| Description | Track 1: Introduction and readings relating to clerks and parsons, 2.11 mins
Track 2: The role of clerks/clerics in 1200 AD; how the day is split up; 2.28 mins
Track 3: A poem relating to the story of Jesus; unknown song; the meaning of the word 'villein'; a poem relating to to the story of Adam and Eve; the case of a group of men suing the abbot for unjustly taking away their 'goods and chattels' (continues on start of next track), 2.51 mins
Track 4: The parson; 'serfs'; churches, William de Bois and the churchyard, 2.49 mins
Track 5: The churchyard; the chaining up of a young man for accidentally killing a hen; the 'tithe', 2.51 mins
Track 6: Literature relating to medieval Christianity; unknown song, 2.10 mins
Track 7: Use of the church building; marriage and engagement; 3.16 mins
Track 8: The ceremony of marriage and marriage in general; 2.54 mins
Track 9: Readings relating to marriage; the Lord's prayer; unknown song; a reading about sins, 3.19 mins
Track 10: A reading; religious houses such as abbeys, 2.59 mins
Track 11: A useless parish priest; the story of a man trapped under a pile of earth; a person leaving a village, 2.51 mins
Track 12: The tomb of St Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury; clerks; unknown song; the murder of David of 'Trempidhoy'; unknown song, 3.26 mins
Track 13: A fight between the 'northern clerks' and the 'southern clerks'; the value of water meadow land; a story about grazing animals on someone else's land and a subsequent murder (continues on next track), 2.53 mins
Track 14: A poem; a reading; a discussion about roads; 2.57 mins
Track 15: Corpses in the countryside, the rules regarding homicide and death, 2.36 mins
Track 16: The testament of Master Reginald of Abingdon(?); unknown song; death and the ceremony surrounding it, 2.20 mins
Track 17: Credits of programme 'Village Church' which gives the names of the readers, commentators and other people involved in the making of the programme, 1.11 mins
Track 18: Epilogue, 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel', 2.52 mins
Total: 48.56 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 2of2 KF565D0349580 |