Nottingham, borough in ancient demesne, 227; charter, 238, _note_ 2; franchise forfeited, 247, _note_ 4; foreigners to pay £10 for admission to freedom, 178, _note_ 5; payment for liberties, 232, _note_ 1; rights of taxation given to the guild, 355, _note_ 2; “booners” in, 141; “borough English,” 222, _note_ 1; bridge, 144; burgages, 172; court leet, 336, _note_ 3; pledges, 178, _note_ 4; pleas concerning trade, 58
Official, the Master, of the archdeacon at Nottingham, 336, _note_ 3
Onterdel, Dutch engineer employed at Romney, 143, _note_
Oven of feudal lord, 199; of householders at Preston, _ib._
Oxford, first notice of bricks in, 56, _note_ 3
Parliament, representation of towns in, 4, 7, 24, 25; Brinklow’s criticism on, 60, _note_ 4; authority exercised by, in Norwich, 235, _note_ 2; expenses of members of, in Winchester, 329; _see_ Commons
Paston family, stores in their house, 259, _note_ 2
Payments from towns for the confirmation of charters, 211, 303; for liberties, 232, 238; for deliverance from feudal obligations, 198; in kind at Bridport, 204-5
Pershore, Abbot of, his gallows in Worcester, 310
Philip, Archduke, makes Bruges the staple for English cloth in Flanders, 113, _note_ 3
“Piers Ploughman,” picture of English life in, 21; dealings with the social problems of the day, 22; his theory of King and Commons, 25, _note_ 3, 26
Pilgrims to Canterbury, provision for the safety and comfort of, 375, 376
Pirates attack English Adventurers, 90, 91
Players, petition against, in Norwich, 152
Pledges required of candidates for citizenship, 178
Plimpton, charter of Baldwin of Redvers to, 263, _note_ 2; agreement of the convent of, with Plymouth, 296, _note_; rope yarn made at, 202
Plumpton family, their money difficulties, 261
Plumpton, Sir William, 265, 266, _note_ 1
Plymouth, its agreement with the convent of Plimpton, 296, _note_; money collected for S. Andrew’s by church ales, 160, 161; regulations about the use of copes, 158; the guild of our Lady and S. George, _ib._; of Corpus Christi, 151; incorporation of tailors, _ib._
Portugal succeeds Venice in the Eastern trade, 121; commercial treaty with, _ib._
Pratt, William, builds the first main drain at Canterbury, 19, 20
Preston, its various lords, 253, _note_ 2; qualifications of burghers, 170, _note_ 2; their privileges, 190, _note_ 3, 198, 199; punishment for breach of public duty, 181