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A Statute of the Fortieth Year of King Edward III., enacted in a parliament held in Kilkenny, A.D. 1367, before Lionel Duke of Clarence, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. (Author: [unknown])
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IX. Also, whereas persons guilty of disobedience to
God and holy Church, and put out of the communion of Christians,
cannot, nor ought, of right, to be received to the favour of our lord
the king, or to the communion of his officers; it is ordained and
established, that when the archbishops, bishops and other prelates
of holy Chhrch, have excommunicated, interdicted or fulminated
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the censures of holy Church against any English person or Irish, for
reasonable cause, at the request of our lord the king, or ex-officio,
or at the suit of the party, that after the notification of these censures
shall come to our lord the king, nor into communion or alliance with his
ministers, nor to maintenance in their error by any of the liege people,
until they shall have made satisfaction to God and holy Church, and shall
be restored as the law of holy Church requires; and if a maintainor of such excommunicated
person be found and attainted against the ordinance aforesaid, he shall
be taken and imprisoned, and fined at the king's will.