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 Councils of Senlis in 1326. and of Compeigne in 1329. * 1.1

WILLIAM de BRIE, Archbishop of Rheims, held the first of these Councils in 1326. which was made up of the Bishops of Soissons, Laon, Beauvais, Chalons, Noyo••, Senlis, and the Depu∣ties of the other Bishops of his Province, and there published Seven Rules.

The 1st. concerns the Ceremonies of the Celebration of a Council.

The 2d. forbids such as have Benefices to engage in any other Employments.

The 3d. orders the Payment of Tythes.

The 4th. declares such as are Excommunicated with the Great Anathema, incapable of acting, pleading, or giving a Testimony in Judgment.

The 5th. preserves the Rights of being Asylum to Churches.

The 6th. forbids Clandestine Marriages.

The 7th. renews the Canon of the Council of Bourges in 1276. against those that hinder the Execution of Ecclesiastical Judgments. * 1.2

This very Archbishop held another Council at Compeigne in 1329. in which he published the Ordinary Rules of this Age, concerning the Immunities and Jurisdiction of the Church.

Notes

* 1.1

The Council of Senlis in 1326.

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* 1.2

The Coun∣cil of Com∣peigne in 1329.

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