Hostelry, ancient, 160

Hostilarius the, 81, 82

House of Commons, importance of, and
augmentation, 278; members demand-
ed by Charles I. 343

Houses in the borough, number of, 300,
312

Householders, payments to the abbey
from, 36

Howorth, Mr. plate presented to, 294
Hundred, court of the, 250

Illness pleaded by ecclesiastics, 117
Image-worship introduced in Britain, 94
Improvement act, 319, 361, 371
Income-tax, 319

Inclosure acts, 16, 226

Incumbents, lists of, 179, 189, 224
Infant school, 310
Infangtheof, 32, 251

Infirmary of abbey, 82; servants in, 101;
Infirmarer, 108

Inhabitants at domesday, 156; at the
dissolution, 162; servants to the ab-
bot, 254

Inhabited house-duty reduced, 318
Ink and colors for the convent, 78
Inscriptions in St. Lawrence, 178; All-

saints, 188; Bengeworth, 226
Installations, abbatial, 119, 121, 122,
127

Institutes of the abbey, 74, 85, 107, 108,
168, 214

Instrument of government, the, 284
Insurrection in reign of William I. 99;
of Henry VIII. 138

Interdict, papal, 106

Ireland's, Mr. notice of St. Lawrence

church, 177, 178

Isaiah, quotation from, 146

Library, subscription, 305

Libraries, ancient, despoiled, 144
Lichfield, abbot, 129; his treatment,
character and death, 130; interment
and bequest, 131; grant to, 149; reno-
vates St. Lawrence church and chantry,
170, 175; chapel and grave, 184
Lichfield and Coventry, bishopric of, 111
Light borne before the abbot, 75
Lights in St. Lawrence church, 169
Lighting the town, 371

Lightning strikes the first bell-tower, 41
Linseed manufacture, 314
Lions in the royal arms, 88

Littletons, churches of, 236, 239; popu-
lation, 239
Littleworth, 314

Liturgy, bill for restoring, opposed, 377
Loaves for refectory, 81

Local act respecting trade, 312
Locutory, the private, 102
Lodging for the abbot when in London,
102

London Horticultural Society, 307

citizens aid in magna charta,
324; adhere to the barons, 330
Lord privy seal, 129

Lords-lieutenant addressed, 268

Louis IX. umpire between the king and
barons, 330

Lye's charity, 394
Lying-in charity, 308

Market sted, 162; market-place, 167,
197, 256

Markets, distant, supplied hence, 316
Marshalsea prison, 378
Martin's charity, 391, 397
Mary, St. chapel of, 125

queen erases records, 140

Mass, high, 70, 71, 220; by the abbot,
73; negligence, 112; after the pesti-
lence, 120

Masses, private, 102, 220

Materials from the abbey, 145, 146
Matins, 71; lessons at, 78

Matrix of conventual seal, 86; of the
borough seal, 259

Matrons in the convent, 101
Maunday Thursday, dole on, 83
Mausoleum, abbot Marleberg's, 109
May-day, observance of, 218, 236
Mayor, creation of, 260; when chosen
from Bengeworth, 261; to sit with the
action-book, 406

-'s feast, cost of, 407

's conduct questioned by petition,

298
Mayors, lists of, 270, 271, 272, 273
Measures, false, 405

Mechanics' Institution, 306; excursion
and conversazione, 414
Medical-provident Institution, 311
Members, parliamentary list of, read, 283
Men transferred with the soil, 34
Merstowe, rents in, 117; green there,
160, 256

Methodist meeting-house, 210

Mill of the abbot, townspeople to grind
at, 83, 162

-street meeting, 210
-hill, 256

Mills belonging to the abbey, 80, 115;
near the bridge, 103

Militia, east Worcester, 408
Minim first suggested, 374

Ministers, christian, employed in handi-
craft, 98

commission for ejecting, 191

Monastery, site granted, 21, 23; com-
mencement, 24; date of, 25; destroyed
by Danes, 26, 155; purchased and
transferred, 28, 155; subjected to the
see, 29; mitred, 34; situation and re-
mains, 39, 58

Nave begun, 40; finished, 41; site, 44;
vestiges, 45

Navigation, profits and shares, 357, 358
Negligence in religious services, mass to
atone for, 112

Newel staircase, 55, 175

135, 136

156

filled with Norman monks,

visited by commissioners,
137; the lesser suppressed and the rest
revisited, 138; dissolution, 139
Monastic Chronicles noticed, 22

property increased by abbots,

114, 115, 116, 119, 121, 126
worship, expense attending, 114,

142

Monasticon; see Dugdale's

Moniales, 36, 101

Nocturnal, the, 71

Nonconformity, ministers ejected for, 179
None, service of, 71

Norreys, abbot, deposed, 105
Norman oppression, 323

crypt, 46; arch in church-yard,
168; in Bengeworth porch, 219
Northwick Arms Inn, 202
Norton church re-built, 115: chapelry
of, 230; church described, 231; monu-
mental chapel, 233, 279; nave re-
built, 233; population, 234
Norton and Lenchwick estate, 281

a, allowance to the poor at the
death of, 85, 120

Monks expelled and canons substituted,
27

their garments, beds, and meals,
70; employment and confession, 71;
communion, 72; number, 99, 101,
142, 156 destroyed by pestilence,
120; diminished, 123; industry, 156;
early mission of, 230: how occupied
after the dissolution, 195
Monken lane, 244

Monogram, abbot Lichfield's, 65, 184
Monopolies, local, 33, 406
Montague-house, fire in, 341

Montfort, Symon de, president of the

council, 326; marriage, 326; earl of
Leicester, 327; enters on his office as
president, 328; withdraws to France,
329; elected general, 330; calls a par-
liament, 331; at Evesham, 332; ar-
rays his forces, 334; death, 335; dis-
memberment, 337; miraculous cures,
338, 339; burial and epitaph, 339;
literary correspondence, 341; purport
of his struggle, 342
Mops, or statute-fairs, 322
Municipal reform act, 269

Music, early cultivation of, 374; Oding-
ton's work upon, 374

Mustard-seed raised at the abbey granges,
80

Napkins used in bleeding, 82

National and sunday-school, 309, 392

Novitiate, term of, 70

Oaths administered to corporators, 261,
263 to burgesses, 278, 280, 294; to
the baronial council, 328
Oatmeal for monks gruel, 81, 85
Obelisk upon the battle field, 338
Obit of abbot Upton, festival at the, 128
Oblations at altars in the abbey church, to
whom appropriated, 80

parochial, received by the cu-

Ode, or Oat street, 159, 161, 195, 256
Offa endows the abbey, 24, 94; becomes
a monk, 93

Offenders accused and chastised, 51, 76
Offenham grange, 124, 235; abbot Lich-
field consecrated there, 129; retires
thither, 130, 235

bridge, 150; chapelry, 230;
ferry, 234; palaces, 235; church, 236
Offertory dish, 143

Offices the, of Evesham abbey, MS. of, 72,
Oliver's, widow, bequest. 400
Ombresley, abbot's property injured there,
125

Orchard, monastic, servants in, 101
Ordway's charity, 394

Organs, in the abbey, 78; in St. Law-
rence, 173; All-saints, 192: Oat-
street, 207; Cowl street, 209; Benge-
worth, 222; introduced into Europe,
374

Ornaments, ecclesiastical, additions to,
120, 121
Osculatory, the, 121

Quarry, the abbey rented as such, 146
Quarter-sessions, local, 198
Quay-house, 401

Queen Anne's bounty, 189
Queries proposed, by the monastic visi-
tors, 137; by domesday commission,
154

Querns or hand mills destroyed, 83

Railway lines, 14; stations, 369
Ranelagh gardens, organ from, 192
Rapin's England, continuation of, 387
Reader in the convent, 85
Reading stand: see Lectern

desk, the modern, 175

Reconsecration of churches, 110
Recorder of the borough, 260
Refectorer, the, 82

Refectory, 42, 59, 70, 81, 82, 85

Reform bill, first. 299, 300, 409, 410;
second, 300, 410, 411

411

gine springs, 16

Alisbury cathedral, style of, 46
salmon, rents, 81; sold, 359

the, 114, 117

Registers of electors, 301

Regular clergy, 27, 136

Relic Sunday, 108

Relics in the abbey church, 49, 97101
traffic in, 97; swearing upc
Religious Tract Society, 309
Rents in kind, 65

Representatives, parliamentary ges and
expenses of, 276, 281

to a national meil, 276

at;

131
nesday, 30;

; amount at

Restoration, the, 285
Revelation of St. John, ci
Revenue of the abbey at
increase in one year,
the surrender, 142
Revenues of religiou uses, exceeded

their schedules, 187
Revolution, the, 26′

Riband weaving, de Worcester's, 113
Ring, abbatial, 19 Bengeworth, 214
signet, fous, and districts, 366,
Roads, state of
368, 369

quest to school, 195
Roberts, Mrosition in St. Lawrence,
Roodloft, 17of at Bretforton, 242
175; tr charge against, 101
Robert, aby abbot Reginald, 102;
Rome vidulph and De Marlberg, 107,
abbobot Brokehampton, 115
109eal to, respecting exemption,

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