The twenty-ninth forbids the burying in churches all those that were not of known and approved probity.
The thirty-second prohibits the priests from officiating without the service-book before them, for fear the trusting to their memories might make them mistake.
By the thirty-sixth, no person was to eat or drink before receiving the communion.
The thirty-eighth enjoins the priest to have the holy Eucharist always ready by him; but if it grew so stale that it could not be eaten without disgusting the palate, it was to be burnt in a clear fire, and the ashes laid under the altar.
The forty-third forbids the eating of blood.
The fifty-second orders priests to preach every Sunday.
The sixty-fourth decrees hunting and hawking are improper diversions for a priest, who is to make books his entertainment.
These canons have been translated by Sir H. Spelman, from a Saxon manuscript in Bennet College, Cambridge.
King Sweyn sailing up the Thames. (See p. 51.)
