Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England
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.