href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@42180@[email protected]#Page_243" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">243—Primers, 249—Religious poetry: Cædmon, 250; “The Love of Christ for Man’s Soul,” 255; “The Complaint of Christ,” 256.

  CHAPTER XVII. THE CELIBACY OF THE CLERGY. Object of the obligation, 258—Opposition to it, 259—Introduced late in the Saxon period, 260—Endeavour to enforce it in Norman and later times, 261—Evasion of the canons, 268—Legal complications, 270—Popular view, 271—Disabilities of sons of the clergy, 273—Dispensations for it, 275.   CHAPTER XVIII. VISITATION ARTICLES AND RETURNS. Visitation of parishes, 279—Visitation questions, 280—Examples from returns to the questions, 285—Popular estimation of the clergy, 289.   CHAPTER XIX. PROVISION FOR OLD AGE. Assistant chaplain, 290—Coadjutor assigned, 291—A leprous vicar, 294—Retirement on a pension, 295—A retiring vicar builds for himself a “reclusorium” in the churchyard, 295—Parish chaplain retires on a pension, 296—Death and burial, 296.   CHAPTER XX. THE PARISH CLERK. Ancient office, 298—Its duties, 299—Stipend, 301—Sometimes students for orders, 302—Gilds of parish clerks, 303—Chaucer’s parish clerk, 304.   CHAPTER XXI. CUSTOMS. Sanctuary for persons, 306; and property, 307—Belonged to some persons, 308—Pilgrimage, 308—Special ceremonies, 311—Lights, public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@42180@[email protected]#Page_311"