| 单词 | his clergy |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(his) clergy a. Old Law. benefit of (his) clergy, also simply (his) clergy: originally the privilege of exemption from trial by a secular court, allowed to or claimed by clergymen arraigned for felony; in later times the privilege of exemption from the sentence, which, in the case of certain offences, might be pleaded on his first conviction by every one who could read. Abolished, after various earlier modifications, in 1827. Cf. neck-verse n.The ability to read, being originally merely the test of the ‘clergy’, or clerical position, of the accused, came at length to be in itself the ground of the privilege, so that the phrase became = ‘benefit of scholarship’ (sense 5, instead of 1). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > legal process > [noun] > exemption from trial or sentence by secular court (his) clergyc1300 benefit of (his) clergy1511 society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > legal privilege or immunity > applying to clergy clergyc1275 immunity1449 benefit of clergy1488 benefice of clergy1489 benefit of (his) clergy1511 book1537 privilege of clergy1588 c1300 Beket 371 A preost ther was..That of manslaȝt was bicliped..Me acusede him faste of the dethe: ac he..huld him faste to holi churche..Iloked he was to purgi him thurf clergie if he miȝte. 1511 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 5 That..he..so offending (not being within orders of holy church) enioie not the benefite of his clergie. 1601 A. Munday & H. Chettle Death Earle of Huntington sig. C4 Stand to your Cleargie vnkle, saue your life. 1623 Act 21 Jas. I c. 6 Preamble By the Laws of this Realm the Benefit of Clergy is not allowed to Women convicted of Felony. 1629 Vse of Law 47 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light Praying his clergy, and thereupon reading as a clerke. 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies ix. 69 If any..be admitted to his Clergy, and by helpe of a compassionate Prompter, hacke out his Necke-verse. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. (at cited word) By the Statute of 18 Eliz. cap. 7 Clerks are no more delivered to their Ordinaries to be purged, but now every Man, to whom this benefit is granted, though not in Orders, is put to read at the Bar, after he is found guilty, and convicted of such Felony, and so burnt in the hand, and set free for the first time, if the Ordinaries Commissioner or Deputy standing by do say—Legit ut Clericus. 1671 A. Marvell Let. 12 Jan. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 126 Such a clause..makes it felony without Clergy. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3304/3 Craving the Benefit of his Clergy..he was Burnt in the Hand. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 349 [The] members [of the universities], whether masters or students, had all of them what was then called the benefit of clergy, that is, were exempted from the civil jurisdiction..and were amenable only to the ecclesiastical tribunals. View more context for this quotation 1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life I. 204 Then [1818] the Crier of the Court called out to the Convict, ‘kneel down and pray your Clergy’. < as lemmas |
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