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.  Ill passim, 177,
    Kublai Khan; attendant on
    Khan, 55; book of, 54 ff, 63,
    67, 185, 198; death of, 66; departure
    from China of, 60;
    father of (see Maffeo), 50-75;
    governor of Yangchow, 57,
    182; interest in Tartars, 48-50;
    journeys of, 54-62, 181; mention
    of, in Venetian records,
    65; nicknamed Il Milione, 63;
    prisoner of Genoese, 64-5;
    released by Genoese, 65; return
    to Venice of, 62; sent on
    mission by Khan, 57; stories
    of, about Khan, 64-6; uncle of,
    50-7, 181; wife and family,
    65
  Nicolo, 50-71
Polyptychum, 174
Pope, 40, 41, 50, 52, 53, 70, 93
Pordenone, Ordoric of, 58, 70, 180
Porte-de-Paris, 114
Prester John, 49, 181
Prioress, see Eglentyne, Nunneries,
  Nuns, Chap.  IV passim, 183;
  in bishop’s registers, 74-8; clothes
  of, 88, 89, 90; complaints by nuns
  of, 76-8, 85, 92; entertainment of
  visitors by, 86, 87; intercourse of,
  with world, 92, 93-4; pets of, 90,
  91; treatment of nuns by, 84; work
  of, 85, 86, 87, 92
Prime, 79
Prologue:  of Canterbury Tales, 73-4,
  89, 94, 95, 113, 130, 142, 186; of
  Menagier de Paris, 97