A Collection of All the Ecclesiastical Laws, Canons, Answers, or Rescripts, with Other Memorials Concerning the Government, Discipline and Worship of the Church of England, That Have Been Publish'd in Latin, with Explanatory Notes, by J. Johnson (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850. Excerpt: ... is to be remembered, that drawing a weapon in the bishop's presence, had been mentioned, and taxed before, in the ninth law, and there was no occasion to repeat it here: and it must be supposed, that the alderman-at sometimes without the bishop; for some of the dioceses were then so large as to contain very many shires, and the bishop could not, in his own person, attend all these assemblies, but only such shire-courts as required the greatest solemnity, and where his presence was in a special manner necessary,1 from the nature of the business there to be transacted; the priest who sat in his stead, in the county business, or any smaller gemote, might be called the king's priest. 36. 17. Burglary committed in the king's borough, is one L ' ' hundred and twenty shillings; in the archbishop's, ninety; in another bishop's, or alderman's, sixty; in a man's that is rated at twelve hundred shillings, thirty shillings; in a man's that is rated at six hundred shillings, fifteen shillings; breaking up the fence of a common man, is five shillings; if this happen "when the army is out, or in Lent, the mulct is doubled. If men without leave take down the holy veil in Lent f, let satisfaction be made with one hundred and twenty shillings. 1 The punishment of breaking houses, or fences, when the army went out was doubled, because the violence of the soldiers at such times, needed a greater restraint. It was doubled in Lent, on account of the solemnity at that time. 'The Lenten veil was a curtain, drawn between the altar and the people, during mass, whereby the people were prohibited from seeing any thing that was done: this was to shew the want of divine light and knowledge under the law says Durandus J, 1. i. c. 3; and by this, and other manage 40. The king's ' burh...