Catholic England Faith, Religion, and Observance Before the Reformation Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Note on the documents
	Introduction. In search of pre-Reformation English spirituality	1
Pt. 1	Theory
I	The Bible	46
1	The Vulgate (Latin) version	46
2	The Wycliffite Bible	47
3	A modern translation	48
II	Disseminating the faith	51
A	Instruction in the faith:
4	Lenten instruction by John Drury of Beccles	53
B	Sermons
5	From John Mirk's Festial	58
6	From the main Wycliffite cycle	64
7	From an anonymous compilation	67
III	The mass	78
8	Instructions in preparation for the mass	79
9	Lay action during mass: The Lay Folks' Mass Book	83
IV	Designs for living and dying	92
10	The Abbey of the Holy Ghost	96
11	Walter Hilton, Epistle on the Mixed Life	104
12	The Book of the Craft of Dying	125
Pt. 2	Practice
V	Parish celebrations	150
13	Scarborough: parish accounts, 1435-6	151
14	Great Yarmouth: selected accounts, 1386-1505	157
15	King's Lynn: selected accounts, 1398-1536	159
VI	Private religion	164
16	Licences for private chapels and oratories	166
17	Vows of chastity	173
VII	Saints, shrines, miracles, and pilgrimage	175
A	Shrines and offerings by pilgrims
18	Ornaments of shrines in York Minster	179
19	Receipts from offerings at Hereford cathedral	182
20	Receipts of St Etheldreda's shrine, Ely	186
21	Small shrines and vicarious pilgrimages	195
B	Miracles
22	Miracles of St Osmund, c. 1453	196
23	Miracles of Henry VI	197
VIII	Security for the living	201
A	Indulgences
24	Appointment of proctors for a bridge, 1484-5	203
25	Appointment of proctors for a bridge, c. 1490	204
26	Appontment of proctor for St Anthony's Hospital, London, 1479	205
27	Appointment of proctor for St Anthony's Hospital, London, 1536	206
28	Indulgence granted for a chapel	207
29	Profits of indulgence: St Anthony's Hospital, London, 1513	207
B	Guilds and fraternities
30	Franciscan letter of confraternity	210
31	Mendicant letters of confraternity	211
32	Regulations of a trade fraternity: the carpenters of York, 1482	213
33	Guild membership: the Palmers of Ludlow, 1505-6	215
34	Cumulative totals of guild subscriptions: the Palmers of Ludlow, 1447-8	216
35	National membership receipts: the Palmers of Ludlow, 1538-9	217
36	Benefits of membership of the fraternity of St Chad, Lichfield	218
IX	Security for the dead	222
A	Obits and anniversaries
37	Provision of trentals, 1487	224
38	Obit arrangements: William Paston	225
39	Establishment of an obit or anniversary, 1458	227
B	Chantries and almshouses
40	Establishment of a chantry: St James's priory, Bristol, 1400	229
41	Establishment of a chantry in a friary: Bristol, 1469	231
42	Establishment of a chantry through feoffment to uses: Bridgwater, 1482	233
43	Regulations for a chantry and almshouses: Ludlow, 1486	234
X	Distributions at death: wills	242
44	The will of Thomas Kebell, 1500	244
45	The will of Lady Jane Strangweys, 1500	249
46	The wills of Sir John Port, 1528-40	252
XI	Complaint and opposition	259
A	Anticlericalism?
47	The burgesses of of Saltash complain about their vicar, c. 1406	261
48	Complaints at visitation: Kent, 1511-12	262
B	Heresy and Lollardy
49	The hunt for heretics: Bury St Edmunds, 1428	267
50	The definition of 'Lollardy'	268
51	Lollard confessions, 1430	270
	Bibliography of printed works cited	281
	Index	295