The provisions for the aged-poor indicate that many landlords - bishops and senior churchmen as well as secular notables - assumed some ' seigniorial ' responsibility for those without means.
They are not taught to be churchmen.
When there was so much jostling among the gentry for positions among the quorum, there may have been resentment of churchmen in this select group.
It must be emphasized that these views were not the expressions of a small minority of unionist politicians and conservative churchmen.
Moreover, aside from agreeing about the importance of religion, churchmen and statesmen had always agreed about the ideal of social and political stability.
Ordinarily, high churchmen abhorred the idea of baptism by total immersion.
More and more, both churchmen and philosophers chafed irritably with early medieval practices of text setting.
Wealthy churchmen, it seems, prospered at juniors' expense.
