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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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1Pope Leo the third bearing rule, a Council was holden at Magontia in Germany, where it was decreed, that all Son days should be kept holy with all reverence, and that all men on those days should abstain from all service, work and worldly business: and that there should be no Markets, no Fairs, no buying nor selling on the Sunday: Again, that no man on that day should be judged either unto death, or unto any pain. In the year. &c. 817. Lib. Concil. Barth. Carranza.
1Pope Leo the thirde bearyng rule, a Coūcell was holden at Magontia in Germany, where it was decreed, that al Sō dayes should be kept holy with al reuerence, and that all men on those dayes should abstayne from al seruice, worke and worldly businesse: and that there shoulde be no Markets, no Faires, no bying nor selling on the Sonday: Againe, that no man on that daye shoulde be iudged either vnto death, or vnto any payne. In the yeare. &c. 817. Lib. Concil. Barth. Carranza.
- 1This godly decree is slenderly observed in England.This godly decree is s•lenderly obserued in Englande.
1Pope Innocent the fourth bearing rule, it was agreed in a certain council holden at Lyons, what holidays should specially be observed and kept: where it was decreed that the Sundays should be kept holy from Saturday at noon, till Sunday at night. Item, the feasts following should also be hallowed and kept holy, that is to say: the feasts of the Nativity of Christ, of S. Stephen of S. John the Evangelist, of the Innocents, of S. Sylvester, of the Circumcision, ⟨p. 179⟩of the Epiphany, of Easter, with the whole weeks that go before & after, of the Rogation days, of the Ascension of Christ, of Whitsuntide with the two days following, of S. John Baptiste, of the xxii. Apostles, of S. Laurence, of blessed Mary, of S. Michael of the Dedication of the Temple, of all Saints, of S. Martin, and to be short, all such feasts of Canonised Saints as every Bishop in his diocese with the consent of the Clergy and the people, have determined to keep holy. As for all other feasts that are in the year: the people ought neither to be compelled to keep them holy day nor yet to be forbidden, but every man to do according to his devotion. In the year of our lord. 1242. Libro. Concil. Polydor. Guilielmus. Durandus.