Highway, the king’s, sale of merchandise in, 156
Holcraft, Thomas, ferm of Liverpool let to, 275
Holland, engineers from, employed at Hythe, 142, 143, _note_; at Sandwich, 142
Hollingbroke, ward in Romney named after, 402, 403
Horn, the common, 161; at Dover, 178, _note_ 5; of S. Edmundsbury, 296; of Romney, 404, 405, _note_ 1
Hospital at Exeter, 41, _note_ 2; at Sandwich, _ib._; the Magdalen, Winchester, 328, 329; of S. Nicholas, Harbledown, 369
Hospital of S. John, Worcester, refusal of its tenants to aid in taxes, &c., 357, _note_ 4
House built by burgher as security on admission to freedom, 179; of burgher must be kept in proper repair, _ib._, 180; of stone, 193; the Queen’s, at Winchester, 323
Hull, shipbuilding at, 89; shipmen’s guild at, 89, _note_ 2
Hundred, freedom from officers of, 232, 233
Hundred court in Fordwich, 412; Sandwich, 401
Huntingdon, perambulation of its boundaries, 134, _note_
Huntingdon, Countess of, owner of Barnstaple, 253
Hythe, ownership of, 227, 387, _note_ 1; member of Cinque Ports, 386; payment towards renewal of Cinque Ports charters, 390, _note_ 2; Cranmer’s lease of bailiwick to townspeople, 408; appointment of bailiff, _ib._, _note_; grant of mayor to, _ib._; new harbour made at (1412), 142, 143; subscriptions for new steeple, 160, _note_
Iceland, English Adventurers in, 106, 107
Incorporation, charters of, 219, _note_ 1
Industry, revolution in, during 14th and 15th centuries, 39, 40, 44, 45; changes in, 67, 70, 71; relations of government to, 67, 70-72; state protection of, 72, 73
Inns of London, 378, _note_ 2; bailiffs and jurats allowed to hold, in Romney, 404, _note_ 2; the “Swan” at Canterbury, 216
Ipswich, archbishop of Canterbury given right to trade in, 177, _note_ 2; general assembly, 224; barge, 85, _note_ 2; charter from John, 223, 224; charter withdrawn, 247, _note_ 4; Domesday Roll, 225; election of officers, 224; Guild Merchant, _ib._, 224, 225; ordinances, 224; arrest of Scotch priests, 230, _note_ 3; common seal, 225; guardianship of sea, 234, _note_ 2
Irishmen, feeling against, in the towns, 173, 174, _note_ 1
Iron, trade in England, 54; increase in price, 55; imported from Sweden and Spain, 55
Italy, merchants of, their privileges in England, 78; expulsion from London, 329, 330; hire houses in Winchester, 330; settle in Southampton, _ib._