“As you see double if you push the eye out of its place with your finger; so prelates, through evil counsel, judge a priest to be worthy of two benefices, when he ought to be contented with one.”

—  John Peckham

De Oculo Morali quoted in Georg Herzfeld (ed.) An Old English Martyrology (1900)

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Archbishop of Canterbury 1227–1292

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