Middle Ages, life in the, 7, religious spirit in the, 32
Miélot, Jean, 383
Milford, 205
“Mill on the Floss,” 235
Minot, Laurence, 201
Minstrels, singing, 7, 13, gallery for, 18; 183, repertory and behaviour, 194 ff., received by the king, 201 ff., by a bishop, 202, at the inn, 202, the king’s, 204 ff., for colleges, lords and cities, 205 ff., gifts to, 206, their instruments, 208 ff., monopoly of the royal, 208 ff., 435 ff., gilds of, 211, spread liberal ideas, 212 ff., disappear, 216 ff., tolerated by St. Thomas Aquinas, 217, execrated by Phil. Stubbes, 221 ff.; 419
“Mirabilia Romæ,” 388
Miracles, at Walsingham, 158, sham, by Thos. of Lancaster, 339 ff., at Meaux, 343 ff., at Rocamadour, 380 ff., at Santa Maria delle Grazie, 380, at Rome, 386, by Moses, 415, in Bethlehem, 416
“Mirror for Justices,” 169
Mistreworth, Sir John, 231
Molière, 335
Mommsen, 30
Monasteries, hospitality in, 118 ff.
Monks, great agriculturists, 84, their worldly dress, 115, 432
Monmouth, Geoffrey of, 224
Montalto, Cardinal, 192
Montesquieu, 244
Montfort, Guy de, 229
Montfort, Henry de, 342
Montfort, Reginald de, 342
Moon, the planet of the English, 402
Mordon, Walter, a stockfishmonger, 298
More, Sir Thomas, 48, 172, on friars, 310; 355, 363, 365
Morley, Henry, 250
Morris, W. A., 112
“Mort d’Arthur,” 199
Mortet, Victor, 32
Mowbray, Lord, 60
Murley, Isabella of, an adulteress, 166
Mynach, bridge on the, 77
Mystery plays, 201
Naples, 330
Navarre, 230
Nets, certain, prohibited, 250
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 126, 149, staple at, 247; 370
Newenham, 80
Newport fair, 251
Newton Abbot, 66
Newur, 80
Nichol, J., 341
Nicholas, St., patron of travellers, 43, 389, 416
Nichols, F. M., 388
Nicholson, E. B., 406
Nicholson, Wm., a murderer, 164, 434
Nicodemus, 387
Nicopolis, 398
Nicosia, 405
Nile, comes from Paradise, 415
Niniveh, 400
Nith, bridge on the, 78
Nobles, their lands scattered, 82, who are truly, according to Chaucer, 214, their literary tastes, 196 ff., slandered, 277, sceptic, 393; see Knights
Nogent, Ingelram de, a thief, 108
Norden, 49
Norfolk, 347
Norfolk, Countess of, 78
North Berwick, 339
Northumberland, Earl of, 205
Norton, 36
Norwich, bridge at, 69, 78; 143, minstrels at, 206, staple at, 247; 441
Nottingham, 63, its goose fair, 193 ff.; 353, 426
Nuncio, remits penance, 165; 232
“Nut Brown Maid,” 255 ff.
Oaks, preserved, 156
“Octavian,” 199
Oddyngesles, Sir John and Esmon de, 151 ff.
Okeden forest, 36
Oliver, 296
Olives, Mount of, 396
Orfevre, Richard, M.P., 264
Orléans, 244
Orléans, Charles d’, 13
Orthez, 35
Outlaws, 107, 174, 181, 254 ff., 269
Oxford, 126, its common carriers, 149; 176, 187, 236, to London by water, 246; 252, university, on friars, 303, on pardoners, 327, 444
Palestine, pilgrimages to, 395 ff.
Palmatæ, 312
Palmers, professional, 181, 367, 368, gild, 334, way, 347, 358
Palmistry, 236
“Pantagruel,” 330
Pantheon, the Roman, 386
Panurge, gaining pardons, 330
Pardon, charters of, 174 ff.
“Pardoner and the Frere,” the, 327
Pardoner, Thomas, 318
Pardoners, 20, 24, 133, 181, 312 ff., Chaucer’s, 315 ff., 336, Boniface IX on, 316 ff., greed and misdeeds of, 316, their associations, 324, the authorized, 324, collect various goods, 325, Urban VI on, 326 ff., hated by the secular clergy, 326, Oxford and the, 327, on the stage, 331, in Spain, 331, suppressed, 337; 367, 394, 419 ff., documents concerning, 440 ff., 444
Paris, roads leading to, 85, 86; 257, its minstrels, 211, its idlers, 265, its relics, 372
Paris, the diacre, 342
Paris, Gaston, 9
Paris, Matthew, portrays an elephant, 217, on friars, 296; 329, 350
Parliament, the good, 9, 25, 154; sitting at Westminster, 14, 87 ff., members of, detained by bad roads, 86; on what principle created, 214, its development, 421
Parson, Chaucer’s, 125
Patmer, John of, 155
Paul V, 445
Paula, St., 395 ff.
Payne, John, 323
Peasants, out of bond, 181, 254 ff., 259 ff., 421; at the tavern, 136, at the drug sellers’, 193, revolt of the, 212, 276 ff., compared with French, 277, 279, results of, 280, cursed by Langland, 293, and the scepticism of the nobles, 393
Pedlars, 181, their temper, 234 ff., long ignored by statutes, 235 ff., content of their packs, 236 ff., at the fair, 252, Wordsworth’s 253; 307, 419
Pegge, S., 159
Pelagrua, Cardinal de, 232
Penrose, John, a vintner, 239
Perceval, romance of, 198, 199
Percy, Henry, 404
Percy, Bishop Thomas, 437
“Percy and Douglas,” song of, 216
Perers, Alice, 154
Persia, dances in, 18, 220, 221; poetry of, chanted, 194
Persians in Palestine, 395
Peter, St., 314, his vest, 329; 384
Peterborough, 347
Petit-Dutaillis, Ch., 276
Petrarch, 324
Petronella, St., 385
Philip II, Augustus, 353
Physicians, 18, 183 ff., laws about, 188 ff.
Piccolomini, Æneas Sylvius, 339
Pie powder court, 249
“Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede,” 301
Piers, Johan, 258
“Piers Plowman” (Visions about), 19, 25, 42, 124, 135, 137, 145 ff., 203, 207, 213, 218, 233 ff., 237, 246, 250, 293, 301, 307, 358, 368, 393, 400
Pilate, 201
Pilgrimages, vows of, remitted, 323, 325; chief, 338, motives for, 338 ff., by proxy, 340, 357, 394; various English, 342 ff., 346 ff., how advertised, 344 ff., Reynard’s, 360, 446; Erasmus on, 362 ff., More on, 363, restrained, in England and France, 369 ff., various French, 370 ff., to Compostela, 375 ff., indulgences attached to, 383, to Rome, 384 ff., cost of, 389 ff., to the Holy Land, 395 ff.
Pilgrims, 21, 24, inns for, 131; 181, 226, as news bringers, 263, 270, escaped villeins as, 273; how attracted, 343 ff., on the road to Canterbury, 348, royal and imperial, 352 ff., their mixed troups, their prayers, 357 ff., their amusements on the way, 359 ff., tale tellers, 360, visit the curiosities and buy signs, 364 ff., 418, professional, 367, their speeches and livelihood, 367, their staffs and scrips, 362, 368 ff., false, 369, 420, permits for real, 369, oaths before leaving, 376, uncomfortable at sea, 376 ff., offerings by, 380, attracted by indulgences, 383 ff., how helped, 389 ff., go to Palestine and have to pay the Saracen, 395 ff., 409, 413; 419
Pilgrims’ Way, 352
Pius II, 339
Pius IV, 337
Plague, the great, effect on labour and wages, 263 ff.
Plato, 387
“Play of the Sacrament,” 186
Players, common, 236
“Plowman’s Tale,” 301
Plymouth, 370
Poissy-sur-Seine, 354
Pole, the de la, Earls of Suffolk, 244
Pollock, Sir Frederick, 111, 113
“Polycraticus,” 218
Pontagium, 57
Pont du Gard, 35
Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Garnier de, 351, 365
Pont-Saint-Esprit, 32
Pontiff brothers, 32 ff.
Popes, and bridge building, 36, and sanctuary, 174, condemn pardoners, 316 ff., at Avignon, are abused, 391
Porter, Nicholas le, 165 ff.
Porter, Simon, 64
Porto, 232
’Pothecary, Heywood’s, 189
Potter Heigham, 78
“Povre Clerc,” le, 216
Powell, E., 276
Power, Robert, 155
Prague, 229
Pratt, Godfrey, 41 ff., 57, 61, 143
Preachers, wandering, 181, 283 ff., Wyclif’s, 284 ff., Rolle of Hampole as a, 290, 419, 421
Prest, Godfrey, coppersmith, 14
Prestbury, 178
Preston, Gilbert de, 429
“Promessi Sposi,” 152
Prussia, hampers British trade, 241, the pagans of, 391, 398
Pulteney, Wm., 74
Purveyors, royal, their exactions, how remedied, 91 ff., 95 ff., 430 ff.
Putnam, Miss Bertha, 264
Pythagoras, 387
Quacks, 24, 181, laws about, 188 ff., 419
Questors, or pardoners, 315 ff., 440
Quintilian, 323
Railton, Herbert, 126
Raven, Edward, 347
Reading, 348
Recluses, 142
Reims, 349
Relics, pardoners’, 327 ff., at Exeter, Westminster, the Ste-Chapelle, 328 ff.; 343, at Walsingham, 362, in various places, 365, at Amiens, Paris, Chartres, etc., 371 ff., at Rome, 386 ff., Venice, 389, in Holy Land, 415 ff.
Réville, André, on Abjuratio Regni, 169; 276
Reynard, his pilgrimage, 138, 360 ff., 446 ff., as a preacher, 304; 332
Rhine country, the, 239
Richard, St., 346