_Dean_, foundation of the office, 50, 168; how appointed in various churches, 54; its duties, 55, 56; effects of its foundation, 63; office at Wells held by Thomas Cromwell, 148; estates alienated under Edward the Sixth, 150, 168; re-endowed and the old estates recovered, 150; rights of, under the charter of Elizabeth, 187; appointment of, transferred to the Crown, 188. _Deaneries_ held by laymen, 148. _Deanery House_ built by Dean Gunthorpe, 142. _Dignities_, origin of, 50, 168; duties of, 55-57; difference among, in different churches, 66. _Dimock, Mr._, 77; quoted, 140, 183. _Domesday_, its account of the lands of the Church of Wells, 33, 166. _Dorchester_, Bishoprick of, 163. _Drokensford, John_, Bishop, deed of his quoted, 179. _Duduc_, Bishop of Somersetshire, his favour with Cnut, 26, 28; his bequests to his church, 28; a Saxon by birth, 165; his tomb, 166. _Dunstan, Saint_, builds the stone church of Glastonbury, 24, 164. _Durham_, analogy of its history with that of Wells, 3. E. _Eadgar_, King, brings in monks at Bath, 36. _Eadgyth_, wife of Eadward the Confessor, her grants to Gisa, 31. _Eadward the Confessor_, his favour to Bishop Duduc, 26; his grants to Gisa, 31, 165; introduces the Norman style into England, 48; his church at Westminster the great model, 69. _Eadward the Elder_ founds the Bishoprick of Somersetshire, 13. _Ealdhelm_, first Bishop of Sherborne, 164. _Early Gothic Style_, two forms of, in Wells Cathedral, 74-77; peculiar character of, in Somersetshire and South Wales, 75. _East Ends_, various kinds of, 130. _Edward the Sixth_, act of, for the suppression of colleges and Chantries, 142, 149; robbery of ecclesiastical bodies under, 148. _Elizabeth_, Queen, her charters to the Vicars, 140; to the Chapter, 151. _Ely Cathedral_, style of, 75; loss of the spire at, 129; east end of, 130; size of the triforium, 134; arrangement of tower at, 182. _Embezzlement_, various instances of, 39. _Erghum, Ralph_, Bishop, incorporates the College of Chantry Priests, 141, 142. _Eton College_, receives lands of Alien Priories, 185. _Evercreech_, Bishop's house at, 37. _Evesham_, its parliamentary rivalry with Wells, 4-5, 163. _Ewenny Priory_, roof of the Church, 179. _Exeter_, history of the city and Bishoprick, 2, 35; Bishop Leofric's changes at, 33; history of the Deanery of, 54; loss of the spires at, 129; form of the east end, 130. F. _Fitz-Williams_, Dean, surrenders the estates of the Deanery, 186. _Fontanenses Episcopi_, Bishops of Somersetshire, so known at Rome, 45. _Frederick Barbarossa_, Emperor, his dispute with Pope Hadrian the Fourth, 169. G. _Gates, Sir John_, dismantles the hall of the palace, 179; beheaded, 186. _Gerent_, King of Cornwall, defeated by Ine, 164.