Note 911 — Chapter IX · THE CLERGY AND MONKS.

“Volens etiam unamquamque aecclesiam habere proprios sumptus, ne per huiusmodi inopiam cultus negligerentur divini, inseruit praedicto edicto, ut super singulas aecclesias mansus tribueretur unus, cum pensatione legitima et servo et ancilla.” Vita Hludovici Imp. Pertz, ii. 622. The tenth chapter of Hludwich’s capitulary is drawn up in the same words as Ecgberht uses, with the sole exception of the Frankish mansus for the English mansa, and it is therefore probable that both drew from some common and early source; unless indeed we suppose that the Frankish clergy thought the English custom worthy of imitation. The proper name for this landed foundation is dos aecclesiae, or as it is called in the Langobardic law (lib. iii. tit. i. § 46), mansus aecclesiasticus. The result of this dotation is very evident in the next following chapter of the above-quoted capitulary, by which parish-churches are obviously intended. Cap. xi. “Statutum est ut, postquam hoc impletum fuerit, unaquaeque aecclesia suum Presbyterum habeat, ubi id fieri facultas providente episcopo permiserit.”