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 Toledo in the Year 1324. * 1.1

THE Constitutions of the Council of Valladolid were published in 1324. by John Archbishop of Toledo, in a Council of his Province held in November, which added 8 other Rules to them.

The 1st. is against Bishops who neglect to come to the Council.

The 2d. is about the Habits and Manners of Clergymen.

The 3d. is against those that Appropriate the Revenues of Chapels without naming the Titular Clerks, who shall take them.

The 4th. ordains, That all Beneficed Clerks, with Cure of Souls, shall be instituted by the Bishops.

The 5th. That Clergymen cannot bequeath the Goods gotten by the Church to their Children.

The 6th. forbids Priests to require any Salary for saying Mass, but allows them to take what is given them in Charity, without any Bargain or Agreement.

The 7th. forbids every Priest to celebrate more than one Mass in a Day, and exhorts them to celebrate it often, at least Four times a Year, allowing them, in case they have no Curate, to confess themselves to another Priest: And lastly, Orders other Clergymen to Communicate three times a Year.

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* 1.1

The Council of Toledo in 1324.

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