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Banns, marriage. See Marriage.

Benedictine houses:—
-, in England. See Abingdon; Bardney; Barking; Bath; Battle; Belvoir; Burscough; Bury St. Edmunds; Canterbury; Chepstow; Chertsey; Chester; Coventry; Croyland; Durham; Evesham; Faversham; Glastonbury; Gloucester; Goldcliff; Hereford; Hyde; Lancaster; Lytham; Milton Abbas; Molycourt; Muchelney; Peterborough; Pilton; Reading; Saffron Walden; St. Albans; Selby; Tewkesbury; Thorney; Spalding; Stixwould; Upholland; Westminster; Whitby; Winchcomb; Winchester; York.
-, in Ireland. See Athlone; Fore; Glascarrig.
-, in Scotland. See Arbroath; Balmerino; Cambuskenneth; Coldingham; Cupar; Dunfermline; Inchcolm; Iona; Kelso; Kilwinning; Lindores; Urquhart.
-, in Wales. See Kemmaes; St. Dogmells; Whitwell (?).
-, foreign. See Bec Hellouin; Benevento; Bourg-Baudouin; Caen; Elfiolo; Fécamp; Lyre; Locminé; Préaux; Saint-Jacut; Saint-Sauveurle-Vicomte; Savennières; Tiron; Truno,

Benedictine order, rule of, 77.

Benefices, appropriations of. See Appropriations.
-, -, declared compatible, 60, 178, 255.
-, -, deprivation of. See Deprivation.
-, -, dilapidation of. See Dilapidation.
-, -, dispensation for father and son to succeed one another in holding, 192.
-, -, erection of. See Erections.
-, -, faculties to resign to any prelate, 13.
-, -, incompatible, dispensations to hold for life or for a term, and to exchange, notwithstanding Eugenius IV's constitution to the contrary (Ottenthal, Regulœ Canc. Apost. p. 253, no. 105 of the Regulœ Eng. iv.), etc. 5 sqq., 26, 31, 33–45, 52–56, 58–64, 66–73, 76, 79–85, 90, 94, 95, 100, 105, 106, 108, 109, 111, 113, 114, 117–125, 131, 137, 144, 145 (bis), 146, 151, 153, 155–157, 159, 166, 171, 172, 175–178, 180–182, 187, 188, 193, 195, 197, 201, 246, 249, 250 (bis), 253, 256, 259, 262–264, 277–280, 281 (bis), 284, 285 (bis), 286, 287 (bis), 288, 292, 294, 321, 324, 330, 334 (bis), 348, 349, 362, 373, 374, (bis), 375 (bis), 377 (bis), 378, 386–388, 392, 394–396, 398, 400, 401, 430, 431, 448, 463, 479, 480, 485, 492, 493, 495, 496, 500, 521, 522 (bis), 523 (bis), 529, 530, 550, 561 (bis), 562, 564 (bis), 565, 572, 573 (ter), 574, 575 (bis), 576, 578 (bis); 579, 580, 582.
-, -, -, See Reservations (John xxii's constitution Execrabilis).
-, -, intrusion into and uncanonical holding of, 17, 18, 24, 26, 49, 50, 51, 55, 66, 141, 142, 149, 150, 153, 168, 169, 174, 188, 190, 191 (bis), 192, 195, 198, 199, 200 (ter), 201, 202, 207–209, 218, 222, 223, 276–278, 290, 295, 296, 319, 320, 324, 328, 329, 350, 352, 388, 391, 395, 396 (bis), 403, 404, 420, 422, 423, 428–432, 436, 437, 443 (bis), 444, 446, 471, 474, 475, 505, 509, 510, 513, 523, 528, 530 (bis), 532, 535, 538, 544, 556, 570, 575, 576.
-, -, -, See also Intimidation; Orders; Violence.
-, -, lapse of the collation of, by the statutes of the Third General Lateran Council (cap. 8; Decretal. III, 8, 2):—
-, to the pope, 13, 15, 52, 53, 85, 87–89, 93, 115, 117, 137, 149, 169, 172, 188, 190, 191, 192, 194, 200, 202, 206, 276, 290, 293, 295 (bis), 337, 339–341, 350, 393–395, 398, 400 (bis), 403 (bis), 404, 428 (bis), 447, 506–509, 547, 551, 554, 556.
-, to the metropolitan, 539.
-, -, litigation about in partibus, 39, 176, 460, 522, 532 (bis), 533, 534.
-, -, -, See also Apostolic see; Delegation; Deprivation (by papal authority); Judges; Roman court.
-, -, or the fruits of benefices, held by laymen, 187, 188, 290.
-, -, removal from. See Deprivation.
-, -, trading within, 358.
-, -, unions of. See Unions.
-, -, voidance of, by making religious profession, 171, 199, 200.
-, -, -, See also Marriage; Voidance; Reservations.
-, -, See also Age; Bishops; Cardinals; Chaplains; Collations; Commendam; Constitutions; Defects; Farm; Illegitimacy; Illiteracy; Institutions; Offices; Orders; Parish churches; Patronage; Patrons; Pensions; Presentations; Provisions; Religious; Reservations; Residence; Resignations; Roman court; Socular arm; Simony; Statutes.

Bigamy. See Marriage.

Bishops, abusive wearing of the insignia of by abbots and priors, 57.
-, -, children of, 89, 328, 362.
-, -, -, See also Illegitimacy (children of clergy).
-, -, consecration of, 581.
-, -, -, by other than the metropolitan, 51, 60, 64, 105–107, 109, 110, 131, 136, 138, 145, 146, 172, 180, 184, 185, 253, 258, 277, 278, 325, 328, 329, 336, 372, 379, 386–388, 401, 439, 466, 480, 484, 493, 499, 508, 562.
-, -, consecration oath of, 525.
-, -, faculties for, to reserve benefices etc. See Reservations.
-, -, forbidden to exercise pontifical offices without their own diocese, 225.
-, -, grants for, to hold benefices in commendam. See Commendam.
-, -, in the universal church (i.e. after having resigned their sees), 464.
-, -, indults for, to exercise pontifical offices without their own diocese, 180 note, 185.
-, -, Irish, as assistant bishops in English dioceses, 109, 180 note, 185.
-, -, rights of in respect of the blessing of abbots etc. of subject monasteries, 223, 224, 227, 325, 343, 360, 435, 464, 514, 515, 569.
-, -, validation of the acts of administration performed by when excommunicated, 524.
-, -, See also Abbots; Augustinian friars; Collations; Debts; Dilapidation; Elections; Friars Minors; Friars Preachers; Institutions; Marriage; Oaths; Provisions; Reconciliations; Religious; Religious houses; Reservations; Translations; Visitations.

Black Friars. See Friars Preachers.

Blessing, of abbots. See Abbots.
-, -, See Prioress.

Books, service. See Parish churches.
-, -, -, See also Breviaries.

Border (Scots) wars. See Scotland.

Breviaries of the Carthusians in England, 202.

Bridges, indulgences in aid of the building and repair etc. of. See Indulgences.

Brigandage, 84.

Bulls, papal. See Letters; Registers.

Burial rights and dues, 267.
-, -, See also Cemeteries.