Norfolk, supervision of its woollen trade by Norwich, 385-386
Northampton, its dispute with abbot of Thorney, 52, _note_; style, 278, _note_ 1; tin, 54
Norwich, complaint of democracy against oligarchy in, 241-242; character and value of its political experiments, 361, 396-397; early constitution, 361-365; copying of old documents, 370, _note_ 4; troubles about election in 1404, 373-374; disputes between mayor’s council and commonalty, 379-380; its disputes with the prioress of Carrow, hospital of S. Paul, and abbot of Wendling, 387, _note_; with abbot of Holme, 387, 391-392; with prior of the cathedral, 387, 391, 395-396; struggle between county party and town party, 385-395; insurrection of John Gladman, 392-393; refusal to advance money to King, 393; visited by him, 394; reception of the Duke of York, 394; poverty in fifteenth century, 395; causes of decay, 397-398; cause of failure of its attempt to gain popular liberty, 427-428; its account-books, 370, _note_ 4; aldermen, 362, _note_ 2, 380; apprentices, payments by, 102, _note_ 2; assembly, 371-372, 377-379; superseded by twenty-four, 365; assembly rolls, 370; “Le Bachery”, 389, 392; bailiffs, 361-364, 373; chandlers presented at court leet, 140; chapel of the Blessed Virgin in the Fields, 389, 397; charters, 371-373, 379-380, 395; churches, 329, _note_ 2; “the citizens”, 366, 367, 368, 370, 373, 376, 399-401; craft guilds, 144, _note_ 1, 381-384; supervision of cloth and wool trade, 149, _note_ 1, 385-386; system of contracting for work in surrounding villages, 105-106; the community or commonalty of, 366-373, 376, 377, 399; composition of 1415, 374-380; councils, 170, 278, _note_ 2, 363-365, 369-377, 419; “customs”, 364; election of common councillors, 376, 380-381; election of officers after 1415, 377-379; employers made responsible for servants, 101, _note_ 2; franchises forfeited, 367, 389, 391-393; restored, 391, 394; freemen must belong to craft guild, 383; foreign settlers, 320; guilds, 144, _note_ 1; guild of S. George, 384-385, 389, 395; income in 1378, 370, _note_ 4; justices of the peace, 362, _note_ 2; condition of its labourers before 1340, 101; its four leets, 361-362; replaced by wards, 380; leet courts, 362; loan to King, 372, _note_ 2; magnates, 196, _note_ 3, 249; manufacturing trade, its decline, 88; market, 367, _note_ 2; market-place, 31; mayor, 373; mayor imprisoned in London, 392; charges against him, 393, _note_ 2; lawsuit about rights of pasture, 238; petition to Parliament, 367; capital pledges, 362, 381; statute of 1477 about Pye-powder court, 393, _note_ 2; recorder, 387; increased rents, 400; common seal, 390, 391, 392; sheriffs, 373, 381; official styles, 365-368, 373; appointment of supervisors of bread, 35, _note_ 4; tanners, 105; tolbooth, 362, 389, _note_ 1; traders ordered to become freemen, 400; wards, 376, 380; wealth, causes of its decay, 104, _note_ 3; White Book, 258, _note_ 3; law about ordinances of worsted-shearers, 149, _note_ 1; relations with country workmen, 105-106