Note 291 — Chapter IV · SURNAMES OF OCCUPATION (COUNTRY).
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The greed of these strolling ecclesiastics is frequently alluded to in the writings of this period. An old song on the Minorite friars says—
‘They preche alle of povert, but that love they naught,
For gode mete to their mouthe the toun is through sought.’
(Pol. Poems, vol. i. p. 270.)