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Ifm 23d. He bids them diftribute xh€\x pittances ^ pltancias^y* 
regularly on obits, anniverfaries, feftivals, &c. 
Item 2 5th. All and every one of the canons are hereby inhibit- 
ed from {landing godfather to any hoy for the future, " ne com- 
patres alkujus pueri de cetero fieri prefumatis," unlefs by exprefs 
licenfe from the bifhop obtained ; becaufe from fuch relationfhip 
favour and alfedtion, nepotifm, and undue influence, arife, to 
the injury and detriment of religious inftitutions 
Item 26th. The vifitor herein feverely reprimands the canons 
for appearing publicly in what would be called in the univerfities 
an irrijlatutable manner, and for wearing of boots, " calig^ de 
" Bnrneto, et fotularium in ocrearum loco, ad modum fotu- 
" larium'." 
5 " Piianciay an allowance of bread and beer, or other provlfion to any pious ufe, 
*' efpecially to the religious in a monaftery, &c. for augmentation of their commons." 
Gtof. to KenncWs Far. Aniiq. 
Ji The relationftiip between fponfors and their god-children, who were called 
" fpintual fins and daugtiters, was formerly efteemed much more facred than at pre- 
«' fent. The prefents at chriftenings were fometimes very confiderable : the connexion 
*• lafted through life, and was clofed with a legacy. This laft mark of attention feems 
" to have been thought almoft indifpenfable : for, in a will, from whence no extrafts 
" have been given, the teftator left every one of his god-children a builiel of barley." 
Sir John Cultums Hiji. of Havjjled. 
D. Margaretce filias Regis primogenitas, quam filiolam, quia ejus in baptifmo 
" compater fuit, appellat, cyphum aureum et quadraginta libras, legavit." — Archbifliop 
Partier de Antiquitate Ecclef. Brit, fpeaking of Archbifhop Morton. 
' Du Frefne is copious on caliga: of feveral forts. " Hoc item de Clericis, prefertim 
" beneficiatis : catigis iczca.t\s (chequered) rubeis, et viridibus publice utentibus dici- 
" mus effe cenfendum." Statut. Ecclef. Tutet. The chequered boots feem to be the 
highland plaid (lockings.—-" Eurnetum, i.e. Brunetum, pannus non ex lana nativl coloris 
*' confeftus."— " Soiularium, i. e. fubtalaris, qulafubtalo eft. Peculium genus, quibus 
maxima Monachi nofte utebantur in seftate ; in hyerae vero Soccis." 
This writer gives many quotations concerning Sotularia, which were not to be made 
too Qiapely; nor were the caligte to be laced on too nicely. 
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