Eastern Monachism An Account of the Origin Laws Discipline Sacred Writings

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Eastern Monachism An Account of the Origin Laws Discipline Sacred Writings
Robert Spence Hardy
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XIX. MODES OF WORSHIP. 207 the native government. The right of sanctuary agrees well with monastic pretension and principle. Matthew of Westminster says of the sanctuary at Hexham, "Now, if a malefactor, flying for refuge to that church, was taken or apprehended within the four crosses, the partye that tooke or laid holde of hym there, did for- feit two hundredh ; if he tooke hym withyn the towne, then hee forfeited four hundredh ; if withyn the walles of the churche, then six hundredh ; if wit
...hyn the churche, 1200 ; if withyn the doores of the quire, then 1800 besides penance ; but if hee presoomed to take hym oute of the stoone chair near the altare, called fridstol, or from the holie relics behinde the altare, the offence was not re- deemable with anie somme. " These places were frequently com- plained of as a great grievance. Stow says in his Chronicle, " Unthrifts riot and run in debt upon the boldness of these places ; yea, and. Rich men run thither with poor men's goods ; there they build, there they spend, and bid their creditors go whistle them ; men's wives run thither with their husband's plate, and say they dare not abide with their husbands for beating ; thieves bring thither their stolen goods, and live thereon ; there devise they new robberies, nightly they steal out, they rob and reave, and kill, and come in again, as though these places gave them not only a safe- guard for the evil they have done, but a licence to do more.

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