Note 421 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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It was represented to him that in the nine years through which he had reigned innumerable offences and one hundred murders had been committed by clerks who had escaped all punishments save the light sentences of fine and imprisonment inflicted by their own courts.—W. R. W. Stephens, The English Church, p. 165. London, 1901. William of Newburgh, lib. ii. p. 130, H. C. Hamilton’s ed. London, 1856.