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from 2 - The Reformatio legum ecdesiasticarum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2018
How violence used against a clerk shall be punished.
Whosoever doth willingly lay violent hands upon a clerk, except he will make him amends by the discretion of the ecclesiastical judges, and do condign penance for such a wicked deed, he shall be excommunicated, neither shall he be absolved from the same <unti…> in any wise till he have done full penance, according to the will and pleasure of the ordinary.
What exceptions are there in this cause.
Because all honest means ought to be left for men to save themselves and to withstand wrong, if any man do deal with a clerk in his own defence, to do justice and to withstand violence, and if anyone has committed a crime against the words of the above law, if he do prove the same before the ordinary, that he withstand violence in his own defence, or before hath been declared, we will that the same man be clearly acquitted and dismissed without any punishment at all.
The like punishment the clerks shall have if they lay violent hands upon any laymen.
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