The privileges of the clergy were:
1. An exemption from paying land-taxes.
2. From having their books seized, with the other things they used in divine service.
3. They might be tried in criminal causes, if they chose it, before the grand chamber, which is a court where the nobility were tried.
4. They had the liberty of being degraded, or placed lower, before they could be executed for any atrocious crime.
5. They were exempt from having soldiers quartered on them.
6. Their persons could not be taken with executions in civil actions.
7. They were exempted from being brought before lay courts for personal matters:
But they could not bring a layman before an ecclesiastical court.
All spiritual actions were recognizable in the ecclesiastical courts, providing they were not blended with temporal matters; and when that was the case, they were obliged to try their causes before the civil courts.