[291]. S. Pegge, Life of Bishop Grosseteste, p. 46.
[292]. Some years later Archbishop Boniface, in his Constitutions, declared (17) that the State must not interfere with moral inquisitions. Vide J. Johnson, Laws and Canons, ii. p. 205, ed. 1851; and observe “Note on Anselm’s Canons,” p. 28 of the same volume.
[293]. The visitations of the archdeacons were highly unpopular, creating any number of spies and informers; see Ecclesiastical Courts Commission, p. xxiv. London, 1883.
[294]. 1 Cor. vi. 3.
[295]. Ibid. 2.
[296]. Rufinus, Hist. Ecc. lib. i. cap. ii. p. 184, ed. of Basel. 1611.
[297]. On the packing and intimidating of juries until, as Wolsey observed, “they would find Abel guilty for the murder of Cain,” see W. Eden (Lord Auckland), Principles of Penal Law, p. 176. London, 1771.
[298]. H. C. Lea, Studies in Church History, p. 171. Philadelphia, 1869.
[299]. C. Agathense, c. 32.
[300]. C. Epaonense, c. 11.