to such orders within a year from thence, until they have been advanced to them, by no means have a voice in the chapter of the same; and let the half of the distributions given to those who attend at certain hours, be deducted from them, any customs or statutes notwithstanding; the other penalties, which are of right enacted against those refusing to be promoted to orders, being nevertheless to continue in their proper force.
Clement V. in the Council of Vienna.
Ex Clementinis lib. 3, tit, I. on the Life and Becoming Demeanour of Clerks.
(Sess. xiv. de reform, cap. 6.)
Since he who, laying aside the garments suited to his order, presumes to take others, and to wear them in public without any reasonable cause, renders himself unworthy of the privilege of the professors of that order, we decree, by the present constitution, that whatever clerk shall wear a striped or party-coloured dress (unless a reasonable cause exists), if he happen to be beneficed, shall be suspended from the enjoyment of the emoluments of the benefices which he holds; but if he be not beneficed, yet being placed in holy orders within the priesthood, he is rendered for the same length of time incapable of holding an ecclesiastical benefice.
The same regulation we enact regarding other clergy, publicly laying aside the vestis talaris[1] and the clerical tonsure. But a person holding a dignity, personate, or any other benefice upon which the cure of souls is incumbent, as likewise all others constituted in the priesthood, and any religious persons soever, whom it behoveth to display internal goodness by the decency of their external garb, if (except from a reasonable cause) they shall publicly wear a garment of this kind, or publicly carry on their head an infula or pileus linens,[2] they by the very fact, being bene-
- ↑ I.e. a, garment reaching to the ankles.
- ↑ I.e. a linen cap or turban. So Synod. Perg. apud Muratori, vol. ix. p. 547: "Tonsuram et habitura deferant clericales ordini suo et statui competentes. ..... Infulam de sera sive serico more laicali minime deferentes." See also Du Cange, vol. iii. p. 1428, sq.
