Tabriz, 62
Tacitus, 4
Tana, 71
Tangut, 55, 57, 59, 63
Tartar(s), 49-52, 57, 62, 66-71, 178,
  see also Marco Polo; attitude of
  West to, 49; embassy of, 52; fall of
  dynasty of, 71; modern books on,
  178; Peter the, 66; power of, 49;
  princess, 61, 70; slaves, 66
Tartary, 49, 50, 63
Tate, John, 134, 137
Taylor, Robert, 160
Templars, 53
Temyngton, 144.
Testamenta Eboracensia, 157, 154,
  191, 196
Thames, 156
Theodulf, Bishop of Orleans, 35
Tibet, 43, 47, 49, 57, 66, 67
Tiepolo, Doge Lorenzo, 44, 45, 50
Tierce, 79
Timochain, 61, 180
Tittivillus, 83-4
Torneys, Robert, 144
Trade, see Merchant
Trebizond, 40, 42, 62
Tripoli, 42
Turbot, Robert of Lamberton, 137
Turcomania, 54
Turkestan, 49
Tuscan, 42
Tyre, 40, 42

Udine, 70
Underbay, 137 f
Uppcher, Margaret and Robert, 166

Vandals, 15
Venice:  Venetian, 39-44, 44-8, 51,
  53, 62-5, 70, 71, 145, 177-8; Cassiodorus
  on, 39; Chronicler of,
  see Canale, Martino da; Doge of,
  4, 44-6, 63; excommunication of,
  41; history of, 39-46, 50, 178;
  merchants of, at Hangchow, 70,
  71; modern works on, 177; Polos’
  return to, 53, 63; procession of
  gilds in, 45, 48, 50; records of,
  65; rivalry of, with Genoa, 42,
  63-4; trade of, 37, 40, 41, 42-3,
  47, 70, 145, 178; wedding of, with
  sea, 40, 41; wool dealers of, 145
Vespers, 79
Villaris, 23, 24, 25
Villicus, see Steward
Villein, Villeinage, 19, 21, 158
Visigoths, 10

Walberswick, 140
Walpole, 156
Wang Wei, 182
Way of Poverty and Wealth, 100
Wedding feasts, 115-16, 164-5
Welbech, William, 151
West:  Riding, 167; Street, Coggeshall,
  170, 171, 172
Whyte of Broadway, 137
Wido (see also Bodo), 23, 27, 29, 33
Wilkins (Wylkyns) Henry, 140
William I, 20
Wills:  of John Barton of Holme,
  191; of Thomas Betson, 134, 151,
  194; of bishops, 158; of Paycockes,
  157, 166-9, 195, 196; of
  villeins, 158; general sources for,
  157, 191, 196
Wilton, 176
Winchester, St Mary’s, Abbess of, 86
Winchcomb, John (see Jack of Newbury)
Wood, Lieutenant John, 54
Wool (see Betson, Cely, Merchan
  Staple); export of, 122, 123
  Gower on, 123, 144; inspection of,
  144; lives of merchants of, 151
  (see Betson); packing and shipping
  of, 139-44; ports from
  whence sent, 140; private bargains
  in, 138; private letters or
  export of, 125; purchase of, 136-7,
  regulations concerning, 139-44;
  revenues from, 121; sale of, 138,
  145-9; tombs of merchants of,
  123; where grown, 123, 136
Woolsack, 120
Wykeham, William of, 92

Xanadu (see Shandu), 57
Xenophon, 96