Archive for December 11th, 2007
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Margaret Watmore - Excommunicate of Cleobury Mortimer
Excommunication by a Church Court was quite a serious matter in the sixteenth century. Lesser excommunication excluded the guilty person from attending church, whilst greater excommunication excluded the person from the company of all Christians until he or she was granted absolution. Excommunicates might be refused burial in the churchyard and their wills might not […]
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