[121] Pages 20 and 82.
[122] Page 68.
[123] When Winfrid, afterwards St. Boniface, showed a strong precocious vocation for the religious life, his father, who seems to have been the principal person of his town, forthwith sent him—at six or seven years of age—to a religious house at Exeter, to be educated for the Church.
[124] Men who had any serious personal blemish, or any defect in respect to birth, learning, or morals, were excluded by canon from ordination (Constitutions of Otho, 1237). Illegitimacy and servile origin were both defects of birth.
[125] Thorold Rogers, “Agriculture and Prices in England,” vol. ii. pp. 613, 615, 616.
[126] “Eccl. Proceedings of Courts of Durham,” Surtees Society, p. 5.
[127] John Knox said, “Every scholar is something added to the riches of the Commonwealth.”
[128] See the quotation in its entirety on [p. 278].
[129] Cobbler.
[130] “The Babees Book,” Early English Text Society, p. 401.