[517] Knox’s Works, vol. iv., pp. 500-15, Laing’s edition.

[518] Wilkins, Concilia, iv., 44.

[519] Lingard, vol. v., p. 463.

[520] Froude, History of England, vol. x., p. 360.

[521] History of the Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe, vol. i., p. 45.

[522] Dodd, vol. iii., p. 400.

[523] Franciscan Chapter Register, p. 364.

[524] As late as the reign of Charles II, boiling alive was the penalty inflicted for clipping the King’s coin.

[525] Summa Theologica, S. Thomæ, Pars 2a, 2a, 2æ, Q. I., Art. 3.

[526] Cap. 9.