Matthew Paris

“Historia Major and Lives of the two Offas, kings of Mercia, and of twenty-three abbats of St. Albans, together with Additamentorum and Auctarium Additamentorum to the Historia Major. Latin text printed by Dr. Wats, 2nd ed. (London, 1684), and translated into English from the same by John Allen Giles, Matthew Paris's English History, 3 vols. (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852, '53, '54)”

“The Saxon nobles ... did not repair to church in the morning, according to Christian use, but loitering in their couches and their wives' embraces, they were content with hastily snatching a word of the solemn rites of matins and of mass.”

“Et nos in vitium prona caterva sumus.”