Middlesex annexed to London, 219, _note_ 3
Mill of feudal lord, 199; at Canterbury, 371-2, 380-1
Mines, English, 55; rented by Lübeck merchants, 83
Miners of Mendip, riot of, 55; of Sussex, 415
Moleyns, Bishop of Chichester, his Libel of English Policy, 61, 62
Molyneux, Sir Richard, his relations with Liverpool, 273-276
Monkenkey, Sandwich, owned by Christ Church, Canterbury, 400
Montault, Robert of, his struggle with Lynn, 284-5
Montfort, Simon de, Norwich and Winchester against, 242; supported by Cinque Ports, 388, _note_ 5
Mortmain, Statute of, 219, 246-7; extended to cities and boroughs, 219, _note_ 2
Music, its developement in England in fifteenth century, 44
“Natives,” their distinction from citizens in Hereford, 318
Navigation Act, the first, 84; put in force by Henry VII., 94; of 1489, 112, 119
Navy, mediæval idea of its origin and use, 75; planned by Henry V., 86; merchant, its character, 92; its inefficiency as a royal navy, 93
Netherlands, rivalry with England in the cloth trade, 65, 66; English traders in, 98-101
Nobles, their patronage sought by towns, 216; honours paid to, 256; dress and state, _ib._, 257; decay and poverty, 257; stores of treasure, 259; money difficulties, _ib._; dependents, 260; borrowing and debts, 261-2; leasing out privileges to townspeople, 263; frequent absences from home, 264, 265; heavy consequences of rebellions and civil wars to, 265-266; feuds and lawsuits, 266-268
Norfolk, cloth-making in, 52, _note_ 1; worsted manufacture, 54; increase of lawsuits, 58; traders robbed by Danes, 91
Normandy, beginning of its woollen manufactures, 119; Henry I.’s charters to towns in, 172, _note_ 1
Northampton, charter of, 238, _note_ 2; collection of arrears of ferm, 205-6
Norton Mandeville, cloth sold at, 54, _note_ 1
Norwich, its condition before Henry II.’s time, 238; charter of Richard I., _ib._; of Henry III., 242; of Edward I., _ib._; of Henry IV., 245-6; sided with king against De Montfort, 242; authority exercised by Parliament over, 235, _note_ 2; liberties forfeited, 243, 247, _note_ 4; petition in 1307, 243-4; made county, 245; made staple town, 245; sues for repayment of a loan to the king, 27, _note_ 2; twelve of its citizens distrained for the city’s debt to the king, 140; action in Wars of the Roses, 37, _note_; under the protection of Suffolk, 216; rivalry with Yarmouth, 163, _note_; admiral appointed in, 245; its burghers freed from arrest for debt, 242; four bailiffs, 240, 245, 246; bell foundries, 55, 56; Borough Court, 239; castle fee and its tenants, 240, 241, 244, 245, 313; law passed to compel men to become citizens, 190; church of S. George, 243; exemption from clerk of the market, 208, _note_ 2, 245; ditch, 242; exports in 1374, 88, _note_ 2; ferm, 238; provision for, 244; guild of S. George, 150; system of government imitated by Yarmouth and Colchester, 238, _note_ 2; inhabitants in thirteenth century, 171, _note_ 3; increase of lawsuits in, 58; four leets, 240; leet of Newgate, 242, 243; amercements ordered by Leet Court, 230, _note_ 3; mayor of, his salary, 208, _note_ 1; his rights of jurisdiction, 245-6; his sword and maces, 246; made mayor of Staple, _ib._; made King’s Escheator, _ib._; payment for charter, 238; petition against players, 152; Provost, 238, 239; seal, 246; sheriffs, _ib._; municipal taxation, royal interference with, 219, _note_ 4, 241, 355, _note_ 2; adventures of a thief, 243; tollbooth, 239; four wards, 239, 240; towers and walls, provision for repairing, 245, _note_ 4