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spent three days in watching, fasting, and prayer at Canterbury, and received a few small presents from the king of England, as tokens of his love, sailed back to France on the 2(5th of August. The same year, also, died Bogcr bishop of Winchester, on the 9th of August. Of the council at Home under pope Alexander. The same year was held a general council at Homo, of three hundred and ten bishops, on the 29th of March, in the Lateran, at which pope Alexander the third presided. The statutes then passed, which are worthy of universal praise, are contained under twenty-eight heads, as follows :—Of the election of the supreme pontili': Of the heretical Albigenses, and their different appellations: Of the routiers and plunderers of Brabant, who harass the faithful : That no one shall be advanced to a bishopric or any other ecclesiastical grade, unless he is of lawful age and born in lawful wedlock: That no benefices be given away whilst their incumbents are living, nor be suffered to remain vacant more than six mouths after the incumbents are dead: Of appeals: That no one in holy orders, or who derives his maintenance from ecclesiastical revenues, shall concern himself in secular business: Of fixing the. truces, and the times of fixing the same: That clerks shall have only one church, and that bishops, if they ordain persons without a certain title, shall maintain them until they can appoint them to an ofliee in some church : That patrons and laymen shall not oppress churches or ecclesiastical persons: That Jews and Saracens shall not have Christians for slaves, but if they choose to be converted to Christianity, they shall in no wise be taken from their masters : That leprous persons, who are excluded from society, shall have an oratory and priest of their own : That ecclesiastical property shall not be turned to any other use, nor deans exercise episcopal jurisdiction for a certain sum of money : That in elections and ecclesiastical ordinations, whatsoever shall be appointed by the senior part of the council shall take effect : That manifest usurers shall not be admitted to the communion at the altar, nor receive Christian burial: That farmers and travellers, and all which they possess, shall enjoy general peace and security: That ordinations inaile by schismatics shall be held as null and void, and all

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