Battle, services due from its burgesses, 171, _note_ 2; its quarrel with Lydd about boundaries, 411; abbot of, owner of land in Lydd, 409
Bedford, opposition to commission of enquiry in, 268, _note_ 1
Beer, its introduction, 57; English, exported to Flanders, _ib._
Bell, the common, 161, 180; of Bristol, 314, 315; of Hereford, 127; Reading, 304; Romney, 405, _note_ 1; Brandegoose, at Sandwich, 401; of church, 153; the curfew, 324
Benecke, captain of Danzig privateers, 109, _note_ 2
Bergen, staple set up by English adventurers at, 95; English expelled from, 107
Berkeley, owned by lay noble, 227; privileges leased to the burghers of, 263; relations with its lords, 264, 267; lords of, their fight with Bristol, 313-315; their trading, 316
Berkeley, Lord Maurice, 265, 266, 312, 314-315
Berkeley, Lady, daughter of Mayor of Bristol, 316; her funeral, _ib._
Bernard, the goldsmith, his escape from prison, 374
Berwick, government of, given to one of the Berkeleys, 264
Billeting, forbidden in Bristol, 210, _note_ 3
Birmingham, 200, _note_ 2; its bridges, 20; its guild, _ib._
Blackwall, entrepôt of Dinant copper-workers at, 56
Bondmen, not to be admitted to franchise in York and Bridgenorth, 196
Bonvil, Sir William, 41, _note_ 2, 267, 268, 366
Bordeaux, its trade, 87, 118, 119, 316, _note_ 1; taken by the French, 119
Boroughs, English, their importance in fifteenth century, 1; created by Edward I., 11, _note_ 3; representation in Parliament, 24, 25; conditions of claiming the property of, 218; importance of corporate succession of, 219; classification of, 227; sympathy of king with, in questions of rival jurisdiction, 232-3; local self-government in, 233-237; extortion in, 235, _note_ 1; advantages gained by, in times of state troubles, 237; anxiety of king about democratic movement in, 247, _note_ 3; granted to nobles, 253, _note_ 2; in “ancient demesne,” 227, 246, _see_ Towns
Borough Court, or Portmote, attendance of burghers required at, 180; wills enrolled in, 200, _note_ 1; at Norwich, 239
Boston, house of the Hanseatic League at, 110
Boulogne, soldiers from Reading at, 16, _note_
Boundaries, preservation and perambulation of, 134
Brickmaking, its beginnings in England, 56
Bridges, repair of, 144; the Long, at Barnstaple, 253, _note_ 3; at Birmingham, 20; Canterbury, 19; Exeter, 144; London, _ib._; Nottingham, _ib._; Reading, 301, _note_ 2