[1328] Wilkins IV. 209.
[1329] Le Plat, V. 88. The opinion which was held of the venality of the Roman Court in such matters is forcibly expressed in the instructions given to Lanssac, the French ambassador at Trent. He is ordered to press the abolition of the Papal power of dispensation “attendu que nul n’en est refusé s’il a argent.”—Ibid. p. 153.
[1330] Ejus sanctitati lex non sit præscribenda.—Ibid. p. 385.
[1331] Tax. Sac. Pœnitent. Ed. Gibbings, p. 13.—This was only one carlino (the tenth part of a ducat, equal to about fourpence), more than the charge for the bastard of a layman.
[1332] In 1526 or 1527, the authorities of Seville endeavored to regulate this by forbidding certain articles of dress to concubines, whether of ecclesiastics or laymen.—Wahu, Le Pope et la Société Moderne, Paris, 1879 p. 395.
[1333] Ribadeneira Vit. Ignat. Loyol. Lib. II. cap. v.
Ribadeneira was one of Loyola’s early disciples, and is therefore good authority. His description would show that permanent unions were formed, respected by the people but not recognized by the church, in the same manner as those alluded to by Bishop Pelayo, two centuries earlier.
[1334] Diaz de Luco, Practica Criminalis Canonica cap. lxxiii. (Venetiis, 1543).
[1335] Concil. Coloniens. ann. 1536, P. II. c. 28. Six years later, in 1542, Bishop Hermann embraced Lutheranism, married, and in 1546, was driven from his see and retired to his county of Wied, where he died some years afterwards, at the ripe age of 80 years.
[1336] Concil. Salisburg. XLI. (Dalham, Concil. Salisburgens. pp. 296-322).