This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...by their parents, and when grown older, then were made priests of. I give it literally, only in Latin: --"Ab illis (sacerdotibus)-etiam (proh pudor) fceminae abiguntur ad eorum libidines explendas, et meritorii pueri a parentibus commendantur et condonantur his, qui ab omni corporis etiam concessa voluptate sese immaculatos custodire deberent. Hi postea ad sacerdotiorum gradus promoventur cetatis flore transacto jam exoleti." This was an address to pope Leo, in 1517, the year Luther began the Eeformation. The receiving of money by bishops for priests' concubines was evidently general; complained of in Constance, written against by authors. Theodorich, Archbishop of Cologne, ordered them to be dismissed, and then took money from the priests for it. In the council of Paris, already quoted from Hardouin, they complain, that because of the concubinage of the clergy, with which many ecclesiastical and religious men (secular clergy and monks) are infected, the Church of God and the whole clergy are held in derision, abomination, and reproach by every body, and that most iniquitous crime has so prevailed in the Church of God, that Christians do not now believe simple fornication to be a sin. These testimonies may be multiplied ad libitum. I go on now to what preceded the council of Pisa, a council that is a great trouble to Eoman Catholics, as I may show further on. Clemangis was rector of the University of Paris, the most famous then in the world, the correspondent of popes and kings, earnestly seeking the healing of the schism; for there were two popes then. This led to their using all possible means to make money, provisions, annates, tenths, exacting in every shape and every way, giving a right to their favourites to a living, whoever had a right to...