Fastolf, Sir John, 259, _note_ 2, 267, _note_ 1
Faversham, its incorporation under mayor and jurats, 398, _note_ 2
Fécamp, abbey of, its relations to Hastings, Winchelsea, and Rye, 387, _note_ 1
Fees on admission to freedom of town, 178; in kind at Wells, _ib._
Fellowship, Merchants’, in Bristol, 89; in London, attempt to monopolize the export of cloth, 69; of the mayor of Exeter, 346, 353, 366
Felon, dispute about the seizure of the goods of, in Exeter, 354
Ferm of towns, collection of, 205; settlement of, connected with election of mayor, 218, _note_; provision for payment of, 231, _note_ 1, 244, 359; leasing out of, 238, _note_ 3, 247, _note_ 4
Festivals, local, 149; complaints of their decay, 151; jubilee, at Canterbury cathedral, 376
Feudal estates, condition of towns on, 250, 251; lords, struggle of the boroughs with, 198-200, 255-257
Fines paid to be free of holding municipal offices, 187, _note_ 1; of borough or manor courts, granted to citizens, 231
Florence adopts free trade, 117; Henry VII.’s commercial treaty with, _ib._; its trading importance, 78; loans of its merchants to Edward III., _ib._, 79; commercial revival after acquisition of Leghorn, 79
Folkestone, punishment of thief at, 221, _note_ 2
Fordwich, 227, 369; under mastership of Sandwich, 411, 412; extent of its territory, 412; jurisdiction of Abbot of S. Augustine’s, _ib._, 413; quarrels with Christ Church about quay, _ib._; regulations and taxations imposed by Sandwich on, _ib._; compromise with S. Augustine’s as to control of river and weirs, 414; capital punishment in, 412; judicial combat with alien in, 221, _note_ 2; Hundred court, 412; jurisdiction of mayor, _ib._; its officers, _ib._; prisons, _ib._; Thefeswell, _ib._
Foreigners, admitted as burgesses, 173, 178, _note_ 5; limitation of their rights, 184
Forfeiture of town privileges, 247, _note_ 4; of citizenship, 179, 180
Fortescue, Sir John, chief justice, 59, 346
France, condition of people in, as described by Fortescue, 59
Franchise forfeited by forsaking town for a year and a day, 179; refusal to take up, 186, 328; to be confined to members of craft guild, 195, 196; bondmen born not to be admitted to, in York and Bridgenorth, 196; of Lynn, controlled by the Bishop of Norwich, 286; _see_ Freedom