1 88 CLUB NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS. 



If we suppose that : C : means capella, what is : E : unless 

 emendatione ; and what is the following, possible : C : but 

 a possible concessa ? 



Then come : X : DIES : and a possible : E : 



An indulgence was the relaxation of a penance. " Fasting 

 was the chief kind of punishment that was inflicted, and its 

 duration of ten, twenty, or thirty days was determined by the 

 magnitude of the offence. Archbishop Egbert fixed the fast of 

 one day at the rate of a silver penny for the rich, of fifty psalms 

 for the learned, and of fifty paternosters for the illiterate." 



The Grant of an Indulgence was in the i3th and i4th 

 centuries a long and carefully-drawn document, whilst its title 

 and declaration were short and concise. In the extracts that 

 follow, those words that throw light upon the meaning and 

 construction of the sentence in question are italicised : 



" Cum inter opera caritatis pium sit et meritorium ad 

 comtructionem et fdbricam ecclesiarum opem impendere 

 . . . devotionem vestram rogamus de bom's vestris 

 impendere curetis .... Nos autem 

 preter indulgenciam domini Papae et relaxacionem a 

 fratribus nostris coepiscopis indultam, XL dies . . . ." 

 1 8th July, 1227. 



"... et ad fabricam ejusdem de bonis suis sibi 

 a Deo collatis manus porrexerint adjutrices XL dies de 

 injunda sibi penitencia, Deo propicio, misericorditer 

 relaxamus. Indulgencias a venerabilibus patribus, coepis- 

 copis nostris catholicis ad id concessas ratas habentes 

 pariter et acceptas . . . ." A.D. 1304. 



"... omnibus vere penitentibus et confessis 

 prefatae Ecclesiae et fabricae benefactoribus, juxta arbitrii 

 sui modulum et devocionem conferentibus, quociens- 

 cumque (sic) hoc duxerint pia mente faciendum, pro 

 vice qualibet quadraginta dies indulgencicc concedimus, per 

 presentes A.D. 1308. 



