A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

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Title: A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
Author: Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
Publication: London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,; MDCXCIII [1693]
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The Laws of the Kings Ethelred and Canut.

THE same King Ethelred publish'd A. D. 1012. certain Laws, among which are some relat∣ing * 1.1 to Ecclesiastical Affairs; particularly, about the payment of Peter's Pence; to oblige all the Faithful to Fast three Days before the Festival of St. Michael; concerning the Prayers which ought to be said in the Churches for the State, and about Alms-giving.

King Canut in like manner in the Year, 1032. caus'd divers Laws to be proclaim'd which relate to Church-Affairs, viz. concerning the exteriour Religious Worship; the Peace of the Churches; the respect due to Clergy-men; unlawful Marriages; the payment of Tithes, Peter's Pence and other Tributes; the observation of Festivals, Sundays and Days of Ab∣stinence; the Functions and Manners of the Clergy and of the Faithful; and against Irregu∣larities, Abuses and Misdemeanours. These Laws are full of moral Maxims and pious Exhortations: There are also some others of the like nature enacted by King Edward III.

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* 1.1

King Ethelred and King Canut's Laws.

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