Manor, see Bodo, 150
Manse, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25
Mansi. See Manji
Marcus Aurelius, 2, 3, 4
Marignolli, John, 70
Marino Faliero, 63
Mark Lane, 140, 150
Markshall, 168
Marmora, Sea of, 42
Marts, 147, 150, 193. See Fairs
Mass, 44, 71, 80, 99, 117
Matins, 79, 82
Mechlin, 122
Mediterranean, 15, 42, 43
Medway, 140, 142
‘Meg’, a hawk, 138
Melaria, 64
Melibeus and Prudence, 99, 186
Menagier de Paris, Chap.  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