Note 406 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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Coulton, Chaucer and His England, p. 288.
Lea, Studies in Church History, p. 189.
“Degradation was a penalty rarely inflicted, since the Church was reluctant to admit that the sacred office once conferred could be taken away for any offence short of heresy.”—Davis, Normans and Angevins, p. 207.