3. Forbids bishops, archdeacons, and deans to take any- thing for collations or institutions to benelices.
6. Orders the celebration of the nocturnal and dinrnal ofBce, and of all the sacrameuts, especially those of bap- tism and of the altar.
7. Forbids priests to say mass more than once in the same day, except at Christmas and Easter, and when there was a corpse to be buried.
10. Orders curates to preach often, and to attend to the sick.
11. Directs that the ornaments and vessels of the church be properly kept, and that iu every church there shall be a silver chalice and a clean white linen cloth for the altar ; also that old corporals be burned, etc.
12. Forbids any one to resign his benefice, retaining the vicarage, to prevent suspicion of unlawful bargain.
13. Forbids to divide benefices iu order to provide for several persons.
15. Orders churches not worth more than five marks a year to be giveu to none but such as will reside and min- ister iu them.
16. Assigns to the perpetual vicar a stipend not less than five marks, except iu Wales, "where vicars are content with less by reason of the poverty of the churches." Or- ders that the diocesan shall decide whether the parson or vicar shall bear the charges of the church.
17. Orders that iu large parishes there shall be two or three priests.
IS. Directs that the bishop shall make the person pre- sented to a living take an oath that he has neither given nor promised anything to the patron.
19. Provides that in each archdeaconry confessors shall be appointed for the rural deaus and others of the clergy who may be unwilliug to confess to the bishop.
20. Takes from the rural deaus the coguizauce of matri- monial causes.
21. Forbids, under anathema, to harbor thieves, etc.
22 aud 23. Kelate to archidiaconal visitations. Forbid those dignitaries to burden the clergy whom they visit with many horses, to invite straugers to the procurations provided for them, or to extort procurations without reasonable cause.
24. Forbids to let out to farm archdeaconries, deaneries, etc.
25. Orders the archdeacons to take care in their visita- tions that the canon of the mass be correct; that the priest can rightly pronounce the words of the canon and of baptism; that laymeu be taught how to baptize right- ly iu case of necesi^ity; and that the host, chrism, aud holy oil be kept under Iwck aud key, etc.
20. Forbids bishops, archdeacons, and their officers to pass sentence without first giving the canonical moui- lions.
27. Forbids to exact any fee for burials and the admin- istration of the holy sacraments.
30. Orders ecclesiastics to wear decent habits Avith close copes, to observe the tonsure, to keep their haircut short, aud to abstain from immoderate eating and drinking.
31. Forbids clergymen in holy orders publicly to keep concubines.
34. Forbids the clergy to spend their ecclesiastical rev- enues in building houses ou lay fees for their sons, neph- ews, or concubines.
30. Forbids the nuns to wear veils of silk, to use pins of silver and gold, and to wear girdles worked aud em- broidered, and long trains.
41. Forbids to give to a person already provided with a
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benefice, having cure of souls, any revenue out of another church.
42 and 43. Order monks to live in common, and forbid them to receive any one into their community under eijrhteeu years of age.
44. Orders monks to give away to the poor what re- mains of their repasts.
45. Forbids monks to make will?.
47. Forbids monks and canons regular to eat and drink pave at the appointed hours ; permits them to quench their thirst in the refectory, but not to indulge.
In the Oxford copy of these constitutions two others are added relating to the Jews. — Johnson, Ecd. Can- ons; Cone, xi, 270; Wilkins, Cone, i, 585.
(4) Convened in 1322, by Walter Reynolds, arch- bisiiop of Canterbury, in which ten constitutions were published :
1. Relates to the conferring of holy orders. Directs that all candidates shall be examined previously; enu- merates those cases iu which holy orders shall be refused. Also forbids to admit clerks ordained in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland to officiate without letters dismissory or commendatory from their ordinaries. Orders that monks Bhall be ordained by their own diocesan.
2. Directs priests to exhort their people to be confirmed, and adults to confess before confirmation. Orders that children ou the third day after confirmation be carried to church, that their foreheads may be washed in the bap- tistery by the priest's hand, in honor of the chrism. Pre- scribes caution against children receiving contirmation twice.
3. Kelates to extreme unction, and appeals to St. James (v, 14, \tt) iu proof of its necessity.
4. Orders rectors and prie>-ts to be careful of their altars, to keep the holy Eucharist in a clean pyx of silver or Ivory, or other befitting material, to renew the consecrated host weekly, to carry it to the sick with reverence, a light going before, etc.
5. Orders that the linen furniture of the altar be kept whole and clean, that the words of the canon be fully and exactly pronounced, and with the greatest devotion. Forbids a priest to celebrate mass till he has finished mat- ins, prime, and undern. Directs that two caudles, or one at least, be lighted at high mass.