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jurisdiction of, 189-91

legislative activities of, 173

litigation in, 178-79

procedure of, 144, 172-79, 183-87

punishment imposed by, 181-82

records of, 31, 69, 70, 82-83, 86-87, 174-75

manorial system, 17-18, 27-28, 49

markets, 42, 48, 63-64

marriage, 107, 111-13, 169, 206

ceremony, 113-15

clandestine, 115-16

consent in, 114

Marshal, Adam, 76

Marshal, Henry, 180

Marshal, Simon son of Henry, 76

Marshal, Walter, 76

Marx, Karl, 18

meadow, 131, 138-39, 203

meiatores, 61

merchet, 76, 111-13, 154, 182, 244

Merton, 147

midwives, 117-18

Miller, Edward, 7, 69

Miller, Henry, 188

Miller, Nicholas, 78, 111, 181

Miller, Richard, 116

millers, 78-79, 149, 150

mills, 31, 36, 48, 77, 78, 149-50, 196

money-lending, 186-87

Montaillou, 86

Montfort, Simon de, 34

Morburn, Thomas of, 180

mortuary, 109, 159, 245

mowing, 138-39, 154, 196-97

multure, 78, 245

murrain, 63, 195-96

mutilation (as punishment), 193

Myrc, John, 118, 126-28, 159, 165, 170

Nene, River, 2, 3, 20, 32, 79, 97, 151

Newbold Grounds (Northamptonshire), 130

New England, 203-4

Newton Longville (Buckinghamshire), 203

Nolly, John, 76-77

Norman Conquest, 17, 27-38

Norman Cross (Huntingdonshire), 42

Norman Cross Hundred, 27, 30,43

oats, 9, 16, 17, 60, 94, 137, 140, 141, 153

oblations, 51, 56, 160

Oculus Sacerdotis, 159, 165, 169

old age, 121-26

Oman, Sir Charles, 199

open field system, 14-16, 49, 129-33, 201, 203-4

origin of, 15-16

operarii (tenants ad opus), 75, 243

Oswald, saint, archbishop of York, 24

Oundle, 2, 3, 51

Ouse, River, 20

outlawry, 193

ovens, communal, 38-39, 41, 48, 77, 79, 196

ox, 17, 22, 59, 136, 204

Page, John, 135, 177, 183, 187

pannage, 148, 245

parish, 155-57

identity with the village of, 155

origin of, 155-56

Parr, Katherine, 204

Paston family, 199-200

peas and beans, 11, 16, 17, 60, 95-96, 136-37, 141

Peasants’ Rebellion of 1381, 86, 198-99

Pecham, John, archbishop of Canterbury, 157, 158

penance, 170

pensions, old-age, see maintenance contracts

Peterborough, 2, 3, 48, 51, 147, 152, 191

Peter Lombard, 113

Peverel, Pagan, 29

Piers Plowman, 99, 144, 154

pigs, 22, 83, 143, 147-48

Pipewell Abbey, 65-66

Pirenne, Henri, 152

planting, 131, 136-38

pledging, personal, 175, 177-78, 188, 245

plow, 10, 11-12, 16-17, 135

with coulter and mouldboard, 11-12, 135

heavy, 16, 135

scratch, 10

wheeled, 135

plowing, 9, 10, 11-12, 134-38

plow team, size and makeup of, 16-17, 22, 59, 136

poll tax, 198, 199

population, 1, 2, 4, 6-7, 12-16, 18, 30, 46, 153, 195, 206

Postan, M. M., 82, 153

pottage or porridge, 91, 94-96

poultry, 38, 62, 145-146

preaching, see sermons

Prest, Hugh, 144, 184-85, 196

priests, parish, 156-58, 169-71

celibacy of, 161-62

education of, 157-58

manuals for, 158-59

marriage of, 161

religious instruction of parishioners by, 169-70

primogeniture, 110

prison as punishment, 193

Proby, Sir Thomas, 205

Prudhomme, Alexander, 180-81

Prudhomme, Emma, 79, 86, 178

Prudhomme, Matilda, 78, 86, 180

Prudhomme, Richard, 86

Prudhomme, Walter, 86

Prudhomme, William, 86

punfold or pinfold (pound), 38, 41, 48, 245

Quinel, Peter, bishop of Exeter, 163

Raftis, J. A., 70-71, 75, 152

Ramsey (Huntingdonshire), 152, 173

Ramsey Abbey, 2, 5, 24-27, 28-29, 42, 43, 45, 46-47, 48, 50, 55, 58, 65, 75, 82, 83, 93, 109, 112, 113, 127, 133-34, 140, 152, 156, 159-60, 173, 187-88, 190, 199, 204

acquisition of Elton by, 24-27

cartulary of, 31, 69, 144, 185, 187-88

founding of, 24

knight service owed by, 28-29

suppression of, 201

rape, 180, 190

reaping, 139-41, 197

reap-reeve, 57

recreation, 99-103, 206

rector, 41, 77-78, 156-58, 160-61

absentee, 157-58

rectory, 39, 161

reeve, 49, 53-56, 83, 84, 87, 93, 245

Reeve, Andrew, 187

Reeve, Emma wife of Richard, 113

Reeve, Gilbert son of Richard, 84

Reeve, Henry, 55

Reeve, John son of Henry, 81, 108

Reeve, Michael, 87

Reeve, Richard, 87, 178

Reeve, Richard son of Richard, 181

rents, 64, 73, 77-78, 108

repegos (goose-reap), 102

Richard I (Lionheart),