C.

_Canon_, title of, not to be confined to the Residentiaries, 50; meaning of the name, 51.

_Canons_, honorary, unknown in the old foundations, 140.

_Canons_, non-residence of, 89; their share in the daily distribution, 174; their three sources of income, ib.

_Canons_, residentiary and non-residentiary, origin of the difference, 85 et seqq.

_Canterbury Cathedral_, propping of the central tower at, 119; its double apse, 182.

_Carlisle Cathedral_ compared with Wells, 134, 135.

_Carol_, see Karole.

_Cathedral Churches_, their clergy sometimes regular, sometimes secular, 21; distinction of old and new foundations, 53; foundations under Henry the Eighth, _ib._; held to be the freehold of the Chapter or Convent, 64; urgent need of their reform, 160.

_Cathedral_, meaning of the word, 8-10.

_Century_, thirteenth, its special historical importance, 103; fourteenth, character of its architecture, 111, 113.

_Chancellor of the Church_, foundation of the office, 50, 168; its duties, 57.

_Chancellor of the Diocese_, distinguished from Chancellor of the Church, 57.

_Chantries_, suppression of, 149.

_Chantry Priests_, incorporated by Bishop Erghum, 141, 142, 183; suppressed, 142, 150.

_Chapter-house_, different character of, in regular and secular churches, 96; building of that, at Wells, 96-98, 176; polygonal type of, 97; style and date of, at Wells, 98; examples of the polygonal shape, 176; of the oblong shape, _ib._

_Chapters_, origin of, 21; their relation to their Bishops, 45; their increased independence of the Bishops, 63, 64; need of their reform on the old basis, 189.

_Chartres Cathedral_, its great height, 116.

_Chester Cathedral_, crumbling nature of its stone, 135.

_Chester_, position of the Cathedral, 2; foundation of the Bishoprick, 53.

_Chew Magna_, pension from the vicarage to the Vicars of Wells, 182.

_Chicheley_, Archbishop, his character, 185.

_Chichester Cathedral_, fall of the spire at, 117.

_Choir_, meaning of the word, 78; its original extent at Wells, _ib._; in Somersetshire churches often unworthy of the nave, 80; practice of lengthening in the thirteenth century, 108; change in the site at Wells, 110; recasting of clerestory and triforium, 111; character of the roof, 112; objectionable arrangements of, at Wells, 155, 167.

_Choristers_, house of, see Organists' house.

_Christ Church_, Hampshire, arrangement of towers at, 182.

_Chrodegang_, Bishop of Metz, his rule for canons, 32, 165.

_Cities_, their greater importance on the Continent than in England, 12.

_Clement the Seventh_, Pope, his bull for the suppression of monasteries, 185.

_Cloister_, difference of, in regular and secular churches, 83; date of that at Wells, 83, 84; needed in a monastery, but not in a secular church, 31, 32.

_Cloister_, originally of wood, 84; Lady chapel in, rebuilt by Bishop Stillington, 144; original building of, 172; orders of Chapter about, _ib._

_Close_ wall, destruction of, 143.

_Cnut_, King, his favour to Bishop Duduc, 26, 28.

_Collegiate Churches_, meaning of the word, 10; suppression of, 149.

_Collinson's_ History of Somersetshire, its misrepresentation of the story of Harold and Gisa, 27; list of canons in, 188.

_Combe_, bought by Gisa, 31; Prebends of, 51, 60.

_Congé d'élire_, meaning of the word, 16, 164; distinguished from the letter missive, 25, 164.

_Congresbury_, fabulous Bishoprick at, 14; history of the lordship, 28, 29.

_Corporate Isolation_, spirit of, its effects, 62.

_Corps_, meaning of the word, 51.

_Coventry Cathedral_, canons substituted for monks at, 173.

_Coventry_, apse of Saint Michael's Church at, 130; crumbling stone used in the church of, 135; origin of the city, 185.

_Coventry and Lichfield_, joint Bishoprick of, 46; destruction of the Church of Coventry, 64.

_Crediton_, see of, removed to Exeter, 35.

_Cromwell, Thomas_, Lord, his share in the suppression of monasteries, 147; holds the Deanery of Wells, 148; enforces the payments of Residentiaries, 175.

_Crypt_, see Undercroft.

_Cynewulf_, spurious charter of, 15, 164.