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of it has been given l^y Petit^ Parisj 1677. It
is of no great importance to report its contents,
as his successors copy from him. The author
is remarkable, as being the parent of prodnc*
tions of this sort, and the first metropolitan of
England ; for the jurisdiction of Angnstine was
very limited and short-hved.* I pass therefore
to the next successor in that province^ the
venerable Beda, our countryman. He has
given a work of this description, under the title,
De Remediis Peccatorum. And here^ which is
all that answers our particular purpose to re*
mark, the penance enjoined for all sorts, and
the most infamous, of crimes, might, in case
of inability (not easily distinguishable from
disinclination) to perform the penance, be com-
muted by almsgiving, which doubtless went
through the hands of the Confessors, or others.
Item qui non potest sic agere pcsnitentiam,
S^cut superius diximus, in primo anno eroget
in eleemosymam solidos viginti tres, pro uno
anno in pane et aqua, donet in eleemosynam
solidos viginti duos, et in nnaquaque hebdo-
made unum diem jejunet ad .nonam, et,alium
ad vesperum, et tres quadragesimas ; in se*
See S<wm«>i Anglo-Saxon Chnzch ; n teaionable and
decinvo antidote to the Intereited pervenions of Lingard.
