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Famous English Canon Lawyers II

William Poul (or Paull) D.Cn.L. (†1332)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

J. H. Baker
J. H. Baker
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Professor of English Legal History, Cambridge
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The subject of our second essay provides an interesting contrast with Bishop Bateman: equally learned in the law, he chose the humble life of a parish priest rather than the authority of judicial or episcopal office or the bustle of Avignon. Despite the distinction of his writing, none of his larger works have ever been printed in full, and he was widely forgotten in the age of the printing press. His position as a major canonist is largely the consequence of a modern rediscovery by Fr Boyle, O.P., on whose work this essay is based.

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Research Article
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , January 1989 , pp. 8 - 11
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1989

References

1. The articles referred to are all conveniently reprinted (with others) in Boyle, L. E., Pastoral Care, Clerical Education and Canon Law, 1200–1400 (Variorum Reprints. London, 1981)Google Scholar. The reprint retains the pagination of the original articles.

2. Boyle, , ‘Summa Summarum’ (note 9, below), at pp. 418–419, n.20.Google Scholar

3. He must not be confused, however, with his near contemporary William de Paul (†1349), bishop of Meath: F(otheringham), J. G., ‘William Pagula’, in Dictionary of National Biography, XV, 66Google Scholar. The confusion occurs in Bale, Leland and other early bibliographical writers: P(ollard), A. F., ‘William de Paul’, in Dictionary of National Biography. XV, 521Google Scholar. See also Emden, A. B., A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to AD. 1500, III (1959), at pp. 1436–1437.Google Scholar

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5. He was at first penitentiary for the deanery of Reading, and later for the archdeaconry of Berkshire.

6. In the Summa summarum he apparently refers to himself in one passage as a canon of St Paul's. London: , Boyle, ‘OculusSacerdotis’ (note 15. below), at p. 100, n.4Google Scholar. But no confirmation of this has been found, and he is not listed in Le Neve's Fasti.

7. So says Pantin, W. A., The English Church in the Fourteenth Century (1955), pp. 28, 196, 218, referring to PaullGoogle Scholar.

8. Boyle, , ‘Summa Summarum’. p. 416.Google Scholar

9. Boyle, L. E., ‘The “Summa Summarum” and some other English Works of Canon Law’ (1965), Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress of Medieval Canon Law (Vatican City, 1965). pp. 415–456.Google Scholar

10. ‘Oculus Sacerdotis’, p. 101.Google Scholar

11. Christ's College MS. 2, fo. 269. quoted by Boyle, , ‘Suraraa Summarum’, p. 420, n.24.Google Scholar

12. ‘Summa Summarum’, pp. 422, 433.Google Scholar

13. See the table printed in Boyle, , ‘Summa Summarum’, pp. 443–451.Google Scholar

14. ‘Summa Summarum’, pp. 440–443.Google Scholar

15. Boyle, L. E., ‘The Oculus Sacerdotis and some other Works of William of Pagula’ (1955), Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (5th ser.), V, 81–110CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also Pantin, , English Church, pp. 195–202.Google Scholar

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17. Boyle lists over 50 surviving MSS.

18. Pantin, , English Church, p. 248.Google Scholar

19. Ibid., p. 203.

20. English Church, p. 198.Google Scholar

21. In Merton College, Oxford: Boyle, . ‘Oculus Sacerdotis’, pp. 97–98, 102Google Scholar; 1965 art., pp. 432–433, 454. This was not unique because William of Wykeham left a copy to New College; ‘Summa Summarum’. p. 434 n.99.Google Scholar

22. There is a MS. of this in Gray's Inn library (MS. 11). Boyle lists 5 other MSS.

23. Boyle, L. E., ‘William of Pagula and the Speculum Regis Edwardi III’ (1970), Mediaeval Studies. XXXII, 329–336.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

24. Moisant, J. ed., De speculo regis Edwardi III (Paris, 1891), pp. 83–123.Google Scholar

25. 2 Co. Inst. 545. It was still at Holkham Hall in 1932: see Hassall, W. O. ed., A Catalogue of the Library of Sir Edward Coke (Yale University, 1950), p. 57, no. 700Google Scholar. It is there attributed to Islip.

26. Tait, J.,'On the date and authorship of the “Speculum Regis Edwardi” (1901), 61 E.H.R. 110–115.Google Scholar

27. English Church, p. 196.Google Scholar