Note 451 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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For instance, Simon Fish in his Supplicacyon of Beggars, written about 1529, J. M. Couper’s ed. p. 12. London, 1871.
Shakespeare, writing of the fifteenth century, refers to the matter:
... You know our king
Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands
He hath good usage and great liberty.
Third Part of King Henry VI. iv. 5.
See also Hook, Archbishops of Canterbury, ii. p. 398.