Note 160 — Book VI.
John Beames translation
Or at the Door of the Monastery, say the Mirror and Lord Coke. (Mirror. c. 1. s. 3. Co. Litt. 34. a.) The reason for requiring the endowment to be made at the door of these places was to give publicity to the transaction. (Bracton 92. a. Fleta L. 5. c. 23.)