Excommunication
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excommunication · sentence of excommunication · that great ordinance of excommunication
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The heaviest penalty imposed by Druids on those who refused to abide by their judgments, according to Caesar.
He says that if a Celt of Gaul refused to abide by a Druid judgment he was excommunicated:
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The ecclesiastical penalty of excommunication, described as God's ordinance but alleged to be abused by the prelates for trivial and mercenary ends.
The general abuse of that great ordinance of excommunication, which God hath left in His Church as the last and greatest punishment which the Church can inflict upon obstinate and great offenders;
The multitude of canons formerly made, wherein among other things excommunication, ipso facto, is denounced for speaking of a word against the devices abovesaid, or subscription thereunto, though no law enjoined a restraint from the ministry without subscription, and appeal is denied to any that should refuse subscription or unlawful conformity, though he be never so much wronged by the inferior judges.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The formal ecclesiastical censure of personal exclusion from the Church, culminating in the sentence passed against John in January 1213.
In January, 1213, by Innocent’s command, formal sentence of excommunication was passed on John, and Philip of France was appointed as its executor.
Full details of the struggle, the interdicts and excommunications hurled by the Pope, and John’s measures of retaliation against the unfortunate English clergy, need not be here discussed;