The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson

by active 1173-1215 de Brakelond Jocelin

INDEX

• Abbo of Fleury: [217].
• Acre: [6], [74], [125], [223], [237].
• Adam, the infirmarer: [200].
• Ælmessethe, see Elmsett.
• Ælmeswell, see Elmswell.
• Ailwin, or Egelwin: [175], [250].
• Alberic, the earl: [85], [98], [184].
• Albold, Abbot of St. Edmund: [229], [245], [261].
• Alexander II. (Pope): [260].
• Alexander III., Pope: [72], [236].
• Alfric: [85], [241].
• Alveth, Gilbert of: [26].
• Ambli, William of: [255].
• Ambrose (monk): [25].
• Ampton: [185].
• Andrew (monk): [25].
• Anselm, Abbot of St. Edmund's, [116], [255]-6, [261].
• Ansty, Hubert of: [185].
• Anthony (monk): [26].
• Arnald: [49].
• Arnold, T., Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey, [xix]. and passim.
• Ashfield: [184], [185].
• Augustine (monk): [172].
• Augustine, Archbp. of Trontheim: [23], [227].
• Averpenny: [155], [248].

• Babwell: [69], [72], [201], [234].
• Baldwin, Abbot of St. Edmund: [260].
• Baldwin, Archbishop: [76]-8.
• Banham, William of: [255].
• Bardwell: [184].
  • William of: [184].
• Barningham: [184], [185].
  • Adam of: [185].
• Barrator: [18], [65], [108], [226]-7.
• Barton: [95], [186], [256].
• Battely, Dr. John: [276].
• Beasts of chase: [230].
• Beccles: [95].
• Bedingfield: [95].
• Benedict of Blakenham: [8].
• Benedict, the Jew: [3], [4], [223].
• Benedict, the monk: [25], sub-prior, [152].
• Beodricsworth: [154], [248], [258].
• Bigot, Roger, Earl of Norfolk: [86], [96], [98], [99], [184], [241].
• Bishop's Waltham: [31], [228].
• Blakenham, Benedict of: [8].
• Blithing: [184].
• Blood letting season: [21], [227].
• Blund, Hamo: [138].
  • William: [184].
• Blunham: [184], [229].
• Botolph, St.: [176], [250].
• Boxford: [90], [94].
• Bradfield: [44], [90], [95], [185], [186].
• Brakelond, see Jocelin.
• Breiton, William of: [255].
• Brettenham: [90], [94].
• Briddinghoe: [185].
• Briseword, Hubert of: [96].
• Brisingham: [184].
• Broc, Peter de (monk): [25].
• Brockdish: [185].
  • Stephen of: [185].
• Brockford: [94], [95].
• Brockley: [185].
  • Reginald of: [185].
• Brome: [184].
• Buckenham: [184].
  • Ralph of: [184].
• Burgh, Thomas de: [187]-189.

• Canterbury (Christ Church): [77]-8, [238], [239].
• Canterbury, Archbishops of:—
  • Baldwin: [76]-8.
  • Hubert Walter: [83], [98], [121]-2, [125], [142]-3, [175]-6, [187], [240], [245].
  • Richard: [6], [7], [221], [224].
• Carlyle's Past and Present: [xv]., [xxiv]., [xxix]., [xl].
• Castle Acre: [6], [74], [125], [223], [237].
• Celestine III, Pope: [142], [246].
• Cellarer, jurisdiction of: [154]-9.
• Cereville, Gilbert of: [104].
• Chapter House of Bury Abbey: [152], [247], [278].
• Chebenhall: [187].
• Chelsworth: [95].
• Chernelles, Arnald of: [184].
• Chertsey [Bertrand] Abbot of: [33], [189].
• Chevington: [49], [94].
• Chipley: [185].
• Clare, Richard, Earl of: [85]-6.
  • Roger, Earl of: [104], [243].
• Clarendon: [96].
• Cluny, Hugh, Abbot of: [189], [252].
• Colchester: [95].
• Coleshill: [103].
• Constantine, Geoffry of: [5].
• Cosford Hundred: [44], [86], [232], [238].
• Cockfield, Adam (1st) of: [255].
  • Adam (2nd) of: [86], [147], [184], [187], [246], [254]-6.
  • Adeliza of: [255].
  • Lemnere of: [255].
  • Nesta of: [187], [246]-7, [251], [255].
  • Odo of: [256].
  • Robert of: [12], [15], [44], [77], [86], [91], [241], [255]-6.
  • Rohesia of: [255].
• Cockfield or Cokefield, Town of: [88], [95], [184], [188], [256].
• Cotton: [94].
• Coventry, the Monks of: [142]-3, [246].
• Coutances, Walter of: [72], [235].
• Criketot, Hemfrid: [256].
• Cunegestun (Kingston): [95].
• Curteys, W., Abbot: [273].
  • His Register: [216].

• Dennis, cellarer of St. Edmund: [6], [8], [9], [25], [32], [33], [34], [157], [200].
• Dereham: [121], [125].
• Diceto, Ralph de, dean of London: [201]-2, [236], [253].
• Dickleburgh: [90], [95].
• Diss, John of: [174].
  • Walter of: [67].
  • William of (the elder): [67].
  • William of: [172], [242], [253], [254]-6.
• Dissolution of Bury Abbey (1539): [274]-5.
• Dogs, coursing by, [43], [231].
  • Presented by Samson to Richard I: [149], [231].
• Durand of Hosteley: [91].
  • (town bailiff): [209].
• Domesday Book: [70], [234], [260].
• Dunstan, Archbishop: [217].
• Durham: [67].

• Edmund (monk): [29].
• Edmund, the "golden" monk: [45].
• Edward the Confessor: [233], [238], [259].
• Egelwin, or Ailwin: [175], [250].
• Eleanor, Queen, [70]-71, [234].
• Eleigh, Monks: [76]-77, [79], [238]-9.
  • Combust: [185].
  • Hugh of: [185].
• Elias, cupbearer: [67].
• Elm, Robert of: [91].
• Elmsett: [106]-7, [230].
• Elmswell: [67], [94], [106]-7.
• Elveden: [95].
  • Gilbert of: [155].
• Ely, Bishops of:—
  • William Longchamp: [79], [80]-2, [240].
  • Geoffrey Ridel: [74], [106]-7, [203]-7, [237].
• Ely: [125], [203]-7, [253].
• Endgate: [90].
• Essex, Henry of: [101]-105, [242].
• Etheldreda, St., court of: [206].
• Eu, Castle of: [129].
  • Roger of: [184].
• Eustace (monk): [26].
  • (tenant): [93].
• Euston: [185].

• Fair of St. Edmund: [112]-3, [115]-6.
• Fakenham, Great: [184].
• Felsham: [185].
• Fitz-Alan, Peter, of Brockley: [185].
• Fitz-Drogo, Richard: [68].
• Fitz-Hervey, Osbert: [51].
  • William: [96].
• Fitz-Isabel, William: [2].
• Fitz-Peter, Geoffrey: [204], [207], [254].
• Fitz-Ralph, Gilbert: [91], [184].
• Fitz-Roger, Robert: [184].
• Fitz-Walter, Robert: [184].
• Flamville, Robert of: [12].
• Flay, Eustace, Abbot of: [202]-3.
• Flemings defeated (a.d. 1173): [1], [86], [222].
• Flempton, Alan of: [185].
• Foddercorn: [44], [232].
• Fordham, Geoffrey of: [25].
• Fornham magna: [94].
  • St. Genevieve: [95];
    • battle of: [1], [86], [222].
  • St. Martin: [95].
• Francheville, William of: [96].
• Fressingfield: [95].

• Galfridus de Fontibus: [218], [226].
• Gaveloc (javelin): [73], [237].
• Gedding: [185].
• Geoffrey of Constantine: [5].
• Geoffrey Archbishop of York: [31], [80], [126], [228], [240].
  • (bailiff): [109].
• Germany, Samson's visit to: [82].
• Gilbert, Deputy Steward of St. Edmund: [42].
  • (monk): [174].
• Gislingham: [95].
• Gissing: [184].
• Glanville, Ranulf de, Justiciary of England: [12], [41], [77], [93],
  • [108], [225].
• Glemsford: [106], [206].
• Godfrey (bailiff): [109].
• Godefridus the sacrist: [247], [260].
• Great Fornham: [94].
• Great Horningsherth: [95].
• Green, J. R. (history) [xvi].
• Groton: [88], [95], [185], [188], [255].

• Haberdon, Bury St. Edmund's: [88], [242].
• Hadleigh: [239].
• Haggovele: [157], [249].
• Haglesdun: [258].
• Halgestou: [258].
• Halsted, Robert of: [185].
• Hamo Blund's will: [138].
• Hardwick, the villeins of (lancetti): [153], [248].
• Hargrave: [49], [94].
• Harling: [184].
• Harlow: [49], [92]-3, [95], [169].
• Hastings Henry of: [41], [229].
  • Thomas of: [41], [229].
  • William of: [98], [184].
  • William of (monk): [29].
• Hatfield, Walter of: [49].
• Helyas the sacrist: [243], [247].
• Hemfrid, Criketot: [256].
• Hengham, see Hingham.
• Hen-rents: [232].
• Henry II, King of England: [4], [12].
  • Approves Samson's appointment as abbot: [xxviii]., [31]-5.
  • Dispute between Bury and Canterbury: [76]-8, [238].
  • Takes the Cross: [80], [240].
  • Ruling at Clarendon on Samson's appeal: [96].
  • Battle of Coleshill: [103], [243].
  • Charter to Merchants of London: [112], [244].
• Henry of Essex: [101]-105, [242].
• Hepworth: [184].
• Herard: [92].
• Herbert the Dean: [88]-90.
• Herbert, prior of St. Edmund: [xlii]., [190]-6, [197], [235], [252].
• Herman the Archdeacon: [218], [238], [249].
• Hermer (monk): [25] (sub-prior): [191]-193, [235].
• Herringswell: [95].
• Hidages: [44], [232].
• Hinderclay: [95].
• Hingham, Hugh of: [6], [75].
  • Richard of: [174].
  • Roger of: [6], [75].
  • Roger of (cellarer): [157], [186]-7.
• Hitcham: [80].
• Honington: [91], [94].
• Hopton: [91], [95].
• Horning, Robert of: [185].
• Horningsherth: [95].
• Hostesley, Durand of: [91].
• Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury, see Walter.
• Hugh, Abbot of St. Edmund (a.d. 1157-1180):
  • [1], [2]-9, [10], [49], [108], [116], [135], [222], [225].
  • Prior of St. Edmund: [1], [6].
  • Third Prior of St. Edmund: [25], [26], [29], [31], [32].
  • The sacrist: [46], [110], [145], [152], [172], [232].
  • The Infirmarer: [174].
• Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: [234], [273].
• Hundreds in Liberty of St. Edmund: [44], [77], [232], [238].
• Hunston: [184].

• Icklingham: [71], [95], [205], [235].
• Ickworth, Richard of: [185].
• Illegh or Eleigh (Monachorum): [76]-7, [79], [238]-9.
  • (Combust): [185].
  • Hugh of: [185].
• Ingham: [95].
• Innocent III, Pope: [124], [149], [245].
• Interdict: [xli].
• Ireland: [236].
• Isaac, the Jew: [3].

• Jerusalem, loss of: [60].
• Jews, abbey debts to: [2]-4, [15], [48], [223].
  • Driven from St. Edmundsbury, [69]-70, [223].
• Joce, Rabbi: [3].
• Jocelin of Brakelond: [xx].-xxiv., [1], [6], [23], [39], [56], [93], [101],
  • [145], [197]-8, [200], [235], [242].
• Jocell the cellarer: [174], [186]-187.
• John, King of England: [82], [228].
  • Comes to St. Edmundsbury: [xxxiii]., [178], [251], [267].
  • Calls for Samson's advice: [xxxiii]., [207], [254].
• John, third Prior: [193]-5
• Jordan de Ros: [91], [92], [93].
• Jurnet the Jew: [8], [224].

• Kalendar, Samson's: [45], [232].
• Kentford: [37].
• Ketel, the case of: [152], [247].
• Kingston: [95].
• Kirkby: [184].
  • Alexander of: [184].
• Knights of St. Edmund, list of: [183]-6.

• Lackford: [95].
• Lailand: [103].
• Lakenheath: [155], [203], [205].
• Langtoft, Robert of: [184].
• Lavenham: [184].
• Lelesey: [184], [255].
• Len: [95].
• Lenmere of Cokefield: [255].
• Leofstan, Abbot of St. Edmund: [249]. [259].
• Liber Albus: [xvi].-ii.
• Liberty of St. Edmund: [41], [42], [44], [77], [82], [85], [87],
  • [112], [138], [206], [232], [238].
• Lidgate: [184], [229].
• Lincoln, Bishop of: [142].
• Little Waltham: [184].
• Livermere: [184], [185].
  • Peter of: [185].
• Loddon: [184].
• London, Bishop of: [113].
  • Dean of: [201], [253].
  • Merchants of: [112], [113], [243].
• Longchamp, William: [79], [80]-2, [240].
• Louis, son of Philip II of France: [267], [276].
• Lovel, Ernald: [91].
• Lucius III, Pope, [51], [263].
• Lydgate, John: [xliv], [241].

• Malmesbury, Abbot of: [32]-3.
• Manston: [185].
  • Gilbert of: [185].
• Marlesford: [184].
• Marlingford: [184].
• Maurice, chaplain of Abbot Samson, [194].
• Melford: [94], [106], [230], [243].
• Melun, School of: [54], [232].
• Mendham: [184].
  • Thomas of: [86].
• Merchants of London: [112]-3, [243].
• Meringthorp: [90], [95].
• Mickfield: [184].
• Milden: [78].
  • William of: [255].
• Mildenhall: [69]-71, [95], [118], [131], [146], [187], [233], [235],
  • [238], [259].
• Monk Eleigh: [76]-7., [79], [238]-9.
• Montfort, Robert of: [103]-4, [243].
• Moot-horn: [110].
• Morieux, Roger of: [185].

• Nicasius, St., chapel of: [191].
• Nicholas (bailiff): [109].
• Nonant, Hugh de, Bishop of Coventry: [142]-3, [246].
• Norfolk, Roger Bigot, Earl of: [86], [96], [98], [99], [184], [241].
• Norton: [184].
• Norway, Archbp. of: [23], [227].
• Norwich, Bishops of: [75], [81], [91].
  • (City): [95], [98], [99], [125].
• Nova Legenda Anglie: [215]-6.
• Nowton: [8], [90], [95].

• Oakley: [184].
• Octavian, the Anti-pope: [72], [236].
• Onehouse: [184].
• Ording, Abbot of St. Edmund: [17], [116], [135], [152], [226],
  • [243], [247].
• Osbert of Clare: [218]-9.
• Oxford, Alberic de Vere, Earl of [85], [98], [184].
• Oxford, Samson at: [142]-3.

• Pakenham [90], [95], [186].
• Palgrave: [11], [63], [94].
  • Richard of: [11], [63].
• Paris, schools of: [66].
• Parks enclosed by Samson: [43], [230].
• Patteshall, Simon of: [185].
• Peche, Gilbert of: [185].
• Portman-moot: [151], [153], [247].
• Presseni, Ralph of: [185].
• Preston: [184], [185].

• "Queen Gold": [70], [234].
• Quiddenham: [184].

• Ralph, the porter: [179].
• Ramsey, monks of: [202].
• Randestune: [184].
• Ranulf, Master: [118].
• Reading: [101], [243].
• Rede: [184].
• Reiner, the monk: [48].
• Reydon: [184].
• Richard I, King of England:
  • Sells Manor of Mildenhall to Bury: [69], [70], [233], [235].
  • His ransom: [71], [147], [234].
  • Licence for holding tournaments: [83], [241].
  • Imprisonment in Germany: [81], [82], [264]-5.
  • Samson visits him in Germany: [82].
  • Demands of knights for French war: [128].
  • Dispute with Sampson over wardship of Nesta of
    • Cockfield: [148]-9, [231], [251].
  • His death: [178], [266].
• Richard, Archbishop of Canterbury: [6], [7], [223], [224].
• Rickinghall: [95].
• Ridel, Geoffrey: [74], [106]-7, [203]-7, [237].
• Risbridge Hundred: [85].
• Risby: [67], [95], [185].
  • Norman of: [67]-8, [185].
  • William of: [67]-8.
• Robert II, Abbot of St. Edmund: [121], [135], [244]-5.
  • Prior of St. Edmund: [1], [13], [190]-1, [252].
  • The boy martyred by Jews: [23], [227].
• Roger Bigot, Earl of Norfolk: [86], [96], [98], [99], [184], [241].
• Roger the cellarer: [25], [29], [31], [32], [152].
• Rokewode, John Gage: [xvii].-xviii. and passim.
• Rome, Samson's visit to: [72]-4.
• Ros, Jordan de: [91], [92], [93].
• Rothing, Gervase of: [185].
• Rougham: [44], [95], [186], [255].
• Ruald (monk): [26].
• Ruffus, Geoffrey: [186].
  • John: [200].
  • R. (monk): [12].
• Rungton: [95].
  • Herlewin of: [49], [50].
• Rushbrook: [95].

• Sacristy, offerings to: [53].
• St. Alban's, Nicholas of: [32]-3.
  • Walter of (monk): [174].
• St. Andrew, Chapel of: [145], [246].
• St. Botolph, Chapel of: [176], [250].
• St. Clare, Gilbert of: [185].
• St. Denis, Chapel of: [139], [245].
• St. Edmund, King and Martyr, passim.
  • His Martyrdom: [258].
  • Life of (Bodl. 240): [216]-21.
  • Cup of: [165], [249].
  • Miracles of: [216] et seq., [249].
  • Shirt of: [164], [249].
  • Shrine of: [162], [177], [249]-50.
  • Standard of: [85], [241].
• St. Faith, Chapel of: [145], [246].
• St. Faith's, prior of: [33].
• St. Katherine, Chapel of: [145], [246].
• St. Neot's, H., prior of: [33].
• St. Nicasius, Chapel of: [191].
• St. Robert, the boy: [23].
• St. Sernin, Toulouse: [276].
• Samson, Abbot, passim.
  • As an Author: [xxxiii]-v., [215]-21.
  • Sketch of his life: [xxiv].-xliii.
  • Dates of events: [261]-6.
  • His death and burial: [xli].-ii., [247].
  • His Seal: Frontispiece, [39], [229].
• Samson, the Precentor: [38];
  • appointed sacrist: [47].
• Sapiston: [184].
• Saxham: [49], [94], [184], [185].
  • Walter of: [185].
• Scaldwell: [90], [95].
• Scales, Robert of: [143].
  • Roger of: [144].
• Schools at Bury: [68], [144], [233], [246].
• Scotland: [236].
• Scurun's Well: [154].
• Semer: [88], [95], [188], [255].
• Sheriff of Suffolk: [87], [204].
• Soham: [95].
• Sorpeni: [151], [247].
• Southrey: [45], [95], [155], [248].
• Southwold: [187].
• Standard of St. Edmund: [85]-6, [241].
• Stanningfield: [105].
• Stanton: [184].
• Stapleford: [49], [95].
• Stephen, King of England: [226], [255].
• Stephen, son of Herbert the Dean: [89].
• Stigand, Archbishop: [7].
• Stow: [94], [184].
• Stuston: [184].
• Stutville, William of: [207], [254].
• Sutton: [258].

• Tewkesbury: [188].
• Theam: [112], [244].
• Thelnetham: [184].
• Thetford: [83], [92].
• Thorpe: [50], [95], [184], [185].
• Thurstan (monk): [26], [174].
• Thurston: [184].
• Tibenham: [184].
• Tillener: [50].
• Tivetshall: [90], [95], [100].
• Tomlins, T., his Translation of Chronicle (1844):
  • [xviii].-xix.
• Topscroft: [184].
• Tostock, William of: [184].
• Toulouse, St. Sernin: [276].
• Tournaments: [83], [241].
• Trontheim, Archbishop of: [23], [227].
• Troston: [184].

• Ulfric of Lelesey: [225].
• Urban III. (Pope): [84], [263].
• Uvius, first Abbot of Bury: [259].

• Valognes, Robert of: [91].
• Vere, Alberic de: [85], [98], [184].

• Wachesham, Osbert of: [184].
• Walchelin, the Archdeacon: [92].
• Walter the physician: [25], [146], [172].
• Walter, Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury: [83], [98], [121]-2,
  • [125], [142]-3, [175]-6, [187], [240], [245].
• Waltham: [125].
  • Little: [184].
  • (Bishop's): [31], [228].
• Wangford: [185].
• Warin (monk): [14].
• Waringford, Nicholas of: [32].
• Warkton: [48], [95].
• Wattisfield: [185].
• Waude: [185].
• Wendling: [90], [95].
• Westley: [90], [95].
• Wetherden: [95], [144], [246].
• Whatfield: [185].
• Whelnetham: [185].
  • Geoffrey of: [185].
• Whepstead: [8], [95].
• William Wiardel, sacrist of St. Edmund: [3], [13], [14], [15], [25],
  • [32], [46]-7, [223].
• William of Worcester: [247], [274].
• Wimer, the Sheriff: [25], [39], [225].
• Winchester [Richard] Bishop of: [31], [34], [36].
• Windsor, siege of: [82].
• Witham: [85].
• Withgar: [85], [241].
• Woolpit: [72], [74], [95], [235].
• Worlingworth: [95].
• Wortham: [95], [184].
• Wordwell, William of: [185].
• Wrabness: [95].

• Yarmouth: [113].
• Yates' History of Bury, [276].
• York [Geoffrey] Archbishop of: [31], [80], [126], [228].

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Transcriber's Note:
Varying and archaic spelling and varying hyphenation were retained.
Page xxxviii, "obedientaries" changed to "obedientiaries".
Page 11, "allgeing" changed to "alleging".
Page 241, "Jornham" changed to "Fornham".
Page 264, "1180" changed to "1188".
Page 269, "owes" changed to "owe".
Other apparent printer's errors were corrected.
Pages 221 and 230 are missing double-quotes but it is unclear where they should be inserted.
Page 274 records two persons being appointed as 27th abbot, in 1469 and 1474.

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