First Published October 1906
Second Edition 1907

CONTENTS

PAGE

List of Manuscript and Printed Authorities[xi]
CHAPTER I
The Parish[1]
CHAPTER II
The Parish Church[21]
CHAPTER III
The Parish Church (continued)[44]
CHAPTER IV
The Parish Clergy[71]
CHAPTER V
The Parish Officials[102]
CHAPTER VI
Parochial Finance[124]
CHAPTER VII
The Parish Church Services[140]
CHAPTER VIII
Church Festivals[164]
CHAPTER IX
The Sacraments[187]
CHAPTER X
The Parish Pulpit[211]
CHAPTER XI
Parish Amusements[233]
CHAPTER XII
Guilds and Fraternities[253]
Index[275]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

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Thurible, found near Pershore[33]
Twelfth Century.
Pax[34]
Arch. Journal, ii. 149.
Bracket with Suspended Dove and Cover[37]
Viollet le Duc, Dictionnaire du Mobilier, i. 249.
Sacramental Dove[38]
Ibid., 50.
St. Martin’s Mass, showing Disposition of Altar Furniture—Fourteenth Century[47]
Didron, Annales Archæologique, iii. 95.
Pyx, and Canopy, open[48]
Pyx Canopy, closed[49]
Shaft Piscina, Treborough[52]
Double Piscina, Cowlinge, Suffolk[52]
Outside Entrance to Rood-Loft, St. John’s, Winchester[55]
Journal of Arch. Assoc., ix. 1.
Corona of Lights, St. Martin de Troyes—Fifteenth Century[61]
Viollet le Duc, Dictionnaire du Mobilier.
Backless Benches, Cawston, Norfolk[63]
Font, St. Michael’s, Sutton Bonnington, Notts[64]
Holy Water Stoup, Wootton Courtney, Somerset[65]
Sacrament of Ordination[79]
From The Art of Good Lyvinge.
Rectory, West Dean, Sussex[89]
Turner’s Domestic Architecture, i. 168.
Holy Water Clerk[113]
B. Museum, Royal MSS., 10 E. 4.
Blessing of Food by Holy Water Clerk[114]
B. Museum, Royal MSS., 10 E. 4.
Alms Box, Blythburgh, Suffolk[130]
Organ—Twelfth Century[144]
Didron, Annales Archæologique, iv. 31.
Low Side Window, Barnard Castle, Durham[147]
Holy Water Vat and Sprinkler[155]
Dictionnaire du Mobilier, ii. 35.
The Sacrament of Penance[169]
From The Art of Good Lyvinge.
Easter Sepulchre, Arnold, Notts[178]
Sacrament of Baptism[191]
From The Art of Good Lyvinge.
Sacrament of Confirmation[195]
Ibid.
Sacrament of Extreme Unction[202]
Ibid.
Hearse and Pall—Fifteenth Century. Cantors at Lectern[205]
“Vita et pass. S. Dyonisii Areop.,” Biblio. Nat.
Dictionnaire du Mobilier, ii. 127.
Sacrament of Matrimony[208]
From The Art of Good Lyvinge.
Pulpit, 1475, St. Paul’s, Truro[212]
Stone Pulpit Bracket, Walpole St. Andrew, Norfolk[215]
Church House, Lincoln[234]
Turner’s Domestic Architecture, i. 168.

LIST OF PLATES

Passiontide[Frontispiece]
B. Museum, Add. MS., 25698, f. 9.
Rood-Screen and Pulpit, Haberton ChurchTo face page[44]
From a Photograph by J. Valentine & Sons, Ltd.
Screen, Withycombe, Somerset”[56]
Acolythes and Baptism”[76]
B. Museum, Royal MSS., 6 E. vi., ff. 40, 171.
Houseling Cloth for Holy Communion”[106]
Ibid., 2 B. vii., f. 260b.
Archidiaconal Visitation and Marriage”[216]
Ibid., 6 E. vi., ff. 133, 375.
Confirmation and Youths receiving Holy Communion”[222]
Ibid., 6 E. ff. 472, 337d.

LIST OF MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED AUTHORITIES

As in English Monastic Life, the volume I have already contributed to this series of “The Antiquary’s Books,” I have, in this book, been advised by the Editor to avoid multitudinous footnotes and references. I here give a list of works, in print and manuscript, out of which I have endeavoured to reconstruct the picture of Parish Life in Mediæval England, which I have tried to sketch in the following pages.

CHANTRIES