Note 91 — Chapter IV · SELECTION OF COMPURGATORS.
Reading edition
Böhlau, Nove constitutiones Dom. Alberti, pp. 2, 6, 12, 38 (Weimar, 1858). “Cum duobus viris bone opinionis et integri status, sinodalibus hominibus.” The expression is doubtless derived from the testes synodales—men of standing and reputation selected in episcopal synods to act as a kind of grand jury and report the sins of their neighbors.