M.

_Malmesbury Abbey_, original west front of, 181; arrangement of tower at, 182.

_Manchester_, collegiate church becomes cathedral, 16; suppressed and restored, 186.

_Margam Abbey_, octagonal Chapter-house at, 176.

_Mark_ granted to the Church of Wells by the Lady Eadgyth, 31.

_Mary_, Queen, property of the Church recovered under, 149, 150.

_Master of the Fabric_, office of, 5-7.

_Master_, technical use of the name, 88.

_Matthew Paris_, his account of the Church of Westminster, 170; of the earthquake at Wells, 171; of the consecration of various churches, _ib._

_Mendip_, its early state, 17.

_Midelton_ or _Milton_, timber fetched from, 180.

_Minor Canon_, title unknown at Wells, 140; use of, elsewhere, 183.

_Monasteries_, suppression of, 21; effects of, at Ely, Peterborough, and elsewhere, 22.

_Monks_, original character of, 20.

_Monmouth, James_, Duke of, doings of his followers at Wells, 4.

_Morganwg_, meaning of the name, 17, 164.

_Mounterye, College of_, see Chantry Priests.

_Muchelney_ prebend attached to the Abbey, 88.

_Mudgeley_, granted to the Church of Wells by the Lady Eadgyth, 31.

N.

_Nave_, proper place for the congregation, 154, 155; plea for its proper use at Wells, 157-160.

_New Foundation_, Cathedral Churches of, meaning of the name, 53; greater influence of the Crown in, 54.

_Nicolas the Fifth_, Pope, his bull about payments made by Residentiaries, 175.

_Non-residence_, origin of, 58; growth of, 87.

_Non-residentiary Canons_, origin of, 89; value of the class, 89, 90, 150; defrauded of their rights at Wells by the charter of Elizabeth, 151; retention of their rights at York, 152; their position under the Elizabethan charter, 187, 188; general question as to their rights, 189.

_Norman Architecture_, spread of, after the Conquest, 67.

_Norman Conquest_, its effects on the Church, 35.

O.

_Offa_, King of the Mercians, founds the Church of Bath, 36.

_Old Foundation_, Cathedral Churches of, meaning of the name, 53; closer connexion of the Bishops with, 54; general likeness of their constitutions, 66, 85.

_Old Saint Paul's Cathedral_, loss of the spire at, 129; minor canons of, 140.

_Old Sarum_, see Salisbury.

_Organist's House_, foundation of, 182; neglect and ruin of, 184.

_Osbern_, his life of Saint Dunstan, quoted, 164.

_Ottery Saint Mary_, spire of lead remaining at, 129.

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

P.

_Pagan_, origin of the name, 11.

_Palk, Sir Lawrence_, his championship of Wells against Evesham, 163.

_Pakington, Sir John_, compared with Saint Dunstan, 5, 163.

_Parker, Mr._, house restored by, 68; quoted, 129, 183.

_Payne of Pembridge_, claims the Provost's estate, 60.

_Perpendicular style_, its characteristics in Somersetshire, 121, 122.

_Pershore Abbey_, apse of, 130.

_Peterborough Cathedral_, the west front an addition, 76; its perfection, 125.

_Petty Canons_ distinguished from Priest-Vicars, 140.

_Pluralities_, early instances of, 44; causes of, in the Middle Ages, 5-8.

_Pole, Reginald_, holds two Deaneries as layman, 148.

_Pope, John_, Prebendary, executor of Bishop Beckington, his works, 138.

_Prebendaries_, become corporations sole, 65; their exempt jurisdictions, _ib._

_Prebends_, origin of, 50, 168; meaning of the name, 51; their position, 52; refounded by Elizabeth, 187.

_Precentor_, foundation of the office, 50, 168; its duties, 56.

_Priest-Vicar_, title of, 139.

_Provost_, origin of the office, 33; becomes hereditary, 39, 166; suppression of the office, 150.

_Purton Church_, Wiltshire, arrangement of tower at, 182.

R.

_Ralph of Shrewsbury_, importance of his episcopate, 108; his place of burial, 113; his connexion with the eastern reconstruction, 114; fortifies the palace, 137; founds the College of Vicars, 137, 182; portions of his work remaining, 138; treatment of his tomb, 177.

_Ramsbury_, poverty of the church of, 31.

_Reformation_, the, its real character in England, 145, 146.

_Reginald_, son of Hildebert, restores the canons' lands, 49; appointed precentor, 60, 167; withstands the claims of his nephews, 6.

_Reginald_, Bishop, founds new prebends, 70.

_Regular Clergy_, their distinction from the seculars, 20.

_Residence_, Jocelin's regulations as to, 90; devices to hinder, 91.

_Residentiaries_, origin of, 89; number not originally fixed, 90; their number and mode of appointment, 92; growth of their powers, 93; necessity of their constant residence, 94, 95; their encroachments by virtue of the charter of Elizabeth, 151, 152; necessity of their residence, 152; great entertainments required of, 175; commuted for a payment, _ib._; use of entertainments restored, _ib._; their new position under the Elizabethan charter, 188; not installed, _ib._

_Restoration_, principle on which it should be carried out, 190.

_Rheims Cathedral_, its great height, 116; grandeur of the doorways at, 127.

_Rheims_, Church of Saint Remigius at, 69.

_Rib_, meaning of the word, 91, 138.

_Richard_, Archbishop of Canterbury, story of, 189.

_Richard of the Devizes_, his account of the non-residence of canons, 86, 173.

_Richard of Tittenhanger_, monk of Saint Alban's, designs buildings in the Abbey, 171.

_Ripon_, collegiate church becomes cathedral, 16; suppressed and restored, 186; its west front, 181.

_Robert_, importance of his episcopate, 40; becomes Bishop of Bath, 43; of Flemish descent, but born in England, 44, 167; his early history, _ib._; represents Bishop Henry of Blois at Glastonbury, 44, 167; settles the controversy between Bath and Wells, 45; his works at Bath, 46, 48, 161; he recovers the lands of the canons, 49; founds the dignities and prebends, 50, 52, 167; increases the number of canons, 57, 162; his description of his objects, 61; his buildings at Wells, 66-69; single fragment of them remaining, 68; grants North Curry to the Chapter, 190; grants municipal rights to the city, _ib._

_Robert_, Bishop of Hereford, present at the consecration of Robert's church at Wells, 68.

_Robert Burnell_, Bishop, his place in the history of England, 107, 179; his works at Wells, 108.

_Robert Grosseteste_, Bishop of Lincoln, his dispute with his Chapter, 170.

_Roger_, Archbishop of York, story of, 189.

_Roger_, Bishop, elected by the monks of Bath only, 105; confirmed by Innocent the Fourth, 106, 177; his gifts to the canons of Wells, _ib._; last bishop buried at Bath, 106.

_Roger_, Bishop of Salisbury, opposes Bishop Godfrey, 43.

_Roger Witing_, claims the Provost's estate, 60; cf. 170.

_Romanesque_ style of architecture, its character, 48.

_Roofs_, character of, in Somersetshire, 112.

_Rouen Cathedral_, analogy of its west front to that of Wells, 127.

_Rouen_, Saint Ouen's Abbey Church at, union of French and English merits in, 117.

S.

_Saint Alban's Abbey_, work at, designed by a monk of the House, 81; arrangement of the Lady chapel at, 131; its municipal history compared with Wells, 184.

_Saint Cross_, Hospital of, its title, 163.

_Saint David's_, constitution of the Residentiary body at, 93; absence of a Dean at, 169; history of, compared with Wells, 176; works of Bishop Gower at, 178.

_Saint Quentin_ Collegiate Church, its great height, 116.

_Salisbury_, analogy of its history with that of Wells, 3; origin of the Bishoprick, 31; style of, 75; the spire constructively a mistake, 118; mode of propping, 119; unreality of the west front of, 125, 128; its doorways compared with Wells, 127; octagonal Chapter-house at, 176.

_Savaric_, Bishop, attaches prebends to two abbeys, 68; unites the church of Glastonbury to the see of Bath, 70, 78.

_Saxon_, meaning of the name, 26.

_Screens, close_, an abuse in secular churches, 157.

_Screens, open_, their good effect at Lichfield and Hereford, 159.

_Secular Clergy_, their distinction from the regulars, 20.

_Serel, Mr._, quoted, 170, 175, 177.

_Sham Fronts_ common in France and Germany, 181.

_Sherborne_, foundation of the Bishoprick, 13; division of the diocese, _ib._; see removed to Old Sarum, 31; Ealdhelm, first Bishop of, 164.

_Shrewsbury Abbey_, arrangement of towers at, 182.

_Sinecure_, meaning of the word, 55.

_Slymbridge Church_, Gloucestershire, style of, 75.

_Somerset, Edward_, Duke of, appropriates the lands of Wells and Glastonbury, 149.

_Somersetshire_, mainly Welsh in 597, 13; lack of any central town, _ib._; picture of, in the time of Ine, 16, 17; gradually becomes English, 18; local architecture of, 48; Early Gothic style of, resembles French work, 75; characteristics of the Perpendicular style in, 121, 122.

_Southwell_, Chapter-house at, 97; changes in the west front at, 128; loss of spires at, 129; form of the east end, 130; compared with Wells, 131; no President of the Chapter at, 176.

_South Wales_, likeness of its Early Gothic to that of Somersetshire, 75.

_Spires_, often covered with lead, 129.

_Stalls_, each canon makes his own, 113; wrong arrangement at Wells, 153.

_Stephen_, King, helps Bishop Robert at Wells, 52, 168.

_Stillington, Robert_, Bishop, rebuilds the Lady chapel in the cloister, 144; destruction of his tomb, _ib._

_Stoke Courcy Priory_, suppression of, 185.

_Stoke-sub-Hamdon College_, suppressed, 186.

_Stone_, early use of, in building, 23.

_Stoves_, intrusion of, at Wells, 153.

_Sub-Chanter_, foundation of the office, 50, 57; its suppression, 150, 168.

_Sub-Dean_, foundation of the office, 50, 57, 168; its property and jurisdiction, 65, 168.

_Sugar, Hugh_, Treasurer, executor of Bishop Beckington, his works, 138.

_Sumorsætas_, give their name to Somersetshire, 12; obtain a Bishop of their own, 13.

_Supremacy, Royal_, accepted by both regular and secular clergy, 146.

_Swan Inn_ laid open to the Cathedral, 143.

_Swan, Richard_, Provost, executor of Bishop Beckington, his works, 138.

T.

_Taunton_, founded by Ine, 14, 17, 164.

_Tewkesbury Abbey_, apse of, 130.

_Tewkesbury Annals_, quoted, 178.

_Theological College_, proposal for its union with the Vicars' College, 139; position of its officers, 169.

_Thomas of Canterbury_, Saint, his life quoted, 87.

_Toulouse_, roof of the church of Saint Sernin at, 179.

_Towers_, Old-English, character of, 24; central, a peculiarly English and Norman feature, 115; absence of, in the great French churches, 116.

_Treasurer_, foundation of the office, 50, 168; his duties, 57.

U.

_Undercroft_, under the Chapter-house, 97, 176; other instances, _ib._