XXVII.
Dances shall be suppressed, and those who make account to Dance, or be present at Dancing, after having been several times admonished, shall be Excommunicated when they shall grow obstinate and Rebellious. Consistories are strictly en∣joyn'd to see this Article duely executed, and to cause it to be publickly read in the name of the Synods, and the Colloques exhorted to take Notice of Consistories which shall not take care, to Sensure them.
* 1.1The Synod of Laodicea about the middle of the 4th. Century made a Cannon against Dances, contain'd in these Words; Christians which go to Weddings, must not Dance, but let them Dine or Sup civilly, as becomes Christians.
In the third Volume of the Councils, a like Decree is attributed to the Council of Lerrida in the year 524. Though its nothing but the same of that of Laodicea a little vary'd, but just now mention'd. Herrald Bishop of Tours in his Capitulary's of the year 858, * 1.2 in the third Volume of the Councils of France, forbids also Dances, not only at Weddings, * 1.3 but also on other occasions; the Frier Blastares has not in his Collection forgot the Can∣non of Laodicea, Chap. 7. of the Letter G. pag. 66. St. Eloy Bishop of Noyon in the 7th. Century inveigh'd much against Dancing, which he put in the number of Devilish