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as to make the beholders shudder with horror : " Quod ali- 

 quibus sunt horrori:" 11 he therefore enjoins them for the 

 future to see that the plate, cloths, and vestments be kept 

 bright, clean, and in decent order : and, what must surprise 

 the reader, adds that he expects for the future that the 

 sacrist should provide for the sacrament good wine, pure and 

 unadulterated ; and not, as had often been the practice, that 

 which was sour, and tending to decay : he says farther, that 

 it seems quite preposterous to omit in sacred matters that at- 

 tention to decent cleanliness, the neglect of which would dis- 

 grace a common convivial meeting. 12 



Item 33rd 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 sev- 

 eral visitations, he therefore strictly enjoins the prior forth- 

 with to recall those pledges, and to restore them to the con- 

 vent ; 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 Notabilis " the constitutions 

 of Legate Ottobonus are frequently referred to. Ottobonus 

 was afterwards Pope Adrian V., and died in 1276. His con- 

 stitutions are in Lyndewood's " Provinciate," and were drawn 

 up in the 52nd of Henry III. 



In the " Visitatio Notabilis " the usual punishment is fast- 

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

 on bread and water. On these occasions quarto, 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. 



NOTES 



1 See Lowth's "Life of Wykeham." G. W. 



2 Letters of this sort from Dr. Layton to Thomas Lord Cromwell are still 

 extant. G. W. 



8 A collation was a meal or repast on a fast-day in lieu of a supper. 

 G. W. 



4 The rule alluded to in Item loth, of not sleeping naked, was enjoined 

 the Knights Templars, who were also subject to the rules of St. Augustine. 

 See GURTLERI, Hist. Templariorum. G. W. 



