Show old english lato based on bible Be benella nellt of clergy was a privilege once enjoyed by the clergy of england whereby they were exempted from civil punishment the origin tf of tills this exemption Is unknown but the custom was probably based on the text touch not mine anointed find do my iny prophets no harm 1 I chron 1022 Ps lc edward I 1 in 1274 extended this privilege to till oil laymen that could read such a criminal could not be put to but was to be branded on the left hand tho drat verso verse of RO 00 wu WAIN chosen us as the reading test and hence was known no as tho the neck verso verse in 1011 this privilege was wag extended to brinen the privilege eventually bo be caine it dead letter it wits variously restricted and finally in in the reign of george IV it was abolished kansas kanins city star |