Townspeople lay rectors of parish church, 157; their temper in the fifteenth century, 165
Tracy, Henry de, holder of Barnstaple, 253, _note_ 3
Trade, its regulation in towns, 2, 3; early associations for protection of, 32; increase of lawsuits concerning, 58; revolution in fifteenth century, 51; endeavour to exclude foreigners from, 73; attempts to protect it from piracy, 91; right of, given to burghers, 182; payment for rights of, 189; with the East, monopolized by Italians, 114; diverted from Venice to Portugal, 121; English, with Bordeaux, 118, 119, 316, _note_ 1; with Genoa, proposal to forbid, 116; with the North, 106, 107, 114; of Florence, 78, 79; foreign, Bishop Moleyns’s views of, 61, 62; an anonymous “Libeller” on, 62-64; London attempts to monopolize, 69; injured by war with France, 64, _note_; of Romney, 403; free, adopted by Florence, 117; of the country, formidable rival to protected trade of towns, 193; between Liverpool and Ireland, 270; of the Mediterranean, 77, 78; State protection of, 72, 73; its results at Venice, 80; by sea, its early routes, 75, 77; Venetian, bill against, proposed in Parliament, 115; of Winchester, 324, 328; in beer, with Flanders, 57; in cloth, its rise, 51-54, 94, 95; rivalry in, between England and Flanders, 65-66; in iron, 54; in wool, 45, 49, 51; in wine, between Aquitaine and England, 118-120; from Rochelle to Romney, 88; struggle between England and Venice for, 116-118; licenses for trade given to lords of Berkeley, 316, _note_ 1
Traders in the towns, 189-192; privileged, living outside towns, 192-3
Treaties of commerce, Henry VII.’s, 66; with Brittany, 112; with Castile and Catalonia, 120; Henry VII.’s, with Florence, 117; with Portugal, 121; with Riga and Scandinavia, 113; of Marienburg, 104, _note_ 6; of Utrecht, 110; of 1475, 1486, 1495, 119, _note_ 2; of 1496 (_Intercursus Magnus_), 112
Trials, complaint about, in Lincoln, 336-7
Trinity of Berkeley (ship), 316, _note_ 1
Unenfranchised class, increase of, in towns, 196
Utrecht, treaty with the Hanse made at (1474), 110; confirmed by Henry VII., 112
Veere, depôt of Scottish traders at, 98, _note_ 5
Venice, its state-protected trade, 80; its trade with Southampton, 81; diverted to Portugal, 121; bill to forbid its carrying trade proposed in Parliament, 115; driven out of Egypt, 114; struggle of English merchants with, 116; Henry VII.’s agreement with, 118