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heoded by the writers of the past generation, is nom sussyplaced at our disposai throuo sis moll-directed essoris of modem research, did in thela day exerciso a vast and pomerta influonce over tho Moplo of this land, hoth in a religio , as meli as in a political and sociat potat of Viem is a proposition to which seW persons mill res etheir assent. However much theso institutions may beu uited to the spirit of the age 'o use a familiar butfrequently mlaapplied expr sion) thera can be no do tthat in their day they mere os inestimabie Qvantage totho localities Where chance had placed them. Wo aream tomed at tho present time to boast of our numerous charit te institutions, and perhaps to ove rate their importance in comparison mitti the efforis os a sormer age ;we have our hospitias, our infirmaries, our orphanisges, Our homes, Our asylums, o parochiat schoola, o visiting
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Wanis of the people, bub it also looked to their materialand physical requirementa, Which othemiae might have gone neglected or Wholly unprovided sorirae monastery Was, as it Were, both in ita educiutionaland missionao aveck What the university and thocathedria iam sit; it hepι up 9 om among ita inmates a constant and regular suppla os candidates sor holy ordere, many of Whom Would go sortii into tho morid, and car into thela futuro sphere of action much os the good
govomanoe and rule learat in inela mollier mo Eteo; whilo in the ranis os ita permanent adherenis thero Would noι M Wanting aealous and servent priesis to minister totho home population, and proach to them os tho paths ich lload unto mace. It was thia missionary aspecι ita sorinod so bright a scaturo in the monaatio system, and whita even now in these Mys the murta os Englandis Minning to underatand and to appreciate. The modem schoes of thought Maches us to look uponmonasteries M institutiona inita, though onco beneficial
ine guthors of their oWn decv, and boro Within them- solves tho seeta os dissolution, but that this is a grave
i This is Misared by our early episcopia registere, some of hiis, mely, thoge of the dio se of resord, I have had the oppori ni of examining, through therintaeas of the Registrar, Whoae murtev I here heg leave to ---leve. In theae registere areeontainin fuli and detialed lisis of the variora persona admitted is holyordere at esta ordination, aeolytes, subdemons, Maeons, and primis, and they are singularly interestingand valu Ie, Meanse they frequently mention the ditarent in nasteries stom m nee the eandidates proeeMed. They are vell orthyo more time and attentionthan I eould hesto them.
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Viithsy had sor generations elung. Proud as they mero in
the magnitudo of their possessio , the pomer and ambition of their abbola, the splendour os inela taurinos, and the attractionem os their services, they yet pavedine may sor their οὐ destruction, Which, nos heedingriches Wen camo on floMy but ste ij, and ah lashdid ita appotnted -rh. And tho primary cause of this Was, as I tino it, the ovemeening destre of the monasteries in Deo themaelves hom the wholmomo disciplinoa episcopia visitation. Papia exemptions Were eagerlysought to Deo them hom inis supposed interserenos, and many and bittor mere tho contests Whieli placed themonastic and episcopia systema in unisiendly relationa. me Chronielo os Evestam aud tho history of St. Augustinea Canter V, among ostera, Ehom us hoW this antagoniam Was sestered by the abbola, Who carried
papia exemptions. of this me have an am illustration in ths time os Richata, artabishop os Cantecturn in there n os Henry II. In a letter Which this prelato mrototo Pope Alexander III., about tho year 1180, he complaius fidit of tho abbotos Malmesbury refusing obedienco
in tho Uinop os Salisbury, and then hs inve ha bitrartyagainst exemptions in theas strong terma: - Adversus primates et episcopos intumescunt abbatos, ' nec qui majoribus suis reverentiam exhibeat et honorem. Evacuatum est obedientiae jugum, in qua erat unica spes salutis, et praevaricationis antiquas
remedium. Detestantur abbates habere suorum e cessuum correctorem, Vagam impunitatis licentiam
amplectuntur, claustralisque militiae jugum relaxant in omnem desiderii libertatem. Hic est, quod monas- feriorum sere omnium facultates datae sunt in direp- tionem et praedam. Nam abbatea exterius curam inmis in desideriis agunt, non curantes, dummodo lauto exhibeantur, et fiat pax in diebus eorum: claustrales vero, tamquam acephali otio vacant et Diqistro: by OOQ le
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Vaniloquio : neo enim praesidem habent, qui eos ad frugem vitae melioris inclinet. Quod si tumultuosas
forum contentiones audiretis, Olmatrum non mul- tum diffsus crederetis a foro. Ηaee Omnia, reVΘ-
rende pater, vestrae correctionis judicium postulant tompestivum. Nisi enim huic malo maturius reme- dium adhibeatur, Verendum est, ns sicut abbas
opiscopis, ita episcopi ab archiepiscopis, et a praelatis suis decani et archidiaconi eximantur. Et quae est' baeo sorma justitiae, aut potius juria deformitas, prohibere, ne discipuli magistro consentiant, no filii odiant patri, ne milites sequantur principem; ne' sorvi domino sint subjoctii Quid est eximere ab ' opiscoporum jurisdictione abbates, nisi contumaciam,' ae rebellionem praecipere, et armare filios in parentos videant, quaeso, ista, et judicent, qui judicant orbem
terrae, ne inde emanare Videantur injuriae, unde jura' sumuntur. Arguemur temeritatis, et dicemur os nos- trum posuisso in coelum, qui non de superbiae spiritu, sod do atramentario doloris haec scribimus: sentimus V oquidam familiares angustias, qui publicas deploramus: nso fortitudo nostra sortitudo est lapidis, nec ostro nostra aenea est, ut tam on mea injurias dissimulare
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sinoioni and hono able abbey os inovo ter, M set besore the minor in theso Volumes.
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ing entrios at various perioda much later than that ofino inrtulary thaed. The caligraphy is excellent, and the rubricared lettera together With the floriared bordem to the pages ars mortis of romais. A sae-simila olino fimi pago forma a Dontispiem to tho fimi volumo of this mork. With regard to tho contenta of thia cartula , the method os arrangement is a thing but lucid or artistio; there is si system soliomed, but thoreason sor it is not apparent, Whilo ita desecta aro most
Tho fidit pari os the manuscript containa chartera os donation to the monastery, classi d alphaboticatly a oording to localities, this is continued to solio 180; thona page or tvo occur, Whoro is ensered an inquisition of tho tWent laurin year os Henry VIII., after Whioli thoro is another collection of chartem, also arrangod alphaboticassy; this tines us to solio 228. Anoster section is then started containing papia bulla, and iam Various chartem os donation, pleadings, and miscellaneoua documents. Follo ing thia is a series os extents of minora boloning to M. Peterla, theso aro valvabis sor tho minutensas mith Which thsy deseribotho landri and tho services incident theroto. Wo then
have very curious and interesting rules conoeming the management of minora; and the manuscript concludes mith a miscellanisus selection of pleiaings and othormsittora Writton on the v leaves besoro montioned, sit variova times and is various hanci. These arbitrary divisiona or sections stre nos uncommon in monastio cartularies, there is a similar arrang
mont in the Rammy cotulary noW preserved in the Publio Meord Ossies, but it is certainj none of the beati A simple chronological sequenm mould have boon much