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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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Now is to be added the opinion of the Canonists,1 & what they bring out of the scriptures. In the .36. q. 1. Gracian bringeth that definition of rapt, which we have before confuted. But this thing he addeth: That in rapt is injury done sometimes to the maiden, & not to the parents: & sometimes to the parents, & not to the maiden: & sometimes to both of them. For if the maiden will be rapt of her own free will, there is no injury done unto her, but unto her parents. But if the parents give the man power to rapt the daughter, because she will not consent to marry him, then is no injury done unto them, but unto the daughter. But to both of them is injury done, when the maiden is led away from her parents, against her will, & against their will,2 & in the same place he bringeth the counsel of Orleans, in the chap. de raptoribus, where also he confesseth that rapt was wont to be punished with death. But it is added, that if the rapter come unto the Church, the punishment of death is escaped. What shall there then be done? If the maiden (saith he) consented unto the rapter, first she shall be taken from him, & be restored to her parents, but yet being excused, that is, a caution received, that she be not slain or disinherited. But if she consented not, she is by her self sufficiently purged: but the rapter shall be compelled to public penance, as it is had in the .36. q. 2. chap. Raptores. But what if he will not do penance? He shall be excommunicated,3 according to the counsel of Chalcedonia & Cabilonum. But if he do penance, he shall be punished by the purse. And herein they say that they follow the word of God, which is written in Deut. 22. chap. If a man defile a maiden, he shall give unto her parents .50. sycles, and shall take her to wife. And so he condemneth the rapter to pay a certain sum of money unto the parent of the maiden. The which sum if he will not pay, or have not wherewithal to pay, he is driven to serve the father of the maiden for certain years, which the Glosser contracteth to five, upon this condition, that in the mean time he may redeem himself if he will.
Now is to be added the opinion of the Canonists,