Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

§ 11. The Emperor's Party (acted by Theodore Caesar▪) got some Bishops to assemble at Mopssest. An. 550. to prepare a Condemnation of their former Bishop Theodore, by saying that his name was not in their Book.

§ 11. The Emperor's Party (acted by Theodore Caesar▪) got some Bishops to assemble at Mops•est. An. 550. to prepare a Condemnation of their former Bishop Theodore, by saying that his name was not in their Book.

§ 12. CLXXII. King Childebert called another Council at Orleans, where many old disciplinary Canons were repeated: Among others, Can. 9. That no Lay-man be made a Bishop without a years time to learn his Function. (You may conjecture what Scholars they were then!) Can. 10. That none get a Bishopric ⟨p. 180⟩by gifts, or seeking; but with the will of the King, by the election of the Clergy and the Lay-people.¹ Can. 11. Also (as the ancient Canons have decreed) let none be made Bishop to an unwilling People (or without the Peoples consent) nor let the People or the Clergy be inclined to consent, by the oppression of persons in power (which is not lawful to be spoken:) But if it be otherwise done, let the Bishop be for ever deposed from his obtained honour of Pontificate, who is ordained rather by force, than lawful decree.² C. While one Bishop is living, let not any other be there made Bishop; unless perhaps in his place, who is ejected for some capital Crime. Can. 21. Though all Priests, and others, must be careful to relieve the Poor with necessaries, yet especially every Bishop must from the Church-house as far as they can, administer necessaries for food and raiment to such as are in weakness both in his Territories and his City, &c.]