Security required by town on admission of man to freedom, 179
Selling, Prior, of Christ Church, Canterbury, 377
Serfs, conditions of their emancipation in towns, 174, _note_ 3
Shepway, court of, 388, 391-394, 396, _note_ 2
Sheriff, jurisdiction of the, 203-4; appointment of deputy by, 204; assessor and collector of royal taxes and rents, _ib._; duties as head of shire forces, _ib._; tyranny and extortion of, 206; hatred of, expressed in popular ballads and books, 207; term of office, 234, _note_ 3; business at Bridport, 204; modes of extortion in Canterbury and Bridgenorth, 207; court at Dorchester, 203, 204; of Norfolk, his Curia Comitatus at Norwich, 239; jurisdiction there, 246; of Norwich, 246
Shillingford, John, 338, 340-341, 346-348, 350
Shipbuilding for aliens, 86; at Hull, 89; at Woolwich, 84, _note_ 1; its costliness, 87
Shipping, native and foreign, regulation of, 84; its conditions in England, 85, 86; growth in seaport towns, 87; trade taken under State protection (1489), 112
Ships, English and foreign, sizes of, 84, _note_ 1; English, dispute with Flemish, 92, _note_ 2; _see_ Christopher, Grâce, Harry, Nicholas, Trinity
Shire officers, 203-207; freedom from them, 232-3
Shrewsbury, wearing of liveries forbidden in, 268, _note_ 2
Shrewsbury, Countess of, her agreement with James, Lord of Berkeley, 266
Silk, its importation forbidden, 110; manufacture, its beginning in England, 57; carried on by women in London, _ib._, _note_ 2
Soldiers, charges of levying for royal service, 374
Southampton, owned by King, 227; burgess imprisoned for its rent, 140, 141; liberties forfeited, 247, _note_ 4; its aqueduct and water supply, 19, _note_; constable of castle, 312; gallows, 2, _note_; licence to buy and sell during S. Giles’ Fair, 329; Italian merchants at, 78, 81, 330; paving, 18, _note_; provision for poor, 41, _note_ 2; ship, 85, _note_ 2; rights of Bishop of Winchester in, during fair of S. Giles, 324, _note_ 3
Stalls, in Exeter market place, 360; the Queen’s, in Winchester, 323
Stanley, Sir John, his relations with Liverpool, 273-276
Staple, the, 45; its wanderings under Edward III., _ib._, 46; fixed at Calais, _ib._; mayors and aldermen of, _ib._, 48; English towns of, 46; rules, 46-48; authority, 48; merchants of, monopolize export of wool, 49; of Calais, its money transactions with the captain and the Government, _ib._, 50; decline, 51; struggle against Merchant Adventurers, 101-103; Mediterranean merchants freed from its control, 78; appointment of mayor as mayor of, 234; set up by English adventurers at Bergen, 95; for English cloth in Flanders, placed at Bruges by Archduke Philip, 113, _note_ 3