Eyam, cross at, 26

Farming benefices, 321, 324, 326, 331, 403

Fasting, 60, 71

Felix, apostle of the East Angles, 21

Fifteenth century, character of, 553; architecture of, 553

Firstfruits and tenths, 380

Folk-mote, 6

Foreign inc.u.mbents, 320

Fourteenth century, character of, 549

Free chapels, 124

Friars, at the universities, 140; origin of, 370; organization, 371; work, 373; success, 374; interference with parochial clergy, 376; poverty, 378

Furniture, of clergy houses, 174-182; of churches, 187-191

Gilds, definition of, 473; trade, 475; religious, 476-481; social, 482; at Ludlow, 473, 476; Bristol, 476; York, 476; Norwich, 478; Worcester, 478; Birmingham, 478; suppression of, 483

Glebe, size of, 55

G.o.dparent, 59, 69, 234

Goodrich, Bishop of Ely, his monumental bra.s.s, 198

Granby, 103

Gratian's Decretals, 121

Gray, Archbishop Walter de, his "Register," 102, 116, 189

Greenstead Church, Ess.e.x (Saxon timber church), 52

Grostete, Bishop of Lincoln, 167, 281, 327, 336; his "Castle of Love," 242

Hampole, Richard of, 225

Harlow, 100

Heathenism, laws against, 58, 59, 68, 72

Heptarchic kingdoms, establishment of their churches, 20

Hertford, council at, 41

Hilda, St., 30

Holy days, 80

Holy loaf, 235, 403

Hood, 239

Hospitality of the clergy, 158-160

Hours, canonical, 74

Hugh of St. Victor, 138; St., Bishop of Lincoln, 281, 322; of Wells, Bishop of Lincoln, 280

Humble birth, bishops of, 133

Hundred, 5

Illuminated MSS., references to, 567

Impropriation of benefices, 95-97; forbidden without consent of bishops, 98

Ine, King of the West Saxons, laws of, 57, 58

Iona, 15

Ipswich, in Domesday, 506; in the "Taxatio," 506; convents of Austin Canons and Friars, 507; hospitals, 507

Isolation of Anglo-Saxon townships, 6

John Ball, priest, 171

Jutland, introduction of Christianity into, 17

Kellum, 117

King's College Chapel, Cambridge, 552

Kingston-on-Thames, 115; free chapel there, 125

Kirkby Malamdale, 102