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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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1Pope Innocent the third decreed, that they which are of the clergy, being found guilty of theft or of any other great faults, should on this manner be punished. First, they shall be degraded. Secondly, they shall be deprived of all their ecclesiastical promotions. Thirdly, they shall be straitly kept in some monastery, there to do penance all their life time. Lib. Concil. Decret. Gregorii, de paenis. tit. 36 cap. Tuae discretionis.
1Pope Innocent the third decreed, that they whiche are of the clergye, beyng founde gilty of thefte or of any other great faultes, shoulde on this manner be punished. Firste, they shalbe degraded. Secondly, they shalbe depriued of all their ecclesiasticall promocions. Thirdly, they shall be strayghtly kept in some monastery, there to do penance al their lyfe time. Lib. Cōcil. Decret. Gregorii, de paenis. tit. 36 cap. Tuae discretionis.
- 1The penance of the Clergy convict of great fautsThe penāce of the Clergy cō uicte of great fauts
1In the Council Triburiense it was ordained, that if any were enjoined penance to eat nothing but bread certain days and could get no bread to eat: it should be lawful for them to eat fish, leeks, or any such kind of meat, seeing the necessity doth so require. Provided ⟨p. 227⟩alway, that they eat not those meats for pleasure sake, but for the sustentation of their hungry bodies. Decret. Gregorij. 9. Libro. 5. de penet, et remiss. Tit. 18. Cap. Licet.
1In the Councell Triburiense it was ordayned, that if any were enioyned penāce to eate nothing but bread certain dayes and could get no bread to eate: it should be lawfull for them to eate fish, leekes, or any such kynd of meat, seyng the necessitie doth so require. Prouided