Note 391 — Chapter XIII
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Hard Measure, prefixed to Hall's Works, p. xviii. The proceedings at Norwich were of an infamous description, yet more shameful acts had been perpetrated by the Roman Catholic fathers of these very citizens. In 1272, we are told "Quam plures de familia, aliquos subdiacanos, aliquos clericos, aliquos laicos in claustro et infra septa monasterii interfecerunt; aliquos extraxerunt et in civitate morti tradiderunt, aliquos incarceraverunt. Post quæ ingressi, omnia sacra vasa, libros, aurum, et argentum, vestes et omnia alia quæ non fuerunt igne consumpta depradati fuerunt: monachos omnes, præter duos vel tres, a monasterio fugantes."—Anglia Sacra, i. 399.