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75, 76, 87, 243

Ceowulf, Anglo-Saxon thegn, 23

Chalgrave (Bedfordshire), 108, 109-10

champion husbandry, see open

field system

Chapelot, Jean, 8, 13

Chapleyn, Aldusa, 89

Chapman, Joan, 86

Chapman, John, 80, 86

Chapman, Robert, 70, 74, 79, 86, 183

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 56, 78, 86, 157-58

Chausey, Thomas, 81, 181

chevage, 42, 76-77, 178, 196, 199, 243

Chichester, bishop of, 183

Child, Reginald, 87, 178, 183

Child, William, 84

childbirth, 117-18

children, 117-20,206

feelings toward, 119-20

naming of, 119

Christmas, 100

church, parish, 3, 30, 41, 50, 159-61, 162-63, 192

architecture of, 162-63, 200

in Elton, 3, 39, 42, 200

furnishings of, 163

murals in, 168-69

revenues of, 159-61

services in, 164-65

churchyard, 41, 102, 128, 163-64

Clare, Bogo de, 157

Clark, Elaine, 124

claviger (macebearer), 51, 144, 184-85

clerk of the account, 50, 55, 56, 174

Cnut, king, 26

communitas villae (community of the vill or village), 7

compurgation (oath helping), 177, 188-89

confession, 169-70

copyhold tenure, 199

coroner, royal, 190-91, 192

coroner’s court, 190-91

rolls of, 34, 103-5, 119-20

corrody, 125, 244

costume, 98-99, 206

cotters, 77, 78, 143-44, 152, 244

Coulton, G. G., 116

Council of Trent, 115

Court Baron, 175-77, 180

courts

Church, 116-17, 182, 189-90

royal, 189-93

(see also coroner’s court, eyres, honor court, manorial court [hallmote])

cows, 22, 61, 142-43, 145, 149

craftsmen, 71, 77, 78-79, 149-53, 202-3

itinerant, 152-53

Crane, Goscelyna, 86

Cranfield (Bedfordshire), 123-24

crime, 103-5, 180, 189-93

croft, 34, 35, 41, 244

Cromwell, Richard, 204

crop rotation, 14-15, 131

crops, 9, 11, 16, 17, 22, 55, 60-61, 65, 94, 131, 137-38, 203

Cross, Alexander atte, 54, 84, 90, 97, 113, 139-40

Cross, Alice daughter of Robert atte, 85

Cross, Robert atte, 85, 133

cruck construction, 33-34, 90

Cuxham (Oxfordshire), 107

Dacus, 26, 31, 156

dairy production, 22, 62

Danish invasion of England, 22-23

Daye, John, 34, 109

death, 126-27

demesne, 11, 17, 31,47, 58, 71, 130, 244

deodand, 191

deserted villages, 4-5, 31, 200-201

De Windt, Anne, 81-82

De Windt, Edwin, 83

diet, 93-98, 139-40, 206

disease, see sickness “Dissolution” of the monasteries, 201-2, 204

Ditchley (Oxfordshire), 13

“Divided Horsecloth,” 123

divorce, 117

Dodwell, Barbara, 28

Domesday Book, 30-31, 68, 69, 136, 156, 195

dovecotes, 38, 39, 40, 151

dowry, 111, 112

dress, see costume

drunkenness, 103-4

Duby, Georges, 46, 69, 94, 198, 200

Dunning, John (John Tanner), 70, 76, 152

Durobrivae, 20-21, 24

Dyer, Christopher, 203

Dyer, Thomas, 48, 79

dyers, 79, 98

Easter, 101

Edward I, king, 191, 192, 197

Edward II, king, 197

Edward III, king, 197-98

Ellington (Huntingdonshire), 124

Elton (Huntingdonshire), 1, 2, 3, 5, 24, 30-41, 42-43, 45, 46, 47,48,51-53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60-61, 62, 64, 65, 67, 69-87, 88-89, 91, 93, 99, 100, 101, 102, 108, 109, 111-12, 116, 117, 121, 133-34, 135, 137, 138, 147, 149-53, 156, 160-61, 173, 174, 177-79, 180-88, 191, 196-97, 199

acquired by Ramsey Abbey, 24-27

in Black Death, 196-97

Elton (Huntingdonshire) in Domesday Book, 30-31

fields of, 41, 129-31

modern, 2-3, 205

origin of name of, 24

plan of, 31-42 (map, 32)

population of, 2, 42

in Tudor era, 204-5

Elton, John of, 40, 72, 73, 85-86, 89-90, 149, 178-79

Elton, Philip of, 55

Elton Hall, 3, 39-40, 204-5

emigration from villages, 152

enclosure movement, 4, 200-201, 204, 205

entry fine (gersum), 108, 112, 199, 244

Ermine Street, 20, 27

essoins, 178, 244

estate management, 47, 40-58

treatises on, 49-50, 62

exemplum, sermon, 166-167

Exeter, dean of, 158

Eynsham Abbey, 161

eyres (circuit courts), 190, 244

fairs, 42, 48

Faith, Rosamond, 107

family, 106-8, 110-20, 122-26

autonomy of, 106-7

cycle, 106

size of, 106

famine, 98, 195-96, 203, 204

famuli, 58-59, 195

Feddersen Wierde, West Germany, 13

felony, 190-92

fertilizer, 16, 17, 35, 137

feudalism, 17-18, 27-29, 45, 244

field systems, 9, 10, 13, 15-16, 41

infield-outfield, 131