The registers of the diocese contain many documents relating to the ecclesiastical history of the parish, and from them we can obtain a list of the rectors or vicars. If the church was connected with any monastery, Dugdale's _Monasticon_ will furnish some information. The Public Record Office contains the documents _Taxatio Ecclesiastica P. Nicholai IV._ and _Valor Ecclesiasticus_, which give an account of the value of the first-fruits and tenths, and also some volumes on the sale of chantries, and the inventories of church goods. The name of the saint to whom the church is dedicated must not always be accepted, in spite of years of usage, and should be confirmed by reference to some early will of a chief person of the village buried in the church, which usually gives the name of the patron saint. The story of the church writ in stone should be traced by the various styles of architecture, with the help of Rickman's _Gothic Architecture_ or Parker's _Glossary of Gothic Architecture_. If there has ever been a monastery in the parish, Dugdale's _Monasticon_ should be consulted; and if there are any remains of a castle, Clark's _Mediaeval Military Architecture in England_ will be useful. Prehistoric remains, such as barrows, earthworks, pit dwellings, and caves should be described; also any Roman roads and villas; the flora and fauna of the neighbourhood, geology, folklore, and dialect.
Evans' _Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain_. Evans' _ Ancient Bronze Implements_. Boyd Dawkins' _Cave Hunting_. Boyd Dawkins' _Early Man in Britain_. Greenwell's _British Barrows_. Fergusson's _Rude Stone Monuments_. Cox's _How to Write the History of a Parish_. Wright's _Essays on Archaeological Subjects_. Parker's _Mediaeval Domestic Architecture_. Sims' _Manual for the Topographer and Genealogist_. Burn's _History of Parish Registers_. Seebohm's _English Village Community_. Toulmin Smith's _English Gilds_. Haine's _Manual of Monumental Brasses_. Bloxam's _Principles of Gothic Architecture_. Tanner's _Notitia Monastica_. Cutts' _Middle Ages_. Lee's _Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms_.
Akeman Street, 60 Aldhelm, church-builder, 103 Alfriston clergy-house, 180 _Alignements_, 46 Allington rectory, 180 Almshouses, 181 Altars, 191 Amphitheatre, Roman, 67 Anchoresses, 183 Anchor-hold, 183 Anglo-Saxon villages, 74-89 Archery, 277, 298 Architecture, English, 102-24 Arresting a dead body, 227 Arrow-heads, 20 _Art of Husbandry_, 255 Astrology, belief in, 222 Aumbry, 192 Avebury cromlech, 46