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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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Pope Evaristus decreed that a bishop or priest may no more forsake his benefice,1 than a married man may forsake his wife.2 For saith he, he that seeth a woman and lusteth after her in his heart,3 hath committed adultery. In the year. &c. 110. lib. Concil. Chroni.
Pope Euaristus decreed that a bishop or prieste may no more forsake his benefice,1 than a maried man may forsake hys wyfe.2 For saith he, he that seeth a woman and lusteth after her in hys heart,3 hath committed adultery. In the yere. &c. 110. lib. Concil. Chroni.
- 1None residences condemned.
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- 3Math. v.
Pope Clement the fourth condemned the pluralities both of benefices and prebends,1 in so much that when he heard, that a certain Priest being his Nephew had three prebends, he compelled him to chose one of the three which he would, as for two of them he should surely forgo. And when his friends did instantly desire him, that he would not only suffer his Nephew to enjoy all those three prebends still but also give him other livings moe and greater in consideration that he was his kinsman: the Pope answered, that he would rather lean unto God: