HIERURGIA ANGLICANA Discipline Penitential Discipline See Hierurgia Anglicana, Pt. I., pp. 251-3. A.D. 1561 * The ij day of November was a yonge (man) stod at Penitential Powlles crosse in the sermon tyme with a (sheet) a-bowtt Discipline. hym for spykyng of serten wordes agaynst Veron the precher.'-Machyn's Diary, p. 271. 1562 Camden Soc. * Of excommunicate persons, how they are to be avoided. That person which by open denunciation of the Church is rightly cut off from the unity of the Church, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as an Heathen and Publican, until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the Church by a Judge that hath authority thereunto.' -Article XXXIII. Articles of Religion agreed upon by the Archbps. and Bps. of both Provinces, and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the year 1562. 1579 and 1594 1579. Aug. 4. John Lacone, infamously buried, for killing himself desperately.' Penitential Discipline. 1594. Robert Halle . . . who did hang himself, and was buried at the Thames, hard by Blackfriers-bridge.'— Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, ii. 372. 1584 * 'Excommunication hath been used by the ecclesiastical judge, ever sithence there hath been either discipline in the Church, or jurisdiction in the ecclesiastical magistrate, and is the only punishment thereof: for the ancient law-makers, thinking that blood and bodily pains ought to be far from ecclesiastical magistrates, have given them this mild spiritual sword, to divide that person from the ecclesiastical body, that refuseth to do his ecclesiastical duties.'-The Bishops' Answer, etc. Cardwell, Doc. Ann., ii. 10. 1596 *The churchwardens had committed some most flagrant offence, for which they were excommunicated; and the charges are very modestly placed to the account of the parish: 'Paid unto Mr. Dr. Stanhope, for an excommacion, that he sent agaynste Mr. Trappes and myself, 5s. 3d. 'Given unto Mr. Dr. Stanhope, for his paynes in cõing to our church, IOS. 'Paid at Mr. Dr. Stanhope's office, for that we wer excommunicated, 2s. 4d. 'Paid, delivering in of the article in acsayne for which we wer excomated, 6s.' (St. James' Clerkenwell). -Londinium Redivivum, iii. 204. 1604 * The Canons of 1604, i. to xii. and cix., contemplate the excommunication of various kinds of offenders; of impugners of the laws relating to the Church; of schismatics; of scandalous offenders against morality. These same Canons, lxviii. and cix., make a clear dis tinction between the lesser excommunication or deprivation Penitential of the Holy Communion, and the greater excommunication Discipline. lacking which the Burial Office is not to be refused, by which latter excommunication the offender is altogether excluded from the company of the faithful.-Editor, 1904. * 1605 Whether doth your minister every six months denounce in his parish all such of his parish as do persevere in the sentence of excommunication, not seeking to be absolved: and whether hath he admitted into the Church any person excommunicate, without a certificate of his absolution from the ordinary or other competent judge.'-Visitation Articles of Archbp. Bancroft. Cardwell, Doc. Ann., ii. 108. 1618 * Paid to John Denys, for the speedy procuring of the excommunication against Savage and his daughter, Is.' —Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, iii. 312. 1626 Richard Appleby did commit his penance in white linen the 21st of November, according to law, and Margaret Symson, the next Sabbath after.'—Parish Register of Whorlton, Northumberland. 1635 'The churchwardens of Beckington, in Somersetshire, were excommunicated by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, for refusing to remove and rail-in the Communion-table, and pull down the seats that stood above at the east end of the Chancel. . . . The churchwardens stood excommunicated a whole year, and afterward were taken and cast into the common gaol, where they lay a long time. Penitential Whence at length they were released by the bishop, upon their publick submission and penance, performed in the parish church of Beckington and two other churches.'Rushworth's Collections, Second Part, p. 300. 1637 of your * You the churchwardens are, at the expense parish, to provide a convenient large sheet and a white wand to be had, and kept within your church or vestry, to be used at such times as offenders are censured for their grievous and notorious crimes.'-Laud's Visit. Art. for the Peculiars of Canterbury. Works, V. ii. 450. Lib. Anglo-Cath. Theol. 1662 THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: *In the primitive Church, there was a godly discipline, that at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin, were put to open penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day of the Lord: And that others admonished by their example, might be the more afraid to offend. In stead whereof, until the said discipline may be restored again (which is much to be wished), it is thought good. -A Commination. * The Office ensuing is not to be used for any that die unbaptized or excommunicate. . . .'-The Burial of the Dead. * So many as intend to be partakers of the Holy Communion shall signify their names to the Curate at least some time the day before. 'And if any of those be an open and notorious evilliver, or have done any wrong to his neighbours by word or deed, so that the Congregation be thereby offended; the Curate, having knowledge thereof, shall call him and |