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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SPOETS AND PASTIMES. WHOEVER the minister was who set his hymns to good old secular airs, and said he did not see why the devil should have all the good tunes to himself, he only partook of an old feeling among the clergy, that all pleasant pastimes were not invented expressly for sinners. In the matter of Sports, however, the common and the canon law were at issue. The former allowed certain pastimes to the clergy; the latter forbade them altogether; and in this case, the clergy obeyed the common and disregarded the canon law. In Canute's time, dice and chess were only for kings and nobles, not for churchmen. The clerics, however, would play with the same toys as monarchs and the great barons. It is a damnable art that of dice playing said John of Sarum in the twelfth century. The bishops and clergy are fond of it, said Ordericus Vitalis. Henry III. tried to compel the clergy to abandon both dice and chess, but they would not yield upon compulsion. Perhaps Canute thought these games were too sedentary for churchmen, and so allowed the better sort, that is, prelates and abbots (who were excessively addicted to hunting and hawking in their own enclosures) to kill a deer whenever they happened to be wending through any of the royal forests. Do you hear the winding of that horn in yonder glade ? A sporting bishop has just sent an arrow through one of Canute's stags in the absence of the king's forester. The prelate's varlet gives that note upon the horn to let the official know that a deer is stricken, and that he does not want to steal it. Were he to carry it off, Canute would treat him worse than Coeur de Lion afterwards treated poaching curates who presumed to keep a greyhound. In the days of that King Canute there was no more eager clerical hunter in the no...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458968524
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 90
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458968529
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 177 gr


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