_Chartres Cathedral_, its great height, 116. _Chester Cathedral_, crumbling nature of its stone, 135. _Chester_, position of the Cathedral, 2; foundation of the Bishoprick, 53. _Chew Magna_, pension from the vicarage to the Vicars of Wells, 182. _Chicheley_, Archbishop, his character, 185. _Chichester Cathedral_, fall of the spire at, 117. _Choir_, meaning of the word, 78; its original extent at Wells, _ib._; in Somersetshire churches often unworthy of the nave, 80; practice of lengthening in the thirteenth century, 108; change in the site at Wells, 110; recasting of clerestory and triforium, 111; character of the roof, 112; objectionable arrangements of, at Wells, 155, 167. _Choristers_, house of, see Organists' house. _Christ Church_, Hampshire, arrangement of towers at, 182. _Chrodegang_, Bishop of Metz, his rule for canons, 32, 165. _Cities_, their greater importance on the Continent than in England, 12. _Clement the Seventh_, Pope, his bull for the suppression of monasteries, 185. _Cloister_, difference of, in regular and secular churches, 83; date of that at Wells, 83, 84; needed in a monastery, but not in a secular church, 31, 32. _Cloister_, originally of wood, 84; Lady chapel in, rebuilt by Bishop Stillington, 144; original building of, 172; orders of Chapter about, _ib._ _Close_ wall, destruction of, 143. _Cnut_, King, his favour to Bishop Duduc, 26, 28. _Collegiate Churches_, meaning of the word, 10; suppression of, 149. _Collinson's_ History of Somersetshire, its misrepresentation of the story of Harold and Gisa, 27; list of canons in, 188. _Combe_, bought by Gisa, 31; Prebends of, 51, 60. _Congé d'élire_, meaning of the word, 16, 164; distinguished from the letter missive, 25, 164. _Congresbury_, fabulous Bishoprick at, 14; history of the lordship, 28, 29. _Corporate Isolation_, spirit of, its effects, 62. _Corps_, meaning of the word, 51. _Coventry Cathedral_, canons substituted for monks at, 173. _Coventry_, apse of Saint Michael's Church at, 130; crumbling stone used in the church of, 135; origin of the city, 185. _Coventry and Lichfield_, joint Bishoprick of, 46; destruction of the Church of Coventry, 64. _Crediton_, see of, removed to Exeter, 35. _Cromwell, Thomas_, Lord, his share in the suppression of monasteries, 147; holds the Deanery of Wells, 148; enforces the payments of Residentiaries, 175. _Crypt_, see Undercroft. _Cynewulf_, spurious charter of, 15, 164. D. _Daventry Priory_, suppression of, 185.