A07146:1272
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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And when any church or chapel is suspended or interdicted by law, they been accursed openly that constreynen any priest for to sing therein, or by ringing of bells, or by any other way make hem to hear mass, that been openly accursed by name. And also when any man of holy church by commission doeth out of holy Church, or curseth any man or woman, and nameth him by name on holy church behalf, that he go out of the Church while mass & gods service is in doing: but if he do his bidding, he is accursed. And also all that maynteynen hem, or bidden ⟨image 280⟩hem, hold them still in the church: and none of them may be assoiled but by the court of Rome. And all that her goods given in dread of death in fraud of holy church, or to forbore her debts: and all those also y• such gifts taken, or coū celen, or helpen thereto, been accursed. Also all those that let Prelates or Ordinaries, or Chapter, for to enquire of sin there need is for help or health of mans soul. And all those, that against the law of holy church byen or sellen any benefice of holy church, And all that byen or sellen holy orders, or falsely stelen […] those been accursed, that make any •ate or plea in the patronage, wherethrough the very patron is let of his right. And all that breken any point of the Kings great Charter, or else any point of the Charter of the forest, in which been written the freedoms of this land, ye diverse Kings han granted both to learned & to lewd. In the great Charter been contained .xxxv. points: and the Charter of the forest comprehendeth xv. points, ut in tractatu vocato, Pars oculi in prima parte, et in tract, vocat, Regimen animarum, in prima sui part plenius continetur. ⟨p. 252⟩Also all men and women, that which in peril of death been assoiled, or in any other perils, of him that hath not power by law out of peril of death to assoil hem as soon as they be recovered, but they take absolution of him that hath power to assoil hem: they turnē again, & been in the same curse as they were before, & worse for• unbuxumnesse. Al that been open lechouris, open aduouteris, common women, & all those that wittingly and quietly defend them, that they be not punished by the law after monishing upon pain of cursing, that no man let them house to hire, nor receive hem into her house, after the time that they be known.