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O<\/span>wen Chadwick devotes a chapter of The Reformation<\/em><\/a> to \u201cthe decline of ecclesiastical power.\u201d He reviews the effects of the Reformation on excommunication, the benefit of clergy, church property and the power of the local parish church. Sanctuary was one of the medieval institutions ended by the Reformation.<\/p>\n

Sanctuary rights were already under suspicion in the medieval period: \u201cIn the later Middle Ages [sanctuary] became a way of evading justice. In some notorious cases, like the church of St Martin-le-Grand in London in the earthly fifteenth century, a group of men living a public sanctuary became little more than a band of brigands issuing forth from an immune fastness.\u201d Not everyone was a criminal: \u201cnearly 500 people took refuge [at St John at Beverly] in the sixty years before 1538\u201d (380).<\/p>\n

Chadwick estimates that \u201cmost governments of the later Middle Ages, including the Popes, attempted to abridge the right.\u201d In the sixteenth century, the \u201cmore powerful states\u201d in Europe suppressed what they saw as \u201canarchism.\u201d Henry VIII \u201cexcluded from sanctuary persons guilty of murder, rape, highway robbery, burglary, arson, or sacrilege.\u201d Every Protestant \u201ccountry abolished the right during the course of their reformation, some more slowly than others.\u201d Roman Catholic countries curtailed the right, much as Henry VIII had, but \u201cit became a matter of principle to maintain it, chiefly as a sign of ecclesiastical independence, despite the manifest inconveniences which it caused.\u201d A semblance of sanctuary is still in force in Italy, where \u201csecular officials shall not exercise their functions in a church without giving previous notice to the ecclesiastical authorities\u201d (380-1).<\/p>\n

Chadwick claims that sanctuary \u201cwas appropriate to a simpler world,\u201d and was undone by \u201cthe efficiency of public justice\u201d (381). That\u2019s one way to put it. It might also be described as a curtailment of the independence of the church in the face of an monopolizing state.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"