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240 result in radical departures from A and from all other copies. These emendations indicate that he did not use A; and they appear to have been made arbitrarily without reference to any other copy. He has none of the variants found only in B and C. On the other hand, he has one of the few variants found only in D and two of the three emendations of S made in L. W, therefore, may be connected with D and L, though it seems improbable. All the printed copies, therefore, are derived directly or indirectly from A.

"Quedam ordinatio de contributione facienda in subsidium Terre Sancte."

Auctoritate litterarum domini pape subnixi, presente et approbante illustri Anglorum rege Henrico, cum baronibus suis, et A. de Summa, legato summi pontificis, episcopi Normannie in suis episcopatibus hoc instituerunt: ut quicunque elemosinam, que ordinata est ad subventionem terre Ierosolomitane, transmiserunt, talem de iniuncta penitentia veniam consequatur: si in penitentia fuerit, que septem annos excedat, trium annorum venia gaudebunt; si in penitentia vel minori fuerint pro criminali, duorum annorum veniam habebunt. Peccata vero, de quibus homo recordari non poterit, omnia relaxant dummodo de contemptu penituerit. Venalia quoque omnia sub tali penitentia condonent, ut unusquisque, qui elemosinam istam solverit, ter in die,