Note 928 — Chapter IX · THE CLERGY AND MONKS.

Exemption from munera personalia however was early claimed. “Presbyteros, diaconos, etc. ... etiam personalium munerum expertes esse volumus.” L. 6. C. de Episc. et Cleric. i. 3. Hence the king had an interest in forbidding the ordination of a free man without his consent. See the formulary in Marculfus, i. 10. See also the fourth and eighth canons of the Council of Orleans, A.D. 511. and Eichhorn, i. 484, 485. §§ 94, 96. From those we see that through ordination the king might lose his rights over the freeman and the master over his serf. Of the last case there cannot be the slightest doubt in England, and I should imagine little of the first.