Note 382 — XI. SAXON ENGLAND.
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“Opto enim doceri an clerici continere non valentes, possint contrahere; et si contraxerint, an debeant ad sæculum redire”—to which Gregory responds with a long exhortation as to the duties of the “clerici extra sacros ordines constituti”—Gregor. I. Regist. Lib. XI. Epist. lxiv. Respons. 2.