[590] Presbyteris autem qui prima et legitima duxere conjugia, indulgentia ad tempus datur, propter vinculum pacis et unitatem Spiritus Sancti, quousque nobis in hoc Domini Apostolici paternitas consilietur.—Synod. Zabolcs ann. 1092 c. 3, or Decret. St. Ladisl. Lib. I. c. 3. (Batthyani, I. 434-5.)

[591] Synod. Zabolcs c. 1, 2.—Any prelate assenting to such illicit unions, and not insisting on immediate separation, was punishable to a reasonable extent (Ibid. c. 4).

[592] Synod. Strigonens. II. (Batthyani, II. 121-8). Peterffy’s emendation of “voluerint” for “noluerint,” in the clause respecting digami, can hardly be questioned.

[593] Decret. Coloman. cap. 41, 42, Comp. cap. 27 and 37.

[594] Synod. Vencellina, circa 1109.

[595] Batthyani, I. 431.

[596] Epist. Urbani apud Batthyani, II. 274.

[597] Synod. Dalmatiæ ann. 1199 (Batthyani, II. 289-90).

[598] Concil. Vienn. ann. 1267 (Batthyani, II. 415-17).

[599] Complures ea tempestate sacerdotes uxoribus velut jure legitimo utebantur.—Dlugosz, ad ann. 1197 (apud Krasinski, I. 52).