Note 759 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 7)
Reading edition
Wilkins, "Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ," London, 1737, 4 vols. fol., vol. i. p. 617, Nos. lxxiv., lxxv. The same prohibition is made by Walter de Chanteloup, ut supra, art. lv. The custom was a very old one, and existed already in Anglo-Saxon times; see "Ælfric's Lives of Saints," 1881, E.E.T.S., p. 461.