Note 394 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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“We do with special injunction ordain that every bishop have one or two prisons in his bishopric; he is to take care of the sufficient largeness and security thereof for the safe keeping of clerks according to canonical customs that are flagitious, that is, caught in a crime or convicted thereof. And if any clerk be so incorrigibly wicked that he must have suffered capital punishment if he had been a layman, we adjure such an one to perpetual imprisonment....”—J. Johnson, ii. pp. 207, 208; Constitutions of Archbishop Boniface, A.D. 1261.