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• ACCIDENTS AND DISASTERS
  • Fires
    
  • Shipwrecks
    
  
  

• ACCOUNTING AND MONEY
  • Accounts -- Definition: Accounts, of individuals or institutions, A-Z; use for circumstances, eg: disclosure of; liveries of; rendering of
    
  • Acquittances -- Definition: Acquittances of persons (administrators, executors, etc) or for specific reasons (debt; Papal dues; Peter's pence; procurations; stipends)
    
  • Allowances -- Definition: Allowances on accounts
    
  • Amercements
    
  • Arrears
    
  • Bills
    
  • Coins
    
  • Collections
    
  • Debts -- Definition: incl of recognizances
    
  • Distraint
    
  • Expenses
    
  • Farms
    
  • Fees
    
  • Fines
    
  • Forfeitures -- Definition: incl of lands
    
  • Fruits and Profits
    
  • Indemnities
    
  • Interest
    
  • Leases and Lettings
    
  • Loans
    
  • Money
    
  • Non payment
    
  • Pains
    
  • Pawning
    
  • Payments
    
  • Prebends
    
  • Rents
    
  • Revenues
    
  • Sales
    
  • Stipends
    
  • Wages
    
  
  

• ACTS OF PARLIAMENT AND STATUTES
  • Act of Supremacy (1559) -- Definition: Act of Supremacy 1558 c. 1, 1 Eliz. I http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1559-0; http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/periods/tudors/elizabethan-settlement
    
  • Acts of Parliament
    
  • Statute of Mortmain
    
  • Statutes (Parliamentary) -- Definition: Statutes, named, A-Z; add details in standard form
    
  
  

• ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS, ECCLESIASTICAL
  • Archdeaconries -- Definition: Administrative Units, Ecclesiastical, A-Z
    
  • Archdioceses
    
  • Chapelries -- Definition: See also Churches, chapels and chantries
    
  • Deaneries
    
  • Parishes -- Definition: See also Churches, chapels and chantries; Buildings and structures
    
  • Peculiars -- Definition: General
    
  • Provinces
    
  • Rectories -- Definition: See also Benefices, portions
    
  • Vicarages
    
  
  

• ADVOWSONS AND PATRONAGE
  • Advowsons -- Definition: See also Benefice and Office holding
    
  • Crown Patrons
    
  • Ecclesiastical Patrons
    
  • Lay Patrons
    
  • Patrons -- Definition: See also Benefices, Presentations
    
  • Religious Patrons
    
  
  

• AGE
  • Boys
    
  • Canonical age
    
  • Children
    
  • Girls
    
  • Minors
    
  • Old age
    
  
  

• ALIENS
  • Aliens -- Definition: Use for Aliens (foreigners generally); see also Religious houses, Alien Priories
    
  
  

• ANIMALS AND WILDLIFE
  • Bees
    
  • Bullocks
    
  • Bulls
    
  • Calves
    
  • Cocks
    
  • Colts
    
  • Cows
    
  • Foals
    
  • Geese
    
  • Heifers
    
  • Hens
    
  • Horses
    
  • Lambs
    
  • Livestock
    
  • Oxen
    
  • Oxgangs
    
  • Pigs
    
  • Poultry
    
  • Sheep
    
  
  

• ARCHBISHOP'S ADMINISTRATION
  • Archbishop's Chancery -- Definition: Use for departments of Archbishop's administration
    
  • Archbishop's Estates
    
  • Archbishop's Household
    
  • Vacancy of the See -- Definition: See also Benefice and office holding
    
  
  

• ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS
  • Account books
    
  • Archbishops' Registers
    
  • Archives
    
  • Bishops' Registers
    
  • Bonds
    
  • Charters
    
  • Confirmations -- Definition: Confirmation = type of deed
    
  • Court Rolls
    
  • Deans' and chapters' registers
    
  • Debt books
    
  • Decrees
    
  • Deeds -- Definition: Deeds of property
    
  • Defeasances
    
  • Easter books
    
  • Enfeoffments
    
  • Formularies
    
  • Inspeximus
    
  • Invocations
    
  • Leases
    
  • Letters
    
  • Letters dimissory -- Definition: Letters dimissory for all orders; Holy orders; Minor orders; combinations such as Holy and/or minor orders
    
  • Letters of attorney
    
  • Letters patent
    
  • Letters testimonial
    
  • Mandates
    
  • Manuscripts
    
  • Maps
    
  • Memoranda Rolls
    
  • Mortgages
    
  • Muniments
    
  • Notarial Instruments
    
  • Notarial Marks
    
  • Notarial Subscriptions
    
  • Note books
    
  • Notes
    
  • Papers
    
  • Penmanship
    
  • Petitions
    
  • Pipe Rolls
    
  • Recognizances -- Definition: See also Finance, Money, Accounts and Accounting
    
  • Records -- Definition: For example, search of records
    
  • Registers -- Definition: General
    
  • Royal writs
    
  • Seals -- Definition: Seals, types, A-Z; Seals, of institutions, A-Z; Seals, of named individuals or groups, A-Z; Seals, of offices, A-Z; note unusual use, if specified, eg if seal used is that of another person/organisation
    
  • Signatures
    
  • Statutes
    
  • Vacancy Registers
    
  • Valuations
    
  • Visitation Act Books
    
  • Vouchers
    
  • Writing equipment
    
  • Writs -- Definition: General
    
  
  

• BENEFICE AND OFFICE HOLDING
  • Absence - USE Non residence -- Definition: Absence by type, A-Z, eg journey overseas; orders; orders 'cum ex eo'; pilgrimage; recreation; travel to Rome; service; study; study, 'cum ex eo'; tolerated; study tolerated; Absence for a period, eg during pleasure; fixed term; See also Dispensations; Non residence; Study
    
  • Admissions -- Definition: Admission by type of office, A-Z = will appear as Descriptor or person role?
    
  • Appointments
    
  • Approbations
    
  • Benedictions
    
  • Collations -- Definition: Add type of office, A-Z = Descriptor or Person role; add Conferral, by type of object, eg biretta, if necessary
    
  • Commendations
    
  • Commissions
    
  • Conferrals -- Definition: By biretta (see also Vestments; Clothes and clothing); cap (see also Clothes and clothing); by glove/s or ring (see also Jewellery and personal effects)
    
  • Confirmations -- Definition: Confirmations of office
    
  • Conge d'elire
    
  • Consecrations -- Definition: Consecrations of Archbishop
    
  • Deprivations
    
  • Deputations
    
  • Ejections
    
  • Elections
    
  • Enthronements
    
  • Exchanges -- Definition: Types found include: approved; agreed to; in another diocese, in the archdiocese
    
  • Expectations
    
  • Inceptions
    
  • Inductions -- Definition: no need to add 'mandate' to entry; can also be found in form 'quod est vestrum'
    
  • Installations
    
  • Institutions
    
  • Intrusions
    
  • Investitures -- Definition: By biretta (see also Vestments; Clothes and clothing); cap (see also Clothes and clothing); by glove/s or ring (see also Jewellery and personal effects)
    
  • Non residence -- Definition: Types found include for a period, eg during pleasure; fixed term; for a reason, eg legitimate without licence; orders; orders, 'cum ex eo'; requested or promoted; service; unlicensed
    
  • Oaths
    
  • Ordinations (Benefice holders)
    
  • Pluralism -- Definition: For instance: alleged; papal decree against; royal mandate in favour of
    
  • Professions
    
  • Provisions -- Definition: Provisions of expectative graces; expectative graces, in forma pauperum; expectative graces, revoked; also provisions in forma pauperum
    
  • Residence -- Definition: For eg: commons for; enforced; for fixed term; required
    
  • Resignations
    
  • Retirement
    
  • Revocations
    
  • Study -- Definition: For periods, eg: for a specific time; at different places, eg: at studium generale; at studium generale in England; other, eg: return from required; special requirements; under 'cum ex eo'; see also Benefice and office holding, Absence; Non residence; Schools, Universities, Study, Teachers and Pupils
    
  • Surrenders
    
  • Surrogacies
    
  • Suspensions
    
  • Titles
    
  • Translations
    
  
  

• BENEFICES, ADMINISTRATION
  • Appropriations
    
  • Benefices -- Definition: Incl burdens of, for eg: vicar's portions
    
  • Endowments
    
  • Ordinations (Benefices) -- Definition: Ordinations of chantries; chapels; churches; vicarages; also confirmations of, inquiries into
    
  • Portions -- Definition: For eg: Rectory (moiety).
    
  • Presentations -- Definition: For eg: to rectories; masterships; disputed; requested; required; procedure for. See also Archives and Manuscripts for presentation deeds; Advowsons, patrons and patronage
    
  • Relaxations of Sequestrations
    
  • Sequestrations -- Definition: Sequestrations, for specific purposes, A-Z
    
  • Spiritualities
    
  • Temporalities
    
  • Unions -- Definition: of rectories with vicarages
    
  • Vacancies -- Definition: For eg: inquisitions into; proceeds of; See also Archbishop's Administration
    
  
  

• BOOKS AND LIBRARIES
  • Bibles
    
  • Book of Common Prayer
    
  • Books
    
  • Books of sermons
    
  • Catalogues
    
  • Communion books
    
  • Concordances
    
  • Dictionaries
    
  • English Bibles
    
  • English Books
    
  • French books
    
  • Greek Books
    
  • Hebrew Bibles
    
  • Hebrew books
    
  • Latin Bibles
    
  • Latin Books
    
  • Libraries
    
  • Medical books
    
  • New Testament
    
  • Psalters
    
  • Service books
    
  • Syriac Bibles
    
  
  

• BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES
  • Barns
    
  • Brewhouses
    
  • Bridges -- Definition: See also Transport and Travel, Roads, etc.
    
  • Buildings -- Definition: Buildings, types, A-Z
    
  • Chimneys
    
  • Cottages
    
  • Dilapidations -- Definition: Dilapidations, of types of property, named, A-Z
    
  • Doors
    
  • Dovecots
    
  • Fixtures and fittings
    
  • Furnaces
    
  • Gates
    
  • Glass
    
  • Hinges
    
  • Houses
    
  • Lodges
    
  • Lodgings
    
  • Maintenance -- Definition: of buildings
    
  • Mills
    
  • Outbuildings
    
  • Repairs
    
  • Roofs
    
  • Schoolhouses
    
  • Stables
    
  • Surveys (buildings)
    
  • Tan pits
    
  • Timber
    
  • Walls
    
  • Wells
    
  • Windmills
    
  • Windows
    
  
  

• CATHEDRALS AND MINSTERS
  • Cathedrals
    
  • Fabric funds
    
  • Minsters
    
  • Statutes (Cathedrals and Minsters)
    
  
  

• CHARITY AND POVERTY
  • Alms
    
  • Charity
    
  • Paupers
    
  • Poor clerks
    
  • Poor relations
    
  • Poor scholars
    
  • Poverty -- Definition: Poverty, of specific individuals or groups, A-Z, for eg: clerks; parishioners; priests; scholars; Poverty, of specific property, A-Z, for eg: benefices; religious houses; also relief of
    
  
  

• CHURCH FURNITURE AND ORNAMENTS
  • Altars
    
  • Bells -- Definition: in belfries
    
  • Chests
    
  • Communion Cups -- Definition: Communion cups and covers
    
  • Cross of Canterbury
    
  • Cross of York
    
  • Crosses -- Definition: incl crosses for the dead. See also Clergy and Religious, marks/symbols of office, Cross of Canterbury
    
  • Ewers
    
  • Flagons
    
  • Lights -- Definition: See also Candles; tapers; torches
    
  • Locks and keys -- Definition: For eg: for chests; for font
    
  • Lofts
    
  • Organ Lofts
    
  • Pews -- Definition: Seats for lay members of congregation in parish church
    
  • Relics
    
  • Rood Lofts
    
  • Seats -- Definition: Seats for lay members of congregation in parish church
    
  • Stalls -- Definition: Seats in Cathedral for clergy
    
  • Super altars
    
  • Tables
    
  
  

• CHURCH YEAR
  • Corpus Christi
    
  • Epiphany
    
  • Feast days
    
  
  

• CHURCHES AND CHAPELS
  • Belfries
    
  • Cemeteries -- Definition: Churches, chantries and chapels, types, A-Z. Cemeteries, for eg: consecration of; desecration; reconciliation of; For sections of church etc., buildings, see Buildings and structures
    
  • Chancels
    
  • Chantry Chapels
    
  • Chapels
    
  • Churches -- Definition: For eg: parish churches, detention/occupation of; farming of; consecration of; dedication of. See also Religious Houses, Types, A-Z
    
  • Churchyards -- Definition: For eg: consecration of; desecration of; reconciliation of
    
  • Collegiate Churches
    
  • Lady Chapels
    
  • Oratories -- Definition: Incl licensed for specific periods or purposes
    
  • Parish Churches
    
  • Royal Free Chapels
    
  • Steeples
    
  
  

• CLERGY AND RELIGIOUS
  • Holy Orders -- Definition: Incl Holy Orders required
    
  • Minor Orders
    
  • Orders -- Definition: Orders, incl letters of Orders, to be produced. See also Archives and manuscripts, Letters dimissory; Benefice and Office holding; Sins, correction and forgiveness, Dispensations
    
  • Tonsures
    
  
  

• CLOTHING, FABRIC AND PERSONAL EFFECTS
  • Bonnets
    
  • Boots -- Definition: Clothes, types, A-Z; Clothing, of specific persons or groups; Fabrics, types, A-Z; see also Jewellery and personal effects; Vestments
    
  • Caps
    
  • Cassocks
    
  • Chimeres
    
  • Clothing
    
  • Copes
    
  • Fabrics
    
  • Funeral attire
    
  • Gloves
    
  • Hats
    
  • Hides
    
  • Ivory
    
  • Jewellery
    
  • Leather
    
  • Mitres
    
  • Purses
    
  • Razors and shaving equipment
    
  • Rings
    
  • Robes
    
  • Rochets
    
  • Shoes
    
  • Spectacles and spectacle cases
    
  • Spurs
    
  • Surplices
    
  • Watches
    
  • Yarn
    
  
  

• COMMERCE AND TRADE
  • Blacksmith's equipment
    
  • Tanning equipment
    
  • Tools
    
  • Trades
    
  • Weaving
    
  • Wine trade
    
  
  

• CONVOCATIONS AND MEETINGS
  • Convocations -- Definition: Incl attendance/non attendance at; attendance at by proctor; attendance at excused; (future) holding of
    
  • Council of Lyons, 1274
    
  • Council of Vienne, 1311-12
    
  • Councils
    
  • Synods -- Definition: Use for articular Synods, add feast/time of year as necessary, eg: Easter Synods. Incl administration of holding,etc., for eg: commission to hold; summons to; licence not to attend (for a period, eg: life); non attendance at
    
  
  

• CORRODIES AND PENSIONS
  • Annuities
    
  • Corrodies -- Definition: Use for Corrodies for specific persons or groups and circumstances. For eg: forbidden without archbishop's consent; granted; licensed; liveries of; requested; sale of
    
  • Doles -- Definition: incl liveries of; sale of
    
  • Pensions -- Definition: Use for Pensions for specific persons (eg: former head of religious house; former incumbent) or groups and circumstances. For eg: forbidden without archbishop's consent; granted; licensed; liveries of; owed; requested; sale of; licences to grant, ordinances
    
  
  

• COURTS, CIVIL
  • Assizes -- Definition: Proceedings
    
  • Chancery
    
  • Common Pleas
    
  • Courts, Civil -- Definition: Courts, Civil: use for Courts, named, A-Z
    
  • Exchequer
    
  • Gaol Deliveries
    
  • Lawsuits -- Definition: incl vexatious
    
  • Manorial Courts
    
  • Manorial juries
    
  • Parliaments -- Definition: incl attendance at
    
  • Star Chamber
    
  
  

• COURTS, ECCLESIASTICAL
  • Appeals
    
  • Benefice Causes
    
  • Causes -- Definition: by type, A-Z; See also main headings Matrimony; Probate; Dues and offerings, Ecclesiastical, Tithes
    
  • Chancery Court
    
  • Citations
    
  • Compositions
    
  • Compurgation
    
  • Consistory Court
    
  • Court Proceedings
    
  • Court of Arches -- Definition: Provincial Court of Archbishop of Canterbury held in Bow Church, Ecclesia Beate Marie de Arcubus and later elsewhere
    
  • Court of Audience
    
  • Court of Delegates
    
  • Courts, Ecclesiastical -- Definition: Used for types of Court, A-Z
    
  • Depositions
    
  • Exchequer Court
    
  • Libels
    
  • Monitions
    
  • Non appearance (Courts, Ecclesiastical)
    
  • Prerogative Court of York
    
  • Prohibitions
    
  • Purgation
    
  • Sentences
    
  • Sequestrations
    
  
  

• CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
  • Acquittal
    
  • Assault
    
  • Burglary
    
  • Crimes
    
  • Criminous Clerks -- Definition: Use for commissions to receive; commissions to receive and seek out; escape of; release of. See also Sins, correction and forgiveness
    
  • Fraud
    
  • Homicide
    
  • Housebreaking
    
  • Prisoners -- Definition: incl release of
    
  • Prisons
    
  • Robbery
    
  • Sedition
    
  • Violence -- Definition: incl violence by clergy/religious; towards clergy/religious
    
  
  

• DEATH AND BURIAL
  • Burial -- Definition: Use for burial in specific places, eg: in cathedral; also feigned burial. See also Cemeteries, Churchyards, Chapelyards; see Rites, Sacraments, Sacramentals, Ceremonies and equipment for Funerals
    
  • Death -- Definition: incl feigned death
    
  • Epitaphs
    
  • Memorial inscriptions
    
  • Shrouds
    
  • Tombs
    
  • Tombstones
    
  
  

• DISPUTES AND SETTLEMENT
  • Agreements
    
  • Articles of Enquiry
    
  • Disputes
    
  • Inquisitions -- Definition: Unspecified, otherwise see under subject; Use for form of inquisitions
    
  • Ratifications -- Definition: of agreements
    
  • Renunciations
    
  • Verdicts
    
  
  

• DUES AND OFFERINGS, ECCLESIASTICAL
  • Annates
    
  • Compositions -- Definition: Compositions for tithes
    
  • Customary payments -- Definition: eg general, of parishioners
    
  • Dues
    
  • Easter Offerings
    
  • First Fruits
    
  • Impropriation of Tithes
    
  • Oblations -- Definition: incl for the parish church; for wax. See also Courts, Ecclesiastical
    
  • Peter's Pence
    
  • Procurations
    
  • Separation of Tithes
    
  • Small Tithes -- Definition: Generally all other predial tithes than those classed as great tithes, all mixed and personal tithes, commonly payable to the vicar of the parish (TNA research guide)
    
  • Synodals
    
  • Tithes -- Definition: Tithes, by commodity or activity; see also Agriculture and Land Use; Animals, fish and birds, incl game and livestock; Farming, fishery and food production; Trade and commerce. Use for licences to farm, let or sell, incl before separation, before separation for a specific period; other subjects include delivery of; inquisitions into; payment of; stay of payment of; ordinances; confirmation of ordinances
    
  
  

• DUES AND OFFERINGS, LAY
  • Heriots
    
  • Manorial dues
    
  • Mortuaries
    
  
  

• EDUCATION
  • Degrees
    
  • Governors
    
  • Grammar Schools
    
  • Headmasters
    
  • Reading
    
  • Scholars
    
  • Scholarships
    
  • Schoolmasters
    
  • Schools
    
  • Students
    
  • Universities -- Definition: Use for Studium generale (pl. Studia generalia), places of study/teaching, welcoming students from different regions/countries, that is, a term for a medieval university. Study at a 'Studium generale' in England therefore presumably refers to either Oxford or Cambridge University. See also Benefice and office holding, absence, non-residence, study; Sins, correction and forgiveness, Dispensations.
    
  • University of Cambridge
    
  • University of Oxford
    
  • University of St Andrews
    
  
  

• FARMING AND FOOD PRODUCTION
  • Agricultural equipment
    
  • Barley
    
  • Beans
    
  • Bee hives
    
  • Bee skeps
    
  • Brewing equipment
    
  • Carts
    
  • Corn
    
  • Crops
    
  • Distilling equipment
    
  • Flax
    
  • Fodder
    
  • Grain
    
  • Grass
    
  • Harvests
    
  • Hay
    
  • Hemp
    
  • Litter -- Definition: Litter, or bedding for animals
    
  • Manure
    
  • Maslin
    
  • Oats
    
  • Peas
    
  • Ploughs
    
  • Rye
    
  • Sheep marks
    
  • Straw
    
  • Thraves
    
  • Wagons
    
  • Wheat
    
  • Wheels
    
  • Wood
    
  • Wool
    
  
  

• FOOD AND DRINK
  • Ale
    
  • Beer
    
  • Bread
    
  • Cakes
    
  • Cheese
    
  • Drinks -- Definition: Drinks, by type, A-Z
    
  • Food -- Definition: See also Agriculture and land use for Crops; Farming, fishery and food production for processes
    
  • Malt
    
  • Meals
    
  • Milk
    
  • Salt
    
  • Wine
    
  
  

• GIFTS AND HOSPITALITY
  • Board and lodging
    
  • Christening gifts
    
  • Food and drink
    
  • Gifts
    
  • Hospitality
    
  
  

• HEALTH AND MEDICINE
  • Disabilities -- Definition: Disabilities, named, A-Z; see also Age
    
  • Diseases -- Definition: Diseases, named, A-Z
    
  • Illness
    
  • Infirmity
    
  • Plague
    
  
  

• HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT
  • Barrels
    
  • Bottles
    
  • Clocks
    
  • Cradles
    
  • Furnishings
    
  • Furniture -- Definition: Furniture, by type, A-Z
    
  • Household equipment -- Definition: Equipment, household, by type, A-Z
    
  • Keys -- Definition: Keys for furniture in the home
    
  • Mirrors
    
  • Pewter
    
  • Pictures
    
  • Plate
    
  • Sundials
    
  
  

• LANDSCAPE, FEATURES AND MANAGEMENT
  • Closes
    
  • Coal
    
  • Commons
    
  • Forests
    
  • Gardens
    
  • Garths
    
  • Intakes
    
  • Iron
    
  • Moors
    
  • Orchards
    
  • Pasture
    
  • Plants
    
  • Trees
    
  • Wastes
    
  • Waterfalls
    
  • Woods
    
  
  

• LITURGY AND WORSHIP
  • Chantries
    
  • Divine Office -- Definition: incl for suspension of; relaxation of suspension
    
  • Litany
    
  • Masses -- Definition: Masses, for specific occasions, by type, A-Z, incl masses for the day; for Saints, etc., named, A-Z, incl for the Blessed Virgin Mary; the Holy Cross; for groups, incl the living and the dead; the dead and for souls of the departed
    
  • Matins
    
  • Prayers -- Definition: Prayers, for specific persons or occasions, by type, A-Z, incl for eg: for end of plague; for end of wars (with specific people, such as the French, the Scots); for good weather; for peace; for the state of the realm; Incl for eg: for the king; the king's health; for the queen; prayers for the living and the dead; prayers for the dead; prayers for the souls of the departed; also Prayers, named, A-Z, added as sub-headings
    
  • Preaching
    
  • Private Masses
    
  • Psalms
    
  • Sermons
    
  
  

• MARKETS AND FAIRS
  • Fairs
    
  
  

• MATRIMONY AND DIVORCE
  • Affinity -- Definition: Causes relating to this subject heard in the Ecclesiastical Courts, see Courts, Ecclesiastical. See also Church Furniture, Tables of Degrees
    
  • Consanguinity
    
  • Impediments
    
  • Impotence
    
  • Marriage licences
    
  • Marriage settlements
    
  • Marriages (Ceremony)
    
  • Matrimony (Sacrament)
    
  
  

• MUSIC AND MUSIC MAKING, CHURCH AND SECULAR
  • Bandoras
    
  • Citterns
    
  • Harps
    
  • Hymns
    
  • Lutes
    
  • Musical instruments
    
  • Organs
    
  • Regals -- Definition: Small portable organ common in 16th and 17th centuries (OED) (singular = regal)
    
  • Singing and Chanting
    
  • Song books
    
  • Theorbos
    
  • Virginals
    
  
  

• NATIONALITIES
  • English
    
  • French
    
  • Scots
    
  
  

• OCCUPATIONS, PROFESSIONS AND TRADES
  • Aldermen
    
  • Almoners
    
  • Ambassadors
    
  • Apparitors
    
  • Apparitors general
    
  • Apprentices
    
  • Attorneys
    
  • Auditors
    
  • Bailiffs
    
  • Barbers
    
  • Barristers
    
  • Bellringers
    
  • Blacksmiths
    
  • Burgesses
    
  • Chamberlains
    
  • Churchwardens
    
  • Cooks
    
  • Donzels
    
  • Fellows
    
  • Ferrymen
    
  • Gaolers
    
  • Goldsmiths
    
  • Grassmen
    
  • Harbingers
    
  • Hosts
    
  • Husbandmen
    
  • Ironmongers
    
  • Jurors
    
  • Lawyers
    
  • London Livery Company Members
    
  • Masters
    
  • Mayors
    
  • Merchants
    
  • Messengers
    
  • Musical Instrument Makers
    
  • Organists
    
  • Pallbearers
    
  • Parish clerks
    
  • Ploughmen
    
  • Presidents
    
  • Principals
    
  • Receivers
    
  • Recorders
    
  • Reeves
    
  • Registrars
    
  • Scribes
    
  • Sequestrators
    
  • Servants
    
  • Shepherds
    
  • Solicitors
    
  • Stationers
    
  • Stewards
    
  • Stockmen
    
  • Tailors
    
  • Tanners
    
  • Tradesmen
    
  • Vice Chancellors
    
  • Virgers
    
  • Weavers
    
  • Wine merchants
    
  • Workmen
    
  • Yeomen
    
  
  

• OFFICES, ECCLESIASTICAL
  • Acolytes
    
  • Administrators -- Definition: See also Probate
    
  • Administratrixes -- Definition: See also Probate
    
  • Alms collectors
    
  • Altaristas
    
  • Archbishops
    
  • Archbishops' Clerks
    
  • Archbishops' Officials
    
  • Archdeacons
    
  • Archdeacons' Officials
    
  • Beneficed Clergy
    
  • Bishops
    
  • Canons (Ecclesiastical)
    
  • Chancellors (Ecclesiastical)
    
  • Chaplains
    
  • Clergy
    
  • Clerks (Clergy) -- Definition: See also Crime and Punishment, clerks, criminous
    
  • Clerks in Minor Orders
    
  • Clerks of the Closet
    
  • Coadjutors
    
  • Commissaries
    
  • Confessors
    
  • Curates
    
  • Curators -- Definition: of minors
    
  • Deacons
    
  • Deans
    
  • Deans (Cathedral)
    
  • Deans (Rural)
    
  • Deans of Christianity
    
  • Executors -- Definition: See also Probate
    
  • Executrixes -- Definition: See also Probate
    
  • Guardians -- Definition: of minors
    
  • Intestates -- Definition: See also Probate
    
  • Keepers
    
  • Keepers of Spiritualities -- Definition: Keeper of spiritualities during vacancy of see
    
  • Lecturers
    
  • Minor Canons
    
  • Notaries Public -- Definition: Incl of Chancery; creation of
    
  • Officials
    
  • Overseers
    
  • Pardoners
    
  • Penitencers
    
  • Penitentiaries -- Definition: incl revocation of powers of
    
  • Perpetual Curates
    
  • Preachers
    
  • Prebendaries
    
  • Precentors
    
  • Priests
    
  • Proctors
    
  • Provosts
    
  • Rectors
    
  • Royal Chaplains
    
  • Royal Clerks
    
  • Sacrists
    
  • Sequestrators
    
  • Songmen -- Definition: Used for 'cantatores', singers, meaning singers in a cathedral choir
    
  • Sub collectors
    
  • Suffragans
    
  • Supervisors -- Definition: See also Probate
    
  • Tax collectors
    
  • Testators -- Definition: See also Probate
    
  • Treasurers (Ecclesiastical)
    
  • Tutors -- Definition: of minors
    
  • Unbeneficed Clergy
    
  • Vicars
    
  • Vicars Choral
    
  • Vicars General
    
  • Vice Chancellors -- Definition: See Universities; University of Oxford; University of Cambridge
    
  • Wardens
    
  
  

• OFFICES, ROYAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
  • Barons of Exchequer
    
  • Chief Justices
    
  • Clerks (Administrators)
    
  • Justices
    
  • Justices of the Forest
    
  • Justices of the Peace
    
  • Sheriffs
    
  
  

• ORGANISATIONS, LAY AND ECCLESIASTICAL
  • Almshouses
    
  • Chapters
    
  • Citizens
    
  • Deans and chapters
    
  • Foundations
    
  • Hospices
    
  • Hospital inmates
    
  • Hospitals
    
  • Inns of Court
    
  
  

• PAPACY
  • Auditors of the Causes of the Holy Palace
    
  • Cardinals
    
  • Pall
    
  • Papal Bulls -- Definition: Most formal type of Papal letters
    
  • Papal Chamber
    
  • Papal Constitutions -- Definition: Constitutions, named, A-Z, incl: Ad compescendas; Ad tutelam; Amoris proprii; Cum ex eo; De multa; Decimas; Excommunicamus; Execrabilis; Licet canon; Quia regulares; Quum secundum apostolum qui; Sacrorum canonum; Si beneficia; Super cathedram
    
  • Papal Curia -- Definition: Curia, Papal, departments, A-Z; Curia, Papal, events at, A-Z, incl for eg: visits to; appeals to; consecrations at; deaths at; exchanges at; law suit at; resignation at; obligatory visits to by bishops (Limina Apostolorum)
    
  • Papal Decrees
    
  • Papal Dues -- Definition: Incl prorogation of payment
    
  • Papal Judges delegate
    
  • Papal Legates
    
  • Papal Letters
    
  • Papal Mandates
    
  • Papal Messengers
    
  • Papal Nuncios
    
  • Papal Penitentiaries
    
  • Papal Provisions -- Definition: incl unsuccessful
    
  • Papal Taxation -- Definition: See also Papacy, Taxation of Pope Nicholas IV; Taxation, Clerical
    
  • Papal Tenths -- Definition: Add details using E 179 database
    
  • Popes
    
  • Relations with Pope -- Definition: Incl for eg: excuses to Pope; requests to Pope; thanks to Pope
    
  • Taxation of Pope Nicholas IV
    
  
  

• PERMISSIONS AND POWERS
  • Consents
    
  • Licences
    
  • Protections
    
  • Royal assents
    
  • Safe Conducts -- Definition: See also Transport and travel
    
  
  

• PIETY AND PIOUS ACTS
  • Pilgrimages
    
  
  

• PROBATE
  • Administrations
    
  • Codicils -- Definition: Probate matters dealt with in the Ecclesiastical Courts, see Courts, Ecclesiastical
    
  • Curation
    
  • Intestacy
    
  • Inventories -- Definition: of testators' goods; of intestates' goods
    
  • Last Wills and Testaments -- Definition: incl disputed
    
  • Nuncupative wills
    
  • Probate
    
  • Sequestrations
    
  • Testaments
    
  • Tuition
    
  • Wills
    
  
  

• PROPERTY AND TENURE
  • Copyhold lands
    
  • Demesne lands
    
  • Entails
    
  • Farms (lands/property)
    
  • Freehold lands
    
  • Glebe lands
    
  • Granges
    
  • Lands
    
  • Livery of Seisin
    
  • Manors
    
  • Property -- Definition: Property, transactions, A-Z, for eg: alienation of; exchanges of; farming of; leasing of; Property, types, A-Z; also oversight of; inquiries into. See also Liberties, franchises and regalities; see also Archives, manuscripts and documents
    
  • Suit of court
    
  • Surveys (lands/property) -- Definition: incl inquiries into surveys; return of inquiries; surveys licenced; surveys ratified
    
  • Tenants
    
  • Trusts
    
  
  

• RELIGIONS AND ADHERENTS
  • Catholics
    
  • Christianity -- Definition: Christianity, incl Catholicism, Protestantism, Protestant Non conformity. Add Religions, named, A-Z, incl Judaism, etc
    
  • Converts
    
  • Jews
    
  • Martyrs
    
  • Saints
    
  
  

• RELIGIOUS HOUSES
  • Abbeys
    
  • Alien Priories -- Definition: see also Aliens
    
  • Convents
    
  • Monasteries
    
  • Nunneries
    
  • Priories
    
  • Religious Houses -- Definition: Religious houses, general (Abbeys, Priories, Friaries, Commanderies, Preceptories, Nunneries), incl archbishop's relationship with; dispersal of; laity accommodated in; recruitment to; relocation of; supervision of. To be dealt with under places/institutions, with list of houses, by type, A-Z; see also Poverty; see also under place-names; use Buildings and structures for fabric; Property and tenure for lands, etc., see also Religious Orders
    
  • Suppression
    
  
  

• RELIGIOUS ORDERS
  • Augustinians -- Definition: Orders, religious, named, A-Z
    
  • Austin Friars
    
  • Benedictines
    
  • Carmelite Friars
    
  • Carmelites
    
  • Carthusians
    
  • Dominicans
    
  • Franciscans -- Definition: incl privileges of
    
  • Friars
    
  • Knights Hospitaller
    
  • Knights Templar
    
  • Religious orders
    
  • Rules
    
  
  

• RELIGIOUS, FEMALE
  • Anchorites
    
  • Nuns
    
  • Prioresses
    
  
  

• RELIGIOUS, MALE
  • Abbots
    
  • Hermits
    
  • Monks
    
  • Priors
    
  • Priors provincial
    
  
  

• RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES
  • Common rights
    
  • Manorial rights
    
  • Privileges -- Definition: Privileges, of individuals or groups, A-Z, incl of archbishop, of Hospitallers
    
  • Rights
    
  • Wardship and Marriage
    
  
  

• SACRAMENTS AND CEREMONIES
  • Baptism
    
  • Chastity -- Definition: incl ceremonies of
    
  • Communion
    
  • Confessions -- Definition: For eg: licence to hear
    
  • Confirmations (Sacrament) -- Definition: ie Full reception into the church after baptism
    
  • Consecrations
    
  • Coronations -- Definition: For eg: attendance at; attendance at excused; order of service; precedents
    
  • Dedications
    
  • Enclosures (Religious) -- Definition: For eg: of anchoresses; of anchorites
    
  • Funerals
    
  • Kneeling
    
  • Processions
    
  • Reconciliations -- Definition: See also Churches, chantries and chapels, for churchyards, desecrations and reconciliations
    
  • Rites
    
  • Sacraments
    
  • Vows -- Definition: Profession of; see also Benefice and office holding, Professions
    
  
  

• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  • Mathematical Instruments
    
  
  

• SINS AND FORGIVENESS
  • Absolution -- Definition: Absolution for specific reasons, eg violence; also administration of, eg: licence to grant; mis administration of
    
  • Adultery
    
  • Apostasy
    
  • Bastardy
    
  • Censures
    
  • Conspiracy
    
  • Contumacy
    
  • Correction
    
  • Desecration
    
  • Dispensations -- Definition: For specific reasons, eg: absence; absence 'cum ex eo'; bastardy; canonical hours; non residence; not to obtain orders higher than sub deacon; study 'cum ex eo'. See also Benefice and Office holders, Absence, Non-residence; Clergy, ordinations; Courts, Ecclesiastical, Matrimony
    
  • Excommunication -- Definition: Letters of signification of
    
  • Heresy
    
  • Indulgences -- Definition: For specific persons or groups or reasons, incl for burial; guild; heretic; pilgrims,
    
  • Penances -- Definition: For eg: expiation for sins, incl sins of the flesh; also licences to perform (on behalf of others)
    
  • Perjury
    
  • Purgations -- Definition: Incl inquiry into purgations; citations for objections to purgations. See also Crime and Punishment, Criminous clerks
    
  • Repentance
    
  • Shunning
    
  
  

• SOCIAL AND OTHER GROUPS
  • Cottagers
    
  • Courtiers
    
  • Feoffees
    
  • Freeholders
    
  • Friends
    
  • Godchildren
    
  • Goddaughters
    
  • Godfathers
    
  • Godmothers
    
  • Godsons
    
  • Householders
    
  • Housekeepers
    
  • Landlords
    
  • Manorial lords
    
  • Neighbours
    
  • Parishioners
    
  • Relatives
    
  • Trustees
    
  
  

• TAXATION
  • Appointments of collectors -- Definition: Use for archbishop's certification of collectors to Exchequer; other documents may include monitions for speedy collection
    
  • Assessments -- Definition: See also Dues and Offerings; Papacy
    
  • Clerical Poll Taxes -- Definition: Give specific subsidy using details from E 179 database
    
  • Clerical Subsidies -- Definition: Lay taxation; give specific subsidy using details from E 179 database
    
  • Clerical Tenths -- Definition: Clerical taxation; give specific grant using details from E 179 database
    
  • Commissions to collect -- Definition: Use for commission from king to archbishop
    
  • Reassessments -- Definition: incl Nova Taxatio
    
  • Subsidies
    
  • Taxation
    
  
  

• TRANSPORT AND TRAVEL
  • Causeways
    
  • Coaches
    
  • Harbours
    
  • Riding equipment
    
  • Roads
    
  • Sea voyages
    
  • Ships
    
  • Streets
    
  • Travel
    
  
  

• VISITATION
  • Archbishops' Visitations
    
  • Archdeacons' Visitations
    
  • Articles of enquiry
    
  • Citations -- Definition: For eg: citations for detention/occupation of parish churches,
    
  • Comperta and detecta
    
  • Corrections
    
  • Dissolutions
    
  • Forewarnings
    
  • Inhibitions
    
  • Injunctions
    
  • Itineraries
    
  • Monitions
    
  • Prorogations
    
  • Relaxations of Inhibitions
    
  • Visitations -- Definition: Visitations, of specific administrative units or institutions, A-Z; Visitations, of specific administrative units or institutions, A-Z, by specific individuals or office-holders, A-Z; incl attendance at; cancellation of; concealment of facts during; holding of; non attendance at; postponement of; results of
    
  • Visitations during Vacancies
    
  
  

• WARS AND REBELLIONS
  • Array
    
  • Crusades
    
  • Invasions
    
  • Musters -- Definition: Incl musters ordered; return of musters
    
  • Peace
    
  • Rebellions
    
  • Soldiers
    
  • Truces
    
  • Wars -- Definition: Wars, with specific countries/peoples, A-Z
    
  
  

• WEAPONS AND ARMOUR
  • Armour
    
  • Bows and arrows
    
  • Daggers
    
  • Guns
    
  • Harness
    
  • Swords
    
  • Weapons
    
  
  

• WOMEN
  • Widows
    
  • Wives
    
  • Women