Clergy
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the clergy · a parishioner · an incumbent · archbishops, bishops, and parsons · churchman · clergy · clergy who commit a sin unto death · clericus · clerk · ecclesiastical person
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1 expressionThe Clergy2 mentions
Letters (Greek) · Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)
Concerning the clergy the canons have set forth without distinction, ordaining that one punishment be appointed for those who fall, namely, expulsion from the ministry, whether they hold a degree, or persevere in a ministry that is without imposition of hands.
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Letters
Clergy generally, subject to degradation but not lay excommunication for grave sin.
Clergy who commit a sin unto death are degraded from their grade, but are not excluded from the communion of the laity;
For you do not bid me overlook the remission of money, nor to share in bodily toils, but to suffer loss in reputation itself, the harm of which becomes a common loss to the clergy.
But that you may not be defiled by sharing in his sins, let him with his whole household be cut off from the prayers, and from the rest of fellowship with the clergy.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The clergy (churchmen/clerks), whose amercements were assessed without reference to the value of their ecclesiastical benefice.
and chapter 22, the clergy—thus anticipating the conception of three estates of the realm;
” The substitution of ecclesiastical “person”—a word fast acquiring even then a connotation like that of the “parson” of present–day colloquial speech—for “clerk” has no significance, but the main antithesis drawn would seem to be between the “benefice” or mere liferent and the “tenement” or fief held in perpetuity.
further, he shall not be amerced in accordance with the extent of his ecclesiastical benefice.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Established-church clergy in England and France, invoked as a historical parallel for capitalists and bankers who have similarly claimed a share of national capital.
The ancient appropriation of national capital in England, and the modern one in France, to the use of the clergy, caused severe national mischiefs, which were corrected in both countries by resumptions.
say the priests of established churches.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The ecclesiastical body named as a beneficiary of the king's coronation promises.
In other words, he swears “to concede and preserve to the English people the laws and customs conceded to them by the ancient, just, and pious English kings, * * and especially the laws, customs, and liberties conceded to the clergy and people by the illustrious king Edward;
Will you preserve to the church of God, the clergy, and the people, entire peace and harmony in God, according to your powers?
The Law of Torts
Church officeholders (incumbent, curate, neighbouring clergy) among whom communications about a curate's character are treated as privileged.
The communication to an incumbent of reports affecting the character of his curate is privileged, at all events if made by a neighbour or parishioner;
De Fuga in Persecutione
Church officeholders (deacons, presbyters, bishops) whose flight from persecution is judged especially culpable because it abandons the flock.
But when the very leaders—that is, the very deacons and presbyters and bishops—flee, how shall the layman understand for what reason it was said, "Flee from city to city"?