A67926:3886
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
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The Act against Priests marriage concluded in the Council at Winchester, under Anselm, An. 1104.
The Acte against Priestes mariage concluded in the Councell at Winchester, vnder Anselme, An. 1104.
1HAEc sunt statuta de Archidiaconibus, Praesbyteris, & Canonicis in quocunque gradu constitutis, quae Wintoniae statuerunt Anselmus Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis, & cum eo Girardus Archiepiscopus Eboracensis, & omnes alij Angliae Episcopi, in praesentia gloriosi Regis Henrici, assensu omnium Baronum suorum▪ Statutum est ut Praesbyteri, & Diaconi castè vivant, & foeminas in domibus suis non habeant praeter proxima consanguinitate sibi junctas, secundum hoc quod sancta Nicena Synodus de•ini••t. Illi verò praesbyteri, diaconi, sive subdiaconi, qui post interdictum Londonensis Concilij, foeminas suas tenuerint vel alias duxerint, si elegerint in sacris ordinibus remanere, jurent quòd cum eis carnale commertium non habebunt amplius. Statutum est etiam ut praedictae foeminae in domo cum eis scienter non conueniant, neque huiusmodi faeminae in territorio Ecclesiae habitent. Si autē propter aliquam honestam causam eos colloqui oporteat, cum duobus ad minus legitimis testibus extra domum colloquantur. Si verò in duobus aut tribus legitimis testibus vel publica parochianorum fama, aliquis eorū accusatus fuerit, quòd hoc statutum transierit, purgabit see adiunctis secum ordinis sui idoneis testibus, sex si praesbyter, quinque si diaconus, quatuor si subdiaconus sueriti Cui autem haec purgatio defecerit, ut transgressor sacri statuti judicabitur. Illi verò praesbyteri qui divini altaris & sacrorum ordinum contemptores praeelegerint cum uxoribus suis habitare, à divino officio remoti, extra