[433] “Theodori archiepiscopi Cantuariensis pœnitentiale,” in Migne’s “Patrologia,” vol. xcix. col. 938 and 940. [434] “Halitgarii episcopi Cameracensis liber pœnitentialis,” in Migne’s “Patrologia,” vol. cv. col. 706. [435] See Appendix XIII, p. 438. [436] The two words were used as interchangeable. Du Cange quotes a text of 1389, reading: “Come il fust venu en la ville de Necie près Faloise un questeur ou porteur de pardons.” _Sub verbo_ “Perdonantia.” [437] In England as elsewhere forgers were busy. One is captured at great expense in the year 51 Ed. III: “To John Compton, one of the king’s archers of his crown. In money paid to him for the expenses of himself and other archers in his retinue, coming from Gloucester to London, to conduct and deliver up Thomas Pardoner and Reginald Clerc, forgers of the seal of the Lord the Pope . . . also for hire of horses for the same Thomas and Reginald and for divers other costs occurred in their safe conduct, £6.” Devon, “Issues of the Exchequer,” 1837, p. 203. [438] “Archæologia,” vol. xx. p. 53, John Webb’s translation. See Appendix XIV, p. 439. [439] Prologue to the “Canterbury Tales,” and Prologue to the “Pardoner’s Tale.” [440] “The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio” . . . done into English . . . by John Payne, London, 1886, vol. ii. p. 278, tenth Tale, sixth Day. [441] See Appendix, XV p. 440. [442] Same Appendix. [443] “Excommunicatis gratiam absolutionis impendit. Vota peregrinationis ad apostolorum limina, ad Terram Sanctam, ad Sanctum Jacobum non prius remisit quam tantam pecuniam recepisset, quantam, juxta veram æstimationem, in eisdem peregrinationibus expendere debuissent, et ut cuncta concludam brevibus, nihil omnino petendum erat, quod non censuit, intercedente pecunia, concedendum.” “Historia Anglicana”; Rolls Series, vol. i. p. 452. [444] See Appendix XV, p. 444. [445] Lyndsay, “Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits” performed at Linlithgow, 1540; Early English Text Society, 1869; John Heywood, “The Pardoner and the Frere, the Curate and Neybour Pratte,” 1533; “The foure Ps,” 1545. [446] Payne’s “Boccaccio,” vol. ii. pp. 280, 287. [447] “The Leofric Missal” (1050–1072), edited by F. E. Warren, 1883, Clarendon Press, pp. lxi, 3, 4. [448] “Historia Anglorum” (Historia minor), ed. Sir F. Madden, London, 1866; vol. iii. p. 60, Rolls Series. [449] Devon’s “Issues of the Exchequer,” 1837, p. 176. [450] “Le livre des fais et bonnes mœurs du sage roy Charles,” by Christine de Pisan, chap. xxxiii. vol. i. p. 633; “Nouvelle Collection de Mémoires,” ed. Michaud and Poujoulat, Paris, 1836. [451] “Pantagruel,” book ii. chap. xvii., “Comment Panurge gagnoit les pardons.” [452] “Farce d’un pardonneur, d’un triacleur et d’une tavernière,” Viollet le Duc, “Ancien théâtre français,” Paris, 1854–57, vol. ii. p. 50. [453] “The Pleasaunt Historie of Lazarillo de Tormes, . . . drawen out of Spanish by David Rouland, of Angelsey.” London, 1586, Sig. G. iii.