[Footnote 741: Memorials of the visit of the British Archæological Institute in 1864. The kitchen is part of the original building, and belongs to the middle of the fourteenth century.] [Footnote 742: Sharp.] [Footnote 743: The architecture of the Great Hall shows it was raised after 1392, when the union of the guilds took place.] [Footnote 744: Sharp, _Antiq._ 221.] [Footnote 745: Miss Howard (_Englishwoman_, Jan., 48, 1911) identifies the feminine group with Elizabeth's daughters and sisters and mother-in-law, Margaret Beaufort.] [Footnote 746: Sharp, _op. cit._, 222.] [Footnote 747: Woodhouse, _Churches of Coventry_.] INDEX A Abingdon, monastery at, 16; letter sent to, 152 Actors, Coventry, 288 Aelfgar, 23 Alchemist, an, 240 Aldermen, 77; appointment of, proposed, 115; police duties of, 267, 279 Aldgyth, 23 Ale-tasters, 247 Ale-wives, 228, 249 Almshouse, 263 "Angel" inn, 131 Annals, or mayor-lists, unreliability of, 106 (and note) Annunciation, 82; pageant of, 287, 299 Apprentices, swear to franchises, 200-1, 226; morals of, 227, 279; number of, limited, 225; on setting up shop, pay fine, 226 and note; treatment of, 227 Archery, 278 Armour, provided by citizens 114-115; delivered to captains, 311-2 Arms, view of, 311 Arthur, Prince of Wales, 307 Assize of ale, 246; of bread, 51, 71, 98, 246, 248 Assumption, 82; pageant of, 287, 299 Audley, Lord, 130 B Bablake, church of St John the Baptist at, _see_ Churches, Hospital; gate at, 8 Baginton, 102, 248 Bagot, Sir William, 102 Bailiffs, duties of, 88; _see also_ Sheriffs Bakers, offend against assize of bread, 98; take sanctuary at Baginton, 248; rules of, 251 (note). Ball, John, taken at Coventry, 97; discourse of, 98 Banbury, 144, 151; Puritanism at, 279 Barnet Field, 151, 152 Baron's Field, 179 Bath, Roman town, 15 Battle, trial by, 53 Beam, wool weighed at the, 250 Bear-baiting, 278 Bearward, 88, 278 Beaumont, Lord, 120, 128 Bedford, Duke of, 110; Duchess of, 111, 149 Bedon, William, quarrels with Huet, 137 Belfry, symbol of independence, 74 (note). Bell, church, 158, 234 and note; daybell, rung at dawn, 234; "larum" bell, 126 (note) Benedictines, house of, at Coventry, 16, 24; life among the, 27-8; habit of, 238; _see also_ Coventry, Monks, Priors, Priory "Benevolences," 155 Beverley, plays at, 290 Bishopric of Coventry, title of, 167 Bishops of Coventry, _see_ Coventry Black Death, 13, 244 Blood, Holy, of Hales, 238 Bloreheath, battle of, 130 Blue thread, special colour used in dyeing, 252 Bolingbroke, Henry, 9, 101, 102 Bond, John, 216; _see also_ Almshouse Bonfires on S. John's Eve, 285 Books sold at fairs, 253 Bordars, 37 (note) Boston, ship of, 259 Bosworth Field, battle of, 157, 256 Boteler, Henry, _see_ Recorders