Livery, 339; town laws against, 257, 268; supplied from lord’s estate, 260
Loans, voluntary, from towns to the king, 27, _note_ 2
Lombards settled in London, 81; their relations with Edward IV., Richard III., and Henry VII., 116; persecution of, in London, _ib._
London hires out its common barge, 87, _note_ 3; bell foundries in, 55, 56; first notice of bricks in, 56, _note_ 3; bridge of, 144; drapers of, 52, _note_ 3; cloth sold in, 54, _note_ 1; use of coal in, 55, _note_ 1; wealth of its goldsmiths, 58; guildhall, 378, _note_ 2; Flemish Hanse of, 76; guildhall of Hanseatic League, 110; inns, 378, _note_ 2; Italian merchants expelled from, 329, 330; Lombards in, 81, 116; house of Cologne merchants in, 76, _note_ 1; Merchants’ Fellowship of, its attempt to monopolize export of cloth, 69; annexes Middlesex, 219, _note_ 3; Recorder of, 372, 378, _note_ 2; silk manufacture in, 57, _note_ 2; settlers from, at Rye, 17; effort to concentrate oreign trade in, 69; paviour from, employed at Southampton, 18, _note_; great play acted in, 145
Longport, Canterbury, disputes about rights of arrest in, 372
Lübeck, head of the Hanseatic League, 81, 82; succeeds to financial importance of Florence, 79; its merchants farm the English wool tax, 83; lend money to Edward III., _ib._; rent English mines, _ib._
Lydd, expenses incurred in war, 415, _note_ 4; fine for refusing to take journey on town business in, 187; incorporation under mayor and jurats, 398, _note_ 2; assessment of income tax, 139, _note_ 2; imitates Romney jetty, 143, _note_; liberties given by Edward I. to, 410; quarrel with Battle about boundaries, 411; loan to Thomas Dygon, 139; minstrels at, 147; plays, &c., at, 148; provision for poor in, 41, _note_ 2; Portuguese in, 122, _note_; use of archbishop’s seal in, 410; its services at archbishop’s court commuted for yearly payment, 409, 410; its hired ships, 87; style under Henry VI., 410; subjection to Romney, 410, 411; town clerk, 411; watch on S. John’s Eve, 148
Lynn under Bishop of Norwich, 227, 282; granted by Bishop Herbert to monks of Norwich, 282; repurchased, 283-4; charters from John, 283; of 1335, 289; from bishop, 290; struggle between bishop and town, 287-294; petition for relief from demands of king’s bailiffs, 285, _note_ 1; expenses of bribes, 214, _note_ 3; Church of St. Margaret, 283; disputes with the lords of Castle Rising, 284-5 various courts held by the Bishop of Norwich, 285-6; courts leased by bishop to burghers, 294; municipal debt, 140, _note_ 1; franchise controlled by the Bishop of Norwich, 286; dispute about the view of frankpledge, 290, 294; guildhall, 283; guild of merchants, 89; Guild Merchant, 286, 288; house of the Hanseatic League, 110; cross set up by hermit at, 175, _note_; “Inferiores,” 193, _note_; Jewry, 283; Leet court, 288, 294; Tolbooth court, 286, 288; the authority of the mayor limited by the Bishop of Norwich, 286; disputes of merchants with the Hanse, 91, _note_ 2; lends money to the king, 27, _note_ 2; payment of players, 145, _note_; growth of shipping, 87; taxation for Church expenses, 158, _note_ 3; trade with Iceland forbidden, 107, _note_ 1; wealth in the thirteenth century, 286; proving of wills at, 289