Footnote 17: See the inscription on the monument to the elder Pitt in the Guildhall, in the City of London.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 18: It has been said that they were used at Creçy, but this is uncertain.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 19: Lichfield Cathedral (p. [213]) is transitional.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 20: Provisors are the persons provided or appointed to a benefice.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 21: So called from the first words of the writs appointed to be issued under it, Præmunire facias; the first of these two words being a corruption of Præmoneri.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 22: The name is said to have been derived from a low German word, lollen, to sing, from their habit of singing, but their clerical opponents derived it from the Latin lolium (tares), as if they were the tares in the midst of the wheat which remained constant to the Church.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 23: i.e., if a priest, who is like gold, allow himself to rust, or fall into sloth or sin, how can he expect the 'lewid man' or layman, who is as iron to him, to be free from these faults?[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 24: A nice conscience; to see offence where there is none.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 25: Followed.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 26: Many clerics took one of the minor orders so as to secure the immunities of the clergy, without any intention of being ordained a deacon or a priest.[Back to Main Text]