acted at
Greenwich, by command of Henry VIII. _Rolls House MS._

[73] Hall says "collar of the _garter_ of St. Michael," which, however, I
venture to correct.

[74] Rich. II. 12, cap. 7, 8, 9; Rich. II. 15, cap. 6.

[75] _Lansdowne MSS._ 1, fol. 26.

[76] Injunctions to the Monasteries: BURNET'S _Collect._ pp. 77-8.

[77] Letter of Thomas Dorset to the Mayor of Plymouth: _Suppression of the
Monasteries_, p. 36.

[78] "Divers of your noble predecessors, kings of this realm, have given
lands to monasteries, to give a certain sum of money yearly to the poor
people, whereof for the ancienty of the time they never give one penny.
Wherefore, if your Grace will build to your poor bedemen a sure hospital
that shall never fail, take from them these things.... Tie the holy idle
thieves to the cart to be whipped, naked, till they fall to labour, that
they, by their importunate begging take not away the alms that the good
charitable people would give unto us sore, impotent, miserable people, your
bedemen."--FISH'S _Supplication_: FOXE, vol. iv. p. 664.

[79] 27 Hen. VIII. cap. 25.

[80] Roads, harbours, embankments, fortifications at Dover and at Berwick,
etc.--STRYPE's _Memorials_, vol. 1. p. 326 and 419.

[81] It is to be remembered that the criminal law was checked on one side
by the sanctuary system, on the other by the practice of benefit of clergy.
Habit was too strong for legislation, and these privileges continued to
protect criminals long after they were abolished by statute. There is
abundant evidence that the execution of justice was as lax in practice as
it was severe in theory.

[82] 27 Ed. III. stat. 1; 38 Ed. III. stat. 2; 16 Rich. cap. 5.

[83] 25 Ed. III. stat. 4; stat. 5, cap. 22; 13 Rich. II. stat. 2, cap. 2; 2
Hen. IV. cap. 3; 9 Hen. IV. cap. 8.

[84] See p. 42.

[85] _Lansdowne MS._ 1, fol. 26; STOW'S _Chron._ ed. 1630, p. 338.

[86] 2 Hen. IV. cap. 3; 9 Hen. IV. cap. 8.

[87] 2 Hen. IV. cap. 15.

[88] Hen. VII. cap. 4. Among the miscellaneous publications of the Record
Commission, there is a complaint presented during this reign, by the
gentlemen and the farmers of Carnarvonshire, accusing the clergy of
systematic seduction of their wives and daughters.

[89] Hen. IV. cap. 15.

[90] MORTON'S _Register_, MS. Lambeth. See vol. ii. cap. 10, of the second
edition of this work for the results of Morton's investigation.

[91] MORTON'S _Register_; and see WILKINS'S _Concilia_, vol. iii. pp.
6