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.

The Council of London held in the Year 1138.

PArt of the same Constitutions were reviv'd in the Council held at London, A. D. 1138. during * 1.1 the Vacancy of the See of Canterbury, by Alberic Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, the Pope's Le∣gate in England. This Council was compos'd of Eighteen Bishops, and about Thirty Ab∣bots, and in it were published Seventeen Canons; of which the following are not comprehended in the preceding Councils: viz. The Second, which forbids the keeping of the consecrated Ele∣ments in the Eucharist above Eight Days, and ordains, that they shall be reverently carry'd to the Sick by the Priests or Deacons, and even by Lay-men, in Case of Necessity: The Fourth, which prohibits a Bishop, who is sent for by another Bishop to consecrate a Church, to exact any Thing besides his Right of Procuration: The Tenth, in which is referr'd to the Pope the giving of Ab∣solution to those who have misus'd Priests, or Persons consecrated to God: The Twelfth, being a Prohibition to build a Chappel without a Licence from the Bishop: The Thirteenth, in which Church-men are forbidden to engage in Warlike Affairs, and to bear Arms: The Fourteenth, pro∣hibiting

Monks to quit their Profession: The Fifteenth, which forbids Abbesses to be attir'd, and to have their Heads dressed after the manner of Secular Women: And the Seventeenth, which imports, That School-masters shall not be permitted to let out their Schools to others for Money. Lastly, Theobald Abbot of Bec, was chosen Archbishop of Canterbury in this Council, and divers means were treated of for the making Peace between the Kings of England and France.

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  The Coun∣cil of Lon∣don in 1138.