. Parish life in mediaeval England . should show themselves ever ready to visit the sick, and to administerit to such as ask, without asking or expecting any payment or reward. We further order that, avoiding all negligence, parish priestsshall be watchful and careful in the care committed to them, andthat without reasonable cause they never sleep out of their further that in case they do ever so, they procure some fittingsubstitute, who knows how to do everything which the cure of soulsrequires. If by the fault, negligence, or absence of his priest anyone, old or young, shall die
. Parish life in mediaeval England . should show themselves ever ready to visit the sick, and to administerit to such as ask, without asking or expecting any payment or reward. We further order that, avoiding all negligence, parish priestsshall be watchful and careful in the care committed to them, andthat without reasonable cause they never sleep out of their further that in case they do ever so, they procure some fittingsubstitute, who knows how to do everything which the cure of soulsrequires. If by the fault, negligence, or absence of his priest anyone, old or young, shall die without Baptism, Confession,Holy Communion, or Extreme Unction, the priest convictedof this is to be forthwith suspended from the exercise ofhis ecclesiastical functions, and this suspension is not tobe relaxed until he has done fitting penance for so gravea crime. Visitation of the Sick.—The subject of ExtremeUnction, the Sacrament of the sick, to be given in dangerof death through sickness, raises the question of the visitation. SACRAMENT OF EXTREME UNCTION THE SACRAMENTS 203 of the sick in a mediaeval parish. The order that all parishpriests should visit the sick of their district every Sundayhas already been noticed. It was, moreover, a positive lawof the Church, that every priest should go at once on beingcalled to a sick person, no matter what time of the dayor night the summons might come. Priests were orderedalso to impress upon all doctors the need of urging sickpeople and their friends to send immediately for the priestin all cases of serious illnesses. Priests, however, were notto wait to be called, but directly they heard that any oftheir people were unwell they were warned to go at onceto them. A chance story, used to enliven a fifteenth - centurysermon, illustrates the readiness of priests to go to thesick whenever they were summoned. I read, says the preacher, in Devonshire, besides Axbridgedwelt a holy vicar, and had in his parish a sick woman that layall at
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