Note 763 — XIX. SPAIN.
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The Spanish church was not alone in this looseness of discipline as regards canons. When Arthur of Britanny took up arms against his uncle King John, and advanced with an army to Tours at Easter, A. D. 1200, he there “more debito in ecclesia B. Martini in canonicum est receptus, et in stallum decani in vestibus chori, sicut canonicus installatus.”—Chron. Turonens. ann. 1200 (Martene Ampl. Collect. V. 1038).