family, employment in iron-works at St. Briavels, [24].
• Malvern Priory, manufacture of inlaid tiles, [127].
• Marble, Purbeck. See [Purbeck marble].
• Marchall, John, mining grant to, [60].
• Marcus le Fair, clothier of Winchester, [158].
• Maresfield, Sussex, iron-works in Roman times, [20].
• Markets: held on Sundays in thirteenth century, [214];
• segregation of trades, [217]-[18].
• Marlborough: brewing-trade regulations, [187];
• clothmaking industry, [134], [137].
• Martinstowe: silver sent to London, in 1294, [55];
• slates used for roofing, [81];
• stone quarries, pay of workers, [82]-[3].
• Mason, Peter, payment to, for alabaster for St. George's Chapel, Windsor, [87].
• Matlock, lead workings of Roman period, [38].
• Meaux Abbey: dispute with tilers of Beverley, [124]-[5];
• tannery at, details given, [173].
• Mendips, lead mines: methods of working, [53];
• organisation of miners, [40]-[8];
• productiveness, [58]-[9];
• worked by the Romans, [38].
• Metal-working: bell-founding, [96]-[107];
• gun-founding, [107]-[13];
• payment for workmanship, [93]-[4];
• regulation of hours of work in London, [213];
• use of trademark ordered, [216].
• Metesford, Derbyshire, lead mine, [39].
• Michel, Henry, bell-founder, [99].
• Middle Ages, definition of period, [vii].
• Middlewood, sea coal at, [4].
• Midhurst, payment by potters to the lord of the manor, [118].
• Mildenhall, recasting of bell and dispute over, [106]-[7].
• Mile End Range, [110].
• Millyng, Albert, of Cologne, mining grant to, [60]-[1].
• Mine Law Courts. See [Law Courts, miners].
• Mining of coal, iron, lead, etc. See [coal], [iron], [lead], etc.
• Minsterley, Shropshire, lead workings of Roman period, [38].
• Monkswood, near Tintern, timber consumed at iron-works, [37].
• Moorhouse, coal-mining at, [9].
• Mordant, in dyeing, those used in Middle Ages, [144].
• Moresby, Hugh de, charter to Furness Abbey, [27].
• Morley, Derbyshire, coal-mining accidents, [7]-[8].
• Nantes Cathedral, alabaster tomb of John of Bretagne, [88].
• Naturalisation, letters of, numerous in fifteenth century, [224]-[5].
• Neckam, Alexander, on coal, [3].
• Newark, brewing-trade dues, [187].
• Newbridge, in Ashdown Forest, iron shot manufactured, [111].
• Newbury, clothmaking industry, [167].
• Newcastle, coal-mining and trade, [6], [18]-[19].
• New Forest, Roman British pottery from, [114].
• Newland Church, brass depicting a free miner, [36].
• Newminster, use of coal by monks, [4].
• Newport, William, guns made by, [112].
• Newthorpe, coal mine, terms of lease, [15].
• Newthorpe Mere, Gresley, outrage at coal mine, [13].
• Nicholas de Aketon, grant to monks of Newminster, [4].
• Night work, rules against, [214]-[15].
• Norfolk, clothmaking industry, [138]-[9], [161], [164]-[6], [205].
• Northampton: Purbeck marble for Eleanor cross, [85];
• shoemaking regulations, [183].
• Northamptonshire: Roman British pottery, [114]-[15];
• stone slates quarried at Collyweston, [82].
• Northumberland: coal-mining, [6];
• lead-mining, [60]-[1].
• Norwich: bell-founding industry, [105];
• brewing trade regulations, [192]-[3], [195];
• clothmaking industry, [144]-[5], [148]-[9], [150], [162], [165], [168];
• gilds controlled by civic authorities, [208];
• holidays, regulations, [212];
• market regulations, [217];
• pageants and gild feasts, [238]-[40];
• roofing with tiles made compulsory, [119];
• strangers, restrictive regulations, [223]-[4].
• Nottingham: alabaster industry, [87]-[9];
• clothmaking industry, [133], [150];
• smoke nuisance, in 1257, [6].
• Nottinghamshire, coal-mining, [6].
• Nuneaton, coal-mining, [7], [15].
• Nutfield, Fuller's earth deposits, [155].
• Oldham, Lancs., bell pits at, [7].
• Ordnance, casting of, [107]-[13].
• Osetes of Bristol, cloths, [140].
• Oswy, king of Kent, grant to Abbey of St. Peter of Canterbury, [21]-[2].
• Otto, the goldsmith, [92].
• Oxford: brewing-trade regulations, [191]-[2];
• clothmaking industry, [133], [167];
• leather-trade industries, [172], [183].
• Pageants of gilds and fraternities, [238]-[40].
• Pagham, Sussex, cider industry, [197].
• Pakenham, John, cider orchard at Wisborough, [198].
• Parman, John, clothier of Barnstaple, [158].
• Pascayl, Robert, lease of coal mine, [15].
• Peak, Derbyshire, lead-miners recruited for Devon, [57].
• Penpark Hole, Gloucs., lead mine mentioned, in 882, [39].
• Pepercorn, William, draining of Beer Alston mine, [51].
• Perry drunk in Middle Ages, [196].
• Peter at Gate, tiles manufactured by, [123].
• Peter de Brus, forges on lands in Cleveland, 1271, [25].
• Peterborough Abbey, quarry in Barnack, [77].
• Pevensey, walls and castle built of green sandstone from Eastbourne, [79].
• Pewter-work, [95];
• apprentices, [229].
• Peyeson, Adam, lease of coal mine, [14]-[15].
• Peyto family, glassmakers, [129].
• Philippa, Queen, metal cast figure of, [95].
• Phœnicians, tin trade with Britain doubtful, [62].
• Piers Plowman, quoted, [141].
• Plaster of Paris, conversion of alabaster into, [89]-[90].
• Playden, village, grave of Cornelius Zoetmann, [194].
• Plessey, near Blyth, early mention of coal from, [4].
• Plympton, tin sent to, for coinage duty, [69].
• Poole, Dorset, beer and ale export trade, [194].
• Popenreuter, Hans, purchase of cannon from, [112].
• Poppehowe, Thomas, worker in alabaster, [88].
• Portland stone, fame in Middle Ages, [79].
• Potteresgavel, rent paid by potters, [118].
• Pottery manufacture, [114]-[18].
• Prentis, Thomas, alabaster-worker, [87]-[8].
• Prest, Godfrey, coppersmith, [96].
• Prices, regulation of, [208]-[10].
• Projectiles, [80]-[1], [109].
• Protection of industries, effect of, [203]-[4].
• Pucklechurch, Gloucs., iron industry, [22].
• Punishments by mine law, [42]-[3].
• Purbeck marble industry, [84]-[6].
• Quarell guns, [109].
• Quarrying, [76]-[91].
• Quivil, Bishop Peter de, care of bells of Exeter Cathedral, [104].
• Radlett, pottery manufacture by Romans, [115].
• Raly, coal mine, [16].
• Ramsey, Abbey of, quarry in Barnack, [77].
• Randolf, William, payment to, for metal-work, [94].
• Reading, clothmaking industry, [156].
• Redbrook, Roman iron-works at, [21].
• Reginald, Bishop, of Bath, lead mines granted to, [40].
• Reigate: Fuller's earth deposits, [155];
• stone quarries, [77]-[8], [80].
• Repton: lease of lead mines at Wirksworth by Abbess, [39];
• manufacture of inlaid tiles, [127].
• Restormel, Cornwall, slates used for roofing, [81].
• Richard I., reorganisation of the stannaries, 1198, [73].
• Richard II., metal-work of tomb and payment for, [96].
• Richmond, Earl of, 1281, grants to the monks of Jervaulx, [29].
• Richmond, Yorks., copper mine, [60].
• Ridding, in iron-mining, meaning of term, [35].
• Riley, Mr., indebtedness to, acknowledged, [ix].
• Ringmer, in Sussex, potteries, [116], [118], [123].
• Robard, Pieter, alias Graunte Pierre, iron-founder, [112].
• Robert le Bellyetere, care of bells of Exeter Cathedral, [104]-[5].
• Robert of Corfe, worker in Purbeck marble, [85].
• Robertes, Henry, Serjeant, quarell guns provided by, [109].
• Rochester stone sent to, from Beer in Devon, [78].
• Rochester Castle, list of stone for, in 1367, [79]-[80].
• Rochester Priory: bell recast in twelfth century, [96];
• perquisites of under brewers, [192].
• Roger of Faringdon, maker of shrine at Beverley, [93]-[4].
• Rogers, Thorold, on effect of Statute of Labourers, [202].
• Romans in Britain: coal used by, [1]-[2];
• iron-mining, [20-1];
• lead mines, [38]-[9];
• pottery manufacture, [114]-[15].
• Roofing: slates worked for, [81]-[2];
• tiles manufactured for, [119].
• Ropley family, glassmakers, [129].
• Royley, Richard and Gabriel, alabaster-workers, [89].
• Rye, hops imported, [194].
• Saddlers, [233]-[35].
• St. Albans Abbey: consecration of bells, [101];
• metal workers among monks, [93].
• St. Austell, Cornwall, Saxon remains discovered in tin grounds, [63].
• St. Bees, grant of iron-mine to monks, [22].
• St. Briavels: forge at castle for construction of war materials, [24];
• Mine Law Courts, [35]-[6];
• payment to Constable for loads of coal, [5].
• St. Clere, statement respecting gold in Devon and Cornwall, in 1545, [61].
• St. George's Chapel, Windsor: alabaster reredos, [87];
• glass supplied from Chiddingfold, [128].
• St. Laurence, Reading, dedication of bell, [101].
• St. Mary-at-Hill, London, bells recast, in 1510, [100].
• St. Paul's Cathedral, contract for paving, [85].
• St. Peter of Canterbury, Abbey of, grant to, of land at Liminge, in 689, [22].
• St. Peter's Abbey at Gloucester, candlestick in South Kensington Museum, [92].
• St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster: glass from Chiddingfold, [128];
• marble for columns, [85];
• stained glass, process employed, [131]-[2];
• stone sent from Beer in Devon, [78].
• Salisbury, clothmaking industry, [158].
• Sandwich, export of chalk, [91].
• Sawtry Abbey, quarry in Barnack and disputes over, [77].
• Saxons: few traces of iron-works in Britain, [21]-[2];
• tin worked in Cornwall, [63].
• Sconeburgh, Gerard, beer brewer, case of theft against, [194].
• Sea coal: origin of term, [2]-[3];
• references to use of, [4]-[5].
• Sea Coal Lane, London, mention, in 1228, [4].
• Seaford, brewing trade, [191].
• Search, system of. See [Inspection of goods].
• Selebourne, Hants, stone quarries, [79].
• Sester, in brewing trade, [187]-[8].
• Severn, customs on sea coal brought down, [5].
• Seyntleger, Thomas, case against beer brewers, [194].
• Shalford tileries, [124].
• Shamelling, meaning of term, [65].
• Shamoys leather. See [Chamois].
• Sheffield in Fletching, Sussex, iron-mills, [33], [36]-[7].
• Shelve, Shropshire, lead mine of Roman period, [38].
• Shene Chapel, stone from Eastbourne for, [79].
• Sheppey Castle, guns for, [107].
• Shepton Mallet, pottery manufacture by Romans, [115].
• Sherterre family. See [Shorter].
• Shippen, Yorks, coal-mining, [6].
• Shode, meaning of term, [64].
• Shoemaking: districts assigned to, in London, [217];
• gild of journeymen connected with craft, [235];
• regulation of trade, [180]-[3], [227];
• work allowed on Sunday, [213]-[14].
• Shoreham, brewing at, [187].
• Shorter or Sherterre family, glassmakers, [129].
• Shoyswell, hundred, brewing trade, [187].
• Shrewsbury: brewing regulations, [195];
• cloth trade, [152];
• leather trade, [172].
• Shropshire: coal workings, [5]-[6];
• lead-mining, [38]-[9].
• Silchester, refining of silver at, [54].
• Silver: process of refining from lead, [53]-[5];
• production from Devon mines, [56]-[7];
• weight and value, [55]-[6].
• Silversmiths' work, [94]-[5].
• Skipton, pottery kilns, [116].
• Slates, working of, [81]-[2].
• Sluys, export of coal to, [18].
• Small arms, early instance of use, [109].
• Smith, William, bell-founder, [100].
• Smithfield, tileries, [124].
• Snailbeach, Shropshire, lead mine of Roman period, [38].
• Solinus, third century, reference to Roman use of coal at Bath, probable, [1].
• Somerset: clothmaking industry, [161];
• coal-mining, [6]-[7];
• effect of the Statute of Labourers, [202];
• lead-mining, [40], [57], [58]-[9].
• Southampton, import of woad, [144].
• Southwark, gun-founding, [110].
• Spain, leather trade, [178]-[9].
• Speryng, Godfrey, beer brewer, [194].
• Spring of Lavenham, clothiers, [159].
• Spurriers, night work prohibited, [215].
• Staffordshire: coal-mining, [7];
• price of iron, [31].
• Stahlschmidt, Mr., on bell-founders, [96], [102].
• Staindrop, alabaster tomb at, [88].
• Stained glass: glazier brought from Flanders, in 1449, [130]-[1];
• process employed in England, [131]-[2].
• Stainton, Forest of Dean, coal-working, [5].
• Stainton-in-Furness, iron-works at end of Stone Age, [20].
• Stamford, clothmaking industry, [134], [136], [138].
• Stamfords, English cloth, [138].
• Stannaries, account of, [64]-[74].
• Stansfield, bell cast for, [97], [105]-[6].
• Stapleton, stone quarries, [77], [80], [83].
• Stephen of St. Iago, purchase of cannon from, [112].
• Stevenes, John, of Bristol, gun-founder, [110].
• Stithe or choke damp, [8].
• Stone-balls or shot for artillery, [80]-[1], [109].
• Stone masons, mutual assistance regulations, [237].
• Stone-quarrying, [76]-[83].
• Stow, in mining, meaning of term, [44].
• Stratton-on-Fosse, coal-mining, [6]-[7].
• Strelley, Nicholas, legal action respecting coal mine, [12]-[13].
• Stretton, near Alnwick, forge, [4].
• Strikes, labour, in Middle Ages, [235]-[6].
• Sudbury, clothmaking industry, [140].
• Suffolk, clothmaking industry, [157], [166]-[8].
• Sumptuary law of 1363, restrictions as to cloth, [169].
• Sunday, rules against working on, [212]-[14].
• Surrey: chalk-quarrying, [91];
• clothmaking industry, [167];
• glassmaking industry, [127]-[9];
• stone quarries, [77].
• Sussex: beer-brewing, [194];
• chalk-quarrying, [91];
• cider industry, [197]-[8];
• clothmaking industry, [167];
• glassmaking in, [128]-[9];
• gun-founding, [111], [113];
• iron industry, [24], [26], [28]-[9], [31], [36]-[7];
• stone quarries and slates from, [79]-[80], [82].
• Sutton, Robert, alabaster-worker, [88].
• Tadcaster, stone quarries, [77], [81], [83].
• Tailors, fraternity of yeomen tailors formed, [233]-[4];
• gild court, [236].
• Tanning of leather, processes employed, [171]-[7].
• Tan turves, term explained, [54], [173].
• Tarrant Keynston, nunnery, effigy of Queen of Scots in Purbeck marble, [85].
• Tavistock, tin sent to, for coinage duty, [69].
• Tawing of leather, process employed, [171].
• Teazles, use of, in cloth making, [156].
• Temple Church, London, Purbeck marble effigies, [84].
• Thevesdale, stone quarries, [77].
• Thomas de Alemaigne, skill in mining, [59]-[60].
• Thomasson, Walter, gun-founder, [111].
• Thorp, Robert de, warden of the Devon mines, [47].
• Threle, William, cider made by, 1385, [198].
• Thrillesden (Trillesden), lease of coal mine, [15].
• Thrums, term explained, [152].
• Tideman de Lippe, purchase of English cloth, [139].
• Tiles: floor tiles, process of manufacture, [126]-[7];
• manufacture of, [119]-[27];
• price fixed, [119], [210];
• regulations for control of industry, [216], [222].
• Tilman de Cologne, farm of Alston lead mines, [60].
• Timber. See [Wood].
• Tindale, Scottish king's liberty of, [41].
• Tin-mining: antiquity claimed for, [62]-[3];
• economic condition of smaller tin-workers, [69]-[70];
• free miner's privileges, [70]-[3];
• methods of working, [64]-[9];
• stamping dues, [68]-[9].
• Tithes to the Church, of cider and apples in Sussex, [198];
• lead-miners, payment of, [47]-[9].
• Toftes, coal mines, [16].
• Tolsester, term explained, [187].
• Torel, William, metal-work of, [95].
• Torksey, brewing-trade regulations, [188].
• Tower of London: gun-founding [110];
• regulations for wages of workmen employed in building operations, [214].
• Trademarks, use of, ordered, [216].
• Trades, segregation of, in towns, [217]-[18].
• Truro: nomination of members for stannary parliament, [72];
• tin sent to, for coinage duty, [69].
• Tudeley forge, Tonbridge: iron-works, [28];
• wages of workers, [33];
• weight of the bloom, [31].
• Tuning of bells, methods employed, [99]-[100].
• Tunnoc, Richard, bell-founder and memorial window, [103]-[4].
• Turn-hearth furnace, [53].
• Tutbury, alabaster dug at, in early times, [86].
• Twist, Gilbert, alabaster-worker, [89].
• Tynemouth, coal-mining, [6].
• Ulnager, official, [160].
• Upchurch, Roman British pottery, [114].
• Utynam, John, brought from Flanders to make glass, [130]-[1].
• Van Anne, Arnold, mining grant to, [60]-[1].
• Van Orel, Henry, mining grant to, [60]-[1].
• Van Riswyk, Dederic, mining grant to, [61].
• Vellacott, C. H., indebtedness to, acknowledged, [ix].
• Venetian travellers: on English grapes, [199];
• report on rich metal-work in England, [94]-[5].
• Vesses or set cloths, manufacture of, [168].
• Victoria County Histories, source of information, [viii]-[ix].
• Vines, cultivation in England, [198]-[9].
• Vipont, Robert de, trial of thieves in his manor court, [41]-[2].
• Vlenk, Matthew de, gunmaker, [111].
• Wages: coal-miners, [10-11], [16];
• iron-workers and miners, [32]-[5];
• lead-miners, [48-9], [53];
• legislation and gild regulations, [202], [210]-[12], [214], [228];
• saddlers' success in raising, [234], [235];
• shoemakers, [182];
• stone-quarriers, [82]-[3];
• tin-workers, [70].
• Wakefield, mineral rights, local customs, [11].
• Wales, coal export, in 1592, [18].
• Walker, Humphrey, gun-founder, [113].
• Walking, process in fulling cloth, [153].
• Walsingham, Prior, bells cast at Ely for, [103].
• Walter of Odyngton, a monk of Evesham, system for tuning bells, [99].
• Waltham, Purbeck marble for Eleanor cross, [85].
• Warde, William, dyer, trade dispute at Coventry, [146]-[7].
• Warwick Castle, foreign stained glass ordered for chapel, [131].
• Warwickshire, coal-mining, [6], [9].
• Water-power, use of, in iron-working, [27], [30];
• in lead mines, [52].
• Watts, Richard, poem on weaving processes, [142].
• Wax chandlers, regulation of charges, [209].
• Weald of Sussex and Kent: centre of ordnance manufacture, after 1543, [113];
• iron industry, [24], [26], [28]-[9].
• Weardale: iron industry, [27], [31];
• lead mines, [39].
• Weaving industry: gild of alien weavers in London, [225];
• processes employed, [149]-[52];
• regulations for control of, [228], [235]-[7];
• religious character of ordinances of gilds, [207];
• restriction of output, [227];
• use of trademarks ordered, [216].
• Weights and Measures: ale standard measures, [188];
• barrel of beer and ale respectively, [195];
• chalder or chaldron, [17]-[18];
• cloth regulations, [136], [138], [150], [160]-[3];
• coal for, variety of, [14];
• lead for, variety of, [56].
• Weld, use of, for dying wool, [144], [147].
• Wellington, forest of, wood consumed by limekilns, [90].
• Westminster, regulations for wages of workmen employed in building, [214].
• Westminster Abbey: bell cast for, by Edward Fitz Odo, [102];
• inlaid tiles in chapter-house, [127];
• stone used for, [79].
• Westmoreland, Earl of, alabaster tomb at Staindrop, [88].
• Westmoreland, lead-mining, [60]-[1].
• Whickham, coal mine, [11], [16]-[17].
• Whitchurch, Dorset, bells cast for and dispute over, [100].
• Whitechurch, Hants, Roman iron-works, [21].
• Whittington, Richard, [229].
• Whyt, Thomas, lease of tilery, [125].
• Wight, Isle of: clothmaking industry, [167]-[8];
• question of identification with the Ictis of Diodorus Siculus, [62]-[3];
• stone quarries, [79].
• Willarby, George, report on lead mines, [60].
• William of Corfe, worker in Purbeck marble, [85].
• William, the founder, [102], [108].
• William of Malmesbury, on manufacture of wine in England, [198].
• William de Plessetis, property in Sea Coal Lane, [4].
• William de Wrotham, warden of the stannaries, 1198, [72].
• Willoughby, Sir John, legal action against Nicholas Strelley, [12]-[13].
• Wiltshire, limestone quarries, [78]-[9].
• Wimbish family, bell-founders, [102].
• Winchcombe, John, clothier of Newbury, [158], [167].
• Winchelsea: beer and cider imported, [193], [197];
• hops imported, [194].
• Winchester: clothmaking industry, [133], [136], [138], [150], [151], [158];
• iron sent to, from Forest of Dean, [23];
• stone for royal palace, [78]-[9].
• Wine, manufacture in England, [198]-[9].
• Wingerworth, accident at, in 1313, [7].
• Winlaton, coal mines, [11], [17].
• Wirksworth, lead mines, [39].
• Wisborough, cider industry, [198].
• Woad, use of, for dying wool, [144]-[8].
• Wodeward, William, gun-founder, [102], [108].
• Wolsingham, Durham, water-power used in lead mines, [52].
• Women: employment discouraged, [154], [228];
• exempted from certain trade restrictions, [218];
• iron-workers' wages, [32]-[3];
• lead mines employment, [51];
• spinning a staple employment, [148]-[9];
• stone quarrywork, payment for, [82]-[3].
• Wood, Thomas, builder of Goldsmiths' Row, [95].
• Wood: consumption by iron works, [36]-[7];
• lead-miners' privileges in Cumberland, [46].
• Woodstock, iron sent to, from Forest of Dean, [23].
• Wookey, smelting of ore at, [58].
• Wool, processes of dealing with, for clothmaking, [141]-[9].
• Worcester: brewing-trade regulations, [189];
• clothmaking industry, [134], [168];
• tile industry regulations, [120], [222].
• Worcester Cathedral, tomb of King John in marble, [84].
• Worsted, village, clothmaking industry, [139], [161].
• Worsteds, manufacture and frauds practised, [161-2], [164]-[5], [205].
• Worth, Sussex, wood burnt at iron-mills, [36]-[7].
• Wren, Christopher, use of Portland stone, [79].
• Wroxeter, discovery at, of Roman use of coal, [1].
• Wye, Kent: cider industry, [197];
• tile manufacture and processes employed, [121]-[3].
• Wylwringword, John de, gold found in Devon by, [61].
• Yarmouth: clothmaking industry, [165];
• herring fishery, struggle over monopoly, [203].
• York: alabaster industry, [89];
• bell-founding industry, [103].
• York Minster: bell-maker's window, [103]-[4];
• bells cast for, in 1371, [103];
• English glass bought for, [130];
• Plaster of Paris for, [89]-[90];
• stained glass for, from abroad, [131];
• stone for, [77].
• Yorkshire: Cistercian ware found in, [118];
• clothmaking industry, [147], [158], [167];
• coal-mining, [6].
• Zoetmann, Cornelius, grave at Playden, [194].

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