Quantae autem parsimoniae, cuius continentiae fuerit, ipse cum praedecessoribus suis, testabatur etiam locus ille quem regebant, ubi abeuntibus eis, excepta ecclesia, paucissimae domus repertae sunt; hoc est, illae solummodo, sine quibus conversatio civilis esse nullatenus poterat.
But how spareful persons he and his predecessors were and how greatly they abstained from all pleasures, even the place where they bare rule did witness, in the which at their departure very few houses were found beside the church; that is to say, those houses only without which the conversation of common life could nowise be maintained.
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