according to the manner and form hereafter declared and expressed to the end that every Christian desirous of his Salvation may purchase and come by them And first of the Declaration of the Indulgences given and granted to the Brethren of the said Fraternity found in the Church of St. Hilary of Chartres verified approved and confirmed for ever but made valid by our Holy Father Pope Julius III. The Indulgences granted to the Hospital of St. James in Augusta The Indulgences granted to the Church of St. John of Florence and to the Company and Society of the said Nation and of St. Cosmas and Damianus of Rome The Indulgences granted to the Society of the Holy Camp of Rome The Indulgences granted to the Brethren and Sisters of St. Saviour ad Sancta Sanctorum The Indulgences granted to the Company of the Charity of Rome The Indulgences of the great Hospital of the Holy Ghost in Saxia of the Order of St. Austin of Rome The Indulgences of our Lady del Popolo of Rome The Catalogue and Declaration of the Indulgences aforesaid and the Names of the Popes that granted them and the days upon which they may be had First our Holy Father Pope Leo hath granted to all and every one of the said Brethren which shall be present at processions and other Divine Service celebrated upon Corpus Christi day remission of all their sins provided they be confessed and penitent or have a full resolution to confess themselves at the times appointed by our Holy Mother the Church Plenary Pardon to those of the Brethren that shall name the name of Jesus at the point of Death Item He hath granted a plenary Pardon to all such of the Brethren of the said Fraternity as shall name the name of Jesus at the point of Death and they shall be partakers of all the good works of the whole Church Catholick Plenary Pardon upon all the feast-Feast-days of our Lady upon All-Souls day and upon St. Philip and James day Item He hath granted to every one of the said Brothers and Sisters who upon any of the Feasts of our Lady upon All-Souls day and upon Philip and James day from the Vespers of the Eves until the Vespers of the said days shall being confessed and penitent visit the great Altar of St. Hilary upon which the most precious blessed Sacrament is set plenary Pardon of all their sins upon every one of the said days Plenary Pardon upon all the second days in June and upon the sixteenth of July Item Pope Sixtus hath given and granted to every Brother and Sister that shall visit the said Altar upon the second day in June and the sixteenth day of July every year for every of the said days a plenary remission of all their sins Plenary Pardon to the Dead Item He hath granted to every Brother that shall give any Alms or offer any sacrifice according to his means and ability by way of suffrage for the Soul of any one deceased that he shall obtain plenary Pardon for the sins of him so deceased Plenary Pardon upon our Ladies day in mid August which is the Assumption Item Pope Gregory hath given and granted to every Brother that shall visit the Altar of the blessed Sacrament in the said Churth of the said St. Hilary upon our Ladies day in mid August c. plenary remission of all his sins Plenary Pardon upon the Feasts of our Lady and the Octaves of them c. Item he hath given to all the Festivals of our Lady and the Octaves of them and to every Feast of the Apostles plenary pardon of all their sins easter-Easter-day and eight days following Item Pope Innocent hath granted to the said Brothers and Sisters upon easter-Easter-day and eight days following four thousand eight hundred years of Quarantains and remission of the third part of all their sins twelfth-Twelfth-day and the Octaves of that Festival and the Nativity of our Lady Item He hath granted to Twelfth-day and the Octaves thereof five thousand years to the day of the Nativity of our Lady and the Octaves of it thirty thousand years of true pardon Ascension-day and the Octaves thereof Item Pope Clement V. hath granted to the said Brothers and Sisters upon Ascension-day and the Octaves thereof two thousand years of true pardon Pope Boniface VIII hath granted to the said Brothers and Sisters upon the said Ascension-day and the Octaves thereof two thousand years of true pardon All-Saints Day Item Pope Bennet XII hath granted to the said Brothers upon All-Saints Day three thousand eight hundred Quarantains of true pardon Plenary Pardon upon all the Festivals of our Lady to those that shall visit the Altar upon which the blessed Sacrament standeth in the Church of St. Hilary Item Pope Sixtus IV. hath granted to the said Brothers and Sisters that shall visit the said Altar in the Church of St. Hilary on which the blessed Sacrament of the Altar standeth upon any of the Festivals of our Lady from the first Vespers to the second plenary pardon of all their sins All the Saturdays in Lent Item He hath granted to the said Brothers which shall visit the said Altar all the Saturdays in Lent for every day a thousand eight hundred years of true pardon From Thursday in Mid Lent till Low-Sunday Item He hath granted to the said Brothers and Sisters visiting the said Altar as before from Thursday in Mid Lent till Low-Sunday for every day a thousand eight hundred years and two thousand Quarantains of true pardon The day of entrance into the said Fraternity Over and above the said Pardons and Indulgences so granted as abovesaid our Holy Father Pope Paul III. doth give and grant as appears by his Bull plenary Indulgence and remission of all their sins in manner of Jubilee to every one that shall enter into the said Fraternity and shall be confessed and penitent for his sins upon the day of his entrance and shall have received the most blessed Body of our Lord Jesus Christ Plenary Pardon three times in their Life Item He giveth and granteth moreover to every one of the said Brothers and Sisters plenary pardon and Indulgence of all their sins thrice in their Life upon what day and hour they please To all that accompany the Body of our Lord when it is carried to Sick Folk Item He grants an hundred years of pardon to all that shall accompany the blessed Sacrament of the Altar when it shall be carried to sick folks and as much to those who cannot go themselves but shall send one of their Servants with a Candle and to those that can neither go nor send if they say one Pater-Noster and an Ave-Maria to every one an hundred years of true pardon To those that shall visit the Church of St. Hilary every Friday Item He grants to the said Brothers and Sisters which shall visit the said Church and the said Altar of St. Hilary every Friday and shall devoutly say one Pater-Noster and an Ave-Maria in honour
of the most blessed Sacrament of the Altar ten years and ten Quarantains of true pardon Of choosing their Confessour Item He hath given and doth give to every one of the said Brothers and Sisters licence to choose three times in their life any Priest Secular or Regular for their Confessour who shall absolve them from all sins how hainous soever yea though they be reserved to the Holy See always excepted such as are contained in the Bull which is read at Rome upon Maundy Thursday For visiting the aforesaid Altar every day in Lent Item According to the priviledges granted in the Hospital of the Holy Ghost and other places particularly mentioned at which the stations both within the City of Rome and without the Walls of the said City are appointed to be our said Holy Father doth give unto all the said Brothers and Sisters which shall visit the said Altar upon which the blessed Sacrament of the Altar resteth in the Church of St. Hilary aforesaid upon the days following Imprimis The first day of Lent three thousand years of true pardon and plenary remission of his sins over and above Thursday Ten thousand years Friday Ten thousand years The first Sunday in Lent eighteen thousand years of pardon and remission of all sins to boot Monday Ten thousand years and a plenary Indulgence Tuesday Twenty eight thousand years and as many Quarantains and remission of the third part of their sins and the delivery of one Soul out of purgatory Wednesday Twenty eight thousand years and as many Quarantains and remission of the third part of their sins Thursday Ten thousand years of true pardon and remission of all their sins Friday Thirteen thousand years of true pardon and plenary remission of all their sins Saturday Twenty eight thousand years and as many Quarantains and besides remission of all their sins The second Sunday in Lent twenty eight thousand years and as many Quarantains Monday Ten thousand years of pardon and remission of the third part of their sins Tuesday Ten thousand years Wednesday Ten thousand years Thursday Friday and Saturday to each day ten thousand years And besides on Saturday remission of all their sins with the deliverance of one soul from the pains of purgatory The third Sunday in Lent Ten thousand years and twenty eight Quarantains of true pardon and deliverance of one soul out of purgatory Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday on each day ten thousand years Saturday ten thousand years and plenary remission of all their sins The fourth Sunday remission of all their sins and deliverance of one soul from the pains of purgatory Monday Ten thousand years Tuesday Ten thousand years and remission of the third part of all their sins Wednesday Ten thousand years and remission of the third part of all their sins Thursday Friday and Saturday on each day ten thousand years The fifth Sunday which is the passion Sunday of our Saviour twenty seven thousand years and as many Quarantains with remission of the third part of all their sins and these pardons they may get twice a day visiting the said Altar as aforesaid Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday ten thousand years Friday The deliverance of one soul from the pains of purgatory Saturday Twelve thousand years of pardon and deliverance of one soul out of purgatory The sixth Sunday being Palm-Sunday twenty five thousand years and forty eight Quarantains of true pardon and besides remission of all their sins Upon this day they may get the said pardons twice as was said of the former Sunday Monday twenty five thousand years and remission of the fourth part of all their sins and besides plenary remission of all their sins Tuesday twenty eight thousand years and plenary pardon of all their sins over and above Wednesday Eighteen thousand years Thursday Twelve thousand years and as many Quarantains and remission of all their sins Good-Friday a great number of Pardons and Indulgences and plenary remission of all their sins Saturday before Easter two and twenty thousand years and forty eight Quarantains of pardon and plenary remission of all their sins easter-Easter-day twenty eight thousand years and as many Quarantains of pardon and plenary remission of all sins Easter-Monday the same as on easter-Easter-day Easter-Tuesday Ten thousand years Wednesday fifteen thousand years and as many Quarantains and the deliverance of one soul out of purgatory Thursday Fifteen thousand years and plenary remission of all sins Friday Fifteen thousand years Saturday Fifteen thousand years and plenary remission of the third part of all their sins And they may have them twice a day as before Low-Sunday Fifteen thousand years and plenary remission of the third part of all their sins And they may get them twice a day To those that shall assist at Masses Services and Processions Item He gives unto all the Brothers and Sisters of the said Fraternity that shall assist at the Service and processions made in the Church of St. Hilary in Chartres in honour of the blessed Sacrament to every one an hundred years of true pardon The Stations after Easter in the said Church of St. Hilary doing as is set down before and visiting the said Altar of the blessed Sacrament Imprimis St. Mark 's day eighteen thousand years and as many Quarantains ascension-Ascension-day twenty eight thousand years and as many Quarantains Whitsunday twenty eight thousand years and plenary remission of all sins Whitsun-Eve fifteen thousand years c. Whitsunday Twenty eight thousand years c. Whitsun-Monday remission of all sins Tuesday Twenty three thousand years Wednesday Twenty eight thousand years and as many Quarantains and remission of the third part of their sins and the delivery of one soul out of purgatory beside The Stations of Advent in the said Church of St. Hilary The first Sunday in Advent twenty eight thousand years and as many Quarantains and remission of the third part of all their sins The second Sunday eleven thousand years and plenary remission of all their sins granted by St. Silvester The third Sunday twenty eight thousand years and as many Quarantains and plenary remission of all sins The fourth Sunday eleven thousand years and plenary remission of all sins St. Stephen's day and St. John's day twenty eight thousand years and as many Quarantains and full remission of all sins Innocents day fifteen thousand years and as many Quarantains and remission of all sins On New-years day twenty five thousand years and plenary remission of all sins twelfth-Twelfth-day twenty eight thousand years as many Quarantains and plenary remission of all their sins Septuagesima Sunday eleven thousand years and forty eight Quarantains and the remission of the third part of their sins with the delivery of one soul out of purgatory Sexagesima Sunday thirteen thousand years and forty seven thousand Quarantains and remission of the third part of their sins Quinquagesima Sunday twenty eight thousand years and as many Quarantains of true pardon And the said Pardons and Indulgences here above-mentioned
11. The Bishop or Abbot must not resort to Civil Judicatures to plead their own Cause except it be to support the poor and oppressed Presbyters Deacons and Monks having obtained Licence from the Bishops may appear in Civil Judgement-seats accompanied with their Advocate 12. Let no Presbyters Deacons or Monks be Farmers or Tillers of the ground 13. An Oath used by some in the time of Ordination inhibited 14. Bishops in visiting of their Parishoners not to be chargeable unto them 15. This Canon was against the Tyranny of Arch-Deacons 16. That Bishops provide Balm and Chrism for the Lights of the Church 17. That Presbyters pay no Tribute to the Bishop 18. Against taking of pawns from incestuous persons and from those who pay not their Tithes and from negligent Presbyters 19. Let people give their Tithes to those Churches wherein their Children are baptized and whereto they resort all the year long to hear Church-service 23. The Ordination of Presbyters and Deacons is to be made at certain prescribed times 24. Concerning Presbyters Deacons and Monks who shall happen to be slain let the Emperour determine to whom the satisfaction of blood shall belong 25. That the Emperour be entreated that the Ancient Discipline may be restored again and they who sin publickly may be brought to publick repentance and every man according as he deserveth may either be excommunicated or reconciled 27. Neither the Sacrament of Baptism nor the Sacrament of Confirmation should be re-iterated 28. Concerning the degrees of Affinity and in what degree Marriage may be bound up every one is to go to the Canons of the Church to be resolved 30. Rules concerning the Marriage of Servants 31. That such Women as either negligently or fraudulently present their own Children to Confirmation shall be forced to do penance all the dayes of their life neither shall they be separated from their Husbands 32. Let a sinner confess unto his Father-Confessor all his sins which he hath committed either in thought word or deed 34. In prescribing of penance let favour and hatred of any person be laid aside and let the Injunctions be given according to the Rule of Holy Scripture and according to the Canons and Customs of the Church 36. Let no man sin of purpose to the end he may abolish his sins by Alms-deeds for that is all one as if a man should hire God to grant unto him a liberty to sin 37. That such Canons of Councils are especially to be read as appertain unto Faith and reformation of Manners 38. Books called Libelli Poenitentiales are to be abolished 39. In the Solemnities of the Mass prayers are to be made for the Souls of them who are departed as well as for them who are alive 40. Degraded Presbyters remaining impenitent are to be excommunicated 41. No Presbyters to be admitted in strange places without the testimony of the Bishop and other sufficient witnesses 42. Let no Church be committed to a Presbyter without consent of the Bishop 43. In some places are found Scotch men who call themselves Bishops and they Ordain Presbyters and Deacons whose Ordination we disallow 45. Against the going of the Clergy and Laicks to holy places such as Rome Turon c. men imagining that by the sight of these places their sins are remitted 46 and 47 That the receiving the Sacrament be not long deferred and none to come to it without due preparation That when the Sacrament is to be universally received in one day none do neglect to receive it except some grievous crime do hinder him from receiving it 48. According to the Precept of St. James that weak persons should be anointed with oyl by the Elders which oyl is blessed by the Bishop From Canon 52 unto the 66 are contained Precepts of chast and honest living prescribed to Prioresses and Nuns Of the Council of Arles The Canons of this Council were in number 26. 1. They set down a confession of their Faith The five following Canons are some of those mentioned in the former Councils The 7 and 8 Canons belong to the ordering of Monks and Nuns The 9th pertaineth to the payment of Tithes and First-fruits 10. That Presbyters shall preach the Word of God not only in Cities but also in every Parish From thence to the 17th are some of the Canons of the other Councils 17. Let every Bishop Visit his Bounds once every year and support the oppressed 18. Let Presbyters keep the Chrism and give it to no man under pretense of Medicine 19. Parents and Witnesses shall bring up baptized Children in the knowledge of God 20. Ancient Churches shall not be deprived of Tithes nor of any other possession 21. That the Constitution of the Ancients shall be kept concerning burial in Churches 22. That Civil Judgement-seats shall not be in Churches 23. If goods belonging to the poor be bought let it be done openly in sight of the Nobles and Judges of the City 24. Let fugitive Church-men be sought out and sent back again unto the Bishop 25. He who hath a Benefice bestowed upon him for helping the fabrick of Churches let him support the building of them 26. They who sin publickly let them make their publick repentance according to the Canons All these Canons were presented unto the Emperour to be corrected by the wisdom of his Highness Charles at the request of Pope Adrian 1. Banished the Ambrosian Service out of his Kingdom and against the will of the French Clergy by force established the Gregorian or Roman Office By this change the Latin Tongue in the Publick Service was fully established Here I shall make mention of one notable passage written in the Life of Charles the Great namely when he made war against the Saracens of Spain Agoiland one of the Saracen Kings made shew of friendship with Charlemagne and open hatred of the other Saracen Kings with whom notwithstanding he had a most strict correspondence to betray Charles Agoiland seemed to encline to peace After many Messengers sent on either part they resolve to parley So upon Charlemagne's Faith Agoiland cometh to the Camp of the French Charles told the Pagan he should have his Friendship if he would be baptized and become a Christian Agoiland answered That he was not yet so Abject nor his Forces so weak as to refuse the battel But because it would be an infinite loss to hazzard so many men he desired to make tryal of the Right by some Troops and he that vanquished should have the Right and True Religion on his side protesting to yield to that Religion which should appear to be the best by that Tryal The condition was accepted by Charlemagne The Combate being made the Christian Troop vanquished the Saracen Now Agoiland protesteth openly to be a Christian De Serres Hist in vit Caroli magni but in heart he meant otherwise and takes this occasion to break the Treaty One day he finds Charlemagne at Table well acccompanied with his Chief Followers for
Church from the sole of the Foot to the Head the Bride was spoiled and even they that were called the Bridegrooms of the Church were not the friends of the Bridegroom And the Council so far took with this rebuke that some Acts were made for Reformation though no reformation followed About that time had been started that opinion concerning the Virgin Mary viz. of Universal freedom from original sin which opinion had been in the minds only of some private persons but yet was not come among the ceremonies of the Church nor into the minds of the learned About the year 1136. the Chanons of Lyons durst first bring it into the service of the Church St. Bernard flourishing at that time for piety and learning before all the Divines of that Age and so immoderate in the praises of the blessed Virgin that he calleth her the neck of the Church as if by her all Grace did flow from the Head nevertheless he sharply writeth against these Chanons that without reason and without example of former times they had brought in so dangerous a novelty He confesseth that they had matter enough to commend the blessed Virgin but such ambitious novelty which is the mother of fondness the sister of superstition and daughter of levity he saith could not please her Recentissimus est vixitque post confirmatam Episcopi Romani Tyrannidem Cham. de Oecum Pontif. Bernard dyed in the 63. year of his Age Anno 1153. From erring Bernard that frequent proverb of writers erring drew it's Original Bernardus non vidit omnia neither is it a wonder seeing he flourished in the darkest midnight as it were of Popery He is much commended by divers learned Protestants as by Bishop Morton Bishop Carleton Carlet Consens â—â—cles contr Trident. l. 6. Hist Pelag. li. ca. 21. Vossius and others He hath solidly disputed concerng the chief Heads of Faith of the Scriptures of the Church of the misery of man of free justification of grace of new obedience with the Catholick Church against the Tridentine Fables so that nothing can be found more solid In the Council of Rhemes forementioned where were assembled 434 Prelats these five principal acts were concluded 1. That no Man should either buy or sell any Bishoprick Abbotship Fox Act and Monum Deanry Arch Deaconship Priesthood Prebendship Altar or any Ecclesiastical promotion or Benefice Orders Consecration Church-hallowing Seat or Stall within the Quire or any Office Ecclesiastical under pain of Excommunication if he did persist 2. That no Lay-person should give Investiture or any Ecclesiastical possession and that no spiritual man should receive any such at any Lay-man's hand under pain of deprivation 3. That no man should invade take away or detain the goods or possessions of the Church but that they should remain firm and perpetual under pain of perpetual curse 4. That no Bishop or Priest should have any Ecclesiastical Dignity or benefice to any by way of inheritance Adding moreover that for Baptism Chrism Anointing Burial no Money should be exacted 5. Item That all Priests Deacons and Sub-Deacons should be utterly debarred and sequestred from company of their Wives and Concubines under pain of excluding from all Christian Communion The Acts thus determined were sent soon after to Henry the Emperour to try before the breaking up of the Council whether he would agree to the Canonical Elections free consecration and investing of spiritual persons and to other Acts of the said Council The Emperour maketh answer that he would lose nothing of that Antient Custom which his Progenitors had given him Yet because of the authority of the general Council he was content to consent to the residue save only the investing of Ecclesiastical function to be taken from him unto that he would never agree Upon this at the next return of the Pope to the Council Henry the Emperour was excommunicated In the Year 1142. Pope Eugenius came to Paris where that he might usurp the right of investiture and deprive the King of it he gave the Arch-Bishoprick of Bourges to his Chancellour of the Apostolical Chancery named Peter Aimery without the consent of King Lewes a Prince very much given to obedience unto the Papal See Yet the King was so angry at it that he swore upon the Holy Relicks that never so long as he lived Aimery should set his foot in Bourges But the Pope knowing the King 's timerous nature excommunicated him put his person in interdict and gave order that in France in all places where the King came divine Service should cease and all his Court were deprived of the Communion This lasted three whole years till St. Bernard came to the King and perswaded him to receive the said Arch-Bishop But because by so doing the King brake his Oath made upon the Holy Relicks he was enjoyned for satisfaction to take a Journey to the Holy Sepulchre in Syria to fight against the Saracens In which Journey the King lost the flower of the French Nobility and returned afflicted and full of confusion as you shall see more hereafter Peter Bishop of Clugny was in great account with Pope Eugenius Bernard wrote many Epistles to him in one Epistle he calleth him a Vessel of Honour full of Grace and Truth and endued with many gifts The loss of Edessa wherein Christianity had flourished ever since the Apostles times moved Conrade Emperour of the West and Lewes VII sir-named the young King of France to undertake a Voyage to the Holy Land Pope Eugenius III. bestirred himself in the matter and made St. Bernard stis solicitour to advance the design The Emperour's Army contained two hundred thousand foot besides fifty thousand Horse nor was the Army of King Lewes much inferiour in number Paul Aemil. in Lud. VII In France they sent a Distaff and a Spindle to all those that went not with them as upbraiding their effeminateness But by the way the Grecian Emperour did them all possible mischief by mingling lime with their meal by killing of straglers by holding intelligence with the Turks their enemies by corrupting his Coyn so that the Dutch sold good Wares for bad Money and bought bad Wares with good Money by giving them false conductors which trained them into danger so that there was more fear of the guides than of the way The King of France followed after the Emperour and drank of the same Cup at the Grecians hands though not so deeply till at last finding that those who marched through the Continent met with an Ocean of misery he thought better to trust the Wind and the Sea than the Greeks and taking shipping safely arrived in Palestine where he was welcomed by Reimund Prince of Antioch Some weeks were spent in entertainment and visiting holy places till at last Tho. Fuller holy War lib. 2. Elianor Wife to the King of France who accompanied her Husband made Religion her Pander and plaid Bankrupt of her honour under pretence of Pilgrimage keeping
all that hath been done And whosoever believeth otherwise We judge them Hereticks Given at Lateran the fourth of the Nones of December in the sixth year of our Popedom Unto this Letter of the Pope King Philip makes Answer in manner as followeth Philip by the Grace of God King of France to Boniface calling himself the Soveraign Bishop little or no health Let thy foolishness know that in Temporal things we are subject to no Man and that the Gifts of Prebends and Benefices made and to be made by Vs were and shall be good both in time past and to come and that We will defend manfully the possessour of the said Benefices and We think them that believe or think otherwise fools and mad-men Given at Paris the Wednesday after Candlemas Anno 1301. After these and other Writings had passed to and fro between the French King and the Pope within a year and an half after the King summoneth a Parliament sending down his Letters to his Sheriffs and other Officers to summon the Prelates and Barons of the Realm unto the said Court of Parliament according to the Tenour of the King's Letters Patents Then William Nagaretta Knight and professour of the Laws Vid. Fox Act Monum Tom. 1. p. 448. made a large Declaration and appeal against Pope Boniface VIII at Paris before the King and his Council He taxeth Boniface to be an Intruder into the Papacy that entring not in at the door he is to be judged a Thief and a Robber He declares him to be guilty of many Heresies and to be an horrible Simoniack He chargeth him with cursing and blasphemy a blood-thirsty man a destroyer of the Churches one that is very greedy after gold and rooted in all sins that he is the Abomination of Desolation described by Daniel the Prophet Then he thus speaks to King Philip I beseech you my Lord and King that you would declare thus much to the Prelates Doctors People and Princes your Brethren in Christ and chiefly to the Cardinals and all Prelates and call a Council In the which when the aforesaid Boniface is condemned by the worthy Cardinals the Church may be provided of a Pastor And I beseech and require the said Cardinals by you and I require them and the Church of God that this wicked Man being put in prison the Church of Rome may be provided of a Vicar which may minister those things that shall appertain until the Church of God be provided of a Bishop utterly to take away all occasion of Schism After this protestation of Nagaretta immediately ensued the Appeal of the King pronounced and published against the said Boniface The manner and form is set down at large by Mr. Fox Act Monum Tom. 1. p. 449. 450. This was done Anno 1303. Indictione prima June 13. on the 14 th day of the same Month of June the aforesaid King Philip being present and also the Lords Arch Bishops Bishops Abbots Priors and many witnesses being present William of Plesiano Knight objected propounded affirmed and read out of a certain paper which he held in his hand divers Articles against Pope Boniface to the number of thirty charging him with denying the immortality of the Soul with asserting that Whoredom is no sin charging him with Witch-craft Simony Sodomy Murther Oppression Bribery Adultery and many other detestable sins These things being thus read and done King Philip answered and his Appeal is as followeth We Philip by the Grace of God hearing and understanding the Objections propounded by our beloved and faithful Knight W. of Nagaretta against Boniface having now the Regiment of the Romish Church c. We earnestly beseech and require in the Bowels of Jesus Christ you Arch-Bishops and other Prelates here present as Children of the Church and pillars of the Faith that you would labour the calling and assembling of a Council in which We intend to be personally present c. Then the Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbots and Priors answered the premisses provoked and Appealed c. And made an Appellation Agreement and protestation as was contained in a certain paper there openly and plainly read in Tenour and Form following We Arch-Bishops of Nicosen Remen Senorem Narbon and Bishops of Landviren Belnacen Carolacen Antisidore Meldimen Nurmen Chartres Orleans Anjou Constance with many others And we Abbots of Clugny Proemonstrator of the greater Monastery of the Court of St. Denis in France St. Victor St. Genoveue St. Martin c. and Fryar Hugh Visitor of the Houses of the Order of Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in France and the Father Prior of St. Martin in the fields c. Hearing these things which were said propounded and objected yesterday and to day by you the Lords Earls and Wil. aforesaid against Pope Boniface VIII c. We answer you our Lord and King and you our Lords Earls and William that the Honour and Reverence of the Holy Romish Church salved in all points we agree to your due Request in this behalf for the calling of the Council and are ready to assist to the calling together of the said Council according to the Decrees of the Holy Fathers and to the lawful Orders of the Canons not intending by any means to make parties of this matter nor to stick to any that maketh parties And lest we should be hindred by any means by the said Boniface by Excommunication suspension interdiction deposing deprivation c. And that we may sit in the same Council to judge and do all other things that belong to the Office of Prelates that We our friends our subjects Parish-Churches c. may remain safe We provoke and Appeal in Writing to the aforesaid Council that is to be gathered and to him that shall be the true and lawful highest Bishop and to him or them to whom of right we should Appeal and do earnestly require our Appellations committing us our Parish-Churches and them that stick to us our state and theirs c. to the godly defence of the aforesaid Council and of him that shall be true and lawful highest Bishop And we protest to renew this Appellation where when and before whom it shall be thought meet This was done at Paris at Lupara in the Chamber of the King many Lords and Earls Knights and Clerks and others being Witnesses After these things thus in the Parliament decreed and agreed the Prelates consulting with themselves what to do in so doubtful a matter and dreading the Pope's displeasure for what was now done to clear themselves to the Pope partly to certifie him what was done and partly also to admonish him what he should do sent this ensuing Letter to him thus directed To their most Holy Father and dearest beloved Lord Boniface the chief Bishop of the Holy Romish Church and the Universal Church his humble and devout Arch-Bishops Abbots Priors Conventuals Deans Provosts Chapters Covents and Colledges of the Cathedral and Collegiat Churches Regular and Secular of all the Realm of
that Council Witness the Bishop of Panormo in his advice touching the Council of Basil This decree concerneth the general Estate of the Church and the matters belong to a general Reformation which may be hindred by a dissolution as it was by the dissolution of the Council of Vienne Durand further said in that Council that the Court of Rome and the Colledge of Cardinals together with the Pope would have a certain allowance of all Bishops that are preferred there it seems very requisite that this were taken order with For this errour doth much corrupt the Catholick Church and the common people and the remedies which have been applyed hitherto are quite disregarded inasmuch as the contrary is usually practised in the Court of Rome as if it were no sin at all to commit Simony or as if it were not all one to give first and then take as first to take and then to give The thing was taken into consideration at the Council of Vienne so as they were once advised Joann Andr. in Ca. inter coer de offic ordinar to allow the twentyeth part of all livings in Christendom to the Pope and his Cardinals but at last it was shifted off without resolving upon any thing A Doctor of the Canon Law saith it was better for that because their covetousness is so unsatiable that if that had been resolved upon they would have taken both This Bishop of Mende mentioned another abuse fit to be reformed For after he had said that every Bishop's jurisdiction ought to be preserved entire to himself he addeth That Ecclesiastical Benefices which belong to the collation and disposal of Bishops are bestowed by the See Apostolick and others even before they be void and that not only in the Court of Rome but out of it howbeit the Bishops must give account of the cure and of those that execute them whose Consciences they are utterly ignorant of inasmuch as they are none of their preferring He would never have demanded the reformation hereof unless the abuse had been notorious Durand also perswaded the abolition of Fraternities for two reasons for their dissoluteness and for their conspiracy against superiours It would be also useful saith he that Fraternities Durand de modo celebr concilii part 2. tit 35. wherein both Clergy and Laity do nothing but pamper themselves with delicates live in dissoluteness and drunkenness and busie themselves in divers plots against their superiours were abolished Then speaking of dispensations he saith That the very Nerves of the Canons and decrees are broken by the dispensations which are made according to the stile of the Court of Rome Durand de modo celebr concil Tit. 4. part 1. that they are against the common good And citing the Authority of St. Hierom writing to Rusticus Bishop of Narbon he saith Since Avarice is increased in Churches as well as in the Roman Empire the Law is departed from the Priests and seeing from the Prophets He gives us the definition of a dispensation according to the Lawyers which he saith is a provident relaxation of the general Law countervailed by commodity or necessity that if it be otherwise used it is not a dispensation but a dissipation that the question is now about the staining of the state of the Church that those who dispense upon unnecessary causes do err Lastly for matter of dispensation he would have that observed which Pope Leo said viz. That there are some things which cannot be altered upon any occasion others which may be tempered in regard of the necessity of the times or consideration of Mens Ages but always with this Resolution when there is any doubt or obscurity to follow that which is not contrary to the Gospel nor repugnant to the Decrees of Holy Fathers Concerning Exemptions he further declareth in that Council That they give occasion to the persons exempted to live more dissolutely and more at their liberty That they take away the reverence and obedience which the exempted owe unto their Prelates and Ordinaries Durand de modo celebr concil general Tit. 5. part 1. and make them think themselves as good men as the Bishops and other their superiours That the correction and punishing of faults and excesses is hereby hindred and brought to nothing That they are prejudicial to the whole Church Catholick inasmuch as the exempted cannot be judged but by the Pope and he cannot do it by reason of his remoteness from them That they rob men of the means of doing many good works in Religion That they are cause of many scandals That those to whom they are granted abuse their priviledges That they draw after them the ruine of Monasteries being rather a burthen than an honour or profit to them The same Durand maintaineth that the Pope hath no power to grant such exemptions considering that they overthrow the general order of the Catholick Church which proceeds from God the Apostles the Holy Fathers and general Councils and which was approved and confirmed by Popes That by this order all the Monasteries Religious places Abbots Abbesses Monks and Nuns and all other Religious and Ecclesiastical persons are immediately subject to the government and guidance of Bishops within their Cities and Diocesses as unto their Superiours the Apostles Successours and such as have power and Authority over them Pasquier saith there were these remarkable excellencies in William Durand he was a great Divine a great Lawyer Pasqu Recherch de la France li. 9. ca. 35. Leigh's Treat of Relig. and Learning and an excellent Poet He put out a Book entituled Speculum Juris divided into three great Tomes As Lumbard among Divines is not usually quoted by his own name but by that of Master of the Sentences so among the Lawyers he is not quoted by the name of William Durand but he is stiled Speculator He delivered this Sentence about the Sacrament Verbum audimus modum Sentimus modum nescimus praesentiam credimus I find this given as his Character Gulielmus Durandus omnis Divini Humanique juris Consultissimus Natione Vasco Gallus Episcopus Mimatensis Scripsit Speculum juris undè speculator est dictus Multa profectò utilia author monuit praecipuè de Reformatione Papae Cleri Illyr Catal. Test verit lib. 16. Lewes Hutin called Lewes X. began to reign over France Anno 1315. and dyed Anno 1316. He left his Wife with child who was delivered of a Son which lived but eight days Lewes left one Daughter named Jane which was Queen of Navarr and Countess Palatine of Brie and Champagn Philip V. called the long succeeded his Brother Lewes Anno 1316. He dyed in the sixth year of his Reign viz. Anno 1322. Pope Clement V. dyed Anno 1314. after whose death the Papacy stood void two years and three months The Cardinals at last did yield all their suffrages unto Jacob de Ossa Cardurcensis who afterwards went up into the Papal Chair and said I am Pope This
are granted only to the Brothers and Sisters of the said Fraternity which shall upon the days aforesaid every year visit the said Altar in the said Church of St. Hilary of Chartres in France upon which the blessed Sacrament and precious body of Jesus Christ is placed Medard Thiersault Priest Licentiat in the Laws Chanon of Chartres Official and Vicar-General both in the Spiritualty and Temporalty of the Reverend Father in God Monsieur Lewes by the Grace of God Bishop of Chartres To all and singular the Parsons and Vicars of the Churches within the City of Chartres sendeth greeting c. Pope Paul the third did heretofore of his own proper motion for the honour of the blessed Sacrament grant unto the Brothers of the Fraternity of the blessed Body of Jesus Christ in the Minerva of Rome certain Indulgences plenary remission of sins and other graces the good devotion and upon petition of the faithful Christian Brothers Which Indulgences and plenary remission of Sins our holy Father Julius III. Pope to the end that all Christians might come devoutly and honour the blessed Sacrament of his own Authority hath willed and decreed that they be of perpetual force and efficacy And these Indulgences and other graces aforesaid at the instance of the most noble Personage Mr. Christopher de Herovard the Lieutenant General of the Most Christian King within the Bailiwick of Chartres hath granted them to the Brothers and Sisters of the Fraternity of the blessed Body of Jesus Christ heretofore erected and instituted in the Church of St. Hilary of Chartres always provided that like grace and gift was not formerly granted to any other Church of the said City of Chartres And forasmuch as we have viewed the contents of the said Indulgence in the publick Instrument out of the Copy of Dominick Bishop of Hostia Cardinal of the hâ—ly Church of Rome by Title Traven Dean of the sacred Apostolical Colâ—ege Protectour and Patron of the Fraternity of the blessed Body of our Saviour founded in the Church of our Lady of Minerva of the order of Fryars Predicants in the City of Rome in manner of an exemplification published drawn signed and sealed by Genese Bulter Secretary to the said Fraternity Given at Rome May 6. 1550. And furthermore whereas by a certain declaration made unto the Court of Rome by the command and with the leave of the Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Chartres and as it seems to us truly and lawfulâ—y made that 't is certain the like grace was never granted to any other Church in the City of Chartres Wherefore we command you to publish and cause to be published in your Churches the said Indulgences and the exemplifications of the Letters aforesaid according to their form and tenure Giving leave to the said Christopher de Herovard to cause the said graces and Indulgences to be published within the City and Church of Chartres whether by Siguis's or otherwise the same Herovard shall think good Given at Chartres under the seal of the Chamber of the said Bishop of Chartres Anno 1550. July 31. Subscribed P. le Seneux Pope Pius IV. in his Bull of the publication of the Council of Trent which was for the continuation of it bearing date December 30. 1560. sheweth in effect that it was begun continued and ended among the troubles in France and Germany And as Sleidan saith Sleidan l. 16. as soon as new broils were raised in the neighbouring parts of Germany and a great war was kindled in Italy and France the Council was afterwards suspended and adjourned After the suppression of the Conspirators forementioned in a secret Council held in the Kings chamber it is resolved to punish the favourers of the Conspiracy And to get the Favourers of the Hugonots into their power it was resolved to call an Assembly of the States at which among others the Princes of the Blood are to assist But the Queen-Mother and the Guises doubting more than ever new Insurrections the Prince of Conde who was as a prisoner is discharged of his Guard and set at liberty He presently departed from Court and went into Bearn to the King of Navarre The Constable the Admiral of France and the rest were entertained with kind Letters and Commissions and Charges of trust The dissensions and suspicions of the Grandees in France encreasing on the 21. of August the King called a very great Assembly at Fountainbleau The Assembly at Fountainbleau in which the necessities of the Kingdom were declared by the Chancellour which he compared to a man sick of an unknown disease Afterwards Jasper Coligni gave the King some Petitions which he said were delivered to him by a multitude of people when he was in Normandy The summ of them was That the faithful Christians dispersed throughout the whole Kingdom did pray his Majesty to look on them with a favourable eye that they desired a moderation of their punishments until their cause were heard and that they might make publick profession of their Religion to avoid suspicion by private Assemblies Then John Monluc Bishop of Valence shewed That the principal remedy of these distempers was to flie unto God to assemble godly men out of the whole Kingdom to find a way to root out the vices of the Clergy to forbid infamous and immodest Songs and instead of them to command the singing of Psalms and holy hymns in the vulgar tongue and if the common interpretation be not good to take away the errours suffering that which is good to be used by all Another remedy was the General Council alwaies used to compose such differences saying That if a General Council could not be obtained they were to assemble a National that they did grievously err who troubled the publick quiet with Arms upon pretence of Religion that their errour was as great who condemned to death those who adhered to the new Doctrine only for the opinion of piety who dying constantly and contemning the loss of their goods stir up the minds of the multitude and make them desirous to know what Faith that is for which they endure so great punishment Charles Marillac Bishop of Vienna spake in the same manner adding That the disease of France was so sharp that there was no time to call a Physician from far therefore they were to call a National Council Coligni added that requiring those who gave him the Petitions to subscribe them he was answered That five thousand men would subscribe if there were occasion Francis of Guise concerning the point of Religion said he referred himself unto the judgement of learned men but protested that no Council should make him decline one jot from the old belief The Cardinal of Lorain said That the Petitions presented were most proud and that to grant the Orators publick Exercise were to approve their Doctrine he said that the greater part used Religion for a pretence and therefore his opinion was they should be proceeded against with more
In France though the Queen and Prelates did desire to satisfie the Pope in referring the causes of Religion to the Council yet a Congregation of Prelates was put in order at which the Pope is offended and sendeth for Legate the Cardinal of Ferrara into France giving him four particular Commissions viz. to favour the Catholicks and oppose the Protestants to divert the National Synod and Assembly of the Prelates to solicite the going of the Prelates to the Council and to cause an abrogation of the Constitutions made in matters Ecclesiastical Afterwards it was ordained in France that the Bishops should meet in Poisy on August 10. The Colloquy of Poisy in France and that the Protestant Ministers should have a safe-conduct to come thither At the time prefixed the Prelates assembled in Poisy the Cardinals of Tournon Lorain Bourbon Anno 1561. Armagnac and Guise many Doctors of the Sorbon and other Divines sent for from the most famous Universities of the Kingdom There appeared for the Protestants Theodore Beza Peter Martyr Francis de Saint Paul John Raimond John Virel with many other Preachers which came some from Geneva some out of Germany and other neighbouring places in number fourteen These gave a Petition to the King which had four parts 1. That the Bishops might not be Judges in that business 2. That the King with his Councellours would preside 3. That the Controversies might be decided by the word of God 4. That what should be agreed on and decreed might be written by Notaries elected by both parties The Queen would have one of the four Secretaries of the King to write and granted that the King should preside but so that this should not be committed to writing alledging that it was not fit for them nor profitable for the King considering the present times Before the Parties were called to the combate the Prelates made a Procession and did all Communicate except the Cardinal Chastillon and five Bishops The others protested one to another that they meant not to handle points of Doctrine nor matters of faith The second of September they began in presence of the King Hist Concil Trident. li. 5. Queen Princes of the blood and the King's Councellours together with six Cardinals and forty Bishops The King spake desiring them to labour to compose the differences of the Kingdom and not to depart till that were done The Chancellour speaks more largely to the same purpose The Queen commandeth Beza to begin Who having prayed on his knee and recited the profession of his Faith complained that they were accounted seditious and perturbers of the publick peace though they had no other end than the glory of God nor desired to assemble themselves but to serve him and obey the Magistrates appointed by him Then he declared in what the Protestants agree with the Church of Rome and in what they dissent he spake of faith of good works of the authority of Councils of sins of Ecclesiastical Discipline obedience to Magistrates and of the Sacraments and entring into the matter of the Eucharist he spake with such heat that he was commanded to conclude And having presented the Confession of his Churches and desired it might be examined he made an end Cardinal Tournon disdaineth at Beza's speech The Queen answered that nothing was done but by the advice of the Princes of the King's Council and the Parliament of Paris not to change or innovate any thing in Religion but to compose the differences The Assembly being dissolved the Bishops and Divines consulted what to do The Congregation being again assembled the 16. of the month the Cardinal of Lorain makes a long Oration for the Papists to whom Beza was willing to answer but was not suffered But on the 24. day in another Assembly Beza spake of the Church and of the conditions and authority thereof shewing they may err and the dignity of the Scripture Espenceus answered he had alwaies desired a colloquy in matter of Religion and abhorred the punishments the Protestants had endured but he much wondred by what authority the Protestants were called into the Ecclesiastical Ministery who had laid hands on them to make them ordinary Ministers and if they pretended an extraordinary vocation where were the miracles to demonstrate it Then he treated of Traditions shewing that many things are believed by Tradition only as the Consubstantiality of the Son the Baptizing of Infants and the Virginity of the Mother of Christ after his birth He added that no General Council was ever corrected by another in point of Doctrine Divers Replies and Disputations passed on both sides so the Colloquy was put off till the next day In which Beza who began to speak provoked the Bishops For having justified his vocation to the Ministery he discoursed of the vocation of those Prelates shewing what Simony was committed and passed from thence to the Article of the Eucharist The parties not being able to agree a Spanish Jesuite having reproached the Protestants did reprehend the Queen for meddling in matters which belonged not to her but to the Pope Cardinals and Bishops Finally not being able to conclude any thing by this manner of parly it was ordered that two Bishops and three Divines of the most moderate should confer with five of the Protestant Ministers to see if they could find out a way to make an agreement But this doth as little good as the former so an end was put to the Colloquy The Pope was glad to hear that the Colloquy was dissolved without doing any thing and much commended the Cardinal of Lorain and Tournon more The zeal of the Jesuite pleased him He said the Oration of the Chancellour was heretical in many parts and threatened to call him into the Inquisition The Cardinal of Ferrara had been received by the King and Queen with much honour and acknowledged for Legate of the Apostolick See But the Parliament having discovered that among his Commissions one was to desire a revocation or moderation at the least of the things accorded in the States of Orleans concerning the distribution of Benefices and particularly the paying Annates to Rome and sending money out of the Kingdom to obtain Benefices there or other favours did immediately publish the Decrees which had hot been published until that time under the date of September 13. that the Cardinal might not obtain his purpose and did resolve not to give the Legate lieve to use the faculties given him by the Pope For the custom of that Kingdom is that a Legate cannot exercise his office if his faculties be not first presented and examined in Parliament and regulated by a Decree thereof and confirmed in that form by the King 's Brief So that when the Bull of the Faculties of the Legation was presented to be approved it was refused by the Chancellour and Parliament Besides Pasquins were made and spread abroad concerning the loves of Lucretia Borgia his Mother and Pope Alexander VI. his Grandfather by the
Penance Extream Unction Order and Matrimony and that they do confer grace and of these that Baptism Confirmation and Order cannot be reiterated without sacriledge And I receive and admit the received and approved rites of the Catholick Church in the solemn administration of all the foresaid Sacraments I embrace and receive all and every thing which have been defined and declared in the holy Council of Trent concerning Original sin and Justification Likewise I profess that there is offered up unto God in the Mass a true proper and propitiatory Sacrifice for quick and dead and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly really and substantially the body and blood together with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the Bread into the Body and of the whole substance of the Wine into the Blood Which conversion the Catholick Church calleth Transubstantiation I confess also that under one kind only whole Christ and the true Sacrament is received I constantly hold that there is a Purgatory and that the souls detained there are helped by the suffrages of the faithful Likewise that the Saints reigning together with Christ are to be Worshipped and called upon and that they do offer up prayers to God for us And I assert that their Relicks are to be Worshipped That the Images of Christ and the Mother of God alwayes a Virgin and also of other Saints are to be had and retained and that due honour and veneration is to be given to them And I affirm that the power of Indulgences was left by Christ in the Church and that the use of them is very comfortable to Christian people I acknowledge that the holy Catholick and Apostolick Roman Church is the Mother and Mistress of all Churches And I freely promise and swear true obedience to the Roman Bishop the Successour of the blessed Peter the Prince of the Apostles the Successour of Jesus Christ And I undoubtedly receive and profess all other things delivered by the Sacred Canonical and Oecumenical Councils and especially the holy Council of Trent Moreover I condemn reject and anathematize all contrary things and heresies whatsoever condemned rejected and anathematized by the Church And this Catholick faith without which no man can be saved which I freely profess and truly hold for the present the same I will retain and profess constantly unto the end of my life by the help of God c. And this I promise vow and swear so help me God and his holy Gospels 3. The third Decree was concerning Divine Worship in general 4. Concerning the Sacraments As for the Sacrament of Confirmation it was to be done frequently and Gratis by the Bishops through the Towns in their Diocesses 5. Concerning Bishops where diverse qualifications are pre-requisite before any one be admitted to the Office of a Bishop 6. Concerning the Offices of Bishops 7. Concerning the Offices of Curates and other Presbyters and Parish-Priests 8. Concerning Monasteries wherein divers Instructions and Rules are prescribed to the Abbots and Priors for the better governing themselves and their Monasteries 9. Concerning Ecclesiastical Jurisdicton There were also divers Statutes made in the same Provincial Synod concerning the foundation of Schools and Seminaries The Decrees of the Provincial Council of Rhemes Anno 1583. 1. COncerning the Catholick faith and the reason of professing the same 2. A Form of Confession is set down 3. Concerning Divine Worship 4. Concerning the Breviary Missal and Manual 5. Concerning Festival Dayes 6. Concerning Divination by lots and other things contrary to Christian piety 7. Concerning the Sacraments 1. Of Confirmation 2. Of Penance 3. Of the Eucharist 4. Of Order 5. Of Matrimony Whereunto is added the Decree of the Council of Trent concerning the reformation of Matrimony ex Sess 24. 6. Of Extream Unction 8. Concerning Seminaries 9. Of the Clergy in general 10. Of Regulars and their Monasteries 11. Of Curates 12. Of Chapters and Canons 13. Concerning Bishops 14. Concerning Simoniacks and Fiduciaries 15. Concerning Burials 16. Concerning Usury 17. Concerning Jurisdiction 18. Concerning a Visitation 19. Concerning a Diocesan Synod 20. Of a Provincial Synod The Decrees of the Provincial Council of Bourdeaux together with the Laws of the Seminaries Anno 1583. all approved by the Pope 1. COncerning a Confession of Faith 2. Of those things which have respect to Divine Worship and Religion 3. Of Ecclesiastical Prayers 4. Of the Breviary Missal and other Books pertaining to Divine Offices 5. Of those things which either are to be observed or to be taken heed of in the holy Sacrifice of the Mass as they call it and in Divine Offices 6. Of Festival-dayes 7. Of Magick Arts and other things contrary to Christian Religion 8. Of the Sacrament 9. Of Baptism 10. Of Confirmation 11. Of the Eucharist 12. Of Penance 13. Of Extream Unction 14. Of Order 15. Of Matrimony 16. Of Bishops 17. Of Chapters and the Canons of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches 18. Of Parish-Priests 19. Of the Residency of Pastors 20. Of preaching the Word of God 21. Of the life and manners of Clergy-men 22. Of the Examination of those that are to be promoted to benefices with cure 23. Of Simoniacks and Confidentiaries 24. Of Monasteries 25. Of Seminaries 26. Of the not alienating the things of the Church 27. Of Schools Printers and Book-sellers 28. Of Hospitals 29. Of Usuries and unlawful Contracts 30. Of Burials 31. Of Jurisdiction 32. Of a Visitation 33. Of a Diocesan Synod 34. Of a Provincial Council 35. Of Punishments Of the Institution and Laws of the Seminaries of the Province of Bourdeaux 1. OF the Houses of a Seminary That they be built in a large and spacious place near unto the Cathedral Church That there be a Chappel wherein the Clergy may meet at prayers That the dormitory be open and common in which every one may have his own bed c. That an Hospital be appointed in an open place for sick folks in which all things may be provided for the sick with singular piety and charity 2. Of the manner of admitting Clerks into Seminaries The election and admission of Clerks shall be in the power of the Bishop or of those to whom this care shall be committed by name That out of all youths very fit youths may be chosen the Bishop shall cause it to be proclaimed through all the Cities and Towns of the Diocess especially where there are Schools that if any be poor and born of lawful Matrimony who desire to be promoted to the Priesthood and who have attained to the age of twelve years and have not exceeded the twentieth and have made some progress in the Grammar that they appear to be examined at the time and place which he shall appoint them The Bishop shall not admit any to be examined whom he shall behold to be maimed or deformed Then shall he enquire diligently concerning the condition estate