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 Council of Laval in the Year 1242.

THE same Arch-Bishop of Tours Held a Third Council at Laval in the Diocess of Mans in the Year * 1.1 1242, wherein in the first place he renew'd the Statutes about the Monastical Habits and Discipline.

2. He order'd that the Abbots should take care to keep the Priories in good Condition.

3. He prohibited them from changing the Priors.

4. He prohibited the Arch-Deacons from taking Cognizance of Matrimonial or Simoniacal Causes without a special Power from the Bishop, and from having Officials out of the City.

5. He renew'd the Penalties inflicted by the Canons on Clergy-Men, who Plead in Secular Courts of judicature.

6. He regulated the manner of Celebrating Divine Service during the Interdiction.

7. He likewise renew'd the Prohibition made against Monks having Money of their own to buy themselves Cloaths.

8. He declar'd, That he who remain'd a whole Year Excommunicated oughtto be banish'd from the Place where he dwelt.

9. He order'd, That those who were accus'd of having injur'd the Churches, and against whom there were strong Suspicions, ought to clear themselves Canonically, and that if they cannot come off with this Purgation, they ought to be Punish'd.

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The Council of Laval in 1242.

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