[227] “Facts and Fictions,” 286, 287.
[228] Thorpe, i. 348.
[229] “Facts and Fictions,” 305, 306.
[230] Ibid., 309, 310.
[231] John de Athon, who wrote commentaries in the middle of the fourteenth century on the “Constitutions of Otho,” a papal legate that held a council in London in 1237, informs us that the canon law imposed on the rector the reparation of his church, meaning the nave as well as the chancel. Folio ed. 1504.
[232] Burnet, i. 223.
[233] Hallam’s “Const. Hist.,” i. 78.
[234] Queen Mary was for bringing in a Bill to restore the monastic lands, “But the noble lords in Parliament clapped their hands upon their swords, declaring that so long as they were able to wear a sword by their side, with their Abbey lands they would never part” (Hook’s “Archbishops,” vol. viii. p. 399).
[235] Blackstone’s “Commentaries,” bk. i. 348, ed. 1765. “The Mirror of Justice,” by Andrew Horne, p. 14, ed. 1646.
[236] Burn’s “Hist. of the Poor Laws,” p. 3, ed. 1764. See [p. 86] for Edgar’s canon.