[De horis canonicis]

...say psalms and prayers in silence, nevertheless they ought not to enter the choir nor stand mixed with the clerics at that time when divine services are celebrated, as in the chapter 1, on the life and honesty of clerics, and the chapter Sacerdotum, on office, distinction 1. And whether they can or should say "The Lord be with you," I will say below in the question which begins "I ask whether an excommunicated [person], etc."

I ask successively whether it is allowed for Templars and other converts of religious orders to enter the choir and chant or sing with the other officiating clerics. I answer that no, according to Joannes Andreae and other doctors, since in this they conform to laymen, to whom this is not permitted, as was said above in the previous first question. Although it may be found, as Hostiensis says, that there are no princes who, in their chapels, out of their devotion—which is highly to be commended in this—have these hours celebrated for them by clerics, and they themselves say them with the clerics. But understand clearly that such are their chapels, they are private places, by the argument of the chapter Cum capella, on privileges, and the chapter Si quis etiam, on office, distinction 1. And note also that the devotion of such is greatly to be commended, provided that no prejudice is done to the parish church, by the argument of the chapter Tua, on tithes, and note in the said chapter Cum capella and in this our chapter, by Joannes Andreae, concerning the premises.

I ask what of a beneficed cleric and any other person promoted to sacred orders who is suspended from office or excommunicated; are they held to the canonical hours? I answer that yes. Nor does it object that excommunicated or suspended or deposed or degraded [persons] ought not to touch sacred things, per note in the chapter Ad eius vero cubitum, distinction 5. Item, nor that which is said in Psalm 49, God of gods, there when He says to the sinner, "Why do you declare my justice by your mouth?" There are also these words in the chapter Porro, 3, question 7, around the end, that although excommunicated [persons] and others of whom above should not touch sacred things or enter the church, especially in time of divine services, nevertheless they are not excused from the office; because it does not follow [that because] an excommunicated [person] should not enter the church, therefore he is not held to read the hours, by the argument of the chapter Cum dilecti, on the office of the ordinary, Papinianus, Eruli, Digest, on new things, because it is not inferred from things separated, as is said there.

To the other thing which is said, "Why do you declare, etc.," distinguish either...