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, Shropshire, 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