Talbot, Gilbert Lord 184, 316, 317
Talbot, John, Earl of Shrewsbury 226, 231, 268, 269–70, 306
Talbot, Sir Thomas 167
Tale of Melibee 139
Talmache, John and Alice 193
Tancarville 269
Tatterford church (Norfolk) 288
Tattershall (Lincolnshire) 285
Taunton (Somerset) 20
taverns 134
taxation 342
1399–1461 208, 265
exemptions 27, 78, 108, 150, 210
levies 211
poll-tax 14, 120, 123, 150, 342
tithes 45
see also ‘Peasants’ Revolt’
Taylor, William 195
Taymouth Hours 45–6
Tegeingl (Flintshire and Denbighshire) 68
Temple of Glass, The 303
Tendering Hall, Stoke-on-Nayland (Suffolk) 299
Testament of Love 136, 155
Tetzel, Gabriel 278
Tewkesbury 132, 147, 282, 284, 311
textile industry 242
trade 1, 140, 166–7, 209, 248, 270
see also wool
Thames Valley 278
Thomas, Lord Wake of Liddell 98
Thomas de Lisle, Bishop of Ely 98
Thomas Duke of Clarence 185, 213, 214, 221
Thomas Marquess of Dorset 314–15
Thomas of Ingoldisthorp 19
Thomas of Lancaster 22, 24, 30, 32–3, 34, 35, 38–9
Thomas of St Albans 99
Thomas of Walsingham 127
Thomas (son of Henry IV) 211
Thoresby, John, Archbishop of York 100, 103
Thornbury Manor 2
Thorney Abbey (Cambridgeshire) 261
Thornham Parva retable 41
Thornwerk, William and Elizabeth 246
Thorpe, Robert 45
Thorpp, Richard 256
Tideman of Winchecombe 169
Tipperary (Ireland) 107
Tiptoft, John, Lord 238
Tiptoft, Sir John 182
Toddington church (Bedfordshire) 262
Tommes, Richard 202
Topsfield Hall, Crouch End 275
Totnes (Devon) 71
tournaments 81–2, 87, 113, 140, 163, 277, 278
Tower of London 124–5, 126, 199
Towneley Plays 292
1307–99 21, 66, 70–72, 79, 117
1422–83 243–7, 270, 300–301, 307
see also cities; London
Townshend, John 299
Townshend, Roger 297, 298, 299, 307
Towton, Battle of 275, 297, 310
1300–1400 22, 39–40, 75, 137–8, 139, 166–7
1400–1483 209, 224, 242, 244, 270, 304, 306–8, 352
books 304
textile industry 1, 140, 166–7, 209, 248, 270
see also markets; wool trade
trades and skills see work and craft trailbastons 95, 96
Treatise on the Astrolabe 155
Treatise on the Coronation 75
Treaty of Brétigny (1360) 73, 85, 113–14
Treaty of Calais (1360) 114
Treaty of Edinburgh (1328) 45
Treaty of Piquigny (1475) 307, 311
Treaty of Troyes (1420) 220, 221, 222, 225, 229
Treaty of Utrecht (1474) 307
Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle 254
Tree of Battles, The 231
Trefenant, Bishop of Hereford 154
Tretower Court (Powys) 214
Trinity College, Cambridge 37
Trinity Hall 97
Troilus and Criseyde 260
Trollope, Anthony 9
Troy Book 156
Truce of Leulingham 166
Truro (Cornwall) 246
Twelfth Night 298
Twelve Conclusions 151, 154, 156
Tyes, John 193
Ufford, Maud Countess of Oxford 181
Ufford, Robert 90
University College, Oxford 238
Urban VI, Pope 140
Uthred of Boldon 97–8
Vagrancy Act 131
Valence Mary Hall, Cambridge 97
valets 81
van Artevelde, Jacob 77
Ventour, William 140
Vergil, Polydore 317
villages 4, 7, 65, 66, 123, 249; see also
parishes villeins 65
violence 5–6, 62, 135, 138, 147, 254, 320–21
vowesses 306
Vows of the Heron 76
Wainfleet St Mary 104
Walberswick (Suffolk) 250, 284, 289
Wales 326
castles 26
discontent 266
families 62–3
gentry 239
and Henry IV 176–7, 178–9, 184
holy wells 141
law 10
marriage 116
poetry 141, 156–7, 176, 258–9, 279
and Richard II 169–70 and Richard III 314, 316
taxation 108
towns 70
see also Marches
Walsall Manor (Staffordshire) 67
Walsham-le-Willows (Suffolk) 21
Walsingham 104
Walston, Walter 194
Walter de Godeston 45
Walter de Mauny 76
Walter de Stapledon 37
Walter of Kirkbride 101
Walter of Milmete 53
Waltham, John, Bishop of Salisbury 131
Walworth, William 137
Wantage (Berkshire) 196
war 164–5, 166, 228, 231, 305–6, 330; see also armies; crusades; France: wars; Ireland: warfare; Scottish wars; tournaments
wardmotes 118
warlords 180
Wars of the Roses 306, 310–11, 314–18, 349, 353
Warwick, Duke of see Beauchamp, Henry
Warwick, Earls of 30, 32, 34, 130, 184 see also Beauchamp, Richard; Neville, Richard
Warwickshire 3, 65, 204, 214, 240, 245, 246
Waterton, Robert, Lord of Methley 223
Watford (Northamptonshire) 253
Waynflete, William, Bishop of Winchester 236
Webbs, Emma 196
Wedgenock Park (Warwickshire) 204
Welford, John 204
Welland marshes (Kent) 5
Welle, William 91
Welsh Newton (Herefordshire) 41, 326
Weobley Castle (Herefordshire) 178
West Chiltington (Sussex) 288
West Raynton (co. Durham) 66
Westley Waterless, Cambridge 49
Westminster Abbey 19, 155, 170, 193, 226, 246, 302, 314
Westminster Hall 97, 154, 206, 314
Weston, John 212
Weston, Richard 228
Wetherden (Suffolk) 309–10
Weymouth (Dorset) 57
Whalley church (Lancashire) 256
Wharfedale 26
Whas, John 192
White, John 201
White Book (Liber albus) 135
White Waltham (Berkshire) 142
Whittington, Alice 212
Whittington, Dick 212
Wickham Market (Suffolk) 210
widowhood 20, 47, 105, 127, 207, 235, 255–6, 256, 306, 333, 351
Wiggenhall (Norfolk) 19
‘wild man’ 12
Wilhelm Duke of Guelders 184
William de Laken 170
William del Clay of Markham 99
William of Erlakar 189
William of Norwich 250
William of Ostrevant 169
William of Pagula 100
William the Conqueror 24
Willoughby, Lady Johanna 211
Willoughby, Sir Richard 95
Willoughby, William, Lord 211, 216
wills
bequests 82, 100, 188–9, 240, 250, 251, 256, 262, 291, 294
executors 250
Wilton Diptych 155, 160–61, 326
Wilton (Norfolk) 97
Wimborne Minster (Dorset) 251
Winchester Cathedral 192, 193, 225, 291
Windsor 69, 109, 110, 112, 113, 284, 314
Winfleet (Lincolnshire) 189
Winter, John 164
Wisbech (Cambridgeshire) 68, 200, 286–7, 295, 296
Wisdom (play) 235
witchcraft 212, 228, 231, 233, 295
women
community life 256
at court 155
and ‘Lollardy’ 154
poverty 134
religion 196, 228, 234–5, 258, 259, 261, 264, 289–90, 294, 306, 348–9
vowesses 306
work 60–62, 122, 123, 249, 256, 328, 332–3
see also widowhood
Wood, Sir John 315
Woodeaton (Oxfordshire) 190
Woodford (Northamptonshire) 21
Woodstock, Edmund of, Earl of Kent 55
Woodstock, Thomas, Duke of Gloucester 110, 128, 130, 162, 164
Woodville, Anthony, Lord Scales 278, 280, 303
Woodville, Elizabeth see Elizabeth
Woodville (Queen of Edward IV) Woodville family 278, 299
wool trade 1, 18, 39–40, 78, 129, 137, 138, 139, 210, 244, 248, 249, 306–7, 308; see also sheep; textile industry
Woolaston (Gloucestershire) 178
Worcester, Earl of 238
Worcester, William of 238, 311
Worcestershire 3, 20, 132, 287
work and craft 328n
apprenticeship 61
domestic service 122–3, 134, 147–8
rural 20–21, 61–2, 63, 66, 122
textile industry 62, 63, 123, 249
unemployment 131
urban 58, 60–61, 193, 204, 208
women 60–62, 122, 123, 249, 256, 328, 332–3
see also guilds
Wotton-under-Edge (Gloucestershire) 144
writers 136–7; see also books; literature; poetry
Wulley, Thomas 296
Wyclif, John 148, 149–50, 151, 187, 197, 198, 236, 342
Wyllys, James 260
Wymeswold (Leicestershire) 200–201
Wymondham (Norfolk) 250
Yedingham nunnery (Yorkshire) 63
York
education 304
guilds 299
Henry V 211
mayoral elections 307
religious institutions 46, 118, 293
York, Dukes of see Edmund of Langley; Edward Duke of York; Richard Duke of York
Yorkshire 4
insurrection 160
Scots invasion 27
West Riding 26, 118, 167, 222–3, 292
Young, Thomas 272
Ypres, siege of 129