The canons and decrees of the Council of Trent celebrated under Paul III, Julius III, and Pius IV, Bishops of Rome / faithfully translated into English.

CHAP. VI.

BUT because, although the Habit do not make the Monk, yet it behoves Clergy-men to wear Garments up to their peculiar degree, that by the Decency of their outward Garment they may show the intrinsick Honesty of their manners, yet hath such a Rashness, and Contempt of Religion grown up in some at this Day, that making the proper Dignity belonging to the Clergy of little esteem, they publickly wear Garments proper to Lay-men, putting their Feet in different places, the one in Divine, the other in Carnal Affairs; Be∣cause all Ecclesiastick persons however exempt, who either were in Holy Offices, or shall have obtained any Ecclesiastick Dignities, Parsonages, Offices, or Bene∣fices, whatsoever, if, after that they are warned by their Bishop, even by a pub∣lick Edict, they do not wear an honest Clerical Habit, agreeable to their Order and Dignity, according to the Appointment of the Bishop, that then they may and ought to be constrained to it by the suspension from their Order, Office, Benefice, and Fruits, with the Revenues, and Encreases of the said Benefices, if they are once taken in it; but if they offend again in this point, by the depriva∣tion of their Offices and Benefices of this Nature: According to the Constituti∣on of Clement the Fifth in the Council of Vienna; beginning, Quoniam innovando & ampliando.