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Chad, St 71–2
chantries, abolition of 287
Chaplin, John 358
Chapman, Alice 297
Chapman, John 106, 262
Chapman, Margaret and Thomas 297
Chapman, Robert 267, 268
Chapman, Will 194
Chapman, Zachary 306
Chapman family 176, 210
charity system 339, 357
Charlemagne, Emperor 76, 83
Charles I, King 309, 310, 311, 312–18
Charles II, King 321–2, 324–6
Charnwood 4
Chaucer, Geoffrey 215, 218
Chauliac, Guy de 197
Cheddington, Surrey 163
Chedworth 19
Chessington, Surrey 161
Chettle 92
Children of the New Birth 324
China 358
cholera 394
chorography 10–11
Christiana 129
Christianity 32, 58–9, 61, 275–7
conversion to 69–74
Church, John (reeve) 106, 195, 197, 242
Church, John (sr) 195
Church, Robert 194
Church of England 323
and education 373
and temperance movement 379
Church Langton 308
Church party 373
Churchill, Winston 73, 141, 396
Cibbaeus 16
Cirencester 41
Civil War 8, 128, 137, 158, 268, 279, 310, 311, 312–21, 363
aftermath 324
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of 317
Clark, John 297
Clark, Matthew 324–5
Clark, Richard 322
Clark, Will 291
Clarke, Agnes 296–7
Clarke, Elizabeth 303
funeral 297–300
will 295–7
Clarke, Elizabeth jr 297
Clarke, Leslie 397, 400–401
Clarke, Thomas 297
Clarke family 392
class system
Anglo-Saxon 110
Tudor period 264
Clayton, Thomas 320
Clerke, Thomas 281
Clerke family 195, 199, 264
climate change 181, 184
climate and weather disruption 53–4, 61–2, 96, 112, 177, 179, 180, 185–7, 301, 368, 391
clothing 43, 114, 370
Cloudesley, Arthur 306
Cloudsley, Nicholas 291
club feasts 369
clubs and societies 370, 372, 400
coaches 360
coaching inns 331, 344, 360, 382
coal 340–41, 343–4, 362
coins 15, 17, 18–19, 33, 34, 61, 74–5, 77, 108–9
Cok, Emma 191, 195, 199
Colchester 25
cold, extreme conditions 61–2, 92, 193–4, 228
Coleman, Widow 283
Coleman, Will (nineteenth century) 332
Coleman, William 284, 285
Col(e)man family 165, 213, 266, 281, 310, 332, 392
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 328
Collins, John 371
Colman, Agnes 290, 298
Colman, Alice 284, 285
Colman, John 284
Colman, Katherine 284
Colman, Thomas 290, 295, 298
will 283–5
Colman, Wayne 284
coloni 30
Committee for Compounding 319
Committee for Plundered Ministers 318
Committee for Sequestrations 318–19
common rights 335
community of the realm 77, 105, 107, 111, 123, 126, 140–58, 156, 182, 183, 221, 225, 368
commuters 362, 399
Congregationalists 74, 239
conscientious objectors 390–91
Conservative Party 376, 379
Constantine the Great, Emperor 15, 18, 25, 32, 33, 37
Constantinople 36–7, 38, 41, 51, 53, 189
Hagia Sophia 75
Theodosian Walls 36
Constantius Chlorus 35
Conventicle Act 324
Cook, Thomas 3, 379
Corieltauvi 4, 6–7, 17, 19, 22, 26, 32, 41, 42, 45, 48, 52, 69, 112
Cornard Parva 193
Cornwall 187, 193
Corringham, John 221
Cotesbatch 304
Cotswolds 38, 193
cottage industries 345
cottagers (bordars) 77, 105, 107, 123, 126, 127, 156, 168, 182, 183, 254, 345, 368
cotton 346
Cotton, Miss 357
Counter-Reformation 295
Country Life 163
Couper family 243
court rolls 164, 169, 170, 171, 179, 180, 188, 216, 257, 270–71, 273
Courtney, William, Archbishop of Canterbury 218, 219–20, 227
Coventry 194, 230, 237, 243, 245–54, 260
Blitz (1940) 395
churches 246
Erle Street 250
Guild of Holy Trinity 249, 251
guilds 176, 231, 241, 246, 249, 352
Leet Book 252–3
Much-Parke Street 250
St Mary’s hall 249, 251
Coxon, Michael 290, 291
Coxon family 303
Crackley 91
Crete 402
cricket 369, 372, 378
crime 186, 329–30
Crimean War 358, 392
Crocker, Nellie 384
Cromwell, Henry 321
Cromwell, Oliver 317, 320–21, 368
Cromwell, Richard 321
Cromwell, Thomas 277
Croydon, Surrey 98
Crumpe, Henry 217
crusades 155
crystallization process xix
Cumbrian (language) 95
Cunobelinus, King 19
currency 95, 103
see also coins
Curtis, John 347
Cusa 65
Cuxham, Oxfordshire 163, 194
Cybba 16, 57, 63–7, 74, 82, 88
charter of xx, 65–7
Czechoslovakia 395
Dadlingworth 10
Dalbier, John 315–16
Danegeld 98, 113
Danelaw 81, 88, 94, 97, 99, 100, 103, 108, 113, 203
Danes 44, 53, 81–2, 92, 93, 95, 114
and place names 88–91
Danish (language) 91
Darfur 34
Davenport, Isaac 324
Daventry 186, 203
Davison, Emily 386–7
death pits 193, 197
Debdale Wharf 343
Deben, River 193
Decon, Nicholas 297
Defoe, Daniel 301, 346
Demetrius of Tarsus 24
Denmark 44, 85, 93
Deor 50
Derby (Northworthy) 63, 96, 100, 341, 346
Derbyshire 232
Dere, John 267
Dexter, Avice 174
Dexter, Geoffrey 174
Dexter, Roger and Alice 227, 227–8, 229, 233, 239, 251, 269, 330
Dexter, Thomas 174
Dexter family 221
dialects 44, 77, 91, 95, 109
Dickens, Charles 369, 379, 381
The Pickwick Papers 373
diet of poor 339–40, 356
‘Dig for Victory’ campaign 130
Diggers 304
Diocletian, Emperor 15
disease 61, 96, 187–8, 188, 197–8, 303, 394
Disraeli, Benjamin 376
dissenters 74, 200, 239, 310, 312, 327, 352–3, 357
ditches and hedges 16, 30, 64, 77, 79, 91, 119, 182, 193, 360
DNA 6, 22, 27, 48, 88, 92
Doddridge, Philip 327–8, 353, 363–4
‘Oh Happy Day’ 328
Dodenhall, Richard 249
Domesday Book xix, 2, 8, 10, 12–13, 15, 71, 120–27, 143, 155, 157, 165, 338
Doncaster 62
Donington, William 250
Dover 140
drinking 378–9
Droitwich (Saltwich) 61
Dudley, John 306
Dudley family 67
Dumnocoveros 6
Dumnvellaunus 6
Dunbar 185
dyers 175
dysentery 188
Eacott, Canon 395
Eadgyth 100
Earls Colne 193
East Angles 68–9, 81, 85
conversions to Christianity 70
East Anglia 22, 44–5, 48, 51, 53, 87, 193, 201, 230
East Midlands 45, 48, 51–2, 69, 87, 88, 230
Five Boroughs 96
Eastwood, James 284
Eden, Sir Frederick 346, 347
The State of the Poor 338–40
Edessa 75
Edgar, King 116
Edgehill, battle of 315
Edington, battle of 87
Edmund, King of the East Angles 85
Edmund the Martyr, St, King of the East Angles 94
education xvii, 226, 241, 262, 266–70, 272, 288, 305–9, 327–8, 332, 372–5
Board of Education 372
Education Acts
(1870) 372, 374
(1902) 374
(1944) 398
Edward I, King 158, 243, 248, 255
Edward II, King 184–5, 189, 213, 255
Edward III, King 201, 214, 215
Edward VI, King 278–9, 287, 299, 305–6
Edward, Prince (later King Edward I) 10, 146, 149, 152, 155
Edward the Confessor, King 113–14
Edward the Elder, King of the Anglo-Saxons 98, 100
Edwin, Earl of Mercia 115
Edwin of Kibworth, son of Aelferth 67, 107, 109, 114, 115, 117, 121, 124
Eilieva 138
El Alamein 402
Eleanor of Provence, Queen 149
Elizabeth I, Queen 26, 67, 258, 279, 288–9, 290, 303, 305, 307, 323, 346
Elliott, J.E. 395, 398–9
Ellis, John 360
Emma (wife of Edward the Confessor) 114
Empire Day 392
enclosure xviii, 6, 13, 29, 332–3, 334–8, 340, 345
battles over 305, 337–8
Enclosure Acts 334
(1779) 101, 104, 133, 334
(1789) 67
Enclosure Commissioners 335
Engels, Friedrich 240, 338
England, name of 44
English language, modern 109
English Place Name Society 14–15
Eomer 50, 51
epidemics 394
Ermine Street 23
eruptions 54
Essex 91, 216
Ethelred the Unready, King 108, 113, 115
ethnic identity 68–9
Euphrates, River 36
Eutropius 35
evacuees, child 395
Evesham
battle of 152, 153, 161, 162
Battle Well 159–60
Evesham Abbey 159
Ewell, Surrey 158
Faber, Matilda 166
Faber, Nicholas 158, 166
Faber, Richard and Roger 166
Faber family 183
Fairfax, Thomas 317
Falconer, William 194
Familists of Love 226
famine 26, 54, 60, 61, 62, 83, 112, 177, 186, 200, 255, 303
see also Great Famine
Farley, Abraham 12–13
Farmer (husbandman) 324
farming 27, 28–30, 32, 104–7, 129–35, 262–4, 338–9, 368, 391, 392, 399
see also enclosure
farming year 132–5, 262–3
Fauconer, William 172
Faukin, John 148
Fawnt, Captain George 326
Feilding, Lord 355–6
Fenny Compton, Warwickshire 355
Fenny Drayton 239, 310, 325
Fens 69
ferdgate 2
feudal order 178, 240, 259
field names 90–91, 99
field workers 107–8
Fiennes, Celia 4
First World War (Great War) 3, 14, 268, 365, 387, 389–92, 401
Fishbourne 19
Fisseburn, Richard 148
FitzNeal, Richard 128, 143
Five Mile Act (1665) 325
Flanders 44, 390, 402
Fleckney 124, 244, 343, 356, 390
Fleet, stream 90–91
Fletcher, Joseph 354
Fletcher, William 358–9
floods 185
flower shows 369
Fobbing, Essex 214
foederati 33
folk beliefs and practices 58–9, 70–71, 78, 180
see also supernatural, interest in
food production 26, 29–30, 76, 129–30
football 377–8
forenames, boys’ and girls’ 175–6
Forest Laws 184
Fosse Way 1, 23, 73
Foster, Joseph 312, 318, 319
Fox, George 239, 310, 325
Fox, Thomas 306
Foxton 156, 343
framework knitting 344–56, 357, 367, 368
France 75, 141, 159, 402
war with 75, 159, 233, 309, 338, 341
Franks 35, 51, 75
freemen 70, 92, 99, 102, 105, 107, 110, 111, 115, 123, 126, 127, 128, 137, 143, 144, 154, 165, 183
Freer, Robert 354
French 123, 127
French (language) 138, 142
study of 328
friars 202, 213, 226
Frisby 89
Frisby, William 306
Frisia, Frisians 35, 42, 44, 51, 52–3, 72, 73, 89, 91
Frisley, Robert 284
funerals 297–300
futhorc 57–8
Galby 89
Galicia 187
Gamble, Thomas 358
Gamel 92
Garton, Ralph 250
Gartree Bush 2, 59, 101–2, 120, 121, 156
Gartree Hundred 88, 121, 123, 127, 141, 145, 156–8, 314, 326
Gartree Road 2, 137
Gascony 187
gaslight 364–5
Gaul 6, 19, 36, 39, 41
Gauti 90
gazetteers, district 357
Geoffrey of Dalby 158
Geoffrey the Fleming 166
George V, King 392
Germanic people 22, 32, 33, 35, 41, 53
languages of 36
Germanus of Auxerre 41
Germany 395
Gibbet Hill 203
Gilbert, Agnes 235
Gilbert, Emma, jr 235
Gilbert, Emma, sr 167, 169, 183, 210, 232, 234
Gilbert, John 235
Gilbert, Nicholas, jr 234–5, 237, 259, 260
Gilbert, Nicholas, sr 234–5
Gilbert, Robert, William and Alice 235
Gilbert, Thomas 351
Gilbert, Walter (Walter of Kibworth) 209, 224, 232–3, 234, 237, 239, 260, 272, 374–5
Gilbert family 221, 234, 279
Gilbert of Preston 147–8
Gilbert’s Act 351, 352
Gildas, The Fall of Britain 38–42
Gilmorton 119, 120
Glaber, Ralph 108
Glen 21, 52, 66, 162, 327
Glen Parva xx, 21
Glen, River 21, 28, 46, 52, 53, 64, 82
Glooston 88
Glooston Hill 43
Glor 88
Glorious Revolution 326–7
Gloucester 41, 121, 159
Goadby 89
Godwin 121
Godwin, John 166, 267
Godwin family 167, 176, 183
Godwine 93
Godwine, Alice 168
Godwine, John 195
Godyer, Robert 247
Godyer, Roger 247
Godyer family 167, 176, 243
The Golden Legend 171
Goodale family 357
Goode, William 306
Goths 36, 37, 48, 75
Gourde, Margery 297
Gower, John 214, 215
Grace Dieu Priory 277
grain prices 187
Grand Junction 341
Grandmesnil, Hugh 27
Grant, John 377
Grant, William 175
Gray, George 369
Great Bowden 17, 360
Great Easton 58
Great Famine xviii, 3, 106, 182–3, 184–8, 188–9, 191, 198, 212, 255, 256, 283
Great Gale 179
Great Glen 21, 40, 90, 191, 199, 317, 329, 390
Great North Road 185
Great Northern Railway 360–61, 361
Great Storm (1860) 368
Greeks, Greece 36, 402
Green, Dizzy 367
Green, Isobel 268
Green, John 268
Green, William 354
Greene, Lucy 297
Greenwich 150
Gregory I (the Great), Pope 70, 171, 222, 274
Gregory the Welshman 176
Grendel 58–9
Grendel’s Mere 78
Gretham, Walter 173
Grewcock family 362
Grey family 312
Grey Friars Chronicle 192
Gric (Crig) 22, 52
Grimston 88–9
Groby 120
Guest, Samuel 352
guilds 176, 231, 246, 249, 307
abolition of 287, 306
chapels 287
peace 104
prayer 211, 308
village 268, 278
see also Coventry, guilds; Leicester, merchants’ guilds
Gumley 64–5, 66, 76, 119, 193, 378, 391
Gumley Road 90
Gumley Wood 179
Guthlac, St 138
Guthrum 86, 87
Hadrian, Emperor 31
mausoleum 37
Hadrian’s Wall 24, 25, 35
Haesten 93, 121
Halfdan Ragnarsson 85, 86, 87
Halford, Sir Richard 313, 314, 317
Hallaton 25, 28, 118, 119, 120, 224, 225
holy well 275
market 168
treasure 6, 18, 19
Halley’s comet 96
‘ham’ names 45
Handbrough 235
Hanseatic League 248
Harald, King of Norway 114
Harborough see Market Harborough
Harcourt, Hugh 167
Harcourt, Mary and Margaret 167, 270
Harcourt family 27, 67, 129, 167, 209
Harin, William 162
Harm, Will 157
Harm family 176
Harold II (Godwinson), King of England 114–15
Harry, John 227
Harry, William 227
Harry the Hayward xx, 133, 183–4, 186, 187, 194
harvests 179, 180, 185, 186, 303, 304, 309, 377
harvest festival 368–9
poor 338
Hasting, Henry 314
Hasting, Hugh 157
Hastings, battle of 115, 117, 118, 121, 123
Hastings family 312
Hawker, James 381
Haydn, Joseph 381
Haymes, Mr (landowner and preacher) 376
Haymes, Robert 337, 355
Haymes, Robert, jr 355
Haymes family 332
haywards 133, 135, 179–80
health 357
Hearth Tax (1664) 345
Heath, Edward 11
Hebrew, study of 328
hedges see ditches and hedges
Helen, St 25, 211
Henry II, King 143
Henry III, King 137, 141, 144, 147–8, 149, 155, 164, 198, 255
Henry IV, King 232, 233, 256
Henry V, King 233, 236–7, 260
