Chapter 20

20,29,35London Bridge,529London, parishes of,492;subdivision of,495;number of,495;fees in,496;map of, in 1570,493Longland, John, Bishop of Lincoln,344Lord’s Prayer, metrical version of,248Magdalen College, Oxford,554Manchester, parochial history of,515Manumission of slaves,81,82,332,333Market Harborough Church,186Married clergy,262Mass,200,236,237,243-248Matins,200,202,204Mediety, benefices held in,56“Minster,”37Miracle plays,315Mission work among the Anglo-Saxons,21,24Monasteries, Saxon,28-37;revival of, under Edgar and Canute,37;Norman,90-93;character,366;social influence,367;parochial influence,369Money, comparative value of, in 1292, 1534, and 1890,404Monks,73,97,98,108,285Mortuary services,457-462Morville,114Myrk John, “Instructions for Parish Priests,”232“Myrroure of our Ladye,”249Newark,523Newnham, Gloucestershire,119Non-residence,146,326,330Norman bishops, abbots, priests, costume of,83,91Norman conquest, results of,84Normans, church building by the,87,88Northumberland, Earl of, staff of domestic chapel,413Norway, anecdotes of its conversion,17-19;introduction of Christianity into,18,19Norwich, parishes of,490Oils for baptism and unction,72,75Offering days,71,73Offerings as source of income,400Offertory,245;of the domestic chapels,414,426Opinions during the Middle Ages,546Orarium, or stole,192Ordeal,66Ordericus Vitalis,90,115Orders of the clergy,74Ordination,144-146;refusal of,327,328Pallium,191Papal supremacy,85Parish clerk,67,283,298-305Parishes, origin of,44-46;extent of,50,110;subdivision of,51,53;number of, inA.D.1292 andA.D.1534,385,394;income of,389,396,397-406Parish priest, his ecclesiastical status,50;social status,51,73;instructions for,232-240Parsonage houses,148-158, at Weston Turville, West Dean, Alfriston, Kelvedon, Kingston-on-Thames, Bulmer, Ingrave, Ingatestone, Allington, Little Bromley, North Benfleet, Great Bentley, St. Peter’s Colchester, Radwinter, Laindon; and161Passion play,304,315Patronage, abuse of, by the Crown,321Paulinus of York,17,21Peckham, Archbishop, his manual of teaching,216Penance,201;by proxy,64;forbidden,64;for sabbath-breaking,201Penitential system, Saxon,532Peter Lombard,137Pickering,117“Piers Plowman,” Vision and Creed, extracts from,132,133,150,171,203,207,278Pilgrimage,308;places of,309Pilgrims,309Pledge breaking, punishment of,65.Pluralities,323Pocklington,117Poetry, devotional,255-257“Poor Parson of a Town,” Chaucer’s,550Preaching,62,71,75,214-223,285-288;helps in,223,224Prebend,351;of Lincoln Cathedral,353Prebendaries of Lincoln,351;of Chichester,361Presentation of offenders to the bishop,62,67Priests, character of,68,71,73,233;duties of,69,72,233-240Primer,249Prince bishops of Durham,363;of Winchester,364;of Ely,364Privilege of clergy,86Procession, or Litany,212,311Processions to mother church,121;to cathedral,121,299Puch the Ealdorman, consecration of his church at South Burton,46Recluse,295,527Rectors not in holy orders,325,327,328Revenues of the bishops, deans, and chapters, etc., of Lincoln Cathedral,344;of Chichester Cathedral,360Robert Pullein,138Roger Bacon,139Rotherham, parochial history of,516;College,517Roundelay,118Royal chapels,46,123Ruthwell, cross at,25Saffron Walden Church,185Saints, canonization by local synods,63,81Saints’ Days,80;appointed by synods,63,81St. Alban’s, monastery and town of,513St. Edmund’s Bury, monastery and town of,510Sanctuary,75,306;right of, in churches,75,306;in churchyards,308;in certain persons,308Saxon clergy,21,23,38,57-83;vestments of,62,83Saxon codes of law,39,57Saxon nobleman, house of,47Scholastic theology,137“Sentences” of Peter Lombard,137Serfs admitted to Orders,130Sermon helps,223Sermons,215Service books and vestments which each church was required to possess,67,189,195Services in church,200;attendance at, on Sundays,79,201,203;on week-days,205-207“Services,”479Sham priests,143,144Shawbury,112Shoreham Church,89Shrine of Edward Confessor,187Sick, visitation of,161,237,239Sins, eight deadly,214;seven deadly,221,226,230Slavery,72,81-83,332Slave-trade,82,83Sompting Church,55Sons of clergy,262,273-278Sponsors, at Confirmation,55,69,234;at Baptism,234Stigand, Archbishop,84,86Stokesay,119Stratford, John de, Archbishop, injunction on costume of clergy,164,188Students,140-144“Summa Theologica” of Thomas Aquinas,138Sunday, observance of,69,73,79,205;penalty for desecration of,201,noteSurnames of ecclesiastics taken from their birthplaces,135Surplice,193,194Synodals, annual sum due from incumbent of a benefice to the bishop,397;paid on attending the synod to procure the holy oils.Synods,41,67,337Tapers carried at baptism (Harl. MS. 2278, f. 76);at marriage,496;churching,496;penance,315;funerals,496“Taxatio” of Pope Nicholas IV.,381Teaching by priests,63,214,216-223;by parents,69Temples, Anglo-Saxon,9-11;Norse,18,19Ten Commandments, exposition of,218;metrical version of,239Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury,40;holds a synod at HertfordA.D.673, at which the Heptarchic Churches unite into the Church of England,41;divides the Heptarchic dioceses,41;encourages the parochial system,45Thirteenth century, character of,548Thomas Aquinas,138Thoresby, Archbishop of York, his manual of teaching,222Thornbury, staff of domestic chapel,413Tithe,78;small,99,101Titles for Orders,145Tower of London, domestic chapel,409Town parishes, origin of,489Towns, description of,487;founded by monasteries,507;Burton-on-Trent,508;St. Edmund’s Bury,510;St. Albans,513Township, Saxon, description of,4,5Twelfth century, religious character of,547Types and antitypes,231Unction, Extreme,237,239Universities,136,140“Valor” of Henry VIII.,392Vestments, clerical,62,98,165,191,194,195,198,199,244,299;origin of,191;symbolism of,196Vicar,99-107Vicarages, foundation of,98-108Vicars choral,341;of Lincoln,355;of Chichester,362Virtues, the seven chief,221,229Visitation of the sick,162,237,239,282Visitation, the bishop’s,279,337;articles,281, and replies,285-289;by the archdeacon,338Wakefield bridge and chapel,528Wapentake,5Warham, William,564,565,noteWarwick Chantry Chapel, Tewkesbury,454Weapons carried by clergy,167,183West Dean parsonage house,151Westminster, synod of,A.D.1102,98,113Whalley,107,108,120;history of the parish of,557Wiclif’s Bible,242Wihtred, King of Kent, laws of,57,59,77,81Wilfrid of York, apostle of the South Saxons,40,41,42Wills of clergymen,171-183Winchester, synod of,A.D.1070,86Windsor, domestic chapels,412Winfrid (Boniface),22,60Wingham, college of,564,noteWoolrichston,131Wye, college of,566,noteYatton,106Yellow pest, seventh century,39York, Minster,503,504;St. Mary’s Abbey,503;hospitals in,504;parish churches,505;of clergy,505;income of parochial benefices in,506;Micklegate Bar,487Zacharias, Bishop of Rome,61


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