[236] This point is treated more fully in the next chapter.
[237] Denifle, l. c., pp. 497, 504.
[238] “More than three thousand men, women, and children were beheaded that day. God have mercy on their souls, for I trow they were martyrs.” Froissart (Globe), 201.
[239] Ed. Luce, pp. 214, 249, 337.
[240] Trevelyan, “England in the Age of Wycliffe,” 1st Edn., p. 195.
[241] “Conseil” (in Appendix to Ducange’s “Joinville”), chap. xxi., art. 8. The writer insists strongly, at the same time, on the lord’s responsibility to God for his treatment of a creature so helpless.
[242] C., iii., 177. For the Reeve’s duties, see Smyth, “Berkeleys,” vol. ii., pp. 5, 22.
[243] “Those who demand such mortuaries are like worms preying on a corpse” (Cardinal Jacques de Vitry, quoted in Lecoy de La Marche, “Chaire Française,” p. 388). Having already, in my “Medieval Studies” and my “Priests and People,” dealt more fully with this and several points occurring in the succeeding chapters, I can often dispense with further references here.
[244] This is admirably discussed by Mr. Corbett in chap. vii. of “Social England.”
[245] Froissart, Buchon, ii., 150. Leadam, “Star Chamber” (Selden Soc.), p. cxxviii. Trevelyan, l. c., p. 185.