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 Thionville.

IN the year 844, Lewis the Godly's three Sons met at Thionville, and held there an Assembly of * 1.1 Bishops, of which Dreux, Bishop of Metz, was President. They exhorted these Princes, First, To keep a Peaceable, and Friendly Correspondence with each other. Secondly, To Name Bi∣shops to the Vacant Churches. Thirdly, To restore to some Monks the Places and Revenues that ought to belong to them. Fourthly, to hinder the Laity from taking into their possession the Goods of the Church. Fifthly, That if some Reasons of State obliged them to give some Abbeys, or Houses of Canons, or Nuns, in Commendam; at least they should give order, that the Bishop, with some Abbot, might take care of those Monasteries and Religious Houses. Sixth∣ly, To restore to the Whole Ecclesiastical Order, the Authority which they had, to cause the Dis∣cipline of the Church to be put in Execution, and oblige Sinners to doe Penance.

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• * 1.1

  The Council of Thion-ville.