[157] The most natural meaning of the word præmunire (given more particularly to the act of 1393) seems to be that suggested by Fuller, cent. xiv, (p. 148): to fence and fortify the regal power from foreign assault. See the whole bill, Ibid. p. 145-147.
[158] Execrabile statutum....fœdum et turpe facinus. Martin V to the Duke of Bedford, Fuller, cent. xiv. p. 148.
[159] When they have overmuch riches, both in great waste houses and precious clothes, in great feasts and many jewels and treasures. Wickliffe's Tracts and Treatises, edited by the Wickliffe Society, p. 224.
[160] Ibid, 240.
[161] Come again with bright heads. Ibid.
[162] Wickliffe, The Last Age of the Church.
[163] Long debating and deliberating with himself, with many secret sighs. Fox, Acts and M, i, p. 485, fol. Lond. 1684.
[164] These opinions are reported by Wickliffe, in a treatise preserved in the Selden MSS. and printed by Mr. J. Lewis, in his History of Wickliffe, App. No. 30, p. 349. He was present during the debate; quam audivi in quodam concilio a dominis secularibus. As I heard in a certain consultation among the lords temporal.
[165] Rymer, vii, p. 33, 83-88.
[166] The proud worldly priest of Rome, and the most cursed of clippers and purse-kervers. Lewis, History of Wickliffe, p. 37. Oxford, 1820.