Note 690 — XVII. NORMAN ENGLAND.
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A woman applied to Bishop Hugh for advice “super impotentia mariti, quia debitum ei reddere non poterat,” when the prelate gravely replied, “Faciamus ergo si vis eum sacerdotem, et statim illo in opere, reddita sibi facultate, proculdubio potens efficietur.”—Girald. Cambrens. Gemm. Eccles. Dist. II. c. xviii.