Walls, provision for repairing in Norwich, 245, _note_ 4
Wards in Norwich, 239, 240; in Romney, 402, _note_ 4; in Rye, 17
Warden, the Lord, of the Cinque Ports, towns under the rule of, 386; his authority, 390-394; powers as Constable of Dover Castle, as Admiral, as Chancellor, 392; his seal, necessary to make King’s writs valid, 387
Warden of the Poor at Exeter, 41, _note_ 2
Warwick, Earl of, the Kingmaker, 257-8, 415
Watch and ward, 132, 133; controversy about in Exeter, 357-8
Wayneflete, Bishop of Winchester, 326, _note_
Weavers of Chester, their riot in 1399, 130, _note_ 1; English and foreign, their rivalry, 65; Flemish, their struggle against importation of English cloth, 99-101; in Bristol, 193
Weights and Measures, Act of 1429, 3, _note_
Wells, under Bishop of Wells, 227; fees in kind at, 178
Westgate, Canterbury, 381; Archbishop’s tenants of, 370
Westminster, silk manufactory at, 57, _note_ 2; Abbot of, his gallows in Worcester, 310
Whitstable, rights claimed by Archbishop of Canterbury’s tenants, of, 371
Wikham, John, “schipwrite” of Rye, 88, _note_ 2
Wills, enrolled in borough courts, 200, _note_ 1; probate of, at Lynn, 289; claimed by Mayor of Canterbury, 200, _note_ 1
Winchelsea, ownership of, 387, _note_ 1; member of Cinque Ports, 386; punishment of thief at, 221, _note_ 2
Winchester, owned by King, 227; charter, 238, _note_ 2; sided with King against De Montfort, 242; its reputed antiquity, 321; poverty, 190; decrease of freemen, _ib._; dispute between bishops and burghers, 323; fight between citizens and monks, 324, _note_ 2; distress and poverty in fifteenth century, 326-330; Lancastrian sympathies, 326, _note_; heavy burdens, 327-9; petition of burghers to Henry VI., 328, 329; ferm, fines, and expenses in 1450, _ib._; grant of forty marks to, from ulnage and subsidies of cloths, 329; various alien bodies within its liberties, 322-324; common assembly, 321; boundaries, 322; castle, _ib._; corporation, 321; curfew bell, 324; S. Giles’ fair, 324, 329; fraternity of S. John, its payment towards maintenance of walls and bridges, 329, _note_ 2; provision for ferm, 328, _note_ 2; franchise refused, 328; experiment in free-trade, _ib._; friars, 323; Magdalen hospital, 328, 329; mayor, 325; control of gates, 324; liberty of Godbeate, _ib._; Guildhall, 324; High Street, 322, 323; Italian merchants in, 330; King’s officers in, 325; town officers, 321, 322; expenses of burgesses to Parliament, 329; Pavilion, 322; perambulation of liberties, _ib._; the Queen’s House, 323; Queen’s stalls, _ib._; convent of S. Swithun, 322; Bishop of, bribes to, 214; his authority over trade, 324; palace, 322; rights of his tenants, 322-3; Soke, 322