1-5Monasteries, Benedictine,9;British,5;Saxon,7;suppression of,52Monastery, arrangement of a Carthusian,71;description of a,72et seq.;graphic sketch of the arrival of guests at a,87Monastic orders, traditionary histories of the founders and saints of,1et seq.;their suppression in England,52Monk, cell of a Carthusian,123;pilgrim,188Monks, abodes of,70;lord,223Monumental brasses,19,57,276,494,495,497,521,527;minutiæof costume of middle ages supplied from,521;peculiar features in,526Movable tower, a,387Music, sketch of the earliest history of,267-70Musical instruments, date of invention of,267;occasions when used,ib.;names of,ib.et seq.;used in the colleges of the prophets,269;Saxon,273;learned essays on mediæval,274;used in celebration of divine worship,285;forms of,309,310Order for the Redemption of Captives,33,34;their habit,34;their rules,ib.Ostiary, costume of an,215n.Our Lady of Mercy, order of,32Our Lady of Walsingham, shrine of,180,181;a relic from,ib.Pachomius, written code of laws by,4Palmers,189,190;graves of three holy,193Parish clerk, frequently the recipient of a legacy,217;his duties,218,220;office of an ancient,ib.;worth of his office,220priests, early handbooks for,227;instructions for,162n.;points of difference between monks and friars and the,222Parochial clergy,195,196;domestic economy of the early,263-65;organization of the established by Archbishop of Canterbury,195Parsonage houses, early,254et seq.;description of,259;furniture of,261,262Pastoral staff, earliest examples of the,237Pedlars, their mode of dealing in mediæval times,513,515,517Pilgrim, an equestrian,168;the female,188;the penitential,178Pilgrimage, chief sign of the Canterbury,170;chief signs of the Roman,168;Holy Land first object of,175;mendicant,176;palmers, on return from, received with ecclesiastical processions,189;practice to return thanks on returning from,189;relics of,191,192;saying of Jerome as to,157;special roads to the great shrines of,178;sign of the Compostella,169;usual places for,159Pilgrimages, a pleasant religious holiday,176;gathering cry of,178;popular English,161,162Pilgrims,159,160;costume of,164,177;description of staff and scrip of,164-66;graphic sketch of a company of passing through a town,179;insignia of,164,192,193;office of,162-64;special signs of,167;singers and musicians employed by,179;vow made by,164Pioneers of commerce, the,485Piracy, prevalence of in mediæval times,483,484Plate armour, first introduction of,336“Pleasure fairs,”507Priest-hermits, costume of,97Priesthood, curious history of way in which many poor men’s sons attained to the,201Prior, functions of,59Prioress, Chaucer’s description of a,58Recluse, service for enclosing a,148,150Recluses, bequests to,128,129;canons concerning,121;cells of female,142;curious details of the life of,130;dress of female,97;giving of alms to,123;hermitages for female,130,131;popular idea as to the life of,121;sketch of,146-48Reclusorium, the,124,125,132Rectors, Saxon,198,199Reformed Benedictine orders,17Regular Canons, Premonstratensian branch of, founded by St. Norbert,21Rettenden, reclusorium at,135,137Richard of Hampole, life of,107-10Rome, pilgrimage to,168;number of pilgrims visiting,168;description of relics at,182,183n.Sacred music,284Salby abbey, staff of servants at,66Saxon soldiers, costume of,312-18,322-24;ornaments of,324,325;romantic fancies in connection with swords of,320;weapons used by,316,318,319,321Saxons, the, a musical people,272;a pastoral rather than an agricultural race,466;corn not exported by the,ib.;famous throughout Europe for goldsmiths’ work and embroidery,ib.;rage among the for foreign pilgrimages,464;traffic in slaves considerable during time of the,466Scottish Archers of the Guard, enrolment of the,442Secular clergy, comparison between costume of and that of mediæval merchants,528;costume of the,232et seq.Shrines, pictures of,187Siege, interesting points in a mediæval,442Solitaries, mediæval,94;curious incident relating to two,105Spenser’s description of a typical hermit and hermitage,118,119Squires, duties of,352St. Anthony, cœnobite system attributed to,4;monks of,ib.St. Augustine, Canons Secular of,18;their costume,ib.;Canons Regular of,20;Chaucer’s pen-and-ink sketch of one of the order,19St. Basil, abuse of great church festivals mentioned by,513;introduction of Monachism into Asia Minor by,4;rule of,ib.St. Benedict, his rule,6,7;Archbishop Dunstan reduces all Saxon monasteries to rule of,7St. Clare, foundress of the female order of Franciscans,43St. Edmund’s Bury, abbey of,65St. Francis, character of,37St. Jean-les-Bons-hommes, priory of,89St. John the Hermit,148St. Mary, Winchester, abbey of,66Sumptuary laws,525;civil costume regulated by,527,528Teutonic Knights, order of,32Tilting-ground, remains of, to be seen at Carisbrook Castle,359Timber fort,444;used by William the Conqueror,391Tournament,412;a miniature,415;an historical example of the,429,430;description of encounter between French and English knights at a,432;directions for the,415-17;form of challenge for a,431;form of proclamation inviting to a,412,413;habiliments required by knights at a,ib.;incidents relating to a,424,430;manner of arranging a,423;mode of arming knights for the,413;pictures illustrating various scenes of the,432,433;prizes of the,427;thejoute à outrance,412;thejoute à plaisance,ib.;weapons used at a,415Tournaments, feasting and merriment usual at,424;the mediæval romances safe authorities on all relating to the subject of,423;unusual deeds performed at,426,427Town-halls, architectural beauty of continental,544;date of earliest English,545Towns, provincial, market-days in mediæval,511, 572;specimens of various in time of Edward III.,508-10Traveller, religious houses chiefly the resting-places of the,103,490Trinitarians, order of,32-34Vallombrosa, order of,17Vestments, mediæval official, description of,237-241;abandoned at time of Reformation,250Wager of Battle, account of a mediæval,420-22Walter of Hamuntesham, beating of by rabble,64War-ships, cannon of both iron and brass employed on board English,A.D.1338,447;costume of sailors and soldiers of mediæval,477;description of early,475et seq.;list of English,A.D.1205, and where stationed,481Waverley, Cistercian abbey of,65Westminster Abbey, grants made by Henry VIII. to,79Whale fishing, early,474Widowhood, description of a lady who took the vows of,155,156Widows, order of,152;dress worn by,156;profession or vow of,154;service for consecration of,152,153William of Swynderby,140Wills, inventories attached to ancient,211,212n.Wool merchants, costume of mediæval,523,525