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The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.

taking of the seid Damesis storiyng writun by [in, MS. (first hand).] Da|masus long sithen Constantyn died, or than the long epistle which is pretendid to be the epistle of Con|stantyn and is sett in the book clepid The decrees of Hiȝest Bischopis, of which now seid long epistle a greet porcioun Graciaun puttith in his Summe, Dist. xcvje., chapiter [xive.] Constantinus: namelich sithen in legendis ben founde manie ful vntrewe fablis, as in a book therof to be mad schal appeere, and sithen aȝens the seid epistle putt to Constantyn special sus|picioun mai be had; for in othere epistlis of Constan|tyn, which he wroot whanne he was in his moost rialte, is not such a stile of him as is in this now seid epistle, (as ech man may se which wole biholde in the ie. and ije. bookis of The iij. departid storie;) and sithen in the seid storie of Damase Pope is founde vntrouthe, which Ierom weel aspied, and fro which [the which, MS. (first hand).] Ierom gooth, and whos contrarie Ierom affer|meth in his writing in his book De viris illustribus, [Hieron. de Vir. ill. c. 15. (Op. tom. ii. p. 839. Ed. Vallars.) Pseudo|Damasus says of Clement that he wrote two epistles "quæ canonicæ nominantur;" Jerome, on the con|trary, says, "secunda epistola . . . a veteribus reprobatur." (See Coleti, Concil. tom 1. pp. 75, 119.) This appears to be the discrepancy to which Pecock alludes.] capitulum. Clemens, [After Clemens, the MS. has "and also in lijk maner of the same mater in his Cronicle which he made to be ioyned to the Cronicle of Eusebie:" but a corrector has written vacat against the lines.] not withstonding that to Ierom was write and seid the same Damasis storiyng. [The Acta Silvestri, in part per|haps the work of Isidorus Mercator, about 820 A.D. (see Coleti, Concil. tom. 1. p. 1573); the Liber pon|tificalis or Gesta pontificalia of Damasus, and his Epistle to Jerome, a medley of old things and new, (see Cave, Hist. Lit. s.v. Damasus); the Edictum Constantini, printed with notes in Coleti, Concil. tom. 1. pp. 1564-1576, and forming a part of the Acta Silvestri, and quoted by many authors from Isidore down|wards (see Coleti, l.c. p. 1573), are now known to be spurious. The Vita Silvestri by Pseudo-Damasus is printed with notes in Coleti, Concil. tom. 1. pp. 1431-1444. The remark of Binius, "Hoc edictum de Constantini donatione ex actis Silvestri Papæ, sub Eusebii Cæsare|ensis nomine falso Græce scriptis, primum edidit Theodorus Balsa|mon," about 1180 A.D., is true only as respects its Greek translation.]
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The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.
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Recock, Reginald, bp. of Chichester, 1395?-1460?
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London,: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts,
1860.
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Great Britain -- Church history

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