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Cf. provisions of the statutes 5 Eliz. c. 13, and 18 Eliz. c. 10, Stats. of Realm, iv, Pt. i, 441-3, and 620-1 respectively. Brownlow v. Lambert, C.B., 41 Eliz., I Croke Eliz. Rep., Leache's ed. , Pt. ii, 716. This work hereinafter cited as Hale, Crim. Prec. Constables Acc'ts of Melton in Leicester Architec. and Archaeol. Soc. Trans., iii , 72-3. Chelmsford Churchwardens Acc'ts in Essex Archaeol.
If such an excommunicate brought an action at law, the defendant could plead in bar the excommunication. The testimony of such a man was not admissible in court. Finally, he could not be buried in the parish churchyard nor could services be performed over his body. Burn, loc. cit., supra. See the case of Kenton v. Wallinger, 41 Eliz., Croke's Eliz. Rep., Leache's ed., Pt. ii, 838.
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