INDEX.

Abberbury, priory of, i, 57.
Abbeys, see monasteries.

Abbots, position of, xxv; documents concerning, ii, 357, note,
442; attitude of, i, 312; number of, i, 295, 297, see religious.
Abell, Robert, imprisonment of, ii, 316, note, 366, note; death of,
ii, 486, note.

Abergavenny, bells of, ii, 430.

Abingdon, surrender of abbey, ii, 293-295.

Adrian IV, bull of, i, 54.

St. Agatha's, suppression of monastery of, ii, 130, 162, 166.
Agriculture, condition of, i, 6, 15, ii, 492, note, 503, 513.
Albaland, re-establishment of monastery of, ii, 20.

St. Albans, convent of Pre annexed to, i, 98; report of, i, 328;
granted to Wolsey, i, 22, 79; deputation from Cluny to, i, 59 ;
fee extorted from, i, 452; removal of abbot of, ii, 306; treasure
of, ii, 308; surrender of, ii, 308; church of, ii, 436; intended
restoration of, ii, 484.

Alcock, John, bishop of Ely, i, 62.

Aldgate, Holy Trinity, destruction of church of, ii, 394; accounts
of, ii, 507, note.

Aldington, parish priest of, i, 112.
Alexander VI, bulls of, i, 61, 62.

"Alien Priories," history of, i, 40-55; number of, i, 42; suppres-

sion of, by kings John and Edward I, i, 42; condition of,
under Edward III, i, 43, 46, 48; some made denizen, i, 48;
condition of, under Henry IV, i, 49, 52; final suppression of,
i, 55; appropriation of, by William of Wykeham, i, 48; union
of, i, 58.

Allegiance, oath of, i, 174.

Allen, Dr., complaints of, i, 87, 90; exactions of, i, 88, 261, 89,
note; subsequent fate of, i, 383.

All Souls college, endowment of, i, 57.
Almond, John, ii, 488.

Ambresbury, suppression of, ii, 229; pensions granted at, ii, 230,
note; prioress of, ii, 456.

"Amicable Grant," i, 84; difficulty in raising, i, 94.

Anchorite of Canterbury, i, 127.

"Ancres" of Worcester, ii, 273; of Pollesworth, ii, 17.

Andover, priory of, i, 57.

Antwerp, sale of vestments at, ii, 420.

Ap Rice, John, visitor, i, 88; authority of, i, 254; letters from, i,
257, 259, 455; reports from, i, 327, note, 343, 455; financial
dealings of, with Crumwell, i, 456; history of, i, 454;
purchases of, ii, 390, note.

Architecture, monastic, xxviii; ii, 433.

Arden, convent of, ii, 16.

Aristocracy of the Revolution, i, II.

Arnold, abbot William, i, 415.

Arthington, convent of, ii, 488.

Arundel, Thomas, archbishop, i, 51.
Arundel, Sir Thomas, ii, 430.

St. Asaph's, see of, ii, 469, note.
Ashridge, abbey of, ii, 538.

Aske, Robert, leader of Pilgrimage of Grace, ii, 9-120; family of,
ii, 102; his report on the northern rising drawn up at the
King's request, ii, 91, 131, note; attempts to assassinate,
ii, 113; dealings of, with re-established monks, ii, 125;
interview with the king, ii, 131; letter from, petitioning for
northern parliament, ii, 132; accusation of, ii, 135; death of,
ii, 158; opinion of convents, ii, 222; see Pilgrimage of Grace.
Aske, John, brother of above, ii, 157.

Athelney, destruction of abbey of, ii, 426, 431; surrender of, ii,
298, 301-304.

Atherstone, church of, ii, 436.

Attainder, working of law of, ii, 326; meaning attached to by

Henry VIII, ii, 168.

Aubrey, John, report of a Wiltshire convent, ii, 224.

Audley, chancellor, i, 339; attempt of, to save More, i, 141; letter
from, concerning Legh, i, 446; tries the Lincolnshire rebels,
ii, 83; his trial of northern insurgents, ii, 157; petition of, for
Colchester abbey, ii, 379; connection of, with Athelney abbey,
ii, 300; share of monastic spoils, ii, 389, 431; popular
demands for punishment of, ii, 49, 94.

Augmentation, establishment of court of, ii, 9; bribery in court of,
i, 14, note, ii, 396; sum paid into by re-established houses, ii,
20; total receipts of, ii, 388, note, 438; summary of accounts
1536-47, ii, 534-5.

Augustin, Dan," quondam" abbot of Wardon, ii, 197.

Austin friars, poverty of, ii, 255; number of houses of, ii, 239; see

friars.

Avery, Thomas, steward to Crumwell, i, 413.

Axholme, prior of, i, 218.

Aylesbury, poverty of friars at, ii, 256.

Badgecroft, Agnes, death of, ii, 477, note.

Bagnold, Cecily, pension of, ii, 206.

Baldwin, Alice, abbess, ii, 213.

Bale, testimony of, concerning monks, xiv; i, 327, 337; memorials
of the Carmelite order, ii, 240; of monastic libraries, ii, 423.
Balland, Nicholas, monk of Hinton, ii, 300.

Banbury, visitation of priory near, i, 175.

Bannerman (ali is Bonnerman), Florence, prioress of Ambresbury,
ii, 229, 456.

Bardney, connection of, with the Lincolnshire rising, ii, 81, 82.
Barking, plate of abbey of, ii, 235; grant of abbey of, ii, 389.
Barlings, connection of, with the northern rising, ii, 74; dissolu-
tion of, ii, 171; church of, ii, 171; see Mackarel.

Barlow, bishop William, ii, 287.

Barnard, Thomas, ii, 460.

Barnes, Master, i, 112.

Barnes, or Woburn, Dan Ralph or Richard, ii, 192; death of, ii,

202.

Barrett, Thomas, prior of Folkestone, i, 364.

Bartlett (alias Bartelot), clerk, i, 258; letters from, to Crumwell, i,

359, 360.

Bartley, friar, i, 403, note.

Barton, abbot of Colchester, ii, 374.
Barton, Elizabeth, see Kent, Maid of.

Basle, council of, i, 56.

Bassett, Thomas, priest, ii, 278.
Bate, abbot Robert, ii, 461.

Bateman, bishop of Norfolk, i, 3.

Bath, bishops of, i, 23, 58; search of abbey of, i, 300; present
sent to Crumwell from, i, 418; destruction of church at, ii,
426; sale of abbey of, ii, 431; church at, xxviii; grant made
to prior of, ii, 459; baths of, ii, 525.

Battle, visitation of abbey of, i, 270; monk of, ii, 470, note.
Bayker, John, description of the state of the poor, ii, 511.
Beaulieu, complaint of abbot of, i, 99; vestments from, ii, 418;
surrender of, ii, 452, note; presentation made by abbot of, ii,
460, note.

Beauvale, religious of, ii, 486, note; prior of, i, 218.

Beckett, see St. Thomas.

Beckwith, Leonard, ii, 395, note, 437, note.

Bedingfield, Sir E., application from, for money, i, 245.

Bedyll, Thomas, i, 183; sent to the Carthusians, i, 184, 208;
reports of, from the Carthusians, i, 211, 237; authority of, i,
254; private purse of, ii, 396, note; death of, ii, 397.

Beech, John (alias Marshall), see Marshall.

Begham abbey, i, 86; sale of, i, 383, note.

Belasis, Richard, ii, 174.

Belchiam, Thomas, sufferings of, i, 191.

Bell, Dr., bishop of Worcester, ii, 72.

Bellarmine, cardinal, on the corruption of the clergy, i, 20.

Bellow, Millicent and John, ii, 47, 60.

Bellun, bishop of, i, 104.

Belsington, surrender of, ii, 27.

Benedict, St., work of, xxiv.

Benedictines, power and wealth of, xxiv, xxvii; lives of, xviii,
xxiii; steadfastness of, to the Holy See, ii, 333, 337, 354.
note, 361, 362, note, 368; established at Bisham, ii, 33, 287;
trial of three abbots of, i, 407, ii, 332, 349, see also Whiting,
Cook, and Marshall; Crumwell's remembrances concerning,
ii, 348; re-establishment of, at Westminster, ii, 483; general

character of, ii, 498; condition of, in France, ii, 521; differ-
ence between the true Benedictine and the Cluniac and
Cistercian organization, ii, 543-44; see religious.

Bentley, abbot Richard, ii, 482.

Bentworth, rectory of, ii, 453, note.

Berall, Richard, monk of Reading, ii, 293.

Bere, Dan Richard, imprisonment of, i, 237.

Berkeley, lord, i, 179.

Bermondsey, priory of, i, 46; name of prior of, i, 327, note; pension
granted to abbot of, ii, 458; preferment of monk of, to see of
St. Asaph, ii, 469, note.

Berwick, suffragan bishop of, ii, 469, note; fortifications of, ii, 437,

note.

Bestney, Edward, i, 342.

Beverley, share of Franciscans of, in the rising, ii, 137.

Bible, reading of, in monasteries, xix, ii, 359; new translation of,
ii, 198, 260, note.

Billesley, provision for poor at, ii, 42.

Billingford, James, i, 174; examination of, i, 175.

Bird, William, vicar of Bradford, attainder of, ii, 248.

Bisham, foundation of, ii, 32, 33; Benedictines established at, ii,
287; resignation of, ii, 288-9, 289, note; sale at, ii, 418;
endowment of, ii, 289, note.

Bishops, relations with monks, xxv; general character of, i, 18,
note, 19; love of wealth, i, 20, note; often foreigners, i, 21;
non-residence of, i, 22; hostility of, to the nobles, i, 24;
division of income of, i, 26; visitations of, i, 35-36, note, 38,
331; suffragans often Irish, i, 23; attitude of, towards Henry,
i, 153, note, 249; suspension of authority of, over monasteries,
i, 252, ii, 233; number of, i, 295; instructions from Crumwell
to, i, 373; complaints concerning, by northern insurgents, ii,
50, 65, 93, 99; reception of the dissolved friars, ii, 274.
Bishoprics, proposed, ii, 444, note; made, ii, 444.

Bittlesden, accusation of abbot of, i, 176.

"Black Book," i, 289; doubt as to its being laid before Parliament,
and as to its ever having existed, i, 303, note, 306, 339; alleged
destruction of, i, 304, 305, note; compilation of, i, 348.
"Black Death," devastation of, i, 2-7; effect of, upon the
church, i, 7.