The Council of Langeis in the Year 1276.
JOhn de Montsoreau Arch-Bishop of Tours Held a Council at Langeis, wherein he Publish'd Sixteen Canons. * 1.1
The First regulates the Dues of Visitation.
The Second prohibits the Arch-Priests and Arch-Deacons from having Officials out of Towns.
The Third is against Clandestine Marriages.
The Fourth prohibits the Priests from keeping in their Houses their Children Born of their Concu∣bines, and from bequeathing any thing to them.
The Fifth is about Last Wills and their Executors, who are prohibited from Buying the Goods con∣tain'd in the Last Will.
The Sixth declares those who despise the Keys of the Church unworthy of Legacies.
The Seventh is against those who abuse the Pope's Letters.
The Eighth prohibits the Leasing out of Curacies.
The Ninth orders, That a General Excommunication shall not be pass'd on all who Cemmunicate with Excommunicated Persons.
The Tenth obliges those who have Rights granted by another, to affirm before the Action be brought, That there is no Fraud in that Grant.
The Eleventh prohibits the sending of Young Monks into Priories.
That Twelfth prohibits the Admitting of any more Monks, or Nuns than the Monasteries can maintain.
The Thirteenth obliges them to put more than one Monk into each Priory.
The Fourteenth prohibits the Rifling of Priories.
The Fifteenth turns the Secular Advocates out of Spiritual Courts.
The Last obliges the Officials to Swear that they will take no Bails; and that they will Administer Justice Faithfully.