A precept of the Archbishop of Canterbury forbidding barbers to carry on their trade on Sundays / by D'Arcy Power.
- D'Arcy Power
- Date:
- [1909]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: A precept of the Archbishop of Canterbury forbidding barbers to carry on their trade on Sundays / by D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![charging and commanding the ecclesiast ical persons then expressed that on every Sunday and feast-day they should solemnly publish and cause to be published this statute and ordinance in the churches there, and should inhibit and cause to be inhibited the said barbers, under pain of excommunication, from keeping their houses or shops open on the aforesaid Sundays for the said purpose, or causing them in any way so to be kept open; and a petition was also made on behalf of the same keepers and wardens to our same predecessor that he would deign with apostolic benevolence to confirm the statute and ordinance aforesaid with the protection of apostolic force. Our same predecessor acceded to these petitions, and, ratifying and approving the statute and ordinance aforesaid, and all things depending thereon, confirmed them by apostolic authority, and foitified them by the pro- tection of his writing, with the commands of his letters in order, to all and singular the prelates and parsons of the said province, that they should solemnly publish the statute and ordinance, and the contents and effect of the same letters, by the same authority, when and where they should think fit, and should cause such statute and ordinance to be irrefragably observed by means of ecclesiastical censures and other fitting legal remedies; and whensoever they should be law- fully thereto required, on the part of any of those whose business it might be, they should, on the aforenamed Sundays and festival days, when there is the greatest concourse of people there to divine service, publicly announce, and cause to be announced by others, the excommunication of all and singular those barbers, present and to come, who should be known to have incurred such sentence of excommunica- tion by reason of transgression of the same statute and ordinance, and that they shall be shunned by all until they have deserved to obtain the benefitof absolution from the said sentence of excommunication, as in the letters of our said predecessor thereupon drawn up more fully is contained. But whereas, as is shown in the petition lately laid before us on behalf of the said keepers and wardens, certain members of this art or mystery, dwelling within the places and limits of the churches and monasteries of the province and of the city and diocese, and espe- cially of the church of St. Martin le Grand of London and of the monastery of Westminster in the said diocese, and alleging the exemptions of themselves and of such places, made both by apostolic an 1 royal authority, and by reason of such exemption vilipending both statute ami ordinance and the mandate, presume on the aforenamed days to keep their houses and shops open for the purpose aforesaid, We therefore, reprobating this rash presumption, duly [hereby] decreeing and declaring in our aforesaid discretion that such persons and places exempt are comprehended within the said statute and mandate, [and] by apostolic writings that you or two or [? one of you] cause [the said ?] or other such statute and ordinance, to be irrefragably observed by the persons and in the places exempt aforesaid wheresoever you please, [as] elsewhere, accord- ing to the form and tenor of the letters and mandate of our said predecessor. Given at Home, at St. Peter’s in the year one thousand four hundred and thirty-one of the Incarnation of our Lord, 2 Non, April, in the first year of our Pontificate. By authority of which letters apostolic we charge and command you, that you admonish and effec- tually persuade all and singular the barbers living within your .juris- diction that they and all of them, on the Lord’s days, on which our Lord decreed we should refrain from labour, shall by no means keep open their houses and shops for the exercise of their trade, or carry it on themselves or have it carried on by their servants, under penalty of the greater excommunication. And if you shall find any protesting against this, or opposing it, you shall peremptorily cite, or cause them to be cited, that they and each of tnem appear before us, or the auditor of our court for the hearing of causes and business, on the fifteenth day after the citation to them and each of them [issued], wheresoever we shall then be in our city, diocese or province of Canterbury, to s -t forth reasonable cause, if such they may have, why the said sentence of excommunication should not be promulgate'! against them, and further to do and receive what .justice requires in that behalf. And what you shall have done in the premises you shall duly certify to us or our auditor in such said time and place, by your](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22480304_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
