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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 Bishops.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Byshops.
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Pope Gregory the seventh ordained, that no priest should take a bishopric of any lay man. If he did that he should be excommunicate and lose his bishopric. In the year of our Lord. 1073. Lib. Concil.
Pope Gregory the seuenth ordayned, that no priest should take a bishoprike of any lay man. If he did that he shuld be excommunicate and lose his bishoprike. In the yeare of oure Lorde. 1073. Lib. Concil.
Pope Boniface the fourth made a decree,1 that so long as the bishop lived no man should entreat of the new election of his successor, but differ the matter unto the third day after his death. In the year of our Lord. 106. Ranulph. Cestrensis.
Pope Boniface the fourth made a decree,1 that so long as the bishop liued no man should entreate of the new election of his successour, but differ the matter vnto the thyrd day after his death. In the yere of our Lord. 106. Ranulph. Cestrensis.
- 1Lay men may give no bishoprics.Lay men maye geue no byshoprykes.
Pope Sixtus the first made a decree,1 that if any Bishopric were void, no man should presume to be bishop thereof, except he were first admitted unto it by the popes letters. In the year, &c. 129. Chron. Angl. Lib. Concil.