The English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation

Introduction; Chapter 1 I The Priestly Life; Chapter 2 II The Chaplains; Chapter 3 III Preferment; Chapter 4 IV Absenteeism; Chapter 5 V Clerical Learning; Chapter 6 VI Preaching; Chapter 7 VII Clerical Discipline; Chapter 8 VIII The Cost of Living; Chapter 9 IX The Religious Orders and Parish Churches; Chapter 10 X Old Age; Conclusions; Appendix 1 The Registers of Bishop Nikke; Norwich Episcopal Act Books XIII–XVI; Appendix 2; Appendix 3 Letters dimissory in the York registers; Appendix 4 Criminous Clerks; BIBLIOGRAPHY; General Index;

Biography

P. HEATH