The most serious results of permitting acrobats to perform on churches remain to be recorded. It is related by Raine that, in 1237, Prior Melsonby was elected Bishop of Durham, and that his mitre was taken from him for encouraging a rope dancer to perform his feats on a cord stretched between the towers of the cathedral. The poor fellow fell and broke his neck. THE END Index. Abjuring the realm, 4 Acrobats on steeples, 244-251 Ale at weddings, 199 Alford, plague at, 164 Armour, buried in, 219 Bainbridge horn, 79 Banks and his horse Morocco, 250 Battle Abbey, 38 Bear-baiting on Sunday, 99 Bedford bridge, 51; prison, 51; Bunyan, 51; curious regulations, 51; chapel, 51 Bernwood forest, 72 Beverley sanctuary; 14, plague at, 160 Biddenden Maids Charity, 148-151 Bible burned, 127 Boar slaying, 74 Boiling oil, ordeal of, 24 Boiling water, ordeal of, 23 "Book of Sports," 103 Bowling on Sunday, 97 Bradford-on-Avon bridge, 53 Bradley, plague at, 166 Brentwood Church, sanctuary in, 9 Braintree, plague at, 167 Broad-stone, East Retford, 164 Bull-baiting announced in church, 92 Buried alive, 165 Burning to death, 85 Cadman killed, 247 Carlisle horn, 75 Castleton, curious custom at, 180-182 Chapels on Bridges, 44-64 Chairs, sanctuary, 15 Charter Horns, 65-79 Cheapside Cross, 138-147 Chingford horn, 78; singular tenure, 79 Chimney money, 183-185 Clog almanack, 240 Coining by Archbishop of York, 38 Colchester, plague at, 169 Cold water ordeal, 25 Concerning Coffins, 218-226 Corpse, touching a, 28-36 Craven custom, 202 Cuming, H. Syer, 239 Cross, origin of, 120 Curfew Bell, 227-239 Curious Symbols of the Saints, 240-243 Danes, Sunday under, 83 Derby St. Mary's bridge, 54; chapel, 55; Jesuits, 55; St. James bridge, 56; plague, 161; rope performing, 246; Topham, 249 Durham sanctuary, 12-14; parish-coffins, 224; fatal accident to a rope-dancer, 251 Easingwold parish coffin, 221 Easter Sepulchre, 111-119 Eleanor, Queen, 138; crosses, 138 Esk, bridge over, 46 Eyam cross, 121; plague, 170-173 Executions, 25, 29, 33, 34, 36, 37, 56, 85 Fight between the Mayor of Hull and Archbishop of York, 37-43 Fined for not attending church, 108-110 Football on Sunday, 96 Friars building bridges, 44 Grave, a man making his own, 167 Hanging, 25-37 Hastings, battle of, 86 Henry I. abolishes curfew law, 233 Hoghton Tower, James at, 102 Hot ale at weddings, 199-202 Howden parish coffin, 224 Hull merchants evading prisage claims, 39; Sunday regulations, 89; plague at, 95 Hungerford horn, 77; curious customs, 78 Indulgences, 45, 122 Ireland, burials without coffins, 221 Iron, red-hot ordeal, 27 King curing an Abbot of indigestion, 174-176 Kissing the Bride, 195-198