said Arch-Bishop Bishop or Suffragan shall for Parchment Writing Wax Sealing or any other respect thereunto appertaining take above ten shillings under such pains as are already by Law prescribed CXXXVI A Table of the Rates and Fees to be set up in Courts and Registries VVE do likewise constitute and appoint That the Registers belonging to every such Ecclesiastical Judge shall place two Tables containing the several Rates and Sums of all the said Fees one in the usual place or Consistory where the Court is kept and the other in his Registry and both of them in such sort as every man whom it concerneth may without difficulty come to the view and perusal thereof and take a Copy of them the same Tables to be so set up before the Feast of the Nativity next ensuing And if any Register shall fail to place the said Tables according to the Tenour hereof he shall be Suspended from the execution of his Office until he cause the same to be accordingly done And the said Tables being once set up if he shall at any time remove or suffer the same to be removed hidden or any way hindered from sight contrary to the true meaning of this Constitution he shall for every such offence be Suspended from the exercise of his Office for the space of six Months CXXXVII The whole Fees for shewing Letters of Orders and other Licences due but once in every Bishops time FOrasmuch as a chief and principal cause and use of Visitation is that the Bishop Arch-Deacon or other assigned to Visit may get some good knowledge of the State Sufficiency and Ability of the Clergy and other persons whom they are to Visit We think it convenient that every Parson Vicar Curate Schoolmaster or other person Licensed whosoever do at the Bishops first Visitation or at the next Visitation after his Admission shew and exhibit unto him his Letters of Orders Institution and Induction and all other his Dispensations Licences or Faculties whatsoever to be by the said Bishop either allowed or if there be just cause disallowed and rejected and being by him approved to be as the custom is signed by the Register and that the whole Fees accustomed to be paid in the Visitations in respect of the Premisses be paid only once in the whole time of every Bishop and afterwards but half of the said accustomed Fees in every other Visitation during the said Bishops continuance Apparitors CXXXVIII The Number of Apparitors restrained FOrasmuch as we are desirous to redress such abuses and aggrievances as are said to grow by Somners or Apparitors We think it meet that the multitude of Apparitors be as much as is possible abridged or restrained Wherefore we decree and ordain That no Bishop or Archdeacon or their Vicars or Officials or other inferior Ordinaries shall depute or have more Apparitors to serve in their Jurisdictions respectively then either they or their Predecessors were accustomed to have thirty years before the publishing of these our present Constitutitions All which Apparitors shall by themselves faithfully execute their Offices neither shall they by any colour or pretence whatsoever cause or suffer their Mandates to be executed by any Messengers or Substitutes unless it be upon some good cause to be first known and approved by the Ordinary of the place Moreover they shall not take upon them the Office of Promoters or Informers for the Court neither shall they exact more or greater Fees than are in these our Constitutions formerly prescribed And if either the number of the Apparitors deputed shall exceed the fore said limitation or any of the said Apparitors shall offend in any of the Premisses the Persons deputing them if they be Bishops shall upon Admonition of their Superiour discharge the Persons exceeding the number so limited If inferiour Ordinaries they shall be suspended from the execution of their Office until they have dismissed the Apparitors by them so deputed and the Parties themselves so deputed shall for ever be removed from the Office of Apparitors and if being so removed they desist not from the exercise of their said Offices let them be punished by Ecclesiastical censures as persons contumacious Provided that if upon experience the number of the said Apparitors be too great in any Diocess in the judgment of the Archbishop of Canturbury for the time being they shall by him be so abridged as he shall think meet and convenient Authority of Synods CXXXIX A National Synod the Church Representative WHosoever shall hereafter affirm that the sacred Synod of this Nation in the Name of Christ and by the KING's Authority assembled is not the true Church of England by representation let him be Excommunicated and not restored until he repent and publickly revoke that his wicked Error CXL Synods conclude as well the absent as the present WHosoever shall affirm That no manner of person either of the Clergy or Laity not being themselves particularly assembled in the said sacred Synod are to be subject to the Decrees thereof in causes Ecclesiastical made and ratified by the Kings Majesties supream Authority as not having given their voices unto them let him be Excommunicated and not restored until he repent and publickly revoke that his wicked Error CXLI Depravers of the Synod censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That the sacred Synod assembled as aforesaid was a company of such persons as did conspire together against godly and religious professors of the Gospel and that therefore both they and their proceedings in making of Canons and Constitutions in causes Ecclesiastical by the Kings Authority as aforesaid ought to be despised and contemned the same being ratified confirmed and enjoyed by the said Regal Power Supremacy and Authority let them be Excommunicated and not restored until they repent and publickly revoke that their wicked Error WE of our Princely inclination and Royal care for the maintenance of the present Estate and Government of the Church of England by the Laws of this our Realm now settled and established having diligently with great contentment and comfort read and considered of all these their said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions agreed upon as is before expressed and finding the same such as We are perswaded will be very profitable not only to our Clergy but to the whole Church of this our Kingdom and to all the true members of it if they be well observed Have therefore Us our Heirs and lawful Successors of our special Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion given and by these presents do give our Royal Assent according to the form of the said Statute or Act of Parliament aforesaid to all and every of the said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions and to all and every thing in them contained as they are before written And furthermore We do not only by our said Prerogative Royal and supream Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical ratifie confirm and establish by these our Letters Patents the said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions and all and
God's Laws owe most Loyalty and Obedience afore and above all other Powers and Potentates in Earth II. Impugners of the King's Supremacy censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That the King's Majesty hath not the same Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical that the godly Kings had amongst the Jews and Christian Emperours of the Primitive Church or impeach any part of His Regal Supremacy in the said Causes restored to the Crown and by the Laws of this Realm therein established Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but only by the Archbishop after his Repentance and Publick Revocation of those his wicked Errors III. The Church of England a true and Apostolical Church WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That the Church of England by Law established under the King's Majesty is not a true and an Apostolical Church teaching and maintaining the Doctrine of the Apostles Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but only by the Archbishop after his Repentance and Publick Revocation of this his wicked Errour IV. Impugners of the Publick Worship of God established in the Church of England censured WHosoever shall hereafter affim That the Form of God's Worship in the Church of England established by Law and contained in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments is a corrupt superstitious or unlawful Worship of God or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but by the Bishop of the Place or Archbishop after his Repentance and Publick Revocation of such his wicked Errors V. Impugners of the Articles of Religion established in the Church of England censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That any of the Nine and thirty Articles agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred sixty two for avoiding diversities of Opinions and for the establishing of Consent touching true Religion are in any part superstitious or erroneous or such as he may not with a good Conscience subscribe unto Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but only by the Archbishop after his Repentance and publick Revocation of such his wicked Errors VI. Impugners of the Rites and Ceremonies established in the Church of England censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England by Law established are wicked Antichristian or superstitious or such as being commanded by lawful Authority men who are zealously and godly affected may not with any good Conscience approve them use them or as occasion requireth subscribe unto them Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto and not restored until he repent and publickly revoke such his wicked Errors VII Impugners of the Government of the Church of England by Archbishops Bishops c. censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm that the Government of the Church of England under His Majesty by Archbishops Bishops Deans Archdeacons and the rest that bear Office in the same is Antichristian or repugnant to the Word of God Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto and so continue until he repent and publickly revoke such his wicked Errors VIII Impugners of the Form of consecrating and ordering Archbishops Bishops c. in the Church of England censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm or teach That the Form and manner of making and consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Word of God or that they who are made Bishops Priests or Deacons in that Form are not lawfully made nor ought to be accounted either by themselves or others to be truly either Bishops Priests or Deacons until they have some other calling to those Divine Offices Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto not to be restored until he repent and publickly revoke such his wicked Errors IX Authors of Schism in the Church of England censured WHosoever shall hereafter separate themselves from the Communion of Saints as it is approved by the Apostles Rules in the Church of England and combine themselves together in a new Brother-hood accompting the Christians who are conformable to the Doctrine Government Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England to be prophane and unmeet for them to joyn with in Christian Profession Let them be Excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but by the Archbishop after their Repentance and Publick Revocation of such their wicked Errors X. Maintainers of Schismaticks in the Church of England censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That such Ministers as refuse to subscribe to the Form and manner of God's Worship in the Church of England prescribed in the Communion Book and their Adherents may truly take unto them the Name of another Church not established by Law and dare presume to publish it That this their pretended Church hath of long time groaned under the Burthen of certain Grievances imposed upon it and upon the Members thereof before mentioned by the Church of England and the Orders and Constitutions therein by Law established Let them be Excommunicated and not restored until they repent and pulickly revoke such their wicked Errors XI Maintainers of Conventicles censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm or maintain That there are within this Realm other Meetings Assemblies or Congregations of the King 's born Subjects than such as by the Laws of this Land are held and allowed which may rightly challenge to themselves the Name of True and Lawful Churches Let him be Excommunicated and not restored but by the Archbishop after his Repentance and Publick Revocation of such his wicked Errors XII Maintainers of Constitutions made in Conventicles censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That it is lawful for any sort of Ministers and Lay-persons or of either of them to joyn together and make Rules Orders or Constitutions in Causes Ecclesiastical without the King's Authority and shall submit themselves to be ruled and governed by them Let them be Excommunicated ipso facto and not be restored until they repent and publickly revoke those their wicked and Anabaptistical Errors Of Divine Service and Administration of the SACRAMENTS XIII Due Celebration of Sundays and Holy-days ALL manner of Persons within the Church of England shall from henceforth celebrate and keep the Lord's Day commonly called Sunday and other Holy-days according to God's Holy Will and Pleasure and the Orders of the Church of England prescribed in that behalf that is in hearing the Word of God read and taught in private and publick Prayers in acknowledging their Offences to God and amendment of the same in reconciling themselves charitably to their Neighbours where displeasure hath been in oftentimes receiving the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ in visiting of the poor and Sick using all godly and sober Conversation XIV The prescript Form of Divine Service to be used on Sundays and Holy-days THE Common Prayer shall be said or sung
now four times appointed in every Year for the Ordination of Deacons and Ministers there may ever be some time of trial of their behaviour in the Office of Deacon before they be admitted to the Order of Priesthood XXXIII The Titles of such as are to be made Ministers IT hath been long since provided by many Decrees of the Ancient Fathers that none should be admitted either Deacon or Priest who had not first some certain place where he might use his Function According to which Examples we do ordain that henceforth no Person shall be admitted into Sacred Orders except he shall at that time exhibit to the Bishop of whom he desireth Imposition of hands a Presentation of himself to some Ecclesiastical Preferment then void in that Diocess or shall bring to the said Bishop a true and undoubted Certificate that either he is provided of some Church within the said Diocess where he may attend the cure of Souls or of some Ministers place vacant either in the Cathedral Church of that Diocess or in some other Collegiate Church therein also situate where he may execute his Ministery or that he is a Fellow or in right as a Fellow or to be a Conduct or Chaplain in some Colledge in Cambridge or Oxford or except he be a Master of Arts of five years standing that liveth of his own Charge in either of the Universities or except by the Bishop himself that doth ordain him Minister he be shortly after to be admitted either to some Benefice or Curatship then void And if any Bishop shall admit any Person into the Ministery that hath none of these Titles as is aforesaid then he shall keep and maintain him with all things necessary till he do prefer him to some Ecclesiastical Living And if the said Bishop shall refuse so to do he shall be suspended by the Archbishop being assisted with another Bishop from giving of Orders by the space of a Year XXXIV The Quality of such as are to be made Ministers NO Bishop shall henceforth admit any Person into Sacred Orders which is not of his own Diocess except he be either of one of the Universities of this Realm or except he shall bring Letters Dimissory so termed from the Bishop of whose Diocess he is and desiring to be a Deacon is three and twenty years old and to be a Priest four and twenty years compleat and hath taken some Degree of School in either of the said Universities or at the least except he be able to yield an account of his Faith in Latin according to the Articles of Religion approved in the Synod of the Bishops and Clergy of this Realm One thousand five hundred sixty and two and to confirm the same by sufficient Testimonies out of the holy Scriptures and except moreover he shall then exhibit Letters Testimonial of his good Life and Conversation under the Seal of some College of Cambridge or Oxford where before he remained or of three or four grave Ministers together with the Subscription and Testimony of other credible Persons who have known his life and behaviour by the space of three years next before XXXV The Examination of such as are to be made Ministers THE Bishop before he admit any Person to holy Orders shall diligently examine him in the presence of those Ministers that shall assist him at the Imposition of hands And if the said Bishop have any lawful impediment he shall cause the said Ministers carefully to examine every such Person so to be Ordered Provided that they who shall assist the Bishop in examining and laying on of hands shall be of his Cathedral Church if they may conveniently be had or other sufficient Preachers of the same Diocess to the number of three at the least And if any Bishop or Suffragan shall admit any to Sacred Orders who is not so qualified and examined as before we have Ordained the Archbishop of his Province having notice thereof and being assisted therein by one Bishop shall suspend the said Bishop or Suffragan so offending from making either Deacons or Priests for the space of two years XXXVI Subscription required of such as are to be made Ministers NO Person shall hereafter be received into the Ministery nor either by Institution or Collation admitted to any Ecclesiastical Living nor suffered to Preach to Catechize or to be a Lecturer or Reader of Divinity in either University or in any Cathedral or Collegiate Church City or Market-Town Parish-Church Chapel or in any other place within this Realm except he be Licensed either by the Archbishop or by the Bishop of the Diocess where he is to be placed under their Hands and Seals or by one of the two Universities under their Seal likewise and except he shall first subscribe to these three Articles following in such manner and sort as we have here appointed 1. That the King's Majesty under God is the only Supream Governour of this Realm and of all other His Highness Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Things or Causes as Temporal and that no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within His Majesty's said Realms Dominions and Countries 2. That the Book of Common-Prayer and of Ordering of Bishops Priests and Deacons containeth in it nothing contrary to the Word of God and that it may lawfully so be used and that he himself will use the Form in the said Book prescribed in Publick Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and none other 3. That he alloweth the Book of Articles of Religion agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred sixty and two and that he acknowledgeth all and every the Articles therein contained being in number Nine and thirty besides the Ratification to be agreeable to the Word Of God To these three Articles whosoever will subscribe he shall for the avoiding of all ambiguities subscribe in this Order and Form of Words setting down both his Christian and Sirname viz. IN. N. do willingly and ex animo subscribe to these three Articles above-mentioned and to all things that are contained in them And if any Bishop shall Ordain Admit or License any as is aforesaid Except he first have subscribed in manner and form as here we have appointed he shall be suspended from giving of Orders and Licences to Preach for the space of twelve Months But if either of the Universities shall offend therein we leave them to the danger of the Law and His Majesty's Censure XXXVII Subscription before the Diocesan NOne Licensed as is aforesaid to Preach Read Lecture or Catechise coming to reside in any Diocess shall be permitted there to Preach Read Lecture Catechise or Minister the Sacraments or to execute any other Ecclesiastical Function by what Authority soever he
for two Court days without the Counsel and advice of an Advocate under pain of a years suspension from his Practice neither shall the Judge have power to release or mitigate the said penalty without express Mandate and Authority from the Arch-Bishop aforesaid CXXXI Proctors not to conclude in any cause without the knowledge of an Advocate NO Judge in any of the said Courts of the Arch-Bishop shall admit any Libel or any other matter without the advice of an Advocate admitted to practice in the same Court or without his subscription neither shall any Proctor conclude any Cause depending without the knowledge of the Advocate retained and fee'd in the cause which if any Proctor shall do or procure to be done or shall by any colour whatsoever defraude the Advocate of his Duty or Fee or shall be negligent in repairing to the Advocate and requiring his Advice what course is to be taken in the cause he shall be suspended from all practice for the space of six months without hope of being thereunto restored before the said term be fully compleat CXXXII Proctors prohibited the Oath In Animam Domini sui FOrasmuch as in the probate of Testaments and Suits for Administration of the Goods of persons dying Intestate the Oath usually taken by Proctors of Courts In animam constituentis is found to be inconvenient We do therefore decree and ordain That every Executor or Suiter for Administration shall personally repair to the Judge in that behalf or his Surrogate and in his own person and not by Proctor take the Oath accustomed in these cases But if by reason of sickness or age or any other just let or impediment he be not able to make his personal appearance before the Judge it shall be lawful for the Judge there being faith first made by a credible person of the truth of his said hinderance or impediment to grant a Commission to some grave Ecclesiastical person abiding near the party aforesaid whereby he shall give power and Authority to the said Ecclesiastical person in his stead to minister the accustomed Oath above mentioned to the Executor or Suiter for such Administration requiring his said Substitute that by a faithful and trusty Messenger he certifie the said Judge truly and faithfully what he hath done therein Lastly we ordain and appoint That no Judge or Register shall in any wise receive for the Writing Drawing or Sealing of any such Commission above the sum of six shillings and eight pence whereof one moyety to be for the Judge and the other for the Register of the said Court CXXXIII Proctors not to be clamorous in Court FOrasmuch as it is found by experience that the loud and confused cries and clamours of Proctors in the Courts of the Arch-Bishop are not only troublesom and offensive to the Judges and Advocates but also give occasion to the standers by of contempt and calumny toward the Court it self that more respect may be had to the Dignity of the Judge then heretofore and that causes may more easily and commodiously be handled and dispatched we charge and enjoyn That all Proctors in the said Courts do especially intend that the Acts be faithfully entred and set down by the Register according to the advice and direction of the Advocate that the said Proctors refrain loud speech and brabling and behave themselves quietly and modestly and that when either the Judges or Advocates or any of them shall happen to speak they presently be silent upon pain of silencing for two whole Terms then immediately following every such offence of theirs And if any of them shall the second time offend herein and after due monition shall not reform himself let him be for ever removed from his practice Registers CXXXIV Abuses to be reformed in Register IF any Register or his Deputy or Substitute whatsoever shall receive any Certificate without the knowledge and consent of the Judge of the Court or willingly omit to cause any person cited to appear upon any Court day to be called or unduly put off and defer the examination of witnesses to be examined by a day set and assigned by the Judge or do not obey and observe the judicial and lawful monition of the said Judge or omit to write or cause to be written such Citations and Decrees as are to be put in execution and set forth before the next Court day or shall not cause all Testaments exhibited into his Office to be Registred within a convenient time or shall set down or enact as decreed by the Judge any thing false or conceited by himself and not so ordered oâ— decreed by the Judge or in the transmission of Processes to the Judge Ad quem shall add or insert any falsehood or untruth or omit any thing therein either by cunning or by gross negligence or in causes of Instance or promoted of Office shall receive any reward in favour of either party or to be of counsel directly or indirectly with either of the parties in Suit or in the execution of their Office shall do ought else maliciously or fraudulently whereby the said Ecclesiastical Judge or his proceedings may be slandered or defamed We Will and Ordain that the said Register or his Deputy or Substitute offending in all or any of the premisses shall by the Bishop of the Diocess be Suspended from the exercise of his Office for the space of one two or three months or more according to the quality of his offence and that the said Bishop shall assign some other public Notary to execute and discharge all things pertaining to his Office during the time of his said Suspension CXXXV A certain rate of Fees due to all Ecclesiastical Officers NO Bishop Suffragan Chancellor Commissary Arch-Deacon Official nor any other exercising Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction whatsoever nor any Register of any Ecclesiastical Courts nor any Minister belonging to any of the said Officers or Courts shall hereafter for any cause incident to their several Offices take or receive any other or greater Fees then such as were certified to the most Reverend Father in God John late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in the year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred ninety and seven and were by him ratified and and approved under pain that every such Judge Officer or Minister offending herein shall be Suspended from the exercise of their several Offices for the space of six Months for every such offence Always provided that if any question shall arise concerning the certainty of the said Fees or any of them those Fees shall be held for lawful which the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for the time being shall under his Hand approve except the Statutes of this Realm before made do in any particular case express some other Fees to be due Provided furthermore that no Fee or Money shall be received either by the Arch-Bishop or any Bishop or Suffragan either directly or indirectly for admitting of any into Sacred Orders nor that any other person or persons under the
CONSTITUTIONS AND Canons Ecclesiastical TREATED UPON By the BISHOP of LONDON President of the CONVOCATION FOR THE Province of CANTERBURY AND The rest of the Bishops and Clergy of the said Province AND Agreed upon with the King's Majesty's Licence in their Synod begun at London Anno Domini 1603. And in the Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord JAMES by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland the First and of Scotland the Thirty seventh AND Now Published for the due Observation of them by His Majesty's Authority UNDER THE Great Seal of England LONDON Printed for Samuel Mearne Stationer to the King 's most Excellent Majesty and Robert Pawlet 1678. JAMES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas our Bishops Deans of our Cathedral Churches Archdeacons Chapters and Colledges and the other Clergy of every Diocess within the Province of Canterbury being summoned and called by Virtue of our Writ directed to the most Reverend Father in God John late Archbishop of Canterbury and bearing Date the 31. Day of January in the First Year of Our Reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the 37. to have appeared before him in our Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London the 20. Day of March then next ensuing or elsewhere as he should have thought it most convenient to treat consent and conclude upon certain difficult and urgent Affairs mentioned in the said Writ Did thereupon at the time appointed and within the Cathedral Church of St. Paul aforesaid assemble themselves and appear in Convocation for that purpose according to Our said Writ before the Right Reverend Father in God Richard Bishop of London duly upon a second Writ of Ours dated the 9. Day of March aforesaid authorized appointed and constituted by reason of the said Archbishop of Canterbury his Death President of the said Convocation to execute those things which by Virtue of Our first Writ did appertain to him the said Archbishop to have executed if he had lived We for divers urgent and weighty Causes and Considerations Us thereunto especially moving of Our especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion did by Virtue of our Prerogative Royal and Supreme Authority in Causes Ecclsieastical give and grant by Our several Letters Patents under Our Great Seal of England the one dated the 12. Day of April last past and the other the 25. Day of June then next following full free and lawful Liberty Licence Power and Authority unto the said Bishop of London President of the said Convocation and to the other Bishops Deans Archdeacons Chapters and Colledges and the rest of the Clergy before mentioned of the said Province That they from time to time during Our first Parliament now Prorogued might confer treat debate consider consult and agree of and upon such Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions as they should think necessary fit and convenient for the Honour and Service of Almighty God the good and quiet of the Church and the better Government thereof to be from time to time observed performed fulfilled and kept as well by the Archbishops of Canterbury the Bishops and their Successors and the rest of the whole Clergy of the said Province of Canterbury in their several Callings Offices Functions Ministeries Degrees and Administrations as also by all and every Dean of the Arches and other Iudge of the said Archbishop's Courts Guardians of Spiritualties Chancellors Deans and Chapters Archdeacons Commissaries Officials Registers and all and every other Ecclesiastical Officers and their inferiour Ministers whatsoever of the same Province of Canterbury in their and every of their distinct Courts and in the order and manner of their and every of their Proceedings and by all other Persons within this Realm as far as lawfully being Members of the Church it may concern them as in our said Letters Patents amongst other Clauses more at large doth appear Forasmuch as the Bishop of London President of the said Convocation and others the said Bishops Deans Archdeacons Chapters and Colledges with the rest of the Clergy having met together at the time and place before mentioned and then and there by Virtue of Our said Authority granted unto them treated of concluded and agreed upon certain Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions to the end and purpose by Us limited and prescribed unto them and have thereupon offered and presented the same unto Us most humbly desiring Us to give Our Royal Assent unto their said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions according to the Form of a certain Statute or Act of Parliament made in that behalf in the 25. Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth and by Our said Prerogative Royal and Supreme Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical to ratifie by Our Letters Patents under Our Great Seal of England and to confirm the same the Title and Tenour of them being word for word as ensueth Constitutions and Canons ECCLESIASTICAL Treated upon by the Bishop of London President of the Convocation for the Province of Canterbury and the rest of the Bishops and Clergy of the said Province and agreed upon with the King's Majesty's Licence in their Synod begun at London Anno Dom. 1603. And in the year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord JAMES by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland the First and of Scotland the Thirty seventh Of the Church of ENGLAND I. The King's Supremacy over the Church of England in Causes Ecclesiastical to be maintained AS our Duty to the King 's most Excellent Majesty requireth We first decree and ordain That the Archbishop of Canterbury from time to time all Bishops of this Province all Deans Archdeacons Parsons Vicars and all other Ecclesiastical Persons shall faithfully keep and observe and as much as in them lieth shall cause to be observed and kept of others all and singular Laws and Statutes made for restoring to the Crown of this Kingdom the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and abolishing of all Foreign Power repugnant to the same Furthermore all Ecclesiastical Persons having Cure of Souls and all other Preachers and Readers of Divinity Lectures shall to the uttermost of their Wit Knowledge and Learning purely and sincerely without any colour or dissimulation teach manifest open and declare four times every Year at the least in their Sermons and other Collations and Lectures That all usurped and Foreign Power forasmuch as the same hath no Establishment nor ground by the Law of God is for most just Causes taken away and abolished and that therefore no manner of Obedience or Subjection within His Majesty's Realms and Dominions is due unto any such Foreign Power but that the King's Power within His Realms of England Scotland and Ireland and all other His Dominions and Countries is the Highest Power under God to whom all men as well Inhabitants as born within the same do by
Law requireth their Presence there to discharge their Duties according to the Laws in that Case provided And the Bishop of the Diocess shall see the same to be duly performed and put in Execution XLV Beneficed Preachers being Resident upon their Livings to Preach every Sunday EVery Beneficed man allowed to be a Preacher and residing on his Benefice having no lawful Impediment shall in his own Cure or in some other Church or Chappel where he may conveniently near adjoyning where no Preacher is preach one Sermon every Sunday of the Year wherein he shall soberly and sincerely divide the Word of Truth to the glory of God and to the best Edification of the People XLVI Beneficed men not Preachers to procure monthly Sermons EVery Beneficed man not allowed to be a Preacher shall procure Sermons to be Preached in his Cure once in every Month at the least by Preachers lawfully Licensed if his Living in the Judgment of the Ordinary will be able to bear it And upon every Sunday when there shall not be a Sermon preached in his Cure he or his Curate shall read some one of the Homilies prescribed or to be prescribed by Authority to the intents aforesaid XLVII Absence of Beneficed men to be supplied by Curates that are allowed Preachers EVery Beneficed man Licensed by the Laws of this Realm upon urgent Occasions of other Service not to reside upon his Benefice shall cause his Cure to be supplied by a Curate that is a sufficient and Licensed Preacher if the worth of the Benefice will bear it But whosoever hath two Benefices shall maintain a Preacher Licensed in the Benefice where he doth not reside except he preach himself at both of them usually XLVIII None to be Curates but allowed by the Bishop NO Curate or Minister shall be permitted to serve in any Place without Examination and Admission of the Bishop of the Diocess or Ordinary of the Place having Episcopal Jurissdiction in Writing under his Hand and Seal having respect to the greatness of the Cure and meetness of the Party And the said Curates and Ministers if they remove from one Diocess to another shall not be by any means admitted to serve without Testimony of the Bishop of the Diocess or Ordinary of the Place as aforesaid whence they came in Writing of their Honesty Ability and Conformity to the Ecclesiastical Laws of the Church of England Nor any shall serve more than one Church or Chapel upon one day Except that Chapel be a Member of the Parish Church or united thereunto and unless the said Church or Chapel where such a Minister shall serve in two places be not able in the Judgment of the Bishop or Ordinary as aforesaid to maintain a Curate XLIX Ministers not allowed Preachers may not Expound NO Person whatsoever not examined and approved by the Bishop of the Diocess or not Licensed as is aforesaid for a sufficient or convenient Preacher shall take upon him to Expound in his own Cure or elsewhere any Scripture or matter of Doctrine but shall only study to read plainly and aptly without glossing or adding the Homilies already set forth or hereafter to be published by Lawful Authority for the Confirmation of the true Faith and for the good Instruction and Edification of the People L. Strangers not admitted to Preach without shewing their Licence NEither the Minister Church wardens nor any other Officers of the Church shall suffer any man to preach within their Churches or Chapels but such as by shewing their Licence to Preach shall appear unto them to be sufficiently authorized thereunto as is aforesaid LI. Strangers not admitted to Preach in Cathedral Churches without sufficient Authority THE Deans Presidents and Residentiaries of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church shall suffer no Stranger to Preach unto the People in their Churches except they be allowed by the Archbishop of the Province or by the Bishop of the same Diocess or by either of the Universities And if any in his Sermon shall publish any Doctrine either strange or disagreeing from the Word of God or from any of the Articles of Religion agreed upon in the Convocation House Anno 1562. or from the Book of Common Prayers the Dean or the Residents shall by their Letters subscribed with some of their Hands that heard him so soon as may be give notice of the same to the Bishop of the Diocess that he may determine the Matter and take such Order therein as he shall think convenient LII The Names of Strange Preachers to be noted in a Book THAT the Bishop may understand if Occasion so require what Sermons are made in every Church of his Diocess and who presume to preach without Licence the Church-wardens and Side-men shall see that the Names of all Preachers which come to their Church from any other Place be noted in a Book which they shall have ready for that Purpose wherein every Preacher shall subscribe his Name the Day wherein he preached and the Name of the Bishop of whom he had Licence to Preach LIII No Publick Opposition between Preachers IF any Preacher shall in the Pulpit particularly or namely of purpose impugn or confute any Doctrine delivered by any other Preacher in the same Church or in any Church near adjoyning before he hath acquainted the Bishop of the Diocess therewith and received Order what to do in that Case because upon such publick and Dissenting and contradicting there may grow much Offence and Disquietness unto the People the Church-wardens or Party grieved shall forthwith signifie the same to the said Bishop and not suffer the said Preacher any more to occupy that place which he hath once abused except he faithfully promise to forbear all such matter of Contention in the Church until the Bishop hath taken further Order therein who shall with all convenient Speed so proceed therein that publick Satisfaction may be made in the Congregation where the Offence was given Provided That if either of the Parties Offending do appeal he shall not be suffered to preach pendentelite LIV. The Licences of Preachers refusing Conformity to be void IF any man Licensed heretofore to Preach by any Archbishop Bishop or by either of the Universities shall at any time from henceforth refuse to conform himself to the Laws Ordinances and Rites Ecclesiastical established in the Church of England he shall be admonished by the Bishop of the Diocess or Ordinary of the Place to submit himself to the Use and due Exercise of the same And if after such Admonition he do not conform himself within the space of one Month We determine and decree That the Licence of every such Preacher shall thereupon be utterly void and of none effect LV. The Form of a Prayer to be used by all Preachers before their Sermons BEfore all Sermons Lectures and Homilies the Preachers and Ministers shall move the People to joyn with them in Prayer in this Form or to this effect as briefly as conveniently they may Ye shall
and the other in refusing to learn as aforesaid Let them be suspended by their Ordinaries if they be not Children and if they so persist by the space of a month then let them be excommunicated LX. Confirmation to be performed once in three years FOrasmuch as it hath been a solemn ancient and laudable Custom in the Church of God continued from the Apostles times that all Bishops should lay their Hands upon Children baptized and instructed in the Catechism of Christian Religion praying over them and blessing them which we commonly call Confirmation and that this holy Action hath been accustomed in the Church in former Ages to be performed in the Bishops Visitation every third Year We will and appoint that every Bishop or his Suffragan in his accustomed Visitation do in his own Person carefully observe the said Custom And if in that year by reason of some Infirmity he be not able personally to Visit then he shall not omit the Execution of that Duty of Confirmation the next year after as he may conveniently LXI Ministers to prepare Children for Confirmation EVery Minister that has Cure and Charge of Souls for the better accomplishing of the Orders prescribed in the Book of Common-Prayer concerning Confirmation shall take especial Care as that none shall be presented to the Bishop for him to lay his Hands upon but such as can render an account of their Faith according to the Catechism in the said Book contained And when the Bishop shall assign any time for the Performance of that part of his Duty every such Minister shall use his best endeavour to prepare and make able and likewise to procure as many as he can to be then brought and by the Bishop to be confirmed LXII Ministers not to marry any Persons without Banns or Licence NO Minister upon pain of Suspension per triennium ipso facto shall celebrate Matrimony between any Persons without a Faculty or Licence granted by some of the Persons in these our Constitutions expressed except the Banns of Matrimony have been first published three several Sundays or Holy-days in the time of Divine Service in the Parish-Churches and Chapels where the said Parties dwell according to the Book of Common Prayer Neither shall any Minister upon the like pain under any Pretence whatsoever joyn any persons so Licensed in Marriage at any unseasonable times but only between the hours of Eight and Twelve in the Fore-noon nor in any private Place but either in the said Churches or Chapels where one of them dwelleth and likewise in time of Divine Service nor when Banns are thrice asked and no Licence in that respect necessary before the Parents or Governours of the Parties to be married being under the age of twenty and one years shall either personally or by sufficient Testimony signifie to him their Consents given to the said Marriage LXIII Ministers of Exempt Churches not to Marry without Banns or Licence EVery Minister who shall hereafter celebrate Marriage between any Persons contrary to our said Constitutions or any part of them under colour of any peculiar Liberty or Privilege claimed to appertain to certain Churches and Chapels shall be suspended per triennium by the Ordinary of the Place where the offence shall be committed And if any such Minister shall afterwards remove from the Place where he hath committed that Fault before he bo suspended as is aforesaid then shall the Bishop of the Diocess or Ordinary of the Place where he remaineth upon Certificate under the hand and Seal of the other Ordinary from whose Jurisdiction he removed excute that Censure upon him LXIV Ministers solemnly to bid Holy-days EVery Parson Vicar or Curate shall in his several Charge declare to the People every Sunday at the time appointed in the Communion Book whether there be any Holy-days or Fasting-days the Week following And if any do hereafter wittingly offend herein and being once admonished thereof by his Ordinary shall again omit that Duty let him be censured according to Law until he submit himself to the due performance of it LXV Ministers solemnly to denounce Recusants and Excommunicates ALL Ordinaries shall in their several Jurisdictions carefully see and give Order that as well those who for obstinate refusing to frequent Divine Service established by publick Authority within this Realm of England as those also especially of the better sort and condition who for notorious Contumacy or other notable Crimes stand lawfully Excommunicate unless within three months immediately after the said Sentence of Excommunication pronounced against them they reform themselves and obtain the Benefit of Absolution be every six months ensuing as well in the Parish Church as in the Cathedral Church of the Diocess in which they remain by the Minister openly in time of Divine Service upon some Sunday denounced and declared Excommunicate that others may be thereby both admonished to refrain their Company and Society and excited the rather to procure out a Writ De Excommunicato capiendo thereby to bring and reduce them into due order and obedience Likewise the Register of every Ecclesiastical Court shall yearly between Michaelmas and Christmas duly certifie the Archbishop of the Province of all and singular the Premises aforesaid LXVI Ministers to confer with Recusants EVery Minister being a Preacher and having any Popish Recusant or Recusants in his Parish and thought fit by the Bishop of the Diocess shall labour diligently with them from time to time thereby to reclaim them from their Errors And if he be no Preacher or not such a Preacher then he shall procure if he can possibly some that are Preachers so qualified to take pains with them for that purpose If he can procure none then he shall inform the Bishop of the Diocess thereof who shall not only appoint some Neighbour Preacher or Preachers adjoyning to take that Labour upon them but himself also as his important Affairs will permit him shall use his best Endeavour by Instruction Persuasion and all good means he can devise to reclaim both them and all other within his Diocess so affected LXVII Ministers to Visit the Sick VVHEN any Person is dangerously sick in any Parish the Minister or Curate having Knowledge thereof shall resort unto him or her if the Disease be not known or probably suspected to be infectious to instruct and comfort them in their Distress according to the Order of the Communion Book if he be no Preacher or if he be a Preacher then as he shall think most needful and convenient And when any is passing out of this Life a Bell shall be tolled and the Minister shall not then slack to do his last Duty And after the Parties Death if it so fall out there shall be rung no more but one short Peal and one other before the Burial and one other after the Burial LXVIII Ministers not to refuse to Christen or Bury NO Minister shall refuse or delay to Christen any Child according to the Form of the Book
in outward Reverence as otherwise regarded for the Worthiness of their Ministery did think it sit by a prescript Form of decent and comely Apparel to have them known to the People and thereby to receive the Honour and Estimation due to the special Messengers and Ministers of Almighty God We therefore following their grave Judgment and the ancient Custom of the Church of England and hoping that in time new-fangleness of Apparel in some Factious Persons will die of it self do constitute and appoint That the Archbishops and Bishops shall not intermit to use the accustomed Apparel of their Degrees Likewise all Deans Masters of Colleges Archdeacons and Prebendaries in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches being Priests or Deacons Doctors in Divinity Law and Physick Batchellors in Divinity Masters of Arts and Batchellors of Law having any Ecclesiastical Living shall usually wear Gowns with standing Collars and Sleeves strait at the Hands or wide Sleeves as is used in the Universities with Hoods or Tippets of Silk or Sarcenet and square Caps And that all other Ministers admitted or to be admitted into that Function shall also usually wear the like Apparel as is aforesaid except Tippets only We do further in like manner ordain That all the said Ecclesiastical Persons above mentioned shall usually wear in their Journeys Cloaks with Sleeves commonly called Priests Cloaks without Gards Welts long Buttons or Cuts And no Ecclesiastical Person shall wear any Coife or wrought Night-cap but only plain Night-caps of black Silk Satten or Velvet In all which Particulars concerning the Apparel here Prescribed our meaning is not to attribute any Holiness or special Worthiness to the said Garments but for Decency Gravity and Order as is before specified In private Houses and in their Studies the said Persons Ecclesiastical may use any comely and Scholar-like Apparel provided that it be not cut or pinckt and that in publick they go not in their Doublet and Hose without Coats or Cassocks And that they wear not any light coloured Stockings Likewise poor Beneficed men and Curates not being able to provide themselves long Gowns may go in short Gowns of the Fashion aforesaid LXXV Sober Conversation required in Ministers NO Ecclesiastical Person shall at any time other then for their honest Necessities resort to any Taverns or Alehouses neither shall they boad or lodge in any such Places Furthermore they shall not give themselves to any base or servile Labour or to drinking or Riot spending their time Idlely by day or by night playing at Dice Cards or Taâ—les or any other unlawful Game But at all times convenient they shall hear or read somewhat of the Holy Scriptures or shall occupy themselves with some other honest Study or Exercise always doing the things which shall appertain to Honesty and endeavouring to profit the Church of God having always in Mind that they ought to excel all others in Purity of Life and should be examples to the People to live well and Christianly under Pain of Ecclesiastical Censures to be inflicted with Severity according to the qualities of their Offences LXXV Ministers at no time to forsake their Calling NO man being admitted a Deacon or Minister shall from thenceforth voluntarily relinquish the same nor afterward use himself in the Course of his Life as a Lay-man upon pain of Excommunication And the Names of all such Men so forsaking their Calling the Church-wardens of the Parish where they dwell shall present to the Bishop of the Diocess or to the Ordinary of the Place having Episcopal Jurisdiction School-Masters LXXVII None to teach School without Licence NO Man shall teach either in publick School or private House but such as shall be allowed by the Bishop of the Diocess or Ordinary of the Place under his Hand and Seal being found meet as well for his Learning and dexterity in Teaching as for sober and honest Conversation and also for right understanding of Gods true Religion and also except he shall first subscribe to the first and third Articles aforementioned simply and to the two first Clauses of the second Article LXXVIII Curates desirous to teach to be Licensed before others IN what Parish Church or Chappel soever there is a Curate which is a Master of Arts or Batchelor of Arts or is otherwise well able to teach Youth and will willingly so do for the better increase of his Living and training up of Children in Principles of true Religion We will and ordain That a Licence to teach Youth of the Parish where he serveth be granted to none by the Ordinary of that place but only to the said Curate Provided always That this Constitution shall not extend to any Parish or Chappel in Countrey Towns where there is a publick School founded already In which case we think it not meet to allow any to teach Grammar but only him that is allowed for the said publick School LXXXIX The Duty of School-Masters ALL School-Masters shall teach in English or Latin as the Children are able to bear the larger or shorter Catechism heretofore by publick Authority set forth And as often as any Sermon shall be upon Holy and Festival days within the Parish where they teach they shall bring their Schollars to the Church where such Sermon shall be made and there see them quietly and soberly behave themselves and shall examine them at times convenient after their return what they have born away of such Sermons Upon other days and at other times they shall train them up with such Sentences of holy Scriptures as shall be most expedient to induce them to all Godliness and they shall teach the Grammar set forth by King Henry the Eighth and continued in the times of King Edward the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth of noble Memory and none other And if any School-Master being Licensed and having subscribed as aforesaid shall offend in any of the premisses or either speak write or teach against any thing whereunto he hath formerly subscribed if upon admonition by the Ordinary he do not amend and reform himself let him be suspended from teaching School any longer Things appertaining to Churches LXXX The great Bible and Book of Common Prayer to be had in every Church THE Church-wardens or Quest-men of every Church and Chappel shall at the charge of the Parish provide the Book of Common Prayer lately explained in some few points by his Majesties Authority according to the Laws and his Highness Prerogative in that behalf and that with all convenient speed but at the furthest within two months after the publishing of these our Constitutions And if any Parishes be yet unfurnished of the Bible of the largest Volume or of the Books of Homilies allowed by Authority the said Church-wardens shall within convenient time provide the same at the like charge of the Parish LXXXI A Font of Stone for Baptism in every Church ACcording to a former Constitution too much neglected in many places we appoint That there shall be a Font of Stone in every
every thing in them contained as is aforesaid but do likewise propounid publish and straightway enjoyn and command by our said Authority and by these our Letters Patents the same to be diligently observed executed and equally kept by all our loving Subjects of this our Kingdom both within the Province of Canturbury and York in all points wherein they do or may concern every or any of them according to this our Will and Pleasure hereby signified and expressed and that likewise for the better observation of them every Minister by what Name or Title soever he be called shall in the Parish Church or Chappel where he hath charge read all the said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions once every year upon some Sundays or Holy days in the afternoon before Divine Service dividing the same in such sort as that the one half may be read one day and the other another day the Book of the said Canons to be provided at the charge of the Parish betwixt this and the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God next ensuing Straightly charging and commanding all Archbishops Bishops and all other that exercise any Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction within this Realm every man in his place to see and procure so much as in them lieth all and every of the same Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions to be in all points duly observed not sparing to execute the Penalties in them severally mentioned upon any that shall wittingly or wilfully break or neglect to observe the same as they tender the Honour of God the Peace of the Church the Tranquility of the Kingdom and their Duties and Service to Us their King and Sovereign In VVitness c. THE TABLE Of the Church of England 1 THE Kings Supremacy over the Church of England in Causes Ecclesiastical to be maintained Page 1 2 Impugners of the Kings Supremacy censured 2 3 The Church of England a true and Apostolical Church ib. 4 Impugners of the publick Worship of God established in the Church of England censured ib. 5 Impugners of the Articles of Religion established in the Church of England censured 3 6 Impugners of the Rites and Ceremonies established in the Church of England censured ib. 7 Impugners of the Government of the Church of England by Archbishops Bishops c. censured ib. 8 Impugners of the Form of consecrating and ordering Archbishops Bishops c. in the Church of England censured ib. 9 Authors of Schism in the Church of England censured 4 10 Maintainers of Schismaticks in the Church of England censured ib. 11 Maintainers of Conâ—nticles censured ib. 12 Maintainers of Constitutions made in Conventicles censured 5 Of Divine Service and Administration of the Sacraments 13 DUe celebration of Sundays and Holy-days 5 14 The prescript Form of Divine Service to be used on Sundays and Holy-days ib. 15 The Letany to be read on Wednesdays and Fridays 6 16 Colledges to use the Prescript Form of Divine Service ib. 17 Students in Colledges to wear Surplices in time of Divine Service ib. 18 A Reverence and Attention to be used within the Church in time of Divine Service 7 19 Loyterers not to be suffered near the Church in time of Divine Service 8 20 Bread and Wine to be provided against every Communion ib. 21 The Communion to be thrice a Year received ib. 22 Warning to be given beforehand for the Communion ib. 23 Students in Colledges to receive the Communion four times a Year 9 24 Copes to be worn in Cathedral Churches by those that Administer the Communion ib. 25 Surplices and Hoods to be worn in Cathedral Churches when there is no Communion 10 26 Notorious Offenders not to be admitted to the Communion ib. 27 Schismaticks not to be admitted to the Communion ib. 28 Strangers not to be admitted to the Communion 11 29 Fathers not to be Godfathers in Baptism nor Children not Communicants ib. 30 The lawful use of the Cross in Baptism explained 12 Ministers their Ordination Function and Charge 31 FOur Solemn Times appointed for the making of Ministers 14 32 None to be made Deacon and Minister both in one Day 15 33 The Titles of such as are to be made Ministers ibid. 34 The Quality of such as are to be made Ministers 16 35 The Examination of such as are to be made Ministers ib. 36 Subscriptions required of such as are to be made Ministers 17 37 Subscription before the Diocesan 18 38 Revolters after Subscription censured ib. 39 Cautions for Institution of Ministers into Benefices ib. 40 An Oath against Simony at Institution into Benefices ib. 41 Licences for Plurality of Benefices limited and Residence enjoined 19 42 Residence of Deans in their Churches 20 43 Deans and Prebendaries to Preach during their Residence ib. 44 Prebendaries to be resident upon their Benefices 21 45 Beneficed Preachers being Resident upon their Livings to Preach every Sunday 21 46 Beneficed men not Preachers to procure monthly Sermons ib. 47 Absence of Beneficed men to be supplied by Curates that are allowed Preachers 22 48 None to be Curates but allowed by the Bishops ib. 49 Ministers not allowed Preachers may not Expound ib. 50 Strangers not admitted to Preach without shewing their Licence 23 51 Strangers not admitted to Preach in Cathedral Churches without sufficient Authority ib. 52 The Names of Strange Preachers to be noted in a Book ib 53 No Publick Opposition between Preachers ib. 54 The Licences of Preachers refusing Conformity to be void 24 55 The Form of a Prayer to be used by all Preachers before their Sermons ib. 56 Preachers and Lecturers to read Divine Service and Administer the Sacraments twice a year at the least 25 57 The Sacraments to be refused at the hands of unpreaching Ministers 26 58 Ministers reading Divine Service and administring the Sacraments to wear Surplices and Graduates therewithal Hoods ib. 59 Ministers to Catechize every Sunday 27 60 Confirmation to be performed once in three years ib. 61 Ministers to prepare Children for Confirmation 28 62 Ministers not to marry any Persons without Banns or Licence ib. 63 Ministers of Exempt Churches not to Marry without Banns or Licence 29 64 Ministers solemnly to bid Holy-day ib. 65 Ministers solemnly to denounce Recusants and Excommunicates ib. 66 Ministers to confer with Recusants 30 67 Ministers to Visit the Sick ib. 68 Ministers not to refuse to Christen or Bury 31 69 Ministers not to defer Christning if the Child be in danger ib. 70 Ministers to keep a Register of Christenings Weddings and Burials ib. 71 Ministers not to preach or administer the Communion in Private Houses 32 72 Ministers not to appoint publick or private Fasts or Prophesies or to Exercise but by Authority 33 73 Ministers not to hold private Conventicles ib. 74 Decency in Apparel enjoyned to Ministers 34 75 Sober Conversation required in Ministers 35 76 Ministers at no time to forsake their Calling ib. School-Masters 77 NOne to teach School without Licence 35 78 Curates destrous to teach to be