[6528]. For idiotæ irapiunt, read idiotæ vi rapiunt: the error was caused accidentally in the printing, and has escaped in the present edition.
[6571]. Matth. xx, 4.
[6741]. John iii, 3.
[6755]. Matth. vii, 1.
[6764]. Psal. l, 21.
[6815]. Isai. lv, 1.
[6825]. Mark xvi, 16.
[6831]. may no cherl chartre make. Such was the law of vileinage, then in existence. There is a curious story illustrative of the condition of the cherl or peasant, in the Descriptio Norfolciensium, in my Early Mysteries and other Latin Poems of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, p. 94. The 'cherl,' vilein, or bondman, could not even be put apprentice without the licence of the lord of the soil. In the curious poem on the Constitution of Masonry (14th cent.) published by Mr. Halliwell, the master is particularly cautioned on this point:—
The fowrthe artycul thys moste be,
That the mayster hym wel be-se