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muft furprife the reader, adds — that he expeds for the future that 
the facrill fliould provide for the facrament good wine, pure ai^d' 
unadulterated; and not, as had often been the pradice, that which 
was four, and tending to decay : — he fays farther, that it feems- 
quite prepofterous to omit in facred matters- that attention to de- 
cent cleanHnefs, the negled: of which would diigrace a common- 
convivial meeting 
Item 33d fays that, though the relics of faints, the plate, holy 
veftments, and books of religious houfes, are forbidden by canon- 
ical inftltutes to be pledged or lent out upon pawn ; yet, as the- 
vifitor finds this to be the cafe in his feveral vifitations, he there- 
fore ftriftly enjoins the prior forthwith to recall thofe pledges, and 
to rcftore them to the convent ; and orders that all the papers and' 
title deeds thereto belonging fliould be fafely depofited, and kept 
under three locks and keys. 
In the courfe of the VifitaUo NotabUis the conjlttutions of Legate 
Ottobonus are frequently referred to. Ottoboma was aftcrv/ards 
Tope Adrian V. and died in 1276. His conftitutions are in Lyndeivood^ 
Frovinciale, and were drawn up in the 5 2d of Hany III. 
la the Fifitatio NotabUis the ufual punifliment is fafting on bread 
and beer ; and in cafes of repeated delinquency on bread and water. 
On thefe occafions qiiarta fcr'ia, Ql fcxta fcria, arc mentioned often, 
and are to be underftood of tlie days of the zvcck numerically on 
which llich punifnment is to be inflicted. 
' " ■ ne turpe toral, ne fordida mappa 
" Corruget nares ; ne non et cantharus, et lanx 
OHendat tibi te • " 
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