The Council of Nogarol in 1303. * 1.1
AMANAEUS, Archibishop of Ausche, and his Suffragan Bishops held a Council in December in 1303. at Nogarol; in which they confirmed and published 19 Constitutions.
The First orders, That strange Clergymen should not be received without a Letter from their Bishop.
The 2d. That they, who leave them to Administer Sacraments, shall be Excommunicated.
The 3d. That none shall molest the Ecclesiastical Judges or Inquisitors.
The 4th. That none shall hinder the Bishops Delegates from executing their Orders.
The 5th. That Princes, and Secular Judges shall not meddle with Church Matters.
The 6th. That no Man shall seize or molest such as have fled into Churches.
The 7th. That Perjur'd Persons shall be Excommunicated.
The 8th. That no Man shall be Buried in the Church.
The 9th. That the Bodies of such as desire to be Buried out of their Parish, shall be carried to their Parish-Church and pay their Dues.
The 10th. That such as detain their Tythes shall be Excommunicated, deprived of Christian Burial, and be incapable, both themselves and their Children to the Fourth Generation, of taking Holy Orders, or having the Possession of a Benefice.
The 11th. That Arch-Deacons shall receive no Presents in the Course of their Visitation.
The 12th. That if a Church, or Churchyard be polluted by Murther, or the Burial of a Pagan, or Heretick, or Excommunicate Person, it shall be purified with Holy Water.
The 13th. That Civil Causes, especially Criminal, shall not be tried in the Church.
The 14th. and 15th. denounces Excommunication against such as keep Concubines, open Adul∣terers, Usurers, and those that detain Bonds, or Obligations for things Paid.
The 16th. lays an Interdict upon such places, as receive and hide things taken from Churches, Clergymen, and Monks.
The 17th. is against those, that lay a Tax upon Lepers, shut up for their Diseases.
The 18th. forbids engaging Ecclesiastical Persons, or Revenues for others.
The 19th. orders, That they shall be Excommunicated, who take away such things, as are put into the keeping of Churches.