INDEX

355

Christmas game, the, 262

Chroniclers, the, 34

Church, the medieval, Ch. I, passim,
Ch. xn, passim- attitude towards
death, 9, 31, 248, 321; desire for
Holy Orders by peasant and, 288,
289; heretics and, 321; holy-days
and, 6, 13, 106,114 ff.; immorality
and, 246 ff.; mortuary claims by,
144; serfdom and, 281, 282; tithe
and, 330, 331; wills and, 248 ff.

Church furlongs, the, 329

Church services, "Ales" and the,
265, 266; "Crawling to the
Cross", 263; games and, 273;
going to, in Langland, 267; holy-
days and, 6 ff., 322; in Latin, 9,
323; irreverence during, 10, n;
peasant's ignorance of, 9, 10, 323;
peasant's participation in, n;
talking during, u; Vespers, 13,

115

Churches (medieval), Ch. i, passim,
Ch. xii, passim; comparative
safety of, 322; impression made
by, 30, 322; instruction mainly
given in, 323; paintings in, 9, 32,
323, 324; rich and poor in, 8;
seating in, 8, 10; size and beauty

of, 4, 3°» 332
Church-scot, 31
Churchyards, desecrated by animals,

7,333

^Cidsr, 108, 235, 236

*Cirencester, Abbot of, seizure of
horse and corn by, 131; seizure of
millstones by, 132
Clearings, see Assarts
Clergy (parish), as agriculturalists,
33, 329» 33°; education and
training of, 33, 326, 327; income
of, 16, 327; inefficiency of, 33, 325,
328, 332ff.; immorality of, 160,
332 ff.; important part played by,
33i» 335 J instruction given by, 10,
33> 3^3; lowly origin of many, 9,
10, 288, 325, 326; poaching by, 93;
preaching by, 10,33,328; " worldly
offices" and, 187, 188, 329, 330,

333

Clerks, the lord's, 21, 65, 160, 187 ff.
"Close", the, 44, 5*. **> 95
"Close, the parson's", 329
Cloth, 160
Clothes, the peasant's, 185, 186

Cob buildings, 227
Cod, 184
Colchester, Red Paper Book of, 135
Commissioners of array, the King's,
120 ff.
"Common, right of", 56ff., 89
Common appurtenant, 57
"Common fields", the, Ch. H,
passim, 43, 44, 66, 70, 79, 84, 217;
by-laws for, 49, 89, 213 ; composi-
tion of, 55; conditions on, 49, 51;
consolidation of holdings in, 49 ff.;
co-operation in, 44 ff., 80; diffi-
culties in working, 46 ff.; privileges
of holders in the, 52, 57; sub-
division of, 46; and see Selions
Commons, the, 31, 56 ff., 213, 217;
and see Inter-commoning
Community rights, 55, 56
Commutation of works and services,
68, 72, 103, 105, 183, 278 ff.,
280 n. i; partial nature of, 284,
285; uncertain progress of, 280
Compoti, see Accounts
Compurgation, 212, 216
Conquest, the Norman, 72, 100, 239
Conscription of peasants, see Military
service
Cooking utensils, 232 ff.
Co-operation among peasants, 44 ff.,
51, 70, 80
Corn, defamed, 218
Coroner, 7, 197, 198, 205 n. 3, 303
Corpus Christi, festival of, 264, 273
Cottages, see Houses
Cottars, 63, 64 n. i, 184
Coulton, G. G., Social Britain,
34 n. 2; Ten Medieval Studies,
330, 331; The Medieval Village,
43, 45, 139, »45, 269 n. i, 281 n. 3
Counterpanes, 161
Court baron, 198, 219
— customary, 198
— Leet, 21, 195, 199, 200, 205, 307
— Rolls, 21 ff., 132, 149, 156, 160,
199, 220, 308; copy of, 221; num-
bers of, 205; published, 206;
record change of holdings, 251;
record exemptions, 242, 252, 253;
record names of fugitives, 296;
and see Manor Court
"Court of record", 198, 220, 310,
312
Courts, see King's Courts, Leet Court,
Manorial Court
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