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 Compeigne, in 1304. * 1.1

ROBERT de COURTRAY, Archbishop of Rheims, and his Suffragan Bishops met at Compeigne, on the Friday after the Feast of Circumcision, and there published Five Articles.

The First orders, That Excommunicate Persons, and such as have contracted Clandestine Mar∣riages, with all Persons that procured them, or were present at them, should not be admitted to the Divine Service of the Church, nor allowed Christian Burial.

The 2d. forbids imposing Taxes, or other Charges upon the Clergy.

The 3d. deprives those of Christian Burial, who have remained Excommunicate two Years.

The 4th. declares those Contumaceous, who being Summoned to a Synod, would not appear, and orders, that they clear themselves Canonically before the Bishops of their Diocess.

The 5th. orders, That all Clergymen should content themselves with their Pottage, and two Plates for their Meals, unless any Persons of Quality come to them, in which case they may have dainty Dishes.

Notes

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  The Coun∣cil of Com∣peigne, in 1304.