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The De heretico comburendo (2 Hen.4 c.15) was a law passed by Parliament under King Henry IV of England in 1401, punishing heretics with burning at the stake. This law was one of the strictest religious censorship statutes ever enacted in England. The statute declared there were "...divers false and perverse people of a certain new sect...they make and write books, they do wickedly instruct and inform people...and commit subversion of the said catholic faith".〔(Text of the ''Statutes of the Realm, 2:12S-28: 2 Henry IV'' )〕 The sect alluded to is the Lollards, followers of John Wycliffe. ''De heretico comburendo'' urged "...that this wicked sect, preachings, doctrines, and opinions, should from henceforth cease and be utterly destroyed...", and declared "...that all and singular having such books or any writings of such wicked doctrine and opinions, shall really with effect deliver or cause to be delivered all such books and writings to the diocesan of the same place within forty days from the time of the proclamation of this ordinance and statute."〔 "And if any person...such books in the form aforesaid do not deliver, then the diocesan of the same place in his diocese such person or persons in this behalf defamed or evidently suspected and every of them may by the authority of the said ordinance and statute cause to be arrested...". If they failed to abjure their "heretical" beliefs, or relapsed after an initial abjuration, they would "...be burnt, that such punishment may strike fear into the minds of others...".〔 Section 6 of the Act of Supremacy (1 Eliz.1 c.1) (1559) repealed the statutes but it was not until March 1677 that a bill to take away the Crown's right to the writ was introduced in the House of Commons. It passed in that session. == Meaning and linguistics == ''De heretico comburendo'' is a Latin phrase meaning "Regarding the burning of heretics". An alternate spelling is ''De haeretico comburendo'', reflecting the proper ancient and Middle Ages spelling (by the second century the diphthong ''ae'' had been changed in pronunciation from (:ai) to ; most texts today use the spelling without the letter ''a''). See Latin spelling and pronunciation for more information. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「De heretico comburendo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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