[283] G. Baldwin Brown, op. cit. I. pp. 166-7, 305-6.

[284] Ibid., II. p. 56.

[285] Murray, Handbook for Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Huntingdonshire, 1895, p. 147.

[286] S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 169.

[287] Notes and Queries, 3rd Ser., X. p. 473.

[288] E. A. Freeman, in Archaeol. Cambr., 1850, N. S. I. p. 44. G. T. Clark, Mediaeval Milit. Archit., pp. 114, 117.

[289] E. A. Freeman, loc. cit., pp. 45-6.

[290] Quoted by A. L. Leach, Guide to Tenby, 1898, p. 69.

[291] Quoted by A. L. Leach, loc. cit. A good description of the church, from an artist’s point of view, is given by S. C. and A. M. Hall, in Tenby, 1860, pp. 86-93.

[292] Archaeol. Cambr., N. S. II. p. 168. Cf. p. 172.

[293] A. H. Allcroft, Earthwork of England, p. 529 n.

[294] G. S. Tyack, Lore and Legend of the Eng. Church, p. 50.

[295] J. E. Thorold Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages, 1889, p. 66.

[296] Eleanor Hull, Early Christian Ireland, 1905, p. 206.

[297] Ibid., pp. 206-7.

[298] Ibid., p. 108.

[299] Ibid., pp. 108-9, 200.

[300] A. C. Haddon, Evolution in Art, 1895, p. 90.

[301] E. Hull, op. cit. pp. 208, 213-4. Cf. p. 247.

[302] E. Hull, op. cit., passim, and esp. Chap. XX. M. Stokes, Early Christian Architecture in Ireland, 1878, Chaps. V. and VI., and pp. 137-141. S. O. Addy, op. cit. pp. 173-5.

[303] G. T. Clark, Letters reprinted in Early Christian Architecture in Ireland, pp. 137 et seqq.

[304] J. Romilly Allen, Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times, 1905, pp. 195-6. For detached towers, see Notes and Queries, 7th Ser., IX. pp. 169-70, 277; X. pp. 18, 356 and references there given.

[305] S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 173.

[306] A. Jessopp, Before the Great Pillage, 1901, pp. 59-60. See also S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 172. Eccles. Curiosities, ed. W. Andrews, 1899, pp. 153-60.

[307] F. Bond, English Cathedrals, 1899, p. 217.

[308] New Oxford Dict., and Skeat’s Etymol. Dict. under Belfry.

[309] St Catherine’s Chapel, Abbotsbury Hill, Dorset, is even a better example of the beacon-chantry (Perpendicular).

[310] Murray, Handbook for Kent and Sussex, 1863, p. 17.

[311] S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 170.

[312] Antiquary, 1896, XXXII. p. 350.

[313] F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications, 1899, II. p. 510.

[314] Ibid. II. p. 510 n. Cf. Surrey Archaeol. Coll. XV. pp. 158-9; XVI. p. 248. J. C. Cox, Rambles in Surrey, 1910, p. 213.

[315] F. Bond, Westminster Abbey, 1909, p. 33.

[316] Ibid. p. 28. Cf. Mandell Creighton, Hist. Essays and Reviews, ed. L. Creighton, 1903, p. 276.

[317] Ibid. p. 30.

[318] J. E. Thorold Rogers, op. cit. p. 66.

[319] Notes and Queries, 8th Ser., XII. pp. 167, 269, 412.

[320] F. A. Inderwick, The King’s Peace, 1895, p. 20.

[321] Sir G. L. Gomme, Prim. Folk-Moots, 1880, p. 59.

[322] F. A. Inderwick, op. cit. p. 12. The various courts are briefly described on pp. 12-17. See also P. Vinogradoff, Villainage in England, 1892, pp. 354-96.

[323] S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 181.

[324] Notes and Queries, 8th Ser., XII. p. 32.

[325] S. and B. Webb, English Local Government, Book I.: The Manor and the Borough, 1908, I. p. 113 n.

[326] S. and B. Webb, op. cit. I. p. 375.

[327] T. Longley, before the Louth Antiq. and Nat. Hist. Soc., April 21, 1908.

[328] J. Fergusson, Hist. of Architecture, 3rd edition, 1873, II. p. 413.

[329] J. C. Jeaffreson, A Book about the Clergy, 2nd edition, 1870, I. p. 339.

[330] Antiquary, 1896, XXXII. p. 350.

[331] J. C. Jeaffreson, op. cit. I. pp. 339-40. See especially, for an account of the Worcester Consistory Court, Reliquary, 1892, N. S. VI. pp. 230-234.

[332] S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 182.

[333] J. C. Jeaffreson, op. cit. I. p. 340.

[334] Ibid. I. p. 342.

[335] W. J. Loftie, In and Out of London, N. D., pp. 101-2.

[336] S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 177.

[337] F. A. Inderwick, op. cit. p. 13.

[338] Fabric Rolls of York Minster (Surtees Soc. XXXV. 1859), p. 256.

[339] J. C. Jeaffreson, op. cit. I. p. 341.

[340] Prim. Folk-Moots, pp. 53, 59, 115.

[341] S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 181.

[342] S. and B. Webb, op. cit. I. p. 113, cf. pp. 13, 34.

[343] Ibid. I. p. 131.

[344] S. and B. Webb, Eng. Local Govt., Book 1.: The Parish and the County, 1906, pp. 37-40.

[345] The Parish and the County, I. pp. 37, 38 n.

[346] Ibid. I. pp. 37, 39.

[347] F. W. Maitland, in Law Quarterly Review, 1893, IX. p. 227.

[348] The Parish and the County, I. pp. 43 et seqq.

[349] Notes and Queries, 10th Ser., XII. p. 148.

[350] Archaeologia Cantiana, XIII. pp. 141-2.

[351] S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 183.

[352] J. C. Cox and A. Harvey, Eng. Church Furniture, 1907, pp. 350, 353. Notes and Queries, 11th Ser., II. pp. 428-9, 513-4.

[353] New Oxford Dict., Skeat’s Etymol. Dict., under “Church.” Cf. Century Dict., which is in substantial agreement.

[354] New Oxford Dict., loc. cit.

[355] G. Baldwin Brown, The Arts in Early England, 1903, I. pp. 251-2.

[356] S. O. Addy, Evol. of the Eng. House, p. 187.

[357] Ibid. pp. 182-3, 187.

[358] Ibid. pp. 173, 187. Cf. Sir G. L. Gomme, Prim. Folk-Moots, p. 157.

[359] S. O. Addy, op. cit. pp. 191-6.

[360] Ibid. p. 186. Cf. G. Baldwin Brown, op. cit. I. p. 324 n., II. p. 303.

[361] J. H. Parker, Glossary of Architect., 1850, under “Squint.” Cf. R. Sturgis, Dict. of Architect. and Building, 1901, under “Hagioscope” and “Squint”: B. and B. F. Fletcher, Hist. of Architect., 1905, p. 692.

[362] S. O. Addy, op. cit. pp. 183-4.

[363] The Inventories and Account Rolls ... of Jarrow and Monk-Wearmouth (Surtees Society, Vol. XXIX.), p. xxvi.

[364] New Oxford Dict. under “Basilica.”

[365] G. Baldwin Brown, op. cit. I. p. 298.

[366] S. O. Addy, op. cit. pp. 185-6. J. Evelyn, Diary (ed. W. Bray, 1818), “Chandos Classics” edition, N.D. p. 19; cf. p. ix. Dr J. C. Cox, in his Rambles in Surrey, 1910, p. 118, considers that the porch must have had an upper room in Evelyn’s day. G. S. Tyack, in Eccles. Curiosities, ed. W. Andrews, 1889, p. 27. Notes and Queries, 5th Ser., XI. pp. 366, 394, 472; XII. pp. 37, 277, 334. Twelfth Night, Act III. Sc. 2.

[367] S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 185.

[368] J. H. Parker, op. cit. under “Parvise.” Antiquary, 1899, XXXV. p. 179.

[369] G. Baldwin Brown, op. cit. I. p. 370.

[370] Notes and Queries, 8th Ser., X. p. 396; XI. pp. 9-10, 136.

[371] New Oxford Dict. under “Parvis.” See also discussion in Notes and Queries, 5th Ser., XI. pp. 49, 91, 149, 197.

[372] G. Baldwin Brown, op. cit. I. pp. 370-1. S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 180. Notes and Queries, 7th Ser., II. pp. 168, 238, 413.

[373] C. King Warry, Old Portland Traditions, 1908, pp. 50-1. Cf. Notes and Queries, 9th Ser., VIII. pp. 81, 134, 248, 432.

[374] Chaucer, Wife of Bath’s ‘Prologue,’ l. 6 (W. W. Skeat’s edition, 1894, p. 320).

[375] G. Baldwin Brown, op. cit. I. p. 371. G. S. Tyack, in Eccles. Curiosities, pp. 25-6. J. Brand, Popular Antiquities, ed. Sir H. Ellis, 1849, II. pp. 133-5. F. A. Gasquet, Parish Life in Mediaeval England, 1906, pp. 209-10.

[376] Prideaux’s Churchwarden’s Guide, ed. F. C. Mackarness, 1895, p. 321.

[377] Antiquary, 1899, XXXV. p. 178.

[378] Notes and Queries, 10th Ser., XI. pp. 422-4. See also 12th Ser., II. pp. 130-1.

[379] P. Vinogradoff, Eng. Society in the Eleventh Century, 1908, p. 30.

[380] J. C. Cox, in Curious Church Customs, ed. W. Andrews, pp. 179-80.

[381] Ibid. p. 180.

[382] Antiquary, 1910, N. S., VI. p. 122. It has been stated that every parish church in the Isle of Wight formerly possessed its gun. Brading gun, now preserved at Nunwell, is the only specimen left. (Notes and Queries, 11th Ser., II. p. 176.)

[383] Notes and Queries, 11th Ser., I. p. 346, II. p. 16. An attempt has been made to connect the Robin Hood Dancers with a survival of the solar myth, and to show that certain place-names, said to be compounded from Robin Hood, designate pagan sites (Notes and Queries, 11th Ser., I. pp. 493-4). Folk-Lore, 1910, XXI. p. 248 n.

[384] Olaus Magnus, Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus, 1555, l. xvi. c. 21.

[385] Ibid. l. xvi. c. 20.

[386] Reliquary, 1892, N. S., VI. pp. 65-67. Cf. Dissertation by Olaus Magnus, op. cit. l. I. cc. 32, 33. Several Saxon dial-stones are described in Surrey Archaeol. Coll., XV. pp. 74-77; XXI. pp. 86-88. See also J. C. Cox, Rambles in Surrey, 1910, p. 190. G. Baldwin Brown, op. cit. II. p. 131.

[387] Antiquary, 1899, XXXV. p. 360.

[388] Bygone Hertfordshire, ed. W. Andrews, 1898, p. 153.

[389] Trans. East Riding Antiq. Soc., 1895, III. pp. 48-9.

[390] G. S. Tyack, op. cit. p. 74.

[391] Notes and Queries, 7th Ser., XII. p. 297.

[392] Ibid. XII. p. 486.

[393] Ibid. IX. p. 479.

[394] G. S. Tyack, op. cit. p. 74.

[395] J. Nicholson, in Curious Church Customs, p. 157.

[396] Notes and Queries, 7th Ser., IX. p. 479.

[397] Ibid. 7th Ser., I. p. 491.

[398] B. P. Row and W. Stanley Martin, Kent’s Capital, 2nd edition, 1899, pp. 52-3. Murray, Handbook for Kent, 3rd edition, 1892, pp. 62-3.

[399] G. Baldwin Brown, op. cit. I. pp. 371-2.

[400] P. Vinogradoff, Eng. Soc. in the Eleventh Century, p. 468-9.

[401] Notes and Queries, 7th Ser., VIII. p. 305. For further evidence, see Extracts from the Court Rolls of the Manor of Wimbledon (Surrey), 1866, pp. 297, 386.

[402] S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 180. An extensive list of church chests is given in Eng. Church Furniture, by J. C. Cox and A. Harvey, 1907, pp. 291-307.

[403] Eccles. Curiosities, ed. W. Andrews, 1899, pp. 161-182.

[404] J. C. Jeaffreson, op. cit. II. p. 2.

[405] J. E. Thorold Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages, 1899, p. 66.

[406] S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 180.

[407] Quoted by Addy, op. cit. p. 179 and note.

[408] J. C. Cox, in Curious Church Customs, p. 1.

[409] J. C. Jeaffreson, op. cit. pp. 344-5. Cf. Barnabe Googe, Popish Kingdome, 1570, translated from the Latin of Naogeorgus, Bk IV. ll. 789-92.

[410] Fabric Rolls of York Minster (Surtees Soc. XXXV. 1859), p. 271.

[411] W. Harrison, Elizabethan England, ed. Lothrop Withington, N.D., p. 65. The first edition of Harrison’s work was published in 1577.

[412] W. Harrison, op. cit. p. xxiii.

[413] E. Lega-Weekes, in Notes and Queries, 1910, 11th Ser., I. p. 346. Concerning Guilds, see E. L. Cutts, Parish Priests and their People in the Middle Ages of England, 1898, pp. 473-85.

[414] A. Jessopp, Before the Great Pillage, 1901, pp. 29-31. Parsonage houses are described by E. L. Cutts, op. cit. pp. 149-163.

[415] P. Stubbes, Anatomie of Abuses in England, 1583, ed. F. J. Furnivall, 1877-9, pp. 150-2. J. Brand, Pop. Antiquities, ed. Sir H. Ellis, 1843, I. pp. 276-284.

[416] F. A. Gasquet, Par. Life in Mediaeval England, pp. 233-7. J. C. Jeaffreson, op. cit. I. pp. 354-5. J. Brand, op. cit. I. p. 282. Athenaeum, 17 Sept. 1910, p. 333.

[417] J. C. Jeaffreson, op. cit. I. pp. 351-7. Curious Church Customs, pp. 151-2. Lore and Legend of the Eng. Church, pp. 71-74.

[418] Lore and Legend of the Eng. Church, p. 73.

[419] Ibid. pp. 117-8.

[420] A. W. Pollard, Eng. Miracle Plays, Moralities, and Interludes, 4th edition, 1904, pp. xiv, xvii. Mr Pollard reproduces many of the old plays, e.g. “Castell of Perseverance,” “Everyman,” etc. K. L. Bates, The Eng. Religious Drama, 1893, pp. 8-10. J. J. Jusserand, Literary Hist. of the Eng. People, 1909, III. chap. i. J. C. Cox, in Curious Church Customs, pp. 16-18.

[421] J. C. Cox, in Curious Church Customs, p. 17.

[422] E. Dale, National Life and Char. in the Mirror of Eng. Literature, 1907, pp. 249-50.

[423] E. K. Chambers, The Mediaeval Stage, 1903, II. p. vi (of preface), and “Book 3” of this volume especially.

[424] E. K. Chambers, op. cit. II. pp. 3 et seqq.

[425] Ibid. II. p. 79.

[426] Before the Pillage, pp. 49-50.

[427] E. K. Chambers, op. cit. II. p. 79; K. L. Bates, op. cit. pp. 11-17.

[428] Ibid. II. pp. 134-5. K. L. Bates, op. cit. pp. 33-34.

[429] Ibid. II. p. 134.

[430] Ibid. II. p. 134.

[431] S. O. Addy, op. cit. p. 181.