: Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England by Cutts Edward Lewes - Church history Middle Ages 600-1500; England Social life and customs 1066-1485; Clergy England; England Church history 1066-1485; Catholic Church England Clergy

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The land only partially reclaimed, 1--The Anglo-Saxon conquest, 2--Civil constitution, 4--Religion, 7--Structural temples, 8--Priests, 11.

Multiplication of monasteries, 28: in Kent, 29; Northumbria, 29; East Anglia, 31; Wessex, 31; Mercia, 31--List of other Saxon monasteries, 33--Constitution of the religious houses, 35--Their destruction by the Danes, 37--Rebuilding in the reigns of Edgar and Canute, 37.

Character of the new converts, 38--Coming of Archbishop Theodore, 40--Union of the Heptarchic Churches, 41--Subdivision of dioceses, 41--Introduction of the parochial system, 43--Northumbria made a second province, 49--Multiplication of parishes, 50--Different classes of churches, 53--Number of parishes at the Norman Conquest, 54.

Laws of the heptarchic kingdoms: of Ethelbert, 57; of Ine, 57; of Wihtred, 57--Council of Clovesho , 60--Laws of Alfred, 65; of Athelstan, 66--Canons of Edgar, 66--Laws of Ethelred, 72--Canons of Elfric, 74--Privilege of sanctuary, 75--Tithe and other payments, 78--Observance of Sunday and holy days, 79--Slavery, 81--Manumission, 81.

Foreign bishops and abbots introduced, 84--Parochial clergy undisturbed, 85--Papal supremacy, 85--Separation of civil and ecclesiastical Courts, 86--Norman cathedrals and churches, 87--Revival of monasticism, 90--Appropriation of parochial benefices, 91.

Mode of appropriation of parishes, 95--Evil results, 97--Ordination of vicarages, 98--Its conditions, 99--Not always fulfilled, 108--Abuses, 109.

Chapels-of-ease for hamlets, 110--Some of them elevated into churches, 110--Rights of mother churches safeguarded, 121--Free chapels, 123.

Saxon clergy largely taken from the higher classes, 127--The career opened up by the Church to all classes, 129; even to serfs, 130--Education of the clergy, 131--The Universities, 136--Schools of thought, 136--The scholastic theology, 137--The contemplative, 138--Oxford: its colleges, 140--The students, 141--Ordination, 144--Institution, 146.

Like lay houses, 149--Examples at West Dean and Alfriston, Sussex, 152--Descriptions of: at Kelvedon, 154; Kingston-on-Thames, Bulmer, Ingrave, 155; Ingatestone, 156; Little Bromley, North Benfleet, 157; West Hanningfield, 158--Hospitality, 158--Smaller houses, 160--Dilapidations, 162.

Sumptuary laws, 164--Disregard of them, 167--Contemporary pictures, 169--Extracts from wills, 172--Introduction of sober colours, 174--Wills, 175.

Grandeur of the churches compared with domestic buildings, 184--Furniture of churches, 187, 190--List of necessary things, 189--Clerical vestments: pallium, chasuble, 191; stole, maniple, amice, dalmatic, 192; cope, surplice, 193; amyss, 194--Fanciful symbolism, 196; a bishop in "full canonicals," 198.

Matins, mass, and evensong, 200--Sunday attendance, 201--Communion, 200--Laxity of practice, 204--Week-day services, 205--The Bidding Prayer, 207--Bede Roll, 211--Chantry services, 212.

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