DISCIPLINE AND THE DAILY LIFE
§ 80. The chief object of this book has been to explain the position
and use of the various buildings of a monastery, and in its course
reference has been made to several leading features of the life which
was led within them. The sketch may be completed by some brief notes on
the arrangements for monastic discipline and the ordinary life of the
house. The abbot was the head and father of the house, who presided in
chapter and was responsible for the due correction of erring brethren
and the treatment of the complaints which monks and canons were
encouraged to make publicly in the daily chapter-meeting. His duties,
however, were largely delegated to the prior, who was the officer
charged with the maintenance of order in the cloister[20]. Where
the prior was head of the house, the sub-prior took this secondary
position. In monasteries where the number of brethren was large, as
at Lewes or Peterborough, the prior was helped in the cloister by
other monks, who were known as the sub-prior and the third and fourth
prior. An old name for the junior priors was _circae_ or _circatores_:
their duty was to make periodical rounds of inspection in the cloister
and dorter. But, in addition to these disciplinary officers, there
were other officials, each of whom administered a special department
of the convent. Their offices, held by commission from the abbot,
were called obediences (_obedientiae_), and they themselves were
known collectively as obedientiaries (_obedientiarii_). In the
great monasteries the abbot had his own household officers, chosen
from the monks: at Peterborough in 1440 he had his own seneschal,
receiver or bailiff, cellarer, chamberlain, and chaplain[21]. Of the
obedientiaries usually found in connexion with the convent, two, the
precentor and sacrist, were in charge of the church. The precentor
was responsible for the singing, the direction of processions and the
repair and proper notation of the quire-books: he also, as at Barnwell,
filled the office of librarian (_armarius_). The sacrist had control
of the clock, bells, lights and ornaments of the church. They were
sometimes assisted in their offices by a succentor or sub-chanter and
sub-sacrist. The sacrist at Peterborough was excused from attendance
in quire save on certain festivals. The same excuse applied for more
obvious reasons to the cellarer and almoner, and to the monks who
filled the offices of treasurer and master of the works, the second of
whom controlled the repairs of the church and monastery. The cellarer
and almoner were invariably found in all monasteries. The cellarer
was the chief means of communication between the house and the world
outside: he marketed and went to fairs, and bought the necessary
provisions and furniture. The duties of the almoner have already been
noticed: he and the cellarer were frequently assisted by a sub-almoner
and sub-cellarer. The cellarer, whose checker was usually in the
neighbourhood of the _cellarium_ and kitchen, was in close touch with
the fraterer (_refectorarius_) and kitchener (_coquinarius_), whose
chief duties were to arrange the meals in the frater and to regulate
the activities of the cook and his assistants[22]. He also was, as we
have seen, responsible in some degree for the hospitality of the house,
which was administered directly by the hosteller (_hospitarius_).
Equally necessary to the conduct of the monastery were the infirmarer
(_infirmarius_), who looked after the brethren in the infirmary and
sometimes, as at Peterborough, had his separate lodging in its
neighbourhood, and the chamberlain (_camerarius_), who attended to the
clothes of the brethren and their bedding in the dorter. The receiver
(_receptor_), treasurer (_thesaurarius_) or bursar (_bursarius_)
collected rents in money: the garnerer or granger (_granatarius_)
collected the tithe in corn which belonged to the monastery, and
supplied the cellarer with his stores of bread and beer. These offices
of course varied in different houses, and in the later middle ages some
are found in combination; but, as the needs of all orders were to some
extent the same, the differences are trifling[23]. Each was bound to
render an account of his administration yearly or quarterly, and, where
such accounts survive, the information which they give is from the
social and economical point of view of the highest value.
§ 81. The time-table of a monastic day in church and cloister must be
reckoned with attention to the fact that the day, between sunrise and
sunset, was divided, irrespective of the season, into twelve equal
parts. The hours in winter were thus some twenty minutes shorter
than in summer, and, with this in view, a different arrangement was
adopted during the winter months, which began on Holy Cross day (14
September) and lasted till Easter. Artificial light was impossible in
the cloister after sunset, and consequently in winter the brethren
went to bed earlier. Their night was divided into two equal portions,
between which came the night-office of matins followed by lauds. The
rule of St Benedict contemplated an undivided night, with matins as
the first day-office, said before daybreak; but the general practice
followed in all orders was to rise in the middle of the night for
matins and to return to the dorter afterwards. At Durham the monks
dressed by the light of cressets—bowls filled with oil and floating
wicks, and set in hollows in square stone stands at either end of the
dorter. In most monasteries the brethren entered and left the church
in procession before and after matins by the night-stair, and the
time between dressing and the signal to go to church was occupied in
private prayer. After preparatory psalms, the service began with the
invitatory, which included the psalm _Venite exultemus_. It was divided
into nocturns, each consisting of a group of psalms followed by three
lessons: on ordinary days matins consisted of a single nocturn, but
on most feast-days there were three. Lauds followed: this service
derived its name from the three final psalms of the psalter, known from
their opening words, _Laudate Dominum_, as the _laudes_. The whole
night-office was of considerable length—equal, in fact, to that of the
day-hours taken together—and was further increased by the addition of
the office of our Lady and on certain days of _Placebo_, or matins of
the dead. When it was over, the brethren returned to bed and rose, at
daybreak in winter, at sunrise in summer, for prime, when the sub-prior
unlocked the day-stair and the church was entered by the ordinary
doorway from the cloister.
§ 82. The day-hours were said every three hours, as their names
imply—prime at the first, terce at the third, sext at the sixth,
none at the ninth. In summer prime was followed in Benedictine and
Cistercian houses by chapter. This began with the versicle _Pretiosa_
('Right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints')
which preceded the martyrology or account of the saints commemorated on
the day: this was followed by the necrology, or list of the dead to be
remembered, and by a chapter of the rule with a sermon or commentary.
The work of each monk was allotted for the day, and the meeting closed
with _clamationes_ or individual complaints, public confessions and
corrections by the head of the house. The interval between chapter and
terce was occupied by the monks in work in the cloister or in their
various offices. Terce was followed by the chapter mass, during which
at Durham half the monks in priest's orders said their private masses.
The other half said their masses during high mass, which was sung about
an hour after the chapter mass and immediately before sext. During this
time, no food was taken. Bread soaked in wine (_mixtum_) was allowed
to those whose strength was hardly equal to the long morning. In the
Premonstratensian order, where, as in Augustinian houses, the chapter
mass seems to have been sung immediately after prime, and chapter was
followed after an interval by terce, the _mixtum_ was distributed after
terce to the infirm and the novices. All spare intervals were filled by
work, and silence was rigorously maintained, all necessary conversation
taking place in the parlour.
§ 83. The first meal (_prandium_) took place at mid-day in the
frater, soon after sext. During the meal the reader for the week, who
had taken his repast before the rest, occupied the pulpit and read
from the Bible or some pious book. Grace after meat ended with the
_Miserere_, which was sung in procession through the cloister, the
concluding collect and suffrages being said in church. The brethren
then retired to rest in the dorter, until none. Work of various
kinds filled up the time between none and vespers, a service which
corresponded in its general structure to lauds. After vespers and the
usual grace came supper (_caena_). During the interval between supper
and compline (_completorium_), the last office, the convent met in
the chapter-house for collation, at which the _Collationes_ of Cassian
or a chapter from some other monastic author were read. Compline ended
the day, although, in times of lax discipline, there arose a custom
of sitting up late in the warming-house which called for correction
from episcopal visitors. The strict rule, however, required that the
brethren should repair directly after compline to the dorter, and that
all doors in the church and cloister should be locked until prime. At
Durham the sub-prior went the round of the dorter towards the middle
of the night to see that all was in good order. The rule required
constant vigilance on the part of the officers, especially with regard
to the maintenance of silence and the prevention of the accumulation of
private property by the brethren.
§ 84. In winter the morning or chapter mass was sung between prime
and terce, and terce was succeeded by chapter. High mass and sext
followed. Between sext and none the convent was at work. After none
came the mid-day meal, and the rest of the day was spent as usual
until compline, with the omission of the post-prandial rest, which
in a season of long nights was not needed. In orders in which manual
labour played a large part—the Cistercian and Premonstratensian, for
example—special portions of the day were set aside for such work. The
Cistercians worked in the morning between chapter and terce, and in
the afternoon between none and vespers. In winter they usually worked
from chapter after terce till none, apparently saying sext privately:
in Lent they also said none at their work, and did not have their
meal until after vespers. Their periods for reading and contemplation
were an interval between matins and lauds in all seasons, the time
between the morning mass and sext in summer (for in this order there
seems to have originally been no high mass before sext), and part of
the interval between vespers and compline. Premonstratensian canons
worked in summer from chapter to terce, and in hay-time and harvest
spent the greater part of the day in the fields, saying their hours
privately, and dining and sleeping in the granges, if necessary. In
winter work was done after terce. The Premonstratensian hours for
reading were between sext and the mid-day meal in summer or none in
winter, and again after none or the mid-day meal till vespers. In the
summer the canons were allowed their daily bevers or draught of wine
before vespers in the frater. The conduct of the daily life in the
various orders applies equally to houses of female religious, where
the officers corresponded to those in male convents, the night and
day-hours were said and chapters were held on the same model, and the
only important difference was that chaplains had to be imported to say
mass and hear private confessions, the hour for which in all orders was
usually after chapter.
§ 85. It is probable that the observances of all orders in the two
centuries before the suppression tended to become very similar. Records
of visitations in the fifteenth century shew that there had grown to
be scarcely any difference between the ordinary customs of Benedictine
monks and Augustinian canons: injunctions delivered to a house of one
order were repeated in almost the same terms to a house of another. The
Carthusian order stood apart from the rest, however, by virtue of its
ascetic rule—a rule stricter and more frugal even than that followed
by the early Cistercians. Each monk lived his own life in his cell,
going to church for the night-office, the early masses and vespers, and
to the frater for the mid-day meal and supper on Sundays and certain
feast-days, but otherwise saying his offices alone and served with his
two meals a day through a hatch in the wall of his cell. On Sundays and
chapter festivals all the hours, except compline, were said in church,
and two chapters were held, one after prime and the second after
none. In this life of lonely austerity, given up to contemplation and
precluded even from the field-work and farming which were part of the
activity of the strictest orders, later medieval sentiment found much
to admire; and the popularity of the Carthusians in the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries was probably a recognition of their maintenance of
the primitive simplicity from which the older and greater houses had
declined.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. EARLY MONASTIC HISTORY. See _Cambridge Medieval History_, vol.
I, pp. 521-42 (by Dom E. C. Butler, abbot of Downside). A full
bibliography will be found on pp. 683-7 of the same volume.
B. RELIGIOUS ORDERS. (1) Benedictine monks. The rule of St Benedict has
been edited by Dom E. C. Butler, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, 1911. There is a
translation by abbot Gasquet in the 'King's Classics' series.
(2) Carthusian monks. See H. V. le Bas in _Yorks. Archaeol. Journal_,
XVIII, 241-52.
(3) Cistercian monks. See _Cistercian Statutes_, ed. J. T. Fowler, 1890
(reprinted from _Yorks. Archaeol. Journal_, with preface containing
references to original sources). See also J. T. Micklethwaite, _The
Cistercian Order_ (_Yorks. Archaeol. Journal_, XV, 245-68, reprinted as
separate pamphlet).
(4) Augustinian canons. The letter of St Augustine on which the rule
was founded is no. CCXI in his _Epistolae_, printed with his other
works in Migne, _Patrologiae Latinae Cursus_. The rule is printed by
J. W. Clark, _Observances in Use at the Augustinian Priory of S. Giles
and S. Andrew at Barnwell, Cambridgeshire_, Cambridge, 1897, pp. 2-23:
see also the introduction to the same volume, pp. xxxi-civ, for a
description of the customs of the order.
(5) Gilbertine canons. See Rose Graham, _St Gilbert of Sempringham and
the Gilbertines_, 1902.
(6) Premonstratensian canons. See F. A. Gasquet, _Collectanea
Anglo-Premonstratensia_, 3 vols., 1906 (Camden Soc., 3rd ser.). Some of
the statutes are printed by J. W. Clark, _op. cit._ pp. 101-4.
(7) Nuns. See Lina Eckenstein, _Women and Monasticism_, Cambridge, 1896.
(8) Friars. See _Monumenta Franciscana_, 2 vols., 1858, 1882 (Rolls
ser.), ed. J. S. Brewer and R. Howlett.
A number of general documents of great importance are prefixed to
the accounts of individual houses of the several orders in Dugdale's
_Monasticon Anglicanum_, 8 vols., 1817-30, ed. Caley, Ellis and
Bandinel—e.g. the Carthusian _Tractatus statutorum ... pro noviciis_,
and the _Vita_ and _Institutiones Sancti Gileberti_ prefixed to the
accounts of houses of the order of Sempringham.
C. ENGLISH MONASTERIES: HISTORY. Dugdale, _Monasticon_, ut sup.,
contains the text of a great number of documents, taken from various
sources, relating to the large majority of English religious houses,
together with a carefully annotated account of each house and a list
of its heads. These accounts and lists have been supplemented and to
some extent superseded by the articles upon the several religious
houses which are contained in the published volumes of the _Victoria
History of the Counties of England_, now in progress. The documents
are in great part selected from the MS. chartularies of the various
monasteries, of which many have been preserved in public and private
collections. Some chartularies have been printed in full—e.g. the
Surtees Society has published those of Newminster, Rievaulx and Whitby
abbeys, and of Brinkburn and Guisbrough priories, and chartularies of
Gloucester, Hyde and Ramsey abbeys, and the register of Malmesbury
abbey have appeared in the Rolls series. _Memorials of Fountains
Abbey_, 2 vols., ed. J. R. Walbran, and _The Priory of Hexham_, 2
vols., ed. J. Raine (Surtees Soc.), contain collections of charters in
addition to other historical matter.
A bibliography of some of the most important sources for the history
of the monastic life is prefixed to abbot Gasquet's _English Monastic
Life_, 1904, a valuable account of the constitution and customs of
religious houses, followed by an appendix containing the most complete
list which has yet appeared of English monastic foundations. An
annotated list (_The English Student's Monasticon_) forms vol. II of
Mackenzie E. C. Walcott's _English Minsters_, 1879.
A large number of monastic chronicles have been printed in the Rolls
series. The period before the Norman conquest is represented by the
_Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon_, Thomas of Elmham's _Historia
Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis_, the _Liber Monasterii de Hyda_,
the _Chronicle of the Abbey of Ramsey_, and the _Vita S. Oswaldi_ (in
_Historians of the Church of York_, vol. I). Later history is contained
in the _Annales Monastici_, 5 vols. (Annals of Bermondsey, Burton,
Margam, Oseney, Tewkesbury and Waverley abbeys, and of Dunstable,
Winchester and Worcester priories), the _Chronicon Abbatiae de
Evesham_, _Historia et Cartularium Monasterii S. Petri Gloucestriae_, 3
vols., _Chronicon Monasterii de Melsa_ (Meaux), 3 vols., Walsingham's
_Gesta Abbatum Monasterii S. Albani_, 3 vols., _Registra quorundam
abbatum S. Albani_ (15 cent.), 2 vols., and _Memorials of St Edmund's
Abbey_, 3 vols. Jocelyn of Brakelond's and other chronicles were
printed by the Camden Society among their publications: there is a
translation of Jocelyn in the 'King's Classics.'
For custom-books, monastic account-books, etc., reference may be made
to abbot Gasquet's bibliography, ut sup., where also there are notes
of printed editions of monastic visitations and episcopal registers.
The registers of archbishops Giffard and Wickwane of York (ed. W. Brown
for the Surtees Soc.) and that of archbishop Romeyn, about to appear
under the same editorship, contain many valuable documents relating
to visitations of monasteries. The present writer is engaged upon an
edition of similar documents from the Lincoln episcopal registers for
the Lincoln Record Soc., of which vol. I (1420-36) is now in the press.
Three books of recent times are of the highest importance to students
of monastic history, viz. (1) J. W. Clark's _Observances of Barnwell_,
already mentioned; (2) _Inventories of Christ Church, Canterbury_,
ed. W. H. St John Hope and J. Wickham Legg, 1902; (3) _The Rites of
Durham_, ed. J. T. Fowler, 1903 (Surt. Soc.), the notes to which are a
mine of information as to monastic customs, ritual, etc.
D. ENGLISH MONASTERIES: ARCHITECTURE AND PLAN. There is a lack
of general treatises on this subject; but the account of monastic
architecture by C. Enlart, _Manuel d'Archéologie française_, Paris,
1904, II, 1-57, applies, _mutatis mutandis_, to English monasteries,
and contains a general bibliography.
The foundation of the study of the Benedictine plan was laid down
by Professor Willis in his articles on _Worcester Cathedral and
Monastery_ (_Archaeol. Journal_, vol. XX), and in _The Architectural
History of the Conventual Buildings of the Monastery of Christ Church
in Canterbury_, 1869. D. J. Stewart's _Architectural History of Ely
Cathedral_, 1868, is another remarkable work of the same period. Other
important works are J. T. Micklethwaite's _Notes on the Abbey buildings
of Westminster_ (_Archaeol. Journal_, vols. XXXIII, LI), W. H. St John
Hope's _Notes on the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester_
(_Ibid._ vol. LIV) and _Architectural History of the Cathedral Church
and Monastery of St Andrew at Rochester_ (reprinted from _Archaeol.
Cantiana_, 1900), the accounts of Peterborough abbey by C. R. Peers
(_Vict. Co. Hist. Northants_, vol. II), of St Albans abbey by C.
R. Peers and W. Page (_Ibid._ _Herts_, vol. II) and of Winchester
cathedral priory by C. R. Peers and H. Brakspear (_Ibid._ _Hants_, vol.
V), and W. H. Knowles' _Tynemouth Priory_ (_Archaeol. Journal_, vol.
LXVII). F. Bond's _Westminster Abbey_, 1909, is an admirably written
and well illustrated volume.
The Carthusian plan is treated by Mr Hope in _Mount Grace Priory_
(_Yorks. Archaeol. Journal_, vol. XVIII, with historical articles by
H. V. le Bas and W. Brown) and in _The London Charterhouse and its old
water supply_ (_Archaeologia_, vol. LVIII).
The peculiarities of the Cistercian order have received much attention:
see E. Sharpe, _Architecture of the Cistercians_ (_Journal R.I.B.A._,
1870-1, pp. 189-210), and J. T. Micklethwaite, _Of the Cistercian
plan_ (_Yorks. Archaeol. Journal_, vol. VII). The chief monograph on
the Cistercian plan is W. H. St John Hope's _Fountains Abbey_ (_Yorks.
Archaeol. Journal_, vol. XV, reprinted separately, 1900), and to
the same writer's _Kirkstall Abbey_ (_Thoresby Soc. Publications_,
vol. XVI) is added an essay by J. Bilson on _The Architecture of the
Cistercians_, reprinted, with some alterations, in _Archaeol. Journal_,
vol. LXVI. It may be noted that Mr Hope, among other discoveries,
established for the first time in his _Fountains Abbey_ the use of the
Cistercian nave as the quire of the _conversi_, the arrangement of the
Cistercian kitchen, and the fact of the disappearance of the _conversi_
from Cistercian houses after the middle of the fourteenth century.
Mr Hope has further discussed Cistercian arrangements in _The Abbey
of St Mary in Furness_ (_Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Archaeol. Soc.
Trans._, vol. XVI, reprinted 1902), and with H. Brakspear in _Beaulieu
Abbey_ (_Archaeol. Journal_, vol. LXIII) and _Jervaulx Abbey_ (_Yorks.
Archaeol. Journal_, vol. XXI). Mr Brakspear's monographs include _On
the first Church at Furness_ (_Lanc. and Chesh. Antiq. Soc. Trans._,
vol. XVIII), _The Church of Hayles Abbey_ (_Archaeol. Journal_, vol.
LVIII; see also _Bristol and Glouc. Archaeol. Soc. Trans._, vol. XXIV),
_Pipewell Abbey_ (_Assoc. Archit. Soc. Reports_, vol. XXX), _Stanley
Abbey_ (_Wilts. Archaeol. Journal_, vol. XXXV), and _Waverley Abbey_
(_Surrey Archaeol. Soc._, 1905). See also R. W. Paul, _The Church and
Monastery of Abbey Dore_ (_Bristol and Glouc. Archaeol. Soc. Trans._,
vol. XXVII).
For Cluniac plans see Mr Hope's _Architectural History of the Priory of
St Pancras at Lewes_ (_Archaeol. Journal_, vol. XLI; see also _Sussex
Archaeol. Collections_, vols. XXXIV, XLIX) and _Castleacre Priory_
(_Norfolk Archaeologia_, vol. XII).
The chief monographs on houses of Augustinian canons are Mr Hope's
_Repton Priory_ (_Derby Archaeol. Soc. Trans._, vols. VI, VII;
_Archaeol. Journal_, vol. XLI), Messrs Hope and Brakspear's _Haughmond
Abbey_ (_Archaeol. Journal_, vol. LXVI), and R. W. Paul's _Plan of the
Church and Monastery of St Augustine, Bristol_ (_Archaeologia_, vol.
LXIII). See also J. W. Clark, _Observances of Barnwell_, ut sup., C. C.
Hodges, _Hexham Abbey_ (sic), 1888, and the learned series of articles
by J. F. Hodgson on the plans of Augustinian churches (_Archaeol.
Journal_, vols. XLI-XLIII). Mr Brakspear has described two houses of
Augustinian canonesses, viz., _Burnham Abbey_ (_Ibid._, vol. LX; see
_Bucks. Archit. and Archaeol. Soc. Records_, vol. VIII) and _Lacock
Abbey_ (_Archaeologia_, vol. LVII; see also _Wilts. Archaeol. Journal_,
vol. XXXI).
The Gilbertine plan is elucidated by Mr Hope in _The Gilbertine Priory
of Watton_ (_Archaeol. Journal_, vol. LVIII).
Mr Hope is further responsible for a series of articles upon various
Premonstratensian abbeys, viz. Alnwick (_Archaeol. Journal_, vol. XLIV;
see also _Archaeologia Aeliana_, vol. XIII), Dale (_Derby Archaeol.
Soc. Trans._, vols. I, II), St Agatha's (_Yorks. Archaeol. Journal_,
vol. X), St Radegund's (_Archaeol. Cantiana_, vol. XIV), Shap (_Cumb.
and Westm. Antiq. and Archaeol. Soc. Trans._, vol. X) and West Langdon
(_Archaeol. Cantiana_, vol. XV). See also J. F. Hodgson, _Eggleston
Abbey_ (_Yorks. Archaeol. Journal_, vol. XVIII).
For the plans of friaries, see Mr Hope's _On the Whitefriars or
Carmelites of Hulne_ (_Archaeol. Journal_, vol. XLVII) and A. W.
Clapham, _On the Topography of the Dominican Priory of London_
(_Archaeologia_, vol. LXIII).
The above list embraces the most important contributions to the subject
made during recent years. Many plans of other monasteries with brief
descriptions will be found in the accounts of the summer meetings of
the Royal Archaeological Institute in recent volumes of the _Archaeol.
Journal_, and there are also plans of the chief monasteries in various
volumes of _The Builder_. Mr Hope's plans of Durham are given in _The
Rites of Durham_, ut sup. For further plans, see the topographical
sections of the _Victoria County History_ and the _History of
Northumberland_ (now in progress).
Historical monographs on religious houses, in which attention is
paid to plan and architectural features, should not be forgotten. As
examples of these may be cited S. O. Addy's _Beauchief Abbey_, Dr W.
de Gray Birch's histories of _Neath Abbey_ and _Margam Abbey_, C.
Lynam's _Croxden Abbey_, and S. W. Williams' _Cistercian Abbey of
Strata Florida_. Guide-books are not as a rule very trustworthy, but
the official guide-book to Tintern abbey, for the architectural part
of which Mr Brakspear is responsible, and F. Bligh Bond's guide to
Glastonbury abbey are among the notable exceptions.
Articles of great historical value will be found under various headings
in Smith's _Dictionary of Christian Antiquities_, the _Encyclopaedia
Britannica_ and the _Catholic Encyclopaedia_. It is unnecessary to
refer to these in detail.
FOOTNOTES
[1] _Conversi_ were found in houses of other orders, e.g. the
Augustinian, but their position in such cases was less definite than
in the Cistercian order. Male _conversi_ were attached to houses
of Cistercian nuns: examples of this are known in Lincolnshire and
Yorkshire.
[2] In 1301 the Benedictine monks of Gloucester were allowed a frock
and cowl out of the wardrobe at least once a year, day-shoes once in 18
months, boots once in five years, pairs of woollen shirts (_langelli_)
once every four years. They could change when necessary a thick and
thin tunic, their pilch or fur cloak (_pellicea_), ordinary boots,
under-shirt (_stamen_) and drawers (_femoralia_).
[3] In 1230 the monks of St James', Bristol, a cell of Tewkesbury,
petitioned the bishop of Worcester against the consecration of the
Dominican church in St James' parish. Various documents in the York
episcopal registers between 1279 and 1296 deal with the rivalry between
the _custodes_ of the alien priory of Scarborough and the local
Dominicans. In both cases the root of ill-feeling was the diversion by
the friars of the oblations due to the parish altar.
[4] _Historical Growth of the English Parish Church_, 1911, pp. 11-15.
[5] At Waverley, late in the twelfth century, there were 70 monks, 120
_conversi_. That the monks sometimes found the _conversi_ difficult
to manage is shewn by the action of abbot Richard (1220-35) at Meaux,
who removed them from the granges and confined them to menial and
craftsmen's work.
[6] The order in which the parts of a monastery were built followed the
immediate needs of the convent. Thus at Evesham the eastern part of
the church and the eastern range of the cloister were built first: the
frater and western range, with the permanent outer buildings and the
rest of the church, were not finished till later. At Meaux a temporary
two-storied building, church above and dorter below, was used for some
years until permanent buildings were ready.
[7] At St Albans, where we have much information about the library,
two-thirds of the demesne tithes in Hatfield and some tithes in
Redbourn were assigned between 1077 and 1098 _ad volumina ecclesiae_
(i.e. the church-books) _facienda_.
[8] At Evesham two of the obedientiaries' checkers or offices were in
the sub-vault of the dorter. Here also was the misericord, which had a
door into the infirmary garden. The bleeding-house was a vaulted room
beneath the rere-dorter.
[9] Notices relating to water-supply are frequent in monastic
chronicles. In 1216, when the old spring at Waverley dried up, a
monk named Simon brought the waters of several springs by a culvert
into a conduit which was called St Mary's fount. The new lavatory at
Malmesbury was finished in 1284.
[10] The weekly maundy (_mandatum_) or foot-washing took place at the
lavatory; the arrangement is well seen at Fountains, where the monks
sat on an upper ledge with their feet in the trough below.
[11] The upper stage was probably the treasury, which the account of
the flood of 1265 shews to have been on an upper floor.
[12] In Benedictine houses the use of the misericord for monks in
ordinary health was permitted at an earlier period. Abbot Colerne
(1260-96) made regulations in 1292 for the daily use of the misericord
at Malmesbury by a certain number of monks.
[13] Jocelyn of Brakelond says that in bleeding-time 'monks are wont
to open to one another the secrets of the heart and to take counsel
together,' and describes how at such a time, in the vacancy before
his election as abbot of Bury, Samson the sub-sacrist sat in silence,
smiling at the gossip of the brethren.
[14] Abbot Paul (1077-98) ordained that the _minuti_ at St Albans,
instead of feeding on meat pasties, should have a dish of salt-fish and
slices of cake, known as 'karpie.'
[15] At St Albans there was a large _camera_ for infirm abbots close to
the infirmary. This, known as the _pictorium_ or painted chamber, was
destroyed by the insurgent tenants in 1381.
[16] Abbot Brokehampton (1282-1316) built two guest-chambers at Evesham
upon vaulted undercrofts on the west side of the _curia_. In 1378
parliament sat in the guest-house and other buildings at Gloucester:
the account shews how the cloister life was disorganised by the crowd
of visitors.
[17] This was due to the removal of a chantry of six monks and a
secular priest from Ottringham to the monastery.
[18] In Benedictine monasteries there were usually several offices
outside the precinct—e.g., at Tewkesbury the mill and the guests'
stable, burned in 1257, were _extra portam abbatiae_. The building of
permanent offices in the _curia_ at Bury by abbot Samson is described
by Jocelyn of Brakelond.
[19] The almonry at St Albans, built by abbot Wallingford (1326-35),
included a hall, chapel, chambers, kitchen, cellar and other buildings
necessary for the scholars and their master.
[20] The prior was usually nominated by the abbot, or the names of
several nominees were submitted to the convent for election. Jocelyn of
Brakelond gives a detailed account of the election of a prior at Bury.
[21] The abbot's household at Gloucester, as regulated by archbishop
Winchelsey in 1301, included five lay esquires and several lay
servants, each with a definite office. Of the esquires one was
seneschal of the guest-hall, another marshal, who was charged with
regulating accounts, a third cook: the other two were appointed to
serve the abbot's table and bed-chamber.
[22] Thus the cellarer of Evesham supplied the frater daily with 72
loaves.
[23] The officers and obedientiaries at Evesham in the thirteenth
century were the prior, sub-prior, third prior and other _custodes
ordinis_, the precentor, dean of the Christianity of the vale of
Evesham, sacrist, chamberlain, kitchener, two cellarers, infirmarer,
almoner, warden of the vineyard and garden, master of the fabric,
guest-master and pittancer. The last official distributed the money
allowances of the brethren.
INDEX OF PERSONS AND PLACES
N.B. The name of each place in this list is followed by that
of its county, or, if not in England, of its country,
department or province. The description of the religious
house as abbey or priory follows where necessary, and its
order is added in brackets. Aug. = Augustinian; Ben. =
Benedictine; Carm. = Carmelite; Carth. = Carthusian; Cist.
= Cistercian; Clun. = Cluniac; Dom. = Dominican; Gilb. =
Gilbertine; Prem. = Premonstratensian; Tiron. = Tironensian
Abbo, abbot of Fleury, 7
Abergavenny, Monmouth, priory (Ben.), 66
Abingdon, Berks., abbey (Ben.), 145
Aelfwine, 7
Africa, communities of regular clergy in, 19
Alnwick, William, bishop of Lincoln, 29, 30, 32, 33
Alnwick, Northumb., abbey (Prem.), 22, 64, 80, 111, 148
_Ancren Riwle_, 24
Anselm, St, archbishop of Canterbury, 9
Anthony, St, 2, 4
Augustine, St, archbishop of Canterbury, 5, 6;
bishop of Hippo, 19, 20, 119
Aumône, l', Normandy, abbey (Cist.), 15
Avranches, Manche, 13
Aylesford, Kent, priory (Carm. friars), 26
Bardney, Lincs., abbey (Ben.), 115
Barnwell, Cambs., priory (Aug.), 113, 127, 128, 132, 134, 143, 145, 147
Basil, St, 2, 4
Battle, Sussex, abbey (Ben.), 8
Beauchief, Yorks., abbey (Prem.), 148
Beaulieu, Hants., abbey (Cist.), 37, 58, 59, 86, 99, 104, 128, 147
Beauvale, Notts., priory (Carth.), 13
Bec-Hellouin, Eure, abbey (Ben.), 9, 10
Becket, Thomas (St Thomas of Canterbury), 48
Beeleigh, Essex, abbey (Prem.), 79, 84
Benedict, St, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 14, 19, 20, 137
Bermondsey, Surrey, abbey (Clun.), 12, 145
Bernard, St, abbot of Clairvaux, 14
Berno, St, abbot of Cluny, 11
Beverley, Yorks., collegiate church, 47
Blanchland, Northumb., abbey (Prem.), 38
Blyth, Notts., priory (Ben.), 10, 11, 53, 54
Bobbio, Pavia, monastery of, 3
Bolton, Yorks., priory (Aug.), 63, 64, 66
Bradsole; see St Radegund's
Brakelond, Jocelyn of, 115, 129, 133, 145
Brecon, Christ college, 38;
priory (Dom. friars), 38, 71
Bridlington, Yorks., priory (Aug.), 66, 129
Brinkburn, Northumb., priory (Aug.), 63, 66, 144
Bristol, friaries, 26, 27, 38;
St Augustine's abbey (Aug.), 37, 65, 78, 79, 98, 147;
St James' priory (Ben.), 27
Brokehampton, John of, abbot of Evesham, 126
Bromfield, Salop, priory (Ben.), 66
Bromholm, Norfolk, priory (Clun.), 12, 68
Bruno, St, 12
Buckfast, Devon, abbey (Cist.), 103
Buildwas, Salop, abbey (Cist.), 14, 37, 55, 57, 62, 64, 98, 100
Burnham, Bucks., abbey (Aug. nuns), 25, 147
Burton-on-Trent, Staffs., abbey (Ben.), 145
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, abbey (Ben.), 34, 55, 115, 128, 129, 130, 131,
133, 145
Byland, Yorks., abbey (Cist.), 52, 58
Caen, Calvados, abbey of Saint-Etienne (Ben.), 9
Caldey, Pembroke, priory (Tiron.), 14
Cambridge, colleges, 20, 35;
Emmanuel college, 39;
friaries, 26, 39;
King's college, 35;
St Radegund's priory (Ben. nuns, now Jesus college), 35, 38, 79, 90;
Sidney Sussex college, 39
Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 3
Canons Ashby, Northants., priory (Aug.), 66, 67
Canterbury, Kent, cathedral priory (Ben.), 6, 8, 10, 19, 37, 40, 41, 44,
45, 48, 49, 53, 75, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 87, 89, 90, 92, 100, 116,
119, 120, 124, 126, 129, 131, 145, 146;
friaries, 26;
St Augustine's abbey (Ben.), 45, 129, 130, 132, 145
Canute, 8
Carlisle, Cumb., cathedral priory (Aug.), 21, 37, 80
Cartmel, Lancs., priory (Aug.), 64, 65
Cassianus, Joannes, 140
Castle Acre, Norfolk, priory (Clun.), 12, 45, 65, 147
Chard, Thomas, abbot of Ford, 123
Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, 13
Chester, St Werburgh's abbey (Ben.), 37, 41, 47, 49, 55, 79, 86, 90
Chichester, Sussex, priory (Franciscan friars), 38, 39;
St Mary's hospital, 119
Christchurch, Hants., priory (Aug.), 36, 65, 66
Chrodegand, St, 19
Cîteaux, Côte-d'Or, abbey (Cist.), 13, 14, 15, 16, 25, 57, 58, 59
Clairvaux, Aube, abbey (Cist.), 14, 15, 16, 57, 58, 99, 128
Clare, Suffolk, priory (Aug. friars), 26, 38
Clare, St, 27
Cleeve, Som., abbey (Cist.), 37, 84, 86, 101, 109
Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, abbey, 7, 11, 12, 15, 44, 45
Coggeshall, Essex, abbey (Cist.), 128
Colchester, Essex, St Botolph's priory (Aug.), 21, 66
Colerne, William, abbot of Malmesbury, 110
Columba, St, 3
Columban, St, 3
Coventry, Warwicks., cathedral priory (Ben.), 29, 55, 128
Coverham, Yorks., abbey (Prem.), 67
Crauden, John of, prior of Ely, 125
Croxden, Staffs., abbey (Cist.), 37, 57, 99, 121, 148
Croyland, Lincs., 4;
abbey (Ben.), 50, 53, 115
Cuthbert, St, 4
Cymmer, Merioneth, abbey (Cist.), 70
Dale, Derby, abbey (Prem.), 64, 148
Daventry, Northants., priory (Clun.), 123
Dolgelly, Merioneth, 70
Dorchester, Oxon., abbey (Aug.), 64, 67
Dore, Hereford, abbey (Cist.), 37, 58, 80, 147
Dover, Kent, 64;
priory (Ben.), 10
Dryburgh, Berwicks., abbey (Prem.), 79
Dunstable, Beds., priory (Aug.), 145
Dunstan, St, archbishop of Canterbury, 7, 8
Durham, cathedral priory (Ben.), 9, 37, 41, 44, 45, 46, 47, 51, 52, 53,
59, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95,
105, 116, 124, 125, 126, 127, 131, 137, 138, 140, 145, 148
Easby; see St Agatha's
Ecclesfield, Yorks., alien priory (Ben.), 10
Edgar the peaceful, 7, 8
Edward the Confessor, 8, 49
Edward II, 26
Eggleston, Yorks., abbey (Prem.), 148
Egypt, monasteries in, 2
Ely, Cambs., cathedral priory (Ben.), 8, 37, 47, 49, 52, 53, 119, 125, 146
Ernulf, prior of Canterbury, 21
Ethelwold, St, bishop of Winchester, 7, 8
Eton, Bucks., college, 35
Evesham, Worces., abbey (Ben.), 7, 9, 42, 55, 80, 82, 126, 135, 136, 145
Farne islands, Northumb., 4
Fleury, see Saint-Benoît
Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, abbey, 25
Ford, Dorset, abbey (Cist.), 37, 84, 99, 110, 123
Fountains, Yorks., abbey (Cist.), 15, 16, 37, 38, 44, 52, 59, 61, 62,
63, 77, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108,
117, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 127, 128, 131, 144, 146, 147
Furness, Lancs., abbey (Cist.), 14, 34, 37, 44, 55, 59, 62, 85, 97,
98, 99, 100, 103, 108, 109, 110, 117, 119, 121, 123, 128, 147
Gaul, early monasteries in, 3, 6
Gilbert, St, of Sempringham, 23
Glastonbury, Som., Celtic monastery at, 5;
abbey (Ben.), 8, 51, 87, 105, 148
Gloucester, abbey (Ben.), 18, 37, 41, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 73, 74, 75,
76, 77, 79, 81, 82, 85, 90, 91, 98, 116, 119, 125, 126, 129, 131,
134, 144, 145, 146
Grande-Chartreuse, la, Isère, priory (Carth.), 12
Grandmont, Haute-Vienne, abbey, 14
Greenfield, Lincs., priory (Cist. nuns), 33
Guisbrough, Yorks., priory (Aug.), 51, 66, 144
Guthlac, St, 4
Hackness, Yorks., nunnery at, 5, 6
Harding, St Stephen, abbot of Cîteaux, 14
Hastings, Sussex, battle of, 8
Hatfield, Bishop's, Herts., 75
Haughmond, Salop, abbey (Aug.), 37, 63, 64, 66, 77, 79, 82, 90, 111,
114, 124, 147
Hayles, Glouces., abbey (Cist.), 57, 58, 107, 109, 123, 147
Henry V, 25, 31
Henry VI, 31
Henry VIII, 32
Hexham, Northumb., priory (Aug.), 66, 82, 90, 144, 147
Hinton, Som., priory (Carth.), 13
Holme Cultram, Cumb., abbey (Cist.), 37
Hulme; see St Benet's
Hulne, Northumb., priory (Carm. friars), 26, 38, 71, 111, 148
Humberston, Lincs., abbey (Tiron.), 14
Hyde, Hants., abbey (Ben.), 144, 145
Iona, Argyll, monastery, 3
Ipswich, Suffolk, college, 35
Ireland, monachism in, 3
Italy, early monasteries in, 3
Jarrow, Durham, monastery, 6
Jedburgh, Roxburgh, abbey (Aug.), 68
Jervaulx, Yorks., abbey (Cist.), 37, 51, 58, 99, 107, 110, 117, 120, 147
Julius II, pope, 23
Kelso, Roxburgh, abbey (Tiron.), 68
King's Lynn, Norfolk, friaries, 26, 38, 70
Kirkham, Yorks., priory (Aug.), 51, 66, 129, 130
Kirkstall, Yorks., abbey (Cist.), 37, 44, 54, 55, 57, 62, 64, 98, 100,
101, 103, 105, 110, 120, 122, 123, 127, 146
Kirkstead, Lincs., abbey (Cist.), 128
Knaresborough, Yorks., St Robert's (Trinitarian), 26
Lacock, Wilts., abbey (Aug. canonesses), 25, 38, 70, 77, 79, 83, 87, 90,
91, 147
Lanercost, Cumb., priory (Aug.), 64, 65, 67
Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury, 9
Langdon, West, Kent, abbey (Prem.), 64, 67, 148
Layton, Richard, dean of York, 32
Leicester, abbey (Aug.), 30
Leominster, Hereford, priory (Ben.), 54
Lerins, Ile de, Alpes-Maritimes, monastery of Saint-Honorat, 3
Lewes, Sussex, priory (Clun.), 12, 44, 85, 133, 147
Lilleshall, Salop, abbey (Aug.), 37, 63, 64, 66, 68
Lincoln, cathedral church, 47;
friaries, 26
Lisques, France, abbey (Prem.), 22
London, Charterhouse, 13, 146;
friaries, 26, 38, 148;
Holy Trinity priory, Aldgate (Aug.), 54;
St Bartholomew's priory, Smithfield (Aug.), 45, 63;
St Mary Graces abbey (Cist.), 16
Louth Park, Lincs., abbey (Cist.), 15, 33
Luxeuil, Haute-Saône, monastery of, 3
Lysa, Norway, abbey (Cist.), 15
Malmesbury, Wilts., abbey (Ben.), 53, 89, 110, 144
Malton, Yorks., priory (Gilb.), 71
Margam, Glamorgan, abbey (Cist.), 37, 80, 145, 148
Martin, St, of Tours, 4
Meaux, Yorks., abbey (Cist.), 33, 42, 120, 121, 128, 145
Merevale, Warwicks., abbey (Cist.), 128
Metz, Lorraine, 19
Micklethwaite, Mr J. T., 95
Molesme, Côte-d'Or, Robert, abbot of, 14
Monkwearmouth, Durham, monastery, 6
Monte Cassino, Abruzzi, monastery of, 3, 4, 7
Mount Grace, Yorks., priory (Carth.), 13, 38, 69, 70, 71, 112, 146
Neath, Glamorgan, abbey (Cist.), 37, 148
Neocaesarea, Asia Minor, monastery near, 2
Netley, Hants., abbey (Cist.), 37, 58, 96, 117
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumb., friaries, 26
Newhouse, Lincs., abbey (Prem.), 22
Newminster, Northumb., abbey (Cist.), 15, 144
Newstead, Notts., priory (Aug.), 67
Norbert, St, abbot of Prémontré, 22
Norcia, Umbria, 3
Norfolk, Augustinian houses in, 21
Normandy, monasteries of, 8, 9
Northampton, friaries, 26, 27
Norwich, Norfolk, cathedral priory, 34, 37, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 53, 131;
friaries, 27, 38, 71
Nottinghamshire, Augustinian houses in, 21
Nuneaton, Warwicks., priory (Fontevrault), 25
Nun Monkton, Yorks., priory (Ben. nuns), 70
Odo, archbishop of Canterbury, 7
Oseney, Oxon., abbey (Aug.), 145
Oswald, St, archbishop of York, 7
Ottringham, Yorks., 128
Oxford, colleges, 20, 35;
friaries, 26;
St Frideswide's priory (Aug., now Christ Church college), 35, 37, 64,
111
Pachomius, St, 2, 4
Paris, abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Ben.), 6
Patrick, St, 3
Paul, abbot of St Albans, 115
Pershore, Worces., abbey (Ben.), 7
Peterborough, Northants., abbey (Ben.), 8, 30, 37, 44, 45, 47, 53, 85,
90, 91, 92, 100, 116, 118, 119, 125, 129, 133, 134, 135, 146
Pipewell, Northants., abbey (Cist.), 105, 147
Prémontré, Aisne, abbey, 22, 23
Ramsey, Hunts., abbey (Ben.), 7, 144, 145
Reading, Berks., abbey (Ben.), 37, 77, 79
Redbourn, Herts., 75
Repton, Derby, priory (Aug.), 64, 111, 147
Richmond, Yorks., 31, 38;
priory (Franciscan friars), 38, 70
Rievaulx, Yorks., abbey (Cist.), 23, 37, 51, 58, 59, 104, 117, 128, 144
Ripon, Yorks., collegiate church, 47, 51, 131;
monastery, 5
Roche, Yorks., abbey (Cist.), 64
Rochester, Kent, cathedral priory (Ben.), 37, 41, 54, 65, 76, 131, 146
Rome, monastery on Coelian hill, 5
Romsey, Hants., abbey (Ben. nuns), 25, 38, 70
Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, abbey of Saint-Ouen (Ben.), 6;
priory of la-Sainte-Trinité on Mont-Sainte-Cathérine (Ben.), 10
St Agatha's, Yorks., abbey (Prem.), 31, 38, 64, 82, 86, 92, 111, 148
St Albans, Herts., abbey (Ben.), 9, 10, 47, 48, 49, 52, 53, 75, 115,
123, 129, 132, 145, 146
St Benet's Hulme, Norfolk, abbey (Ben.), 68
Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret, abbey (Ben.), 7
St Dogmaels, Pembroke, abbey (Tiron.), 14
St Gall, Switzerland, plan of, 125
St Neots, Hunts., priory (Ben.), 10, 11
St Radegund's, Kent, abbey (Prem.), 64, 83, 111, 148
Saint-Wandrille, Seine-Inférieure, abbey (Ben.), 11
Salisbury, Wilts., cathedral church, 80
Salley, Yorks., abbey (Cist.), 68
Samson, abbot of Bury, 115, 129
Savigny, Manche, abbey, 13
Scarborough, Yorks., alien priory (Cist.), 27;
Dominican friary, 27
Scotland, early monasteries in, 3
Selby, Yorks., abbey (Ben.), 49, 51
Sempringham, Lincs., priory, 23, 24
Shaftesbury, Dorset, abbey (Ben. nuns), 5
Shap, Westmorland, abbey (Prem.), 67, 148
Shene, Surrey, priory (Carth.), 13
Sibton, Suffolk, abbey (Cist.), 101
Simeon Stylites, St, 4
Simon, monk of Waverley, 89
Sion, Middlesex, abbey (Bridgetine), 25
Southwell, Notts., collegiate church, 65
Spoleto, Umbria, 3
Stamford, Lincs., 33;
friaries, 27
Stanley, Wilts., abbey (Cist.), 147
Strata Florida, Cardigan, abbey (Cist.), 148
Subiaco, Rome, 3
Sweetheart abbey, Kirkcudbright (Cist.), 57
Tabennisi (Egypt), monastery, 2
Tarrant, Dorset, abbey (Cist. nuns), 24
Tenby, Pembroke, 14
Tewkesbury, Glouces., abbey (Ben.), 27, 45, 47, 48, 129, 145
Thetford, Norfolk, priory (Clun.), 12
Thiron, Eure-et-Loir, abbey, 13
Thornton, Lincs., abbey (Aug.), 129, 132
Thurgarton, Notts., priory (Aug.), 67
Tiltey, Essex, abbey (Cist.), 128
Tintern, Monmouth, abbey (Cist.), 37, 41, 55, 58, 60, 62, 63, 104, 107,
120, 148
Torre, Devon, abbey (Prem.), 64, 67, 72, 129
Tours, Indre-et-Loire, abbey of St Martin (Ben.), 4
Tynemouth, Northumb., priory (Ben.), 10, 53, 146
Ulverscroft, Leices., priory (Aug.), 67
Valle Crucis, Denbigh, abbey (Cist.), 16, 37, 57, 62, 84, 98, 100
Vaudey, Lincs., abbey (Cist.), 16
Wallingford, Richard of, abbot of St Albans, 132
Walsingham, Norfolk, priory (Aug.), 34
Warenne, William de, 12
Watton, Yorks., priory (Gilb.), 23, 38, 71, 111, 148
Waverley, Surrey, abbey (Cist.), 15, 33, 55, 58, 63, 89, 97, 99, 101,
104, 109, 120, 123, 145, 147
Welbeck, Notts., abbey (Prem.), 22, 23
Wells, Som., cathedral church, 80
Wenlock, Salop, priory (Clun.), 12, 37, 45, 65, 76, 87, 89
Westminster, Middlesex, abbey (Ben.), 8, 9, 36, 37, 44, 48, 49, 76, 79,
80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 100, 120, 146
Whalley, Lancs., abbey (Cist.), 128
Wherwell, Hants., abbey (Ben. nuns), 25
Whitby, Yorks., Celtic monastery, 6;
abbey (Ben.), 51, 144
Wilfrid, St, bishop of York, 5
Wilton, Wilts., abbey (Ben. nuns), 25
Winchcombe, Glouces., abbey (Ben.), 7
Winchelsey, Robert, archbishop of Canterbury, 134
Winchester, Hants., cathedral priory (Ben.), 8, 37, 47, 49, 65, 145;
friaries, 27;
St Mary's abbey (Ben. nuns), 25
Witham, Som., priory (Carth.), 13
Woburn, Beds., abbey (Cist.), 15
Wolsey, Thomas, cardinal, archbishop of York, 35
Worcester, cathedral priory (Ben.), 7, 41, 65, 72, 73, 75, 76, 80, 81,
87, 88, 90, 92, 94, 116, 124, 125, 145, 146
Worksop, Notts., priory (Aug.), 66
Wothorpe, Northants., priory (Ben. nuns), 33, 34
Wymondham, Norfolk, abbey (Ben.), 54
York, cathedral church, 19, 51;
friaries, 27;
St Mary's abbey (Ben.), 37, 47, 48, 51
Yorkshire, Augustinian houses in, 21
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in Scotland. By the Rt Hon. the Lord Balfour of Burleigh, K.T.,
G.C.M.G.
41 Methodism. By Rev. H. B. Workman, D.Lit.
_EDUCATION_
38 Life in the Medieval University. By R. S. Rait. M.A.
88 The Old Grammar Schools. By Foster Watson, M.A., D.Lit.
_LAW_
13 The Administration of Justice in Criminal Matters (in England and
Wales). By G. Glover Alexander, M.A.
_BIOLOGY_
1 The Coming of Evolution. By Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S.
2 Heredity in the Light of Recent Research. By L. Doncaster, Sc.D.
25 Primitive Animals. By Geoffrey Smith, M.A.
73 The Life-story of Insects. By Prof. G. H. Carpenter.
48 The Individual in the Animal Kingdom. By J. S. Huxley, B.A.
27 Life in the Sea. By James Johnstone, B.Sc.
73 Pearls. By Prof. W. J. Dakin.
28 The Migration of Birds. By T. A. Coward.
36 Spiders. By C. Warburton, M.A.
61 Bees and Wasps. By O. H. Latter, M.A.
46 House Flies. By C. G. Hewitt, D.Sc.
32 Earthworms and their Allies. By F. E. Beddard, F.R.S.
74 The Flea. By H. Russell.
64 The Wanderings of Animals. By H. F. Gadow, F.R.S.
_ANTHROPOLOGY_
20 The Wanderings of Peoples. By Dr A. C. Haddon, F.R.S.
29 Prehistoric Man. By Dr W. L. H. Duckworth.
_GEOLOGY_
35 Rocks and their Origins. By Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole.
44 The Work of Rain and Rivers. By T. G. Bonney, Sc.D.
7 The Natural History of Coal. By Dr E. A. Newell Arber.
30 The Natural History of Clay. By Alfred B. Searle.
34 The Origin of Earthquakes. By C. Davison, Sc.D., F.G.S.
62 Submerged Forests. By Clement Reid, F.R.S.
72 The Fertility of the Soil. By E. J. Russell, D.Sc.
_BOTANY_
5 Plant-Animals: a Study in Symbiosis. By Prof. F. W Keeble.
10 Plant-Life on Land. By Prof. F. O. Bower, Sc.D., F.R.S.
19 Links with the Past in the Plant-World. By Prof. A. C. Seward, F.R.S.
_PHYSICS_
52 The Earth. By Prof. J. H. Poynting, F.R.S.
53 The Atmosphere. By A. J. Berry, M.A.
81 The Sun. By Prof. R. A. Sampson, D.Sc., F.R.S.
65 Beyond the Atom. By John Cox, M.A.
55 The Physical Basis of Music. By A. Wood, M.A.
71 Natural Sources of Energy. By Prof. A. H. Gibson, D.Sc.
_PSYCHOLOGY_
14 An Introduction to Experimental Psychology. By Dr C. S. Myers.
45 The Psychology of Insanity. By Bernard Hart, M.D.
77 The Beautiful. By Vernon Lee.
_INDUSTRIAL AND MECHANICAL SCIENCE_
31 The Modern Locomotive. By C. Edgar Allen, A.M.I.Mech.E.
56 The Modern Warship. By E. L. Attwood.
17 Aerial Locomotion. By E. H. Harper, M.A., and Allan E. Ferguson, B.Sc.
18 Electricity in Locomotion. By A. G. Whyte, B.Sc.
63 Wireless Telegraphy. By Prof. C. L. Fortescue, M.A.
58 The Story of a Loaf of Bread. By Prof. T. B. Wood, M.A.
47 Brewing. By A. Chaston Chapman, F.I.C.
82 Coal-Mining. By T. C. Cantrill.
83 Leather. By Prof. H. R. Procter.
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