Aaron, Robert 162
Act of Supremacy (1535) 274
Act of Uniformity 290, 323, 327
Adam of Bremen 86
Adamites 226
adultery 329–30
Aelfric, son of Meriet 67, 107, 114, 115, 117, 121, 123–4
Aethelbald, King of Mercia 64–5, 79
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians 100
Aetius (consul) 41
Afghanistan 75
Agincourt, battle of 236
Agricultural Revolution 104
Agriculture, Ministry of 130
Aikin, John 337
air raid precautions 394–5
Aki 89
Alaric I, King of the Visigoths 37
Alba 84
Alban the protomartyr 41
Alcuin 83–4
Alemanni 35
Alen family 157
Aleppo 25
Alfred the Great, King of Wessex 85, 87, 93, 96, 97, 98, 100, 113, 215
Alice (washerwoman) 168, 183, 367
Allen, Mrs 357
allotments 349
almanacs 180, 186, 187, 194, 391–2
Alot family 195
Amorgos 25
Anand 86
Andrews, Adam 174
Andrews, Will 248
Andrews family 239
Angles 35, 40, 42, 44, 51–2, 75, 121
Anglians 112
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 11, 48, 83, 85, 86, 87, 99, 117
Anglo-Saxons 21, 22, 41, 43–59, 80, 95–116
Angola 34
animism 71
Anna and Maud (anchoresses) 224
Annals of London 187
Anne Boleyn, Queen 274
anti-clericalism 202
Aponius Rogatianus 25
arable land 27, 30, 32, 92, 103, 105, 124–5, 132, 157, 163, 176, 277
decline and shift to pasture 181, 241, 263, 332, 338–9, 346, 357
see also enclosure; farming; open-field system
Arabs 75–6
Arcadius, emperor 34
Arden, forest of 204
Armada, Spanish 141
Armistice Day 392
Arngrim 129
Aron, Agnes 195
art 369
Asceria 129
Asser, Bishop 97
Assize of Bread 187
Asten/Astin/Asteyn family 93, 157, 176
Asteyn, John 173
Aston, John 201, 204, 218, 219, 224, 229, 233
Aswan 36
Athelstan, King of England 100, 101, 114
Atica 31
Atkinson, David 368
Atlas Mountains 24
Augustine of Canterbury, St 70, 210
Augustine of Hippo, The City of God 37–8
Augustus, Emperor, mausoleum 37
Avebury 1
Avon, River 1
‘Babewynnes’ 193
‘Bagdad Blues’ 397
Bailey, Joseph 368
bailiffs 127, 179, 250, 252, 259, 261, 265–6, 270–71, 281
at Merton College, Oxford 191, 194, 216, 230
see also Kibworth, Leicestershire, bailiff’s house
Baldon 235
Bale, Eli 390–91
Bale, Sir John 314
Bales, Lieutenant 326
Balkans 34
ballads and pamphlets 201–2, 258
Baltic Sea 185
Baly, Alice 284
Band of Hope 379
Bannockburn, battle of 185
Banwell 19
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia 328, 332
Barkby 243
Barkeston 174–5
Barkestone, Plungar and Redmile 174
Barons’ Proclamation 149–50
Barons’ Revolt 143, 144–5, 154–5, 158, 162
Barton, Robert 291
Basset, Thomas 156
Bath 41
Battle Abbey 117
Battle of Britain 402
battles, anniversaries 391–2
Beauchamp, William 158
Beauchamp family 27, 67, 129, 208, 209, 214
Beaumont, Sir John 277, 286, 287
Becket, Thomas 144, 159, 211, 231
Sick Man’s Salve 298
Bede, Venerable 59, 73, 74, 75, 83, 95, 222
History of the English Church and People xx, 44, 48, 70–71
story of Gregorian mission 70, 222
Bedeman, Laurence 218
Belgium 44
Benedict of Nursia, St 171
Beridge, John 311
Beridge family 311
Berkhamstead 115
Berlin, march on 402
Bible 238
Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway 360
birth rate 258
Bittesby 203
Blaby 4
aftermath 89, 173, 200, 203, 211, 213, 214, 226, 241–9, 268, 272, 308, 331, 353
in Kibworth 194, 198, 199, 240, 353
records of xix
Smithfield cemetery 193
Black Hole of Calcutta 392
black people 381
black-out, wartime 395
Black Sea 189
Blackheath 214
Blake, ‘Captain’ (Home Guard) 396
Blakwell, John (alias John Taylor) 234
Blaston 89
Blunt, Edward 9
Bombay 197–8
bombing, wartime 395–6
Bonde, Matilda 169
Bonde family 183
bondmen 262
Book of Common Prayer 323
book copying 205, 222, 226, 228, 230, 232, 236
books, devotional 212
boors 110
bordars see cottagers
Bosworth 63
battle of 253
Bothe (Booth), Henry 233
Boton, Adam 194
Boton, Henry 166
Boulogne 149–50
Bowden 148
Bowden, Detective Sergeant 384
Bradmere 268
Brake, Miss 357
Breedon 74
Brees, Tom 291
brewsters 168–9
Brian family 332
Bridgenorth 152
Brighton 158
Bristol 235
Britannia Secunda 23
British (language) 95
Brittany 35
Brixworth 63
brokers (brochars) 168, 172, 183, 194, 256
Brown, Adam (chaplain) 251
Brown, Adam (draper) 194, 210, 229, 234, 245, 247, 248–51, 251, 257, 264, 269, 272
Brown, Henry 242
Brown, Katherine 254
Brown, Nicholas 252
Brown, Robert (cousin) 262
Brown, Robert (in Civil War) 320
Brown, Robert, jr 242–3
Brown, William (mercer) 254
Brown, William (preacher) 167, 224, 230–32, 233, 239, 242, 250, 269, 374–5
Brown, William (son of Adam Brown) 249–51
Brown family 107, 167, 177, 183, 221, 244–5, 247–54, 255, 260, 279
Brownists 324
US airbase 395
Bryan, Richard 306
Bryan, Rob 296
Bryan, Tom 291
Buckingham, John, Bishop of Lincoln 220
Bucklebury, Berkshire 56
Burditt, Sam 370
Burgess (deaf mute) 371
Burgred, King of the Mercians 86
burial mounds 16–17
burials 17, 79–81, 87, 297–300
see also funerals
Burke, Edmund 397
Burrough on the Hill 23
Burton 89
Description of Leicestershire 9–10, 11
Bushby 89
Butcher, Ann 356
‘by’ names 89
by-laws 263
Byzantium 36
Cadbury Castle, Somerset 42
Calverton 73
Calvinists 312
Jesus College 311
Camden, William, Britannia 10–11
Cancer Research 400
Canterbury 147
Cathedral 219
Carew, Richard, The Story of Cornwall 11
Carlton 66
Carter, John 371
Carter, Margaret 195
Carter, Ralph 191
Carter, Rob 291
Carter, Thomas and Joan 229
Carter, William (1348) 191
Carter, William (1835) 354
Carter family 167, 176, 183, 213, 221, 310, 332
Cartivelos 6
Cassiodorus 53–4
Castle Donington 120
Cat and Mouse Act (Prisoners’ Temporary Discharge for Ill Health Act (1913)) 386
Catholic Church 200, 205, 208, 225, 310, 311, 312
restoration under Mary Tudor 279, 287
Catuvellauni 45
Caxton, William 171
Cayser, Edward 370
and Christianity 70
Ceolburg 58
Ceolwulf, King of the Mercians 86, 87
ceorls 110
Chad, St 71–2
chantries, abolition of 287
Chaplin, John 358
Chapman, Alice 297
Chapman, Margaret and Thomas 297
Chapman, Will 194
Chapman, Zachary 306
Charles I, King 309, 310, 311, 312–18
Charnwood 4
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, Thomas 297
Clarke family 392
class system
Anglo-Saxon 110
Tudor period 264
Clayton, Thomas 320
Clerke, Thomas 281
climate and weather disruption 53–4, 61–2, 96, 112, 177, 179, 180, 185–7, 301, 368, 391
Cloudesley, Arthur 306
Cloudsley, Nicholas 291
club feasts 369
clubs and societies 370, 372, 400
coaches 360
coaching inns 331, 344, 360, 382
coins 15, 17, 18–19, 33, 34, 61, 74–5, 77, 108–9
Colchester 25
cold, extreme conditions 61–2, 92, 193–4, 228
Coleman, Widow 283
Coleman, Will (nineteenth century) 332
Col(e)man family 165, 213, 266, 281, 310, 332, 392
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 328
Collins, John 371
Colman, John 284
Colman, Katherine 284
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
conscientious objectors 390–91
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
Corieltauvi 4, 6–7, 17, 19, 22, 26, 32, 41, 42, 45, 48, 52, 69, 112
Cornard Parva 193
Corringham, John 221
Cotesbatch 304
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
Coxon family 303
Crackley 91
Crete 402
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
see also coins
Curtis, John 347
Cusa 65
Cybba 16, 57, 63–7, 74, 82, 88
charter of xx, 65–7
Czechoslovakia 395
Dadlingworth 10
Dalbier, John 315–16
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
Davison, Emily 386–7
Debdale Wharf 343
Deben, River 193
Decon, Nicholas 297
Demetrius of Tarsus 24
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
Dickens, Charles 369, 379, 381
The Pickwick Papers 373
‘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
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
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
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
(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
Ellis, John 360
Emma (wife of Edward the Confessor) 114
Empire Day 392
enclosure xviii, 6, 13, 29, 332–3, 334–8, 340, 345
Enclosure Acts 334
(1789) 67
Enclosure Commissioners 335
England, name of 44
English language, modern 109
English Place Name Society 14–15
epidemics 394
Ermine Street 23
eruptions 54
Ethelred the Unready, King 108, 113, 115
ethnic identity 68–9
Euphrates, River 36
Eutropius 35
evacuees, child 395
Evesham
Battle Well 159–60
Evesham Abbey 159
Ewell, Surrey 158
Faber, Matilda 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
Fauconer, William 172
Faukin, John 148
Fawnt, Captain George 326
Feilding, Lord 355–6
Fenny Compton, Warwickshire 355
Fens 69
ferdgate 2
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
Five Mile Act (1665) 325
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
Fox, Thomas 306
framework knitting 344–56, 357, 367, 368
war with 75, 159, 233, 309, 338, 341
freemen 70, 92, 99, 102, 105, 107, 110, 111, 115, 123, 126, 127, 128, 137, 143, 144, 154, 165, 183
Freer, Robert 354
study of 328
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
Gascony 187
gaslight 364–5
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 of Preston 147–8
Gildas, The Fall of Britain 38–42
Glaber, Ralph 108
Glen Parva xx, 21
Glen, River 21, 28, 46, 52, 53, 64, 82
Glooston 88
Glooston Hill 43
Glor 88
Glorious Revolution 326–7
Goadby 89
Godwin 121
Godwine 93
Godwine, Alice 168
Godwine, John 195
Godyer, Robert 247
Godyer, Roger 247
The Golden Legend 171
Goodale family 357
Goode, William 306
Gourde, Margery 297
Grace Dieu Priory 277
grain prices 187
Grand Junction 341
Grandmesnil, Hugh 27
Grant, John 377
Grant, William 175
Gray, George 369
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
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
Grimston 88–9
Groby 120
Guest, Samuel 352
guilds 176, 231, 246, 249, 307
chapels 287
peace 104
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
Hadrian, Emperor 31
mausoleum 37
Halford, Sir Richard 313, 314, 317
Hallaton 25, 28, 118, 119, 120, 224, 225
holy well 275
market 168
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, jr 355
Haymes family 332
health 357
Hearth Tax (1664) 345
Heath, Edward 11
Hebrew, study of 328
hedges see ditches and hedges
Henry II, King 143
Henry III, King 137, 141, 144, 147–8, 149, 155, 164, 198, 255
Henry VII, King 253
Henry VIII, King 9, 74, 259, 268, 274, 275, 277–8, 279, 280, 286, 294, 298, 305–6, 323
Henry of Huntingdon 139
Henry of Nottingham 158
Henry of Sheldon 158
herepath 2
heresy 200, 207, 217, 219–20, 225
see also Lollards
Hering, Robert 158
Hermogenes 24
Herrick 92
Hesilrige, Sir Arthur 310, 313–14, 320–21
Heynes, Alice and Amabil 169
Heynes, John 247
Heynes, Will 267
Heynes (village clerk) 195, 197
Heynes family 141, 165, 166, 167, 172, 210, 262, 263
Heyrick, Captain 342
Heywood, Richard 297
Higden, Ranulf 192
Hill, Rowland 363
Hill Norton 304
Hippo Regius 37
Hipwood, Rev. 380
Hitler, Adolf 150
Holloway prison xvii
Holme, Huntingdonshire 98
Holyoak, Joseph 354
Holyoak, May 397
Holyoak, William 354
Holyoak family 59
Holyoak Lodge 59
Homer 51
hosiery industry see framework knitting; Johnson & Barnes
Hothorpe 89
Houghton 89
Houghton on the Hill 156
Hound Hill 136
housing estates 398
Housman, John 338
Howell, Cicely xviii
Hubba Ragnarsson 85
Hudson, George 360
Hugh, son of Scolate (Scholastica) 171
Hugh Grandmesnil 67, 118, 119, 120, 123, 125, 128
Hull 187
Hulman, Thomas xx, 200–204, 207–8, 212, 213–17, 219–21, 227, 229, 233
Humberstone 46
Humphrey, Lebbeus 337
Hundred Rolls Survey 10, 130, 155–8, 165, 262
Hundred Years War 200
hundreds 101–2
Hungifu 104
Huntingdon 187
Husbands Bosworth 1
Hutchinson, Lucy 314
Hwen, Henry (apothecary) 367
Ibstock 315
Ibstone, Surrey 163
see also mini-Ice Ages
Iceland 54
Icil, son of Eomer 45, 50, 51, 63, 69
Iliffe, Fred 369
Iliffe, John 306
Iliffe, Robert 354
Iliffe family 165, 266, 310, 392
Illston on the Hill 1, 89, 230, 234
Independents 310, 312, 324, 327
poetry 50
Indian Plague Research Commission of Bombay 197
Industrial Revolution 3, 8, 19, 27, 393
industry 398
Inkle and Yariko 369
Iona 84
Ipswich 61
poetry 51
as farmworkers 377
Iron Age xix, 6, 11–12, 16, 22, 29, 44, 49, 55, 105, 182
Isobel of Kibworth 172
Ivar Ragnarsson (the Boneless; Ingwaer) 80–81, 85, 86, 87, 100
Ivo (father of Christiana) 129
Ivo (merchant) 172
‘J.D.’ 322–3
Jackson, Jeremiah 353–4
Jackson, John 354–5
Jackson, William 352
Jaggard, William and John 9
James I, King 304
James II, King 317
Jennings, John 327–8, 337, 353
Jennings, John, jr 327
Jesson, Jonathan (‘Jonty’) 355–6, 371–2, 376
Jesuits 295
Jews 161
John of Arundel 158
John (grandson of Scolate (Scholastica)) 171
John of Kibworth (constable) 151, 152
John of Kibworth (slater) 245
John Lydus 53
John (son of Scolate (Scholastica)) 171
John (son of Sibil) 169
Johnson & Barnes 396
Johnson, Will 324
Jordan, Will 324
Joye, John 186–7
Joye, Roger 183
battle of 391