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OF SELBORNE. 
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Item 18th. Charges them with grievously burdening tlie 
said Priory by means of sales, and gi-ants of liveries^ and cor- 
rodies^ 
The bishop, in item 19th, accuses the canons of neglect and 
omission with respect to their perpetual chantry-services. 
Item 20th. The visitor here conjures the prior and canons 
not to withhold their original alms, " eleemosijnas nor those that 
they were enjoined to distribute for the good of the souls of 
founders and benefactors : he also strictly orders that the frag- 
ments and broken victuals, both from the hall of their prior and 
their common refectory, should be carefully collected together 
by their eleemosynarms, and given to the poor without any dimi- 
nution ; the officer to be suspended for neglect or omission. 
Item 23rd. He bids them distribute their pittances, pitan- 
cias,''^ regularly on obits, anniversaries, festivals, &c. 
Item 25th. All and every one of the canons are hereby in- 
hibited from standing godfather to ani/ hoy for the future, " ne 
compatres alimjus pueri de cetero fieri presumatis," unless by 
express license from the bishop obtained ; because from such 
relationship favour and affection, nepotism, and undue influence 
arise, to the injury and detriment of religious institutions.^ 
1 " Liherationes, or liberaturce, allowances of corn, &c. to servants, delivered 
at certain times, and certain quantities, as clothes were among tiie allowances 
from religious houses to their dependants." — See the corrodies granted by 
Croylaiid abbey. — Hist, of Croyland, Appendix, No. xxxiv. 
" It is not improbable that the word in after-ages came to be confined to 
the uniform of the retainers or servants of the great, who were hence called 
livery servants." — Sir John Cullum's Hist, of Hawsted. 
2 A corrody is an allowance to a servant living in an abbey or priory. 
3 Fitancia, an allowance of bread and beer, or other provision to aay 
pious use, especially to the religious in a monastery, &c. for augmentation of 
their commons." — Gloss, to Kennefs Far. Antiq. 
* " The relationship between sponsors and their god-children, who were 
called spiritual sons and daughters, was formerly esteemed much more sacred 
than at present. The presents at christenings were sometimes very consider- 
able : the connection lasted through life, and was closed with a legacy. This 
last mark jof attention seems to have been thought almost indispensable : 
for, in a will, from whence no extracts have been given, the testator left every 
one of his god-children a bushel of barley."— Sir John Cullum's Hint, of 
Hawsted. 
''D. Margaretae filise Regis primogenitse, quam flliolam, quia ejus in 
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