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Pounds Index More information INDEX abandonment, of settlement 90–1 rail 442 Abbots Ripton, briefs 270, 271 (map) tomb 497 abortion 316–17; herbs for 316 altarage 54 Abraham and Isaac 343 Altarnon church 347, 416 absenteeism 564 Alvingham priory 63 abuse, verbal 258 Ancaster stone 402 accounts, clerical 230 Andover parish 22, 23 (map) parochial 230 Anglican liturgy 481 wardens’ 230 Anglo-Saxon churches 113 acolyte 162 Annates 229 Act of Unification 264 anticlericalism 220, 276 Adderbury, building of chancel 398–9 in London 147 adultery 315 apparition 293 Advent 331 appropriation 50–4, 62–6, 202 (map) Advowson 42, 50, 202 apse 376, 378 Ælfric’s letter 183 Aquae bajulus 188 Æthelberht, King 14 Aquinas, Thomas 161, 459 Æthelflaeda of Mercia 135 archdeaconries 42 Æthelstan, law code of 29 archdeacons 162, 181, 249 affray, in church courts 291–2; over seats 477 courts of 174–6, 186, 294–6, 299, 303 aged, support of 196 and wills 307 agonistic principle 340 archery 261–2 aisles 385–7, 386 (diag.) Arles, Council of 7, 9 ales 273, see church-ales, Scot-ales Ascension 331 Alexander III, Pope 55, 188, 292 Ashburton 146 Alkerton chapel 94 accounts of 231 All Hallows, Barking 114 church-ale at 241 All Saints, Bristol, library at 286–8 pews in 292 patrons of 410 Ashwell, graffiti at 350–1 All Saints’ Day 331, 333 audit, of wardens’ accounts 182–3 altar 309 auditory church 480 candles on 434 augmentations, court of 64 consecration of 442–3 Augustinian order 33, 56 covering of 437 Austen, Jane 501 desecration of 454 Avicenna 317 frontals 430, 437 Aymer de Valence 57 material of 442 number of 442 Bag Enderby 416 placement of 442 Bakhtin, Mikhail 336 position of 486 balance sheet of parish 236–9 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521633486 - A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria N. J. G. Pounds Index More information Bale, John 188 Bible, possession of 286 Bampton, parish 22 Bibury, church-way 375 banns of marriage 494 bishoprics, early 17 baptism 492–3 bishop’s court 174–6 in chapels 92 prison 174 payment for 222 in Roman Britain 7 private 492 confirmation by 493, 494 Baptismal fonts 47, 72, 492–3 Bishop’s Stortford 189 see also ‘Fonts’ Black Death 88–9, 101, 131, 132, 162, 302, 383 rights 39, 47 blacksmith, as clockmaker 491 Barchester, ‘diocese’ of 501 Blandford Forum, fire at 270 Bardney (Lincs), church 28 Blemya 354, 355 (ill.) Barking abbey 63 Blunham, rectorial accounts 228 barn, rectorial 59, 212 Blyth (Notts) 56 function of 59 Blythburgh, pews at 470 tithe 58 boat-boy 440 Barnwell priory 56, 116 Bodmin, parish church 399–402 Barnack stone 380 building materials 401 Baroque style 395 patrons 410 Barton-on-Humber 38 pews 469 Basilican plan 376–8 Bodmin Moor, boundaries on 72 Bassingbourne plays 273 sheep on 347, 348 (ill.) bastardy 314 Bogo de Clare 171 bastel houses 285 Bogumils 335 Bath, parishes of 148 Boniface VIII, Pope 161 Roman temple at 9 Book of Homilies 226 stone 429 Book of Hours 251, 326 St John’s Hospital at 151 Book of Sport 261–2 Baysham (Heref ) 95 books, clerical possession 189 beating the bounds 70–1, 76 chained 286–7 Beauchamp chapel, Warwick 393 liturgical 232 Becket, murder of 292 religious 225–6 Bede, the Venerable 8, 17–18, 31, 39, 379 Boston, church in 134 Bede-roll 197 Bottisham, gilds in 274 Bedford, archdeaconry of 64 box pews 108, 471, 472 (ill.), 476, 504 Beeby (Leic), tithe of 74 size of 471–2 beeswax candles 434 boy-bishop 331, 336 Bellcote 42, 50 boys, in choirs 191–2 Bellericay, church-rate at 237 Bozeat tithe 744 bells 102, 380, 461–2, 490–1 Brocklesham 98 cost of 244–5 Brackley 141 and demons 491 Bradford-on-Avon 378 and celebration 332, 490 bridge-chapel at 108 recasting 490–1 Bradwell-on-Sea 378 bench-ends 347–8, 350–1 (ill.), 469 Bradworthy, chapel at 95 benches, stone 468, 469 (ill.) Bransford, Bishop 94 Benedictine order 56 Brawling 256–7 benefice 42, 50 Breckland 70 exchange of 164–8 Bredwardine, sidesmen at 187 fractional 42, 50 Brent Eleigh, wall-painting at 383 in lay possession 49 Brentor, church at 374 value of 203 bridal pregnancy 314 beneficial income 200–1, 223–9 bridge chapels 106, 107 (map) beneficium 200–1 bridges, maintenance of 199 bequests, for masses 272, 272 (graph) Bridgwater, clerk at 189 for poor 270, 270 (graph) briefs 487 (map) Berkeley (Som) 97 and church-building 487 Barry, Sir Charles 507 Brigg (Lincs) 143 bestiaries 355, 362 Brinsop 381 betrothal 313–13 Bristol Castle, extra-parochial 6 Beverston Castle, chapel at 102, 103, 104 (plan) Brixworth, Anglo-Saxon church 379 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521633486 - A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria N. J. G. Pounds Index More information Bromfield, 33 Canynges of Bristol 129 Bronescombe, Bishop 53, 59 Capel-le-Ferne 447 Brooke, Zachary, on freedom of the church 293–4 Cardinham, glebe 216 Brookland Kent, font at 348 Carlisle, parishes in 99, 283 Buckenham, Old and New 137, 138 carnival 241, 328, 331, 336 cemetery at 147 carpet, for altar 437 building accounts 398 Carreg Cennan castle 100 contracts 404 Cartmel 39, 187 costs 402–3 cartularies 54 stone 406–7 Cassington, church 31 burglary, 253–4 castles, chapels in 100–1 burial 495–6 catechism 262–3 in cemetery 423 Catesby 98 in church 396 Catterick, church 406 cost of 191, 245 celibacy 156, 158–9 income from 235 Celtic Christianity 10–11 instructions for 306 saints 11 orientation of 418–9 cemetery 94, 149, 230, 417–29 practice of 418–20 chapels in 7–8, 13 right of 36, 39, 47, 94, 428 consecration of 418 burhs 116–17, 135 desecration 319, 387, 428 Burnham Deepdale, font at 348 ground-level of 423–4 Byzantine church plan 376 licence for 94 monuments in 425 Caedwall of Wessex 24 profits of 419 Caerwent, church at 8 urban 147–8 Caesarius of Heisterbach 341 censer 432, 440, 461 calendar 330–1 Chaldon, wall-painting 335 Calleva Atrebatum, see Silchester chalice 227, 432, 446, 460–1 Calvinism 264–5, 451 chalk, as building material 402 Cambridge, churches in 117 chancel 230, 372, 376, 385, 440–6, 457–62, 489–90 parishes in 119 arch 447 tithe in 129 attitudes to 64–5 valuation of 129 furnishing 452 Cambridge Centre for the Study of Population and Social laity in 410 Structure 290 pews in 505 Camden Society 504–5 and Protestant liturgy 482 camping ground 261 repairs to 224, 237, 397 candles 240, 308, 430, 434–5, 468 chantry priests 160, 176–7 cost of 232 chantries 82, 103, 106, 176–7, 272–3, 391–3, 476 candlesticks 461 dissolution of 103, 105–6, 111, 432 Canewdon, common way at 375 chapelries 33, 81–2, 91–2, 239, 390, 463 Cannington cemetery 418 parochial 39 Canon Law 4–5, 29, 38, 48, 52, 62, 73–4, 77, 91, 100, 109, and tithe 95 117, 126, 172, 202, 291, 293, 373 chaplains 55–7, 176–7 and the altar 442 charity, parochial 196, 269–73 and divorce 315 Charivari 256 and marriage 158 Charnel house 191, 423 and parsonage 177 charters 50, 133–4 and pluralism 171 Chaucer 60, 149, 155–6, 163, 177 and poverty 195, 198 and the archdeacon 295 and tithe 146, 208, 210, 214 and the Summoner 298 canons of 1604 215, 230, 297 Chelmsford, church court at 299 orders of 55 Chertsey minster 24 cantarists 106 Chest, parish 288–9 Canterbury 7, 8, 14 Chester Cathedral, church court at 300–1 early churches at 13, 114 Chetham, Humphrey, library of 287–8 see of 17, 117 Chichester, St Mary’s Hospital 151 and St Augustine 113 Chignall, perambulation 79 and St Thomas 151 child-wife 314–15 Cantiacorum Durovemum, see Canterbury Chingford, parish expenditure 183 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521633486 - A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria N. 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Pounds Index More information church 5, 396, mobility of 164-8 fortified 284 taxation of 229 furnishing 434 and secular law 291 house 265–7 social origins 159–60 monuments 425 wealth of 500–1 paths 375, 425, 427 clerical dress 158 plans 375–80, 393–4 marriage 158–9 plate 432 clerk, parish 188–9 post-Reformation 394–5 clocks 491–2 rate 201, 235, 499, 510 Clopton Chapel 393, 421 reform 30, 37–8, 41, 48–57 John of Long Melford 444 removal of 28, 89 William 408 seating 319, 385, 470–1 closed villages 263 size and population 383–5 Clovesho, Council of 30, 77, 260 sanctuary in 285 clunch, as building material 343, 466 security 284–5 Cluny, Abbey of 60 stock 239–40 coadjutors 168–9 church courts 78, 89, 157, 174–6, 254, 262–4, 268, 291–2, Coates-by-Stow, rood-screen 448 296, 302–23 Cobb, Lyme Regis 270 building 381–94, 397–40, 381, 407, 414–16, 483–6, coffins, use of 424, 468 503 Coggeshall, Little 56 burial 191 cohabitation 313–15 choirs 439 Coke, Lord Justice 235 Commissioners 181, 214 Colchester, Roman church 8 decoration 339, 362–4 court at 300 types of case 299 Collinson, Patrick 451 conflict with lay courts 292, 300 colour, in church 430–2 and marriage 311–16 liturgical 436–7 meeting places 299 Common Laws Courts 295 churching, of women 64, 189, 222–3 communion 222, 444–6 pew 495 in both kinds 226 Chipping Sodbury 141 cup 226, 446, 461–2 choir, revival of 505–6 rail 462, 482 ‘choppechurches’ 166 table 437, 455–6, 462, 482–4 Christ of the Trades 346 community 250, 267 Christchurch minster 24 Compton Census 264–5, 367, 463, 501–2 Christianity in Britain 6–12 compurgation 174–5, 295 architecture of 9 Conductores 439 Chi-Rho monogram 8 confession 174, 255, 304 Cirencester church 135, 394