(Concilium Berghamstedense). This place is now Berkhamstead, in Hertfordshire. A council was held there in 696, by Wihtred, king of Kent, who attended in person; there were also present, Brihtwald, chief bishop of Britain, and Tobias of Rochester, together with some of every order in the Church, and many laymen. Twenty-eight laws, called the Dooms of king Wihtred, were published:<\/p>\n
1. Declares the Church to be free from taxes. <\/p>\n
2. Inflicts a fine of fifty shillings for a breach of the protection of the Church or king.<\/p>\n
3 to 6. Relate to sins of uncleanness.<\/p>\n
7. Suspends from his ministration a priest guilty of conniving at fornication, neglecting to baptize the infirm, or being drunk.<\/p>\n
10. Fines the master eighty shillings, who shall make his slave work after sunset on Sunday till sunset on Monday.<\/p>\n
11 and 12. Enact penalties against slaves and free servants who work on the Lord’s day.<\/p>\n
13 and 14. Enact penalties against those who make offerings to devils.<\/p>\n
15. Declares, that if a man give flesh to his slave to eat on a fast-day, the slave shall be free.<\/p>\n
17. Declares the word of the bishop and of the king to be valid without an oath.<\/p>\n
18. Orders the heads of monasteries, priests, and deacons, to purge themselves on their own veracity, by saying before the altar, in their holy vestments, I say the truth in Christ; I lie not.<\/p>\n
19-24. Relate to different cases of purgation.<\/p>\n
28. Orders that a stranger, who leaves the road, and does not scream, or blow a horn, shall be considered as a thief.<\/p>\n
See Johnson, Eccl. Canon.; Wilkins, 1, 60; Labbe, Conel. 6, 1576.<\/p>\n
Berghamsted, Council Of (Concilium Berghamstedense). This place is now Berkhamstead, in Hertfordshire. A council was held there in 696, by Wihtred, king of Kent, who attended in person; there were also present, Brihtwald, chief bishop of Britain, and Tobias of Rochester, together with some of every order in the Church, and many laymen. Twenty-eight laws, … Continue reading “Berghamsted, Council Of”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}