V _passim_ 127, 185; on accounts, 188; on cookery, 100, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 186; on deportment, 99, 102-3, 116; on duty to husband, 99, 101, 103-7, 118; on extermination of insects, in, 112; on games, 101, 117, 187; on garments and household linen, 98, 99, 102, 111, 112, 117, 188; on management of farm, 100; on servants, 100, 102, 107-111, 114, 115, 117, 118; on wife's second marriage, 98, 114 Mercers, 149 Merchant Adventurers, 122, 193 Merchant: Arab, 47; Chinese, 46, 47, 58, 71; English, _see_ Betson, Company Merchant Adventurers, Paycocke, Staple; Indian, 47; Italian, 149; Roman, 1 ff; Spanish, 149; Venetian, _see_ Venice, trade of, marks of, 153, 157, 158, 159; repair of roads by, 169 Merovingian, 13 Meung, Jean de, 99 Middleburgh, 142 Middle classes: growth of, 158; houses of, 158, 159; menagier as type of, 158 Midwinter, William, 136, 137 Milhall, 140 Milton, 140 Minoresses, 129 Minstrels, 31, 32, 38 _Missi dominici, see_ Justices Money, _see_ Coins Mongol, 58, 60, 178, 182 Mongolia, 49, 55, 57, 67 Monte Corvino, John of, 70 Montfort, Simon de, 75 More, Lewis, 149 Moreta.

_See_ Polo Moslem, 42, 49 Mosul, 54 _Myroure of Our Ladye_, 83, 185 Navarre, Margaret of, 187 Navy: Genoese, 42, 63; Vandal, 15; Venetian, 45, 64 Nestorian, 49, 182 Netherlands, 122, 123, 152 Newark, 138 Newbury, 161; Jack of (John Winchcomb), 152, 162, 163-4, 195 Newhithe, 141 Nicobar, 70 Nile, 40 None, 79 Norman, Normandy, 155 Northampton, 93, 141 Northleach, 123, 136, 137, 138 Norwich, 154 Nunneries, Chap.

IV _passim_, and 129, 184; of Minoresses, 129; at Stainfield, 82; of Syon, 83; of Wilton, 176; bishops' visits to, 76-8; Chaucer's sources for study of, 74; dissolution of, 78, 93; fashions in, 88, 89; management of, 85-7; mentioned in wills, 157; paying guests in, 87, 91; pets in, 90, 91; schoolgirls in, 80, 92; silence hours in, 80; sources for study of, 184 Nuns (_see_ Eglentyne, Nunneries, Prioress, Chap.

IV _passim_), 200; clothes of, 88, 89; complaints of, to bishop, 76-8, 85, 92; dowries of, 78-9; intercourse of, with the world, 92-4; meals of, 79; offices of, 79; periods of silence of, 80; pets of, 90, 91; recreations of, 88; work of, 80 Orewelle (Orwell), 142 Orleans, Bishop of, 35 Orosius, 9 Ovington, 169, 170 Ovis Poli, 54 Oxbridge, Goddard, 140 Oxus, River, 51, 54 Paris, 23, 36, 73, 100, 107, 108, 114 Parliament, 190 _Pask_ (Pasche) Mart, 147, 193 Paston, John, 126; Letters, 125, 190 Pattiswick, 168 Paulinus, St, of Nela, 5 Paycocke: Emma, 166; John, 157, 165; John, jun., 166; Margaret, 165, 166; Robert, 166; Robert, jun., 166; Thomas, jun., 157; Thomas, Chap.

VII _passim, see also_ Cloth; bequests of, 168, _see_ Will of; brasses of family of, 157, 195; burial ceremonies of, 171-2; character of, 167; child of, 166, 171; _consrater_ of Crutched Friars, 168; death of, 166, 171; friends of, 168; house of, 156, 158, 165, 170, 195, 200; merchant mark of, 158, 159; repairs roads, 169; second wife of, 166, 169, 171; wedding of, 165; will of, 157, 158, 159, 166, 167, 168, 169, 195, 196 Pegolotti, Francis Balducci, 71 Peking (_see also_ Cambaluc, China, Polo), 49, 57, 60, 71; ambassadors sent to, 60; Archbishop of, 70; description of, by Oderic of Pordenone, 70; papal legate, to, 70; Tartar rule in, 49 Pembroke, William, Earl of, 99 Perpendicular architecture, 152, 155, 159 Perpoint, Thomas, 161 Persia, 40, 42, 49, 51, 54, 61, 67 Peter the Tartar, 66 Petrarch, 100, 179, 180 Piacenza, Tebaldo di, 53 Pian da Carpine (_see_ Piano Carpini) Pierre an Lait, 114 _Piers Plowman_, 84, 169 Pilgrims' Way, 140 Piano Carpini, John of, 50, 181 _Pleasant History of Jack of Newbury_, 162, 195 Plumpton Letters, 190 Polo: Bellela, Donata, Fantina, Moreta, 65 Maffeo, 50-7 Marco, _see_ Chap.