Frankpledge, view of, dispute in Lynn about, 290, 294
Freedom, municipal, ways of winning, 177, _note_ 1; mode and terms of admission to, 178, 179; lost by breach of public duty, 180; mode of recovery in Hereford, 180, _note_ 3; classes shut out from, 189, 190
Freemen, their decrease in Romney and Winchester, 190
Free-traders, their settlement outside the towns, 192, 193
Gallows of prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, 373; the abbot’s, at Chaldensham, 372; of Colchester, 2, _note_; Southampton, _ib._; Worcester, 310
Gates, dispute about control of, in Exeter, 362; in Winchester, 324
Gaunt, John of, 253, _note_ 2, 260, _note_ 2, 270
Gavell, the wine, in Exeter, 359; _see_ Chepin
Genoa, its trade, 79, 80; bank of S. George, 80; relations of its traders with England, 114, _note_, 115; proposal to forbid trade with, 116; disputes of its merchants with those of Bristol, 91, _note_ 2
Gestling, drowning of felons in the, 221, _note_ 2
Glass, English, forbidden in Beauchamp Chapel at Warwick, 56, _note_ 4
Gloucester made a shire, 12; owned by King, 227; custody of, given to one of the Berkeleys, 264; bell foundries at, 55, 56; paving of, 18, _note_
Gloucester, Earl of, his gallows at Worcester, 310
Grendon, Simon, Mayor of Exeter, 41, _note_ 2
Griffith, David ap, grant of ferm of Liverpool to, 275
Grimsby, regulation as to taxes in, 355, _note_ 2
Guestling, courts of, 397; _see_ Brotherhood
Guild at Birmingham, 20; of Corpus Christi, 150, 151; of Young Men at S. Edmundsbury, 296, 297; shipmen’s, at Hull, 89, _note_ 2; of merchants at Lynn, 89; at Malmesbury, dispute about, 302, _note_ 2; of Nottingham, rights of taxation given to, 355, _note_ 2; of Totnes, 251, 252; of Our Lady and S. George at Plymouth, 158; at York, 42, _note_, 89, _note_ 2
Guild Merchant, its importance in dependent towns, 302, 303; of Ipswich, 224, 225; Leicester, 355, _note_ 2; Liverpool, 270; Lynn, 286, 288; Reading, 300, 303, 304; Totnes, 175, _note_; claimed by S. Edmundsbury, 297, 298
Guns, English-made, their superiority, 55
Hall, the common, of Romney, 129, _note_ 2, 403, 405, _note_ 1; of Sandwich, 401; the guild, of Bridport, 16; Exeter, 341, 351, 356; London, 378, _note_ 2; Lynn, 283; Reading, 300, 304, 305; Winchester, 324