[440] Ibid., v. 157.
[441] For sending his locum tenens to the synods and processions? (“Valor Eccl.,” i. p. 67).
[442] “History of Agriculture and Prices in England,” J. E. T. Rogers.
[443] “Annals of St. Paul’s Cathedral,” p. 145.
[444] Matthew of Westminster, under the year 1249, says of a number of men in the country about Southampton, that they were of such rank that they were considered equal to knights, and that their estates were valued at £40, £50, or £80 a year (Rolls Series, ii. 360).
[445] Ibid., under year 1253, ii. 383.
[446] Agobarth, Archbishop of Lyons, c. 833, complains that there is scarcely one to be found who aspires to any degree of honour and temporal distinction who has not his domestic priests; and that these chaplains are constantly to be found serving tables, mixing the strained wine, leading out the dogs, managing ladies’ horses, or looking after the lands.
[447] Lib. ix. ep. lxx. (Migne 77, p. 100).
[448] Thorpe’s “Select Charters,” pp. 521 and 511.
[449] Under the year 1067.