Absenteeism,146,326,330Acca’s Cross, base of,27Addi the Ealdorman, consecration of his church at North Burton,48Ælfric, homilies,223Aged clergy, provision for,290-296Aidan, apostle of Northumbria,20;his schools,21;preaching,21,22,46Alb,191Alcuin,36Aldhelm,31,49Aldhelm’s religious poetry,241Ale, church, and other ales,317Alfred, laws of,65,76,80,82Alfriston parsonage house,152,153Amice,192Amyss,195Anglo-Saxon conquest, manner of,3,5Anglo-Saxon monasteries, in France,21;in Kent,29;Northumbria,29;East Anglia,31;Wessex,31;Mercia,31-33;list of others,33;life of the,35;destruction of, by Danes,37;restoration of, by Edgar and Dunstan,37Anglo-Saxons, their civil organization,5;religion,7;temples,9-11;priesthood,11;sacred places,12Archdeacons,173,533;of Lincoln,353,354;of Chichester,362Armour worn by clergy,172,175,177Assistant curates,50,105,106Athelstan, law of, encouraging landowners to build churches on their estates,51;laws of,66Augustine, apostle of Kent,15Augustine, St., monastery of,29,35Banns of marriage,235Baptism, within thirty days under penalty,58,68,234Bede, his description of mission work,23;letter to Archbishop Egbert,49Bede Roll,211,311,472,496Bedesmen,449Bell to be rung for service,70,447;in carrying viaticum to the sick,239;sacring bell,246Benedict Biscop,30,36Benefices, parochial, subdivision of,56Berdstaple Deanery, from “Taxatio,”382;comparison of its parishes in the “Taxatio,” “Valor,” and Clergy List,562Berneston,118Beverley Minster,548Bidding Prayer,207,208Birinus, apostle of Wessex,21Boniface (Winfrid),22,60Bradfield-on-Avon, church at,31,32Bridge chapels,527Brigg Rural Deanery, comparison of its parishes in the “Taxatio,” “Valor,” and Clergy List,564Bristol,499;a Saxon burgh, its Saxon churches,499;religious houses,500;growth of parishes,500;inclusion of Temple and Redcliff,502Britons, survivors of the Anglo-Saxon conquest,4Burton-on-Trent, monastery and town of,508Bury St. Edmunds,510Cædmon, his poems,250Canons,73,335;of Lincoln,350-352;of Chichester,360Canterbury, King’s School at,131;archbishops of, of humble birth,133Canute,37;laws of,52,76,80,86Career offered by the Church,129,134Cathedral close,340Cathedral, organization of,334;of secular canons,335;monastic,336;idea of,350;description of,357Cealchythe, council at,41,78,82Cedd, apostle of the East Saxons,30,36,39Celibacy of the clergy,66,73,258-273,282,283Chadd, Bishop of Mercia,30,31,36Chantries,212;of Burghersh,341,356,447;in Lincoln Cathedral,354;in Chichester Cathedral,362;definition of,438;number and distribution of,442,443;foundation deed of,444,469;of the Black Prince,446;Richard III.,447;Henry VII.,447;nomination to,451;dissolution of,471Chantry chapels,453-456;furniture of,445;sometimes chapels-of-ease,467Chantry priests, of cathedrals incorporated, London,443;York,503;of towns, sometimes a priest’s house provided for them,518,525;remuneration of,461-464;duties of,465,466;sometimes schoolmasters,469-471Chapels, royal,46,123;parochial,50,110;free,123,124;domestic chantry,421,422,457Chaplains, parish,105,106,111;domestic,409-423Chapter house,342;use of,357Chasuble,191,244Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” extracts from,172,271,304Choristers, of Lincoln Cathedral,356;song schools for,469,471Churches, Saxon, different status of,52,54;number of,54;repair of,66,188;to be reserved to sacred uses,69;burial in,69;dilapidations,163;their architecture,184;furniture,187,189,190Churchyard,69,205,281,316;right of sanctuary in,308;sports, markets, etc., in,316,317Clergy, number of, in 1377,390Clerk, parish.SeeParish clerkClitheroe, castle church of,120Clovesho, councils at,41,60,240Clugny, Abbey of,368Clun, Shropshire,112Colchester Castle, domestic chapel,410Colleges, at universities,140;Rotherham,517;Wingham,564,note;Wye,566,noteCommunion, Holy, doctrine of,75,237;in one kind,235Confession,234,239,536,543Confirmation,238;sponsors at,59,69,234Confraternity of a religious house,439Conisborough,103,409Conversion of the English,14,21-23Conway Castle chapel,410Cope,193,196Costume of clergy, ordinary,165,169-171Course of studies,139Courts, ecclesiastical,532,544Coventry St. Michael’s Church,555Cranmer, Edmund,564,565noteCranmer on the education of the lower classes,131Creed, Apostles’, exposition of,217;metrical version of,238Cross, station,24Cuckfield Church,455Customs on holy days,311Cuthbert,23Daily celebration of Holy Communion,205,206Daily Psalter in cathedrals,351Daily service in churches and chapels,205,207Dalmatic,192Danes destroy monasteries and churches,37Dean and chapter,336;of Lincoln,345;of Chichester,361Delamere, Abbot of St. Albans,199Denington, Chantry Chapel at,456Devotional books,225;poetry,255-257Dilapidations,162Dioceses, Saxon,20;subdivision of,41,42Discipline,531;of clergy,533-535,537;of laity,535-544;defiance of,542,543Dispensations, for obstacles to ordination,146,275;for non-residence,146“Dives and Pauper,”249Domesday Survey, mention of churches and clergy in,54Domestic chapels,409;Norman,409,418;Edwardian,410;later,412-437;chantries in,421,457;oratories,422;number of,423;licences for,424,428;marriages in,431;furniture of,433;services in,435Domestic chaplains, in the sixth century,408;Saxon,409,417;Norman,409,419-437;members of religious houses acting as,418;emoluments of,419,420,462Dress, ordinary, of the clergy,164-172,233Duns Scotus,139Dunstable Priory,102,324Dunstan,37,66Durham Cathedral,87Ecclesiastical courts,86,532“Edgar, Canons of,”66Edmund, laws of,66Egbert, Archbishop of York,49;constitutions of,111Elfric, canons of,74Endowments of parish churches,45,53England, Church of,41Establishment of the Church among the English,20Ethelbert, King of Kent, laws of,57,58Ethelred, laws of,72,82Eucharist, rules for celebration of,70;doctrine of,75Evensong,200,203,204Exchange of benefice by bishops or priests forbidden,68Excommunication, general,238,544,545Exeter, chapels and religious houses in,497;parochial organization,497Eyam, cross at,26Farming benefices,321,324,326,331,403Fasting,60,71Felix, apostle of the East Angles,21Fifteenth century, character of,553;architecture of,553Firstfruits and tenths,380Folk-mote,6Foreign incumbents,320Fourteenth century, character of,549Free chapels,124Friars, at the universities,140;origin of,370;organization,371;work,373;success,374;interference with parochial clergy,376;poverty,378Furniture, of clergy houses,174-182;of churches,187-191Gilds, definition of,473;trade,475;religious,476-481;social,482;at Ludlow,473,476;Bristol,476;York,476;Norwich,478;Worcester,478;Birmingham,478;suppression of,483Glebe, size of,55Godparent,59,69,234Goodrich, Bishop of Ely, his monumental brass,198Granby,103Gratian’s Decretals,121Gray, Archbishop Walter de, his “Register,”102,116,189Greenstead Church, Essex (Saxon timber church),52Grostete, Bishop of Lincoln,167,281,327,336;his “Castle of Love,”242Hampole, Richard of,225Harlow,100Heathenism, laws against,58,59,68,72Heptarchic kingdoms, establishment of their churches,20Hertford, council at,41Hilda, St.,30Holy days,80Holy loaf,235,403Hood,239Hospitality of the clergy,158-160Hours, canonical,74Hugh of St. Victor,138;St., Bishop of Lincoln,281,322;of Wells, Bishop of Lincoln,280Humble birth, bishops of,133Hundred,5Illuminated MSS., references to,567Impropriation of benefices,95-97;forbidden without consent of bishops,98Ine, King of the West Saxons, laws of,57,58Iona,15Ipswich, in Domesday,506;in the “Taxatio,”506;convents of Austin Canons and Friars,507;hospitals,507Isolation of Anglo-Saxon townships,6John Ball, priest,171Jutland, introduction of Christianity into,17Kellum,117King’s College Chapel, Cambridge,552Kingston-on-Thames,115;free chapel there,125Kirkby Malamdale,102Laindon church and house,162Lanfranc,88,136Lateran, council of, inA.D.1179,98Latimer, Hugh, his education,141Laws, Saxon codes of,39,57-83“Lay Folks’ Mass-book,”243-249Learning, revival of,136Lepers,286,294,343Lewinna, South Saxon martyr,17Lights for altar,312;statues,313,498;purification,314,425;funeral,315;meaning of,312,315.SeeTapersLincoln Cathedral,338,340;organization of its chapter,343Lindisfarne,