D.

_Daventry Priory_, suppression of, 185.

_Dean_, foundation of the office, 50, 168; how appointed in various churches, 54; its duties, 55, 56; effects of its foundation, 63; office at Wells held by Thomas Cromwell, 148; estates alienated under Edward the Sixth, 150, 168; re-endowed and the old estates recovered, 150; rights of, under the charter of Elizabeth, 187; appointment of, transferred to the Crown, 188.

_Deaneries_ held by laymen, 148.

_Deanery House_ built by Dean Gunthorpe, 142.

_Dignities_, origin of, 50, 168; duties of, 55-57; difference among, in different churches, 66.

_Dimock, Mr._, 77; quoted, 140, 183.

_Domesday_, its account of the lands of the Church of Wells, 33, 166.

_Dorchester_, Bishoprick of, 163.

_Drokensford, John_, Bishop, deed of his quoted, 179.

_Duduc_, Bishop of Somersetshire, his favour with Cnut, 26, 28; his bequests to his church, 28; a Saxon by birth, 165; his tomb, 166.

_Dunstan, Saint_, builds the stone church of Glastonbury, 24, 164.

_Durham_, analogy of its history with that of Wells, 3.

E.

_Eadgar_, King, brings in monks at Bath, 36.

_Eadgyth_, wife of Eadward the Confessor, her grants to Gisa, 31.

_Eadward the Confessor_, his favour to Bishop Duduc, 26; his grants to Gisa, 31, 165; introduces the Norman style into England, 48; his church at Westminster the great model, 69.

_Eadward the Elder_ founds the Bishoprick of Somersetshire, 13.

_Ealdhelm_, first Bishop of Sherborne, 164.

_Early Gothic Style_, two forms of, in Wells Cathedral, 74-77; peculiar character of, in Somersetshire and South Wales, 75.

_East Ends_, various kinds of, 130.

_Edward the Sixth_, act of, for the suppression of colleges and Chantries, 142, 149; robbery of ecclesiastical bodies under, 148.

_Elizabeth_, Queen, her charters to the Vicars, 140; to the Chapter, 151.

_Ely Cathedral_, style of, 75; loss of the spire at, 129; east end of, 130; size of the triforium, 134; arrangement of tower at, 182.

_Embezzlement_, various instances of, 39.

_Erghum, Ralph_, Bishop, incorporates the College of Chantry Priests, 141, 142.

_Eton College_, receives lands of Alien Priories, 185.

_Evercreech_, Bishop's house at, 37.

_Evesham_, its parliamentary rivalry with Wells, 4-5, 163.

_Ewenny Priory_, roof of the Church, 179.

_Exeter_, history of the city and Bishoprick, 2, 35; Bishop Leofric's changes at, 33; history of the Deanery of, 54; loss of the spires at, 129; form of the east end, 130.

F.

_Fitz-Williams_, Dean, surrenders the estates of the Deanery, 186.

_Fontanenses Episcopi_, Bishops of Somersetshire, so known at Rome, 45.

_Frederick Barbarossa_, Emperor, his dispute with Pope Hadrian the Fourth, 169.

G.

_Gates, Sir John_, dismantles the hall of the palace, 179; beheaded, 186.

_Gerent_, King of Cornwall, defeated by Ine, 164.

_Gervase_, historian of Canterbury, quoted, 172.

_Gisa_, Bishop of Somersetshire, his quarrel with Earl Harold, 27-29, 165; his birth in Lorraine, 30; increases the revenues of his church, 31; makes his canons follow the rule of Chrodegang, 31-33; his buildings, 33.

_Gisa_, his gifts to the canons, 33; his death and burial, 34; his account of the Old-English church, 67.

_Glastonbury_, its whole history gathers round the Abbey, 3; permanence of the British Monastery at, 18; its original wooden church, 19, 164; stone church of Dunstan, 24; annexed to Bath by Savaric, 70, 71; formed part of the style of the Bishops, 70, 71; again separated from Bath and Wells, 71; surrenders estates to Jocelin, 71; style of the Early Gothic of the Abbey, 75; cloister of wood, 84; goodness of the stone at, 135; suppression of the Monastery, 147; destroyed by Edward, Duke of Somerset, 149; relation of the Bishops to, 171; antiquity of the foundation, 177; central tower propped as at Wells, 178.

_Gloucester Abbey_, vault in, built by the Monks' own hands, 81, 172; west front of, 125.

_Gloucester and Bristol_, joint Bishoprick of, 46.

_Godele, John_, Dean, his share in repairing the choir, 180.

_Godfrey_, Bishop of Bath, his birth in Lower Lorraine, 43; his character, _ib._; he tries to recover the canons' lands, _ib._

_Godwin, Bishop_, his catalogue of Bishops quoted. 28, 56-57, 113-134.

_Gower, Bishop_, his works at Saint David's, 179.

_Green, Mr. J. R._, quoted, 165, 170, 184.

_Grey of Wark_, Lord, preserves Wells Cathedral in Monmouth's rebellion, 4.

_Grosmont_, Monmouthshire, state of the church at, 8.

_Gunthorpe, John_, Dean, builds the Deanery, 142, 183.

_Gwent_, meaning of the name, 17, 164.

H.

_Haddan, Mr. A. W._, quoted, 173.

_Hadrian the Fourth_, Pope, his dispute with the Emperor Frederick, 169.

_Harewell, John_, Bishop, his share in building the South-west Tower, 122.

_Harold_, Earl, his quarrel with Bishop Gisa, 27, 29, 165; his writ as King to Gisa, 165; Gisa's view of his death, _ib._

_Henry the First_, his charters to John de Villulâ, 36, 37; his opposition to Bishop Godfrey, 43.

_Henry the Third_, character of his reign, 105; promotes the illegal election of Bishop Roger, 106; his grant to the Church of Wells, 172.

_Henry the Fifth_, suppression of monasteries under, 147.

_Henry the Eighth_, character of his reign, 145-147; suppression of monasteries under, 147; enforces the payments of Residentiaries, 175.

_Henry of Blois_, Bishop of Winchester, holds the Abbey of Glastonbury with the Bishoprick, 44; helps Bishop Robert in his reforms at Wells, 52.

_Hereford Cathedral_, loss of the spire at, 129; character of the east end, 130; loss of the western tower, 131; position of the Vicars and Minor Canons at, 140, 141; present good arrangement of, 158; choir screen at, 159; its arrangement of towers, 182.

_Hermann_, Bishop, joins the sees of Sherborne and Ramsbury, and removes the see to Old Sarum, 31, 165.

_Hildebert_, Provost, embezzles the property of the canons, 39, 166.

_Historiola_ de Primordiis Episcopatûs Somersetensis, quoted, 28, 47.

_Honorary Canons_, proposed extension of their rights in the new foundations, 189.

_Howden Collegiate Church_, octagonal Chapter-house at, 176.

_Hugh_, Bishop of Chester, substitutes canons for monks at Coventry, 173.