XVI. The sons of peasants (rusticorum) ought not to be ordained without the consent of the lord

on whose land they are known to be born. (Allowed.)
This is a convenient place for preserving a passage omitted at page 200, which in the edition of 1,583, p. 206, stands as follows:—
[To which laws and customs the said Thomas did partly grant, and partly not grant. The copy of the which aforesaid laws are contained in the number of xxviii. or xxix. whereof I thought here to recite certain not unworthy to be known.
The copy of the old laws and customs, whereunto Thomas Becket did grant.