Note 361 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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See the Penitential of Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury (A.D. 673), Thorpe, p. 278.
In the year 1139 a Council of Lateran condemned murderers of the clergy to excommunication, removable by the Pope alone (Labbé, tom. xxi. p. 530). Nevertheless we find Archbishop Richard complaining of want of protection (Petrus Blesensis, Opera, Epistola 73, Giles’s ed. i. p. 217, Oxford, 1847; also Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, ii. p. 577, London, 1862); and Henry II. provided lay penalties (Reeves, Hist. Eng. Law, i. p. 133; Lingard, Hist. ii. p. 193; Carte, Hist. i. p. 689; C. H. Pearson, History of England during the Early and Middle Ages, p. 511. London, 1867).