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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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Pope Clement the seventh […] other holy fathers popes of Rome his predecessors of their paternal ⟨image 216⟩holiness and abundant graces, have granted to all the brethren & sisterne of the said gild,1 that now be, and to all other ye will be, full power and authority to choose them any able priest to their confessor, secular or religious,2 which may hear their confessions, and give unto them once in their life and in the article of death, plenary and full remission of all their since, excesses, offences, and trespasses, how grievous and enorm so ever they be, A paena & culpa, &c. Also every Priest chosen by the said brother or sister to be his confessor,3 may release all man ner of oaths so that it be not prejudicial to any other mans right, may change all manner vows in to other good & virtuous deeds of mercy totiens quotiens, 4the visiting of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the Church of Rome, S. James in Compostell, the vow of religion and chastity only except. He may also dispense with all spiritual men and women being brethren and sisterne of the said gild, totiens quotiens, for the forgetting of divine services, as hours canonicals or penance enjoined ⟨p. 188⟩whether it happen by debility or feebleness of body, negligence or oblivion, or for default of books.5 Again, the brethren and sisterne of the aforesaid gild, may say, or cause to be said, masses and all other divine services before day light incontinent after three of the clock after midnight, not only in hallowed places, but also in unhallowed places though they be suspensed or interdicted by ordinary authority. Also every brother and sister that will say any Wednesday, Friday, or Saterday• one Pater Noster one Ave Maria and a Credo in any church or chapel where they do dwell, and put to their helping hand to the sustentation and maintenance of the charges of the said gild as oft as they shall so do, shall have clean remission A paena & culpa, and the same remission,