[202] In the presentation of the churchwardens of Ricall, Yorkshire, in 1519, they complain that “pedlars come into the church porch on feast days, and there sell their goods.”
In 1416 the wardens and questmen of St. Michael-le-Belfry, York, presented that “a common market of vendibles is held in the churchyard on Sundays and holy days, and divers things, and goods, and rushes, are exposed for sale” (“York Fabric Rolls”).
[203] Cardwell.
[204] Procter, “Hist. of the Book of Common Prayer,” p. 227.
[205] Peckham’s “Constitutions,” 1281, bid every priest to celebrate at least once a week.
[206] “The York Manual,” by Rev. J. Raine (Surtees Society), p. 123.
[207] See [pp. 460], [461], [496], and [p. 472].
[208] The canons of Edgar required the clergy to preach every Sunday.
[209] It was early in the twelfth century that seven was adopted as the number of the Sacraments, vices, virtues, etc. The seven Sacraments are first mentioned by Otto, Bishop of Bamberg, in 1124 (Neander, “Church History,” vii. 465).