[71] The monks of Jumieges, in the seventh century, fitted out vessels and sailed great distances to redeem slaves. St. Eligius spent large sums in redeeming them—20, 50, 100 at a time. Christian missionaries bought slaves, and trained them as Christians.
[72] “Diplomatarium Anglicanum.”
[73] “Collier,” i. 241. The Cathedral Churches of the Continent were universally served by Canons.
[74] Bishop of Oxford’s “Select Charters,” p. 73.
[75] Robert d’Oyley, a powerful Norman noble, repaired the ruinous parochial churches in and out of Oxford in the reign of William I. (Brewer, “Endowment, etc., of the Church of England,” p. 74). Corsuen built a number of houses and two churches on a piece of land granted to him in the suburb of Lincoln. (? St. Mary le Wigford, and St. Peter at Gowts.)
[76] Eyton’s “Shropshire” mentions several cases in that county.
[77] Bohn’s edition of “Eccl. Hist, of Ordericus Vitalis,” i. 10.
[78] Nearly all the village churches of the Craven district of Yorkshire were built in the time of Henry I., and many of them enlarged in the time of Henry VIII. (Whitaker’s “Craven”).
[79] Orderic, iv. xxiv.
[80] It was stopped by Innocent III. in a decretal letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, c. 1200.