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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Relics of Rome. › Of Bishops.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Byshops.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Of Bishops.
Of Byshops.
1Pope Clement the first ordained, that no Bishop ought to be appointed by the clergy, but with the consent of the common people. He commanded also, that the bishops seat should be set in an higher and more honourable place than the seats and places of other. In the year, &c. 92. Joan. Laziard. Chron.
1POpe Clement the fyrste ordayned, that no Byshop ought to be appoynted by the clergye, but with the consente of the common people. He commaunded also, that the byshops seate shoulde be set in an hygher and more honourable place than the seates and places of other. In the yere, &c. 92. Ioan. Laziard. Chron.
- 1Bishops ought to be chosen without the con sent of the Clergy & of the common people. Bishops seats highest.Byshops ought to be chosē without the cō sent of the Clergye & of the commō people. Byshops seates highest.
Pope Boniface the third commanded that the clergy and the people of the diocese should chose their own Bishop.