Then there are to be three clerks in holy orders and five laymen.
It is that definition of holy orders that causes conflict.
However, formulaic modes of discourse and standardised forms of presentation which might be associated with a notary public or possibly a person in holy orders are absent from such appeals.
This only happened when there was no alternative male heir, or when alternative male heirs had remained single, had taken holy orders or had entered a monastery.
Other tasks, formerly also undertaken by men in holy orders, were over time increasingly hived off into their own separate professions.
Were parents who directed their sons to take holy orders moved only by piety?
Almost anyone with a claim to expertise, or the slightest connection to court or holy orders, could set himself up as a licenser.
Mathews reply caught him somewhat by surprise and rekindled his interest in both the church and in entering holy orders again.
