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cleanliness, the neglect of which would disgrace a common 

 convivial meeting. 1 



Item 33d says that, though the relics of saints, the plate, 

 holy vestments, and books of religious houses, are forbidden 

 by canonical institutes to be pledged or lent out upon pawn ; 

 yet, as the visitor finds this to be the case in his several 

 visitations, he therefore strictly enjoins the prior forthwith to 

 recall those pledges, and to restore them to the convent ; and 

 orders that all the papers and title deeds thereto belonging 

 should be safely deposited, and kept under three locks and 

 keys. 



In the course of the Visitatio Notalnlis the constitutions of 

 Legate Ottobonus are frequently referred to. Ottobonus was 

 afterwards Pope Adrian V. and died in 1276. His constitu- 

 tions are in Lyndewood's Provinciate, and were drawn up in 

 the 52d of Henry III. 



In the Visitatio Notabilis the usual punishment is fasting 

 on bread and beer ; and in cases of repeated delinquency on 

 bread and water. On these occasions quarta feria, et sexta 

 feria, are mentioned often, and are to be understood of the 

 days of the week numerically on which such punishment is to 

 be inflicted. 



LETTER XV. 



THOUGH bishop Wykeham appears somewhat stern and rigid 

 in his visitatorial character towards the Priory of Selbome, yet 

 he was on the whole a liberal friend and benefactor to that 

 convent, which, like every other society or individual that fell 

 in his way, partook of the generosity and benevolence of that 

 munificent prelate. 



" In the year 1377 William of Wykeham, out of his mere 

 " good will and liberality, discharged the whole debts of the 



u ne turpe toral, ne sordida mappa 



" Corruget nares j ne non et cantliarus, et lanx ; 

 " Ostendat tibi te " 



