[763] The Spanish church was not alone in this looseness of discipline as regards canons. When Arthur of Britanny took up arms against his uncle King John, and advanced with an army to Tours at Easter, A. D. 1200, he there “more debito in ecclesia B. Martini in canonicum est receptus, et in stallum decani in vestibus chori, sicut canonicus installatus.”—Chron. Turonens. ann. 1200 (Martene Ampl. Collect. V. 1038).
[764] Hist. Compostell. Lib. III. cap. 11.
[765] Ibid. Lib. I. cap. 101 (Concil. Legionens. ann. 1114 can. 8).
[766] Concil. Palentin. ann. 1129 can. 5.—“Concubinæ clericorum manifestæ ejiciantur.”
[767] Hist. Compostellan. Lib. III. cap. 20.—“Pro modulo suæ possibilitatis.”
[768] Concil. Hispan. Sæc. XIII. (Martene Thesaur. IV. 167).
[769] “De los clérigos que casan á bendiciones habiendo órdenes sagradas, que pena deben haber ellos et aquellas con quien casan.—Casándose algunt clérigo que hobiese órden sagrada non debe fincar sin pena, ca débenle vedar de oficio, et tollerle el beneficio que hobiere de la eglesia por sentencia de descomulgamiento fasta que la dexe et faga penitencia de aquel yerro, etc.”—Siete Partidas, P. I. Tit. vi. l. 41.
[770] Concil. Valentin. ann. 1255 (Aguirre V. 197, 201).
[771] Constit. Synodal. Arnaldi de Peralta Episc. Valentin. (Aguirre V. 207-8).
[772] Synod. Gerund. ann. 1257 can. 4; ann. 1274 can. 25 (Martene Ampl. Coll. VIII. 1461, 1469).