The history of England, from the accession of Henry III. to the death of Edward…
1200. Fragments of Pipe Rolls for our period can be seen in print in
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various local histories and transactions, as e.g., "Pipe Rolls of
Northumberland" up to 1272 in HODGSON-HINDE'S History of
Northumberland, pt. iii., vol. iii., and 1273-1284, ed. Dickson
(Newcastle, 1854-60), and of Notts and Derby (translated extracts) in
YEATMAN's _History of Derby_ (1886). The only gap in our series is for
Henry III. Of other Exchequer records we may mention: (i) the
ORIGINALIA ROLLS, containing the estreats or documents from the
Chancery informing the Exchequer of moneys due to it, beginning in 20
Henry III., a summary of which is published in _Rotulorum Originalium_
in Curia _Scaccarii Abbreviatio,_ 20 Henry III,-51 Edward III (2 vols.
fol., Rec. Corn., 1805-1810); (2) the MEMORANDA ROLLS, containing
records of charges upon the Exchequer, etc., are complete for this
period. They were kept by the king's and the treasurer's remembrancer,
and are illustrated in print by extracts from the Memoranda Rolls,
1297, in _Transactions of the Royal Hist. Soc.,_ new series, iii.,
281-291(1886), and by the roll of 3 Henry III. in COOPER'S _Proceedings
of the Record Commissioners_ (1833); (3) MINISTERS ACCOUNTS, i.e.,
accounts of royal bailiffs, etc., for royal manors, etc., not included
in the sheriffs' accounts, beginning with Edward I., of which a list is
given in the _P.R.O. Lists and Indexes_, Nos. v. and viii.; (4) of the
PELL RECORDS, recording issues and payments, samples given in DEVON'S
_Issues of the Exchequer_ (Rec. Corn., 8vo, 1837), DEVON'S _Issue Roll
of Thomas of Brantingham in_ 1370 (Rec. Corn., 8vo, 1835). The pells of
receipt were entered on the (5) RECEIPT ROLLS, specimens of which,
along with the corresponding issues, are to be found in SIR JAMES
RAMSAY'S abstracts of issue and receipt rolls for certain years of
Edward III. in the _Antiquary_(1880-1888); (6) SUBSIDY ROLLS of various
types, illustrated by _Nonarum Inquisitiones tempore Edwardi ZZZ._
(Rec. Corn., 1807), the record of a subsidy of a ninth collected by
Edward III. in 1340-1341; (7) WARDROBE and HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS
containing for the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries information on
national as well as private royal finance; specimens in print include
the important _Liber Quotidianus Contra-rotulatoris Garderobæ_, 28
_Ed. I._(1299-1300), (1787, Soc. Antiq.).
From the Exchequer records come also the following: (1) _Testa de
Neville sive Liber Feodorum temp. Hen. ZZZ. et Edw. I._ (Rec. Corn.,
fol., 1807), a miscellaneous and ill-digested but valuable collection of
thirteenth century inquisitions; (2) _Nomina Villarum, g_ Ed. II.,
published in PALGRAVE'S _Parl. Writs_, ii., iii., 301-416; (3)
_Kirkby's Quest, a_ survey made by Bishop Kirkby, the treasurer, in
1284-85, of which the Yorkshire portion has been printed by the Surtees
Soc., ea. Skaife (1867), and other portions elsewhere; (4) _Taxatio
Ecclesiastica Angliæ et Walliæ_, 1291 (Rec. Corn., 1802), the
taxation of benefices by Nicholas IV. by which assessments of papal and
ecclesiastical taxes were long made. A very useful compilation,
recently undertaken under the direction of the deputy-keeper, is
_Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids_, 1284-1431, of
which three volumes, dealing in alphabetical order with the shires from
Bedford to Norfolk, are published Cheshire and Durham are entirely
omitted and Lancashire very scantily dealt with as exceptional
jurisdictions. The work is based upon the various lay records
enumerated above and other analogous inquests. Ancient compilations of
miscellaneous documents by officials of the Exchequer are exemplified
in _Liber Niger Scaccarii_ (ed. Hearne, 2 vols., 1774), and in the _Red
Book of the Exchequer_ (ed. H. Hall, 3 vols., Rolls ser., 1896).
The records of the common law courts, the King's Bench and the Court of
Common Pleas, are of less direct historical value than those of the
Chancery and the Exchequer. Extraordinarily bulky, they require a good
deal of sifting to sort the wheat from the chaff. As yet a very small
proportion of them has been printed, and few have even been calendared.
A brief index of them has been compiled in the useful _List of Plea
Rolls_ (1894, _P.R.O. Lists and Indexes_, No. iv.). Of the various
types of these records the FEET OF FINES have been largely used by the
topographer and genealogist, and the feet of fines for many counties
during this period have been calendared, summarised, excerpted, and
printed, wholly or in part, by local archaeological societies, as for
example, W. FARRER'S _Lancashire Final Concords till 1307_ (Rec. Soc.
for Lancashire and Cheshire, 1899), and many others. The PLEA ROLLS are
of wider importance. For the days of Henry III. _Placita Coram Rege_
(_i.e._, of the King's Bench) and the _Placita de Banco_ (_i.e._, of
the Common Pleas in later phrase) are classified as _Rotuli Curiæ
Regis_, while the rolls of the local eyres for the same period are
called _Assize Rolls_. Separate series for each court begin with Edward
I. Specimens of most of these types have been printed. _Placitorum
Abbreviatio Ric. I.--Edw. II._ (Rec. Com., fol., 1811) is a careless
seventeenth century abstract. _Placita de Quo Warranto_, Edward I. to
Edward III. (Rec. Com., fol., 1818), is a record of local eyres of
particular importance for the reign of Edward I. as the corollary of
the Hundred Rolls and the attack on the local franchises. HUNTER'S
_Rotuli Selecti_ (Rec. Com., 1834) contains pleas of the reign of Henry
III. A typical year's pleadings of the King's Bench for 1297 is given
in full in PHILLIMORE's _Placita coram rege_, 25 Edward I. (1898,
British Rec. Soc.). Selections from the proceedings of the commission
appointed by Edward I. in 1289 to hear complaints against judges and
officials will shortly be published by Miss Hilda Johnstone and myself
for the Royal Historical Society. Of special importance are the plea
rolls issued by the Selden Society, which include for our period F.W.
MAITLAND'S _Select Pleas of the Crown_, 1200-1225; BAILDON'S _Select
Chancery Pleas_, 1364-1471; J.M. RIGG'S _Select Pleas of the Jewish
Exchequer_; and G.J. TURNER'S _Select Pleas of the Forest_; all have
translations and introductions, of which those of Professor Maitland
are of exceptional value.
To these types must be added the records of the local courts, now
largely also in the Public Record Office, though vast numbers of court
rolls and manorial documents are still in private hands, and among the
archives of ecclesiastical and secular corporations. The Selden Society
has done excellent work in publishing such muniments; as in particular,
MAITLAND'S _Select Pleas in Manorial Courts_, vol. i., Henry III. and
Edward I., illustrating the social and legal life of a medieval
village; MAITLAND and BAILDON'S _Court Baron_; HUNTER' s _Leet
Jurisdiction of Norwich_; C. GROSS's _Select Cases from the Coroners'
Rolls_, 1265-1413. The records of the Bishopric of Durham, the County
Palatine of Chester, the Principality of Wales, and the Duchy of
Lancaster are deposited in the Public Record Office, and calendars and
lists scattered over the _Deputy-Keeper of the Records' Reports_ throw
some light on their contents. Unluckily these records of franchise are
incompletely preserved and often in bad condition. The best preserved
for our period are the Durham records, described in LAPSLEY'S County
_Palatine of Durham_, pp. 327-337 (Harvard Historical Studies); some of
the most important are printed in _Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense_, ed.
Hardy (Rolls Series, 4 vols.), which is also an Episcopal register.
Welsh records may be illustrated by the _Record of Carnarvon_ (Rec.
Corn., fol., 1838). Academic records are illustrated by the Oxford
_Munimenta Academica_ (ed. Anstey), Rolls Series. Municipal records are
very numerous and important; full particulars as to them can be found
in C. Gross's _Bibliography of British Municipal History_ (Harvard
Hist. Studies). Admirably edited examples of our wealth of municipal
records for this period are to be found in _Records of the Borough of
Nottingham_ (ed. W.H. Stevenson), vol. i. (1882); _Records of the
Borough of Leicester_ (ed. Mary Bateson), vols. i. and ii. (1899 and
1901); and _Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis_ (ed. H.T. Riley), Rolls
Series. The _Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission_ afford
much information as to every type of document in private or local
custody. Ireland and Scotland have archives of their own; but there are
no systematic records in the Register House at Edinburgh before the War
of Independence. Among the enterprises now abandoned of the Public
Record Office were _Calendars of Documents relating to Scotland and
Ireland_. The Scottish series covers all this period (vols. i.-iv.),
the Irish was stopped at 1307. They are derived, by a rather arbitrary
selection, from various classes of English records, but contain much
valuable material. JOSEPH STEVENSON'S _Documents illustrating the
History of Scotland_ (1286-1306) (Scot. Rec. Publications, 1870), and
PALGRAVE'S Documents _and Records illustrating the History of Scotland_
(Rec. Corn., 1837), are useful for the reign of Edward I. as are for
limited periods of it the _Wallace Papers_ (Maitland Club, 1841) and
_Scotland in 1298_ (ed. Gough, 1888).
A new class of records begins in the thirteenth century with BISHOPS'
REGISTERS. These, so far as they survive, are preserved in the diocesan
registries. Of printed registers for this period the most important is
MARTIN'S _Registrum Epistolarum J. Peckham_ (3 vols., Rolls Series,
1882-1886), the earliest surviving Canterbury register. Other registers
printed or calendared are HINGESTON-RANDOLPH'S _Exeter Registers_,
1257-1291, 1307-1326, and 1327-1369 (5 vols., 1889, etc.); excerpts,
particularly from the York registers, in RAINE'S _Letters from the
Northern Registers,_ Rolls Series; the two oldest York _Registers_ of
ARCHBISHOPS WALTER GREY (1215-1255) and WALTER GIFFARD (1266-1279),
both in Surtees Society; the Wells _Registers_ of BPS. DROKENSFORD,
1309-1329, and RALPH OF SHREWSBURY, 1329-1363 (Somerset Record
Society); the Worcester _Register_ of BP. GIFFARD, 1268-1302 (Worcester
Historical Society); the Winchester _Registers_ of BISHOPS SANDALE and
RIGAUD, 1316-1323, and WYKEHAM, 1366-1404 (Hampshire Record Society). A
society called the Canterbury and York Society has recently been
started to set forth episcopal registers systematically in print. It
has begun to publish the earliest Lincoln _Register_ extant, that of
Hugh of Wells, bishop of Lincoln, 1209-1235, whose _Liber Antiquus de
Ordinatione Vicariorum_ was printed in 1888. Analogous documents are
LUARD'S _Rob. Grosseteste Epistola_ (Roll Series, 1861), and the like.
Monastic CARTULARIES are less important for general history in this
than in previous periods; large masses of monastic records of this age
have survived, not a tithe of which is to be found in DUGDALE'S
_Monasticon_. Some monastic records illustrate the domestic economy or
religious life of the house as KIRK'S _Accounts of the Obedientiaries
of Abingdon,_ 1322-1479 (Camden Soc.); J.W. CLARK's _Observances in use
at Barnwell Priory,_ 1295-1296(1897), and the like.
For this period by far the most important series of foreign records is
the magnificent collections of the papacy. A summary of many of these
is to be found in BLISS, JOHNSON, and TWEMLOW's _Calendars of Papal
Registers illustrating the History of Great Britain and Ireland; Papal
Letters_ (vols. i.-iv., 1198-1404), and _Petitions to the Pope_ (vol.
i., 1342-1419), of special importance for the fourteenth century. These
useful calendars, however, do not always dispense us from consulting
the grand series of papal records published or analysed under the care
of the French School of Rome, which has not yet sufficiently been
studied in this country. This enterprise is divided into two sections.
In the first the _Registers from Gregory IX. to Benedict XI._ are in
course of publication; in the second the letters of the Avignon popes
relating to France are printed or analysed. Portions of the letters of
John XXII, Benedict XII, and Clement VI, are already issued. PRESSUTI
has published one volume of the _Registers of Honorius III_ (1888).
From the Vatican archives also comes THEINER'S _Vetera Monumenta Hib.
et Scot. Historiam illustrantia_ (1864), beginning in 1216.
Extracts from various archives are found in such collections as RYMER's
_Foedera_ of which the Record Commission's edition in folio reaches
just beyond the end of this period; WILKINS'S _Concilia_ (1737),
containing many extracts from episcopal registers and canons of
councils; HADDAN and STUBBS'S _Councils_, vol. i. (for the thirteenth
century Welsh Church); CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC'S _Lettres des Rois et des
Reines d'Angleterre_ (2 vols., 1847, _Doc. Inédits_); STUBBS'S _Select
Charters_ (Henry III. and Edward I.), and BÉMONT'S excellent _Chartes
des Libertés anglaises_ in the _Collection de Textes pour l'Étude et
l'Enseignement de l'Histoire_. Equally useful is COSNEAU'S _Grands
Traités de la Guerre de Cent Ans_ also in the same _Collection de
Textes_. The _Statutes of the Realm_ (vol. i., fol., 1810) contains the
text of the laws and of the great charters of this period.
Chronicles, with all their deficiencies, must ever be largely used as
sources of continuous historical narrative. For the thirteenth century
our chief reliance must still be placed upon the annals drawn up in
various monasteries, some based upon little more than gossip or
hearsay, others showing real efforts to acquire authentic information.
The greatest centre of historical composition in thirteenth-century
England was the Abbey of St. Alban's, whose chronicles form so
important a series that they may appropriately be considered as a
whole, before the other chroniclers are dealt with in approximately
chronological order. The fame of St. Alban's as a school of history had
its origin in the order of Abbot Simon (d. 1183) that the house should
always appoint a special historiographer. The first of these whose work
is now extant is ROGER OF WENDOVER (d. 1236), whose _Flores
Historiarum_ (ed. H.O. Coxe, Engl. Hist. Soc., 1842, or ed. Hewlett,
Rolls Series, 1886-89--this latter edition is unscholarly) becomes
original in 1216 and remains a chief source, copious and interesting,
if not always precise, until 1235. On Wendover's death, MATTHEW PARIS,
who took the monastic habit in 1217, became the official St. Alban's
chronicler. His great work, the _Chronica Majora_, is, up to 1235,
little more than an expansion and embellishment of Wendover. He
re-edited Wendover's work with a patriotic and anti-curialist bias
quite alien to the spirit of the earlier writer, whose version should
preferably be followed. Paris's book is a first-hand source from 1235
to 1259. The narrative of the years 1254-1259 is considerably later in
composition to the history of the period 1235-1253, since on reaching
1253 Paris devoted himself to an abridgment of what he had already
written, called the _Historia Minor_. On completing this he resumed his
earlier book, and carried it on to the eve of his death in 1259, though
he did not live to complete its final revision; that was the work of
another monk who added a picture of his death-bed. The _Chronica
Majora_ has been excellently edited by Dr. H.R. Luard in seven volumes
for the Rolls Series, with elaborate introductions tracing the literary
history of the work and a magnificent index. The _Historia Minor_ has
been published in three volumes by Sir F. Madden in the Rolls Series.
Paris also wrote the lives of the abbots of his house up to 1255, a
work not now extant, and the basis of the later _Gesta Abbatum S.
Albani_, compiled by Thomas Walsingham (d. 1422?) and likewise issued
in the Rolls Series. The thirteenth century biographies have some
original value. Paris's _Life_ of _Stephen Langton_ is printed in
LIEBERMANN'S _Ungedruckte Anglo-Normannische Geschichtsquellen_ (1870).
Paris, perhaps the greatest historian of the Middle Ages, has literary
skill, a vivid though prolix style, a keen eye for the picturesque,
bold and independent judgment, wonderful breadth and range, and an
insatiable curiosity. He was a man of the world, a courtier and a
scholar; he took immense pains to collect his facts from documents and
eye-witnesses, and had great advantages in this respect through the
intimate relations between his house and the court. Henry III himself
contributed many items of information to him. His details are
extraordinarily full, and he tells us almost as much about continental
affairs as about those of his own country. He wrote with too flowing a
pen to be careful about precision, and had too much love of the
picturesque to resist the temptation of embellishing a good story. His
narrative of continental transactions is in particular extremely
inexact. But the chief cause of his offending also gives special value
to his work; he was a man of strong views and his sympathies and
prejudices colour every line he wrote. His standpoint is that of a
patriotic Englishman, indignant at the alien invasions, at the
misgovernment of the king, the greed of the curialists and the
Poitevins, and with a professional bias against the mendicants. His
writings make his age live.
The falling off in the St. Alban's work of the next generation is
characteristic of the decay of colour and detail which makes the
chroniclers of the age of Edward I. inferior to those of his father's
reign. The years after 1259 were briefly chronicled by uninspired
continuators of Matthew Paris, and the reputation of St. Alban's as a
school of history led to the frequent transference of their annals to
other religious houses, where they were written up by local pens. This
led to the dissemination of the series of jejune compilations which in
the ages of Edward I. and II. were widely spread under the name of
_Flores Historiarum_. Dr. Luard has published a critical edition of
these _Flores_ in three volumes of the Rolls Series, which range from
the creation to 1326, with an introduction determining their
complicated relations to each other. They are of no real value before
1259, and for the next sixty-seven years are only important by reason
of the defects of our other sources. No unity or colour can be expected
in books handed from house to house and kept up to date by jottings by
different hands. The ascription of these _Flores_ to a conjectural
Matthew of Westminster by earlier editors is groundless. Dr. C.
Horstmann, _Nova Legenda Anglie_, i., pp. xlix. _seq._(1901), maintains
that John of Tynemouth's _Historia Aurea_, still in manuscript, is the
official St. Alban's history from 1327 to 1377.
In the reign of Edward I. the credit of the school of St. Alban's was
revived to some extent by WILLIAM RISHANGER, who made his profession in
1271 and died early in the reign of Edward II. To him is assigned a
chronicle ranging from 1259 to 1306 published by H.T. Riley in the
volume _Willelmi Rishanger et Anonymorum Chronica et Annales_ (Rolls
Series). Rishanger's authorship of the portion 1259-1272 is more
probable than that of the section 1272-1306, which, not compiled before
1327, is almost certainly by another hand, and the attribution of even
the earlier section to Rishanger is doubted by so competent an
authority as M. Bémont. The compilation is frigid and unequal. Of the
miscellaneous contents of Mr. Riley's volume, the short _Gesta Edwardi
I._ (pp. 411-423), of no great value, is clearly Rishanger's work. We
may also ascribe to Rishanger the _Narratio de Bellis apud Lewes et
Evesham_ (ed. Halliwell, Camden Soc., 1840), which tells the story of
the Barons' Wars with vigour, detail, and insight. Written by a true
inheritor of the prejudices of Matthew Paris, this chronicle is a
eulogy of Montfort. It was put together not before 1312.
Another volume of _Chroniclers of St. Alban's_ was edited by Mr. Riley
for the Rolls Series in 1860. Three of its chronicles concern our
period. These are: (1) _Opus Chronicorum_, 1259-1296, a source of
"Rishanger's" chronicle; (2) J. DE TROKELOWE'S _Annales_, 1307-1322;
(3) H. DE BLANEFORDE'S _Chronica_ (1323). These last two are important
for Edward II.'s reign. After these works, historical writing further
declined at St. Alban's. At the end of our period, however, another
true disciple of Matthew Paris was found in the St. Alban's monk who
added to a jejune compilation for the years 1328 to 1370 a vivid and
personal narrative of the years 1376-1388, our chief source for the
history of the last year of Edward III.'s reign. In his bitter
prejudice against John of Gaunt and his clerical allies, such as
Wychffe and the mendicants, the monk is so outspoken that his book was
suppressed, and most manuscripts leave out the more offensive passages.
It has been edited by Sir E. Maunde Thompson as _Chronicon Angliæ_,
1328-1388 (Rolls Series). Before that its contents, like that of other
St. Alban's annals, were partially known through the fifteenth century
compilation under the name of a St. Alban's monk, THOMAS OF WALSINGHAM,
whose _Historia Anglicana_ (2 vols., Rolls Series, ed. Riley) is not an
authority for our period.
For the early years of Henry III. we have besides Wendover's _Flores_:
(i) The CANON OF BARNWELL'S continuation of Howden published in
STUBBS'S _Memoriale Fratris Walteri de Coventria_ (Rolls Series),
written in 1227 and copious for the years 1216-1225. (2) RALPH OF
COGGESHALL's _Chronicon Anglicanum_ (ed. Stevenson, Rolls Series),
ending at 1227 and important for its last twelve years. (3) The
_Histoire des Ducs de Normandie et des Rois d'Angleterre_, which,
published by F. Michel in 1840 (Soc. de l'histoire de France), was
first appreciated at its full value by M. Petit-Dutaillis in the _Revue
Historique_. tome 2 (1892). (4) The _Chronique de l'Anonyme de Béthune_
printed in 1904 in vol. xxiv. of the _Recueil des Historiens de la
France_. (5) A French rhyming chronicle, the _Histoire de Guillaume le
Maréchal_, discovered and edited by P. Meyer for the Soc. de l'histoire
de France. Written by a minstrel of the younger Marshal from materials
supplied by the regent's favourite squire, it is, though poetry and
panegyric, an important source for Marshal's regency.
St. Alban's was not the only religious house that concerned itself with
the production of chronicles. Other _Annales Monastici_ have been
edited in five volumes (Rolls Series, vol. v. is the index) by Dr.
Luard. They are of special importance for the reign of Henry III. In
vol. i. the meagre annals of the Glamorganshire abbey of Margam only
extend to 1232. The _Annals of Tewkesbury_ are useful from 1200 to
1263, and specially for the history of the Clares, the patrons of that
house. The Annals of Burton-upon-Trent illustrate the years 1211 to
1261 with somewhat intermittent light, and are of unique value for the
period of the Provisions of Oxford, containing many official documents.
Vol. ii. includes the _Annals_ of _Winchester_ and _Waverley_. The
former, extending to 1277, though mainly concerned with local affairs
are useful for certain parts of the reign of Henry III., and
particularly for the years 1267-1277. The annals of the Cistercian
house of Waverley, near Farnham, go down to 1291. From 1259 to 1266 the
narrative is contemporary and valuable; from 1266 to 1275, and partly
from 1275 to 1277 it is borrowed from the Winchester Annals; from 1277
to its abrupt end it is again of importance. The _Annals of Bermondsey_
in vol. iii. are a fifteenth century compilation. The _Annals_ of the
Austin canons of _Dunstable_ are of great value, especially from the
year 1201, when they become original, down to 1242. This section is
written by RICHARD DE MORINS, prior of Dunstable from 1202 to 1242.
After his death the annals become more local, though they give a clear
narrative of the puzzling period 1258-1267. They stop in 1297. The
chief contents of vol. iv, are the parallel _Annals of Oseney_ and the
_Chronicle_ of THOMAS WYKES, a canon of that house, who took the
religious habit in 1282. To 1258 the two histories are very similar,
that of Wykes being slightly fuller. They then remain distinct until
1278, and again from 1280 to 1284 and 1285-1289. In the latter year
Wykes stops, while Oseney goes on with independent value until 1293,
and as a useless compilation till 1346. Wykes is of unique interest for
the Barons' Wars, as he is the only competent chronicler who takes the
royalist side. The Oseney writer, much less full and interesting,
represents the ordinary baronial standpoint. Wykes is occasionally
useful for the first years of Edward I.; after 1288 his importance
becomes small. The _Annals of Worcester_ are largely a compilation from
the Winchester Annals and the _Flores_; the local insertions have some
value for the period 1216-1258, and more for the latter part of the
reign of Edward I., at whose death they end.
Other monastic chronicles of the thirteenth century, of small
importance, enumerated by Dr. Luard (_Ann. Mon._, iv., liii.) are not
yet printed in full. Extracts from many are given in PERTZ'S _Monumenta
Germaniæ Hist. Scriptores_, vols. xxvii. and xxviii. The _Annales
Cestrienses_ (to 1297) have been edited by R.C. Christie (Record Soc.
of Lancashire and Cheshire); EDMUND OF HADENHAM'S _Chronicle_ (down to
1307) is given in part in WHARTON'S _Anglia Sacra_, and M. Bémont
publishes in an appendix to his _Simon de Montfort_ (pp. 373-380) a
valuable fragment of a _Chronicle_ of _Battle Abbey_ on the Barons'
Wars, 1258-1265. For the latter part of that period we have some useful
notices in HENRY OF SILEGRAVE's brief _Chronicle_ (ed. Hook, Caxton
Soc., 1849), whose close relationship to the _Battle Chronicle_ M.
Bémont has first indicated. To these may be added the _Annals of
Stanley Abbey_ (1202-1271) in vol. ii. of _Chronicles of Stephen, Henry
II. and Richard I._ (ed. Hewlett, Rolls Series, 1885), and the
_Chronicle_ of the Bury monk, JOHN OF TAXSTER or TAYSTER, which becomes
copious from the middle of the thirteenth century and ends in 1265; it
was partly printed in 1849 by Benjamin Thorpe as a continuation of
Florence of Worcester (English Historical Society), and the years
1258-1262 are best read in Luard's edition of Bartholomew Cotton (Rolls
Series). Taxster's work became the basis of several later compilations
of the eastern counties, including: (i) JOHN OF EVERSDEN, another Bury
monk, independent from 1265 to 1301, also printed without his name by
Thorpe, up to 1295, as a further continuation of Florence. (2) JOHN OF
OXNEAD, a monk of St. Benet's, Hulme, a reputed continuator of Taxster
and Eversden up to 1280, who adds a good deal of his own for the years
1280-1293, edited somewhat carelessly by Sir Henry Ellis as _Chronica
J. de Oxenedes_ (Rolls Series). (3) BARTHOLOMEW COTTON, a monk of
Norwich, whose _Historia Anglicana_, original from 1291 to 1298, and
specially important from 1285 to 1291, is edited by Luard (Rolls
Series). Some thirteenth and early fourteenth century Bury chronicles
are also in _Memorials_ of _St. Edmund's Abbey_, ed. T. Arnold (vols.
ii. and iii., Rolls Series). The _Chronicon de Mailros_ (Bannatyne
Club), from the Cistercian abbey of Melrose, goes to 1270; though
utterly untrustworthy, it may be noticed as almost the only Scottish
chronicle before the war of independence, and as containing a curious
record of the miracles of Simon de Montfort.
Among the historians of Edward I.'s reign is WALTER OF HEMINGBURGH,
Canon of Guisborough in Cleveland (ed. H.C. Hamilton, 2 vols., Engl.
Hist. Soc.). His account of Henry III.'s reign is worthless, but from
1272 to 1312 his work is of great value, though never precise and full
of gaps. It contains many documents and is remarkable for its stirring
battle pictures. Hemingburgh probably laid down his pen when the
narrative ceases early in the reign of Edward II. Another writer,
identified by Horstmann with John of Tynemouth, carries the story from
1326 to 1346.
In striking contrast to the flowing periods of Hemingburgh is the
well-written and chronologically digested _Annals_ of the Dominican
friar NICHOLAS TREVET or TRIVET, the son of a judge of Henry III.'s
reign (ed. Hog, Engl. Hist. Soc.). Beginning in 1138, his work assumes
independent value for the latter years of Henry III. and is of
first-rate importance for the reign of Edward I., at whose death it
concludes, though Trevet was certainly alive in 1324. It was largely
used by the later St. Alban's chroniclers.
Franciscan historiography begins earlier than Dominican with the
remarkable tract of THOMAS OF ECCLESTON, written about 1260, _De
Adventu Fratrum Minorum in Anglia_, published with other Minorite
documents (including Adam Marsh's letters) in BREWER'S _Monumenta
Franciscana_ (Rolls Series, continued in a second volume by R.
Hewlett). The first important Franciscan chronicle, called the
_Chronicon de Lanercost_ (ed. J. Stevenson, Bannatyne Club, 2 vols.),
really comes from the Minorite convent of Carlisle. It covers the years
1201 to 1346. The early part is derived from the valueless chronicle of
Melrose, and its incoherent cult of the memory of Montfort does not
save it from the grossest errors in dealing with his history. It
becomes important for northern affairs from Edward I. onwards, giving
full details with a strong anti-Scottish bias. Another north-country
chronicle is Sir T. GREY'S _Scalacronica_ (ed. Stevenson, Maitland
Club, 1836), useful for the Scottish wars and for Edward III.'s reign
up to 1362.
A sign of the times is the beginning of civic chronicles. The London
series alone is important for English history. It begins with the
_Liber de Antiquis Legibus_, or _Chronica Majorum et Vicecomitum
Londoniarum_ (1188-1274, ed. T. Stapleton, Camden Soc.). The work of
ARNOLD FITZTHEDMAR, alderman of the German merchants in London, it is
copious for the years 1236 to 1274, and is, with Wykes, the only
chronicle of the Barons' Wars written with a royalist bias. Fourteenth
century civic chronicles, based upon _Flores Historiarum_, and
continued independently, form the main contents of the two volumes of
_Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I. and II._ (ed. by Dr. Stubbs for
the Rolls Series). These are: (1) _Annales Londonienses_, perhaps
written by ANDREW HORN, chamberlain of London, and compiler of the
_Liber Horn_; they have much general value for the period 1301 to 1316,
and deal more narrowly with London history from 1316 to 1330, when they
conclude. (2) _Annales Paulini_, 1307-1341, compiled by one of the
clergy of St. Paul's, but not by Adam Murimuth. These take up Dr.
Stubbs's first volume. The second contains: (1) JOHN OF LONDON'S
_Commendatio Lamentabilis in Transitu magni Regis Edwardi quarti_, a
funeral eulogy containing the most elaborate contemporary analysis of
Edward's character. (2) The CANON OF BRIDLINGTON'S _Gesta Edwardi de
Carnarvon_, with a continuation down to the death of Edward III., of
little value after 1339. It has frequent reference to the vaticinations
of the local prophet, John of Bridlington, and was not put in its
present shape before 1377. Its first part is based on earlier sources,
and it is, for lack of better, a prime authority for north-country
history and Anglo-Scottish relations; the continuation contains the
best account of Edward Balliol's attempts on the Scottish throne. (3)
_Vita Edwardi II._, from 1307 to 1325, attributed by Hearne on slight
grounds to a MONK OF MALMESBURY, with many notices of the history of
Gloucestershire and Bristol, of which the famous rising is described at
length. The writer is the most human of the annalists of the reign,
prolix, self-conscious, moralising, and somewhat incoherent. He is the
most outspoken of all the fourteenth century critics of the Roman
curia, and has more insight than most of his contemporaries.
The following are of primary importance for the early years of Edward
III.; it is significant that they are nearly all secular, not monastic,
in origin. (1) _Continuatio Chronicorum_, 1303-1347, by ADAM MURIMUTH,
a canon of St. Paul's much employed by Edward III. (ed. E.M. Thompson
in Rolls Series), a mere continuation of the _Flores_ until 1325,
thence enlarged from personal sources, but still meagre until 1337,
when it becomes a first-rate authority to 1346. Murimuth's adoption of
Michaelmas day as the beginning of the year has often confused those
who have imitated him. Chief among these is (2) GEOFFREY LE BAKER of
Swinbrooke, an Oxfordshire man, and like Murimuth, a secular clerk,
whose _Chronicon_ (ed. E.M. Thompson), beginning in 1303 on the basis
of Murimuth, has independent value after 1324, and is noteworthy for
its touching details of Edward II.'s fall and death. It ends in 1356
with an excellent account of the battle of Poitiers. The early part of
Baker's chronicle, widely circulated as _Vita et Mors Edwardi II._, was
previously assigned to Sir Thomas de la Moor, and was so edited by
Stubbs, but Sir E.M. Thompson showed clearly that this Oxfordshire
knight was Baker's patron and not the writer of a chronicle. With many
defects, Baker can tell a story picturesquely. (3) ROBERT OF AVESBURY,
a canon lawyer, wrote _De mirabilibus Gestis Edwardi III._, of special
importance for the war from 1339 to 1356, and containing many state
documents. It is edited by E.M. Thompson in the same volume as
Murimuth. (4) HENRY KNIGHTON, Canon of Leicester, wrote a _Chronicle_
about 1366 which is valuable for the period 1336-1366 and includes the
best contemporary account of the Black Death. The latest edition by
Lumby in the Rolls Series is not a scholarly work. (5) _Eulogium
Historiarum_ (ed. Haydon, Rolls Series) is contemporary and valuable
for 1356-1366 only. There is a great dearth of English chronicles for
the latter years of Edward III. The signal exception is the important
St. Alban's _Chronicon Angliæ_ already mentioned.
In the age of Edward III. the _Flores Historiarum_ were superseded by
the _Polychronicon_ (often called the "Brute" after WACE'S _Brut
d'Angleterre_), the voluminous compilation (to 1352) of RANDOLPH
HIGDEN, a monk of Chester (edited by Babington and Lumby, Rolls
Series). ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER, PETER LANGTOFT, and ROBERT MANNYNG have
been referred to elsewhere. The first is of some original value for the
Barons' Wars and Edward I., while Langtoft, a Yorkshire canon specially
interested in the Scottish wars, is a contemporary for all Edward I.'s
reign. Among rhyming chronicles, French in tongue but English in
origin, may be mentioned _Le Siège de Carlaverock_, 1300 (ed. Nicolas,
1828), of value for heraldry, and CHANDOS HERALD'S _Prince Noir_ (ed.
H.O. Coxe, whose edition was pillaged by F. Michel for his more
accessible version of 1883). _L'Histoire de Foulques Fitz Warin_ (d.
1260?), a picturesque marcher hero, a prose romance of the end of the
thirteenth century, can be read in Stevenson's edition of COGGESHALL
(Rolls Series), or Englished by A. Kemp-Welch (1904).
No contemporary Scottish chronicles of importance deal with the War of
Independence, though fairly full Scottish versions of it exist in later
books. The earliest of these is the _Bruce_ of JOHN BARBOUR, Archdeacon
of Aberdeen. Written in 1375 at the instigation of Robert II.,
Barbour's spirited verses are inspired by patriotic rather than
historic motives. His details are minute, but impossible to control by
other sources, and he is more valuable as the epic poet of Scottish
liberty than as an historical authority. He is edited by Skeat (Early
English Text Soc.), Jamieson, and Innes. The earliest prose Scottish
chronicle, that of JOHN FORDUN, who died about 1384 (ed. Skene, in
_Historians of Scotland_), is of value for the fourteenth century.
ANDREW WYNTONN'S _Originale_, a metrical history written in the
fifteenth century, has next to no authority until the end of this
period (ed. Laing, in _Historians of Scotland_), BLIND HARRY'S
_Wallace_, written in 1488, is romance not history.
Wales is more fortunate than Scotland in preserving contemporary
thirteenth century annals, of which a Latin chronicle, _Annales
Cambriæ_, extending to 1288, and a Welsh one, _Brut y Tywysogion_
(i.e., _Chronicle of the Princes_), down to 1278, are edited by J.
Williams in the Rolls Series, the latter with an English translation. A
more critical version of the Welsh text of the _Brut_ is that of J.
RHYS and J.G. EVANS' _Red Book of Hergest_, vol. ii. (1890).
The close relations between England and France for the whole of this
period render the French chronicles by far the most important of
foreign sources for English history. They are enumerated in detail by
Auguste Molinier in vols. iii. (up to 1328) and iv. (after 1328) of the
first part of _Les Sources de l'Histoire de France (Manuels de
Bibliographie historique_). The chief French chronicles of the period
1226-1328 are collected in vols. xx.-xxiv. of the _Recueil des
Historiens de la France_ begun by Dom Bouquet. Some of them are of
special importance for English history. For Anglo-Netherlandish
relations under Edward I. see _Annales Gandenses_ (1296-1310), "la
chronique la plus remarquable de la fin du xiiie siècle," the French
_Chronique Artésienne_ (1295-1304), and the _Chronique Tournaisienne_
(1296-1314), all edited by F. Funck-Brentano in the already mentioned
_Collection de Textes_. For the Hundred Years' War the French
chroniclers are indispensable, especially for military history. The
most famous of these writers, JEAN FROISSART, has been characterised in
my text (p. 419). He can best be studied in Luce and Raynouart's
excellent edition for the Soc. de l'Histoire de France (tomes i.-viii.,
1869-1888) which completes the story up to Edward III.'s death. Luce's
careful "sommaire et commentaire critique" often affords means of
checking Froissart by other sources. The magnificent volumes of indexes
of Kervyn de Lettenhove's complete edition (vols. XX.-XXV.) are still
of immense use, though his text and comments are inferior to those of
Luce, Froissart's spirit may well be caught in Lord Berners's racy
English translation (Tudor Translations), or in G.C. Macaulay's useful
abridgment. The three redactions of Froissart's first book (from 1327
to 1373-1377), which is all that concerns our period, have been clearly
distinguished by Luce. (1) The first edition, written about 1373, at
the request of Count Robert of Namur, is inspired by an English bias.
Up to 1360 it is largely derived from the chronicle of JEAN LE BEL,
Canon of St. Lambert of Liège; after that date it is original. (2) The
second edition, only represented by two MSS., of which one is
incomplete, is a modification of the first with a French bias. The
earlier part is more independent of Jean le Bel. (3) The third edition,
preserved in a single MS., ends with the death of Philip VI in 1350,
and, written after 1400, is even more hostile to England than the
second. The best edition of Jean le Bel is by Polain for the Académie
royale de Belgique.
A few of the more important French chronicles after 1328 may be
mentioned shortly. (1) _Grands Chroniques de France_ (ed. Paulin
Paris). Original from 1350 to 1377, a work of first-rate importance,
where, if truth is altered, it is altered deliberately from political
motives. (2) JEAN DE VENETTE, 1340-1368, written with a popular bias,
and partly favourable to Charles of Navarre (edited as a supplement to
Géraud's edition of Guillaume de Nangis, ii., 178-378, Soc. de l'Hist.
de France). (3) _Chronique Normande du xiv'e siècle_, 1337-1372 (ed.
Molinier, Soc. de l'Hist. de France, 1882), exact and very important
for the wars 1337 to 1372. (4) _Chronique des quatre premiers Valois_
(Soc. de l'Hist. de France). (5) CUVELIER'S poetical _Vie de Bertrand
du Guesclin_ (2 vols., _Doc. inédits_). Further details can be found in
Molinier's bibliography. Netherlandish sources for the Hundred Years'
War are summarised in PIRENNE'S _Bibliographie de l'Histoire de
Belgique_ (1895). Of special importance is JAN VAN KLERK'S _Van den
Derden Edewaert Rym Kronyk_. (1840), useful for 1337-1341, and written
with an English bias.
The unofficial legal literature of the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries is of exceptional variety and value. Many lawyers' treatises
throw light on matters far beyond legal technicalities. HENRY OF
BRACTON or BRATTON'S _De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ_
illustrates the union of English and Roman juridical ideas
characteristic of the age of Henry III. It has been edited badly by Sir
T. Twiss in six volumes (Rolls Series), and some portions well by
Professor Maitland in his _Select passages from Bracton and Azo_
(Selden Soc.). Maitland's _Bracton's Note Book_ includes extracts from
plea rolls seemingly made by Bracton. Bracton's book on the laws was
translated, condensed, and rearranged by a writer of the next
generation called Britton. It may be studied in a modern edition in
NICHOLLS'S _Britton on the laws of England_, while _Fleta_, an almost
contemporary Latin law book, must be read in Selden's seventeenth
century edition. Another thirteenth century law-book, _Le Mirroir des
Justices_, has been edited by Maitland and W.J. Whittaker for the
Selden Society. From Edward I.'s time onwards unofficial reports of
trials called YEAR BOOKS, written in French, become valuable for their
vividness and detail, and for the light which they throw on the more
technical records of the plea rolls. Many of them are printed in
unsatisfactory seventeenth century editions, but the Year Books of five
of Edward I.'s regnal years, between 1292 to 1307, together with the
Year Book of 11-12 Edward III., are accessible in A.J. Horwood's
editions in the Rolls Series. L.O. Pike has also edited in the Rolls
Series the _Year books of Edward III._ from 1338 to 1345, and
Maitland's _Year books of Edward II._ for the Selden Society are the
first two instalments of a scheme for publishing the Year Books of the
reign. Besides their legal value, the Year Books are an almost unworked
mine for social and economic, and often even political and
ecclesiastical, history.
Of literary aids to history T. WRIGHT'S _Political Songs_ (Camden Soc.)
illustrate this period to the reign of Edward II. One of Wright's
pieces has been more elaborately edited in C.L. KINGSFORD'S Song of
_Lewes_ (1890), and C. Hardwick published a _Poem on the Times OF
Edward II._ for the Percy Soc. (1849). With Edward III. such literature
becomes copious. Of special importance are T. Wright's _Political POEMS
and SONGS FROM the accession of Edward III._, vol. i. (Rolls Series,
1859), J. Hall's _Poems of_ LAURENCE MINOT, Skeat's editions of CHAUCER
and LANGLAND, and G.C. Macaulay's edition of GOWER. The Latin works of
Wycliffe, published by the Wycliffe Society, mainly belong to the
succeeding period, but _De Dominio Divino_ and _De Civili Dominio_, as
well as some tracts printed in the appendix to LEWIS'S _Life of Wiclif_
and in Shirley's edition of _Fasciculi Zizanioram_ (Rolls Series), were
written before 1377.
Of modern works treating of this period, many monographs, dealing with
particular points, have been mentioned in notes in the course of the
narrative. Of general guides to the period the best by far are Stubbs
and Pauli. STUBBS'S _Constitutional History_ (vol. ii.) is as valuable
for the chapters summarising the political history as for the more
strictly constitutional matter. R. PAULI'S _Geschichte von England_,
iii., 489-896, and iv., 1-505, 716-741, remains, after half a century,
the fullest and most satisfactory working up in detail of these reigns,
though the great additions to our material make parts of it a somewhat
unsafe guide. It can be supplemented for particular aspects of history
by the following: For legal history, POLLOCK and MAITLAND'S _History of
English Law before the time of Edward I._, especially vol. i., book i.
(chapters iv.-vi.), and book ii.; and most of vol. ii.; to which should
be added the prefaces by Prof. Maitland and others to the volumes of
the Selden Society. MAITLAND'S _Roman Canon Law in the Church of
England_ (1898) is also of great importance. For economic history, W.J.
ASHLEY'S _Economic History_, parts i. and ii.; W. CUNNINGHAM's _Growth
of English Industry and Commerce, Early and Middle Ages_; VINOGRADOFF'S
_Villainage in England_, S. DOWELL'S _History of Taxation_ (2nd
edition), H. HALL'S _Customs Revenue of England_, and, as a collection
of materials, J.E. THOROLD ROGERS' _History of Agriculture and Prices_,
vols. i. and ii. For ecclesiastical history, W.R.W. STEPHENS'S _History
of the English Church, 1066-1272_; W.W. CAPES'S _History of the English
Church in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries_, and F. MAKOWER'S
_The Constitutional History and Constitution of the Church of England_
(translated from the German). For academic history, DENIFLE'S
_Entstehung der Universitäten des Mittelalters bis 1400_, especially
pp. 1-40, 237-251 (Oxford) and pp. 367-376 (Cambridge), HAURÉAU'S
_Histoire de la Philosophie scholastique_ and RASHDALL'S _Universities
of the Middle Ages_, i., 1-74, and ii., part ii. (Oxford and
Cambridge). For military history, KÖHLER'S _Entwickelung des
Kriegswesens in der Ritterzeit_, OMAN'S _History of the Art of War in
the Middle Ages_, CLARK'S _Mediæval Military Architecture_, and (above
all) J.E. MORRIS'S _Welsh Wars of Edward I_. For naval history,
NICOLAS'S _History of the Royal Navy_, and C. DE LA RONCIÈRE'S
_Histoire de la Marine Française_. For particular reigns the following
may be found useful: For Henry III., PETIT-DUTAILLIS'S _Étude sur Louis
VIII._, GASQUET'S _Henry III. and the Church_ (1905), BÉMONT'S _Simon
de Montfort_, PROTHERO'S _Simon de Montfort_, and BLAAUW'S _Barons'
Wars_ (2nd ed., 1871). For the reign of Edward I., SEELEY's _Life and
Reign of Edward I._ (1872), my _Edward I._; GOUGH'S _Itinerary of
Edward I._, MAXWELL'S _Robert the Bruce_ (Heroes of the Nations), and
MORRIS'S above-mentioned _Welsh Wars of Edward I._ For some aspects of
Edward II.'s reign, STUBBS'S prefaces to _Chronicles of Edward I. and
Edward II._ are of special value. For Edward III.'s reign, BARNES's
_History of Edward III._ (1688) is not quite superseded by LONGMAN'S
_Life and Times of Edward III._ (2 vols., 1869), and MACKINNON'S
_History of Edward III._ (1900). For the Hundred Years' War, E.
DÉPREZ'S _Préliminaires de la Guerre de Cent Ans_ (1328-1342) (Bibl. de
l'Ecole française de Rome, 1902) for diplomatic history, and DENIFLE's
_Désolation des Églises et Monastères de la France pendant la Guerre de
Cent Ans_ (ii., part i., 1899) for the best general survey of the war
to 1380. See also LUCE'S _La Jeunesse de Bertrand de Guesclin and La
France pendant la Guerre de Cent Ans_, and (for Brittany) A. DE LA
BORDERIE'S _Histoire de Brétagne_ (1899). The end of Edward III.'s
reign is illustrated by S. ARMITAGE SMITH'S _John of Gaunt_ (1904), J.
LECHLER'S _Wiclif und die Vorgeschichte der Reformation_ (2 vols.,
1873), also translated, not very adequately, _Wycliffe and His English
Precursors_ (1878 and 1881), F.D. MATTHEW'S introduction to _Wyclif's
English Works_ (Early English Text Society), and R.L. POOLE'S
_Illustrations of the History of Mediæval Thought_ (1884), and
_Wycliffe_ (1889). G.M. TREVELYAN's _England in the Age of Wycliffe_
(1899) is interesting but not always very scholarly.
Some account of the general foreign history of the period can be found
in LAVISSE and RAMBAUD'S _Histoire générale_ (tomes ii. and iii.),
LOSERTH'S _Geschichte des späteren Mittelalters_ (good bibliographies),
and, briefly, in my _Papacy and Empire_ (up to 1273), and LODGE'S
_Close of the Middle Ages_ (after 1273). For French history of the
period LAVISSE'S _Histoire de France_ (iii., pt. i., 1137-1226, by A.
LUCHAIRE; iii., pt. ii., 1226-1328, by C.V. LANGLOIS, and iv., pt. i.,
1328-1422, by A. COVILLE) cover the whole of the period. More detailed
works are, PETIT-DUTAILLIS'S _Louis VIII._, E. BERGER'S _Blanche de
Castile_, WALLON'S _Louis IX._, BOUTARIC'S _Saint Louis et Alfonse de
Poitiers_, C.V. LANGLOIS'S _Philippe le Hardi_, BOUTARIC'S _France sous
Philippe le Bel_, LEHUGEUR'S _Philippe le Long_, PETIT'S _Charles de
Valois_, FOURNIER'S _Royaume d'Arles et de Vienne_, L. DELISLE'S _Hist.
de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte_, and (for the south) the new edition of DE
VIC and VAISSÈTE's _Hist. générale de Languedoc_. Much recent work has
been done by French scholars towards the reconstruction of the external
history of England during the whole of our period. For the Low
Countries, PIRENNE'S _Hist. de Belgique_, ii., ASHLEY'S _James and
Philip van Artevelde_, and VANDER KINDERE'S _Le Siècle des Arteveldt_.
PAULI is good for the relations of England and Germany.
Maps illustrating the period are to be found in POOLE'S _Oxford
Historical Atlas_, LONGNON'S _Atlas historique de la France_, and
SPRUNER-MENKE'S _Historischer Hand-Atlas_; special maps of Edward I.'s
Scottish expeditions in GOUGH'S _Itinerary of Edward I._, of Edward
III.'s and the Black Prince's campaigns in THOMPSON'S _Chronicon
Galfridi le Baker_, and KERVYN'S _Froissart_, of John of Gaunt's in
ARMITAGE-SMITH's _John of Gaunt_, and of Wales in the thirteenth
century in _Owens College Historical Essays_. VIDAL DE LA BLACHE'S
_Tableau de la Géographie de la France_ (LAVISSE, _Hist. de France_,
i., pt. i.) is instructive for the physical features of the campaigns
of the Hundred Years' War.
Further details as to English authorities, ancient and modern, can be
found in GROSS'S excellent Sources _and Literature of English History_
(1900). The _Monumenta Germaniæ Historica_, _Scriptores_, vols.
xxvii., xxviii., consist of excerpts from English writers of the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries; the introductions (in Latin) by Pauli
and Liebermann contain noteworthy estimates of the works from which the
extracts are taken.
NOTE TO PAGES 390-92.
My reasons for my account of the battle of Poitiers demand longer
explanation than can be given in a footnote. Like most modern writers,
I have based my narrative on the _Chronicle_ of Geoffrey le Baker as
expounded by Sir E.M. Thompson, though I agree with Professor Oman in
holding that Baker's "ampla profundaque vallis et mariscus, torrente
quodam irriguus," must be the valley of the Miausson. I also, however,
agree with Father Denifle in not setting great store on Chandos Herald,
though I would not reject him altogether, as all prudent writers must
reject Froissart. My conjectural account of the movements of the armies
is an attempt to combine Baker with what may be true in the Herald. I
hope elsewhere to be able to justify my narrative at length.
INDEX.
Aachen.
Abbeville.
Aberconway Abbey.
Aberdeen.
Aberdeen, John Barbout, Archdeacon of. See Barbour, John.
Abergavenny, town, castle and lordship.
Abergavenny, Lords of. See Hastings.
Aberystwyth.
Abingdon.
Abingdon, Edmund of. See Rich, Edmund.
Acre.
Acre, Joan of. See Joan.
Acton Burnell.
Adolf of Nassau, King of the Romans.
Adour, the river.
Agen.
Agenais, the.
Agnelius of Pisa.
Aigueblanche, Peter of, Bishop of Hereford.
Aiguillon.
Albemarle, William of Fors, Earl of.
Albemarle and Devon, Isabella of Fors, Countess of.
Albigenses, the.
Albert the Great.
Albret, Lord of.
Aldgate.
Alencon, Count of.
Alexander II., King-of Scots.
Alexander III., King of Scots.
Alexander, son of Alexander III of Scotland.
Alexander IV., Pope.
Alexander of Hales. See Hales.
Alfonso X., King of Castile.
Alfonse of France, Count of Poitiers.
Alice, Countess of Lancaster.
Alice of Lusignan.
Aliens.
Almaine, Henry of. See Henry of Almaine.
"Almaines, The."
Almond, the river.
Alnwick Castle.
Alton Castle.
Amadeus III., Count of Savoy.
Amesbury.
Amice, mother of the elder Simon de Montfort.
Amiens,
cathedral;
mise of;
treaty of.
Amory, Roger of.
Anagni.
Andrew, St.
Anne of Brittany.
Angers.
Anglesey.
Anglia, East.
Angoulême.
Angoulême, Isabella, Countess of. See Isabella, Queen of England.
Angoumois.
Anjou.
Anjou, Charles of. See Charles.
Anjou, Louis, Duke of. See Louis.
Annandale.
Antrim.
Antwerp.
Apulia.
Aquinas, St. Thomas.
Aquitaine, See also Gascony.
Aquitaine, Dukes of. See under the Kings of England.
Aquitaine, Edward, Prince of. See Edward the Black Prince.
Aquitaine, Eleanor of.
Aragon.
Aragon, James, King of. See James.
Aragon, Peter, King of. See Peter.
Archers,
English;
Welsh;
Scottish.
Architecture,
gothic;
ecclesiastical;
domestic;
military;
"decorated" style, "flamboyant";
"perpendicular";
Norman;
French.
Arden, forest of.
Argenton.
Aristotle.
Armagh, Archbishop of. See Fitzralph, Richard.
Armagnac, Counts of.
Armagnac, John, Count of.
Arnold, T., his edition of _Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey_.
Art. _See_ also Architecture.
Artevelde, James van.
Arthur I., Count of Brittany.
Arthur II., Duke of Brittany.
Arthur, King.
Arthurian Legend, the _Articuli super cartas_.
Artois.
Artois, Blanche of. See Blanche.
Artois, Maud, Countess of. See Maud.
Artois, Robert of. See Robert.
Arundel, the Countess of.
Arundel, Edmund Fitzalan, Earl of.
Arundel, Richard Fitzalan, Earl of.
Arvon.
Ashley, W.J.,
his _Economic History_;
his _James and Philip van Artevelde_.
Assisi.
Athenry, battle of.
Athis, treaty of.
Athol, David of Strathbolgie, Earl of.
Auberoche, battle of.
Aubigny, Philip of.
Aude, the river.
Audley, Hugh of.
Audley, Earl of Gloucester. See Gloucester.
Audley, James (1258).
Audley, James (d. 1369).
Audleys of Shropshire.
Audrehem, Marshal.
Aumâle, Counts of, See also Albemarle.
Auray;
battle of;
Church of St. Michael.
_Ausculta, Fili_, bull.
Austin Canons of Lanercost.
Austin Friars.
Austria.
Austria, Duke of.
Auvergne.
Auvergne, Counts of.
Auvézère, the river.
Avalon, Hugh of. See Hugh, St.
Avesbury, Robert of, chronicler.
Avesnes;
house of.
Avesnes, William of. See William,
Count of Hainault.
Avignon,
the papal court at;
records of Popes of.
Avon, the river.
Axholme.
Ayermine, William, Bishop of Norwich.
Aymer of Valence, Bishop of Winchester.
Aymer of Valence, Earl of Pembroke. See Pembroke.
Ayr.
"Babylonish Captivity, the."
Bacon, Roger.
Bacon, Robert.
Badenoch, John Comyn, lord of, See Comyn.
Badlesmere, Bartholomew, Lord.
Badlesmere, Lady.
Baker, Geoffrey le, _Chronicle_ of.
"Balance of Power," the.
Baldock (town).
Baldock, Ralph, chancellor and bishop of London.
Baldock, Robert, chancellor.
Baldwin, Count of Flanders, Latin Emperor of the East.
Ball, John,
Balliol, Edward, eldest son of King John of Scotland.
Balliol, John (d. 1269).
Balliol, John, lord of Barnard Castle, and of Galloway, son of the above,
See also John, King of Scots.
Balsham, Hugh, Bishop of Ely.
Barnburgh Castle.
Bampton in the Bush.
Banaster, Adam.
Banbury.
Banff.
Bankers,
foreign;
Jewish;
Italian.
Bannatyne club, publications of the.
Bannock, the river.
Bannockburn, battle of.
Bar, Joan of. See Joan.
Bar, Count of.
Barbavera.
Barbezieux.
Barbour, John, _Bruce_.
Bardi, the.
Bardolf, William.
Barfleur.
Bar-gate, the, Lincoln.
Barnard Castle.
Barnes's _History of Edward III_.
Barnwell.
Barnwell, Canon of.
Barons' war, the.
Barres, William des.
Basset, Gilbert.
_Bastides_.
_Bastilles_.
Bath.
Bath and Wells, Bishop of. See Burnell, Robert; Drokensford;
Shrewsbury, Ralph of, and Harewell, John.
Battle Abbey, chronicle of.
Battles of ----
Athenry.
Auberoche.
Auray.
Ayr.
Bannockburn.
Boroughbridge.
Bourgneuf Bay.
Cassel.
Chalon.
Chesterfield.
Cocherel.
Corte Nuova.
Courtrai.
Crecy.
Dupplin Moor.
Dunbar.
Dundalk.
Evesham.
Falkirk.
Halidon Hill.
La Rochelle.
Lewes.
Lincoln.
Lisieux.
Madog's Field.
Maes Madog.
Mauron.
Methven.
Morgarten.
Morlaix.
Myton.
Nájera.
Neville's Cross.
Orewyn Bridge.
Poitiers.
Pontvallain.
Sandwich.
Sluys.
Stirling Bridge.
The Thirty.
Winchelsea.
Bayonne.
Bazas.
Béarn.
Béarn, Gaston, Viscount of. See Gaston.
Beatrice, daughter of Henry III. and wife of John II. of Brittany.
Beatrice, sister of Amadeus III., Count of Savoy, wife of Raymond
Berengar IV., Count of Provence.
Beaucaire.
Beauce, the.
Beauchamp, Thomas. See Warwick, Earl of.
Beauchamp, William. See Warwick, Earl of.
Beauchamps of Warwick, the.
Beaumanoir, commandant at Josselin.
Beaumaris Castle.
Beaumont, Henry de.
Beaumont, Louis de, Bishop of Durham.
Beaumont, Robert of, Earl of Leicester. See Leicester.
Beaumonts, the.
Beauvais.
Becket, Archbishop, St. Thomas.
Bedale, 182.
Bedford, Castle of;
scutage of.
Bedfordshire.
Bégard, Abbey of.
Beghards, the.
Beguines, the.
Béhuchet, Nicholas.
Bek, Anthony, Bishop of Durham.
Bek, Thomas, Bishop of St. David's.
Belleville.
Bembro, Robert.
Bémont, Charles;
his _Rôles Gascons_;
his _Chartes des libertés anglaises_;
his Simon _de Montfort_.
Bénauge.
Béne, Amaury of.
Benedict XI.
Benedict XII.
Bengeworth, near Evesham.
Bentley, Sir Walter.
Bere Castle.
Bereford, Sir Simon.
Berg, Count of.
Berger's _Blanche de Castile_.
Bergerac.
Berkeley Castle.
Berkeleys, the.
Berkhampstead, siege of.
Berkshire.
Berkstead, Stephen, Bishop of Chichester.
Bermingham, John of. See Louth, Earl of.
Bernabò, Visconti, Lord of Milan.
Berners, Lord, translator of Froissart.
Berri, John, Duke of.
Bertrand, Cardinal. See Montfavence.
Berwick.
Béthune,
_Chronique de l'Anonyme de_.
Bibliographies, historical
Bidassoa, the.
Bigod, the house of.
Bigod, Hugh, justiciar.
Bigod, Roger, earl marshal and Earl of Norfolk. See Norfolk, Earl of.
Bigorre, county of.
Biscay, Bay of.
Blaauw's _Barons' Wars_.
Black Prince, the. See Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine.
Black death, the.
Blacklow Hill.
Blanche of Artois, Queen of Navarre.
Blanche of Bourbon, wife of Peter the Great of Castile.
Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII. and regent of France.
Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster.
Blanche taque, the, in estuary of Somme.
Blaneforde's _Chronicle_
Blankenberghe.
Blavet, the river.
Blaye.
Bliss' _Calendars of Papal Registers_.
Blois.
Blois, Charles of. See Charles.
Blois, Theobald, Count of.
Blount, Sir Thos.,
Blundeville, Randolph of, Earl of Chester. See Chester, Randolph, Earl of.
Boccaccio.
Bohemia.
Bohemia, Ottocar, King of.
Bohun, Humphrey, Earl of Hereford. See Hereford.
Bohun, Humphrey of Brecon, son of the Earl of Hereford.
Bohun, Margaret.
Bohun, William, Earl of Northampton. See Northampton.
Bohuns, the.
Bollers, house of.
Bologna.
Bolton.
Bonhommes, order of.
Boniface VIII., Pope.
Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Bordeaux;
truce of.
Bordeaux, Bertrand de Goth, Archbishop of. See Clement V.
Bordelais, the.
Borderie's _Histoire de Brétagne_.
Boroughbridge; battle of.
Boroughs; growth of; representation of.
Bothwell Castle.
Boulogne.
Bouquet, Dom, his _Recueil des Historiens de la France_.
Bourbon, Blanche of. See Blanche.
Bourbonnais.
Bourchier, Sir Robert.
_Bourg_, of Limoges, the.
Bourg.
Bourgneuf, Bay of.
Bourne.
Boutaric's _St. Louis et Alfonse de Poitiers_;
his _France sous Philippe le Bel_
Bouvines, battle of.
Brabant.
Brabant, Dukes of. See John II., John III., and Wenceslaus.
Brabant, Mary of. See Mary, Queen of France.
Brabazon, Roger de, chief justice after 1295.
Bracton, Henry of,
his book _De Legibus_;
his Note Book.
Bradwardine, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Brandenburg.
Brandenburg, Elector of.
Brantingham, Thomas, treasurer, Bishop of Exeter.
Brantôme.
Braose, house of.
Braose, William de,
his daughter.
Bratton, Henry. See Bracton.
Braybrook, Henry de.
Bréauté, Falkes de.
Brechin.
Brecon.
Bren, Llewelyn. See Llewelyn.
Brentwood.
Bremen.
Brest.
_Brétagne bretonnante, La_.
Brétigni, treaty of, See also Calais, treaty of.
Bretons. See Brittany.
Brewer's _Monumenta Franciscana_.
Bridgnorth.
Bridlington.
Bridlington, Canon of, his _Gesta Edwardi de Carnarvon_.
Bridlington, John of.
Brie.
Brigham, treaty of.
Bristol,
council meets at;
confirmation of the Great Charter at;
castle of;
channel;
disturbances at.
Brittany,
Celtic;
French.
Brittany, Counts, afterwards Dukes, of. See Arthur I., Arthur II.,
John II., John III., John IV., John V., Peter Mauclerc.
Brittany, Constance of, wife of Randolph of Chester.
See Constance of Brittany.
Brittany, John of, Earl of Richmond. See John of Brittany, Earl of
Richmond.
Britton, lawyer,
his treatise _On the Laws of England_.
Bromfield.
Brotherton, Thomas of, Earl of Norfolk. See Thomas of Brotherton.
Bruce, David. See David II., King of Scots.
Bruce, Edward, "King of Ireland."
Bruce, Elizabeth, Queen of Scots. See Elizabeth.
Bruce, Joan, Queen of Scots. See Joan.
Bruce, Robert, Lord of Annandale,
claimant to the Scots throne (d.1295).
Bruce, Robert, Earl of Carrick, son of the above (d. 1304).
Bruce, Robert, Earl of Carrick, son of the above.
See also Robert, King of Scots.
_Bruce_, John Barbour's.
Bruges,
the Matins of.
truce of (1375).
Brussels.
Brut, the Trojan.
_Brut d'Angleterre_, Wace's.
_Brut y Tywysogion_.
Buch, Captal de.
Buchan, Comyn, John, Earl of.
Buchan, Henry de Beaumont, Earl of,
See also Beaumont, Henry de.
Builth, town and castle.
Buironfosse.
Bulgaria.
Burgh, the family of.
Burgh, Elizabeth de, wife of Robert, King of Scots.
See Elizabeth, Queen of Scots.
Burgh, Elizabeth de, wife of Lionel of Clarence.
Burgh, Hubert de, Earl of Kent.
Burgh, Richard de, Earl of Ulster. See Ulster.
Burgh, Richard de, Lord of Connaught.
Burgh, William de, Lord of Connaught and Earl of Ulster,
See Ulster.
Burgh-on-Sands.
Burghersh, Bartholomew, Bishop of Lincoln.
Burgos.
Burgundy.
Burgundy, Duke of. See Philip the Bold and Philip de Rouvres.
Burnell, Robert, Chancellor, and Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Burton-on-Trent.
Bury, Richard of, Bishop of Durham.
Bury St. Edmunds.
Busses, Spanish.
Butler, Edmund.
Butler of Ireland, James, the.
Byland Abbey.
Bytham Castle.
Cader Idris.
Cadzand, island of.
Caen;
abbeys of;
church of St. Peter at.
Caerlaverock. See Carlaverock.
Caerleon, Morgan of.
Caerphilly Castle.
Cahors;
bishopric of,
See Quercy.
Calais;
treaty of,
See also Brétigni.
_Calendar of Close Rolls_.
_Calendar of Charter Rolls_.
Calendars of _Documents relating to Scotland and Ireland_.
_Calendar of Inquisitions Post-mortem and other analogous
documents_.
_Calendars of Papal Registers_.
_Calendar of the Patent Rolls_.
_Calendarium Genealogicum_, C. Roberts'.
_Calendarium Inquisitionum sive Eschætarum_.
_Calendarium Rotulorum Cartarum_.
Calveley, Sir Hugh.
Cambrai.
Cambrésis, the.
Cambridge;
university of.
Cambridge, Edmund of Langley, Earl of. See Edmund.
Camville, Nichola de.
"Candlemas, The Burnt,".
Canfranc, treaty of.
Canons, Austin, annals by.
Canterbury;
cathedral;
hall, Oxford;
register.
Canterbury, Archbishops of.
See Langton, Stephen;
Grand, Richard le;
Neville, Ralph, and Blunt, John (archbishops elect);
Rich, Edmund;
Boniface of Savoy;
Kilwardby, Robert;
Peckham, John;
Winchelsea, Robert;
Cobham, Thomas (archbishop elect);
Reynolds, Walter;
Meopham, Simon;
Stratford, John;
Bradwardine, Thomas;
Islip, Simon;
Langham, Simon;
Whittlesea, William, and Sudbury, Simon.
Cantilupe, St. Thomas of, chancellor and Bishop of Hereford.
Cantilupe, Walter of, Bishop of Worcester.
Cantilupes, the.
Cantreds, the four. See also Perveddwlad.
Caours, Raoul de.
Capes's, W.W., _History of the English Church_.
Capetians, the.
Captal de Buch, the. See Buch.
Captivity, the Babylonish, of the Papacy.
Carcassonne.
Cardiff Castle.
Cardigan and Cardiganshire.
Cardinerie, La.
Carlaverock, castle;
chronicle of the siege of.
Carentan.
Carhaix.
Carlisle, town and castle;
parliament of 1307 at;
Statute of.
Carlisle, Andrew Harclay, Earl of.
Carmarthen, town and castle, and Carmarthenshire;
justice of.
Carmelites, the.
Carnarvon, town and castle.
Carnarvon, Edward of. See Edward.
Carnarvonshire.
Carrick, Earl of. See Bruce, Robert.
Carrickfergus.
_Carta menatoria_.
Cartmel.
Cartularies.
Cassel, battle of.
Cassingham (Kensham), William of.
Castile.
Castile, Alfonso, King of. See Alfonso.
Castile, Blanche of. See Blanche.
Castile, Constance of. See Constance.
Castile, Eleanor of. See Eleanor.
Castile, Ferdinand the Saint, King of. See Ferdinand.
Castile, Henry of Trastamara, King of. See Henry.
Castile, Isabella of. See Isabella.
Castile, Peter the Cruel, King Of. See Peter.
Castile, John, King of Leon and Duke Lancaster. See John of Gaunt.
Castle of
Aberconway or Conway.
Abergavenny.
Aberyswyth.
Alnwick.
Alton.
Bamburgh.
Barnard.
Beaumaris.
Bedford.
Bere.
Berkeley.
Berwick.
Bothwell.
Bristol.
Builth.
Bytham.
Caen.
Caerphilly.
Cardiff.
Carlaverocc.
Carmarthen.
Carnarvon.
Castleton, Liddesdale.
Chepstow.
Christchurch.
Clare.
Colchester.
Conway. See Aberconway.
Conisborough.
Corfe.
Cornet.
Criccieth.
Deganwy.
Devises.
Diserth.
Dolwyddelen.
Dover.
Drysllwyn.
Dublin.
Dumfries.
Dunbar.
Dynevor.
Edinburgh.
Flint.
Fotheringhay.
Gloucester.
Grosmont.
Harlech.
Hawarden.
Hedingham.
Josselin.
Kenilworth.
Kilkenny.
Kidwelly.
Knaresborough.
Leeds (Kent).
Limoges.
Lincoln.
London. See Tower of London, the.
Maud's.
Monmouth.
Montgomery.
Mount Sorrel.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Norham.
Norwich.
Nottingham.
Orford.
Peebles.
Pevensey.
Pontefract.
Powys.
Rhuddlan.
Rising.
Rochester.
Rockingham.
Romorantin.
Rose.
Roxburgh.
Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte.
Scarborough.
Skelton.
Skenfrith.
Stirling.
Swansea.
Tickhill.
Tintagel.
Tunbridge.
Tutbury.
Usk.
Wallingford.
Wark,
Warwick.
Whitecastle.
Wigmore.
Windsor.
Wolvesey (Winchester).
Castles;
royal;
adulterine;
Welsh;
of South Wales;
Edward I.'s;
concentric;
Scottish.
Castleton Castle, Liddesdale.
Castor, Church of St., Coblenz.
Castorplatz, the, Coblenz.
Caversham.
Celestine V., Pope.
Celts, Irish.
Celts of Scotland, the.
Chaboterie, la.
Chalon, little battle of.
Champagne, Blanche of Artois, Queen of Navarre and Countess of. See
Blanche.
Champagne, Edmund, Count of. See also Edmund of Lancaster.
Champagne, Henry, Count of. See Henry.
Champagne, Joan of. See Joan.
Champagne, Theobald IV., Count of. See Theobald.
Champagne.
Champollion-Figeac's _Lettres des rots d'Angleterre_.
Chancellor, office of.
Chancery courts, for Wales;
records.
Chandos, Sir John.
Chandos Herald.
Channel, the Bristol;
the English.
Channel Islands, the.
Charente, the river.
Charing.
Charles IV., the Emperor.
Charles IV., the Fair, King of France.
Charles V., King of France.
Charles of Anjou, younger brother of Louis IX., Count of Provence and
Charles I., King of Sicily.
Charles the Bad, Count of Evreux and King of Navarre.
Charles of Blois, claimant to Duchy of Brittany.
Charles of La Cerda.
Charles of Moravia, King of the Romans.
See Charles IV., the Emperor.
Charles, Duke of Normandy.
See also Charles V., King of France.
Charles of Salerno, afterwards Charles II. of Sicily.
Charles, Count of Valois.
Charlemagne.
Charlton, Tohn, lord of Powys.
Charltons of Powys, the.
Charter, the Great;
the forest;
Rolls, the, See Rolls.
Charterhouse, the London.
Charters, confirmations of the;
of London;
_Carta Mercatoria_;
as sources for history.
Chartley.
Chartres.
Châteauneuf.
Châteauroux.
Châtelherault.
Chaucer, Geoffrey.
Chauvigny.
Chaworth, Payne of.
Cheapside.
Chepstow.
Cher, the river.
Cherbourg.
Cheshire;
palatine earldom of;
palatine courts of;
records of county palatine of.
Chester.
Chester, Edward, Earl of. See Edward I., Edward II. and Edward III.
Chester, John de Lacy, Constable of. See Lacy.
Chester, John the Scot, Earl of. See also Huntingdon.
Chester, Simon de Montfort, Earl of. See Leicester.
Chester, Randolph Blundeville, Earl of.
Chesterfield, battle of.
Chichester.
Chichester, Bishops of. See Berkstead, Stephen; Neville, Ralth, and
Stratford, Robert.
Chilham, barony of, Kent.
Chilterns, the.
Chinon.
Chirk.
Chirk, Roger Mortimer of. See Mortimer, Roger, of Chirk.
Christchurch Castle.
_Christopher, The_.
Chroniclers, the.
Chronicles as sources of history.
Cinque Ports, the.
Cirencester.
Cistercian, nuns of Eastminster;
monks of Whalley.
Cistercians, the.
Clare Castle;
the house of.
Clare, Eleanor de. See Despenser, Eleanor de.
Clare, Elizabeth of.
Clare, Gilbert of, Earl of Gloucester. See Gloucester.
Clare, Margaret of.
Clare, Richard of, Earl of Gloucester. See Gloucester.
Clarence, Duchy of. See Lionel of Antwerp.
Clarendon.
Clares, the poor.
Clark's, G.T., _Mediæval Military Architecture_.
Clark's, J.W., _Observances in use at Barnwell Priory_.
Clement IV., Pope.
Clement V., Pope.
Clement VI., Pope.
Clergy, taxation of the.
_Clericis laicos_, the bull.
Clerkenwell.
Clermont, Marshal.
Cleves, Count of.
Clifford, Robert.
Clifford, Roger.
Cliffords, the.
Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon. See Huntingdon.
Clisson, Oliver de.
Cloth, manufacture of English.
Clydesdale.
Clwyd, the river.
Clun.
Cobham, Thomas of, Archbishop elect of Canterbury.
Coblenz.
Cocherel, battle of.
Cog Thomas, the.
Coggeshall's _Chronicle_.
Cognac.
Coinage.
Colchester, Castle of.
Coldstream.
Colleges, growth of.
Cologne.
Cologne, Archbishop of.
Colons, faction of the.
Commerce under Edward III.
Comminges, Counts of.
Commons, house of.
Companies, the free.
Company, the White.
Compiègne.
Compostella.
Comyn, John, the elder, lord of Badenoch.
Comyn, John, of Badenoch, the younger, or the Red, regent of Scotland.
Comyn, John, of Buchan. See Buchan, Earl of.
Confirmation of the charters. See Charters.
Conisborough Castle.
Connaught.
Connaught, Phelim O'Connor, King of,
Connaught, King of.
Conrad, son of Frederick II.
Conservators of the Peace.
_Consilium ordinarium_, the.
Constable, office of.
Constance of Brittany.
Constance of Castile, daughter of Peter the Cruel, wife of John, Duke
of Lancaster.
Convocation.
Conway, the river.
Corfe Castle.
Cormeilles, Abbey of.
Cornet Castle,
Cornouailles.
Cornwall;
earldom of.
Cornwall, Dunstanville, Earls of. See Dunstanville.
Cornwall, Edmund, Earl of. See Edmund.
Cornwall, Edward, Duke of. See Edward, the Black Prince.
Cornwall, John of Eltham, Earl of. See John.
Cornwall, Peter Gaveston, Earl of. See Gaveston.
Cornwall, Richard, Earl of. See Richard.
Corte Nuova, battle of.
Cosneau's _Grands Traités de la Guerre de Cent Ans_.
Côtentin, the.
Cotton, Bartholomew's _Historia Anglicana_.
Coucy, Enguerrand de.
Councils, General, at Lyons.
Court of King's Bench, records of.
Court of Common Pleas, records of.
Court of the County.
Courts of Chancery and Exchequer in Wales.
Courtenay, House of, Earls of Devon.
Courtenay, William, Bishop of London.
Courtrai;
battle of.
Coventry, Roger Northburgh, Bishops of. See Northburgh, Roger.
Coville's _Histoire de France_.
Craven.
Crécy, battle of.
Crécy-en-Ponthieu.
Cree, the river.
Cressingham, Hugh.
Creuse, the river.
Criccieth Castle.
Crockart.
Crossbowmen, Genoese.
Crotoy, Le.
Crusades, the.
Crutched friars, the.
Cumberland.
Cunningham's, W., _Growth of English Industry_.
Curzon, Robert.
Customs.
"Custom, the Great and Ancient,"; "the New and Small,".
Cuvelier's _Vie de Bertrand de Guesclin_.
Cymry, the. See also Wales.
Cyprus.
Cyprus, Lusignan kings of.
Dagworth, Sir Thomas.
Damietta, Crusade of.
Damietta, Archbishop of. See Roches, Peter des.
Damme.
Dampierre, Guy, Count of Flanders. See Guy.
Dancaster, John.
Dante.
Darlington, John of, Archbishop of Dublin.
David I., King of Scots.
David II., son of Robert Bruce, King of Scots.
David I., an Llewelyn, Prince of Wales.
David II., ap Griffith, Prince of Wales.
David, Earl of Huntingdon. See Huntingdon.
David of Strathbolgie, Earl of Athol. See Athol.
Dax.
Dean, Forest of.
"Decorated" style of architecture.
Deddington.
Deganwy, Castle of.
Delisle's _Histoire de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte_.
Denbigh, town, lordship and castle of.
Denifle's _Désolation des Églises de France_, etc.;
his _Entstehung der Universitäten_.
Déprez's _Préliminaires de la Guerre de Cent Ans_.
Derby, Henry of Grosmont, Earl of. See also Lancaster.
Derby, Robert Ferrars, Earl of.
Derby, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster and. See Lancaster.
Derby, William of Ferrars, Earl of.
Deschamps, Eustace.
Despenser, Eleanor de, wife of Hugh le Despenser, the younger.
Despenser, Hugh, justiciar.
Despenser, Hugh, the elder, Earl of Winchester, son of the justiciar.
Despenser, Hugh, the younger, Lord of Glamorgan, son of the foregoing.
Devizes, Castle of.
Devon, earldom of, Falkes de Bréauté as warden of.
Devon, Courtenays, earls of.
_Dictum de Kenilworth_, the.
Dinan.
Disafforestments.
Diserth, Castle of.
Disinherited, the (after Evesham);
the, Scotch.
_Disseisin_, novel.
Dolwyddelen Castle.
Dominic, St.
Dominicans.
Don, the river.
Donaldbane, brother of Malcolm Canmore.
Dordogne, the river.
Dordrecht.
Dorking.
Dorsetshire.
Douai.
Douglas, Sir Archibald.
Douglas, Sir James.
Douglas, Sir William.
Douglas, Sir William (at Poitiers).
Dover, town and castle;
straits of.
Dovey the river.
Dowell's, S., _History of Taxation_.
Downs, the north;
the south.
Drokensford, Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Dublin, Castle of.
Dublin, Archbishop of. See Hotham, William of, Archbishop of.
Dubois, Peter.
Dugdale's _Monasticon_.
Dumfries.
Dunbar, battle of.
Dunfermline.
Dunkeld, Bishop of.
Duns Scotus.
Dunstable.
Dunstanville, house of.
Dupplin Moor, battle of.
Durham;
bishopric of;
records of.
Durham, Bishops of.
See Bek, Anthony;
Beaumont, Louis de;
and Bury, Richard of.
Dynevor Castle.
Earn, the river.
Eastminster, the, London.
Eastry, Henry of, prior of Christ Church, Canterbury.
Ebro, the river.
Eccleston, William of, his _De adventu fratrum minorun_.
Edinburgh, town and castle.
Edington, church of.
Edington, William of, Bishop of Winchester.
Edmund of Almaine, Earl of Cornwall, son of Richard of Cornwall.
Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Derby, some time titular King
of Sicily, son of Henry III.
Edmund of Langley, son of Edward III., Earl of Cambridge, afterward
Duke of York.
Edmund of Woodstock, son of Edward I., Earl of Kent.
Edmund (Rich). St. See Rich, Edmund.
Edmund, St., of East Anglia.
Edward the Confessor, saint and king; translation of.
Edward I.;
authorities for reign of.
Edward II.;
sources for the reign of.
Edward III.;
sources for the reign of.
Edward, son of Henry III. See also Edward I.
Edward of Carnarvon, Prince of Wales. See also Edward II.
Edward of Windsor, Duke of Aquitaine.
Edward, Prince of Wales and of Aquitaine, called the Black Prince.
Education;
of clergy.
Elbeuf.
Egypt.
Elderslie.
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of Henry II.
Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I.
Eleanor, second daughter of Raymond Berenger IV., Count of Provence,
Queen of Henry III.
Eleanor, younger sister of Henry III., married (1) William Marshal,
(2) Simon de Montfort.
Elgin.
Elizabeth, daughter of Edward I., Countess of Holland, afterwards of
Hereford.
Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert (Bruce), King of Scots.
Ellis, Sir Henry, ed. of _Chronica I. De Oxenedes_.
Eland, William.
Ely, bishopric of, isle of.
Ely, Bishops of.
See Marsh, Adam;
Balsham, Hugh;
Langham, Simon;
Hotham, John.
Eltham.
Eltham, John of. See John.
Englefield.
English language;
in law courts.
Eric, King of Norway.
Escheats.
Esplechin, treaty of.
Essex; earldom of.
Essex, Countess of. See Isabella of Gloucester.
Estates, the three.
_Etsi de statu_, bull.
Etaples.
Ettrick forest.
Eu, Count of, constable of France.
Eure, the river.
_Eulogium Historiarum_.
Eustace the Monk.
Evans, J.G., his edition of the _Red Book of Hergest_.
Eversden, John of.
Evesham, battle of;
Abbey.
Evreux.
Evreux, Counts of.
See Charles the Bad, King of Navarre;
Philip the Bold.
Evreux, Louis, Count of. See Louis.
Exchequer courts for Wales.
Exchequer records.
Exeter, Bishops of.
See Brantingham, Thomas;
Stapledon, Walter.
Exeter College, Oxford.
Exports.
Eynsham, Walter of.
Eyville, John d'.
Fair of Lincoln, the. See Lincoln, battle of.
Falkirk;
battle of.
Famine, of 1316, the;
of wool, in Flanders.
Farnham.
Farrer's, W., _Lancashire Final Concords_.
Faucigny.
Fecamp.
Fecamp, Peter Roger, Abbot of. See Clement VI.
_Feet of Fines_.
Felton, Sir Thomas, Seneschal of Aquitaine.
Ferdinand of Portugal, Count of Flanders.
Ferdinand III. the Saint, King of Cast& [Castile].
Ferrars, house of.
Ferrars, Robert of, Earl of Derby. See Derby.
Ferrars, William of, Earl of Derby. See Derby.
Fife.
Fife, Earl of.
Fifteen, the Council of.
Figeac.
Firstfruits.
Fitzalan, Edmund, and Richard, Earls of Arundel. See Arundel.
Fitzalan of Bedale, Brian.
Fitzalans, the.
FitzAthulf, Constantine, sheriff of London.
FitzGeoffrey, John.
Fitzgerald, governor of Ireland.
Fitzgerald, Maurice, justiciar of Ireland.
Fitzgeralds, the.
Fitzralph, Richard, Archbishop of Armagh.
Fitzthedmar, Arnold.
FitzWalter, Robert.
Flemings, the. See Flanders.
_Fleta_, law-book.
Fletching.
Flint, county of;
town and castle of.
Flodden, battle of.
Florence.
Florence, count of Holland.
Florence of Worcester, Continuators of the _Chronicle_ of.
_Flores Historiarum_, Roger of Wendover's.
_Flores Historiarum_ (fourteenth century).
Flagellants, the.
Flamangrie, La.
Flanders, county of.
Flanders, counts of.
See Ferdinand of Portugal,
Guy of Dampierre,
Louis of Male,
Louis of Nevers,
Robert of Béthune
and Thomas of Savoy.
Flanders, Joan, Countess of. See Joan.
Flanders, Margaret of. See Margaret.
_Foedera_, Rymer's.
Foix.
Foix, Count of.
Foix, Gaston Phoebus, Count of.
Fontenelles, Cistercian Abbey of.
Fontevraud.
Fordun, John, his _Chronicle_.
Forests, charter of the;
perambulation of the;
enlargement of the.
Fors, William of, Earl of Albemarle. See Albemarle.
Fors, Isabella of. See Albemarle, Countess of.
Forth, the.
Fotheringhay, Castle of.
Foulquois, Guy, Cardinal-bishop of Sabina. See Clement IV.
Fountains Abbey.
Fournier, James. See Benedict XII.
Fournier's _Royaume d'Arles_.
France;
records of;
chronicles of.
France, King of, Edward III. takes title of.
France, Kings of.
See Philip Augustus,
Louis VIII.,
Louis IX.,
Philip III.,
Philip IV.,
Louis X.,
Philip V.,
Charles IV.,
Philip VI.,
John and
Charles V.
Francis, St., of Assisi.
Franciscans, the;
the spiritual.
Franks, the Salian.
Frankton, Stephen of.
Frascati.
Fraser, William, Bishop of St. Andrews.
Frederick II., the emperor.
French language, the.
Frescobaldi, the.
Freynet, Gilbert of. See Gilbert.
Friars, the;
the four orders of;
See Austin or hermits of order of St. Augustine;
Bonhommes;
Carmelite or White;
Crutched;
Dominicans;
Francisans;
---- of the Penance of Jesus Christ or
---- of the Sack;
Trinitarians or Maturins.
Froissart, John.
Froissart, _Chroniques_, ed. Luce;
ed. Kervyn.
Fronsac, Viscount of.
Funck-Brentano's, F., editions of the _Chronique Artésienne_ and
_Annales Gandenses_.
Furness.
Gabaston.
Gaetano, Benedict. See Boniface VIII.
Galeazzo Visconti, Lord of Pavia.
Galloway.
Garonne, the river.
Garter, Order of the.
Gascony, See also Aquitaine.
Gaston, Viscount of Béarn.
Gaveston, Peter, Earl of Cornwall.
Gelderland, Duke of.
_Genitours_.
Genoa.
Genoese, the;
crossbowmen.
Geraldines of Leinster, the.
Germany.
Ghent.
Ghent, Gilbert of. See Lincoln, Earls of.
Giffard, Walter, Archbishop of York;
his register.
Giffords, the.
Gilbert of Freynet.
Gilsland.
Gironde, the river.
Glamorgan, lordship of.
Glamorgan, Lords of. See Gloucester, Earls of.
Glasgow, Robert Wishart, Bishop of. See Wishart.
Glendower, Owen.
Gloucester;
St. Peter's Church;
statute of;
earldom of.
Gloucester, Richard of Clare, Earl of.
Gloucester, Earl of, Gilbert of Clare, son of the above.
Gloucester, Earl of, Gilbert of Clare, son of the above.
Gloucester, Ralph of Monthermer, Earl of.
Gloucester, Audley, Earl of.
Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of. See Thomas.
Gloucester, Isabella, Countess of. See Isabella, Queen of King John.
Gloucester, Robert of.
Gloucestershire.
Gomez, Peter, Cardinal.
Gordon, Adam.
Gothic architecture. See Architecture.
Gough's _Itinerary of Edward I_.
Gower,
Gower, John;
his works.
Grampians, the.
Granada.
Grand, Richard le, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Grandisons, the.
Greek, study of.
Greenfield, William, Archbishop of York.
Gregory IX., Pope.
Gregory X., Pope.
Gregory XI, Pope.
Grey, Reginald.
Grey, Richard of.
Grey's Sir T., _Scalachronica_.
Grey, Walter, Archbishop of York;
his register.
Griffith ap Gwenwynwyn.
Griffith ap Llewelyn.
Griffith of Welshpool.
Grosmont, castle of.
Grosmont, Henry of, Earl of Derby. See Derby and Lancaster.
Gross's, C., _Select Cases from the Coroners' Rolls_;
his _Bibliography of British Municipal History_;
his _Sources of English History_.
Grosseteste, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.
his _Epistoae_.
Gualo the legate.
Guérande, treaty of.
Guernsey. See also Channel Islands.
Guesclin, Bertrand du.
Guienne. See also Aquitaine and Gascony.
Guillon, treaty of.
Guînes.
Guînes, Baldwin of.
Guînes, Count of.
Gurney, Thomas.
Guy of Brittany, Count of Penthièvre.
Guy of Dampierre, Count of Flanders.
Guy of Lusignan, Lord of Cognac.
Gwent.
Gwenwynwyn, house of.
Gwynedd. See also Wales, North.
Gwynedd, house of.
Haddan and Stubbs' _Councils_.
Haddington.
Hadenham's, Edmund of, _Chronicle_.
Haggerston.
Hainault.
Hainault, Counts of. See John and William.
Hainault, Countess of, Abbess of Fontenelles.
Hainault, Philippa of. See Philippa Queen.
Hales, Alexander of.
Halidon Hill, battle of.
Halifax, John of.
Hall's, H., _Customs Revenue_.
Hall's, J, ed. of Minot's _Poems_.
Hamilton, H.C., ed. of Walter of Hemingburgh.
Hampole.
Hampshire.
Hapsburg, house of.
Hapsburg, Rudolf of. See Rudolf.
Harby.
Harclay, Andrew, governor of Carlisle. See Carlisle, Earl of.
Harcourt, Geoffrey of.
Harcourts, the.
Hardy, _Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense_.
Harewell, John, Bishop of Bath.
Harlech Castle.
Harry's, Blind, _Wallace_.
Hastings, battle of.
Hastings, John, first Earl of Pembroke. See Pembroke.
Hastings, John, second Earl of Pembroke. See Pembroke.
Hastingses of Abergavenny, the.
Hathern.
Hauréau's _Histoire de la philosophie scholastique_.
Haverfordwest.
Hawarden.
Hawkwood, John.
Hay.
Haydon's ed. of _Eulogium Historiarum_.
Hearne.
Hebrew, study of.
Hebrews. See also Jews.
Hedingham Castle.
Hengham, Justice.
Henley, Walter of.
Hemingburgh, Walter of.
Hennebont.
Henry I., King of England.
Henry II..
Henry III.;
chroniclers for the reign of.
Henry VIII.
Henry, King of the Romans, son of Frederick II.
Henry II. of Navarre.
Henry II. of Trastarnara, King of Castile.
Henry, Earl of Derby, afterwards King Henry IV.
Henry of Lancaster, younger son of Earl Edmund;
Earl of Leicester;
Earl of Lancaster.
Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Derby, then Earl afterwards Duke of
Lancaster.
Hereford;
earldom of.
Hereford, Bishops of.
See Aigueblanche, Peter of;
Cantilupe, St. Thomas of;
Orleton, Adam.
Hereford, Humphrey Bohun, Earl of.
Hereford, Humphrey Bohun, grandson of above, Earl of.
Hereford, Humphrey Bohun, son of above, Earl of.
Herefordshire.
Heretics, Albigensian.
Hertford.
Hesdin.
Hewlett's editions of _Chronicles_.
Hexham.
Hexhamshire.
Higden's, Randolph, _Polychronicon_.
Highlands, the.
Hingeston-Randelph's _Exeter Registers_.
History, study of.
Hohenstaufen, the.
Holderness, ruled by Counts of Aumâle.
Holland.
Holland, Florence, Count of.
Hollands, Earls of Kent.
Holy Land, the. See Palestine and Crusades.
Holywood, John of. See also Halifax.
Honorius III, Pope.
Honorius IV., Pope.
Hood, Robin.
Horn, Andrew.
Horstmann, Dr., his _Legenda Anglie_.
Horwood's, A.L., editions of _Year Books_.
Hospitallers, the.
Hotham, John, Bishop of Ely.
Hotham, William of, Archbishop of Dublin.
Hougue, La.
Hoveden, or Howden, Roger of;
his continuator.
Howlett's ed. of _Monumenta Franciscana_.
Howel the Good.
Huelgas, las, monastery of.
Hugh, Choir of St., at Lincoln.
Hugh of Avalon, Bishop of Lincoln, St., Little St. Hugh of Lincoln.
Hugh X., of Lusignan. See also Lusignan.
Hugh XI. of Lusignan. See also Lusignan.
Hull.
Hulme, St. Benet's.
Humanism.
Humber, the.
_Hundred Rolls_, the.
Hungary, Primate of, visits Canterbury.
Hungerford, Sir Thomas.
Hunter's _Leet Jurisdiction of Norwich_;
_Rotuli Selecti_.
Huntingdon, David, Earl of.
Huntingdon, Honour of.
Huntingdon, Earl of, John the Scot.
Huntingdon, Clinton, Earl of.
Husbandry, Walter of Henley's treatise on.
_Imperium_, the.
Immunities, baronial.
Indre, the river.
Ingham, Sir Oliver.
Infantry, English;
French;
Irish;
Scotch;
Welsh.
Innocent III., Pope.
Innocent IV., Pope.
Innocent VI., Pope.
Inquisition, the, in England;
in the Netherlands.
Interregnum, the Great.
Inverness.
Iolande, daughter of Peter Mauclerc, Count of Brittany.
Ireland.
Ireland, the Butler of, made Earl of Ormonde. See Ormonde.
Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire.
Irvine.
Isabella of Castile, daughter of Peter the Cruel, wife of Edmund, Earl
of Cambridge.
Isabella Marshal, wife of Richard of Cornwall. See Marshal.
Isabella of Angoulême, Queen of John, and wife of Hugh of Lusignan.
Isabella of France, Queen of Edward II..
Isabella of Gloucester, divorced wife of John, wife of Hubert de
Burgh.
Isabella, sister of Henry III., queen of Frederick II.
Isabella, younger sister of Alexander II., wife of Roger Bigod, Earl
of Norfolk.
Islands, the Channel. See Channel Islands, the.
Isleworth.
Isle, the river.
Isle de France, the.
Isle Saint-Jean, Caen.
Islip, Simon, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Italy.
James, King of Sicily, son of Peter of Aragon; afterwards James II. of
Aragon.
Jaudy, the river.
Jedburgh.
Jerusalem, Latin kingdom of.
Jerusalem, Patriarch of. See Bek, Antony.
Jews, in England, the;
expulsion of the.
Joan of Champagne, Queen of Philip the Fair.
Joan of Ponthieu, Queen of Ferdinand the Saint.
Joan of the Tower, sister of Edward III., Queen of David Bruce.
Joan, sister of Henry III., Queen of Alexander II. of Scotland.
Joan, Countess of Flanders, wife of Thomas of Savoy.
Joan, Countess of Kent, Princess of Wales, wife of Edward the Black
Prince.
Joan, daughter of Edward III.
Joan, eldest daughter of Charles of Valois.
Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I. and Countess of Gloucester.
Joan of Bar, grand-daughter of Edward I.
Joan of Flanders, Countess of Penthièvre, wife of Charles of Blois.
Joan of Toulouse, daughter of Raymond of Toulouse, wife of Alfonso of
Poitiers.
Joan, Princess of North Wales, wife of Llewelyn ap Iorwerth.
Joan, sister of Richard I., grandmother of Joan of Poitiers.
John, King.
John, King of Bohemia.
John, King of France.
John (Balliol), King of Scots.
John XXII., Pope.
John, Duke of Berri.
John II., Duke of Brabant.
John III., Duke of Brabant.
John II., Duke of Brittany.
John III., Duke of Brittany.
John IV., Duke of Brittany (Montfort).
John V., Duke of Brittany (Montfort).
John, Duke of Normandy.
See also John, King of France.
John of Avesnes, Count of Hainault.
John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, son of John II., Duke of Brittany,
and nephew of Edward I.
John of Eltham, son of Edward II., Earl of Cornwall.
John of Gaunt, son of Edward III., Duke of Lancaster.
John of Hainault, brother of William II. of Hainault.
John of Montfort, Earl of Richmond.
See John V., Duke of Brittany.
John of Montfort, half-brother of John III. of Brittany.
See John IV., Duke of Brittany.
John the Scot, Earl of Chester. See Chester.
Joinville, Joan of.
Joinvilles, the.
Joinville's _History of St. Louis_.
Josselin Castle.
Jowel, John.
Judges, the.
Jülich, Dukes of.
Jurisprudence, Anglo-Norman;
Roman.
Justiciar, office of.
Justiciars.
See Burgh, Hubert de;
Marshal, William;
Roches, Peter des;
Segrave, Stephen.
Justiciars of Ireland.
See Marsh, Geoffrey,
and Fitzgerald, Maurice.
Justiciars of Scotland.
See Ormesby, William.
Keighley, Henry of, knight of the shire for Lancashire.
Kelso.
_Kenilworth, Dictum de_.
Kenilworth Castle.
Kennington.
Kensham.
Kent;
earldom of.
Kent, Earl of, Hubert de Burgh. See Burgh.
Kent, Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of. See Edmund.
Kerry (Wales);
Vale of;
scutage of.
Kervyn de Lettenhove's edition of _Froissart_.
Kesteven, South.
Kidwelly, castle and lordship.
Kildare, Curragh of.
Kildare, Earl of.
Kilkenny, Castle;
statute of.
Kilwardby, Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Kinghorn.
Kingsford's, C.L., Song of _Lewes_.
Kingston-on-Thames.
Kinloss.
Kintyre.
Kirk's _Accounts of the Obedientiaries of Abingdon_.
Kirkby, John, treasurer of Edward I and Bishop of Ely.
Kirkby's _Quest_.
Kirkcudbright, stewartry of.
Kirkliston, 213.
Klerk, Jan van, his _Chronicle_.
Knaresborough, castle and town.
Knighton's, Henry, _Chronicle_.
Knights, of the Shire;
Templars;
of St. John;
of the Garter;
of the Star.
Knowles, Sir Robert.
Knyvett, Sir John.
Köhler's _Entwickelung des Kriegswesens in der Ritterzeit_.
Labourers, Statute of.
Lacy, Alice, Countess of Lancaster.
Lacy, Henry, Earl of Lincoln. See Lincoln.
Lacy, Hugh de, Earl of Ulster. See Ulster.
Lacy, John de, Constable of Chester.
See also Lincoln, Earls of.
Lacy, the house of;
the house of, in Meath.
Lagny, Abbot of.
Lalinde.
Lamberton, Bishop of St. Andrews.
Lambeth, treaty of.
Lancashire.
Lancaster, Alice, Countess of. See Alice.
Lancaster, Blanche, Duchess of. See Blanche.
Lancaster, Edmund, Earl of. See Edmund.
Lancaster, Henry, Earl of. See Henry.
Lancaster, Henry of Grosmont, Earl and Duke of. See Henry.
Lancaster, honour of;
town;
house of;
records of Duchy of.
Lancaster, John of Gaunt, Duke of. See John.
Lanercost;
chronicle of.
Langham, Simon, Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury.
Langland, William.
Langley.
Langley, Geoffrey of.
Langlois, Charles V., his _Philippe le Hardi_;
his _Histoire de France_.
Langon.
Langtoft's, Peter, _Chronicle_.
Langton, John, Bishop of Chichester.
Langton, Simon, Archdeacon of Canterbury.
Langton, Stephen, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Langton, Walter, Bishop of Lichfield.
Language, English;
French;
German;
Latin;
Scottish.
Languedoc.
Laon.
Laon, Robert Lecoq, Bishop of.
Laonnais, the.
Lapsley's County _Palatine of Durham_.
Latimer, Lord, Chamberlain.
Latin-language.
Lavisse and Rambaud's _Histoire Générale_.
Lavisse's _Histoire de France_.
Law, study of English;
literature of;
the Salic;
English.
Laws, Celtic, of Highlanders and Strathclyde Welsh.
Lawyers, Italian;
English.
Layamon's English version of Wace's _Brut_.
Lechler's _Wycliffe_.
Lecoq, Robert, Bishop of Laon.
Leeds Castle (Kent).
Leek, treaty of.
Lehugeur's _Philippe le Long_.
Leicester;
earldom of.
Leicester, Abbot of.
Leicester, Countess of. See Eleanor.
Leicester, Henry, Earl of. See Henry, Earl of Lancaster.
Leicester, Robert Beaumont, Earl of.
Leicester, Simon de Montfort, Earl of.
Leicester, Simon de Montfort, the elder, Count of Toulouse and titular
Earl of.
Leicester, Thomas, Earl of. See Thomas, Earl of Lancaster.
Leicestershire.
Leinster.
Leon.
Leon.
L'Estrange, Roger.
Levant, the.
Lewes;
battle of;
mise of.
Lewis' _Life of Wiclif_.
_Libellus Famosus_, Edward III.'s.
Libourne.
Lichfield, Bishops of.
See Langton, Walter;
Northburgh, Roger.
Liddesdale. See also Liddell.
Liddell.
Liebermann, Dr., works by.
Liege, William, Bishop of. See William.
Liege.
Lille.
Limburg.
Limerick.
Limoges;
sack of.
Limousin.
Lincoln;
Castle;
battle of;
Cathedral;
parliament of (1301);
parliament at (1316).
Lincoln, Bishops of.
See Wells, Hugh of;
Hugh, St., of Avalon;
Grosse-teste, Robert;
Burghersh, Henry.
Lincoln, Richard le Grand, Chancellor of. See Canterbury.
Lincoln, Gilbert of Ghent, Earl of.
Lincoln, Henry Lacy, Earl of.
Lincoln, John de Lacy, Earl of, 45, 47.
Lincoln, Randolph de Blundeville, Earl of. See also Chester.
Lincoln, Thomas of Lancaster, Earl of. See Thomas, Earl of Lancaster.
Lincolnshire.
Linlithgow.
Lionel of Antwerp, son of Edward III., Duke of Clarence and Earl of
Ulster.
Lisieux;
battle near.
Literature in the thirteenth century;
French;
English.
Literature in the fourteenth century;
English;
French.
Littleton's _Tenures_.
Llandaff, Bishop of.
Llandilo.
Llewelyn ap Griffith, Prince of Wales.
Llewelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales.
Llewelyn Bren.
Lleyn.
Lloughor.
Lochmaben Castle.
Lodge's _Close of the Middle Ages_.
Logroño.
Loire, the river.
Lombards.
Lombardy,
cities of.
London.
London, Bishops of.
See Sainte-Mère-Eglise, William of;
Basset, Fulk;
Baldock, Ralph;
Courtenay, William.
London, Mayors of.
See Serlo;
Waleys, Henry le,
and Pyel, John.
London, Sheriffs of.
See FitzAthulf, Constantine.
London, treaty of.
Longjumeau.
Longman's _Life and Times of Edward III._.
Longnon's _Atlas historique de la France_.
Longsword, William, Earl of Salisbury. See Salisbury.
Lorraine.
Loserth's _Geschichte des späteren Mittelalters_.
Lot, the river.
Lothians, the.
Loughborough.
Louis, Count of Evreux.
Louis, Duke of Anjou, brother of Charles V. of France.
Louis of Bavaria, the Emperor.
Louis of France, afterwards Louis VIII.
Louis IX. (St. Louis), King of France.
Louis X., King of France.
Louis of Male, Count of Flanders.
Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders.
Louth;
Earldom of.
Louth, John of Bermingham, Earl of.
Louvain.
Luard, Dr. H.R., his _Roberti Grosse-teste Epistolæ_;
his editions of _Annales Monastici_;
B. Cotton, and _Flores Historiarum_,
and Matthew Paris' _Chronica Majora_.
Luce's _Jeunesse de Betrand du Guesclin_;
_La France pendant la Guerre de Cent An_.
Luce and Raynouart's edition of Froissart's _Chronicle_.
_Lucy_, Anthony.
Ludlow.
Lundy Island.
Lusignan, Alice of.
Lusignan, Aymer of. See Valence, Aymer de.
Lusignan, Guy of.
Lusignan, House of.
Lusignan, Hugh X. of.
Lusignan, Hugh XI. of.
Lusignan (town).
Lusignan, William of. See Valence, William of.
Lussac, bridge of.
Luxemburg, house of.
Lyons, Richard.
Lyons.
Lyons, Council at (1245).
Lyons, Council at (1274).
Lyrics, English.
Lys, the river.
Macaulay's, G.C., edition of Gower's _Works_.
Mackinnon's _History of Edward III._
Macon, league of.
Madden's, Sir F., edition of Matthew Paris' _Historia Minor_.
Madog ap Llewelyn.
Maelgwn.
Maenan.
Maes Madog, battle of.
Maidstone.
Maine.
Mains. Elector of.
Maitland's, F.W., _Memoranda de Parliamento_;
_Select Pleas of the Crown_;
_Bracton's Note Book_;
_Le Mirroir des Justices_;
_Select Passages from Bracton,_ etc.;
_Year Books of Edward II._
and _Canon Law_.
Maitland, F.W., and Pollock, Sir F., _History of English Law_.
Makower's, F., _Constitutional History of the Church of England_.
Malestroit, truce of.
Malmesbury, the Monk of.
Malmesbury, William of.
Malton.
Maltravers, John.
Mandeville, Geoffrey de.
Manfred, King of Sicily.
Mangonels.
Manny, Sir Walter.
Mannyng, Robert.
Mansel, John.
Mansura.
Maps for period.
Mar, Donald, Earl of.
Marcel, Stephen.
March of Calais.
March (of Scotland), Patrick, Earl of.
March of Wales, the.
March of Wales, Earl of the.
See also Mortimer, Edmund, and Mortimer, Roger.
March, Edmund Mortimer, Earl of (d. 1381).
March, Roger Mortimer, first Earl of (d. 1330).
See also Mortimer, Roger, of Wigmore (d. 1330).
Marche, Counts of La.
Marche, La.
Mare, Sir Peter de la.
Margam, annals of abbey of.
Margaret of England, Queen of Alexander III. of Scotland.
Margaret of Flanders.
Margaret of France, sister of Philip the Fair, and second Queen of
Edward I.
Margaret of Hainault, sister of Queen Philippa, Empress of Louis of
Bavaria.
Margaret of Provence, Queen of Louis IX. of France.
Margaret, Queen of Eric, King of Norway, and mother of Margaret, Queen
of Scots.
Margaret, Queen of Scots, the Maid of Norway, daughter of Margaret and
Eric of Norway.
Margaret, sister of Alexander II. of Scotland, wife of Hubert de Burgh.
Margaret, sister of David of Scotland.
Margaret, Viscountess of Limoges.
Margaret, wife of Philip of Burgundy.
Mark, Count of.
Marlborough, statute of.
Marseilles.
Marsh, Adam;
_Letters of_.
Marsh, Geoffrey, justiciar of Ireland.
Marshal, office of.
Marshal, house of.
Marshal, the Earls.
See Pembroke, Earl of;
Thomas of Brotherton, Earl;
March, Mortimer, Edmund, Earl of March;
and Percy, Henry.
Marshal, Gilbert. See Pembroke, Gilbert Marshal, Earl of.
Marshal, Isabella, wife of Richard of Cornwall.
Marshal, Richard. See Pembroke, Richard Marshal, Earl of.
Marshal, William. See Pembroke, William Marshal, the elder, Earl of,
regent of England.
Marshal, William, the younger. See Pembroke, William Marshal, the
younger, Earl of.
Martin IV., Pope.
Martin, papal envoy.
Martin's, C. Trice, _Registrum Epistolarum J. Peckham_.
Mary of Brabant, Queen of France.
Maturins, the.
Mauclerc, Peter, Count of Brittany. See Peter.
Maud, daughter of Henry, Duke of Lancaster.
Maud of Artois, wife of Otto, Count of Burgundy.
Maud's Castle.
Mauléon, Savary de.
Mauley, Peter de.
Mauleys, the family of.
Maupertuis.
Mauron, battle of.
Maxwell's _Robert the Bruce_.
Maye, the river.
Meath.
Meaux, treaty of.
Mechlin.
Mediterranean, the.
Melton, William, Archbishop of York.
Melrose Abbey.
Melrose, chronicle of.
Menai Straits, the.
Mendicants, the See also Friars.
Meopham, Simon, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Mercenaries.
Merchants,
statute of;
foreign;
English.
Meredith ap Owen.
Merioneth.
Merionethshire.
Merlin.
Merton.
"Merton, Rule of,".
Merton, Walter of.
Messina, Archbishop of.
Methven, battle of.
Metingham, John of.
Meyer, Paul, his edition of the _Histoire de Guillaume le
Maréchal_.
Miausson, the river.
Michel, Francisque.
Milan.
_Ministers' Accounts_.
Minorites, the,
See also Franciscans.
Minot, Lawrence.
Minsterworth, Sir John.
Miracle plays.
Mirambeau.
Miranda.
_Mirroir des Justices, Le_.
Mise of Amiens, the.
Mise of Lewes, the.
Model Parliament, the.
See Parliament.
Mohammedans, the.
Molinier, Auguste, Sources _de l'histoire de France_.
Monasteries.
_Monasticon_, Dugdale's.
Monmouth, castle and town of.
Monnow, the river.
Mont Cenis, the.
Montague, Sir William.
See also Salisbury, Earls of.
Montague;
the house of.
Montfavence, Bertrand of, Cardinal.
Montfichet, Richard of.
Montfort l'Amaury.
Montfort, county of.
Montfort, Amaury of.
Montfort, the house of (Dukes of Brittany).
See also John IV. and John V., Dukes of Brittany.
Montfort, the house of (Earls of Leicester).
Montfort, Henry of.
Montfort, John of, the elder. See Brittany, John, Duke of.
Montfort, John of, the younger. See Brittany, John, Duke of.
Montfort, Peter of.
Montfort, Simon of, Count of Toulouse.
See also Leicester.
Montfort Simon of, Earl of Leicester. See Lester.
Montfort, Simon of, the younger, son of Simon, Earl of Leicester.
Montgomery, castle and town of.
Monthermer, Ralph of.
Monthermer, Thomas of, _Montjoie_.
Montmorenci, Matthew of.
Montpellier, University of.
Montpezat, lord of.
Montreuil-sur-mer.
treaty of.
Montrose.
Mont-Saint-Martin, Monastery of.
_Monumenta Franciscana_, Brewer's.
_Monumenta Hist. Germanicae, Scriptores_, Pertz'.
Moors of Granada.
Moor, Sir Thomas de la.
Moray.
Moray, Randolph, Earl of.
Moray, Sir Andrew.
Morbihan.
Morgan of Caerleon.
Morgan, leader of Glamorganshire rebels.
Morgarten, battle of.
Morlaix.
battle of.
Morley, Robert.
Mortimer, Edmund (d. 1303).
Mortimer, Edmund (d. 1381). See March, Edmund Mortimer, Earl of.
Mortimer, Roger, of Chirk.
Mortimer, Roger, of Wigmore (d. 1282).
Mortimer, Roger, of Wigmore (d. 1330).
See also March, Roger Mortimer, first Earl of.
Mortimer, Roger, grandson of Roger Mortimer, first Earl of March.
Mortimer, Roger, son of Edmund, Earl of March.
Mortimer, the house of.
_Mortmain_, Statute of.
Moselle, the river.
Mountchensi, Joan of.
Mount Sorrel.
Mowbray, John of (of Scotland).
Mowbray, John of.
Murimuth, Adam.
Myton, battle of.
Najarilla, the river.
Nájera, battle of.
Nantes.
Naples.
Narbonne.
Nassau, Adolf of. King of the Romans. See Adolf, King of the Romans.
Navarre, Blanche of Artois, Queen of. See Blanche.
Navarre, Henry III., King of. See Henry.
Navarre, King of, Charles the Bad. See Charles.
Navarre, Philip of. See Philip.
Navarre, Theobald IV., King of. See Theobald.
Navarre.
Navarete,
Navy, the English;
the French;
the Norman.
Neath Abbey.
Netherlands, the.
Neufbourg, house of.
Neufbourg, Henry of, Earl of Warwick. See Warwick.
Nevers, Louis of. See Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders.
Nevers, the Count of.
Neville of Raby, Lord.
Neville, Ralph, Bishop of Chichester and Chancellor.
Nevilles, the.
Neville's Cross, battle of.
Newark.
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Newport-on-Usk.
Nicholas IV., Pope.
Nicolas's _History of the Royal Navy_.
Nine, Council of.
Niort.
Nivernais, the.
Norfolk;
earldom of.
Norfolk, Roger Bigod, Earl of.
Norfolk, Roger Bigod, Earl of, nephew of above.
Norfolk, Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of See Thomas.
Norham Castle.
Norman architecture.
Normandy.
Normandy, Charles, Duke of. See Charles.
Normandy, John, Duke of. See John, King of France.
Normans, the;
in Ireland, the.
Norsemen in Scotland, the.
Northallerton.
Northampton;
parliaments at;
treaty of Brigham confirmed at;
treaty of;
earldom of.
Northampton, William Bohun, Earl of.
Northamptonshire.
Northburgh, Roger, Bishop of Lichfield or Coventry and treasurer.
Northumberland.
Norway, Eric, King of. See Eric.
Norway, Margaret, the Maid of, Queen of Scotland. See Margaret.
Norwich.
Norwich, Bishops of. See Ayermine, William, and Pandulf.
Nottingham.
Nouaillé.
Ochils, the.
Ockham, William of.
O'Connor, Phelim, King of Connaught. See Connaught.
Odiham.
O'Donnells, the.
Oléron, Isle of.
Oliver, illegitimate son of King John.
Oloron, treaty of.
Oman's _History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages_.
O'Neils, the.
Oise, the river.
Ordainers, the Lords.
Order of the Garter, the.
Order of the Star, the.
Orders, the Religious.
Orders of Friars.
Orewyn Bridge, battle of.
_Originalia_ Rolls, the.
Orkneys, the.
Orleans, Duke of.
Orleton, Adam, Bishop of Hereford.
Ormonde, the Butler of Ireland, made Earl of.
Ormesby, William, justiciar.
Orne, the river.
Orvieto.
Orwell, port and river.
Oseney Abbey;
_Annals_ of.
Oswestry.
O'Tooles, the.
Otto, nuncio to England;
legate.
Otto, Count of Burgundy.
Ottobon, Cardinal, legate.
Ottocar, King of Bohemia.
Ouistreham.
Ouse, the river.
Owain _Lawgoch. See_ Owen of Wales.
Owen of Wales, Sir Owen ap Thomas ap Rhodri.
Owen the Red, son of Griffith ap Llewelyn.
Owens College _Historical Essays_.
Oxford,
University of,
Balliol College,
Merton College,
the Provisions of,
parliament at,
Exeter College.
Oxfordshire.
Oxnead, John of.
Painting in Westminster Abbey.
Palatine, the Elector.
Palermo.
Palestine.
Palestrina, Cardinal-bishop of.
Palgrave's, Sir F.T., _Parliamentary Writs and Writs of Military
Service_.
his _Documents illustrating the History of Scotland_.
Pamplona.
Pandulf, Papal Legate and Bishop of Norwich.
Pantheism.
Papacy, the,
See also under Popes.
Paris,
University of,
College of the Sorbonne in,
Cathedral of,
parliament of,
treaty of (1259),
treaty of (1303),
treaty of (1327).
Paris, Matthew.
Parliament, of,
the mad (1258),
of Oxford,
growth Of,
at Oxford (1264),
at Northampton (1267),
at Bury (1267),
of 1273,
at Westminster (1275),
of 1283,
at Shrewsbury (1284),
at Acton Burnell (1284),
of 1289,
at London (1294),
the model(1295),
of the perambulation (1300),
at Lincoln (1301),
at Westminster (1305),
of Carlisle (1307),
of 1308,
at Westminster (1309),
at Stamford (1309),
of London (1310),
at London (1315),
at Lincoln (1316),
the Irish,
at York (1318),
at York (1319),
in London (July, 1320),
at York (May, 1322),
at Westminster (January, 1327),
at Salisbury (October, 1328),
at Northampton (1329),
at Winchester (March, 1330),
prorogued to Westminster (November, 1330),
of April 23, 1341,
of April, 1343,
of 1347,
of 1371,
of 1372,
the Good (April, 1376),
of 1377,
of Paris, see Paris, parliament of.
Parthenai.
Passelewe, Robert.
_Pastaureaux_, the.
Patrick, Earl of March,
See also March (Scotland), Earl of.
Pauli's, R., _Geschichte von England_.
Pavia, Galeazzo Visconti, Lord of.
Paynel, Fulk.
_Pearl_, the, poem of.
Peasants' revolt, the.
Peasants, revolts of French.
Peckham, John, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Peebles.
_Pell Records_, the.
Pembroke, earldom of.
Pembroke, Gilbert Marshal, Earl of.
Pembroke, Richard Marshal. Earl of.
Pembroke, William Marshal, the elder, Regent and Earl of,
_History of_.
Pembroke, William Marshal, the younger, Earl of.
Pembroke, Aymer of Valence, Earl of.
Pembroke. John Hastings, second Earl of that house.
Pembroke. William of. See William of Valence.
Pembrokeshire, palatine county of.
Penance of Jesus Christ, Friars of the.
Penne.
Penrith.
Penthièvre, county of.
Penthièvre-Tréguier, county of.
Perche, Count of.
Percy, Henry, grandson of Earl Warenne.
Percy, Henry, marshal of England.
Percy, Sir Thomas, seneschal of Poitou.
Percy, the family of.
Périgord.
Périgord, Count of.
Périgueux,
bishopric of.
Péronne.
Perpendicular style in architecture.
Perrers, Alice.
Perth.
Pertz's _Monumenta_.
Peruzzi, the.
Perveddwlad.
Peter, Cardinal. See Gomez, Peter.
Peter III., King of Aragon.
Peter Mauclerc, Count of Brittany.
Peter of Aigueblanche, Bishop of Hereford,
See Aigueblanche.
Peter of Gaveston. See Gaveston.
Peter of Savoy, Earl of Richmond.
Peter of Spain, Cardinal.
Peter Roger, Archbishop of Rouen. See Roger, Peter, and Clement VI.
Peter the Chamberlain.
Peter the Cruel, King of Castile.
Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Peter's Pence.
Petit's _Charles de Valois_.
Petit-Dutaillis, M.,
his _Étude sur Louis VIII._
Petrarch, Francis.
_Petrariae_.
Pevensey Castle.
Philip II., Augustus, King of France.
Philip III., the Bold, King of France.
Philip IV., the Fair, King of France.
Philip V., the Long, King of France.
Philip VI. of Valois, King of France.
Philip, Count of Savoy.
Philip, Count of Valois, See also Philip VI., King of France.
Philip of Navarre.
Philip of Rouvres, Duke of Burgundy.
Philip the Bold, Count of Évreux.
Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, son of John, King of France.
Philippa, daughter of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, Countess of March.
Philippa of Hainault, Queen of Edward III.
Philippine, daughter of Guy of Dampierre, Count of Flanders.
Philpots, the.
_Philobiblon,_ the, of Richard of Bury.
Philosophy.
Picardy.
Pike, L.O., his editions of the _Year Books_.
Pipe, James.
Pipe Rolls.
Pipton, treaty o.
Pirenne's _Bibliographie de l'histoire de Belgique_.
_Histoire de Belgique_.
Pisa, Agnellus of. See Agnellus.
Plague, the. See Black Death.
Plays, miracle.
Plessis, John du, Earl of Warwick.
See Warwick.
Ploermel.
Plympton.
Poissy.
Poitevins.
Poitiers,
battle of,
sources for.
Poitiers, Alfonse of. See Alfonse.
Poitou,
scutage of.
Poitou, Count of, Richard, son of King John, Count of. See Richard.
Polain's edition of _Jean le Bel,_
Pole, the house of
Pole, William de la.
Pollock, Sir P., and Maitland's _History of English Law,_
_Polychronicon,_ Higden's.
Pons.
Pont-Sainte-Maxence.
Pontefract,
Castle.
Ponthieu.
Pontigny.
Pontoise.
Pontvallain, battle of.
Poole's, R.L., _Mediæval Thought,_
his _Wycliffe_,
his _Oxford Historical Atlas_.
Popes.
See under Innocent III.,
Honorius III.,
Gregory IX.,
Innocent IV.,
Alexander IV.,
Urban IV.,
Clement IV.,
Gregory X.,
Nicholas III.,
Martin IV.,
Honorius IV.,
Nicholas IV.,
Celestine V.,
Boniface VIII.,
Benedict XL,
Clement V.,
John XXII.,
Benedict XII.,
Clement VI.,
Urban V.,
Gregory XL.
Port Blanc.
Ports, the Cinque.
Portsmouth.
Portugal, Ferdinand of.
Powys;
Castle.
Powys, Charltons of. See Charltons.
_Praemunire_ statute of.
Preachers, Order of. See Dominicans.
Pressuti's Registers of _Honorius III._
Preston.
Prices, rise in, after the Black Death.
Principality of Wales, the.
Priories, the alien.
Proclamation in English, French and Latin.
Prothero's _Simon de Montfort_.
Provençals.
Provence.
Provence, Raymond Berengar IV., Count of,
See Raymond Berengar.
Proving.
Provisions, papal;
of Oxford, the;
of Westminster, the;
of Worcester.
Provisors, statute of.
Public Record Office, the.
Purveyance.
Puymirol.
Pyel, John, mayor of London.
Pyrenees, the.
Quercy
_Quia Emptores_ statute.
Quièret, Hugh.
Quincy, Saer de, Earl of Winchester. See Winchester.
Rageman, statute of.
Ragman. Roll, the.
Ranee, the river.
Randolph, Sir Thomas, Earl of Moray.
Rashdall's _Universities of the Middle Ages_.
Rathlin Island.
Rationalism.
Ravenspur.
Raymond Berengar IV., Count of Provence.
Raymond VII., Count of Toulouse.
Record of Carnarvon, the.
Record Commission, the.
Records, as sources for history;
of Court of Chancery;
of Court of Exchequer;
of Common Law Courts;
of King's Bench and Court of Common Pleas;
of Scotland;
Welsh;
Papal.
_Recueil des historiens de la France_, begun by Dom Bouquet.
Red Hills, the.
Redesdale.
Redesdale, Gilbert of Umfraville, Lord of. See Umfraville.
Regalis Devotionis, Bull.
Reginald, Count of Gelderland.
Registers, Bishops;
Papal Calendars of.
Reims.
Reims, Archbishop of.
Renaissance of the twelfth century, the.
Rennes.
Réole, La.
_Reports of Deputy-keeper of the Records_;
_of Historical Manuscripts Commission_.
Revolt, the peasants'.
Reynolds, Walter, Treasurer of England and Archbishop of Canterbury.
Rhine, the.
Rhine, Count Palatine of the.
Rhineland, the.
Rhos, Cantred of.
Rhone Valley, the.
Rhuddlan Castle.
Rhunoviog, Cantred of.
Rhys ap Howel.
Rhys ap Meredith.
Rhys, J., and J.G. Evans' _Red Book of Hergest_.
Rich, St. Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Richard I.
Richard of Bordeaux, son of the Black Prince.
Richard, son of King John, titular Count of Poitou, Earl of Cornwall
and King of the Romans.
Richmond, John, Earl of. See John of Gaunt.
Richmond, John of Brittany, Earl of. See John of Brittany.
Richmond, Peter Mauclerc, Earl of.
See Peter, Count or Duke of Brittany.
Richmond, Peter of Savoy, Earl of. See Peter of Savoy.
Richmond (place).
Richmond, Simon de Montfort, made Earl of. See Leicester, Earl of
Rievaux.
Rigaud, Bishop of Winchester
Rigaud, Eudes, Archbishop of Rouen.
Rigg's, J.M., _Select Pleas of the Jewish Exchequer_.
Riley's, H.T., his edition of _Rishanger_, etc.
Rioms.
Ripon.
Rishanger, William.
Rivaux, Peter of, treasurer.
Robert I, Bruce, King of Scots. See also Bruce, Robert.
Robert II, Steward of Scotland, afterwards King Robert II.
Robert, Steward of Scotland.
Robert, Count of Artois.
Robert of Artois, enemy of Philip VI.
Robert, Count of Namur.
Roberts' _Calendarium Genealogicum_.
Roche Derien, La, battle of.
Rochelle, La.
Rochelle, battle of La.
Roches, Peter des, Bishop of Winchester.
Rochester, Castle and city.
Rockingham Castle.
Rodez, Bishop of.
Roger, Peter. See also Clement VI Pope.
Rogers, J.E. Thorold, _History of Agriculture and Prices_.
Roles Gascons. See Rolls
Roll, the Ragman.
Rolle, Richard
Rolls;
the hundred;
patent;
the close;
of parliament;
series, the;
of Court of Chancery;
Charter;
_Escheat_ or _Inquisitiones post mortem_;
fine;
_Excerpt a e Rotulis Finium_ (C. Roberts');
exchequer;
Assize;
Coroners;
_Romana Mater_, bull.
Romances.
Romanesque architecture.
Romans, Adolf of Nassau, King of the, see Adolf of Nassau;
Charles of Moravia, King of the, see Charles IV;
Henry, King of the, see Henry;
Rudolf of Hapsburg, King of the, see Rudolf;
William of Holland, King of the, see William of Holland.
Rome.
Romney.
Romont.
Romorantin Castle.
Roncesvalles, Pass of.
Roncière, de la, _Histoire de la Marine Française_.
Rose Castle.
Roslin.
Rostein, the family of.
Rotuli. See Rolls.
Round Table at Windsor.
Rouen,
Archbishops of. See Rigaud, Eudes, Roger, Peter.
Rouergue,
Counts of. See Armagnac, Count of.
Roussillon.
Roxburgh, town and castle;
treaty of.
Royan.
Rudel, Elie, lord of Bergerac.
Rudolf of Hapsburg, King of the Romans.
Runnymede.
Ruthin.
Rye.
Rymer's _Foedera_.
Sabina, Guy Foulquois, Cardinal-bishop of, papal legate.
See Clement IV.
Sacerdotium, the.
Sack, Friars of the.
Sailors, English.
Saints, English, honour paid to.
St. Albans;
abbey;
chroniclers of abbey of;
St Albans, Abbot Simon of.
St Andrews;
Bishops of. See Fraser and Lamberton.
Saint-Bavon, abbey of.
St. Davids, Bishop of. See Bek, Thomas.
Saint-Denis.
Saint-Émilion.
Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
St. Giles, John of.
Saint-James-de-Beuvron.
Saint-Jean-d'Angely.
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port.
St. John, John of.
Saint-Lo.
Saint-Macaire.
Saint-Mahé.
Saint-Malo.
Saint-Omer.
Saint-Pol-de-Leon.
St. Paul's, London;
canons of;
dean of;
annalist of;
See also London.
Saint-Quentin.
Saint-Sardos.
Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte.
Saint-Sever.
Saint-Vaast-de-la-Hougue.
Saint-Valery.
Sainte-Mère-Eglise, William of, Bishop of London.
Saints, English.
Saintes.
Saintonge.
Salerno, Charles, Prince of.
Salic Law, the.
Salisbury;
cathedral;
treaty of;
parliaments at.
Salisbury, Henry, of Lacy, Earl of. See Lincoln.
Salisbury, Thomas of Lancaster, Earl of. See Thomas.
Salisbury, William Longsword, Earl of.
Salisbury, William Montague, Earl of.
See also Montague, William.
Salisbury, William Montague, Earl of (son of the above).
Salvatierra.
Sambre, the river.
Sanchia of Provence, second wife of Richard of Cornwall.
Sandal Castle.
Sandale, Bishop of Winchester.
Sandwich.
Santander.
Satires, English.
Savoy;
palace of the.
Savoy, Amadeus III., Count of Savoy. See Amadeus.
Savoy, Boniface of. See Boniface.
Savoy, Peter of. See Peter.
Savoy, Philip of. See Philip.
Savoy, Thomas of. See Thomas.
Savoyards, the.
Saxony.
_Scalachronica_, Sir T. Grey's.
Scarborough Castle.
Scheldt, the river.
Schiltron of pikemen.
Schism between eastern and western Churches.
Scholasticism.
Science.
_Scimus Fili_, papal letter.
Scone.
Scotland.
Scrope, Sir Richard le, treasurer.
Sculpture.
Scutage of Bedford, the;
of Kerry;
of Poitou.
Seeley's _Life and Reign of Edward I._
Segrave, John.
Segrave, Stephen.
Seine, the river.
Selby, William.
Selden Society, the.
Selkirk;
forest of;
See Ettrick.
Sens.
Sens, William of.
Septs, the Irish.
Serlo, Mayor of London.
Severn, the river.
Sheen.
Sherburn-in-Elmet.
Sheriffs;
for Scotland.
Shire, system in Wales;
courts;
knights of the.
Shrewsbury;
Castle of;
treaty of;
parliament at.
Shrewsbury, Ralph of, Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Shropshire.
Sicilian Vespers, the.
Sicily.
Silegrave's Henry of, _Chronicle_.
Simony.
Siward, Richard.
Skeat's editions of Chaucer and Langland.
Skelton Castle.
Skenfrith, Castle of.
Skicsea Castle.
Sluys.
Smith's, S. Armitage, _John of Gaunt_.
Smithfield.
Snowdon.
Soissonais, the.
Soisy.
Sellers, Rostand de, seneschal of Gascony.
Sologne, the.
Solway, the.
Somme, the river.
Sorbon, Robert of.
Soubise.
Southampton.
Southwark.
Spalding, Peter of.
Spain. See also Aragon and Castile.
Spain, Peter of, Cardinal. See Peter.
Speaker, office of.
Spruner-Menke's _Historischer Hand-Atlas_.
Staffordshire.
Stammoor.
Stamford;
parliaments at;
statute of.
Stanley Abbey, Chronicle of.
Staple, ordinance of the;
system the.
Stapledon, Walter, Bishop of Exeter.
Statute of ----
Acton Burnell.
Carlisle (1307).
_De Donis_.
Gloucester.
Kilkenny.
Marlborough.
Merchants.
Mortmain.
_Praemunire_.
Provisors.
_Quia Emptores_.
Rageman.
Stamford.
Treasons (1352).
Wales.
Westminster, the first;
the second;
the third.
1341 as to election of auditors of royal officers.
_Statutum de Tallagio won concedendo_
Stephen, papal collector.
Stephen, King.
Stephens, W. R W., his _History of the English Church_.
Stevenson's, J., _Documents of Scotland_;
_Chronicon de Lanenost_;
edition of _Coggeshall's Chronicon Anglicanum_.
Stevenson's, W.H., _Records of Nottingham_.
Steward, of England, Simon de Montfort;
of Scotland, the.
Stewart Kings of Scotland.
Stirling Bridge, battle of.
Stirling, castle and town.
Stone, use of, in building houses.
Stratford.
Stratford, John, chancellor, Bishop of Winchester and Archbishop of
Canterbury.
Stratford, Robert, Bishop of Chichester, chancellor.
Strathearn.
Strathspey.
Stratton, Adam of.
Strongbow.
Stubbs' _Select Charters_;
Councils;
edition of Walter of Coventry;
_Chronicles of Edward I and Edward II._;
_Constitutional History_.
_Studium_, the.
_Studium Generale_. See University.
Subinfeudation.
_Subsidy Rolls_.
Sudbury, Simon of, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Suffolk.
Suffolk, Ufford, Earl of.
Surrey.
Sussex.
Swale, the river.
Swaledale.
Swansea, castle and town.
Swinbrooke.
Syria.
Taillebourg, battle of.
_Tallagio non concedendo, Statutum de_.
Talleyrand, the Cardinal.
Tancarville, Lord of, Chamberlain of France.
Tany, Luke de, seneschal of Gascony.
Tarascon, Treaty of.
_Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliæ et Walliae_.
Taxation;
papal;
of clergy.
Taxes, on exports;
on land.
Taxster, John de, Chronicle of.
Tayster. See Taxster.
Teivi, the river.
Templars, Order of the;
suppression of the.
Temple, Church of the;
the New.
Temple, Knights of the. See Templars.
Tertiaries.
_Testa de Neville_, the.
Thames, the.
Theiner's _Vetera Monumenta Hib. et Scot. Historiam Illustrantia_.
Theobald IV, Count of Champagne and King of Navarre.
Theology.
Thérouanne.
Thiérache, the.
Thirty, battle of the.
Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Derby.
Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I.
Thomas of Savoy, uncle of Eleanor of Provence.
Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Gloucester.
Thomas, St. Aquinas See Aquinas, St. Thomas.
Thomas, St., of Canterbury;
translation of relics of. See also Becket.
Thomas, St., of Cantilupe. See Cantilupe.
Thomist teaching. See Aquinas, St. Thomas.
Thompson's, Sir E. Maunde, _Chronicon Angliæ_;
_Chronicon Galfridi le Baker_.
Thoresby, John, Archbishop of York.
Thorpe, Benjamin, his _Florence of Worcester_.
Thorpe, Sir Robert, Chancellor and Chief Justice.
Thouars,
house of.
Thouars, the Viscount of.
Tintagel Castle.
Tickhill Castle.
Torksey.
Torture.
Toulouse.
Toulouse, Joan, Countess of. See Joan.
Toulouse, Raymond VII., Count of. See Raymond VII.
Touraine.
Tournai.
Tournaments.
Tours.
Tout's _Edward I._;
_Papacy and Empire_.
Tower, of London, the;
the Round, Windsor.
Tower Hill.
Towns, growth of;
Gascon;
Welsh;
"Staple".
Towy, the river.
Trade.
Trailbaston, Ordinance of.
Translations into English.
Treasons, Statute of.
Treasurer, office of.
Treaty of ----
Aberconway.
Amiens.
Athis.
Berwick.
Bordeaux.
Brétigni.
Brigham.
Bruges.
Calais (1347);
(1360).
Canfranc.
Coblenz.
Esplechin.
Guérande.
Guillond.
Lambeth.
Leek.
London.
Malestroit.
Meaux.
Montreuil.
Newcastle.
Northampton.
Oloron.
Paris (1259);
(1303);
(1327).
Pipton.
Roxburgh.
Saint-Germain.
Salisbury.
Shrewsbury.
Tarascon.
Valenciennes.
Vincennes.
_Trébuchet_, the.
Tréguier;
County of Penthièvre-Tréguier.
Trent, the river.
Trevelyan's, G.M., _England in the Age of Wycliffe_.
Trevet. See Trivet.
Trier.
Trim.
Trinitarian Friars, the.
Trivet, Nicholas, Dominican chronicler.
Trokelowe, J. de, _Annales_.
Troyes.
Trussell, Sir William.
Tunbridge.
Tunis.
Turner's, G.J., _Pleas of the Forest_;
_Select Pleas of the Forest_;
_Minority of Henry III., 1_.
Turberville, Payne of.
Turberville, Sir Thomas.
Turks, the.
Tuscans.
Tuscany.
Tutbury Castle.
Tweed, the river.
Tweeddale.
Twemlow's _Calendars of Papal Registers_.
Twenge, Sir Robert.
"Twenty-Four," the.
Twiss, Sir T.'s edition of Bracton.
Tyburn Elms.
Tynedale.
Tynemouth.
Tyre, Archbishop of.
Ufford, Earl of Suffolk. See Suffolk.
Ughtred, Sir Thomas.
Ulster.
Ulster, Hugh de Lacy, Earl of.
Ulster, Lionel of Clarence, Earl of. See also Lionel.
Ulster, Richard de Burgh, Earl of.
Umfravilles, the.
Umfraville, Gilbert of, Lord of Redesdale.
_Unam Sanctam_ Bull.
Union, treaty of, between England and Scotland.
Universities, the. See also Cambridge, Montpellier, Oxford, Paris.
Urban IV, Pope.
Urban V, Pope.
Ure, the river.
Usk Castle and town.
Usk, River;
Valley, the.
Usury.
Vaissète's _Histoire de Languedoc_.
Vallée aux Clercs, near Crecy.
Valois, house of.
Valois, Charles of. See Charles.
Valence, Aymer of. See Pembroke, Aymer, Earl of, and Aymer, Bishop of
Winchester.
Valence, William of, Lord of Pembroke.
Valence, William of Savoy, Bishop-elect of.
Valenciennes.
Vander Kindere's _Siècle des Artevelde_.
Vannes.
Venice.
Vercelli, Church of St. Andrew at.
Vermandois, the.
Verneuil.
Vescy, John de, 131
Vescy, Lady, 248
Vespers, the Sicilian, 146
Vic, De, his _Histoire de Languedoc_, 462.
Vidal de la Blache's _Tableau de la Géographie de la France_.
Vienne, the river;
Council of.
Vierzon.
Villeins, the.
Vincennes, Convention of the Wood of.
Vinogradoff's _Villainage in England_.
Visconti, Bernabò.
Visconti, Galeazzo.
Visconti of Milan, the.
Visconti, Violante, daughter of Galeazzo, of Pavia.
_Vision of Piers Plowman_, Langland's.
Viterbo.
Vitoria,
Vyve-Saint-Bavon, truce of.
Wadicourt.
Wace's _Brut_.
Wages affected by Black Death.
Wake, Lord.
Wakes, the, of Liddell and Lincolnshire.
Waleis, Henry le, Mayor of London.
Wales;
statute of;
records of;
annals of.
Wallace, Sir William, of Eldershe.
Wallon's _Louis IX._
Wallingford Castle and town.
Walsingham, Thomas, _Gesta. Abbatum S. Albani_;
_Historia Anglicana of_.
Walton.
Wardrobe accounts.
Ware.
Warenne, William, Earl (d 1240).
Warenne, John, Earl (d 1304), son of above.
Warenne, John, Earl (d 1347), grandson of above.
Wark, the Lord of.
Warwick Castle.
Warwick, Beauchamps of. See Beauchamps;
Neufbourg, Earls of.
Warwick, Guy of Beauchamp, Earl of.
Warwick, Henry of Neufbourg, Earl of.
Warwick, John du Plessis, Earl of.
Warwick, Thomas of Beauchamp, Earl of.
Warwick, William Beauchamp, Earl of.
Waverley, Annals of Abbey of.
Weald, the.
Wear, the river.
Wells, Hugh of, Bishop of Lincoln.
Wells, Bishops of Bath and,
See Burnell;
Robert;
Drokensford;
Sandale.
Wenceslaus of Luxemburg, Duke of Brabant, brother of the Emperor,
Charles IV.
Wendover, Roger of;
his _Flores Historiarum_.
Westminster;
Abbey;
the Provisions of;
the first statute of;
second statute of;
third statute of;
Hall;
St. Stephen's Chapel.
Westminster, Abbot of. See also Lansham, Simon.
Westminster, Matthew of, imaginary chronicler.
Westmoreland.
Weyland, Sir Thomas, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
Weymouth.
Whalley Abbey.
Wharton's _Anglia Sacra_.
Whitecastle.
White Friars, the.
Whittaker, W.J., his edition of _Le Mirroir des Justices_.
Whittingtons, the.
Whittlesea, William, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Wicklow.
Wigford.
Wight, Isle of.
Wigmore, Castle;
house of.
Wigmore, Roger Mortimer of. See Mortimer, Roger.
Wilkin of the Weald.
Wilkins' _Concilia_.
William I. of Avesnes, Count of Hainault, Holland and Zealand.
William II. of Avesnes, Count of Hainault, Holland and Zealand. Son of
the above.
William of Bavaria, Count of Hainault, Holland and Zealand.
William of Hatfield, son of Edward III.
William of Holland, King of the Romans.
William of Norwich, St.
William of Savoy, Bishop-elect of Valence and Winchester.
William of Valence, Lord of Pembroke.
William I. the Conqueror.
William the Lion, King of Scots.
Wiltshire.
Winchelsea;
naval battle off.
Winchelsea, Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Winchester;
bishopric of;
Cathedral of;
parliament of March 1330, at;
Annals of.
Winchester, Bishops of.
See Edington, William;
Roches, Peter des;
Stratford, John;
Aymer of Valence;
Woodlock, Henry;
William of Savoy;
Wykeham, William of.
Winchester, Hugh Despenser, the elder, Earl of. See Despenser.
Winchester, Saer de Quincy, Earl of.
Windsor, town and castle;
Round Table at;
Chapel, St. George's at.
Wingham, Henry.
Wishart, Robert, Bishop of Glasgow.
Wither, William.
Wolvesey Castle, Winchester.
Women in the law courts;
French law of succession of.
Woodlock, Henry, Bishop of Winchester.
Woodstock.
Wool trade.
Worcester;
Bishops of, see Cantilupe, Walter; Reynolds, Walter.
Worcester, Provisions of;
_Annals of_.
Wright's, T., _Political Songs_;
_Political Songs and Poems_.
_Writs, Parliamentary_, edited by Sir F. Palgrave.
Wycliffe, John;
his writings.
Wye, the river.
Wykeham, William of, Bishop of Winchester;
his _Register_.
Wykes, Thomas, _Chronicle of_.
Wynn, John.
Wyntoun, Andrew, _Originale_ by.
Yale.
Yarmouth.
_Year Books_, the.
York;
parliaments at;
house of.
York, Archbishops of.
See Giffard, Walter;
Greenfield, William;
Grey, Walter;
Melton, William;
Thoresby, John;
Zouch, William de la.
York, Edmund of Langley, Earl of Cambridge, Duke of. See Edmund.
Yorkshire.
Ypres.
Yrvon, the river.
Ystradvellte.
Zealand, county of.
Zouch, William de la, Archbishop of York.
Zwyn, the river;
harbour.
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