Wives of Ecclesiastics

In Archdeacon Hale's *Curious Precedents in Criminal Causes*, p. 23., under 1490, and in the parish of S. Nicholas, Coldharbour, London, we read: "Nicholai Colde.—Johannes Warwick quondam clericus parochie ibidem adulteravit cum Rosa Williamson et ob amorem illius mutilavit et quasi interfecit uxorem propriam." We may remark that the delinquent is not called Dominus, but "clericus parochie."