Black Death, 108, 109
Black Prince, 19
Black Sea, 40, 42, 50, 71
Blakey, Sir Roger, 127
Booking, 154
Bodo, Chap II passim, 18-38, 174-5, 198
Bokhara, 51, 52
Bolgana, wife of Khan of Persia, 60
Bordeaux, Burdews, 142; University of, 6
Bordelais, the, 6, 7
Brabant, 146, 148
Brad well, 140
Brasses, 123, 136, 151, 155, 156, 157, 159, 190, 195
Braunch, Robert, 156
Brenner Pass, 40
Brescia, Albertano de, 99
Breten, Will, 137
Brews, Margery, 125-6
Bridge, John, 119
Briggs, Henry, 169
Brightlingsea, 140
Brinkley, 135
Brittany, 147
Broadway, Whyte of, 137
Brogger, 137
Bruges, 121, 122, 145, 147, 178
Bruyant, Jean, 100
Bucephalus, 54
Buddha, 59
Bullinger, Henry, 165
Burgundy, Dukes of, 114, 148
Burma, 57, 67
Bury, 15
Busshe, John, 137
Buxton:  Charles, Isaac, Samuel, Thomas, William, 197;
  Mr Noel, 195
Byzantium, see Constantinople

Caffa, 42
Calais, 121, 125, 137, 138, 139, 140,
  142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148,
  150, 200
Cambaluc (see Peking), 57, 59, 60,
  61, 67
Cambrensis, Giraldus, 176
Canale, Martino da, 43-5, 48, 50, 177,
  179, 180
Candia, 42
Canterbury, 74
Canterbury Tales, 74, 75, 91, 183, 186
Canton, 70
Ca’ Polo, 62, 63
Carrara, Francesco, 179
Carsy, Anthony, 149
Caspian Sea, 40, 54
Cassiodorus, 39, 180
Castro, Diego da, 149
Cathay (see also China), 47, 50, 58,
  70, 71, 72, 178
Caucasus, 49, 180
Cely:  family of wood merchants,
  137-47 passim; George, 125, 137,
  138, 142, 147; Richard, 125, 137,
  138, 142; William, 125, 138, 142,
  149
Cely papers, 125, 137, 142, 145, 147,
  148, 189
Ceylon, 43, 47, 61, 70
Chagatai, Khan of, 51
Chao Meng-fu, 59, 182, 198
Chao Yung, 59
Charlemagne, 2, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27,
  30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 74, 176
Charms (see also superstition), 27-9,
  100, 116, 175
Chatelet, 100
Chaucer, 26, 43, 74, 75, 81, 88, 89,
  90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 99, 104, 112,
  119, 138, 142, 148, 152, 183
Chelmsford, 168
Chesne, Jean du, 114
Chichevache, 104
Chi’en Hsuean, 59
Child-marriages, 126-7, 190
Chilperic, King, 2, 13
Chilterns, 125
China (see also Cathay), 43, 46-50,
  52, 57-61, 66, 67-70, 178, 180, 181
Chioggia, War of, 179
Church, attitude to:  child marriages,
  126, 190; convent pets, 91; dancing,
  30, 31, 88; decline of Roman
Empire, 9; monastic intercourse
  with the world, 92, 93; nuns’
  dowries, 78; superstition, 28, 29,
  30; attack on worldliness of, 74;
  bequests to (see also Wills), 151,
  168; brasses in, see brasses;
  councils of, 174
Churches of:  Barking, All Hallows,
  123,151; Beauchamp St Pauls, 168;
  Bradwell, 168; Calais, Our Lady,