Botoner, family of, trade with Bristol, 256; build S. Michael's steeple, 257; purchase estate, _ibid._ ---- Adam, 257 Botoner, William, 257 Brakemen, workers in iron, 221-3 Brass, memorial, to Sir William Bagot, 102 Braytoft, Richard, 176 Breauté, Faulkes de, 95-6 Bredon, Friar John, opposes the hermit's preaching, 107; attacks monks, 276-8; nails bills on the church door, 277 Brethren, of the mayor, _see_ Mayor's Council Brewers, forbidden to take water from conduits, 246; forestall barley, 249; trade of, lucrative, 248 Bridgman, Sir Orlando, house of, 6 Bristol, cannon brought from, 115; trade with, 215, 252, 256; toll demanded at, 257 Bristowe, John, draper, 172, 216; encroaches on common lands at Whitley, 172-3, 180; drives cattle on Coventry pastures, 173 ---- William, of Whitley, 172, 174; offends the corporation, 174-5; the mayor and citizens break into his closes, 175-6, 177-8; appeals to the privy council, 177; suit between, and the community about the ownership of enclosed lands, 178-80; keeps meadows, several, 194; further suit, 196-7; _see also_ Whitley Broadgate, 73 Bruges, staple for cloth at, 258 Buckingham, Duchess of, 128 ---- Duke of, Humphrey Stafford, quarrels with Coventry men, 113; retainers and badge of, 113, 238; attends Henry VI., 119, 128; assists Duke of York to escape, 126; visits Coventry, 131; dies at Northampton, 132 Bull-baiting, 278 Bull-ring, poulterers stand near the, 250 Burgage, free, 46 Burgundy, wool trade with, 140, 150 Bury S. Edmund's, monastery at, 16; men of, get concessions from the abbot, 66 C Cade, Jack, 114; quarters of, exposed on town gates, 243 Caen, abbeys at, 16 Calais, 143, 146; _see also_ Staple Caludon Castle, 102 Cannock Chase, robbers at, 258 Canterbury, Archbishop of, 210; Arundel, 103, 104 Cantilupe, Fulk de, 34 Cappers, 225; company of, survives, 232; fines for admission to freedom of craft, 226 (note); treatment of apprentices among, 227 (note); _see also_ Apprentices, Chapel, Journeymen, Pageants Caps, making of, by journeymen forbidden, 232 Cardmakers, bill concerning abuses of the, 222; _see also_ Journeymen Card-wiredrawers, _see_ Cardmakers Carmelites, habit of, 238 Carpenter, John, of London, 263 Carpenters, apprentices of, 232; feasts of, 284, 309 (note) Carthusians, house of, at Coventry, 100; habit of, 238; _see also_ Charter-house Cartwright, Presbyterian, at Warwick, 165 Castle, of Coventry, 40 Catesby, John, 178, 180 Catherine of France, Queen, 107 Chamberlain, duties of, 88, 187; _see also_ Saunders, Laurence Chapel Fields, 41 Chapel of S. George on the Gosford Gate, 83, 275 (note) ---- of S. James and S. Christopher, 8 ---- of S. Mary Magdalene, at Spon, 41 Chapels of the crafts in the parish churches, 274, 275 (note) Chard, 152