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_Lady_, proper title of a West-Saxon King's wife, 31.

_Lady Chapel_, character of, at Wells, 109; date of, 179.

_Lady Chapel_ in the cloister, 83.

_Leases_ for three lives, early cases of, 61.

_Lee, Roland_, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, tries to save the Church of Coventry, 64, 170.

_Le Mans_, Cathedral of, 69; its date, 100.

_Leofric_, Bishop, his changes in the Church of Exeter, 33; moves the see of Crediton thither, 35.

_Letter missive_, see Congé d'élire.

_Lichfield Cathedral_, apse of, 130; east end compared with Wells, 132; present good arrangement of, 158; choir screen at, 159; octagonal Chapter-house at, 176.

_Lincoln Cathedral_, style of, 75; said never to have been consecrated, 77; residence kept by the dignitaries at, 92; effect of lowness in the inside, 116; loss of the spires at, 118, 129; unreality of the west front of, 125, 128; arrangement of the east end, 131; effect of lowness in the interior, 133; octagonal Chapter-house at, 176.

_Llandaff Cathedral_, style of, 75; no Residentiaries ever founded at, 85; west front of, 125, 126; present good arrangement of, 156-158, 190; system of Prebendaries and Vicars, 17; the Archdeacon President of the Chapter, 169; form of the Chapter-house, 176.

_Long Sutton_, lost prebend of, 174.

_Lorraine_, or Lotharingia, meaning of the name, 30; canonical rule of, 32.