ing his country,
about the middle of the fourteenth century, when the results of the
attempted experiment were certain and manifest, that great lover of
books, a late student at Paris, who had been a fervent admirer of the
French capital, Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham.

FOOTNOTES:

[220] "Volentes nos ipsos humiliare pro Illo Qui Se pro nobis humiliavit
usque ad mortem ... offerimus et libere concedimus Deo et ... domino
nostro papae Innocentio ejusque catholicis successoribus, totum regnum
Angliae et totum regnum Hiberniae, cum omni jure et pertinentiis suis, pro
remissione peccatorum nostrorum." Hereupon follows the pledge to pay for
ever to the Holy See "mille marcas sterlingorum," and then the oath of
fealty to the Pope as suzerain of England. Stubbs, "Select Charters,"
Oxford, 1876, 3rd ed., pp. 284 ff.

[221] R. W. Eyton, "A key to Domesday, showing the Method and Exactitude
of its Mensuration ... exemplified by ... the Dorset Survey," London,
1878, 4to, p. 156.

[222] "Historical maps of England during the first thirteen centuries,"
by C. H. Pearson, London, 1870, fol. p. 61.

[223] Concerning their power and the part they played, see for example
the confirmation by Philip VI. of France, in November, 1329, of the
regulations submitted to him by that "religious and honest person, friar
Henri de Charnay, of the order of Preachers, inquisitor on the crime of
heresy, sent in that capacity to our kingdom and residing in
Carcassonne." Sentences attain not only men, but even houses; the king
orders: "_Premierement_, quod domus, plateae et loca in quibus haereses
fautae fuerunt, diruantur et nunquam postea reedificentur, sed perpetuo
subjaceant in sterquilineae vilitati," &c. Isambert's "Recueil des
anciennes Lois," vol. iv. p. 364.

[224] "Speculum vitae B. Francisci et sociorum ejus," opera Fratris G.
Spoelberch, Antwerp, 1620, 8vo, part i. chap. iv.

[225] Brewer and Howlett, "Monumenta Franciscana," Rolls, 1858-82, 8vo,
vol. i. p. 10.

[226] Letter of the year 1238 or thereabout; "Roberti Grosseteste
Epistolae," ed. Luard, Rolls, 1861, p. 179.

[227]

A bettre felaw sholde men noght finde,
He wolde suffre, for a quart of wyn,
A good felawe to have his concubyn
A twelf-month and excuse him atte fulle.

Prologue of the "Canterbury Tales." The name of summoner was held in
little esteem, and no wonder:

"Artow thanne a bailly?"--"Ye," quod he;
He dorste nat for verray filthe