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and  did,  in  the  cathedral  church  of  our  Lady  aforesaid  in  all  things :  which  nuimrd
done,  the  aforesaid  William,   Roger,  and  Alice,  after  mass,  shall  offer  to  the       ^^•
priest  or  chaplain  that  celebrated  the  same,  with  all  himiility  and  reverence,  the     .    .^
wax  tapers,  which  they  shall  carry  in  their  hands.     And  because  of  the  cold    ,  „„  i"

weather  that  now  is,  lest  the  aforesaid  penitents  might  peradventure  take  some  — L 1_

bodily  hurt,  standing  so  long  naked  (being  mindful  to  moderate  partly  the  said
our  rigour),  we  give  leave,  that  after  their  entrance  into  the  churches  abovesaid,
while  they  shall  be  hearing  the  aforesaid  masses,  they  may  put  on  necessary  cold
garments  to  keep  them  from  cold,  so  that  their  heads  and  feet  notwithstanding  weather
be  bare  and  uncovered.     We,  therefore,  will  and  command  you,  together  and  consider-
apart,  that  you  denounce  the  said  William,  Roger,  and  Alice,  to  be  absolved  and  ed !
restored  again  to  the  unity  of  our  holy  mother  the  church,  and  that  you  call
them  forth  to  do  their  penance  in  manner  and  form  aforesaid.
Given  at  Dorchester,  the  seventeenth  day  of  November,  in  the  year  of
our  Lord  God  1389,  and  the  ninth  year  of  our  translation.
