[348]. C. Toletanum, iv. c. 31, A.D. 633.
[349]. C. Autissiodorense, c. 33, A.D. 578.
[350]. As, for instance, Theodosius, fourth century; Emperor Henry IV., eleventh century; Henry II., twelfth century.
[351]. Thrupp, Anglo-Saxon Home, p. 238.
[352]. Ibid. p. 243.
[353]. King Æthelwulf, in the ninth century, obtained an ordinance from the Pope that no Englishman was to be condemned to make a pilgrimage in irons outside his own country.—Lappenburg, Saxon Kings, ii. 26. A pilgrim from Canterbury would be recognised by his carrying back a bottle or a bell; a shell if he had arrived from Santiago de Compostela (Spain), and a palm from the Eastern Land.—R. F. Littledale, Ency. Brit.
[354]. Thrupp, Anglo-Saxon Home, p. 256.
[355]. See W. J. Thoms, Early English Prose Romances, i. p. 31, etc. London, 1858.
[356]. Johnson, Laws and Canons, ii. p. 449.
[357]. So much would depend upon the view taken by the penitentiary. See, for instance, Charles Reade’s historical story, The Cloister and the Hearth.