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remembered. It came round about the fences, and up 
to the gravel walks— people could not walk to Webb’s 
and Storie’s.’ 
“ April 3. 1685. — This afternoon nine or ten houses 
were burned or blown up, that looked into S. James’s 
Park, between Webb’s and Storie’s.” Diary of Philip 
Madox, MS. formerly in the possession of Thorpe the 
bookseller. 
No.3. Capel Court. —So named from Sir Wil- 
liam Capell, draper, Lord Mayor in 1503, whose 
mansion stood on the site of the present Stock 
Exchange.— Pennant’s Common-place Book. 
No. 4. Bloomsbury Market. — This market, built 
by the Duke of Bedford, was opened in March, 
1730. Query, was there a market on the site 
before ? — bid. 
No.5. Bartlet’s Buildings. — Macheril’s Quaker 
Cojfce-house, frequently mentioned at the begin- 
ning of the last century, was in these buildings. — 
id. 
No. 6. St. Olave’s, Crutched Friars. — Names of 
yarious persons who have occupied houses in this 
parish: Lady Sydney, 1586 — Lady Walsingham, 
1590 — Lady Essex, 1594— Lord Lumley, 1594 
— Viscount Sudbury, 1629 — Philip Lord Her- 
bert, 1646 — Dr. Gibbon, 1653 — Sir R. Ford, 
1653 — Lord Brounker, 1673 — Sir Cloudesley 
Shovel, 1700. — Extracts from the Registers made 
by the Rev. H. H. Goodhall, 1818. 
Epwarp F. Ruweavtr. 
WIVES OF ECCLESIASTICS. 
In reply to your correspondent’s query as to 
the “wives of ecclesiastics,’ I find amongst my 
notes one to this effect’: — 
Error, to assume in ancient genealogies that a 
branch is necessarily extinct, simply because the 
last known representative is described as ‘ Cleri- 
cus,” and ergo, must have died S. P. L. 
It will be obvious to many, of your readers that 
Clericus is nomen generale for all such as were 
learned in the arts of reading and writing, and 
whom the old law deemed capable of claiming 
benefit of clergy, —a benefit not confined to those 
in orders, if the ordinary’s deputy standing by 
could say “legit ut clericus.” 
The title of Clericus, then, in earlier times as 
now, belonged not only to those in the holy mi- 
nistry of the Church, and to whom more strictly 
applied the term Clergy, cither regular or secular, 
but to those as well who by their function or 
course of life practised their pens in any court or 
otherwise, as Clerk of the King’s Wardrobe, Clerks 
of the Exchequer, &e. ‘Though in former times 
clerks of this description were frequently in holy 
orders and held benefices, it must be evident that 
they were not all so of necessity; and the in- 
stances are so numerous where persons having the 
title of “Clericus” appear nevertheless to have 
been in the married state, and to have discharged 
functions incompatible with the service of the 
Church, that the assertion will not be denied that 
the restrictions as to contracting matrimonial al- 
liances did not extend to clerks not in holy orders 
or below the grade of subdiaconus. ‘The Regis- 
trum Brevium furnishes a precedent of a writ, 
“* De clerico infra sacros ordines constituto non eli- 
gendo in officium.” This distinction alone would 
prove that other clerks were not ineligible to 
office. The various decrees of the Church may 
be cited to show that the prohibition to marry 
did not include all clerks generally. Pope 
Gregory VII., in a synod held in 1074, “inter- 
dixit clericis, maxime divino minisierio conse- 
cratis uxores habere, vel cum mulieribus habitare, 
nisi quas Nicena Synodus vel alii canones exce- 
perunt.” 
The statutes made by Anselm, Archbishop of 
Canterbury, Thomas, Archbishop elect of York, 
and all the other bishops of England, in 1108, in 
presence of King Henry I., and with the assent of 
his barons, confine the interdiction respecting mar- 
riages to Presbyteri, Diaconi et Subdiaconi, and a 
provision is made by them for those cases where 
marriages had been contracted since the interdict 
at the Council of London (that probably in 1103), 
viz. that such should be precluded thereafter 
from celebrating mass, if they persisted in retain- 
ing their wives. “Illi vero presbyteri, diaconi, 
subdiaconi, qui post interdictum Londoniensis 
Concilii feeminas suas tenuerunt vel alias duxe- 
runt, si amplius missam celebrare voluerint, eas a 
se omnino sie facient alienas, ut nec illee in domos 
eorum, nec ipsi in domos earum intrent. ... Illi 
autem presbyteri qui divini altaris et sacrorum 
ordinum contemptores preelegerint cum mulie- 
ribus habitare a divino officio remoti, omnique 
ecclesiastico beneficio privati, extra chorum po- 
nantur, infames pronunciati. Qui vero rebellis et 
contemptor feeminam non reliquerit, et missam cele- 
brare presumpserit, vocatus ad satisfactionem si 
neglexerit, viij’. die excommunicetur. Eadem 
sententia archidiaconos et canonicos omnes com- 
plectitur, et de mulieribus relinquemdis et de vi- 
tanda earum conversatione, et de districtione cen- 
sure si statuta transgressi fuerint. .. . Presbyteri 
vero qui relictis mulieribus, Deo et sacris altaribus 
servire elegerint, xl. dies ab officio cessantes, pro 
se interim vicarios habebunt, injuncta eis pceni- 
tentia secundum hoe quod episcopis eorum visum 
fuerit.”. In 1138 the penalty for priests marrying 
was deprivation of their benefices, and exclusion 
from the celebration of divine service : —‘“ Sanc- 
torum patrum vestigiis inhzrentes, presbyteros, 
diaconos, subdiaconos uxoratos, aut concubinarios, 
ecclesiasticis officiis et beneficiis privamus, ac ne 
quis eorum missam audire presumat Apostolica 
auctoritate prohibemus.” 
Many such deerees have been made at various 
ee Lal 
