[151] The following passages of the _Decretum Gratiani_, besides those already quoted, bear on the subject: (_a_) i. 23. 3, _ex Isid. de Eccl. Officiis_, ii. 2 ‘His igitur lege Patrum cavetur, ut a vulgari vita seclusi a mundi voluptatibus sese abstineant; non spectaculis, non pompis intersint’: (_b_) i. 44. 7, _ex Conc. Nannetensi_ ‘Nullus presbyterorum ... quando ad collectam presbyteri convenerit ... plausus et risus inconditos, et fabulas inanes ibi referre aut cantare praesumat, aut turpia ioca vel urso vel tornatricibus ante se fieri patiatur’; I cannot identify the Council of Nantes referred to: the canon is not amongst those supposed to belong to the Council of 660, and given by Mansi, xviii. 166: (_c_) i. 46. 6, _ex Conc. Carthag._ iv. c. 60 [398. Mansi, iii. 956] ‘Clericum scurrilem et verbis turpibus ioculatorem ab officio retrahendum censemus’: (_d_) ii. 4. 1. 1, _ex Conc. Carthag._ vii (419) ‘Omnes etiam infamiae maculis aspersi, id est histriones ... ab accusatione prohibentur.’ The _Decretum Gratiani_ was drawn up †1139. The _Decretales_ of Gregory IX (1234) incorporate can. 16 of the _Lateran Council_ (Mansi, xxii. 1003), held in 1215 (_Decr. Greg. IX_, iii. 1. 15) ‘[Clerici] mimis, ioculatoribus, et histrionibus non intendant’; and the _Liber Sextus_ of Boniface VIII (1298) adds the following decree of that Pope (_Sext. Decr._ iii. 1. 1) ‘Clerici qui, clericalis ordinis dignitati non modicum detrahentes, se ioculatores seu goliardos faciunt aut bufones, si per annum artem illam ignominiosam exercuerint, ipso iure, si autem tempore breviori, et tertio moniti non resipuerint, careant omni privilegio clericali.’ [152] Wilkins, i. 585. For can. 16 of the Lateran council see last note. The prohibition is again confirmed by can. 17 of the Synod of Exeter in 1287 (Wilkins, ii. 129). [153] _Constitutiones_ of Bp. Grosseteste in his _Epistolae_ (R. S.), 159 ‘ne mimis, ioculatoribus, aut histrionibus intendant.’ In 1230, Grosseteste’s predecessor, Hugh of Wells, had bid his archdeacons inquire, ‘an aliqui intendant histrionibus’ (Wilkins, i. 627). [154] _Annales de Burton_ (_Ann. Monast._ R. S. i. 485) ‘histrionibus potest dari cibus, quia pauperes sunt, non quia histriones; et eorum ludi non videantur, vel audiantur, vel permittantur fieri coram abbate vel monachis.’