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and their Councils Abridged, 415 like orders to ref -rain the vicious Clergy, and yet Can. 3. excommunicate fecular Judges that compel them to anfwex at their Bar. Efpecially they are large in impofing penalties on thofe that publickly keep Concubines in their houles (and have not the modefiy to fornicate more fecretly.) IC they put not away their Concubines in two Moneths they mull lofe the third part of their tythcs, and after other two months another third part, andat laft the other third part, and after be uncapable of preferment, &c. Thefe are gentler penalties than a differing opinion is punílhed with under the name of a herefie. 4 249. CCCCLXII. Anno 1324. A Council at Toletane to thelike pur- potes; 4 25o. CCCCLXIII. The two -Popes called twoCouncils againft each otheras Hereticks (wereneither in the right.) John in a Council at Avign- on proved Nicolas the 5th. a heretick for holding that Chrifl poffefl'ed nothing as Proprietor; Nicolas called a Council in Italy whichcondemned john as a heretick forholding the contrary : Thus the hereticators were hereticated. 4 251. TheFrench now got the Power of the Papacy, and another French man was chofen PopeAnna 1334. called Benedilt. r 1. alias 12th. He renew- ed the excommunication and depcfitionof the Emperor Ludo. and claim- ed theEmpire to himfelf, concluding that being vacant it.fèli to the Church (fee to whomKingdomes efcheat): whereby he let all Italy in Wars in all the Cities, giving them to the Rulers as the Popes Leiutenants, and per- fwading the Romans alto to depofe the Senatorean power as of the King, and to exercife it themfelves under the Church : He lived aboveSeven years Pope. This Pope contrary to his Predeceffor defined that fouls fuf iciently purged enjoy the clear vifionof God beforethe refurredion. 4252. CCCCLXIV. Anno 1339. A Toletane Council decreed among other things that every .Re/tor of aChurch and their Vicars under pain of ex- communication do everyyear write 'the names of all their Parifhioners that come to years of difcretion, and confign (confirm) all that are confeffed, and excite them to come to the Sacrament ; But if they have not received it, let them ab- ftain unlefs it be by the e.:otinfil of their own Prieft. And thofe that confeffe not , after a year to expel from the Church, anddeny them ecclefialfical burial. 4 253. Anno 1342. Another Frenchman(Bithop of coven) is made Pope at Avignion : Clem.6. All Italy and Naples was put into the flamesof Wars. He forced the Germanes to fet up another againti the Emperor Lodov. Bavarus, which was Charier Son of John the 11. of Bohemia. Charles fends bound to the Pope, a new Senator Nicolas Rentii that ruled all at Rome. He made a new Jubilee; he laboured in vain to reconcile King Edward of England to the French, the Eiglith conquering their Navies and taking Calis, &c. The Colenfes and Trevinufes having contributed money as to a Turk- ih expedition , that Pope liberally rewarded them, by granting them licence to eat Eggs and Milk-meats on any falling dayes out of Lent. 4 254. CCCCLXV.Anno 1347. A Toletane Council againft Simony, &c. üi 4:55.

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