Kingston on Thames, pottery manufacture, 117.
Kipax, Yorkshire, customs respecting mineral rights, 12.
Labour, control of. See Control of Industry.
Labourers, Statute of, enactments, 201-2.
La Fava, Lewis de, of Mechlin, purchase of cannon from, 112.
Lanchester, Durham: discovery at, of Roman use of coal, 1; Roman method of smelting iron at, 26.
Langton, Walter de, bishop of Chester, on yield of Beer Alston mine, 51.
Larian in Cornwall, cost of a melting-house at, 66-7.
Launceston, nomination of members for stannary parliament, 72.
Laurence Vitrarius, glassmaker at Chiddingfold, 128.
Law Courts: miners, 35-6, 40, 72; settlement of trade disputes, for, 236.
Lead-mining: methods of working, 50-5; organisation of miners, 40-8; payments to the king and to the lord of the soil, 46-8; principal localities, 39-40; productiveness of mines, 56-61; prospecting regulations, 43-6; Roman workings, 38-9; wages and number of hands employed, 48-51.
Leather industry: account of, 171-83; frauds in preparation and sale, 177-9, 205; night work prohibited, 215; regulations for control of, 215-16, 229, 237-8; shoemaking, regulations, 180-3; table of values of different kinds of leather, 179-80.
Leathersellers' Company, inefficiency of control over trade, 177-8.
Leeds Castle, cost of iron for repairs in time of Edward III., 31.
Lewis, George Randall, indebtedness to acknowledged, ix, 64.
Lichfield Cathedral, dedication of bell, 1477, 101.
Liminge, land at, granted to Abbey of St. Peter of Canterbury, 22.
Lincoln: clothmaking industry, 133, 136, 139, 153-4; pottery, stamp decoration, 118; Purbeck marble for Eleanor cross, 85; regulations for control of industry, 222, 228.
Liskeard, tin sent to, for coinage duty, 69.
London: ale brewing, regulations, 190-1; beer brewing in, 193-5; bell-founding industry, 101-2; cloth making industry, 133, 137, 140, 147, 154; regulations for control of industries, 204, 207-15, 219, 225-33, 236; roofing with tiles made compulsory, 1212, 119; shoemaking trade regulations, 181-3; walls built of Kentish rag, 77.
Loop, in iron working, meaning of term, 30.
Lostwithiel: nomination of members for stannary parliament, 72; slates probably quarried at, 81-2; tin sent to, for coinage duty, 69.