[136] Selden’s hist. of tithes, ch. 6. and 7. Spelm. larger work of tithes, ch. 29.

[137] De non temerand. Eccles. tract. Spelm. p. 3.

[138] Montesquieu, l’Esprit des loix. liv. 31. chap. 12. Selden of tithes, ch. 7. Father Paul of benefices, ch. 11.

[139] Father Paul of benefices, ch. 14.

[140] Giannone’s hist. of Naples, b. 19. chap. 4. § 2.

[141] Selden on tithes, chap. 8. Bacon, hist. and polit. disc. on the Laws and Government of England, chap. 59. L. l. Angl. Sax. ap. Wilkins.

[142] Brady, Appendix to his hist. p. 15. Carte, hist. of England, vol. 1. p. 441.

[143] Selden on tithes, chap. 14.

[144] Carte’s hist. of England, vol. 3. p. 135, 143, 148, 149. Lord Herbert’s life and reign of Henry VIII. p. 186. et seq. ap. Kennet.

[145] Gibson, Cod. Jur. Eccles. Anglican. tit. 35. Hume, vol. 1. p. 51.