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INDEX.

Abbey of Glastonbury, 40; note 67
of Shaftesbury, 40; note 67
of Westminster, 30; note 47
Abbeys founded by the crown, 51
Agriculture, low state of, 10, 18; note 6
Albany, duke of, 17

Ale and beer, 10, 21; note 5
Alexander the Second, pope, 53
Ambassador, Milanese, 11, 42
Anglesey, island of, 7, 20; note 29
Annates, or first fruits, note 94
Apprentices, 24, 25, 26, 43; note 38
Arch-bishopricks and bishopricks of Eng-
land, 40, note 65; of Scotland, 18,
note 23; of Wales, 18, note 24

Archers, 31; notes 51 and 78

Arms, high reputation of the English in,

23

Army, Scotch, 15, 16; note 20

Arrest, power of, 33; note 52

Ayala, Don Peter de, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18;

notes 15 and 16

Bede, the historian, 8, 13
Bedford, duchy of, 49

Benefices enjoyed by the crown, when
vacant, 51; note 89

Berwick upon Tweed, 17, 18, 45, 50;
notes 22 and 87

Bristol, 31, 41
Bulls, pope's, 41; note 68

Cæsar, Julius, 8, 9

Calais, 8, 45, 50; notes 86, 87
Caledonia, forest of, 10; note 7
Cambridge, university of, 22

Carlino, Bolognese, 51; note 90

Causes, civil and criminal, trials of, 32,
33

Charles the Eighth, king of France, 52
Chief justice of England, 36, 37

Church of England, great riches of, 29,
30, 38, 40, 41

Circumference of Britain, 8

City feasts, 44; note 74

Clarence, duchy of, 49

Clergy, the, great power of, 34, 35, 41;
note 64

Climate, 8, 9, 14; note 2

Collector, apostolic, 54; note 95

Customs, 49, 50; note 83

Danegeld, 48; note 82

Dee, the river, 13

Dover, 8, 31

Dress, 22; note 31

Drinking cup, 21; note 30

Kites, and other rapacious birds, protected

by law, 11; note 10

Ease, English love of, 23; note 37

Eboracum. See York

Edward the Confessor, 30; note 47
Edward the Elder, 16

Edward the First, 19; note 28

Edward the Fourth, 52

England, description of, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 20
English, the, character and manners of,

20, 21, 22. 23, 24; notes 32 and 33
Exeter, duchy of, 49

Fees, knight's. See Military services
Fifteenths and tenths, 52; note 92
Fish, 9; note 3

Flanders, count of, 45

Game, abundance of, 10, 15; note 8
Gloucester, duchy of, 49

Half groats, coined at Canterbury and
Durham, 38; note 57

Henry the Seventh, king, 14, 17, 19, 37,
39, 45, 46, 47, 52; notes 79 and 81
Homage, claimed by the English from
Scotland, 16, 17, note 21; paid by
England to the pope, 53, 54

Horns, unable to bear cold, 10; unicorns',
29; note 43

Hospitality of the Scotch, 15; note 19
Houses of the Scotch nobility, 15, note
18; in London, 42; note 71

Innocent the Third, pope, 54

James the Third, king of Scotland, 17

James the Fourth, king of Scotland, 14
Jersey, island of, 45; note 76
John, king of England, 54

Lancaster, duke of, 37, 48

Language, of the Scotch, 18; of the

Welsh, 19; of the English, 22

Lay clerks, 35, 36; note 55
Lead and tin, 11, 43; note 11
London, description and riches of, 42, 43;
notes 71 and 72

Lord mayor and aldermen, 43; note 73
Lords temporal, condition of, 37, 39
Lords spiritual, condition of, 40
Louis XI. King of France, 52
Love, unknown to the English, 24

Magdalen college, 22; note 34
Majesty, note 80

Malcolm (Canmore) king of Scotland, 16
Man, Isle of, 7, 18, 20

Menanian islands, 7, 18, 45; note 76
Merchants, Italian, 12, 28, 32; note 83
Mestre, 45; note 77

Military services, 38, 48; note 58
Monasteries, 29, 38, 40, 51; notes 41

and 66

Moruini, diocese of, 45; note 77

Nights, shortness of, in Scotland, 12;

note 13

Nobility, great establishments of the, 39;
note 60

Noble, the coin, 14; note 16

Offa's dyke, 13; note 14

Office of our Lady, 23; note 35

Offices in the gift of the crown, 53; note

93

Orcades islands, 7, 18

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