Orarium, or stole, 192

Ordeal, 66

Ordericus Vitalis, 90, 115

Orders of the clergy, 74

Ordination, 144-146; refusal of, 327, 328

Pallium, 191

Papal supremacy, 85

Parish clerk, 67, 283, 298-305

Parishes, origin of, 44-46; extent of, 50, 110; subdivision of, 51, 53; number of, in A.D. 1292 and A.D. 1534, 385, 394; income of, 389, 396, 397-406

Parish priest, his ecclesiastical status, 50; social status, 51, 73; instructions for, 232-240

Parsonage houses, 148-158, at Weston Turville, West Dean, Alfriston, Kelvedon, Kingston-on-Thames, Bulmer, Ingrave, Ingatestone, Allington, Little Bromley, North Benfleet, Great Bentley, St.

Peter's Colchester, Radwinter, Laindon; and 161

Pa.s.sion play, 304, 315

Patronage, abuse of, by the Crown, 321

Paulinus of York, 17, 21

Peckham, Archbishop, his manual of teaching, 216

Penance, 201; by proxy, 64; forbidden, 64; for sabbath-breaking, 201

Penitential system, Saxon, 532

Peter Lombard, 137

Pickering, 117

"Piers Plowman," Vision and Creed, extracts from, 132, 133, 150, 171, 203, 207, 278

Pilgrimage, 308; places of, 309

Pilgrims, 309

Pledge breaking, punishment of, 65.

Pluralities, 323

Pocklington, 117

Poetry, devotional, 255-257

"Poor Parson of a Town," Chaucer's, 550

Preaching, 62, 71, 75, 214-223, 285-288; helps in, 223, 224

Prebend, 351; of Lincoln Cathedral, 353

Prebendaries of Lincoln, 351; of Chichester, 361

Presentation of offenders to the bishop, 62, 67

Priests, character of, 68, 71, 73, 233; duties of, 69, 72, 233-240

Primer, 249

Prince bishops of Durham, 363; of Winchester, 364; of Ely, 364

Privilege of clergy, 86

Procession, or Litany, 212, 311

Processions to mother church, 121; to cathedral, 121, 299

Puch the Ealdorman, consecration of his church at South Burton, 46

Recluse, 295, 527

Rectors not in holy orders, 325, 327, 328

Revenues of the bishops, deans, and chapters, etc., of Lincoln Cathedral, 344; of Chichester Cathedral, 360

Robert Pullein, 138

Roger Bacon, 139

Rotherham, parochial history of, 516; College, 517

Roundelay, 118

Royal chapels, 46, 123

Ruthwell, cross at, 25

Saffron Walden Church, 185