The Customs of Old England

About this eBook

Author

Snell, F. J. (Frederick John), 1862-1931

Credits

Produced by Louise Pryor, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

England -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485

Category

Text

eBook-No.

19004

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19004

Release Date

August 7, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Uniform with this Volume — THE CUSTOMS OF OLD ENGLAND — BY
3. 3.F. J. SNELL
4. 4.PREFACE — THE CUSTOMS OF OLD ENGLAND
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.ECCLESIASTICAL — CHAPTER I — LEAGUES OF PRAYER
7. 7.ECCLESIASTICAL — CHAPTER II — VOWESSES — OCTAVIÆ MATRONÆ VIDVÆ DEI. — ORATE ANIMA DOMINE JULIANE ANGELL VOTRICIS CUJUS ANIME PROPRICIETUR DEUS. — HIC JACET TUMULATA DOMINA JOHANNA BRAHAM VIRDUA AC DEO DEDICATA. OLIM UXOREM JOHANNIS BRAHAM ARMIGERI QUI OBIT XVIII DIE NOVEMBRIS ANNO DOMINI MILLINO CCCCXIX CU JUS ANIME PROPICIETUR DEUS. AMEN.
8. 8.ECCLESIASTICAL — CHAPTER III — THE LADY FAST
9. 9.ECCLESIASTICAL — CHAPTER IV — CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL
10. 10.ECCLESIASTICAL — CHAPTER V — THE BOY-BISHOP
11. 11.ECCLESIASTICAL — CHAPTER VI — MIRACLE PLAYS — Ashburton, Devon — St. Martin's, Leicester
12. 12.ACADEMIC — CHAPTER VII — ALMS AND LOANS — Ashburton, Devon — Tavistock — Woodbury, Devon — Plymouth — Barnstaple — Sheffield — Cawthorne, Yorkshire — Youlgreave, Derbyshire — Heavitree, Devon
13. 13.ACADEMIC — CHAPTER VIII — OF THE PRIVILEGE — The Bedels — The Ministry of Trade — I — II
14. 14.ACADEMIC — CHAPTER IX — THE "STUDIUM GENERALE" — The "Nations" — The Highway of Learning — On Parade
15. 15.JUDICIAL — CHAPTER X — THE ORDER OF THE COIF
16. 16.JUDICIAL — CHAPTER XI — THE JUDGMENT OF GOD — The Judgment of the Glowing Iron — The Judgment of the Ploughshares — The Judgment of the Boiling Water — The Judgment of Cold Water — The Judgment of the Morsel — The Judgment of the Psalter
17. 17.JUDICIAL — CHAPTER XII — OUTLAWRY
18. 18.URBAN — CHAPTER XIII — BURGHAL INDEPENDENCE — Custom in Law — Crown and Town — A Paradise of Police
19. 19.URBAN — CHAPTER XIV — THE BANNER OF ST. PAUL
20. 20.URBAN — CHAPTER XV — GOD'S PENNY
21. 21.URBAN — CHAPTER XVI — THE MERCHANT AND HIS MARK
22. 22.RURAL — CHAPTER XVII — RUS IN URBE — "S. COMMVNE BVRGENTES STOFORD."
23. 23.RURAL — CHAPTER XVIII — COUNTRY PROPER — Borough English — " Heirs of the Youngest Holding — The Open Field — The Waste — Bondmen
24. 24.DOMESTIC — CHAPTER XIX — RETINUES — Billeting — Pre-emption — Livery — A Mediæval Household — Minstrels and Pages
25. 25.INDEX
26. 26.FOOTNOTES:

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