List of illustrations

List of figures

0.1  Stained-glass window in the Palmers’ Guild Chapel, St Laurence’s Church, Ludlow. Copyright: Granpic.

0.2  A folio from the clerk’s receipt book. The first section is for those paying in Caernarfon, followed by those paying in Chester. Margaret ferch Llywelyn’s entry is the sixth on the folio and Roger Towres’ is the twelfth. SA: LB/5/3/40, f. 5v.

0.3  A folio of the ‘riding book’ containing Roger Towres’ entry, along with his wife Elizabeth. His contribution of 4d while in Chester (Figure 0.2) is simply noted as ‘4d 3 Clo’, signalling that the steward Roger Clonton received 4d from him in the third year of his office. SA: LB/5/3/2, f. 133v.

0.4  Register of Admission, 1488/9. SA: LB/5/1/2.

3.1  Structure of Worcester’s civic government up to incorporation in 1555.

List of maps

0.1  Ludlow in the fourteenth century.

0.2  Locations of all new members, 1497–1516.

0.3  Recruitment of new members, 1497–1501.

0.4  Recruitment of new members, 1501/2.

0.5  Recruitment of new members, 1502/3.

0.6  Recruitment of new members, 1503/4.

0.7  Recruitment of new members, 1504/5.

0.8  Recruitment of new members, 1505/6

0.9  Recruitment of new members, 1506/7.

0.10  Recruitment of new members, 1507/8.

0.11  Recruitment of new members, 1515/16.

List of tables

3.1  Palmers who held civic office in Shrewsbury

3.2  Palmers who held the office of bailiff in Worcester

3.3  Palmers who held civic office in Gloucester

3.4  Palmers who held civic office in Bristol

3.5  Palmers who held civic office in Coventry