_Swan, Richard_, Provost, executor of Bishop Beckington, his works, 138. T. _Taunton_, founded by Ine, 14, 17, 164. _Tewkesbury Abbey_, apse of, 130. _Tewkesbury Annals_, quoted, 178. _Theological College_, proposal for its union with the Vicars' College, 139; position of its officers, 169. _Thomas of Canterbury_, Saint, his life quoted, 87. _Toulouse_, roof of the church of Saint Sernin at, 179. _Towers_, Old-English, character of, 24; central, a peculiarly English and Norman feature, 115; absence of, in the great French churches, 116. _Treasurer_, foundation of the office, 50, 168; his duties, 57. U. _Undercroft_, under the Chapter-house, 97, 176; other instances, _ib._ V. _Vicars' Close_, first built by Ralph of Shrewsbury, 138; recast by Beckington's executors, _ib._; modern changes in, 139. _Vicars_, origin of, 84; account of, by Richard of the Devizes, 86, 173; story of a vicar at Saint Paul's, 87, 173; their original duties, 89; lived originally in the canons' houses, 87, 138; Jocelin's legislation about, 88; incorporated by Ralph of Shrewsbury, 137; change in their position consequent on the institution of residentiaries, _ib._; their petition to Ralph, 138; building of the Vicars' Close, _ib._; their collegiate manner of life, 139; question as to its possible restoration, _ib._; distinction between vicars and petty canons, 140; admission of laymen to the college, _ib._; distinction between lay-vicars and singing-men, 141; charter of Elizabeth for their share in the distribution, 174; property given them by Ralph, 182; payments secured by the charter of Elizabeth, 187. _Vitalis_, Vicar at Saint Paul's, 173. W. _Waltham_, mode of life of the Canons, 164. _Wardship_, meaning of, 178. _Wedmore_, granted to the Church of Wells by Eadward the Confessor, 31; prebends of, 51. _Wellesley_, manor of, granted to the Vicars, 182.