Series 1 > Statutes of the Scottish Church, 1225-1559

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which they refer. The rubrics of the five statutes not dis¬
covered in this connection are as follows :
(1) That in like manner persons who have eatables and
drinkables for sale on behalf of rectors and their servants
should not be prevented from selling them.
(2) Of the public proclamation four times a year of the bull
In Coena Domini.1
(3) That excommunicate persons are to be publicly shunned,
and to be kept on record by the clergy of cures.
(4) Against priests who keep back letters requiring to be
put into execution that have been delivered to them.
(5) Of the mode of procedure against those who hinder the
execution of the letters of ordinaries.]
1 The bull In Coena Domini was not, like other bulls, the work of any one
Pope, but, dating from the Middle Ages, was added to by successive Popes till it
took its final form under Urban vm. in 1627, and thenceforward for a century
and a half was annually published on Holy Thursday—not four times but once a
year. It excommunicates heretics, those who aid and abet them, wreckers and
pirates, and others. Whether this form of excommunication was to be over and
above the statutory quarterly excommunication (see p. 5, and Statutes 51, 69,
122) does not appear.