by Jill Blackwell Hughes, BA Thesis submitted to the University of ...

published concerning this, 1 the bp. explains that
Geoffrey was reasonably impeded from accepting the
priesthood, provided that he is ordained a priest
at the next orders to be celebrated after the date
of these presents, as he is bound.
PRO VICARIO DE ETON. Universis ad quos presentes
littere pervenerint, W(alterus] etc. salutem in
salutis auctore. Cum in singulis artacionibus a
jure statutis legittimum2 semper impedimentum
excusat pastorali convenit sollicitudini
excusaciones subditorum legittimas3 favorabiliter
admittere et super hiis testimonium prohibere. Cum
igitur Galfridus de Vilers, diaconus, ad vicariam
de Eton a veris patronis ejusdem nobis presentatus
et per nos postmodum in ea observato in omnibus
jure ordine canonice institutus, ad nos usque
Ebor' ad prefixum sibi per nos proximum terminum
ad ordines conferendos statutum ad suscipiendum
ordinem sacerdotalem secundum exigenciam sacrorum
canonum personaliter accessisset. Nos tunc
temporis tanta fuimus corporis infirmitate detenti
I. The papal legate Ottobon, in his constitutions
of 1268, declared that vicars should be resident
and at least in the order of deacon and that they
should proceed to the priesthood within one year,
reiterating earlier decrees made by the papal
legate Otto in 1237 and by the Council of oxford
in 1222, Councils and Synods, II, ii, pp. 757-8
(clause nine); ibid., II, i, pp. 112-3 (clause
21), 249 (clause ten); R. A. R. Hartridge, A History
of Vicarages in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1930),
pp. 64-5; J. R. H. Moorman, Church Life in England
in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge, 1955), pp.
47-8).
2. Sic for legitimum.
3. Sic.
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