[396] Propter fornicationem fugiendam unusquisque laicus suam uxorem legitimam habeat.—Concil. Calchuth. can. 16.
[397] Concil. Celicyth. ann. 816 can. 4 8 (Haddan & Stubbs, III. 580-3).
[398] Goscelini Vit. S. Swithuni c. 1, 2.
[399] Leg. Aluredi c. 8, 18.—Constit. Odon. Cantuar. c. 7.
[400] Leg. Edwardi et Guthrun. c. 3.—Leg. Eadmund. Eccles. c. 1.
[401] Bridfrit. Vit. S. Dunstan. c. 5, 7. Bridfrith was a disciple of St. Dunstan, and composed his biography but a few years after the death of his patron. He does not state what was the position of Dunstan at the time of his betrothal; but Osbern, a hundred years later, asserts that he had acquired the lower orders only, and that he received the priesthood and took the monastic vows simultaneously.—Osberni Vit. S. Dunstan. c. 8, 12.
[402] Osbern. Vit. S. Dunstan. c. 35.—Florent. Wigorn. ann. 964, 973.—Matt. Westmonast. ann. 963.
[403] Vit. S. Æthelwoldi c. 14.
[404] Si ista solerti scrutinio curassetis, non tam horrenda et abominanda ad aures nostras de clericis pervenissent ... dicam dolens quo modo diffluant in commessationibus, in ebrietatibus, in cubilibus et impudicitiis, ut jam domus clericorum putentur prostibula meretricum, conciliabulum histrionum.... Ad hoc ergo exhauserunt patres nostri thesauros suos? ad hoc fiscus regius, detractis redditibus multis elargitus est? ad hoc ecclesiis Christi agros et possessiones regalis munificentia contulit, ut deliciis clericorum meretrices ornentur? luxuriosæ convivæ præparentur? canes ac aves et talia ludicra comparentur? Hoc milites clamant, plebs submurmurat, mimi cantant et saltant, et vos negligitis, vos parcitis, vos dissimulatis.—Oratio Edgari ann. 969 (Spelman. Concil. I. 477).
[405] Vit. S. Æthelwold. c. 12.