INDEX

361

Myrc, Instructions for Parish Priests,
30, 203, 322

Neilson, Miss N-., A Terrier of Fleet,
58; Customary Rents, 99, 169; The
Bilsington Cartulary, 54

Nelson, W., Lex Maneriorum, 218

New Forest, 58

Newcastle-on-Tyne, conditions of
becoming a citizen of, 299; ex-
tension of borough of, 296, 297

Nicholas, Chaucer's, 274

Northampton, 299

Northumbrian manors, 42 n. 4

Norwich, 184; status of serf gaming
freedom in, 302; "foreigners" in,
296

Nun's Priest's Tale, quoted, 234

Oatcake, 13

Oats, 87, 89, 104

Onions, 232

outfangenethefj 196

Oven, the lord's, 135 ff., 293, 295 n.
2; fines for not using, 136; rented
to peasants, 135, 136; repairs to,
136; scene at, 137; value of, 136

Owst, Dr G. R., 267, 269 n. i

Oxen, 90, 91; price of, 91

Oxherd, the lord's, 182, 183

Ox-shed, 160

Pagan rites and customs, 35 ff., 262
,Pag», Dr F. 3VL, 212, 254
Pampadene (Pandon), 296, 297, 303
Parchment, 187
Paris, Simon de, 301
Parish clerk, the, 8; and see Holy-
water carrier
Parlement of the Thre Ages, The,

quoted, 270 ff.
Parsley, 232
Paston, Sir W., 290
Paston Letters, The, 237
Pasture, common of, 57; the lord's,

183 '

Peak, Forest of the, 52, 53
Pear trees, 232
Peas, 80, 81, 87, 232, 234
Peasant, circumscribed world of, 34,

118, 119; depressed status of, 72;

immobility of, 109, no, 305;

knighthood and the, 290, 291 n.;

learning and the, 9, 22, 288ff.;

resources of the, Ch. iv, passim",

revolts of, 170, 277; standard of
living of, 234 ff.
Peasants' Revolt, the, 277
Peckham, Archbishop, 33, 325, 328
Pecock, Bishop, 187
Pembroke, William, first earl of, 231
Penance by serfs, 247, 248
Pepys, 237
Peter's pence, 31
Pierce the Ploughman** Crede, 185,
186
Pigs, 4, 12, 92; price of, 92; vilified
(vilipendelant), 218
Pike, L. O., 240
Plagues, 239; and see Black Death,
the, Famine
Plough Monday, 269
Plough teams, 64, 80, 107, 284
Ploughings, communal, 66, 80, 107
Ploughmen, the lord's, 182; allow-
ances to, 88, 183; holdings allo-
cated to, 183; salary of, 175
Poaching, 24, 93 ff., 236, 269 ff.
Pollock, F. and Maitland, F. W.,
History of English Law, quoted,
144, 282, 286, 299
Poor Man's Bible, the, 9, 32, 324
Poore, Bishop, 264
Population of England in Middle
Ages, 239, 240
Porridge, oatmeal, 234
Pottage, 12, 13, 18, 89, in, 184,
335
Pound, the village, 23
Power, Prof. Eileen, 90 n. a, 280 n. i
Preachers, itinerant, 29, 35
Preaching by medieval clergy, 10,
33, 328
Priesthood, the medieval, see Clergy
"Principal", see Mortuary
Prisoners, guarding of, 70
Prisons, 70
Promptonum Paroulorum, 45
Purpresture, 53
Pytel, 63, 64
Quinces, 232
Quo Warranto proceedings, 195
Rabbits, 93, 94, 236, 269
Ramsey, Manors of the monks of:
carrying services on, 109; harvest
rewards on, in, 112; heriot on
the, 148, 149; holy-days not ob-
served on, 117; incontinency on,