[433]. Norgate, Angevin Kings, ii. p. 23.
[434]. Stephens, Hist. Eng. Church, p. 166.
[435]. Holdsworth, Hist. i. p. 382.
[436]. Pollock and Maitland, Hist. i. p. 442, and note 2, ed. of 1898.
[437]. James Gairdner, The English Church, p. 42. London, 1902.
[438]. Reeves, Hist. Eng. Law, iii. p. 41.
[439]. If a clerk were accused, the Crown got his goods till he had completed purgation, after which they were usually returned (Hale, Pleas of the Crown, ii. p. 384). If, however, he was delivered over absque purgatione, or if he had first pleaded guilty, the king retained them, and had the produce of his lands for the prisoner’s life.—A. T. Carter, History of English Legal Institutions, p. 255. London, 1906.
[440]. Johnson, Laws and Canons, ii. p. 208.
[441]. 2 Ed. I. c. 2.
[442]. 4 Ed. I. c. 5.