human
The Pope the Universal Ordinary.
gpt
So that I dare auowe in Sundrie Diocesses in the Realme, the whole yeerly reuenue of the seuerall Bishops there woulde not reach to the iustifying of all contemnours ... by the course of this writte. That temporal judges sometimes set prisoners under the writ free at their own discretion without notice to the spiritual judges, see Bancroft's _Petition to the Privy Council_ in 1605, Cardwell, _Doc. Ann_. ii, 100. For hostility of temporal judges for ecclesiastical jurisdiction, see Bancroft, _op. cit_., 85. He counts up 488 prohibitions during Elizabeth's reign, many of them awarded without good cause and
human
The threat subdued the excommunicate, for 15 days later
gpt
absolution was given, and penance enjoined. 1562). _Ibid_., 172 (Similar threat, we do not hear of the outcome). Cf. R.W. Merriam, _Extracts from Wilts Quarter Sess_. In _Wilts Arch. and Nat. Hist. Mag_., xxii (1885), 20 (Affray because of an arrest under the writ. 1604). See also Whitgift's note to his bishops in 1583, Cardwell, _Doc. Ann_., i, 404-6 (
human
If the ordinarie shall perceave that, either by slackness of the justices or waywardness of juries, recusants cannot be indicated at quarter sessions, then the ordinary shall, after first trying persuasion, excommunicate the culprits, and after forty days procure the writ against them). Bancroft writes, March, 1605, that he will use his
gpt
to aid his suffragans in procuring the writ, and in having it faithfully and speedily served. Cardwell, _Doc. Ann_., ii, 80. Cf. also the satirical single-sheet, published June, 1641, entitled _The Pimpes Prerogative ... a Dialogue between Pimp-Major Pig and Ancient Whiskin_, in Brit. Mus. _Coll. of Polit. and Personal Satires_. Pig:
human
Tush, their Excommunications fright not us; but our Land-ladies (poore soules) lie in most danger; for them they serve after with _Excommunicato capiendo_, and then our Forts are beleaguer'd with Under-Sheriffs, Bum-Bayliffs, Shoulder-clappers, etc., whom we sometimes beat back by violence.
gpt
We that are bishops, being all of us (as is supposed) justices of the peace