abbots, 85

the

for the poor, 114, 117 393; for
jurors, 252
Bretforton rents assigned, 108, 112, 242;
chapelry, 230; church, 241; manor,
242

Breves received in the chapter room, 50
Briar close, 401

Bridge-street, 79, 159, 160, 161, 256
Bridge, the, 103, 164, 347, 360, 361,362
at Twyford, 234, 362, 366
Brief for repairing St. Lawrence church,
171

Brittayne-street, 256

British settlement, presumed, 245
Museum, 22, 74, 340

and Foreign Schools, 414

Britons, 15, 21, 24

Brithwald's Life of St. Ecgwin, 91
Brut-street, 80

Buggilde-stret, now Buckle-street, 362
Bulls, papal, 34, 35, 106, 118, 136, 137
Burgage tenure, 277

Burgesses, principal, 259, 260; common,
279, 285, 288, 293; capital, 279;
corporate, 280, 286, 295, 296, 297

summoned to parliament by

De Montfort, 331
Burial of monks, 51,78; parishioners, 231
- ground, monks, 51; parochial, 168
Burn or watercourse, 240
Buttery of abbey, 59, 85

xix

122, 123

abp. of, frustrated visitation,

Caponpot lane, 211

Cardale, rev. P. character and writings,
205

Cartularies of the monastery, 22, 94
Carlyle's Past and Present cited, 52, 72
Caroline, queen's, acquittal, 408
Carucate, 81, 119, 155

Carved oak in Vine-street, 92
Cassates of land given, 24
Castles in Stephen's reign, 103; occupied
by the barons, 330

Cattle destroyed by pestilence, 120
Cathedrals, protestant service in, 72
Cellar, abbey, 59; servants in, 101;
abbot's, 128

Cellarer, 81

Cells, subordinate convents, 36, 105
Celt of basalt, 365

Cemetery, conventual, 40, 56, 102, 109
Cenred endows the abbey, 24; becomes
a monk, 93

Census, rural, 234, 236, 239, 241, 242,
245, 246, 247

of the borough, 312
Cesar, Mr. opposes the burgesses, 256
Chair of state from the abbey, 65
Chamberlain of the abbey, 59, 80
borough, 260
Chancellor of England, abbot le Gras, 111
Chapel of the charnel house, 62, 181
- at Littleton by abbatial license, 237
-street, 211

Chapels in crypts, 48

of the Vale, 76, 79, 229
Chaplains, the abbot's, 73, 74; of St.
Lawrence and All-saints, 168, 169, 181
Chapter house, 41, 42, 44, 51, 52, 59,
67, 71, 101, 109

held, 42; in Saint Lawrence
church, 169

Charles I. erects his standard, 344; at
Evesham, 345, 346, 347, 348; at Ox-
ford, 351; beheaded, 352
Charnel house, St. Lawrence church, 175
Charter from Henry I. 13, 251; James
I. 195, 258, 259, 260, 269, 279;
Charles II. 265; James II. 266

Charitable bequests, tables recording, 389
Chaucer's allusions to gilds, 199
Chaunts led by the precentor, 76
Chests of silver, 40, 100

Chief-rents to the crown, 150, 163
Children taught in Sunday-schools, 222
Chimes, order for erecting, 407

Choir and chancel, abbey, 40, 41, 42, 44,
45, 46, 130

Cholera, spasmodic, 410, 412
Christ-church, dean-and-chapter visit the
chapels of the Vale, 178, 230
Chrism, bells anointed with, 120
Chronicle, Harleian, 22, 25, 28, 95, 98,
101, 103, 107, 119, 169, 337, 340
Cotton, 22, 25, 28, 169, 340
Bodleian, 337

Church built by the Britons, 14

of Evesham dedicated, 25, 110
yards, conventual, procession
through, 72

yard, the, houses sold in, 256
painting, ancient style of; 109
garniture in Bengeworth, 222
Lench, curacy augmented by bp.
Lloyd, 189

Missionary Society, 308
Church Honeybourne church, 240;
transfer of abbey lands at, 241
Churches lost to the abbey, 117; bar-
gains not to be made in, 321

Civil and canon law, abbot Marleberg
proficient in, 108

Clarence, Richard of, abbot Hawkesbury
sponsor for, 126

Clement, St. chantry of, 174

Clergy, land held by, 32, 119

destroyed by pestilence, 120;
bequests to, 396

of Dublin assemble at Eves-

ham, 104
Clerks, secular, 36, 95, 101

Cloisters, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 50, 77,
101, 121

Coals, patent for taxing, 283
Cockerell, sir Charles, memoir of, 302
Coffins exhumed, 38, 96, 112, 118

Coins, Roman, 15; at Cleeve, 363; at
Bredon-hill, 365

Cook, the abbot's, proposed as bailiff,
253

Cooks' bequest, 399

Colors consecrated, 408

Commendatory service, the, 100
Commissioners of charities' report, 197,
217, 389, 409

Common council of the borough, 260
Commonwealth, 343

Communion, conventual, 70, 72, 74
Compline service, 71
Conduit-hill, 211

Confessional in the cloister, 71
Congregational Independent chapel, 211
Constantine, pope, commands a national
assembly at Eove's-holme, 25
Constitution, necessity of a defined, 324
Constitutions of the borough, 265
Convention parliament, 288
Conventual property rapidly increased,
119

life, inducements to enter, 69
Conway, sir E. elected alderman and
promised a seat in parliament, 282
Corredy, 168, 181

Corn to the manciple for cakes aud pud-
dings, 81

ground at the abbot's mill, 83, 103
farm at Aldington, 148

pitched in the market, 198
--tithe at Bretforton, 79

Cottages acquired by the abbey, 119
order against erecting, 406

Corporals washed by the sacrist, 78
Corporation order respecting the abbey
remains, 146

Corporations, act for the well-governing
of, 261

269

regulations of, 265, 266
visited by commissioners,

Elemosinary, yearly payment to the, 112
Elizabeth, queen, demands Hoby's title
to the monastic site, 256
Encaustic tiles, 45

English subjects, their treatment by
William I. 100

agricultural society, 308
Eoves, site of town named from, 15; his
vision, 22; portrait, 86; no statue to
him, 221

Episcopal ornaments granted to abbots,
103, 106

Escheats received, 253

Estates lost to the abbey, 32

-thrice estimated in domesday, 154
Ethelred of Mercia abdicates and be-
comes an abbot, 24

the Unready lies ill here, 29
Evesham, abbot Randulph native of, 107
in domesday, 154; garrisoned,
345; summoned, 348; stormed, 349
Excavations on the monastic site, 43
Exchequer case, 194, 197, 200, 252,
257; payment, 195
Excommunication of De Beauchamp, 102
in the town churches,

169

Execution for petty-treason, 318
Exemption from visitation claimed by
abbeys, 29, 97, 106, 229

Exempt abbeys, 35; visited by Wolsey,
129

abbots, 107, 111
Expense attending monastic worship,
114, 142

Fabrics, monastic, officer in charge of,
84; fund for, 112

Fairs, profits of, 253; business at, 321;
when held, 322

Fast-days, monks' meals on, 71
Feckenham, Dr. error respecting inter-

ment of, 379; bequest from, 379, 398
Fee-farm rent from the bailiffs, 253
Feild's charity, 394

Felony, adjudication in, 318
Females to retire before the almoner, 83
Feretory of St. Ecgwin, 40
Ferry, 58

Festivals, in the abbey, provision for, 108
Feudal system introduced, 251; ame-
liorated, 324

Fire in the abbey, only one instance of,
41; in Port-street, 407

of London, local collection for, 407
Fire-places in the almonry, 63, 64
First-fruits office, return to, 37
Fishponds, abbey, 59, 65, 80, 108
Fishermen in the convent, 101
Fishery, 150; fish in the Avon, 358
Fish and Anchor Inn, 236
Floods, remarkable, 360, 407
Folc-gemote, 250; folk-mote, 253
Fonts, 127, 176, 188, 221, 237, 239
Forest-ground lost to the abbey, 26

of Feckenham, Evesham included
in, 159
Foreigners favored, 323, 324, 325;
expelled, 330

Foreign troops brought in by Henry III.
330

Formularies, devotional reiteration of, 72
Fortifications, presumed site of, 349
Fortresses, royal, license to erect, 116
Fosse-way from Leicester to Bath, 362
Fountain of St. Ecgwin, 64, 80

---s, worship of, 80
Fox's Martyrology in All-saints' church,
188

C. J. History of Jas. II. cited, 352
Foxhill, ancient remains at, 244
Frank pledge, view of, 251, 252, 277
Freedom of the borough, 261; of the
corporation, 265

Freeholders polled, 286, 288, 294; re-
jected, 293

Freemen removed by commissioners, 266
Fryer's bequest, 401

Fuller's Worthies cited, 374
Fulling-mill, 82, 313

Funded investment, parochial, 402

Gaol and older prison, 198

Garden, at Badsey for sick monks, 82;
monks', 83; servants in, 101; site, 315
Gardening, market, 315; labourers in,
316

-ground within the borough, 316
Garner or granary of abbey, 59, 64
Gardner's charities, 391, 395, 396, 402
Gas-light, 164, 371, 412

Gate for vehicles into the cemetry, 76

Government, local, under the Saxons,
250; Normans, 252
taxes 318

Grammar, abbot Walter's acquaintance
with, 100

school built, 130, 194; re-
founded, 195; emoluments, 197
Granges of the abbey, 115, 116, 121,

124, 128, 235, 238, 245

Grange, the, in St. Lawrence parish, 150
Grants to sir P. Hoby, 56, 147, 149,
150

Graves of deceased monks visited, 86
Gray quotation from 204
Green-hill, 338, 369, 371

-, town, 194; village, 218, 236
Great church, the, 43, 120

tower, the, 46

charter. 324, 325

seal, abbot le Gras keeper of, 111
Ground plan of abbey church, 43, 44
Gruel for the monks, 85

Guest chamber, 69

Guild hall, 197; the old, 199, 200, 402
Guilds or gilds, 199

Guizot's History of Civilization cited,
249, 250

Gurgoyles on St. Lawrence. 171

Guy's tower at Warwick, 338

Hamlet quotation from, 186
Hanks' bequest 401

Harrison's Description of England, cited,
175, 177

Harleian Chronicle; see Chronicle
Hawford, abbot, writes to Cromwell,
132, 140; resigns the monastery,
132; grant to, 149
Hawk's ring, 89
Hay's bequest, 401

Henry III. lodged in the abbey. 114,
332; evasions. 324; rescued, 336
IV. at Evesham, 123

VIII. seeks a divorce. 135; makes
inquisition of monasteries, 137; insur-
rections in his reign, 138
Heretics burned, 405
Hide computed, 30

Hides held by the abbey, 29, 30, 31, 96,
154, 158, 213

High steward of the abbey, 61, 84; his
official residence, 149

261, 267

borough, 258,259,

-altar, 336; see altar, high
--bailiff, 259, 260

-street, 79, 159, 161, 256

Hill, lord Marcus, made privy-councillor,
&c. 304

Hoby, sir Philip, bargains for the abbey

materials, 145; grants received by,
146 149 allowed meat in Lent, 148;
his tomb, 148; payment released, 150;
his schedule, 193

Mr. Richard, his tomb in Badsey
church, 243

Holme of Eoves, 93, 249
Holborn, aqueduct built in, by Dr. Feck-
enham, 378

Holy water, 86; recess for in All-saints,
183; in Bengeworth, 219
Honey, rents in, 81

Honeybourne, popular tumults at, 36;
chancel rebuilt, 115

Hopkins, 315

Horse-mill suppressed, 84

and Groom Inn, 92

male tolled, 33
Horticultural Society, 307
Host, formation of, 78