[237] Blunt’s “History of the Reformation,” i. 389.
[238] “Parson’s Counsellor,” p. 79, 6th ed. 1703.
[239] “Church Defence,” etc., pp. 154, 155.
[240] See Burnet’s letter to Dr. Lloyd, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.
[241] “He had in his hands a whole treatise which contained only the faults of ten leaves of the ‘Anglia Sacra.’... The errors are so many and so gross that often the faults are as many as the lines, sometimes they are two to one.”—Bishop Burnet’s Reflections on Atterbury’s “Convocation.”
[242] “Parson’s Counsellor,” p. 83, ed. 1703.
[243] “Church Defence,” etc., ed. 1888, p. 154.
[244] See a full history of this charity in the “31st Report of the Charity Commissioners,” 1837-8, vol. xxiv., p. 843, etc.
[245] Matth. Paris, under A.D. 1240, has these words: “Cum ex auctoritatibus sanctorum patrum fructus ecclesiarum in certos usus, puta ecclesiæ, ministrorum et pauperum.” Mr. Fuller quotes the passage and thus translates: “That since, by the authority of the Holy Fathers, the revenues of the church were appropriated to the definite use of the church,” p. 139. There he stops, and omits, ministers and poor. The rectors of Reading referred to the tripartite division of their revenues, viz., to the church, ministers and poor. But it did not suit Fuller to give a fair, complete translation of the passage, because it referred to the tripartite division of the church revenues.
[246] See canon in Latin in Selden, c. viii. s. 26, pp. 233, etc.