Hanse of Cologne, 75, 76, _note_ 1; Flemish, in London, 76
Hanseatic League, 81, 82; its carrying trade, 83; disputes with Lynn merchants, 91, _note_ 2; struggle with English Merchant Adventurers, 103-111; gathers fleet against England, 109; supports Edward IV., _ib._; Edward IV.’s treaty with, 110; its guildhall in London, _ib._; house at Boston and Lynn, _ib._; its decline, _ib._, 111; negotiations with Henry VII. at Antwerp, 113; expels English traders from Denmark, 66; succeeds Hanse of Cologne in the carrying trade, 77
Harbledown, hospital of S. Nicholas at, 369
Haute, William, lord of the manor of Bishopsbourne, 216, _note_ 2
Henry III., advantages to towns of his reign, 237; charter to Liverpool, 270; to Norwich, 242
Henry IV. supports the Merchant Adventurers, 95, 96, 105, 106; advantages to towns of his political insecurity, 237; charter to Norwich, 245-6
Henry V. forbids English trade with Iceland, 106; plans a royal navy, 86; advantages to towns of his financial needs, 237
Henry VI., Canterbury associated with the party of, 215; advantages to towns of tumults of his reign, 237; charter to Barnstaple, 255
Henry VII., his position among English sovereigns, 73, 74; received at Canterbury, 37, _note_; enforces Navigation Act, 94; patron of the Merchant Adventurers, 96, 111, 112; international treaties of commerce, 66; renews treaty with Brittany, 112; treaties with Burgundy, 4; commercial treaty with Florence, 117; with Riga, 113; with Scandinavia, _ib._; with Venice, 118; confirms treaty of Utrecht, 112; negotiations with Hanseatic League at Antwerp, 113; treatment of Lombards, 116; secures protection for English merchants in Bordeaux, 119; stipulations for free trade with Spain, 120
Hereford, municipal almshouse at, 41, _note_ 2; duties of its citizens to their chief magistrate, 126; town bell, 127; mode of recovery of freedom, 180, _note_ 3; the burghers’ account of their freedom, 199, 200; law against maintainers or protectors, 220, 221; trial by combat abolished, _ib._; customs, 317; relations with lay and ecclesiastical lords and their tenants within its liberties, 317-320; distinction drawn between “citizens” and “natives,” 318; authority over those privileged to trade in town, 318, 319; capital bailiff, 229, 319, 320; punishment of a vagabond, 319, 320; tenants of various fees allowed to plead in the courts of, 320; refusal to give Cardiff copy of customs, 228, 229
