_Residentiaries_, origin of, 89; number not originally fixed, 90; their number and mode of appointment, 92; growth of their powers, 93; necessity of their constant residence, 94, 95; their encroachments by virtue of the charter of Elizabeth, 151, 152; necessity of their residence, 152; great entertainments required of, 175; commuted for a payment, _ib._; use of entertainments restored, _ib._; their new position under the Elizabethan charter, 188; not installed, _ib._ _Restoration_, principle on which it should be carried out, 190. _Rheims Cathedral_, its great height, 116; grandeur of the doorways at, 127. _Rheims_, Church of Saint Remigius at, 69. _Rib_, meaning of the word, 91, 138. _Richard_, Archbishop of Canterbury, story of, 189. _Richard of the Devizes_, his account of the non-residence of canons, 86, 173. _Richard of Tittenhanger_, monk of Saint Alban's, designs buildings in the Abbey, 171. _Ripon_, collegiate church becomes cathedral, 16; suppressed and restored, 186; its west front, 181. _Robert_, importance of his episcopate, 40; becomes Bishop of Bath, 43; of Flemish descent, but born in England, 44, 167; his early history, _ib._; represents Bishop Henry of Blois at Glastonbury, 44, 167; settles the controversy between Bath and Wells, 45; his works at Bath, 46, 48, 161; he recovers the lands of the canons, 49; founds the dignities and prebends, 50, 52, 167; increases the number of canons, 57, 162; his description of his objects, 61; his buildings at Wells, 66-69; single fragment of them remaining, 68; grants North Curry to the Chapter, 190; grants municipal rights to the city, _ib._ _Robert_, Bishop of Hereford, present at the consecration of Robert's church at Wells, 68. _Robert Burnell_, Bishop, his place in the history of England, 107, 179; his works at Wells, 108. _Robert Grosseteste_, Bishop of Lincoln, his dispute with his Chapter, 170. _Roger_, Archbishop of York, story of, 189. _Roger_, Bishop, elected by the monks of Bath only, 105; confirmed by Innocent the Fourth, 106, 177; his gifts to the canons of Wells, _ib._; last bishop buried at Bath, 106. _Roger_, Bishop of Salisbury, opposes Bishop Godfrey, 43. _Roger Witing_, claims the Provost's estate, 60; cf. 170. _Romanesque_ style of architecture, its character, 48. _Roofs_, character of, in Somersetshire, 112. _Rouen Cathedral_, analogy of its west front to that of Wells, 127. _Rouen_, Saint Ouen's Abbey Church at, union of French and English merits in, 117. S. _Saint Alban's Abbey_, work at, designed by a monk of the House, 81; arrangement of the Lady chapel at, 131; its municipal history compared with Wells, 184. _Saint Cross_, Hospital of, its title, 163.