Prison of the bishop, in Exeter, 362; freeman’s, 185; the abbot’s, at Fordwich, 412
Probate, claimed by the Mayor of Canterbury, 200, _note_ 1; at Lynn, 289
Provost of Norwich, his election, 238; his duties, 239; replaced by four bailiffs, 240
Prussia, English traders banished from, 66
Quay at Fordwich, quarrels about the, 413; of Sandwich, agreement between Christ Church and Sandwich about, 400, _note_ 2
Ramsey, carpet and tapestry manufactories at, 57; tenants of King’s Ripton transferred to the Abbey of, 228, _note_
Reading, originally on royal demesne, 299; its subjection to the Abbot, _ib._, 227; struggle with him, 300, 301, 303-308; confirmation of charters, 303; archers, 16, _note_; view of arms, _ib._; bell, 304; nineteen bridges, 301, _note_ 2; the Hallowed Brook, 304; chepin gavell in, 299, 306; common chest, 305, 306; constable, 304, 306; guild merchant, 300, 303, 304; guildhall, 303, 304, 305; exemption from serving on juries granted to burghers, 306; loans to the king, 305, _note_ 1; the mayor, his salary, 304, 305; his mace, 306; disputes about his election, 306, 307; register of his acts, 305; Morgespeche, 303; Outbutchery, 304; Portmanbrok, 300, 304; seal for cloth, 308; contribution of soldiers under Edward VI., 16, _note_
Recorder of Exeter, 345, 347; of London, 372, 378, _note_ 2
Redcliffe, dispute about ownership of, 314, 315; incorporated with Bristol, 314, _note_
Redvers, Baldwin of, his charter to Plimpton, 263, _note_ 2
Religion among English townsfolk in 15th century, 42
Ricart of Bristol, his notices of political events, 37, _note_
Richard I., advantages to towns of his money difficulties, 237; his charters to towns, 238
Richard III.’s dealings with York, 27, _note_ 2
Richard of Almayne, his grant to Exeter, 357
Riga, Henry VII.’s commercial treaty with, 113
Ripon, its fair, 130; fight at, in 1441, _ib._
Ripton, King’s, tenants of, transferred to the abbey of Ramsey, 228, _note_
Rising, Castle, disputes between the lords of, and the bishop of Norwich, 284; its rights in Lynn pass to Edward III., 285
Roan, John, Flemish engineer employed at Romney, 143, _note_
Rochester, the King’s hackney-men in, 209, _note_ 3; castle of, owner of land in Lydd, 409
Romney under Archbishop of Canterbury, 227; member of Cinque Ports, 386; ownership of, 387, _note_ 1; struggle for freedom, 404-409; claim to be a royal borough, 407-408; struggle with Lydd, 409, 411; auditing of town accounts, 139, _note_ 2; bailiff, 404-406; bell, 405, _note_ 1; Cranmer’s refusal to lease out bailiwick to townspeople, 408-409; common barges, 87, 88; decay of burghers, 403; book of customs, 405, _note_ 1; commerce, 87, 88; common hall, 129, _note_ 2, 403, 405, _note_ 1; common horn, 404, 405, _note_ 1; care of common lands, 136, 137; decrease of freemen, 190; bailiffs and jurats allowed to hold inns, 404, _note_ 2; government by senior jurat, 409; places of assembly of jurats, 405, _note_ 1; grant of mayor, 409; mayor deposed by Privy Seal, 407; silver mace, 406; payment for maintenance of liberties of Cinque Ports, 390, _note_ 2; plays at, 148; silting up of its port, 403; punishment of elected mayor or jurat who refused to serve, 188; seal, 405, _note_ 1; sluices, 143, _note_; assessment of taxes, 402, _note_ 4; trade, 402-403, 88; wards, 402, _note_ 4