Maces, at Canterbury, 381; Exeter, 339, 367; Norwich, 246; Reading, 306; Romney, 406
Maintenance, statute of, 221, _note_ 1; town laws against, 257
Malmesbury, dispute about guild at, 302, _note_ 2
Malvern, fifteenth century glass at, 56, _note_ 4
Manchester, qualifications of burghers in, 170, _note_ 2; charter, 181, _note_ 3
Manufactures, growth of, in England in fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, 44, 45, 67; of cloth, 52-54; of wool, in Normandy, 119
Manufacturers, rivalry with merchants, 68
Marienburg, treaty of commerce made at, 104, _note_ 6
Mariners of England and France, agreement between, 396, _note_ 3
Market, the king’s clerk of, 208; payments for freedom of, 192; market at Barnstaple, 253, _note_ 3; Canterbury, 371-2, 377-380; Exeter, 359, 360
Marshal of king’s house, extent of his jurisdiction, 209
Matthyessone, Gerard, Dutch engineer employed at Romney, 143, _note_
Mayor, election of, 12; its connexion with settlement of fee-farm rent, 218, _note_ 1; various offices given to, 231, 233, 234, 236; position between the king and townspeople, 236-7; of Bristol, charter to the, 313; his daughter’s marriage with Lord Berkeley, 316; of Canterbury, his office respecting pilgrims, 376; of Exeter, his dependence on the Earl of Devonshire, 339; of Fordwich, his jurisdiction, 412; of Hythe, 408, _note_; of Leicester, dispute about election of, 235, _note_ 2; of Liverpool, first election of, 218, _note_, 271; of Lydd, 398, _note_ 2; of Lynn, his authority limited by Bishop of Norwich, 286; dispute with the Bishop about jurisdiction, 289-94; his sword, 293; of Norwich, rights of jurisdiction given to, in 1403, 245-6; made mayor of Staple, 245; his salary, _ib._; his sword and maces, 246; appointed King’s Escheator in Norwich, _ib._; of Reading, provision for his salary, 300, 304, 305; his mace, 306; disputes about election, _ib._, 307; of Romney, 409; deposed by Privy Seal, 407; of Sandwich, 400; his power to arrest on suspicion, 184, _note_ 5; of Winchester, 325; of the Staple, 46, 48
Melton, action against townsmen for not baking bread at lord’s oven in, 199, _note_ 1
Memling’s Last Judgement, its adventures, 109, _note_ 2
Merchants, their aversion from foreign war, 64; rivalry with manufacturers, 68; associations of, 88; increase in their number, 89; Fellowship of, at Bristol, _ib._; guild of, at Lynn, _ib._; Italian, their privileges in England, 78; of London, seek to monopolize foreign trade, 69; Statute of, 156