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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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The Relics of Rome. › Of penance.The Reliques of Rome. › Of penaunce.
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1In the Cautels of the Mass, we read thus: If through negligence there drop down any thing of the blood upon a board that sticketh to the earth: let it be licked up by the Priest with his tongue and the place of the board scraped, and the scraping burnt in the ⟨p. 226⟩fire: and let the ashes be laid up beside the altar with the relics, and let him to whom that happened, do .xl. days penance. If the chalice drop upon the altar, let the drop be supped up, and let him have iii. days penance But if the drop came through upon a linen cloth unto an other thing: let him have .iiii. days penance. If it come through to the third thing: let him have .ix. days penance. In a drop of the blood come through to the fourth thing? let him do penance, twenty days. And as for the linen gear, that the drop hath touched: let the priest or deacon wash them, the chalice being set under, and let the washing be kept with the relics. Item, if a man by any chance of gluttony,2 do spue out the sacrament: the same spewing must be burnt: and the ashes ought to be laid up beside the altar. And if he be a clerk, a Religious man, Priest or a deacon: let him do forty days penance. A Bishop lxx. days, a lay man .xxx. days. But if he did spue by reason of infirmity, let him do penance .v. days. Who so doth not keep the Sacrament, so that a mouse or ⟨image 255⟩an other beast eateth it, let him have. xl. days penance. But who so looseth it, or if a part of it fall, and be not found: let him do penance .xxx. days. The same penance seemeth the Priest to be worthy of▪ by whose negligence the consecrated hosts do putrefy. Upon the said days must the penitent fast and abstain from the communion and from celebration.
1In the Cautels of the Masse, we rede thus: If thorow negligence there droppe downe any thing of the bloude vpon a bord that sticketh to the earth: let it be lyckt vp by the Prieste with hys tounge and the place of the borde scraped, and the scrapyng brent in the ⟨p. 226⟩