Chapter IV: Life

A. _Civic Life_

City government, the parishes; extra municipal rights; a royal city; charter; sheriffs; mayor; city councils; civic spirit; city and trade rule; royal government; punishments; sanctuary

B. _Parliamentary and National Life_

Leasing of royal power; Parliament; visits of Henry IV.; Wars of Roses; Duke of Gloucester; judges of assize; royal larder

C. _Business Life_

Middle class of merchant employers; Jews and Italians; professions; wool trade; trade-guilds; their government; strangers; phases of guild life; merchants; apprentices; working hours; trades; artist craftsmen; markets and fairs; overseas trade; money; extracts from ordinances

D. _Religious Life_

The Church in the Middle Ages; the Church and daily life; merchants and religion; the Church and education; work of hospitals; priests (at Minster; parish churches; Archbishop); pluralism; religious orders; monastic life; St. Mary's Abbey; Anchorites; other types of religious (pardoner, palmer, pilgrim {original had "pligrim"}); Church services

E. _Education_

Higher education; grammar schools; elementary education; educational welfare work; instruction; the ways in which the citizen got news and information; vocations; literacy in fifteenth century; mediæval learning; Revival of Learning

F. _Entertainments_

Holidays, travelling; mediæval plays; York plays; Corpus Christi Day Processions; production of pageants; other forms of entertainment; archery

G. _Classes_

Fashions and dress; nobles; religious; townspeople; women; the freemen; soldiers; men in royal service; lepers; visitors (kings, lords, commoners; judges; sailors) serfs

CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION

York a city of destruction and a "storehouse of the past"

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

YORK IN THE XVTH CENTURY _(From a drawing by E. Ridsdale Tate)_

COOKING WITH THE SPIT _(From the Louttrell Psalter)_

BISHOP AND CANONS _(From Richard II.'s "Book of Hours")_

KNIGHTS DOING PENANCE AT A SHRINE _(From a XVth Century MS.)_

ADMINISTRATION OF HOLY COMMUNION WITH HOUSEL CLOTH _(From a XIVth Century MS.)_

SEMI-CHOIR OF FRANCISCANS _(From a XVth Century MS.)_

ARCHERY _(From the Louttrell Psalter)_

AN ABBOT

A MEDIÆVAL CITY