[215] Lingard thus accepts the Grith law as genuine. [216] “Anglo-Saxon Church,” i. 187. [217] See p. 112. [218] “Facts and Fictions,” p. 280. [219] “Our Title-Deeds,” p. 119. [220] “Facts and Fictions,” p. 281. [221] See p. 17, Note 2. [222] “The Endowment and Establishment of the Church of England,” pp. 156, 157, ed. 1885. [223] Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 191, 203. [224] “Const. Hist.,” ed. 1880; i. 261, note 1. [225] Thorpe’s “Ancient Laws,” i. 359-430. [226] Thorpe’s translation, ii. 201, ed. 1845. [227] “Facts and Fictions,” 286, 287. [228] Thorpe, i. 348. [229] “Facts and Fictions,” 305, 306. [230] _Ibid._, 309, 310. [231] John de Athon, who wrote commentaries in the middle of the fourteenth century on the “Constitutions of Otho,” a papal legate that held a council in London in 1237, informs us that the canon law imposed on the rector the reparation of his church, meaning the nave as well as the chancel. Folio ed. 1504. [232] Burnet, i. 223. [233] Hallam’s “Const. Hist.,” i. 78. [234] Queen Mary was for bringing in a Bill to restore the monastic lands, “But the noble lords in Parliament clapped their hands upon their swords, declaring that so long as they were able to wear a sword by their side, with their Abbey lands they would never part” (Hook’s “Archbishops,” vol. viii. p. 399). [235] Blackstone’s “Commentaries,” bk. i. 348, ed. 1765. “The Mirror of Justice,” by Andrew Horne, p. 14, ed. 1646. [236] Burn’s “Hist. of the Poor Laws,” p. 3, ed. 1764. See p. 86 for Edgar’s canon. [237] Blunt’s “History of the Reformation,” i. 389. [238] “Parson’s Counsellor,” p. 79, 6th ed. 1703. [239] “Church Defence,” etc., pp. 154, 155. [240] See Burnet’s letter to Dr. Lloyd, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. [241] “He had in his hands a whole treatise which contained only the faults of ten leaves of the ‘Anglia Sacra.’... The errors are so many and so gross that often the faults are as many as the lines, sometimes they are two to one.”—Bishop Burnet’s Reflections on Atterbury’s “Convocation.” [242] “Parson’s Counsellor,” p. 83, ed. 1703. [243] “Church Defence,” etc., ed. 1888, p. 154. [244] See a full history of this charity in the “31st Report of the Charity Commissioners,” 1837-8, vol. xxiv., p. 843, etc. [245] Matth. Paris, under A.D. 1240, has these words: “Cum ex auctoritatibus sanctorum patrum fructus ecclesiarum in certos usus, puta ecclesiæ, ministrorum et pauperum.” Mr. Fuller quotes the passage and thus translates: “That since, by the authority of the Holy Fathers, the revenues of the church were appropriated to the definite use of the church,” p. 139. There he stops, and omits, _ministers and poor_. The rectors of Reading referred to the tripartite division of their revenues, viz., to the church, ministers and poor. But it did not suit Fuller to give a fair, complete translation of the passage, because it referred to the tripartite division of the church revenues.