Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 65
r and inferior clergy, for the canons, the incum-bents, and even the deacons, enjoying as they did special immunities, wouldhave appealed, in the event of a dispute or of censure, to their metro-politan archbishop, or even to Rome. It is true that the lay depositaries ofmunicipal authority did not,… … Fig. 26.—Seal of John, Bishop of Puy and Count of Velay (1305), holding in his right hand anaked sword as a token of secular jurisdiction. bishop and the chapter, the episcopal court or tribunal took cognizance of thecrimes, the offences, and misdemeanours against religion of which any citizenmight…
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