778. HALE, W. H.

London, 1837. pp. 51.

The antiquity of the church-rate system.

779. SELBORNE, Earl of [ROUNDELL PALMER]. Ancient facts and fictions concerning churches and tithes. London, etc., 1888. 2nd edition, 1892.

780. SELDEN, JOHN. The history of tithes. [London], 1618. Also printed in Works of Selden, iii. 1069-1298. London, 1726.

This book shows that the practices of the early church are inconsistent with the view that tithes are payable by divine right, though Selden nowhere expressly denies the doctrine of divine right. The work gave great offence to the clergy, and was suppressed by order of the court of high commission.

781. SWAN, ROBERT. The principle of church-rates, from the earliest evidences of their existence to the present time. London, [1837]. pp. 80.

d. MONASTICISM.

Dugdale (No. 613) is the best authority on the history of particular religious houses, and Tanner's Notitia is a useful work of reference. The best general accounts are those of Eckenstein, Fosbroke, Hill, and Montalembert. Fosbroke gives the fullest account of the inner life of English monasteries. Pearson, in his Historical Maps (No. 366), gives a brief exposition, with a map and lists of religious houses. See also the introduction to Stubbs's edition of Epistolæ Cantuarienses, Rolls Series, 1865; and Poole's Atlas (No. 367). A good short survey of the general history of monasticism in Europe will be found in Otto Zöckler's Askese und Mönchthum, 2nd edition, 2 vols., Frankfort, 1897; and a bibliography, in No. 26; Max Heimbucher's Orden und Kongregationen der Katholischen Kirche, vol. i. (Paderborn, 1896), is also useful. For the history of the Cistercians, Cluniacs, friars, and military orders, see § 70 b.

782. BROUGHTON, RICHARD. A true memorial of the ancient and religious state of Great Britain, etc. [London], 1650.- Another edition Monastichon Britannicum, by R. B. London, 1655.

Deals with the history of monasticism in Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain to about A.D. 700.

783. ECKENSTEIN, LINA. Woman under monasticism, A.D. 5001500. Cambridge, 1896.

A valuable contribution to the history of monasticism. The nunneries dealt with are chiefly English and German.

784. FOSBROKE, T. D. British monasticism. 2 vols. London, 1802. 3rd edition, 1 vol., 1843.

Though its generalisations are often faulty, this work contains the fullest account of the inner monastic life.

785. Fox, Samuel. Monks and monasteries: an account of English monasticism. London, 1845.

786. GASQUET, F. A. The old English bible and other essays. London, 1897.

Medieval monastic libraries, 1-40.
The monastic scriptorium, 41-62.

787. HILL, O'DELL T.

Canterbury claustral school, 15th century, 260-85.

English monasticism: its rise and

influence [with special reference to Glastonbury]. London, 1867.

Deals especially with the influence of the Benedictines and Franciscans upon art, literature, and social life.

788. MABILLON, JEAN.

Annales ordinis S. Benedicti [to 1157].

6 vols. Paris, 1703-39. New edition, Lucca, 1739-45

The dark ages: essays illustrating the

789. MAITLAND, S. R. state of religion and literature. Frederick Stokes, 1889.

790. MERRYWEATHER, F. S. Bibliomania in the middle ages, with anecdotes illustrating the history of the monastic libraries of Great Britain. London, 1849.

791. MONTALEMBERT, Comte de [C. F. R. DE TRYON]. Les moines d'occident, depuis S. Benoît jusqu'à S. Bernard. 7 vols. Paris, 1860-77. - Translation: The monks of the west. 7 vols. Edinburgh, etc., 1861-79; another edition, with introduction by F. A. Gasquet, 6 vols, London, etc., 1896.

Bks. vii.-xv. deal with Great Britain. The work is an eloquent plea in favour of monasticism; a panegyric, rather than a critical history, of monastic life. For its faults and merits, see Remains of A. W. Haddan, 1876, pp. 198

211.

792. REEVES, WILLIAM.

The culdees of the British islands. Dublin, 1864. Also printed in Royal Irish Academy, Trans., xxiv. 119-263. Dublin, 1873.

Valuable; contains many records. On this subject, see also Skene, Celtic Scotland (No. 1269), vol. ii. ch. vi.

793. REYNER, CLEMENT. Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia sive disceptatio historica de antiquitate ordinis monachorum nigrorum S. Benedicti in regno Angliæ. Douai, 1626. Appendix, 1626.

The appendix contains many statutes, etc., including the Regularis Concordia (No. 1438), Lanfranc's statutes for the order in England, etc. Valuable.

794. TANNER, THOMAS. Notitia monastica: an account of all abbeys, etc., in England and Wales. London, 1744. Reprinted, with additions by James Nasmith, Cambridge, 1787.

Valuable; contains a brief account of each religious house, with many references to unpublished records. This work is the expansion of his Notitia Monastica, Oxford, 1695.

795. TAUNTON, E. L. from the coming of St. London, 1897.

The English black monks of St. Benedict, Augustine to the present day. 2 vols.

Valuable; deals mainly with modern times. The appendix of vol. i. contains a good abstract of the consuetudinary of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, from a MS. of the early part of the 14th century.

796. WALCOTT, M. E. C. Church work and life in English minsters. 2 vols. London, 1879.

Vol. ii. deals with monasteries.

797. WILLIS, BROWNE. The history of the mitred parliamentary abbeys, etc. 2 vols. London, 1718-19.

798. WOODHOUSE, F. C. Monasticism, ancient and modern. London, [1896].

A popular account.

e. BISHOPS, CATHEDRALS, COURTS, ETC.

Stubbs, in his edition of Epistolæ Cantuarienses, Rolls Series, 1865, gives a good account of monastic cathedrals. For the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the crown, see No. 626; and for the history of particular bishoprics, § 24.

799. BENSON, E. W. The cathedral. London, 1878.

Ch. iv. contains a brief account of the history of the cathedral chapter.

800. BRIDGETT, T. E. History of the holy eucharist in Great Britain [to the Reformation]. 2 vols. London, 1881.

Contains much information regarding church history.

801. CUTTS, E. L. Parish priests and their people in the middle ages in England. London, etc., 1898.

802. DANSEY, WILLIAM. Horæ decanicæ rurales: the origin, etc., of rural deans. 2 vols. London, 1835. 2nd edition, 1844.

803. GODWIN, FRANCIS.

De præsulibus Angliæ commentarius.

2 pts. London, 1616. Another edition, by William Richardson, 2 vols., Cambridge, 1743.

This is a Latin translation of Godwin's Catalogue of the Bishops of England, London, 1601; another edition, 1615. Contains brief biographies of the bishops of England, which are still valuable. Richardson's edition is the best.

803 a. HULTON, S. F. The primacy of England. Oxford, etc., 1899.

Deals with the history of the archbishoprics of Canterbury and York, etc.

804. LEA, H. C. An historical sketch of sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian church. Philadelphia, 1867. 2nd edition, Boston, 1884.

Valuable.

805.

A history of auricular confession and indulgences in the Latin church. 3 vols. Philadelphia, 1896.

Valuable.

806. LEA, J. W. The bishops' oath of homage. London, 1875. pp. 52.

807. LE NEVE, JOHN. Fasti ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries of England and Wales, to 1715. London, 1716. — Corrected and continued by T. D. Hardy, 3 vols., Oxford, 1854.

A standard work of reference.

808. MACLEAR, G. F. A history of Christian missions during the middle ages. Cambridge, etc., 1863.

809. PALMER, WILLIAM. Origines liturgicæ, or antiquities of the English ritual. 2 vols. Oxford, 1832. 4th edition, London, 1845.

810. Report (First) of her majesty's commissioners appointed to inquire into the condition of the cathedral and collegiate churches of England and Wales. [Report and appendix.] 2 vols. Parl. Papers, 1854, vol. xxv. London, 1854.

Contains much historical information.

55, vol. xv., are less valuable.

The 2nd and 3rd reports, ibid., 1854

811. Report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the constitution and working of the ecclesiastical courts. 2 vols. in 1. Ibid., 1883, vol xxiv. London, 1883.

Contains a good short account of the history of church courts to 1832, by William Stubbs, i. 21-51; and trials for heresy in England prior to 1533, by William Stubbs, i. 52-70.

812. SELDEN, JOHN. The original of ecclesiastical jurisdiction of testaments, in Works of Selden, iii. 1664-74. London, 1726.

See also his Disposition of Intestates' Goods, ibid., iii. 1676-85.

813. SMITH, [J] TOULMIN. The parish its obligations and powers. London, 1854. 2nd edition, 1857.

Deals mainly with modern times.

814. STUBBS, WILLIAM. Registrum sacrum Anglicanum: an attempt to exhibit the course of episcopal succession in England. Oxford, 1858. 2nd edition, 1897.

Contains lists of bishops. A valuable book of reference.

815. WALCOTT, M. E. C. Cathedralia: a constitutional history of cathedrals. London, 1865.

$24. LOCAL HISTORY, INCLUDING IRELAND AND WALES.

a. General, Nos. 816-40.

b. Particular Counties, Boroughs, Manors, etc., Nos. 841-1191.

There is no good general history of English boroughs; the most elaborate work is that of Merewether and Stephens (No. 832). Maitland (No. 831) has recently thrown much light on this subject. There is an excellent chapter on craft gilds in Ashley's Economic History (No. 1193), and a detailed account of the gild merchant in Gross's treatise (No. 824). On general manorial history the student should consult Pollock and Maitland's English Law, Maitland's Domesday Book, Vinogradoff's Villainage, and Seebohm's Village Community: Nos. 657, 1222, 1493, 3054. The most valuable work concerning castles is Clark's (No. 426), which is supplemented by Mackenzie's (No. 829); see also the lists of castles in Pearson's Maps (No. 366), 42-49. The general treatises on the forests are enumerated in § 19, and those on church history in § 23. A popular account of the history of various sees will be found in the series of