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iney refuso or continus in be negligent, ins incomeon Whi in the tithe Was due inali bo tisin diom

It euon geoms that the spociat tithe, due for the use of ecclesiastical goods, is tho most neglected os ali,

terea quidam fratres, quod Maeni aliqui episeopi et abbatos, qui Melmaa non sinerent dare ad ecclesias, ubi illi Ooloni missas audiunt. Proinde decrevit sacer iste conventus, ut episeopi et abbatea de agris et vineta, quae ad auum vel fratrum stipendium habent, deeimaa ad emissi ferri laetant; familiae vero ibi dent docimas suas, ubi infantes eorum baptigantur, et ubi per

totum anni circulum missas audiunt.' e. xta. Ib. 277. 30 CL, in particular, Capitula per sei acribendo, e. V. MO-

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eVen after excommunication, in Surrendor those

Payers, that the circumstances Wers a thing but Propitious. The continuous Wars of Lovis therious With his sons, and of his sons mong them-selves, the inVasions of tho Britona in ths Westem

M 'Hi vero, qui ex rebus ecclesiasticis nonaa et decimas persolvere et aarta tecis ecclesiae aecundum antiquam auctoritatemst consuetudinem restauraro debent et hoc non solum neglegunt, verum et per contemptum dimittunt atque clericos fame ac penuria primunt, ecclesiastica quoquo aedificia dissolutione adnullari permittunt, tamdiu ab ecclesiaatica communione aeparentur, usquΘdum diligentia emendare studeant, quod socordia neglexerunt.

Quod si iterum iteraverint, post Geommunicationia aatisfactionem regia potestate compulsi juxta legale si antiquum dictum qui neglegit emaum, perdat agrum.' Servi autem ecclesiarum quibuscumque poteatatibus subditi, unde melior eonauetudo voldevotior eommendatio ex tempore si jussione domni Hludoinei veleerio domnl Karoli seu etiam Pipini a quo molestia aerei sinantur ' innotι. Meι n. 8453, o. Ixiii. Ibid. 413.

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imperiat magistrates tried to inniet upon them inscivit pinalties indicated by the laW, oey si ly

os excommunication against the refractory ones, or recali ine thought os disius inastigementa' There is a curious decres of the capitulary of

εε m deeimis, . . . quicumquε neglexerit, canonico judicio codirigatur; et qui in hoo aliquid contraateterit, aciat se noatra imperiaIl auctoritato mendandum. Judicea namque oommoneantur

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As is the attachment of eata individual to his

theis circumscribed limits in domand tho titho hi in Was not due to them and thereis deprivsdths legitimate beneficiaries of it, or Men Went sofar as to steat it Without heeding in tho least the

pament of these contributions. There is evenreason to bellove that ths threatened excommunication Was noer enforced. The gmund of this

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d 'etre, usefviness, and even absolute necessio theyunderstood; but the resistance of nominal Christians, tho successsul encroachments of those in poWer, and the fraudulent praetices of a large number constituted a deplorabie example for the great

buse of tho line arm. Still the privation os legiti-

40 Νoglexisti deciman tuam Deo dare, quam mus ipso sibi darimnstituit, id est non dedisti ei decimam do cunctis fructibus tuis, quos tu ad tuos usus collegere desiderasti, vel ovilegisti, et docunctis tuis animalibus, et decimum animal quod Deo debuerandare, et quod suum erat, illud priori commutastit Sl feeiati vel consensisti, Deo quod suum erat in quadruplum restitue, et viginti dies in pane et aqua debea poenitere.' Posvitentiais Eooseriarum Germaniae, n. 141, in SoHMITE, Dis Bumbu er una dis Maadiari-psin, t. II, 440. 41 Nullus sacerdotum decimas eum lite et iurgio auaeipiat, sed praedicatione et admonitione.' ΗΕ-RDI Ttirons is Camι- α cxxxii. Migne, P. L., t. CXXI, 773. Di0jtigod by OOOle

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Ρ r. Caesarius of Aries in the stath centuryrecommenda this simpler method for the distribution of the tithos, though Pope Gelasius Some years Preriousty had recommended distribution of thoreVenues and offerino of the faithful into diurparis; but nesther of theso methods ap ars tohme been uniformi y adopted in the distributionos the tithes. Tho MM of the ,ο capitularies of Μantua, the one purely ecclesiasticia, specifies that

of the tithes pald by the faithlal to parochial or

4 m decimia vero quae a populo in plebibus vel baptismalibus

aeces ita offeruntur nulla exinde para majori sto leaiae Vel vis--m inferatur.' Capitulare Mantuarium primum, mers molari-ticum, e. xi. Monum. German., sapitulari, t. I, 196.

43 Ut decimae populi dividantur in quattuor partes, id est una pars episcopo, alia clericia, tertia pauperibus, quarta in ecclesiae fabricis applicetur, sicut in decretis pape Gelasii continetur.' o. xxvii. Ses the tot of thia deeris in Gratian, e. XII, q. II, e. xxvii. nest. Riapacen. s 8003, c. xiii. Mon. Germ., novitio, t. II, 20s. Cf. Arnonis Instructio p toralia, e. x. Ib. 200.

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diseipline of the tithe Was definitively determined

nocks ps Mis , si tuaied in the territory of tho paristi ; and the personat titho on ali the profits of

44 in ipsi sacerdotes populi suscipiant decimas. . . . Et in ornamentum Recclesiae primam elegant partem, secundam autem ad usum pauperum Rique peregrinorum per eorum manus misericorditer cum omni humilitate dispensent, tertiam vero partem aemetipsis solis sacerdotes resement.' Capitula a εα--οιῶbva proposita s8023, c. Vii. Monum. German., pitular., t. I, 106. - Conril. Turon. 8133, c. Hi. M. German., Concitia, t. II, 288.

ε' 'Ea quae parochita in terris, Vineis, mancipiis ainus pecuniis, et do militia, dε negotio, do artificio, de lanarum tonsione et docaeteris quibuscumque sibi a Deo largitia commerciis.' Gno. Oalaian. ssos , c. vi. MANSI, t. XXIII, 283. Di0jtigod by OOOle

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in Dalmatia, in Austria, in Germany, as Weli asin England, Scotland and Ireland. But Whilothere is unanimity on this mala potat, the disersetemPerament of these nations manifested ussu in delatis. Tho Roman Coundit of 1059, forinstance, decides that the tithes stan bo at tho

ordains that is a flavo abandon his master inorder to escape paying the tithe, no one inali receive his and the master inali tine possession ofdo meimationes frugum et vitulorum, et agnorum, necnon et aratrales eleemosynae, ecclesiasticaque munera, domino per singulos annos tomporibus rependantur congruis: eleemosynas videlices aratralea quindecim diebus post Pascha peractis, vituli quoque et amiculi decimales erga Pontemsten; frugum vero terrae decimationes circa omnium sanctorum Molestia peraesontur opportunia. Cono. AEnhamen. si s , o. T. MANSI, t. XIX, 307. ολ Cf. sono. Romam s 106s , e. V. ΜANAI, ib. 898; sono. Cassiliem.

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fuse Easter communion to thoss Who did not payit; ' While in Austria, ins usurpers Were dented admission to the taurin. Aster the etfth Centum. bout tho middis of tho tWeuth centu , there appeared a collectionos canons Whose innuendo on res unification os discipline Was destinin in be considerabie, via. the Concordia Discordantium Canonum os Gratian, bester knom as Decretum Gratiani. This collection contains some λωπ texis on Our subjeci, of Which, hoWeVer, not ali ars authentie'M Although Gratian did not sindy the question from our potatos vis , but in iis bearing on the controversy M---n monasteries and Dariines, or With ths imoa Quod omnes alavi doeimaa dent fleui octori christiani et ad hoc banno eo tringantur. Si vero propter hujusmodi constrictum dominum suum dosoruerit aliquia, nemo illum auscipiat, immo omnium bonorum auorum prior dominus potestatem habeat.' no. Salio ι ., e. Σαο Concedimua etiam quod quilibet aaeerdoa parochialia detemtores decimarum in aua parochia potestatem mereandi habeat: M ai eontuma a fuerint, et mmmoniti se non correxerint, o m- munieandi. . . . Et aio nota quod quilibet sacerdoa potest exeommunicare pro doeimia debitia non solutia. Et eum ait crimen decimaa notorio debitas retiners: videtur quod notorie detinenti