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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 the Massing Priest.The Reliques of Rome. › Of the Massing Priest.
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.
Pope Boniface the first made a decree, that no man should be made a Massing Priest,1 before he were thirty years of age. Grat. Dist. 78. Cap. Si quis triginta.
Pope Boniface the fyrst made a decree, yt no man shoulde be made a Massyng Prieste,1 before he were thirtye yeres of age. Grat. Dist. 78. Cap. Si quis triginta.
- 1The age of a Massing priest.
Pope Zacharias the first notwithstā ding fearing that Lady Mass would want Chaplains and customers, dispenseth with the former act, and granted, that a man might be made a Massing Priest at the age of .xxv. years, if necessity so required, Lib. Conc•l.
Pope Zacharius the fyrst notwithstā ding fearyng that Ladye Masse would wante Chaplens and customers, dispenseth wyth the former acte, and graunted, that a man might bee made a Massyng Prieste at the age of .xxv. yeares, if necessitye so required, Lib. Conc•l.
Pope Anicetus ordained, that the Massing priest,1 should wear no long hair nor beard, but that he should have Aures patents, and that he should have his crown shaven as round as a bowl. Gratian. Dist. 23. Cap. Prohibere fratres. Plot.