[417]. Lea, Middle Ages, i. pp. 220, 221, etc.
[418]. A pious old lady left a bequest to the city of London to defray the expenses of incinerating misbelievers.—Meiklejohn, Hist. i. 223.
[419]. W. Stubbs, Charters, p. 136.
[420]. G. B. Adams, Political History, p. 270. London, 1905.
[421]. It was represented to him that in the nine years through which he had reigned innumerable offences and one hundred murders had been committed by clerks who had escaped all punishments save the light sentences of fine and imprisonment inflicted by their own courts.—W. R. W. Stephens, The English Church, p. 165. London, 1901. William of Newburgh, lib. ii. p. 130, H. C. Hamilton’s ed. London, 1856.
[422]. In the thirteenth century there were, for instance, twelve clerks in the village of Rougham.—Augustus Jessopp, Coming of the Friars, p. 84. London, 1889. See also J. E. Thorold Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages, i. pp. 24, 160, 161.
[423]. Carte, Hist. i. p. 581.
[424]. Eirikr Magnusson, Thomas’ Saga Erkibyskup, i. p. 144, note.
[425]. William FitzStephen; J. C. Robertson’s Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, iii. p. 45. London, 1881.
David Hume, Hist. Eng. i. p. 391. London, 1818.