DCXL.
Prelatus racione carnalitatis non debet
eligi.
Valerius tellis of one Fabius, þat was a grete cowncelur of Rome; & he govern[id] nobyllie after his grawncer & his fadur þe offes of cownceƚƚ þat he bare. So on̛ a tyme þe peple desyrid gretelie þat his son̛ sulde be made a cowncelur of Rome, and he alone, als muche as he myght, laburde to lett it. Notwithstondyng he was not dowtand̛ of þe vertues of hys scn̛, for he was passand̛ connyng, bod for cauce he wold̛ not hafe many maisters in one howshold̛.
- ...Prelatus non debet eligi puer. Infra de puero, iij.
- ...Prelatus non debet eligi pauper vel auarus. Supra de balliuo.