Archive for December 11th, 2007

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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