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Almost anyone with a claim to expertise, or the slightest connection to court or holyorders, could set himself up as a licenser.
Were parents who directed their sons to take holyorders moved only by piety?
Other tasks, formerly also undertaken by men in holyorders, were over time increasingly hived off into their own separate professions.
This only happened when there was no alternative male heir, or when alternative male heirs had remained single, had taken holyorders or had entered a monastery.
However, formulaic modes of discourse and standardised forms of presentation which might be associated with a notary public or possibly a person in holyorders are absent from such appeals.
It is that definition of holyorders that causes conflict.
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