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

CAPTIONS
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complaints on that ground in respect of your failing so to do.
The present letters to have no validity a year hence, etc.
II. Letter of general caption of excommunicate persons.
Robert, by the grace of God King of Scots, to the justiciars,
sheriffs, provosts, and their bailiffs to whom the present
letters shall come, greeting. We command and enjoin on you
that ye compel, by the apprehension and incarceration of
their bodies, to give satisfaction to God and the church, all
these in your bailiaries or burghs who shall by the reverend
father in Christ, William, Bishop of St. Andrews,1 or his
officials, be certified to you to have contumaciously remained
for forty days and more, in contempt of the keys of holy
mother church, under sentence of major excommunication, and
that with such expedition that we shall hear no further just
complaint on that head as to your failing so to do. The
presents to have no validity a year after date, etc.
III. Letter of caption of excommunicates when the bishop
has by letters patent denounced them to the king.
Robert, by the grace of God King of Scots, to the sheriff
and his bailiffs, greeting. The venerable father in Christ,
Walter, by the grace of God, Bishop of St. Andrews,2 has by
his letters patent invoking the secular arm of our royal
dignity to the support of holy mother church, certified us that
A. has remained for forty days or more under sentence of ex-
communication, and so miserably contemning the keys of the
church. Wherefore we command and enjoin on you that
wherever in your bailiary the said A. shall be found, ye
shall by the apprehension and incarceration of his person
compel him to give satisfaction to God and the church; and
that with such celerity that we may on that head hear no
further just complaint of your failing so to do. The presents
to have no validity a year after date, etc.
1 William Landels (1341-85); the king being Robert 11.
2 Walter Trail (1385 or 1386 to 1401); the king being Robert 11. or Robert ill.
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