Anglo-Saxons, gilds of, 12 municipal organisation of, 13 Apothecary, 28 Apprentices, 39, 40, 46, 47, 52, 64, 66, 81 Arthur, son of Henry VII., 79 Arundel, Earl of, 27 Ashton, Thomas, 79, 119 Assistants, 5, 41 Assize of Arms, 11 Axbridge, 27, 85 Bailiffs, assist gilds, 37 assisted by gilds, 36 supervise gilds, 37, 40 Bakers, 28, 59 Bala, 27 Bamborough, 27 Barbers, 28, 45, 58-9, 62, 83-4, 87, 89, 100, 102, 130 Bargains, common, 14, 15 Barnstaple, 27 Bath, 25 Beadle, duties of, 42 Beaumaris, 27 Bedesmen, 63 Bedford, 25 Benefit Clubs, 106, 110 Berwick on Tweed, 26 Beverley, 24, 115 Birmingham, 111, 129 Bishops' Castle, 147 Black Death, 56 Board of Trade, 141 Bodmin, 25 Borough, distinction between Merchant Gild and, 18, 19 rise and development of, 10 incorporation of, 14 position of Merchant Gild in, 14, 16 select body in, 19, 105 classes of inhabitants, 147 Boroughs, list of, possessing Merchant Gilds, 24-28 Boston, 26 Brasier, 53 Brecknock, 147 Brentano, Dr, 7, 9, 104, 105 Bricks, revival of use of, 80 Bricklayers, 118 Bridgenorth, 26 Bridgewater, 26 Bristol, 25, 87, 111 Bromhall, John, 153, 155 Builder, 29 Builth, 26 Burford, 24 Burgesses, 3 charters granted to, 14 small share in work of Parliament, 49 Burgess-ship, qualifications of, 18, 106 not identical with gildship, 18 villains, women, and ecclesiastics excluded from, 18 Burnet, 67 Bury S. Edmund's, 25, 147 Butchers, 28, 57, 59 Byt-fylling, 13 Caerswys, 26 Cambridge, 25, 56, 60, 74 Camden, 79 Canterbury, 12, 24, 147, 148, 150 Cappers, 53 Cardiff, 27 Cardigan, 26, 69 Carlisle, 25 Carnarvon, 26 Carpenters, 28, 59 Carrier, 28 Castle at Shrewsbury, 12 Censers or Tensers, see Shrewsbury Chantries, 32, 63, 67, 74, 86, 92 Charity Commissioners, 141 Charles II., 87 Charters did not necessarily create the gilds, 55 to burgesses, 14 Chelmicke, Mr, 89 Chepgauel, 18 n. Chester, 25, 92, 119, 146, 147, 151 Earl of, 25, 146 Chesterfield, 27 Chichester, 24 Cirencester, 27 Civil Services, 141 Clerk, 28, 43 Cloth Trade, 78-9 cloth-workers, 29, 117 cloth-merchant, 57 Clun, 147 Collier, 28 Commissioners for plundering gilds, 73 Commonwealth, 122 Communa, 14, 16 Companies, commercial, 6, 47, 86, 88, 98 et seq., 140 Compositions, 37-8, 55 n. Conflicts between Merchant Gild and Craft Gilds, 5, 9, 20, 21 Congleton, 26 Conquest, Norman, 10 Continent, commerce with, 10 merchant gilds of, 5, 9, 20, 21 Conviviality, 13, 44, 111 Conway, 26 Cooks, 28, 59 Coopers, 28 Cordwainers, 35 Corn-dealer, 28 Cornwall, 149 Earl of, 26, 27 Corporations, municipal, 14, 16, 105, 109, 127 _Corps-de-metier_, 8 Corpus Christi, gilds and Feast, 33, 43, 59, 63, 115, 118