[126] Coke on Littleton, lib. 2. chap. 4.

[127] Du Cange, voc. Gastaldus.

[128] Gibson, Cod. Jur. Eccles. Anglican, tit. 23.

[129] Montesquieu, l’Esprit de Loix, liv. 31. chap. 11. Bacon, hist. and polit. disc. on the laws and government of England, ch. 59. Inett’s hist. of the English Church, vol. 2. ch. 2.

[130] Gibson, Cod. Jur. Eccles. Anglican. tit. 23.

[131] Ibid.

[132] Ibid. and tit. 30.

[133] Gibson, Cod. Jur. Eccles. Anglican, tit. 34.

[134] Gibson, tit. 1. and 2.

[135] Father Paul on beneficiary matters, ch. 2. and ch. 6. Selden’s history of tithes, ch. 4. sect. 1. Spelm. larger work of tithes, ch. 6.