the epistles; the hallelujah and
tracts, the sequences, the creed to be sung at mass, the
offertories, the hymns holy, and Lamb of God, the communion,
&c., which relate to the choir at the singing of a solemn
mass." This is the Rev. J. Lewis's account; _idem opus_,
vol. ii., 168.]

[Footnote 213: "_Of a Clerk that is an Hunter._"

"We ordain that if any clerk be defamed of trespass
committed in forest or park of any man's, and thereof be
lawfully convicted before his ordinary, or do confess it to
him, the diocesan shall make redemption thereof in his
goods, if he have goods after the quality of his fault; and
such redemption shall be assigned to him to whom the loss,
hurt, or injury, is done; but if he have no goods, let his
bishop grievously punish his person according as the fault
requireth, lest through trust to escape punishment they
boldly presume to offend." _Fol._ 86, _rev._: vide _infra_.
(The same prohibition against clergymen being Hunters
appears in a circular letter, or injunctions, by Lee,
Archbishop of York, A.D. 1536. "Item; they shall not be
common _Hunters ne Hawkers_, ne playe at gammes prohibytede,
as dycese and cartes, and such oder." Burnet's _Hist. of the
Reformation_; vol. iii. p. 136, "Collections.")

"_Of the removing of Clerks' Concubines._"

"Although the governors of the church have always laboured
and enforced to drive and chase away from the houses of the
church that rotten contagiousness of pleasant filthiness
with the which the sight and beauty of the church is
grievously spotted and defiled, and yet could never hitherto
bring it to pass, seeing it is of so great a lewd boldness
that it thursteth in unshamefastly without ceasing; we,
therefore," &c. _Fol._ 114, _rect._

"_Of Concubines, that is to say of them that keep
Concubines._"

"How unbecoming it is, and how contrary to the pureness of
Christians, to touch sacred things with lips and hands
polluted, or any to give the laws and praisings of
cleanness, or to present himself in the Lord's temple, when
he is defiled with the spots of lechery, not only the divine
and canonical laws, but also the monitions of secular
princes, hath evidently seen by the judgment of holy
consideration, commanding and enjoining both discreetly and