Edward III., his dealings with the staple, 45, 46; relations with Florentine merchants, 78, 79; borrows money of Lübeck merchants, 83; advantages to towns of his commercial policy, 237
Edward IV., his relations with the Hanse, 109-110; grants fresh franchises to Exeter, 367, _note_ 2
Empire, first mention of burgesses in, 11, _note_ 1
Enclosure of churchyards and ecclesiastical precincts within walls, 335
Engineers, Dutch and Flemish, employed in England, 142, 143, _note_, 403
England, its comparative unimportance in Europe in thirteenth century, 32, 33; character of its history in fifteenth century, 35-44; classes of its population c. 1453, 60
English language, prayers in, used by a Norfolk guild, 42, _note_
Escheator, the King’s, 208; appointment of mayor as, _ib._, _note_ 1; term of office, 234, _note_ 3
Essex, Dom Robert, manufactures silk at Westminster, 57, _note_ 2
Exeter, its early government, 338; jurisdiction of Earls of Devonshire in, 339; disputes with them, 266, 339; with the cathedral, 340-368; discussion between bishop and mayor, 155; election of Shillingford as mayor, 340, 341; grant of Richard of Almayne to, 357; grants of Edward IV. to, 367, _note_ 2; almshouses at, 41, _note_ 2; right of arrest in, 364-366; assize of wine, bread, &c., 358-9; bridge at, 144; Broad Gate, 353; great drain, 361; Canon’s-street, 360; controversy as to common use of cathedral, 362-364; as to jurisdiction of coroner, 355; cathedral close, 352, 353, 355; provision for ferm in, 359; Fish-street, 360; price of admission to freedom, 178, _note_ 5; gates, dispute for control of, 361, 362; Guildhall, 341, 351, 356; hospitals, 41, _note_ 2; law against livery, 339; market, _ib._, 359, 360; St. Martin’s-street, 360; paving of, 18, _note_; bishop’s prison, 362; St. Peter’s fee, 357; Recorder, 345, 347; maces, 339, 367; Black Roll, 345; S. Stephen’s fee, 343; town-hall, 344; great tower, 361-2; warden of the poor, 41, _note_ 2; controversy as to watch and ward, 357, 358; wine gavell, 359
Export trade, revenue from, under Henry VII. and VIII., 58; industrial changes occasioned by, 67; disputes caused by, between merchants and artizans, 70; _see_ Trade
Fairs and markets forbidden to be held in sanctuaries, 156; forbidden on Sundays and feast days, 156, _note_; of Ripon, 130; of Tetbury, 314; St. Giles’s, at Winchester, 324, 329; at Yarmouth, 395, 396, 415