Note 199 — Book VII.

Poterit etiam Donatio in liberam eleemosinam, sicut, ecclesiis, cathedralibus, conventualibus, parochialibus, viris religiosis. (Vide Bracton 27. b.) “Originally when Lands were given to the church, they were burdened with military service; this service the Bishop or Abbot performed in some ages by himself, and in others by a delegate: but, when the necessity for it became less, people, in giving Lands to the church, exacted no other return than Prayers and such religious Exercises.” (Dalrymple’s Essay on Feuds, p. 30.)