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ordered that uoue hinder or disturb the free making of a testament by anyone. 

 Those who do so ipso facto incur sentence of greater excommunication from 

 which they can be absolved only by the ordinary of the place. (14) Excom- 

 munication of all who disturb the peace of the King and Kingdom of England 

 and the Lord of Ireland, or who infringe ecclesiastical liberties, invade 

 ecclesiastical possessions, or lay hands on ecclesiastical goods, and of those 

 who intrude into benefices and unjustly retain them by lay power. (15) 

 Clerics who will enjoy clerical privilege are to be properly tonsured, and 

 offenders against this ordinance are to be severely punished by the ordinary. 

 (16) If any shall indict the archbishop, bishop, or archdeacon, or their 

 officials or ministers in a lay court, because for his faults in matters per- 

 taining to the ecclesiastical court they have suspended or excommuni- 

 cated him, or put his land under interdict, he is bound iijso facto by 

 sentence of greater excommunication. (17) No one, under pain of greater 

 excommunication, shall compel an ecclesiastic, by taking of his goods or 

 other amercements, to assume a public office which he cannot exercise 

 without violation (offensa) of his order or state or right, or without 

 U'regularity. (18) Xo spiritual office is to be set to farm to anyone, nor 

 shall burial or any sacrament be denied to any for a debt. Offenders to 

 be punished at the will of the diocesan. (19) Laics shall not execute 

 secular judgments or attachments in churches or cemeteries or on the 

 ground (solum) of the church. Penalty, excommunication. (20) Unknown 

 chaplains shall not be permitted to celebrate divine offices in the province 

 unless they produce letters of orders, or give proof of the same by trustworthy 

 witnesses ; and a layman coming into the province from remote parts shall 

 not be married until proof in due form is given (in forma juris constiterit) that 

 he is unmarried (solutus fuerit). (21) Anyone who is judicially convicted of 

 falsely charging another with crimes, the consequence of which should be 

 death, exile, mutilation, disinheritance, or forfeiture of the greater part of his 

 goods, shall iijso facto be bound by sentence of greater excommunication. 

 (22) Those who choose rural deans, if the latter are guilty of misconduct in 

 their office, or fail to give satisfaction to the diocesan for perquisites and 

 synodals, shall give satisfaction on their behalf, ' et si per ministrum fuerit 

 mutatus quod ipse respondeat pro assumpto.' (23) On account of certain 

 defects and deceptions in the preaching of quaestors of alms, it is ordered that 

 no quaestor shall be admitted without letters from the archbishop or diocesan, 

 and that the ' decretal words of the epistle written below ' shall be inserted 

 [here follow what appear to be the words referred to], and that he shall not 

 be permitted to propose anything except what is lawful and canonical. 

 Priests wittingly permitting quaestors to preach contrary to this ordinance 



