A common plague and enormity, both in the heart of the land and likewise upon the coasts. Yet the Romans found it out, when they flourished, and therefore prescribed limits to every man's tenure and occupying. For, being bold from time to time to visit their tenants, they wrought oft great wickedness, and made those endwares little better than brothel-houses, especially where nunneries were far off, or else no safe access unto them. 8 Note 1. If Harrison means to give us the impression that a city has any direct connection with episcopal affairs, he is quite in error.
Cities are distinctly royal and imperial institutions.