22. According to John Smith’s will, four of the feofees of the property to be chosen at Candlemas are to give account to the other feofees. They shall provide for the Dirge on St. Peter’s even at Midsummer and the Mass next day for J. S. and his wife Anne. 23. Those who have keys of the hutch or of the porch door of Guild are to bring them in at Candlemas, and they are to be given to those “who are considered best to keep them.” In the foregoing chapters I have endeavoured to gather together from the scattered and frequently minute material which exists some illustrations of parochial life in mediæval times. The result must speak for itself; it is, I feel sure, as far as it goes, correct as to the outline of the picture. Had I not been anxious not to weary the reader by the very multiplicity and minuteness of the details, the result might have been perhaps more definite, and the lights and shades been more effective. As it is, however, my purpose has been accomplished if I have succeeded in interesting them in this description of the life led by our ancestors in a mediæval parish--a life so strangely and entirely different to that which now exists in the towns and villages of modern England. For “in the Middle Ages,” says a writer in a late number of _The National Review_, in a passage already referred to, “the conscious sharing in a world-wide tradition bound the local to the universal life, and through art and ritual the minds of the poor were familiarized with facts of the Christian faith. By our own poor I fear these facts are very dimly realized.” INDEX Absolution Day, 177 Adoration of the Cross, 179 Advent, 164 Altar, 46-49; cælatura, 46; frontal of, 49; beam, 51, 134 Ambry, 46 Angelus, 162, 163 Appropriations, 86 Aquæbajularius, 112-114 Arundel, Archbishop, 162, 217 Ash Wednesday, 168-170 Ave bell, 162 _Babe of Nurture_, 248, 249 Banns, 209, 225 Baptism, sacrament of, 188-192; no fee exacted, 190 Becon, 48 Bede-rolls, 136, 222-225 Bedes, bidding of, 222, 223 Bellman, 119, 120 Benefice of the Blessed Water, 115 Brentano, 255 Bidding prayer, 157 _Boke of Kervynge_, 145 Booth, Mr., 244, 246 Borde, Andrew, 145 Boy-bishop, 165-167 Bracton, 27, 67, 82, 209 Brantyngham, Bishop, 23, 26, 100, 115, 197 Bride gear, 61 Bronescombe, Bishop, 86 Brunton, Bishop, 197 Candlemas Day, 168 Candle-silver, 138 Candlesticks, 50, 51 Cælatura, 46 Cemetery, 66, 67, 68; consecration of, 68; trees in, 67 Cess, 125 Chancel, the, 22, 23, 44-46, 54 Chantries, 59, 73, 74, 95, 96, 111, 149, 264, 266 Chantry certificates, 264, 266 Chantry priest, 95, 96, 111, 118, 266 Chapel of ease, 99-101 Chapel of repose, 178 Chaplains, 99-101 Chaucer, 151 Childermas, 165 Choir, 44, 45 Chrism, 196 Chrismatory, 196 Chrism-cloths, 27, 196 Christmas, 165 Church ale, 237-239 Churches, riches of, 70