Identifier: parishprieststhe00cutt (find matches)
Title: Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901
Subjects: Clergy -- England Great Britain -- Church history 1066-1485 Great Britain -- Social life and customs 1066-1485
Publisher: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge New York: E. & J.B. Young
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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HERE is a chain of evidences that therulers of the Church not only enjoinedthe diligent teaching of the people bytheir parish priests in sermon * andotherwise, but also gave the clergy the assistance ofmanuals of teaching and sermon helps; and, further,took pains at their visitations to ascertain that theduty was efficiently performed. So early as the beginning of the eighth century,Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, published a poem infour hundred and fifty-eight Latin hexameters, DeOcto t Principalibus Vitiis. ^Ifrics address to the clergy (c. 1030) at thedistribution of the chrism seems to have been writtenfor his Bishop Wulfsine to deliver to a synodical * The canons of Edgar required the clergy to preach every Sunday. t It was early in the twelfth century that seven was adopted as thenumber of the Sacraments, vices, virtues, etc. The seven Sacra-ments are first mentioned by Otto, Bishop of Bamberg, in 1124(Neander, Church History, vii. 465).
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PREACHING AND TEACHING, 215 assembly of the clergy of the Diocese of Sherborne.It is an instruction to the clergy on the duties oftheir office ; dealing first minutely with their duty inbaptism, unction, the eucharist, etc. ; then it bidsthem to know by heart and explain to the peoplethe Ten Commandments, and gives a brief expla-nation of each; then it goes on to explain the eight *capital vices. It is the first which has been preservedto us of a long series of synodal instructions. The Synod of Oxford, in 1223, enjoins the clergy not to be dumb dogs, but with salutary bark todrive away the disease of spiritual wolves from theflock. A canon of Alexander of Stavenby, Bishopof Coventry (i 224-1240), requires all clergy toaddress to their people assembled on the Lords Dayor other festival the following words:—the wordsconstitute a rhetorical sermon on the seven deadlysins. Another canon gives directions as to the modeof receiving penitents, and dealing with souls. Gros-tete (123 5-1254

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