William de Colchester, Abbot of Westminster

by Ernest Harold Pearce

• 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]