INDEX. 



771 



London, 



great growth of, between 



1341 and 1453, 76. 

 falling off in 1503 due to 



fire of that year, 85. 

 city of, guilds in, untouched, 



125. 



market constant in, 154. 

 prices high near, 212. 

 dearness of hay and straw 



in, 297. 

 wages of labour high in, 



490. 

 Louis, St., 



grant of wine by, to Christ 



Church, Canterbury, 637. 



Low countries, 



origin of brickmaking, 507. 



Lullington, 



a home farm of Battle, 2. 



M. 



Mace, 

 price of, 66 1. 



Magari, 538- 

 Magdalen Mead, 



cost of mowing, 494. 



Magistrates, the, 



fixed rates of wages, 499. 



Malaga, 



farthest point to which Eng- 

 lish ships went in sixteenth 

 century, 146, 647. 



Males, 



price of, 578. 



Malikis de, rice, 673. 



Malmsey, 

 measures of, 640. 

 price of, 648. 



Vlalt-making, 

 by day, 496. 

 by quarter, 497. 



Vlanors, 



number of royal, on which 

 repairs were made, 511. 



Manufactures, 

 police over, 148. 



Map of England, 

 fourteenth century, in Bod- 

 ley's library, 692. 



Maps of the world, 600-1. 



Margaret, Queen, 

 unpopularity of, in 1449, 

 16, 167. 



Margaret, Countess of Rich- 

 mond, 

 visits of to Cambridge, 691. 



Mariner's compass, 



use of, at beginning of fif- 

 teenth century, 142. 



Maritime enterprise, 

 English, origin of, 153. 



Marling, 



usefulness of, in husbandry, 

 6 5- 



Marmalade, 

 price of, 678. 



Marriage, 



fines on, continued, 4. 



Mary Tudor, 



misfortunes of the reign of, 



32. 

 nothing but service-books 



bought in her reign, 602. 



Maschal, Leonard, 



reputed to have introduced 

 carp, 536. 



Mason, principal, 

 at Cambridge, 503. 

 wages of, 505. 



Masons, 



chapters of, made illegal by 

 3 Hen. VI, 118. 



Massicot, 

 price of, 630. 



Masters, 



in all artisans* work, general, 

 502. 



Match, 



price of, 632. 



Materials, agricultural, 

 averages of, 404-410. 



Mats, 



price of, 578. 



Matthiolus, 602. 



Mattrasses, 

 price of, 576. 



Maund, 



price of, 620. 



Meadows, 



rent of, by acre, 741. 



Meal shovel, 

 price of, 616. 



Meal tub, 

 price of, 6 1 6. 



3 D 2 



Measures, 



become more uniform in 

 fifteenth and sixteenth 

 centuries, 202. 

 of ale and beer, 547. 

 scales, and weights, 429. 



Meatbags, 

 price of, 6 1 6. 



Meatsafe, 

 price of, 616. 



Medlars, 



price of, 362. 



Members for boroughs, 



duty imposed on them of 

 seeing that proper mea- 

 sures are kept, 204. 



Merton College, 



bell-tower of, particulars of, 

 466. 



Metals, 



averages of, 482-488. 

 rise in price of, 723. 

 precious, care taken to se- 

 cure, 146. 



Mexico, 



cultivation of sugar in, 675. 



Mileage, 



cost of, in carriage, 700. 



Milford haven, 



value of as a port early 

 recognised, 657. 



Milk, 



prices of, 360. 

 Miller, 



tenure of, in manor of Dale, 



95- 

 Millstones, 



price of, 424. 



in Oxford, 425. 



highest prices of, 432. 



cost of carrying, 707. 



rise in price of, 722. 



Millwheels, 424. 



Mithradates, 



reputed inventor of ' trea- 

 cle,' 665. 



Mole-catching, 

 by day, 496. 



Moleyns, Adam de, 



reputed author of the Libel 

 of English policy, 533 

 note. 



Monasteries, 



suppression of, long immi- 

 nent, 27. 

 impropriations by, loi. 



