Council, great, held at Coventry, 126, 127; _see also_ Mayor's Council, Prince of Wales Court, of the royal household, 101; of statute merchant, 253-4 and note; spiritual, for trial of craftsmen, 218; _see also_ Leet, Portmanmote Coventry, bishops of, Blythe, 158; Durdent, 32, 40; Limesey, 30; Nunant, expels monks from Priory, 30-2; la Pucelle, 33; elections of the, 32-5; burgesses of, protest against confiscation of guilds' lands, 162; cathedral of, 18, 25; derivation of, 11; _see also_ Charters, Mayors, Recorders ---- send to, 3 ---- bells, flower name, 3 Cox Street, or Mill Lane, pageant houses in, 12, 293 Crafts, combinations of, suppressed, 220 (note); companies of, now existing, 232; members of, tried in spiritual courts, 218; feasts of, 284; fines paid by, 219; fines paid on admission to freedom of, 226 and note; power of corporation over, 217-23; rules of, overlooked, 218 (note); _see also_ Apprentices, Cappers, Dyers, etc., Pageants Cucking stool, 240 D Danes, 15, 308 Dartmouth, 141 (note) Daubers and rough masons forbidden to form a fellowship, 231 Daventry, 6 Despensers, plot to kill by witchcraft, 64 Dieulacres, 42 Dissolution of the monasteries, 161-2 Domesday Survey, Coventry in, 37 and note; Prior's-half not in, _ibid._ Doomsday, pageant of, 129, 295, 305, 306 Drama, liturgical, _see_ Pageants Drapers, apprentices of, 226 (note); chapel of, 275 (note); influence of, 75, 216; overlook searchers of cloth, 217; survival of company of, 232 Drapery, cloth sold in, 202, 212, 250 and note; and Trinity guild, 82; drapers live near, 250 Drayton, Michael, 1, 14 Drogheda, 252 and note Dublin, 252 (note), 254 Dugdale, Sir William, attributes the _Ludus Coventriæ_ to the Grey Friars, 297 Dunstable, 56, 276 (note); play at, 290 Dunster, 22 Dye, French, 218, 257 Dyers, men of, ride in armed watch, 286; chapel of, 275 (note); raise price of dyeing cloth, 220 and note; combinations of, 217, 220 and note; payment of, to minstrels, 309 (note); petition against abuses of, 217, 220 (note); treatment of, by corporation, 220-1; _see also_ Journeymen, Saunders E Eadric Streona, 15 Earl's-half of Coventry, 7, 38, 57; becomes a royal manor, 67; _see also_ Prior's-half Edgcote, battle of, 144, 243 (note) Edward I., 61 ---- II. borrows from citizens, 61; supports prior, 62; plot to kill by witchcraft, 64 ---- III., 68 ---- IV. and jurisdiction, 135-136; citizens embrace cause of, 132-3; citizens give welcome to, 153; confiscates franchises, 152; plots of Warwick against, 143, 145; a prisoner in Coventry, 144; war between, and Warwick, 150-1