 | Theology - 1837 - 742 pages
...their native soil, and fly to foreign parts, and (what is worse) their very persons, which Christ hath redeemed with so rich a price— even his own blood...them with no exactions, they impose no intolerable burthens, and if they see them in want, they maintain them at their own expense. They have servants... | |
 | Samuel Roffey Maitland - Church history - 1845 - 560 pages
...their native soil and fly to foreign parts, and (what is worse) their very persons, which Christ hath redeemed with so rich a price — even his own blood...them with no exactions, they impose no intolerable burthens, and if they see them in want, they maintain them at their own expense. They have servants... | |
 | Whalley abbey - Lancashire (England) - 1847 - 316 pages
...a price — even his own blood — they are not afraid to sell for one so mean, that is, for moucy. Now monks, though they may have such possessions,...own expense. They have servants and handmaids, not as turn fratres suos cam tota secta de proprijs corporib} eorum pueniente. Ita quod ego Ricardus vel... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...foreign parts. Now monks, though they may have such possessions, do not possess them in the same way ; for they employ only the lawful and due services of the peasants to procure the conveniencies of life. They harass them with no exactions ; they impose no intolerable burdens, and... | |
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... they oppress them with innumerable claims of service ; they lay upon them grievous and insupportable burthens. Hence they force many to leave their native soil, and fly to foreign parts, and (what is worse) their very persons, which Christ hath redeemed... 