A defence of priestes mariages stablysshed by the imperiall lawes of the realme of Englande, agaynst a ciuilian, namyng hym selfe Thomas Martin doctour of the ciuile lawes, goyng about to disproue the saide mariages, lawfull by the eternall worde of God, [and] by the hygh court of parliament, only forbydden by forayne lawes and canons of the Pope, coloured with the visour of the Churche. Whiche lawes [and] canons, were extynguyshed by the sayde parliament ...

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A defence of priestes mariages stablysshed by the imperiall lawes of the realme of Englande, agaynst a ciuilian, namyng hym selfe Thomas Martin doctour of the ciuile lawes, goyng about to disproue the saide mariages, lawfull by the eternall worde of God, [and] by the hygh court of parliament, only forbydden by forayne lawes and canons of the Pope, coloured with the visour of the Churche. Whiche lawes [and] canons, were extynguyshed by the sayde parliament ...
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[Imprinted at London :: By Richarde Iugge [and John Kingston], printer to the Queenes Maiestie,
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Gardiner, Stephen, 1483?-1555. -- A traictise declaryng and plainly provyng, that the pretensed marriage of priestes, and professed persones, is no mariage, but altogether unlawful, and in all ages, and al countreies of Christendome, bothe forbidden, and also punyshed -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Celibacy -- Church of England -- Early works to 1800.
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"A defence of priestes mariages stablysshed by the imperiall lawes of the realme of Englande, agaynst a ciuilian, namyng hym selfe Thomas Martin doctour of the ciuile lawes, goyng about to disproue the saide mariages, lawfull by the eternall worde of God, [and] by the hygh court of parliament, only forbydden by forayne lawes and canons of the Pope, coloured with the visour of the Churche. Whiche lawes [and] canons, were extynguyshed by the sayde parliament ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07116.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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  • Paules place interpreted, qui celebs est. 339. d.
  • Pastors fewe .20. pag. 2. b.
  • ...

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  • Paphnutius sentence .34. d. 156. a. 58. a. 133. b.
  • Paules place Propter fornicationem &c. 138. a. 133. b.
  • Paules place, bonum est mulierem non tangere .138. a.
  • Paules place, Ter dominū Rogaui. 147.
  • Pastors reprehended .190. c. and charged to beare other mens infirmitie .191. a.
  • Panormitans opinion .237.247. a.
  • Paules place, de doctrinis demoniorum .277.
  • Pecchams constitution agaynst priestes chyldren .328.
  • Peters wyfe .34. b. whom he dyd not put away .39. b. but had her about with hym .157.158.
  • Petrus Cantor parisiensis of positiue iustice .98. a.
  • Peters penurie .161. his daughter Petronel .162. b.
  • Philosophers before baptime admitted to bishoprickes .274.
  • Pighius leader to Martin .27. b. compareth the scripture to a nose of waxe .100. c.
  • Pius pope his opinion of priestes mariages .198. c.
  • Plagues notable .130.
  • Popes decrees not aboue princes lawes. Fol. 5. pag. 1. a. the causer of dissention betweene the Greke Churche and Latine .55. c. he is Luminare maius .67 d bounde to acknowledge his wyfe .200. a. one disanulles, the other doth graunt .204. c. called Antichrist by the byshop of Duresine .214. diuers of them byshoppes and priestes sonnes .313.
  • Pope Sergius purged by Aldelme of his fornication .200. b.
  • Popes matters .33. pag. 158.
  • Pontificall of Rome falsely brought in for the Pontificall of England .183. a. 185. a
  • Polidorus iudgement of forced chastitie .262. b.
  • Pontificall bookes .282.
  • Pretence of Martins booke. Fol. 2. pag. 1. b.
  • Prelates discretion in tyme of the pope. Fol. 4. pag. 1. b.
  • Priestes maryed, vniustly entreated .2. a. leafe. 4. pag. 1. a. Fol. 13. pag. 2. a. their mariages to be defended as a cause publique. Fol. 7. pag. 2. b. continued maryed .1000. yeres. Fol. 15. pag. 1. b. massyng priestes. pag. 25. b. haue ordered .26. d. maryed priestes in estimation .30. a. 60. a. maryed in the Primatiue Churche .42. b. vncontinent priestes, a shame to the Cleargie .31. a.
  • Priestes had wyues and sayde Masse .41. c. maryed, not to be seperated .59. c. their contractes, iustifiable by lawe .67. a. and some maryed af∣ter order .76. c. their incontinencie excused .84. b. 85. b. 86. a. not re∣formable by lawes .87. c. whose maryages yet more punished then fornication .88. a. and clarkes incontinent may not be put to open pe∣nance .89. b. nor their immunities to be iudged of .91. c. priestes laye heauie burdens on other mens neckes .68. c.
  • Priestes offendyng, seldome repentyng .82. d. who by vowe renounce mariage, not fornication .93. d. and beyng incontinent, maye not by othe abiure incontinencie .93. d. forbidden certayne women in their houses .94. a. their crownes .108. a 110. priestes chyldren slaundered to bryng famine into the Realme .125. c. 133. a. their mariages ho∣nourable by Iustinian .197. the forbiddyng whereof was not before

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  • Siritius tyme .230. d. 258. yet after resumed their wyues agayne .194. for in orderyng they make no promise to renounce maryage .182. b. the prohibition of it, was not the Apostles doctrine .153. c.
  • Prayer, fastyng, holyday, and chastitie, not forbidden, but the hypocrisie of them .166. a.
  • Primatius denieth that all may take the gyft generally .141. c.
  • Profession of priestes denied by them to be made .282.
  • Profession of religious in young age .310.
  • Prosper a byshop maryed .271.
  • Phileas byshop maryed .349.
  • Priestes marying without consent of their byshops depriuable .357.
  • Pascall pope complayneth of kyng Henrie .300.
  • Pascall offereth to dispense with the kynges promises 301.
  • Pope meetyng with the kyng at Gisors .301.
  • Popes craft towardes the kyng for commyng into Englande .301.
  • Papall court burdenous to the Realme, and infamous .302.
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