INDEX

Agincourt, battle of, 10, 85

Aldenham, Herts, church of, 16, 44

Alianore, Queen, manors of, 85

Almonry, clerks of the, 71

Anagni, 37, 39

Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II., 58, 78

Armour, an Abbot's, 53

Arundel, Earl of, 68

Arundel, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, 81 f.

Atte Belle, Richard, highwayman, 45

Avignon, 32 f., 35 f., 39

Beaufort, Henry, Bishop of Winchester, 78 f.

Benedictines, general chapters of, 19, 22, 69, 80, 82, 86

Berkhamstead, 66

Birlingham, manor of, 68

Bohun, Eleanor de, Duchess of Gloucester, 57

Borewell, John, Archdeacon, 73, 77 f.

Briefs, funeral, 51

Bruges, 32 n., 34 f., 40

Burgh, John, monk, 53

Calais, 34, 40, 67

Cambridge, 17

Cambridge, Earl of, 26

Canterbery, John, monk, 51 n., 53

Chamberlain, duties and accounts of, 41 f.

Chambers, or camerae, monks', 47-50

Chapter House, 30

Charing Cross, 47 f., 56

Clehungre, William, monk, 28

Clergy, Array and Munitioning of the, 83

Cloisters, Little, 48

Colchester, 15, 16, 65; Priory of St. Botolph at, 15 f.; parish of St. Nicholas, 15; castle of, 16

Colchester, John, 65

Colchester, Thomas, 65

Colchester, William [de], Abbot, portrait in Nave window, 11, 58; in Shakespeare's Richard II., 14; native of St. Nicholas' parish, Colchester, 15 f.; parents and relations, 17, 65; First Mass, 18; probable date of birth, 19; at Oxford, 19 f.; promoted in Refectory, 20; at general chapter, Northampton, 22; Abbot's Seneschal, 24 ff.; Convent Treasurer, 27; proctor at Rome, 30 ff., 41 ff.; attempts to secure Priorship for, 42; Archdeacon, 43 ff.; his sheep, 46; his pension, 47; election as Abbot, 54 ff.; installation, 56; details of his establishment, 60 ff.; orders prayers in war-time, 70 f.; ordinance for payment to obedientiaries, 71; supporter of Richard II., imprisoned by Henry IV., 76; letter from Cologne, 77-79; at coronation of Henry V., 81; at Council of Constance, 82 f.; chariot provided by, 83; death of, 85; tomb of, 86; character of, 87 f.

Cologne, 77-79

Compromission, election by, 55

Constance, Council of, 82 f.

Coumbe, Peter, monk, 59, 63, 71, 77 f.

Covent Garden, 47 f.

Cretton, or Kyrton, Roger, monk, 47, 76

Dauphiné, 35

Deerhurst, Prior of, 63

Denham, manor of, 61, 66, 68, 71

Despenser, Baroness, 64

Despenser, Henry, Bishop of Norwich, 68

Domesday chartulary, 48

Durham, Hatfield, Bishop of, 26

Edmund the King, St., 58

Edward, Black Prince, 26 f.

Edward the Confessor, St., 22, 56 f.; chapel of, 74; ring of, 53

Edward III., 24, 26, 34

Excestr', Richard, Prior, 26, 42, 49-51

Exchequer, Remembrancer of the, 67

Exennia, given to monks, 18, 21; to Abbots, 62 ff.

Eybury, manor of, 61

Eynsham, Abbot of, 68

Farnago, John, monk, 36

Flacones, or pancakes, 27 ff.

Gloucester Hall, Oxford, 19

Gregory XI., Pope, 32, 37 f.

Gregory XII., Pope, 79

Halle, William, monk, 42

Harwden, Richard, monk, 81; Abbot, 86 f.

Hatfield, Thomas, Bishop of Durham, 26

Hawle, Robert, 39

Henry III., 11 f., 48, 58 f.

Henry IV., 14 f., 66, 76, 80, 87

Henry V., 10, 80-84, 87

Horsell, Surrey, 79

Hotspur, Harry, 24

Hurley, Berks., Priory of, 17, 62 f., 88

Infirmarer, 78 n.

Infirmary, chambers in the, 48

Islip, manor of, 62

James, Dr. M. R., Provost of King's, 47 n., 50, 52 n.

Jerusalem Chamber, 52, 80

Kelvin, Lord, 9 f.

Kirton, Edmund, Abbot, 87

Kitchener or Coquinarius, 28, 78

Lakyngheth, John, monk, 35, 54

Laleham, manor of, 62, 66

Langham, Simon, Abbot and Cardinal, 19, 32, 36, 38, 63

Langley, Edmund, Earl of Cambridge, 26

Lethaby, Prof. W. R., 12

Liber Niger Quaternus, 39 n., 47, 53, 73, 76

Litlington, Nicholas, Abbot, 19, 24-27, 44 f., 48, 51 n., 52-54

London, Tower of, 39, 76

Malvern, Prior of, 63

March, Philippa, Countess of, 23 f.

Marseilles, 36, 39

Mary, the Virgin, girdle of St., 22 f.

Merke, or Merks, Thomas, Bishop of Carlisle, 14, 66, 79, 87 f.

Merton Hall, Oxford, 88

Monk-Bailiff, 16

Musicians, Abbot Colchester's favour to, 67 f.

Nave, the New Work in, 58 f., 63, 80 f., 84

Neyte, la, mansion of, 52, 62, 64, 66

Northampton, 22, 69, 80, 86

Organs at Westminster, 68

Oxford, Benedictine students at, 19, 26; "Gaudies" at, 66; Merton Hall, 88

Pampeluna, Cardinal of, 38

Pancakes, monks', 27 ff.

Percyvale, Master, King's musician, 68

Pershore, 63

Pestilence, Great, 19

Peuerel, Thomas, monk, 85

Poets' Corner, 11 f.

Polo, Marco, Book of, 50

Polychronicon, 55 n., 56

Pyrford, manor of, 62, 66, 68, 79

Rackham, Rev. R. B., 81 n., 84 n.

Reigate, 76

Repingdon, Philip, Bishop of Lincoln, 79

Richard II., 12, 14, 28, 53-58, 66, 68, 70, 74-76, 87

Robinson, Dr. J. Armitage, Dean of Wells, 10, 32 n., 52 n., 53 n., 54, 72, 83

Rome, 31, 33, 37-43, 80, 88

Romescot, collection of, 79

Rouen, capture of, 85

Sacrist, 23, 63, 71

St. Edmundsbury, Abbot of, 82

St. John Baptist, chapel of, 86

St. Margaret, Westminster, parish of, 71

St. Peter ad Vincula, feast of, 68

St. Stephen's, Westminster, Dean and Canons of, 30 ff., 43

Salisbury, William de Montacute, Earl of, 44 f.

Sanctuary, 39, 45

Sandon, John, monk, 65, 67

Scott, Dr. E., Keeper of Muniments, 13

Selby, Ralph, Archdeacon of Buckingham, monk, 75

Seneschal, or steward, the Abbot's, 22, 24, 45 n., 60 ff.

Sergeaunt, John, Annals of Westminster School, 29

Skilla, or Refectory bell, 21

Southam, Thomas, Archdeacon of Oxford, 32, 35, 39 f., 63

Staines, manor of, 66

Stanley, Dr. A. P., Dean of Westminster, 11 n.

Steventon, Berks., 58

Stowe, John, monk, 63, 67

Sutton, Gloucs., 62

Tivoli, 39

Urban VI., Pope, 38 f.

Waltham, Abbot of, 74

Waltham, John de, Bishop of Salisbury, 74-76

Ware, 66

Ware, Richard de, Abbot, 22, 44

Warwick, Earl of, 26

Westminster Abbey, memorial windows, 10; Muniment room, 11, 13; Poets' Corner, 11 f.; Abbot's rent-roll, 24, 60; pancakes at, 27 ff.; Monk-Bailiff, 16; Treasurer, 19 f.; Refectory, 21; Abbot's Seneschal, 22, 24 ff., 45 n.; Sacrist, 23; Kitchener, 27 f.; Chapter House, 30; suit against St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, 31 ff.; enriched by Langham's will, 36; murder in the choir of, 39; Archdeacon of, 43 ff.; Lady Chapel, 47; Convent Garden, 47 f.; royal gifts to, 57 f.; New Work in Nave, 58 f., 63, 80 f., 84; prayers in war-time at, 70 f.; Confessor's Chapel, 74 f.; Henry IV.'s death at, 80; Henry V.'s chantry, 81

Westminster Abbey, Almonry, clerks of, 71

Westminster Abbey, Customary of, 18, 22 f., 44

Westminster Abbey, Monks of, how named, 15; how admitted, 17 f.; exennia given to, 18; Great Pestilence among, 19; at Oxford, 19 f.; clothing of, 41 f.; chambers or camerae for, 47-50; funerals of, 51; in armour, 53; chariot provided by, 83.

Westminster Abbey, parish of St. Margaret, 71

Westminster Abbey, Sanctuary at, 39, 45

Westminster School, "greese" at, 29

Whittington, Richard, 81

Windsor Castle, 64, 66

Windsor Castle, St. George's Chapel in, 31, 74

Woodstock, Thomas of, Duke of Gloucester, 57, 68

Worcester, Prior of, 82

Wratting, John de, Prior, 43 n., 70

Wykeham, William of, 27, 68

Wylie, Dr. J. H., 79 n., 81 n., 82

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