Anchorites, Anchoresses and Hermits
People living solitary lives, the former living in cells often within the curtilage of a church building and sometimes having servants, whereas the latter wandered at large, but devoted their lives to prayer and giving spiritual counsel in exchange for subsistence alms.

Cogge
A small medieval trading ship with a large hold for trading

Dissolution
The dissolution of the monasteries was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland, expropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

Habit
The simple robe worn by a monk or nun

Host
Host is the consecrated bread of the Eucharist or Mass. This eucharistic bread was baked in appropriately reverent circumstances in religious houses.

Kontor
Hanseatic trading post

Lollard
The popular derogatory nickname given to those without an academic background, educated (if at all) only in English, who were reputed to follow the teachings of John Wycliffe in particular, and were certainly considerably energised by the translation of the Bible into English.

Reformation
The English Reformation took place in the 16th century when Henry VIII removed the English Church from the authority of the Pope and broke the near one-thousand-year link with the Church of Rome.