M. Hardinge. The .11. Diuision.
VVhat if foure or fiue of sundry houses in a sickenes time, being at the point of death in a parish, require to haue their rightes ••r they departe? The Prieste after that he hath receiued the Sacra∣mente in the Churche, taketh his natural sustenance, and dineth, and then beinge called vpon, cari∣eth the rest a mile or two to the sicke, in eche house none beinge disposed to receiue with the sicke, he dooth that he is required. (21)* 1.1 Dothe he not in this case communicate with them, and doo not they communicate one with another, rather hauinge a wil to communicate togeather in one place also, if oportunitie serued? Elles, if this might not be accompted as a lawful and good Communion, and therefore not to be vsed: the one of these greate inconueniences should wittingly be committed: (22)* 1.2 that either they shoulde be denied that necessary vitaile of life at their departinge hence, which were a cruel iniurie, and a thinge contrarie to the examples, and godly ordinances of the Primitiue Churche: Or the Prieste rather for companies sake then of deuotion, shoulde receiue that holy meate after that he had serued his stomacke with common meates: whiche likewise is against the auncient decrees of the Churche. Euen so the Prieste that receiueth alone at Masse, dooth communicate with al them that doo the like in other places and countries.