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Letters (Greek) · Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)

but if they are clergy, they are deposed from their degree.

letter 217 ¶

in the texts

LettersLate Antiquity · Greek

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;

letter 199 ¶

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.

letter 287 ¶

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.

letter 289 ¶

Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

The clergy (churchmen/clerks), whose amercements were assessed without reference to the value of their ecclesiastical benefice.

9), a contrast is drawn between laicum feudum and tenementum pertinens ad eleemosinam.

chapter 1 ¶

and chapter 22, the clergy—thus anticipating the conception of three estates of the realm;

1 amercement of freeholders ¶

further, he shall not be amerced in accordance with the extent of his ecclesiastical benefice.

viii application des memes moyens de liberte aux a ¶

Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

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.

say the priests of established churches.

chapter 18 ¶

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.

chapter 18 ¶

An Essay on the Trial by Jury19th Century · English

The ecclesiastical body named as a beneficiary of the king's coronation promises.

Will you preserve to the church of God, the clergy, and the people, entire peace and harmony in God, according to your powers?

chapter 12 ¶

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;

chapter 12 ¶

The Law of Torts19th Century · English

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;

3 exceptions ¶

De Fuga in PersecutioneLate Antiquity · Latin

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"?

de fuga in persecutione ¶