Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England Part 38

Berneston, 118

Beverley Minster, 548

Bidding Prayer, 207, 208

Birinus, apostle of Wess.e.x, 21

Boniface (Winfrid), 22, 60

Bradfield-on-Avon, church at, 31, 32

Bridge chapels, 527

Brigg Rural Deanery, comparison of its parishes in the "Taxatio,"

"Valor," and Clergy List, 564

Bristol, 499; a Saxon burgh, its Saxon churches, 499; religious houses, 500; growth of parishes, 500; inclusion of Temple and Redcliff, 502

Britons, survivors of the Anglo-Saxon conquest, 4

Burton-on-Trent, monastery and town of, 508

Bury St. Edmunds, 510

Caedmon, his poems, 250

Canons, 73, 335; of Lincoln, 350-352; of Chichester, 360

Canterbury, King's School at, 131; archbishops of, of humble birth, 133

Canute, 37; laws of, 52, 76, 80, 86

Career offered by the Church, 129, 134

Cathedral close, 340

Cathedral, organization of, 334; of secular canons, 335; monastic, 336; idea of, 350; description of, 357

Cealchythe, council at, 41, 78, 82

Cedd, apostle of the East Saxons, 30, 36, 39

Celibacy of the clergy, 66, 73, 258-273, 282, 283

Chadd, Bishop of Mercia, 30, 31, 36

Chantries, 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, 471

Chantry chapels, 453-456; furniture of, 445; sometimes chapels-of-ease, 467

Chantry 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, 469-471

Chapels, royal, 46, 123; parochial, 50, 110; free, 123, 124; domestic chantry, 421, 422, 457

Chaplains, parish, 105, 106, 111; domestic, 409-423

Chapter house, 342; use of, 357

Chasuble, 191, 244

Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," extracts from, 172, 271, 304

Choristers, of Lincoln Cathedral, 356; song schools for, 469, 471

Churches, 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, 190

Churchyard, 69, 205, 281, 316; right of sanctuary in, 308; sports, markets, etc., in, 316, 317

Clergy, number of, in 1377, 390

Clerk, parish. _See_ Parish clerk

c.l.i.theroe, castle church of, 120

Clovesho, councils at, 41, 60, 240

Clugny, Abbey of, 368

Clun, Shrops.h.i.+re, 112

Colchester Castle, domestic chapel, 410

Colleges, at universities, 140; Rotherham, 517; Wingham, 564, _note_; Wye, 566, _note_

Communion, Holy, doctrine of, 75, 237; in one kind, 235

Confession, 234, 239, 536, 543

Confirmation, 238; sponsors at, 59, 69, 234

Confraternity of a religious house, 439

Conisborough, 103, 409

Conversion of the English, 14, 21-23

Conway Castle chapel, 410