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

300 STATUTES OF THE SCOTTISH CHURCH
Clerk, of court, his duties, 131.
Closed cloaks, 12, 37 and n.
Cluniac luxury, Ixxxii ; reform, xiv.
Cohabitation with women, 14.
Coiners and clippers, 6, 75.
Coldingham priory, benefice for, 121;
monks from, 107, 277.
Collects in Masses, 40, 41, 45 «, 60, 61.
Columba, excommunicated, Ixx; rule
of, 197-198.
Commissary of bishop, 141 n, 184.
Commission for holding synod, 230-
233-
of James to Council of Basel, 219.
Commissioners, royal, xli-xlii.
Comjnunion in one kind, 174-175; of
the sick, 272-273. See Eucharist.
Compulsiters, 208-209, 224, 228.
Concubinage, Ixxxvii-xciy, 14, 37, 44,
59, 60, 68, 89, 90, 91 ; children of,
92, 163-165; decree of Basel re¬
affirmed in 1558-9, 163.
Concubinaries, 89-90, 96-97; money
fines from forbidden, 91.
Concubines and w'enches, to be put
away, 262-263 5 of pripsts not
to be purified, 273 ; houses for or
bequests to, 16.
Confession, 32, 33 ; behind the veil,
67 ; profaned, Ixxxix, 28-29, 51> 60 ;
of women with child, 48; powers of,
revoked, cx, 264-265.
Confessors for the clergy, 13, 69, 70;
general, 13.
Confirmation, 32.
of testaments. See Wills.
Conjunctions of benefices, 113-114.
Consanguinity, 39.
Conservator, xxxvii-xxxviii; letter of,
I ; how chosen, 9.
Consistorial courts, 128-134; abuses
in, 159; processes in, 182-183.
Consistory to be annual, 74.
Constantine, 8.
Constantinopolitan Council, 8.
Constitutio de duobus dietis, 212 «.
Constitutions and statutes to be pro¬
duced at synodal chapters, 278.
Contumacy in churchmen, 24, 75.
Convention, xl.
Conventuals, 87 n.
Conveth or Convinth, 87 and «.
Corn, tithe of, 21.
Coronal, 36.
Corpse presents, 46-47, 158, 178-179,
and 178 «.
Corrections and irregularities, books
of, 266.
Corslets, 270.
Costume, clerical. See Clergy.
Cottis, friar Andrew, 87.
Council, the Scottish Provincial, 1, 9 ;
the constitution of the, xxxvi-xxxvii;
its president, xxxvii-xxxix; its
powers and duties, xlii-xliii ; and
parliament, xxxix-xlii; scholarship of
the, Ixxxi-lxxxiv ; bull for holding,
1 ; procedure in, 2; assembling
of, 9 ; general, of 1420, 80-82 ;
general, of 1459, 82-83 ; provincial,
of 1549, 84-134; in Linlithgow,
88, 148; of 1550, 134 and «; of
I55I-2, iSS-HS; of 1558-9, 149-191;
that be held in 1560, 187-188; at
Edinburgh, 242.
Councils, Celtic, xv, xvi, xxv;
legatine, xxviii; early oecumenical,
xxix ; provincial, xlii-lii; how often
held, xlii-xlvi; disrespect of Scots
for, xcvii; general, 1, 8; diocesan,
74 ; powers of, disputed, 126 ;
of the Lateran, of Basel, of Trent,
see Lateran, Basel, Trent, etc. ;
of 1548-1559, 148 and n ; at
St. Andrews 1546, Linlithgow
1549, Edinburgh 1549, 1550, 1551-2,
iS58-9! 148 n, 162 ; acts of earlier,
approved in 1558-9, 162-163 ;
authority of, 173-174.
Count and reckoning, 115, 137-138.
Counterfeiters, 6, 75.
Coupar abbey, monks from, 107, 277 ;
benefice of, 122.
Court of Christianity, 207.
Courts, ecclesiastical, Iviii-lx, 207 and
n, 227, 228.
Courts, royal and courts Christian, 207
and n, 227, 228 ; on Sundays and
holidays, 19; in churches and church¬
yards, 19, 40, 44, 56.
Coverlet as mortuary, 47, 178 n.
Cows, tithes of, 21, 22.
Craford, Nicholas, 153.
Cranstoune, William, 86, 191 n.
Creichtoun, provost Abraham, 87.
Crimes for the secular arm, 96.
Criminous clerics. 18.
Cristini, John, 237 and n.
Crossraguel abbey, monks from, 107 ;
abbot of, roasted, li.
Quintin, abbot of, 85 «, 86.
Cruden, precentorship of, 121.
Crusaders, 18, 19.
Cuby, Robert, 229.
Culdee library, xxvi.
Culross abbey, monks from, 107.
Culter, rector of, 153 and «.
Cupar, abbot of, 80.