THE REV. R. BINGHAM, JUN., M.A.

FORMERLY OF MAGDALENE HALL, OXFORD,

AND

FOR MANY YEARS CURATE OF TRINITY CHURCH, GOSPORT.

A NEW EDITION, IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. VII.

OXFORD:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

M. DCCC. LV.

4.3.47

CONTENTS

OF THE

SEVENTEENTH, EIGHTEENTH, NINETEENTH, TWEN-
TIETH, AND TWENTY-FIRST BOOKS

OF

THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

BOOK XVII.

OF THE EXERCISE OF DISCIPLINE UPON THE CLERGY IN THE ANCIENT
CHURCH.

CHAPTER I.

Of the difference of ecclesiastical censures inflicted on clergymen and

laymen.

SECT. I. The peculiar notion of communion ecclesiastical, and excommu-

nication ecclesiastical, as applied to the clergy, 1.-II. The clergy usually

punished by a removal from their office, but not always subjected to

public penance, as men wholly cast out of the communion of the

Church, 3.-III. Yet in some special cases both penalties inflicted, 4.

-IV. Of suspension from their revenues, 5.-V. Of suspension from

their office, 6.-VI. Of deposition or degradation, 7.

CHAPTER II.

Of reducing the clergy to the state and communion of laymen, as a

punishment for great offences.

SECT. I. Lay-communion not the same as communion in one kind only,

8.-II. Neither does it signify barely communicating among laymen

without the rails of the chancel, 10.-III. But a total degradation, or

deprivation of orders, and reduction to the state and condition of lay-

men, 10.-IV. Clergymen thus reduced seldom allowed to recover their

ancient station, 12.--V. Notwithstanding the indelible character of or-

dination, 13.-VI. But sometimes excommunicated, as well as deposed,

and denied the communion of laymen, 16.-VII. Sometimes removed

and corrected by the assistance and authority of the secular power, 17.

-VIII. What meant by the punishment called curiæ tradi, or deliver-

ing up to the secular court, 17.