In the foregoing chapters I have endeavoured to gather together from the scattered and frequently minute material which exists some illustrations of parochial life in mediæval times. The result must speak for itself; it is, I feel sure, as far as it goes, correct as to the outline of the picture. Had I not been anxious not to weary the reader by the very multiplicity and minuteness of the details, the result might have been perhaps more definite, and the lights and shades been more effective. As it is, however, my purpose has been accomplished if I have succeeded in interesting them in this description of the life led by our ancestors in a mediæval parish-a life so strangely and entirely different to that which now exists in the towns and villages of modern England. For "in the Middle Ages," says a writer in a late number of The National Review, in a passage already referred to," the conscious sharing in a world-wide tradition bound the local to the universal life, and through art and ritual the minds of the poor were familiarized with facts of the Christian faith. By our own poor I fear these facts are very dimly realized." T Candlemas Day, 168 Candlesticks, 50, 51 Cælatura, 46 Cemetery, 66, 67, 68; consecration of, 68; trees in, 67 Cess, 125 Chancel, the, 22, 23, 44-46, 54 Chantries, 59, 73, 74, 95, 96, III, 149, Chantry certificates, 264, 266 Chantry priest, 95, 96, 111, 118, 266 Chapel of repose, 178 Chaplains, 99-101 Childermas, 165 Chaucer, 151 Choir, 44, 45 Chrism, 196 Chrismatory, 196 Chrism-cloths, 27, 196 Church ale, 237-239 Churches, riches of, 70 Churchwardens, 103; origin of, 103, 104; election of, 104; number of, Churching of women, 193; origin of Clergy, district, 3, 4; from all classes, of, 80, 81; status of, 81; qualifi- Corona, 78, 80; of candles, 57 Mainz, 4; of Macon (second), 5, Crucifix, on altar, 50, 54; summus, 54, 57, 58 Curate, 92, 94, 224 De Asserio, Bishop, 88, 91, 95 De Salopia, Ralph, Bishop, 162 Dives and Pauper, 11, 12, 32, 50, 57, Dowelling money, 137 Durham Halmote Rolls, 244-246 ; rites, 182 Easter Day, 181-183; customs, 183 Excommunications, 227-230 Extreme unction, sacrament of, 201- Farming of tithes, 19 Fitz Ralph, Archbishop, 185 Gabriel bell, 162 Gawayne and the Green Knight, 146 Gifts in kind, 135 Golden Legend, 166 Good Friday, 179 Grace with meals, 247, 248 Grandisson, Bishop, 16, 24, 80, 190, 193, 196, 206 Guilds, 120, 142, 253; craft, 254; Halmote Rolls, Durham, 244-246 Hingeston-Randolph, Prebendary, 28, 219 Hobhouse, Bishop, 7, 21, 106, 134, Hock-tyde, or hock-days, 241, 242 Holy Saturday, 64, 180, 181, 189; Manuals, 220 Marriage, 207; at the church door, Matins, 152-154; books, 152 Maundy Thursday, 176, 177 Miracle plays, 248-252 More, Sir Thomas, 153, 171, 177 Myrc, John, 19, 68, 148, 153, 192, 193, Nave, 45 Nevill, Archbishop, 217 Obits, 96, 97, 266, 267, 268 Old Symon, 76 Orders, reception of, 76 Otho, Cardinal, 81, 91 Ottobono, Cardinal, Legate, 23, 188 Palm Sunday, 171-174 Parish, derivation of word, 2; clergy, Peacock, Mr., 238, 239 |