[326] Concil. Turon. ann. 925. (Martene Thesaur. IV. 73.)

[327] Ratherii de nuptu cujusdam illicito c. 4.

[328] Ratherii de contemptu canon. P. I. c. 4.

[329] Atton. Vercell. Epist. ix.

[330] Enarratio eorum quæ perverse gesta sunt, etc. (Muratori, Antiq. Med. Ævi Diss. LXII.).

[331] Institutes of Polity, Civil and Ecclesiastical, c. 19, 23 (Thorpe, Ancient Laws, &c. of England, II. 329, 337).

[332] Ratherii Itinerar. c. 5.

[333] Ratherii Synodica c. 15.

[334] Gunzo the Grammarian, in his learned treatise, makes use of the recognized celibacy of the clergy as a comparison. “Non enim una eademque res bona, licet æque omnibus conceditur. Siquidem nuptiæ, laicis concessæ, sacris ordinibus denegantur.”—Gunzonis Epist. ad Augienses.

[335] Leon. PP. VII. Epist. 15.