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 Ruffec in the Year 1258.

GErard de Malemort Arch-Bishop of Bourdeaux Held a Synod in August 1258, at Ruffec for Main∣taining * 1.1 the Rights of the Church. He therein order'd, That for three Sundays successively They should be Excommunicated, who hindred the Jurisdiction of Churches, or Violated the Rights and Liberties and Seiz'd upon the Revenues of them. He condemn'd severely the Monks who despis'd the Censures of their Bishops. He prohibits Ecclesiasticks from making their Answers before Secular-Judges, and from having any Secular Employments. He regulates the Forms of Last Wills and Te∣staments, according to the preceding Councils, as well as the Absolution of Excommunicated Persons at the Hour of Death. He admonishes the Commissaries of the Holy See of what they ought to ob∣serve in the Executing of their Commission, and prohibits the Trying of Causes in Monasteries. This is the Subject Matter of Ten Chapters of this Council.

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  The Council of Ruffec in 1258.