25; 34; 40; 43; 45; 48; 51; 57; 2 Cel., 3, 8; 50; 93.
[17] _Spec._, 134; 2 Cel., 3, 128.
[18] The Order was at first essentially lay (at the present time it is, so far as I know, the only one in which there is no difference of costume between laymen and priests).

Vide Ehrle, _Archiv._, iii., p.563.It is the influence of the friars from northern countries which has especially changed it in this matter.

General Aymon, of Faversham (1240-1243), decided that laymen should be excluded from all charges; _laicos ad officia inhabilitavit, quae usque tunc ut clerici exercebant_.

(_Chron._ xxiv.

_gen._ cod.Gadd.relig., 53, f^o 110a).