Cyclopædia
Assuming church-yard is required, the following 2 results were found.
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ASYLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASYLUM
was therein erected to the God Asylaeus, Οξυγ άσυλος. The Emperors Honorius and Theodosius granting these Immunities to Church-yards, the Bishops and Monks laid hold of a certain Tract or Territory, without which they fixed the Bounds of the Secular...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ABJURATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABJURATION
the Time of Edward the Confessor to the Reformation, that is a Man having committed Felony, could recover a Church or Church-yard before he were apprehended, it was an Asylum from which he could, not be brought to take his Trial at Law ; but confessing...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology