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

 holy vestments, and books of religious houses, are for- 

 bidden 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 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 Lyndewoods 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 

 sextaferia, are mentioned often, and are to be understood 

 of the days of the week numerically on which such punish- 

 ment is to be inflicted. 



