[443]. Following a Canon of the Council of Lyons, A.D. 1274. C. Lugd. c. 6.
[444]. For other instances of the dislike to remarriage, see Westermarck, Moral Ideas, ii. pp. 450, 451; and E. S. Hartland, Primitive Paternity, i. p. 134.
[445]. Johnson, Laws and Canons, ii. p. 267.
[446]. 25 Ed. III. c. 4.
[447]. See, for instance, a law passed in 1378 (1 Ric. II. c. 15) against arresting priests during divine service.
[448]. Archbishop Islip’s Constitutions, A.D. 1351. Johnson, Laws and Canons, ii. p. 414, etc.
[449]. See, for instance, F. C. Hingeston-Randolph, Register of John de Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter, Part ii. p. 1118. London, 1897.
[450]. For instance, they could not be accused by disreputable persons; vide C. Carthag. A.D. 390; Labbé, tom. iii. pp. 694, 870; C. Chalced. c. 21, A.D. 451; Labbé, tom. vi. p. 1229; C. Trident. Ses. 13, c. 7, A.D. 1551. It was complained that the clergy could not be accused by the laity and would not accuse each other.—Lea, Studies in Church History, pp. 208, 211.
[451]. For instance, Simon Fish in his Supplicacyon of Beggars, written about 1529, J. M. Couper’s ed. p. 12. London, 1871.
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