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time the friars minor can make a legal proof
that the corpses of dead persons are left them by
will, they may freely carry them to be interred in
their own place of burial, after Mass has been said
for the deceased in the cathedral church, provided
that the said church " loses nothing thereby ". He
added characteristically: "We neither can nor
ought to see the friars beaten without shedding
tears ". He ordered, in consequence, that the corpse
of H. Poche should be delivered within a fortnight to
the friars under penalty of suspension to the prior
d seniors of Worcester Abbey Th ded th
process, and the Franciscans buried the dead." i
Whilst Archbishop Peckham w t on t
cause of the Church. Edwrard was bent on the conquest
of Scotland and Wales. When not legislating,
he was fighting. His judicial turn of mind made
him foreseeing; and it was clear to him that the
King of England should unite WTales and Scotland
under his sceptre. As a rule, he did not wage idle
wars fof empty honour and glory : his campaigns
were the result of inward conviction, but none the
less his revenue was not equal to their demands.
The ordinary royal revenue at this period was
£65,000: the extraordinary