7680. 1. 'To shrive folk that are of the highest dignity, as long as the
world lasts.' So in the F. text.
7682. I. e. the Mendicant friars had license to shrive in any parish
whatever.
7693. 'To read (i. e. give lectures) in divinity'; a privilege reserved for
doctors of divinity.
7694. Here G. merely has a wrong half-line:--'And longe haue red'; with
which it abruptly ends, the rest of the page being blank, except that
_explicit_ is written, lower down, on the same page.