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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 J 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. 
[Item 34th. That as religious men ought continually to 
be advancing in holiness, he enjoins them when they have 
performed the observances of their order and regular disci- 
pline, to frequent the cloisters for the reading of the holy 
scriptures and for devout contemplation.] 
[Item 35th. A special injunction to the prior, exempli- 
fying the hospitality that prevailed in monastic establish- 
ments. That when any relation of any of the canons should 
come on a visit to him, his reception should be liberal 
according to his condition : suggesting, however, that the 
brethren should avoid being overburthensom© to the Priory 
in such matters.] 
[Item 36th. It avails but little to make laws unless atten- 
tion is paid to their execution. In order that they may by 
frequent hearing be impressed on the most treacherous 
memories, and that no one may pretend ignorance of them ; 
enjoins and orders that these injunctions and the before- 
mentioned decrees shall be written in a volume, and all and 
singular of them be read fully in the province of the whole 
convent twice in every year. Eequires observance of all 
of them under penalties. Finally, reserves to himself the 
power of altering in any way either the injunctions or the 
penalties.] 
In the course of the Yisitatio Notabilis the constitutions 
of Legate Ottobonus are frequently referred to. Ottobonus 
was afterwards Pope Adrian Y. and died in 1276. His 
the other the communion -cloth soiled with cabbage and the greasy- 
drippings of a gammon of bacon. The good dame at the great farm- 
house, who was to furnish the cloth, being a notable woman, thought it 
best to save her clean linen, and so sent a foul clotli that had covered 
her own table for two or three Sundays before. — G. W 
