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An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

Note 1255 — XXVI. THE ANGLICAN CHURCH.

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“That none of those priests that were, under the pretence of lawfull matrimony, married, and now reconciled, do privilie resorte to their pretensed wives, or suffer the same to resorte unto them. And that those priests do in no wise henceforth withdrawe themselves from the mynisterie and office of priesthodde under the paine of the lawes”—Pole’s Injunctions in Diocese of Gloucester (Wilkins IV. 146).

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