INDEX
- Abbetoft, Sir Walter de, grant to monks of Louth Park, 23.
- Aberystwyth siege, guns broken, 110.
- Abinghall, Forest of Dean, coal-working, 5.
- Adam of Corfe, marble-worker, 85.
- Adits: coal pits drained by, 8-9;
- lead mines drained by, 50;
- tin mines drained by, 65-6.
- Aketon, Nicholas de. See Nicholas de Aketon.
- Alabaster industry, 86-90.
- Alcester, legend of punishment of iron-workers, 22.
- Aldebek, tilery, 125.
- Ale: brewing and trade regulations, 186-93;
- national drink, 184-5;
- price fixed by ordinance, 185-6;
- used in stained glassmaking, 132.
- Ale-conner or taster, duties of, 189.
- Ale stakes, use of, 189.
- Alston Moor: lead mines, 39, 40-8, 60;
- Scottish king's rights over, 41.
- Alum, use as a mordant in dyeing wool, 144.
- Alwold, 'campanarius,' 96.
- Amblecote, coal-mining, 7.
- Amesbury, lead sent to, from Shropshire, 39.
- Amiens, agreement of woad merchants with Norwich, 144-5.
- Apprenticeship regulations, 229-31.
- Appys, John, lease of tileries, 124.
- Ariconium, near Ross, iron industry, 21.
- Arnoldson, Cornelys, repair of guns, 112.
- Arundel, alabaster tomb at, 88.
- Ashburnham, tile manufacture, 123-4.
- Ashburton, tin sent to, for coinage duty, 69.
- Ashdown Forest, labour employed in iron mills, 32;
- water-hammer in, 30.
- Ashford, Derbyshire, lead mine, 39.
- Assize of Bread and Ale, Assize of Cloth, etc. See Bread and Ale, Assize of;
- Cloth, Assize of.
- Alkynson, John, gun-founder, 113.
- Aylesham, clothmaking industry, 161, 166.
- Bakers: frauds practised by, 204;
- use of trademarks ordered, 216.
- Bakewell, Derbyshire, lead mine, 39.
- Ballard, Blase, gunner, grant to, for injuries caused by gun accident, 110.
- Ballard, Simon, iron shot made by, at Newbridge, 111-12.
- Barbary, leather imported into England, 176.
- Bark for tanning, 174.
- Barmaster, of mine court, 40.
- Barmote. See Berghmote.
- Barnack, stone quarries, 77.
- Barnstaple, clothmaking industry, 158.
- Barri, Gerald de, cider mentioned by, 197.
- Bath: gild of smiths at, alleged, in Roman times, 21;
- Roman use of coal in temple of Minerva probable, 1.
- Bath Stone, quarries at Haslebury in Box, 78-9.
- Battle, Sussex, early iron-works at, 20.
- Battle Abbey: cider a source of income, 197;
- reference to bell casting, 96;
- stone quarry near, 76;
- tile manufacture, 123.
- Baude, Peter, discovery of method of casting cannon in entire piece, 113.
- Beare, Thomas, on alluvial tin, 65.
- Beauvale, prior of, lease of coal mine at Newthorpe, 15.
- Becket, Thomas, ale taken to French Court, in 1157, 185.
- Bedburn forge, conditions of labour, 32.
- Bedwin, Wilts., clothmaking industry, 137.
- Beer Alston, Devon, royal lead mines, 48-51.
- Beer, Devon, stone quarries, 78, 80.
- Beer, introduction into England and development of trade, 193-5.
- Bellows, method of using in iron smelting, 27.
- Bell pits, in coal-mining, 7;
- in iron-mining, 27.
- Bells: dedication ceremony, 101;
- manufacture of, 96-107;
- tuning of, 99-100.
- Bellyeter, term for a bell-founder, 97.
- Belper: iron industry, 25;
- terms of lease of coal mine, 15.
- Belsire, tileries owned by family, 124.
- Beneit le Seynter, early bell-founder, 96.
- Benthall, lease of coal working, 14-15.
- Berghmote or Barmote, mine court in Derbyshire, 40.
- Berkshire, clothmaking industry, 167.
- Berneval, Alexander de, sent to England for alabaster, 87.
- Berwick-on-Tweed, inventory of artillery, in 1401, 109.
- Beverley: building trade, hours of work, 211;
- clothmaking industry, 134, 139;
- list of standard measures for ale kept at, 188;
- regulations for control of industry, 223;
- tile manufacture, 124-5.
- Beverley, College of, new shrine for relics of St. John of Beverley, 93-4.
- Billiter Street, origin of name, 97.
- Birley in Brampton, grant of wood to monks of Louth Park, 23.
- Birlond, quarrying of slates at, 81.
- Bisham, stone quarries, 83.
- Bishop's Stortford, consecration of bells of St. Michael's, 101.
- Black Death, effect on industries, 11, 74, 201.
- Black Prince. See Edward, Black Prince.
- Blacksmiths, control of industry, 211-12, 217.
- Blakeney, Forest of Dean, coal-working, 5.
- Blanket, Thomas, cloth-weaver in Bristol, 141.
- Blanket cloth, manufacture, 168.
- Blaunchlond, Northumberland, lead mine, 60.
- Bloom, in iron-working, meaning of term, 28, 30;
- variations in weight, 30-31.
- Bloomery, meaning of term, 29.
- Blund, William and Robert le, probable identity with William and Robert of Corfe, 85.
- Bocher, Robert, alabaster-worker, 89.
- Bodiam Castle, gun found in moat, 111.
- Bodmatgan quarry, slates from, 81.
- Bodmin, tin sent to, for coinage duty, 69.
- 'Boldon Book,' 1183, references to use of coal, 2-3.
- Bole furnace, type used in lead mines, 51.
- Bolerium of Diodorus Siculus, question of identity, 62.
- Bolles, William, legal action, 13.
- Bolsover, Manor of, 10, 11.
- Bordale, Edmund, of Bramley, glass purchased from, 130.
- Borde, Andrew, on ale, 184, 190;
- beer, 193;
- cider and perry, 196.
- Boston, Lincs., clothmaking industry, 139.
- Boughton Monchelsea, stone worked at, 80, 83.
- Boundary stones, custom of burying coal under, 3-4.
- Brabant weavers in London, 225.
- Bradley, Staffordshire, coal-mining, 7.
- Braintree, clothmaking industry, 157.
- Brasier, Richard, bell-founder of Norwich, 105-7.
- Bread and ale, assize of, beginning of national control of industry, 201.
- Bremerhaven, export of coal to, 18.
- Breton, Ralph, gift of money for bell to Rochester Cathedral Priory, 96.
- Brewing: ale, universal and regulation of, 186-93;
- beer, 193-5;
- cider, 196-8.
- Bricks, manufacture of, 125-6.
- Brill, iron sent to, from Forest of Dean, 23.
- Bristol: clothmaking industry, 141, 144, 145-6, 148, 150-1, 154;
- coal exported, in 1592, 18;
- gun-founding industry, 110;
- leather trade, 174;
- regulations for control of industries, 181, 182, 191, 216-19, 223, 227-9, 235.
- Bromfield, Shropshire, lead-miners recruited from, for Devon, 57.
- Brown, Roger, of Norwich, shoemaker, 181.
- Brushford, near Dulverton, lead mine, 59.
- Buggeberd, Adam, rector of South Peret, dispute over Whitchurch bells referred to, 100.
- Building industry: hours of work at Beverly, 211;
- reasons for not treating subject, vi.
- Burel cloth, manufacture of, 136-7.
- Burford family, bell-founders, 102.
- Burges, Toisaunts, brought to England to teach art of calendering worsteds, 165.
- Burle, Nicholas, of London, seizure of hides, 175.
- Burnard, Richard, clothier of Barnstaple, 158.
- Burton-on-Trent, alabaster-workers, 89.
- Bury St. Edmunds: bell-founding industry, 105;
- quarry in Barnack owned by abbey of, 77.
- Buttercrambe, Plaster of Paris obtained from, 89-90.
- Byland, Abbey of, grant of iron mine to, 1180, 23.
- Caen, stone quarries, 78, 80.
- Calendering worsteds, introduction of art, 165-6.
- Cambrai, Siege of, 1339, guns used, 107.
- Cannons. See Gun-founding.
- Canon, Richard, carver and marble-worker, 85.
- Canterbury: ale famous, 185;
- bell-founding industry, 105.
- Canterbury Cathedral, alabaster tomb of Henry IV. and Queen Joan, 88.
- Capitalists, conflict of interests in the gilds, 226-36.
- Cappers of Coventry, regulations for control of industry, 227, 231.
- Carlisle, Castle of, brass cannons for, in 1385, 108.
- Carretate, weight for lead, varieties, 56.
- Carving, English skill in Middle Ages, 87.
- Cassiterides or Tin Islands, question of identification, 62.
- Castor, Northants., Roman British pottery, 114-15.
- Causton, Alice, punished for selling short measure of ale, 188.
- Cavalcante, John, of Florence, cannon and saltpetre supplied by, 112-13.
- Chafery, in iron-smelting, 30.
- Chagford, tin sent to, for coinage duty, 69.
- Chalder or chaldron, measure, 17-18.
- Chaldon, stone quarries, 77.
- Chalk, quarrying for conversion into lime, 90-1.
- Chalons, cloth, origin of name and manufacture in England, 138.
- Chalons-sur-Marne, cloth manufacture, 138.
- Chamois (shamoys) leather, trade regulations, 176-7.
- Charcoal: confused with sea coal by Alexander Neckam, 3;
- only fuel used for iron-working, 26.
- Charcoal-burners employed in iron industry, 36-7.
- Cheapside, goldsmiths' shops, 95.
- Chellaston, alabaster quarries, 87.
- Chertsey Abbey, inlaid tiles discovered, 127.
- Cheshire, lead-miners recruited for Devon, 57.
- Chester: brewing-trade dues paid to castle of, 187;
- gild of smiths at, in Roman times, 21.
- Chichester Cathedral, Purbeck marble used, 84.
- Chiddingfold, glassmaking industry, 127-9.
- Child labour, order restricting, in 1398, 229.
- Chilvers Coton, coal-mining, 6.
- Chimneys, increase in number, in sixteenth century, 19.
- Chirche, Reginald, bell-founder, 101.
- Chislehurst, chalk quarries, 91.
- Choke damp, 8, 16.
- Cider industry, 196-8.
- Cistercian ware, distinctive features, 118.
- Clee, forest of, coal-working, 6.
- Cleveland, iron industry, 25.
- Clifford, Walter de, licence to Sir John de Halston (c. 1260), 5-6.
- Cloth, Assize of, beginning of a national control of industry, 201.
- Clothmaking industry: development and principal centres, 133-41;
- Edward III.'s efforts to improve, 140-1, 201;
- frauds and regulations against, 159-64, 204-6;
- legislative control, 136-7, 160-4, 201, 205, 216;
- numbers employed and output of cloth, 156-9;
- processes used, 141-56;
- quality of English cloth prior to time of Edward III., 136;
- subjection of workers evidenced by restrictive regulations, 134-5;
- varieties of cloth made, 164-70.
- Coal: burying under boundary stones, 3-4;
- discovery in 1620 of method of using for iron-works, 26, 37;
- early significance of the word, 2-3;
- restriction of use to iron-working and lime-burning, 4-5, 90-1;
- Roman use of, in Britain, 1-2;
- smoke nuisance complained of, 6;
- trade returns, 18-19;
- value, 13-14;
- weighing of, measures employed, 14, 17-18.
- Coal-mining: bell pits described, 7;
- choke damp mentioned, 8, 16;
- early methods of working, 7-11;
- first references to actual workings, 5-6;
- mineral rights, 11-18;
- terms of leases, 14-16.
- Coggeshall, clothmaking industry, 140, 157.
- Cogware, origin of term, 143.
- Coinage duty on tin, 68-9, 74.
- Colchester: clothmaking industry, 140, 156, 168;
- leather trade, 172, 173;
- Roman pottery manufacture, 115;
- tile industry regulations, 120-1.
- Coleford, Roman iron-works at, 20.
- Collard, Robert, tilemaker, 125.
- Collyweston, stone slates, 82.
- Colyn, Thomas, alabaster-worker, 88.
- Competition, efforts to restrict, 222-5, 226-7.
- Control of industry: gild regulations, 206-40;
- legislation for, 200-12.
- Cope, in bell-founding, 98.
- Corby, agreement of woad merchants with Norwich, 144-5.
- Cordwainers: journeyman fraternity formed, 233;
- origin of name, 180;
- trade regulations, 181-3.
- Core, in bell-founding, 98.
- Corfe, Dorset: Purbeck marble industry, 85;
- stone quarry, 79.
- Cornwall, Duke of, vested with supreme control of the stannaries, 72.
- Cornwall: brewing trade, 190;
- clothmaking industry, 158;
- gold, search for, 61;
- slate quarrying, 81-2;
- tin-mining, 62-74.
- Corvehill, William, bell-founder, 107.
- Costume of miners, depicted in Newland Church, 36.
- Courts. See Law Courts.
- Coventry: brewing trade and regulations for, 187-9, 191;
- Cappers' gild regulations, 212, 227, 230-1;
- clothmaking industry, 146-7, 169;
- gilds controlled by civic authorities, 208;
- iron-workers, trade restrictions, 219-21, 232;
- journeyman gilds or confraternities, 234, 235;
- treatment of strangers, 222;
- trial of trade disputes in spiritual courts, 236.
- Cowick, Yorkshire, payment by potters for digging clay, 118.
- Crangs, Burcord, melting-house at Larian in Cornwall, 66-7.
- Créçy, battle of, guns used by English, 107.
- Crich, Derbyshire, lead mine, 39.
- Croker, Nicholas, coppersmith, 96.
- Crowchard, John, gun repaired by, 112.
- Crowland Abbey, quarry in Barnack, 77.
- Croxden Abbey, bell recast, in 1313, 99.
- Culhare, Emma, killed by choke-damp, 8.
- Culverden, William, bell-founder, 100.
- Cumberland, lead-mining, 46, 60-1.
- Customs and Duties: alien merchandise, on, 224-5;
- coal, 5, 18;
- coinage on tin, 68-9, 74.
- Dale, Abbey of, Derbyshire, inlaid tile manufacture, 127.
- Damlade, uncertain meaning of the word, 81.
- Darcy, Edmund, royal grant to, for searching and sealing leather, 179.
- Darlington, clothmaking industry, 134.
- Dean, Forest of: coal-mining, 5, 11;
- iron industry, 23, 29, 34-6.
- Dearns, meaning of term, 9.
- De la Fava, of Mechlin. See La Fava.
- Denby: coal-mining accident, in 1291, 8;
- iron mine, 22-3.
- Derbyshire: alabaster quarries, 87;
- coal-mining, 6-8;
- iron industry, 25, 27;
- lead-mining, 39-48, 54, 56, 57-8.
- Devon: clothmaking industry, 144, 158, 167;
- gold discovered, 61;
- lead-mining, 43, 48-9, 50-8;
- slate quarrying, 81;
- stone quarry at Beer, 78;
- tin-mining, 62-74.
- Dewysse, Edward, beer brewer, 194.
- Diodorus Siculus, statements respecting British tin trade, 62.
- Dorset: clothmaking industry, frauds practised, 161;
- lead-miners recruited for Devon, 57;
- Purbeck marble industry, 84-5;
- stone quarries, 79.
- Douset, term explained, 240.
- Dover: bells cast for, 105;
- cannon for castle, in 1401, 108-9.
- Dowson, John, gun-founder, 113.
- Doys, John, beer brewer, case of theft against, 194.
- Dudley, Dud, discovery of methods of using coal for iron-works, in 1620, 26, 37.
- Duffield Frith: coal obtained from, in 1257, 6;
- iron industry, 25.
- Dunkirk, export of coal to, 18.
- Dunstan, St., patron of the goldsmiths, 92.
- Durham: coal-mining, 9;
- lead mines granted to bishop by King Stephen, 39-40.
- Dutch: beer a natural drink for, 193;
- expert gun-founders, 111.
- Duties. See Customs and Duties.
- Dyeing industry: processes employed for cloth, 144-8;
- regulations for control of, 229, 234.
- Eastbourne, green sandstone quarry, 79.
- Ebchester, Durham, discovery at, of Roman use of coal, 1.
- Edmund of Cornwall, tin worked for, in 1297, 65.
- Edward III.: efforts to improve cloth trade, 140-1, 201;
- metal cast figure of, 95.
- Edward, the Black Prince, plate presented to, 94.
- Egremont, iron mine, 22.
- Egwin, St., legend of punishment of iron-workers of Alcester, 22.
- Egynton, John, dyer, trade dispute, 146-7.
- Eleanor, Queen: driven from Nottingham Castle by coal smoke, 6;
- metal cast figure of, 95.
- Eleanor Crosses, Purbeck marble supplied for, 85.
- Ely: bells cast, 103;
- wall tiles or bricks for, 125.
- Elyng, meaning of term, 28.
- Encaustic tiles, process of manufacture, 126-7.
- Essex, clothmaking industry, 157, 166, 168.
- Essex, straits, narrow cloths, 140.
- Eton college, stained glass for, 130.
- Eure, Sir William, lease of coal mines, 16.
- Exeter Cathedral: marble work for, 85;
- Portland stone used, 79;
- resident bell-founders appointed, 104-5·
- Fairlight Quarry, near Hastings, stone for Rochester castle, 79, 80.
- Faringdon, William, renowned goldsmith, 93.
- Farriers: allowed to shoe on Sundays and feast days, 213;
- mutual assistance regulations, 237.
- Faudkent, Peter, Dochman, stained glass purchased from, 131.
- Fécamp Abbey, alabaster procured from England by abbot, 87.
- Fenby, Thomas de, dyer of Coventry, trade dispute, 146-7.
- Ferry, coal mines, 9.
- Finchale monks, coal-mining operations, 9.
- Fishmongers, regulation of trade, 219.
- Fiskerton, brewing-trade dues, 187.
- Fitz Odo, goldsmiths. See Fitz Otho.
- Fitz Osbert, William, grant to abbey of Byland, 1180, 23.
- Fitz Otho, Edward, goldsmith of Henry III., bells cast by, 102.
- Fitz Otho family, king's goldsmiths and masters of the mint, 92.
- Flanders: beer introduced into England from, 193;
- glassmaker brought to England, in 1449, 130-1;
- settlement in England of craftsmen from, 225.
- Fletcher's lead mine in Alston, 60.
- Flushing, export of coal to, 18.
- Folkestone, stone quarry, 80.
- Forest Assize of 1244, references to coal-mining, 5.
- Forges, itinerant, in Forest of Dean, 29.
- Fortuno de Catalengo, purchase of cannon from, 112.
- Fotinel, weight for lead, 56.
- Founders of metal, notable examples of work, 95-6.
- Fountains Abbey, ware found in, 118.
- Franciscans in London, poverty evidenced by quality of their ale, 185.
- Frankwell, William, water for tanning at Lewes, 173.
- Frese, William, gunmaker, 112.
- Friezes, types manufactured, 169-70.
- Friscobaldi, Italian merchants, lease of Devon lead mines, 56-7.
- Fuller's earth, used for cleansing cloth, 154-5.
- Fulling of cloth: process employed, 153-5;
- use of trademarks ordered, 216.
- Furnaces, types employed, 28, 51-3, 66.
- Furness Abbey, iron industry, 25, 27, 31.
- Galloway, Mr., his Annals of Coal Mining, ix.
- Gateshead, coal-mining, 9, 11.
- Geddyng, John, glazier, 129.
- Gerard le Flemeng, cloth weaver, 137.
- Germans: expert gun-founders, 111;
- skilled miners, 59.
- Gildesburgh, Robert, dispute over tuning of bells, 99-100.
- Gilds: clothweavers, alien weavers in London, 225;
- charters granted by Henry I. and Henry II., 135;
- enforced holidays, 151;
- payments to the king, in twelfth century, 133-4;
- restriction of competition, 226-7.
- —— conflict of class interests in, 225-36.
- —— control of industry by regulations, 206-40.
- —— cordwainers at Oxford, 183.
- —— fullers of Lincoln, regulations, 153-4.
- —— journeymen's efforts to form, 233-5.
- —— origin of, 206-7.
- —— religious element in organisation, 237-40.
- Glasewryth, John, glassmaker in Chiddingfold district, 129.
- Glassmaking industry, 127-32.
- Glastonbury, lake village, evidences of weaving discovered, 133.
- Glaze, for pottery, process, 116-17.
- Gloucester: bell-founding industry, 103;
- brewing-trade regulations, 192;
- clothmaking industry, 134, 161.
- Gloucestershire: iron industry, 22, 24, 28;
- lead-mining, 39, 57.
- Gloucester, vale of, vine cultivation, 198.
- Goderswyk, William, mining grant to, 60-1.
- Gold-mining, 61.
- Goldsmiths, early records of, 92-4.
- Goldsmiths' Row, London, built by Thomas Wood, 95.
- Goodrich, Roman iron-works at, 21.
- Goryng, John, case against beer brewers, 194.
- Goykyn, Godfrey, English guns made by, 111.
- Graffham, Sussex, potteries, 117.
- Gray, Sir Thomas, lease of Whickham coal mines, 16.
- Green, Ralph, alabaster tomb in Lowick Church, 88.
- Greenwich, chalk and lime sent to London, 91.
- Griff, charge for sinking coal pits, 10.
- Guildford: chalk quarries, 91;
- clothmaking industry, 138, 168.
- Guildford Castle, tiles from Shalford, 124.
- Guildford cloths, reputation injured by frauds, 155, 205.
- Guildhall, London, ordnance at, in 1339, 107.
- Gun-founding industry: account of, 107-13;
- discovery of method of casting cannon in entire piece, 113;
- projectiles used, 80-81, 109.
- Gypsum, conversion into Plaster of Paris, 89-90.
- Hackington, tileries, 124.
- Halingbury, William, promotion of art of calendering worsteds, 165.
- Hall, Robert, clothier of Winchester, 158.
- Halston, Sir John de, licensed to dig for coals in Clee forest, 5-6.
- Hammers, water, for iron industry, 30.
- Hampshire: clothmaking industry, 167;
- stone quarries, 79.
- Hanbury, earliest sepulchral image in alabaster at, 86.
- Harrison, William: ale disparaged by, 195;
- cider and perry mentioned by, 196;
- his Description of England, 19.
- Hartkeld, coal mines, 16.
- Haslebury quarry, 78-9.
- Hassal, slate-quarrying at, 81.
- Hastings: kilns for making inlaid tiles discovered, 127;
- pottery, stamp decoration, 118.
- Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, lease of coal mines, 16.
- Hatters, use of trademark ordered, 216.
- Hawkin of Liége, metal-founder, 95.
- Helere, Edmund, lease of tileries, 124.
- Helston: brewing trade, 190;
- nomination of members for stannary parliament, 72;
- tin sent to, for coinage dues, 69.
- Henry III., metal cast figure of, 95.
- Henry IV., alabaster tomb at Canterbury, 88.
- Henry V., inventory of goods quoted, 139.
- Henry of Lewes, the king's chief smith, 24.
- Henshawe, William, bell-founder at Gloucester, 103.
- Hereford: blankets made at, 168;
- iron industry, 22;
- regulations for control of industry, 223.
- Hermann de Alemannia, lead mine worked by, 59.
- Herrings, Yarmouth monopoly of sale on east coast, 203.
- Heworth, charge for sinking coal pits, 10.
- Hides, trade regulations, 174-5.
- Hill, Nicholas, alabaster-worker, 89.
- Hogge, Ralph, discovery of method of casting cannon in entire piece, 113.
- Holewell, Thomas, alabaster-worker, 88.
- Holidays, regulations, 212-14.
- Hope, Derbyshire, lead mines, 39.
- Hops, restrictions on use, 194-5.
- Horsham, stone slate quarries, 82.
- Houghton, Yorkshire, customs respecting mineral rights, 12.
- Hours of labour, regulations, 211-12.
- Huddleston, stone quarries, 77.
- Hugh of Scheynton, lease of coal mine, 14-15.
- Hull: tile manufacture, 124;
- weaving trade regulations, 237.
- Humbert, Duke, lease of lead mines at Wirksworth, 39.
- Huntingdon, clothmaking industry, 133.
- Hussey, Sir William, action against, 13.
- Ictis of Diodorus Siculus, question of identity, 62-3.
- Industry, control of. See Control of Industry.
- Inspection of goods in Middle Ages, 216-17.
- Ipswich, tolls on English cloth, 139-40.
- Irish friezes, manufacture of, 169-70.
- Iron, price of, and parliamentary attempt to regulate, 31, 208-9.
- Iron-mining: free miners of the Forest of Dean, their privileges, 34-6;
- methods of working, 26-30;
- numbers employed and conditions of labour, 31-6;
- places noted for, 22-6;
- Roman activity in Britain, 20-1;
- weight of the bloom, variations in, 30-1;
- wood consumption in sixteenth century, 36-7.
- Jack of Newbury. See Winchcombe, John.
- Jervaulx Abbey: grant to, by Earl of Richmond, 1281, 29;
- ware found at, 118.
- John, King, tomb at Worcester, in Purbeck marble, 84.
- John de Alemaygne, of Chiddingfold, glassmaker, 128.
- John de Stafford, mayor of Leicester, bell-founder, 103.
- John, Duke of Bretagne, alabaster tomb at Nantes, 88.
- John Glasman of Ruglay, glass purchased from, 130.
- John of Chester, glazier, designs for stained glass, 131-2.
- John of Gloucester, bell-founder, 103.
- John, St., of Alexandria, mention in life of, of British tin trade, 63.
- John, St., of Beverley, new shrine for relics, in 1292, 93-4.
- Johnson, Cornelys, gun-founder, 113.
- Journeymen, regulation of employment, 231-5.
- Julius Cæsar, on iron in Britain, 20.
- Julius Vitalis, armourer of the 20th Legion, funeral at Bath, 21.
- Keel or coal barge, regulation of capacity, 17.
- Kendal, clothmaking industry, 143, 169.
- Kent: chalk-quarrying, 91;
- clothmaking industry, 137, 158;
- gun-founding, 113;
- iron industry, 24, 26;
- Roman British pottery in, 114;
- stone quarries, 77-8, 80-1;
- tile manufacture, 121-4.
- Kentish rag, stone, demand for, 77-8, 80.
- Kersey, village, clothmaking industry, 166.
- Kerseys, manufacture of, 166-8.
- Keswick, lead mine, 60.
- Kilns, types used, 90, 115, 116, 126.
- King's College, Cambridge, stained glass for, 130-1.
- Kingston on Thames, pottery manufacture, 117.
- Kipax, Yorkshire, customs respecting mineral rights, 12.
- Kirkstall Abbey, ware found at, 118.
- Labour, control of. See Control of Industry.
- Labourers, Statute of, enactments, 201-2.
- La Fava, Lewis de, of Mechlin, purchase of cannon from, 112.
- Lanchester, Durham: discovery at, of Roman use of coal, 1;
- Roman method of smelting iron at, 26.
- Langton, Walter de, bishop of Chester, on yield of Beer Alston mine, 51.
- Larian in Cornwall, cost of a melting-house at, 66-7.
- Launceston, nomination of members for stannary parliament, 72.
- Laurence Vitrarius, glassmaker at Chiddingfold, 128.
- Law Courts: miners, 35-6, 40, 72;
- settlement of trade disputes, for, 236.
- Lead-mining: methods of working, 50-5;
- organisation of miners, 40-8;
- payments to the king and to the lord of the soil, 46-8;
- principal localities, 39-40;
- productiveness of mines, 56-61;
- prospecting regulations, 43-6;
- Roman workings, 38-9;
- wages and number of hands employed, 48-51.
- Leadreeve, of mine court, 40.
- Leakes of Southwark, beer brewers, 195.
- Leather industry: account of, 171-83;
- frauds in preparation and sale, 177-9, 205;
- night work prohibited, 215;
- regulations for control of, 215-16, 229, 237-8;
- shoemaking, regulations, 180-3;
- table of values of different kinds of leather, 179-80.
- Leathersellers' Company, inefficiency of control over trade, 177-8.
- Leeds, bell pits near, 7.
- Leeds Castle, cost of iron for repairs in time of Edward III., 31.
- Lewis, George Randall, indebtedness to acknowledged, ix, 64.
- Lichfield Cathedral, dedication of bell, 1477, 101.
- Lime-burning, 4-5, 90-1.
- Limekilns, kind used, 90.
- Liminge, land at, granted to Abbey of St. Peter of Canterbury, 22.
- Lincoln: clothmaking industry, 133, 136, 139, 153-4;
- pottery, stamp decoration, 118;
- Purbeck marble for Eleanor cross, 85;
- regulations for control of industry, 222, 228.
- Liskeard, tin sent to, for coinage duty, 69.
- List, in cloth, term explained, 136.
- Liverpool, coal exported, in 1592, 18.
- Logwood, use as a dye forbidden, 148.
- London: ale brewing, regulations, 190-1;
- beer brewing in, 193-5;
- bell-founding industry, 101-2;
- cloth making industry, 133, 137, 140, 147, 154;
- regulations for control of industries, 204, 207-15, 219, 225-33, 236;
- roofing with tiles made compulsory, 1212, 119;
- shoemaking trade regulations, 181-3;
- walls built of Kentish rag, 77.
- Loop, in iron working, meaning of term, 30.
- Lostwithiel: nomination of members for stannary parliament, 72;
- slates probably quarried at, 81-2;
- tin sent to, for coinage duty, 69.
- Louth Park, grant to monks, 23.
- Low countries, settlement in England of craftsmen from, 225.
- Lowick Church, Northants., alabaster tomb in, 88.
- Lune, Galias de, mining grant to, 61.
- Lynne, clothmaking industry, 165.
- Madder, use in dyeing wool, 148.
- Magna Carta, cloth trade regulations in, 136.
- Maidstone, stone quarries, 77, 80, 81, 109.
- Maldon, clothmaking industry, 140, 168.
- Malemort family, employment in iron-works at St. Briavels, 24.
- Malvern Priory, manufacture of inlaid tiles, 127.
- Marble, Purbeck. See Purbeck marble.
- Marchall, John, mining grant to, 60.
- Marcus le Fair, clothier of Winchester, 158.
- Maresfield, Sussex, iron-works in Roman times, 20.
- Markets: held on Sundays in thirteenth century, 214;
- segregation of trades, 217-18.
- Marlborough: brewing-trade regulations, 187;
- clothmaking industry, 134, 137.
- Martinstowe: silver sent to London, in 1294, 55;
- slates used for roofing, 81;
- stone quarries, pay of workers, 82-3.
- Mason, Peter, payment to, for alabaster for St. George's Chapel, Windsor, 87.
- Matlock, lead workings of Roman period, 38.
- Meaux Abbey: dispute with tilers of Beverley, 124-5;
- tannery at, details given, 173.
- Mendips, lead mines: methods of working, 53;
- organisation of miners, 40-8;
- productiveness, 58-9;
- worked by the Romans, 38.
- Metal-working: bell-founding, 96-107;
- gun-founding, 107-13;
- payment for workmanship, 93-4;
- regulation of hours of work in London, 213;
- use of trademark ordered, 216.
- Metesford, Derbyshire, lead mine, 39.
- Michel, Henry, bell-founder, 99.
- Middle Ages, definition of period, vii.
- Middlewood, sea coal at, 4.
- Midhurst, payment by potters to the lord of the manor, 118.
- Mildenhall, recasting of bell and dispute over, 106-7.
- Mile End Range, 110.
- Millyng, Albert, of Cologne, mining grant to, 60-1.
- Mine Law Courts. See Law Courts, miners.
- Mining of coal, iron, lead, etc. See coal, iron, lead, etc.
- Minsterley, Shropshire, lead workings of Roman period, 38.
- Monkswood, near Tintern, timber consumed at iron-works, 37.
- Moorhouse, coal-mining at, 9.
- Mordant, in dyeing, those used in Middle Ages, 144.
- Moresby, Hugh de, charter to Furness Abbey, 27.
- Morley, Derbyshire, coal-mining accidents, 7-8.
- Nantes Cathedral, alabaster tomb of John of Bretagne, 88.
- Naturalisation, letters of, numerous in fifteenth century, 224-5.
- Neckam, Alexander, on coal, 3.
- Newark, brewing-trade dues, 187.
- Newbridge, in Ashdown Forest, iron shot manufactured, 111.
- Newbury, clothmaking industry, 167.
- Newcastle, coal-mining and trade, 6, 18-19.
- New Forest, Roman British pottery from, 114.
- Newland Church, brass depicting a free miner, 36.
- Newminster, use of coal by monks, 4.
- Newport, William, guns made by, 112.
- Newthorpe, coal mine, terms of lease, 15.
- Newthorpe Mere, Gresley, outrage at coal mine, 13.
- Nicholas de Aketon, grant to monks of Newminster, 4.
- Night work, rules against, 214-15.
- Norfolk, clothmaking industry, 138-9, 161, 164-6, 205.
- Northampton: Purbeck marble for Eleanor cross, 85;
- shoemaking regulations, 183.
- Northamptonshire: Roman British pottery, 114-15;
- stone slates quarried at Collyweston, 82.
- Northumberland: coal-mining, 6;
- lead-mining, 60-1.
- Norwich: bell-founding industry, 105;
- brewing trade regulations, 192-3, 195;
- clothmaking industry, 144-5, 148-9, 150, 162, 165, 168;
- gilds controlled by civic authorities, 208;
- holidays, regulations, 212;
- market regulations, 217;
- pageants and gild feasts, 238-40;
- roofing with tiles made compulsory, 119;
- strangers, restrictive regulations, 223-4.
- Nottingham: alabaster industry, 87-9;
- clothmaking industry, 133, 150;
- smoke nuisance, in 1257, 6.
- Nottinghamshire, coal-mining, 6.
- Nuneaton, coal-mining, 7, 15.
- Nutfield, Fuller's earth deposits, 155.
- Oldham, Lancs., bell pits at, 7.
- Ordnance, casting of, 107-13.
- Osetes of Bristol, cloths, 140.
- Oswy, king of Kent, grant to Abbey of St. Peter of Canterbury, 21-2.
- Otto, the goldsmith, 92.
- Oxford: brewing-trade regulations, 191-2;
- clothmaking industry, 133, 167;
- leather-trade industries, 172, 183.
- Pageants of gilds and fraternities, 238-40.
- Pagham, Sussex, cider industry, 197.
- Pakenham, John, cider orchard at Wisborough, 198.
- Parman, John, clothier of Barnstaple, 158.
- Pascayl, Robert, lease of coal mine, 15.
- Peak, Derbyshire, lead-miners recruited for Devon, 57.
- Penpark Hole, Gloucs., lead mine mentioned, in 882, 39.
- Pepercorn, William, draining of Beer Alston mine, 51.
- Perry drunk in Middle Ages, 196.
- Peter at Gate, tiles manufactured by, 123.
- Peter de Brus, forges on lands in Cleveland, 1271, 25.
- Peterborough Abbey, quarry in Barnack, 77.
- Pevensey, walls and castle built of green sandstone from Eastbourne, 79.
- Pewter-work, 95;
- apprentices, 229.
- Peyeson, Adam, lease of coal mine, 14-15.
- Peyto family, glassmakers, 129.
- Philippa, Queen, metal cast figure of, 95.
- Phœnicians, tin trade with Britain doubtful, 62.
- Piers Plowman, quoted, 141.
- Plaster of Paris, conversion of alabaster into, 89-90.
- Playden, village, grave of Cornelius Zoetmann, 194.
- Plessey, near Blyth, early mention of coal from, 4.
- Plympton, tin sent to, for coinage duty, 69.
- Poole, Dorset, beer and ale export trade, 194.
- Popenreuter, Hans, purchase of cannon from, 112.
- Poppehowe, Thomas, worker in alabaster, 88.
- Portland stone, fame in Middle Ages, 79.
- Potteresgavel, rent paid by potters, 118.
- Pottery manufacture, 114-18.
- Prentis, Thomas, alabaster-worker, 87-8.
- Prest, Godfrey, coppersmith, 96.
- Prices, regulation of, 208-10.
- Projectiles, 80-1, 109.
- Protection of industries, effect of, 203-4.
- Pucklechurch, Gloucs., iron industry, 22.
- Punishments by mine law, 42-3.
- Purbeck marble industry, 84-6.
- Quarell guns, 109.
- Quarrying, 76-91.
- Quivil, Bishop Peter de, care of bells of Exeter Cathedral, 104.
- Radlett, pottery manufacture by Romans, 115.
- Raly, coal mine, 16.
- Ramsey, Abbey of, quarry in Barnack, 77.
- Randolf, William, payment to, for metal-work, 94.
- Reading, clothmaking industry, 156.
- Redbrook, Roman iron-works at, 21.
- Reginald, Bishop, of Bath, lead mines granted to, 40.
- Reigate: Fuller's earth deposits, 155;
- stone quarries, 77-8, 80.
- Repton: lease of lead mines at Wirksworth by Abbess, 39;
- manufacture of inlaid tiles, 127.
- Restormel, Cornwall, slates used for roofing, 81.
- Richard I., reorganisation of the stannaries, 1198, 73.
- Richard II., metal-work of tomb and payment for, 96.
- Richmond, Earl of, 1281, grants to the monks of Jervaulx, 29.
- Richmond, Yorks., copper mine, 60.
- Ridding, in iron-mining, meaning of term, 35.
- Riley, Mr., indebtedness to, acknowledged, ix.
- Ringmer, in Sussex, potteries, 116, 118, 123.
- Robard, Pieter, alias Graunte Pierre, iron-founder, 112.
- Robert le Bellyetere, care of bells of Exeter Cathedral, 104-5.
- Robert of Corfe, worker in Purbeck marble, 85.
- Robertes, Henry, Serjeant, quarell guns provided by, 109.
- Rochester stone sent to, from Beer in Devon, 78.
- Rochester Castle, list of stone for, in 1367, 79-80.
- Rochester Priory: bell recast in twelfth century, 96;
- perquisites of under brewers, 192.
- Roger of Faringdon, maker of shrine at Beverley, 93-4.
- Rogers, Thorold, on effect of Statute of Labourers, 202.
- Romans in Britain: coal used by, 1-2;
- iron-mining, 20-1;
- lead mines, 38-9;
- pottery manufacture, 114-15.
- Roofing: slates worked for, 81-2;
- tiles manufactured for, 119.
- Ropley family, glassmakers, 129.
- Royley, Richard and Gabriel, alabaster-workers, 89.
- Rye, hops imported, 194.
- Saddlers, 233-35.
- St. Albans Abbey: consecration of bells, 101;
- metal workers among monks, 93.
- St. Austell, Cornwall, Saxon remains discovered in tin grounds, 63.
- St. Bees, grant of iron-mine to monks, 22.
- St. Briavels: forge at castle for construction of war materials, 24;
- Mine Law Courts, 35-6;
- payment to Constable for loads of coal, 5.
- St. Clere, statement respecting gold in Devon and Cornwall, in 1545, 61.
- St. George's Chapel, Windsor: alabaster reredos, 87;
- glass supplied from Chiddingfold, 128.
- St. Laurence, Reading, dedication of bell, 101.
- St. Mary-at-Hill, London, bells recast, in 1510, 100.
- St. Paul's Cathedral, contract for paving, 85.
- St. Peter of Canterbury, Abbey of, grant to, of land at Liminge, in 689, 22.
- St. Peter's Abbey at Gloucester, candlestick in South Kensington Museum, 92.
- St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster: glass from Chiddingfold, 128;
- marble for columns, 85;
- stained glass, process employed, 131-2;
- stone sent from Beer in Devon, 78.
- Salisbury, clothmaking industry, 158.
- Sandwich, export of chalk, 91.
- Sawtry Abbey, quarry in Barnack and disputes over, 77.
- Saxons: few traces of iron-works in Britain, 21-2;
- tin worked in Cornwall, 63.
- Sconeburgh, Gerard, beer brewer, case of theft against, 194.
- Sea coal: origin of term, 2-3;
- references to use of, 4-5.
- Sea Coal Lane, London, mention, in 1228, 4.
- Seaford, brewing trade, 191.
- Search, system of. See Inspection of goods.
- Selebourne, Hants, stone quarries, 79.
- Sester, in brewing trade, 187-8.
- Severn, customs on sea coal brought down, 5.
- Seyntleger, Thomas, case against beer brewers, 194.
- Shalford tileries, 124.
- Shamelling, meaning of term, 65.
- Shamoys leather. See Chamois.
- Sheffield in Fletching, Sussex, iron-mills, 33, 36-7.
- Shelve, Shropshire, lead mine of Roman period, 38.
- Shene Chapel, stone from Eastbourne for, 79.
- Sheppey Castle, guns for, 107.
- Shepton Mallet, pottery manufacture by Romans, 115.
- Sherterre family. See Shorter.
- Shippen, Yorks, coal-mining, 6.
- Shode, meaning of term, 64.
- Shoemaking: districts assigned to, in London, 217;
- gild of journeymen connected with craft, 235;
- regulation of trade, 180-3, 227;
- work allowed on Sunday, 213-14.
- Shoreham, brewing at, 187.
- Shorter or Sherterre family, glassmakers, 129.
- Shoyswell, hundred, brewing trade, 187.
- Shrewsbury: brewing regulations, 195;
- cloth trade, 152;
- leather trade, 172.
- Shropshire: coal workings, 5-6;
- lead-mining, 38-9.
- Silchester, refining of silver at, 54.
- Silver: process of refining from lead, 53-5;
- production from Devon mines, 56-7;
- weight and value, 55-6.
- Silversmiths' work, 94-5.
- Skipton, pottery kilns, 116.
- Slates, working of, 81-2.
- Sluys, export of coal to, 18.
- Small arms, early instance of use, 109.
- Smith, William, bell-founder, 100.
- Smithfield, tileries, 124.
- Snailbeach, Shropshire, lead mine of Roman period, 38.
- Solinus, third century, reference to Roman use of coal at Bath, probable, 1.
- Somerset: clothmaking industry, 161;
- coal-mining, 6-7;
- effect of the Statute of Labourers, 202;
- lead-mining, 40, 57, 58-9.
- Southampton, import of woad, 144.
- Southwark, gun-founding, 110.
- Spain, leather trade, 178-9.
- Speryng, Godfrey, beer brewer, 194.
- Spring of Lavenham, clothiers, 159.
- Spurriers, night work prohibited, 215.
- Staffordshire: coal-mining, 7;
- price of iron, 31.
- Stahlschmidt, Mr., on bell-founders, 96, 102.
- Staindrop, alabaster tomb at, 88.
- Stained glass: glazier brought from Flanders, in 1449, 130-1;
- process employed in England, 131-2.
- Stainton, Forest of Dean, coal-working, 5.
- Stainton-in-Furness, iron-works at end of Stone Age, 20.
- Stamford, clothmaking industry, 134, 136, 138.
- Stamfords, English cloth, 138.
- Stannaries, account of, 64-74.
- Stansfield, bell cast for, 97, 105-6.
- Stapleton, stone quarries, 77, 80, 83.
- Stephen of St. Iago, purchase of cannon from, 112.
- Stevenes, John, of Bristol, gun-founder, 110.
- Stithe or choke damp, 8.
- Stone-balls or shot for artillery, 80-1, 109.
- Stone masons, mutual assistance regulations, 237.
- Stone-quarrying, 76-83.
- Stow, in mining, meaning of term, 44.
- Stratton-on-Fosse, coal-mining, 6-7.
- Strelley, Nicholas, legal action respecting coal mine, 12-13.
- Stretton, near Alnwick, forge, 4.
- Strikes, labour, in Middle Ages, 235-6.
- Sudbury, clothmaking industry, 140.
- Suffolk, clothmaking industry, 157, 166-8.
- Sumptuary law of 1363, restrictions as to cloth, 169.
- Sunday, rules against working on, 212-14.
- Surrey: chalk-quarrying, 91;
- clothmaking industry, 167;
- glassmaking industry, 127-9;
- stone quarries, 77.
- Sussex: beer-brewing, 194;
- chalk-quarrying, 91;
- cider industry, 197-8;
- clothmaking industry, 167;
- glassmaking in, 128-9;
- gun-founding, 111, 113;
- iron industry, 24, 26, 28-9, 31, 36-7;
- stone quarries and slates from, 79-80, 82.
- Sutton, Robert, alabaster-worker, 88.
- Tadcaster, stone quarries, 77, 81, 83.
- Tailors, fraternity of yeomen tailors formed, 233-4;
- gild court, 236.
- Tanning of leather, processes employed, 171-7.
- Tan turves, term explained, 54, 173.
- Tarrant Keynston, nunnery, effigy of Queen of Scots in Purbeck marble, 85.
- Tavistock, tin sent to, for coinage duty, 69.
- Tawing of leather, process employed, 171.
- Teazles, use of, in cloth making, 156.
- Temple Church, London, Purbeck marble effigies, 84.
- Thevesdale, stone quarries, 77.
- Thomas de Alemaigne, skill in mining, 59-60.
- Thomasson, Walter, gun-founder, 111.
- Thorp, Robert de, warden of the Devon mines, 47.
- Threle, William, cider made by, 1385, 198.
- Thrillesden (Trillesden), lease of coal mine, 15.
- Thrums, term explained, 152.
- Tideman de Lippe, purchase of English cloth, 139.
- Tiles: floor tiles, process of manufacture, 126-7;
- manufacture of, 119-27;
- price fixed, 119, 210;
- regulations for control of industry, 216, 222.
- Tilman de Cologne, farm of Alston lead mines, 60.
- Timber. See Wood.
- Tindale, Scottish king's liberty of, 41.
- Tin-mining: antiquity claimed for, 62-3;
- economic condition of smaller tin-workers, 69-70;
- free miner's privileges, 70-3;
- methods of working, 64-9;
- stamping dues, 68-9.
- Tithes to the Church, of cider and apples in Sussex, 198;
- lead-miners, payment of, 47-9.
- Toftes, coal mines, 16.
- Tolsester, term explained, 187.
- Torel, William, metal-work of, 95.
- Torksey, brewing-trade regulations, 188.
- Tower of London: gun-founding 110;
- regulations for wages of workmen employed in building operations, 214.
- Trademarks, use of, ordered, 216.
- Trades, segregation of, in towns, 217-18.
- Truro: nomination of members for stannary parliament, 72;
- tin sent to, for coinage duty, 69.
- Tudeley forge, Tonbridge: iron-works, 28;
- wages of workers, 33;
- weight of the bloom, 31.
- Tuning of bells, methods employed, 99-100.
- Tunnoc, Richard, bell-founder and memorial window, 103-4.
- Turn-hearth furnace, 53.
- Tutbury, alabaster dug at, in early times, 86.
- Twist, Gilbert, alabaster-worker, 89.
- Tynemouth, coal-mining, 6.
- Ulnager, official, 160.
- Upchurch, Roman British pottery, 114.
- Utynam, John, brought from Flanders to make glass, 130-1.
- Van Anne, Arnold, mining grant to, 60-1.
- Van Orel, Henry, mining grant to, 60-1.
- Van Riswyk, Dederic, mining grant to, 61.
- Vellacott, C. H., indebtedness to, acknowledged, ix.
- Venetian travellers: on English grapes, 199;
- report on rich metal-work in England, 94-5.
- Vesses or set cloths, manufacture of, 168.
- Victoria County Histories, source of information, viii-ix.
- Vines, cultivation in England, 198-9.
- Vipont, Robert de, trial of thieves in his manor court, 41-2.
- Vlenk, Matthew de, gunmaker, 111.
- Wages: coal-miners, 10-11, 16;
- iron-workers and miners, 32-5;
- lead-miners, 48-9, 53;
- legislation and gild regulations, 202, 210-12, 214, 228;
- saddlers' success in raising, 234, 235;
- shoemakers, 182;
- stone-quarriers, 82-3;
- tin-workers, 70.
- Wakefield, mineral rights, local customs, 11.
- Wales, coal export, in 1592, 18.
- Walker, Humphrey, gun-founder, 113.
- Walking, process in fulling cloth, 153.
- Walsingham, Prior, bells cast at Ely for, 103.
- Walter of Odyngton, a monk of Evesham, system for tuning bells, 99.
- Waltham, Purbeck marble for Eleanor cross, 85.
- Warde, William, dyer, trade dispute at Coventry, 146-7.
- Warwick Castle, foreign stained glass ordered for chapel, 131.
- Warwickshire, coal-mining, 6, 9.
- Water-power, use of, in iron-working, 27, 30;
- in lead mines, 52.
- Watts, Richard, poem on weaving processes, 142.
- Wax chandlers, regulation of charges, 209.
- Weald of Sussex and Kent: centre of ordnance manufacture, after 1543, 113;
- iron industry, 24, 26, 28-9.
- Weardale: iron industry, 27, 31;
- lead mines, 39.
- Weaving industry: gild of alien weavers in London, 225;
- processes employed, 149-52;
- regulations for control of, 228, 235-7;
- religious character of ordinances of gilds, 207;
- restriction of output, 227;
- use of trademarks ordered, 216.
- Weights and Measures: ale standard measures, 188;
- barrel of beer and ale respectively, 195;
- chalder or chaldron, 17-18;
- cloth regulations, 136, 138, 150, 160-3;
- coal for, variety of, 14;
- lead for, variety of, 56.
- Weld, use of, for dying wool, 144, 147.
- Wellington, forest of, wood consumed by limekilns, 90.
- Westminster, regulations for wages of workmen employed in building, 214.
- Westminster Abbey: bell cast for, by Edward Fitz Odo, 102;
- inlaid tiles in chapter-house, 127;
- stone used for, 79.
- Westmoreland, Earl of, alabaster tomb at Staindrop, 88.
- Westmoreland, lead-mining, 60-1.
- Whickham, coal mine, 11, 16-17.
- Whitchurch, Dorset, bells cast for and dispute over, 100.
- Whitechurch, Hants, Roman iron-works, 21.
- Whittington, Richard, 229.
- Whyt, Thomas, lease of tilery, 125.
- Wight, Isle of: clothmaking industry, 167-8;
- question of identification with the Ictis of Diodorus Siculus, 62-3;
- stone quarries, 79.
- Willarby, George, report on lead mines, 60.
- William of Corfe, worker in Purbeck marble, 85.
- William, the founder, 102, 108.
- William of Malmesbury, on manufacture of wine in England, 198.
- William de Plessetis, property in Sea Coal Lane, 4.
- William de Wrotham, warden of the stannaries, 1198, 72.
- Willoughby, Sir John, legal action against Nicholas Strelley, 12-13.
- Wiltshire, limestone quarries, 78-9.
- Wimbish family, bell-founders, 102.
- Winchcombe, John, clothier of Newbury, 158, 167.
- Winchelsea: beer and cider imported, 193, 197;
- hops imported, 194.
- Winchester: clothmaking industry, 133, 136, 138, 150, 151, 158;
- iron sent to, from Forest of Dean, 23;
- stone for royal palace, 78-9.
- Wine, manufacture in England, 198-9.
- Wingerworth, accident at, in 1313, 7.
- Winlaton, coal mines, 11, 17.
- Wirksworth, lead mines, 39.
- Wisborough, cider industry, 198.
- Woad, use of, for dying wool, 144-8.
- Wodeward, William, gun-founder, 102, 108.
- Wolsingham, Durham, water-power used in lead mines, 52.
- Women: employment discouraged, 154, 228;
- exempted from certain trade restrictions, 218;
- iron-workers' wages, 32-3;
- lead mines employment, 51;
- spinning a staple employment, 148-9;
- stone quarrywork, payment for, 82-3.
- Wood, Thomas, builder of Goldsmiths' Row, 95.
- Wood: consumption by iron works, 36-7;
- lead-miners' privileges in Cumberland, 46.
- Woodstock, iron sent to, from Forest of Dean, 23.
- Wookey, smelting of ore at, 58.
- Wool, processes of dealing with, for clothmaking, 141-9.
- Worcester: brewing-trade regulations, 189;
- clothmaking industry, 134, 168;
- tile industry regulations, 120, 222.
- Worcester Cathedral, tomb of King John in marble, 84.
- Worsted, village, clothmaking industry, 139, 161.
- Worsteds, manufacture and frauds practised, 161-2, 164-5, 205.
- Worth, Sussex, wood burnt at iron-mills, 36-7.
- Wren, Christopher, use of Portland stone, 79.
- Wroxeter, discovery at, of Roman use of coal, 1.
- Wye, Kent: cider industry, 197;
- tile manufacture and processes employed, 121-3.
- Wylwringword, John de, gold found in Devon by, 61.
- Yarmouth: clothmaking industry, 165;
- herring fishery, struggle over monopoly, 203.
- York: alabaster industry, 89;
- bell-founding industry, 103.
- York Minster: bell-maker's window, 103-4;
- bells cast for, in 1371, 103;
- English glass bought for, 130;
- Plaster of Paris for, 89-90;
- stained glass for, from abroad, 131;
- stone for, 77.
- Yorkshire: Cistercian ware found in, 118;
- clothmaking industry, 147, 158, 167;
- coal-mining, 6.
- Zoetmann, Cornelius, grave at Playden, 194.