The English concord in ansvver to Becane's English iarre: together with a reply to Becan's Examen of the English Concord. By Richard Harris, Dr. in Diuinitie.

To be briefe: Abbats, by the Canon law,

May Absolue an Excommunicate Monke: (and there∣fore excōmunicate him) Dist. 90. c. Si quis. verb. Prioris. in gloss. Abbas potest absoluere mona∣chum suum, inijcientem manus in monachum suum, vel alterius.

May Dispense concerning Orders. 20. q. 4. Monachū. verb. Remittatur. in gloss. Abbas dispensare po∣test circa ordines.

May Giue or confer the lesse orders. Dist. 69. Quoni∣am. verb. lect or is in gloss. Abbas minores or di∣nes hodie conferre possit.

May Visite his subiects mediat and immediate. extra. commun. de cencibus c. vas. verb. Abbates in glossa.

May Bless & cōsecrate Ecclesiastical things & persons. Sexti. de Priuilegijs. Tit. 7. ca. Abbates. Additi∣on. I. in glossa. Et faciunt haec pro Abbatibus qui benedicunt calices, patinas, vestes sacerdo∣tales, cruces et similia. Nam si benedicant per∣sonas, fortius et res.

According to the Canonists, not onely Abbats, but also Priors claustrall, in their absence, haue ordi∣nary Iurisdiction, Spiritual and Ecclesiasticall, as these moderne, Victorinus, Mansus, Auersanus, and Mona∣chus Cassinensis, the Abbat of Saint Sepherine at Naples, cap. 2. de. modo procedendi in Causis. Regula. N. 4. haue largely written and proued. When the Abbat is away, the Prior hath authoritie in Court both secret, and conten∣tious, to heare confessions, to visit &c. Specula. in Tit. de of∣fic. ordin. si. const. per text. in cap. Duo extra. eod. tit. Ab∣bas. in tract. de forma procedendi. in cap. Irrefragabili eod. tit. et in cap. Cum contingat. De foro competen: And is ordinary Iudge there; as Petrus Follerius in the last part of his practik criminall, hath clearely proued and for∣tified.