[317] Hincmari Epist. XXXII. c. 20.
[318] Hincmari Capit. Presbyteris data. cap. XXI.-XXV.
Hincmar repeats his instructions, with some amplifications, in another document, in which he declares them to be the received traditional rules—“a majoribus nostris accepimus” (De Presbyt. criminos. c. XI.-XVIII.). That they were generally practised is shown in their almost literal repetition by the council of Trosley in 909—with the exception that in some cases fourteen or twenty-one witnesses were required for conviction (Concil. Troslei. c. ix.).
[319] Martene Ampl. Collect. I. 151.
[320] Capit. Synod. Remens. ann. 874 c. 3.
[321] Nicholai I. Respons. ad Consult. Bulgar. c. 70.
[322] Efficitur ad hæc uxorius, liberos procreans, et ad suæ damnationis cumulum nil sibi clericale præter tonsuram præferens.—Folcuin. de Gest. Abbat. Laubiens. c. 12.
[323] Mantion. Episc. Catalaun. Epist. ad Fulc. Remens. (Migne’s Patrol. T. 131, p. 23.)
[324] Liutprand. Antapod. Lib. III. c. 43.
[325] Liutprand. Hist. Otton. c. 4, 10.—Chron. Benedict. S. Andreæ Monach. c. 35.