Parish priests and their people in the middle ages in England . portant part of thedocument. The first canon decreed that every bishopshould be careful to support his character { hisstatus as a bishop), execute every part of his office,and maintain the canons and constitutions of theChurch against encroachment ; and the second that * Zacharys letters to the English inhabitants of Britain were inLatin and English. The documents are not on record, but we are toldthat they were read at the Council; in them he familiariter admo-nebat et veraciter conveniebat et postremo amabiliter exorabat, an
Parish priests and their people in the middle ages in England . portant part of thedocument. The first canon decreed that every bishopshould be careful to support his character { hisstatus as a bishop), execute every part of his office,and maintain the canons and constitutions of theChurch against encroachment ; and the second that * Zacharys letters to the English inhabitants of Britain were inLatin and English. The documents are not on record, but we are toldthat they were read at the Council; in them he familiariter admo-nebat et veraciter conveniebat et postremo amabiliter exorabat, andto those who despise these modes of address he anathematissententiam procul dubio properandam insinuabat. PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE. the bishops and clergy should be careful to keep agood correspondence with each other, without anyflattering applications to any person, considering thatthey are the servants of one master, and entrustedwith the same commission ; and, therefore, thoughthey are divided by distance of place and country, A Saxon bishop and p. (From Cotton MS., Claudius, B. iv.) they ought to be united by affection and pray foreach other that every one may discharge his officewith integrity and conscience. Then there followdisciplinary canons : (3) that the clergy should calltogether the people of all ranks and degrees ineach place, preach to them the word of God, THE SAXON CLERGY. 63 and forbid them to follow the heathen customs ;(2) that the bishops should visit their diocesesevery year; (4, 5, and 7) relate to monasteries;(6) bishops not to ordain priests without ex-amination as to learning and morals; (8) prieststo abstract themselves from worldly affairs andgive themselves to reading, prayer, etc. ; (9) topreach, baptize, and inspect the morals of thepeople in those precincts and districts assigned tothem by their bishops—which implies the existenceof subdivisions of dioceses into various jurisdictions,and the existence of parishes; (10) priests to betho
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