Commission And in regard of the extraordinary duties which the Forces of the said City that now are and formerly were raised in Order to his Majesties happy Restauration have of late and may again be put to for the safety of his Majesties Person and for suppressing or preventing of Insurrections That it shall and may be lawful for his Majesties Lieutenants of the said City by Warrant from his Majesty to impose and levy yearly in the same so much money as they shall find néedful for defraying the Arrears of those first raised for his Majesties happy Restauration and the Arrears and necessary charge of those that now are and shall be raised with the Ammunition and other incident expences of their Militia in such manner as the present Assessment is now levied and not excéeding in any one year the proportion of One moneths Tax which the said City now pays towards the Tax of Seventy thousand pounds by the moneth And shall be accomptable for the same as by this Act is Ordained Any thing in this Act to the contrary of this Proviso in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the Officers of Militia of cities and towns corporate Provided always That no Officer or Souldier of the Militia or Trained Bands belonging to any City Borough or Town Corporate being a County of it self or to any other Corporation or Port-Town who have used and accustomed to be Mustered only within their own Precincts shall be compellable to appear out of the Precincts or Liberties of the same City Borough Town-Corporate or Port-Town at any Muster or Exercise only and every of the said Cities Boroughs Towns-Corporate and Port-Towns are hereby chargeable to find their usual Number of Souldiers unless the respective Lieutenants find cause to lessen the same Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Covenants between Landlords and Tenants for providing Arms not to be avoyded by this Act. Provided That this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend to avoid any Covenant or Agréement which hath béen or shall be made betwéen any Landlord and Tenant concerning the finding Horses or Arms or the bearing or paying of any Tares Rates or other charges by any Tenant either by general or special Covenants but that the said Taxes Rates or other Charges shall be born and paid by all respective Tenants according to the said Covenants and Agréements Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Isle of Wight Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to make any alteration in the Isle of Wight as to the Militia in that place either to raise Horse or Foot within the said Island in any other manner then hath béen formerly and is now used and practised there Militia of the Tower Dâ—vision in Middlesex Provided also And be it Enacted That whereas the Militia of the Tower-Division in the County of Middlesex commonly known by the name of the Tower-Hamlets are and alwayes have béen under the Command of his Maiesties Constable or Lieutenant of the Tower for the Service and Preservation of that his Royal Fort That it shall and may be lawful for his Majesties Constable or Lieutenant of the Tower for the time being to continue to levy the Trained Bands of the said Division or Hamlets of the Tower in such manner and form as to the number and quality of persons as was observed in forming the present Forces thereof Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso touching compelling men to march out of this Kingdom Provided That neither this Act nor any matter or thing therein contained shall be déemed construed or taken to extend to the giving or declaring of any power for the transporting of any the Subjects of this Realm or any way compelling them to march out of this Kingdom otherwise then by the Laws of England ought to be done Peers of the Realm how to be charged Provided always And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Péer of this Realm shall be charged with Horse Horse-men and Arms or Foot-souldiers and Arms otherwise or in any other manner then is herein after expressed that is to say that his Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall and may from time to time issue out Commissions under the great Seal of England to so many Péers not fewer then twelve as his Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall think fit who or any five or more of them shall have power from time to time to Assess all and every or any the Péers of this Realm according to the Limitations and Proportions in this Act appointed for the finding of horse Horse-men and Arms or Foot-Souldiers and Arms and for other the purposes in this Act mentioned except the Monethly Taxes which are to be levied as is before prescribed in this Act and shall have power to put in execution all and every the Powers and Authorities of this Act as well for laying Assessments as imposing of penalties Imprisonment of the person of any Péer of this Realm only excepted which Assessment or Charge so made together with such penalties as shall be so imposed imprisonment as aforesaid onely excepted shall be from time to time respectively certified to the respective Lieutenants of each County to the intent that the said Charge may be born and the penalties not before excepted levied according to the intent of this Act And that in case there shall be any default in performance of any thing to be done or paid by any Péer by vertue of this Act that then it shall be lawful for the respective Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants or any thrée of them to cause Distresses to be taken for the same in any of the lands of such Defaulter within their said Counties or Limits respectively And in case satisfaction shall not be given within the space of one wéek after such Distress taken then such Distresse to be sold for the performance of the said Service and the charge incident thereunto and the Overplus if any be to be restored to the Owner And if a Tenant of any Péer of this Realm shall be distrained for such default as aforesaid the Tenant so distrained is hereby enabled to deduct the sum levied out of his next Rent CAP. XIV There shall be Uniformity of Publique Prayers and administration of Sacraments other Rites and Ceremonies And of Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England VVHereas in the first year of the late Quéen Elizabeth there was one Vniforme Order of Common Service and Prayer and of the Administrations of Sacraments Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England agréeable to the Word of God and usage of the Primitive Church compiled by the Reverend Bishops and Clergy set forth in one Book entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England and enjoyned to be
used by Act of Parliament holden in the said first year of the said late Quéen 2 El. cap. 2. Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments very comfortable to all good people desirous to live in Christian conversation and most profitable to the Estate of this Realm upon the which the Mercy Favour and Blessing of Almighty God is in no wise so readily and plentifully poured as by Common Prayers due using of the Sacraments and often Preaching of the Gospel with Devotion of the Hearers And yet this notwithstanding a great number of people in divers parts of this Realm following their own sensuality and living without knowledg and due fear of God do Wilfully Schismatically abstain and refuse to come to their Parish-Churches and other publick places where Common Prayer Administration of the Sacraments and preaching of the Word of God is used upon the Sundays and other days ordained and appointed to be kept and observed as Holy-days And whereas by the great and scandalous neglect of Ministers in using the said Order or Liturgy so set forth and enjoyned as aforesaid great mischiefs and inconveniences during the times of the late unhappy Troubles have arisen and grown and many people have béen led into Factions and Schisms to the great decay and scandal of the Reformed Religion of the Church of England and to the hazard of many souls For prevention whereof in time to come for setling the Peace of the Church and for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted The Kings Declaration and Commission for reviewing the Book of Common Prayer and Alterations to be propounded therein The Kings Majesty according to his Declaration of the Five and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred and sixty granted his Commission under the Great Seal of England to several Bishops and other Divines to review the Book of Common Prayer and to prepare such Alterations and Additions as they thought fit to offer And afterwards the Convocations of both the Provinces of Canterbury and York being by His Majesty called and assembled and now sitting His Majesty hath béen pleased to Authorize and require the Presidents of the said Convocations and other the Bishops and Clergy of the same to re-view the said Book of Common Prayer and the Book of the Form and manner of the Making and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons And that after mature consideration they should make such Additions and Alterations in the said Books respectively as to them should séem méet and convenient And should exhibit and present the same to his Majesty in writing for his further allowance or confirmation since which time upon full and mature deliberation they the said Presidents Bishops and Clergy of both Provinces have accordingly re-viewed the said Books and have made some Alterations which they think fit to be inserted to the same and some Additional Prayers to the said Book of Common Prayer to be used upon proper and emergent occasions And have exhibited and presented the same unto his Majesty in writing in one Book Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form and Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons All which His Majesty having duly considered hath fully approved and allowed the same and recommended to this present Parliament that the said Books of Common Prayer and of the Form of Ordination and Consecration of Bishops Priests and Deacons with the Alterations and Additions which have béen so made and presented to His Majesty by the said Convocations be the Book which shall be appointed to be used by all that Officiate in all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Chappels and in all Chappels of Colledges and Halls in both the Vniversities and the Colledges of Eaton and Winchester and in all Parish-Churches and Chappels within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and by all that Make or Consecrate Bishops Priests or Deacons in any of the said places under such Sanctions and Penalties as the Houses of Parliament shall think fit Now in regard that nothing conduceth more to the setling of the Peace of this Nation which is desired of all good men nor to the honour of our Religion and the propagation thereof The Peace and Honour of Religion much advanced by Vniform agreement in the Publique Worship of God then an Vniversal argréement in the publique Worship of Almighty God and to the intent that every person within this Realm may certainly know the rule to which he is to conform in Publique Worship and Administrations of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England and the manner how and by whom Bishops Priests and Deacons are and ought to be Made Ordained Consecrated Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Advice and with the Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and singular Ministers in any Cathedral Collegiate or Parish-Church or Chappel or other place of Publique Worship within this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed The Book of Common Prayer shall be used shall be bound to say and use the Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Celebration and Administration of both the Sacraments and all other the Publique and Common Prayer in such order and form as is mentioned in the said Book annexed and ioyned to this present Act and Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the form or manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons And that the Morning and Evening Prayers therein contained shall upon every Lords Day and upon all other dayes and occasions and at the times therein appointed be openly and solemnly Read by all and every Minister or Curate in every Church Chappel or other place of publique Worship within this Realm of England All Parsons Vicars and Ministers to read and declare their assent to use the same and places aforesaid And to the end that Vniformity in the publique Worship of God which is so much desired may be spéedily effected Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Parson Vicar or other Minister whatsoever who now hath and enjoyeth any Ecclesiastical Benefite or Promotion within this Realm of England or places aforesaid shall in the Church Chappel or place of publique
Worship belonging to his said Benefice or Promotion upon some Lords Day before the Feast of Saint Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two openly publiquely and solemnly Read the Morning and Evening Prayer appointed to be Read by and according to the said Book of Common Prayer at the times thereby appointed and after such reading thereof shall openly and publikely before the Congregation there assembled declare his unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said Book contained and prescribed In these words and no other I A. B. Do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained and prescribed in and by the Book intituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form or manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons The Penalty for refusing And that all and every such person who shall without some lawful impediment to be allowed and approved of by the Ordinary of the place neglect or refuse to do the same within the time aforesaid or in case of such Impediment within one Moneth after such Impediment removed shall ipso facto be deprived of all his Spiritual Promotions And that from thenceforth it shall be lawful to and for all Patrons and Donors of all and singular the said Spiritual Promotions or of any of them according to their respective Rights and Titles to present or collate to the same as though the person or persons so offending or neglecting were dead Every person hereafter to be promoted to any Ecclestiastical Benefice shall read the Common Prayer and declare his assent thereto And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person who shall hereafter be presented or collated or put into any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion within this Realm of England and places aforesaid shall in the Church Chappel or place of publick worship belonging to his said Benefice or Promotion within two moneths next after that he shall be in the actual possession of the said Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion upon some Lords Day openly publickly and solemnly Read the Morning and Evening Prayers appointed to be Read by and according to the said Book of Common Prayer at the times thereby appointed and after such reading thereof shall openly and publickly before the Congregation there assembled declare his unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things therein contained and prescribed according to the form before appointed The penalty for not so doing the same And that all and every such person who shall without some lawful Impediment to be allowed and approved by the Ordinary of the place neglect or refuse to do the same within the time aforesaid or in case of such Impediment within one moneth after such Impediment removed shall ipso facto be deprived of all his said Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions And that from thenceforth it shall and may be lawful to and for all Patrons and Donors of all and singular the said Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions or any of them according to their respective Rights and Titles to present or collate to the same as though the person or persons so offending or neglecting were dead Incumbents of Livings keeping Curates shall read the same once every moneth And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all places where the proper Incumbent of any Parsonage or Vicarage or Benefice with Cure doth reside on his Living and kéep a Curate the Incumbent himself in person not having some lawful Impediment to be allowed by the Ordinary of the place shall once at the least in every moneth openly and publickly read the Common Prayers and Service in and by the said Book prescribed and if there be occasion Administer each of the Sacraments and other Rites of the Church in the Parish Church or Chappel of or belonging to the same Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice in such order manner and form The penalty and manner of conviction for not doing it as in and by the said Book is appointed upon pain to forfeit the sum of Five pounds to the use of the poor of the Parish for every offence upon conviction by confession or proof of two credible Witnesses upon Oath before two Iustices of the Peace of the County City or Town Corporate where the offence shall be committed which Oath the said Iustices are hereby impowred to Administer and in default of payment within ten dayes to be levied by distress and sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Offender by the Warrant of the said Iustices by the Church-wardens or Overséers of the poor of the said Parish rendring the surplusage to the party Deans Canons Prebendaries c. shall subscribe the Declaration 15 Car. 2. cap. 6. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Dean Canon and Prebendary of every Cathedral or Collegiate Church and all Masters and other Heads Fellows Chaplains and Tutors of or in any Colledge Hall House of Learning or Hospital and every publick Professor and Reader in either of the Vniversities and in every Colledge elsewhere and every Parson Vicar Curate Lecturer and every other person in holy Orders and every School-master kéeping any publick or private School and every person Instructing or Teaching any Youth in any House or private Family as a Tutor or School-master who upon the First day of May which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty two or at any time thereafter shall be Incumbent or have possession of any Deanry Canonry Prebend Mastership Headship Fellowship Professors place or Readers place Parsonage Vicarage or any other Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion or of any Curates place Lecture or School or shall instruct or teach any Youth as Tutor or School-master shall before the Feast-day of St. Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two or at or before his or their respective admission to be Incumbent or have possession aforesaid subscribe the Declaration or Acknowledgment following Scilicet The Decla ∣ ration I A. B. Do declare That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissionated by him And that I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by Law established And I do declare That I do hold there lies no Obligation upon me or on any other person from the Oath commonly called The Solemn League and Covenant to endeavour any change or alteration of Government either
Goal of the same County City or Town Corporate accordingly Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Common Prayer to be read before every Lecture and the Lecturer to be present That at all and every time and times when any Sermon or Lecture is to be Preached the Common Prayers and Service in and by the said Book appointed to be Read for that time of the day shall be openly publickly and solemnly Read by some Priest or Deacon in the Church Chappel or place of Publick Worship where the said Sermon or Lecture is to be Preached before such Sermon or Lecture be preached And that the Lecturer then to Preach shall be present at the Reading thereof Provided nevertheless That this Act shall not extend to the Vniversity Churches Proviso for Sermons and Lectures in the Vniversities in the Vniversities of this Realm or either of them when or at such times as any Sermon or Lecture is Preached or Read in the said Churches or any of them for or as the publick Vniversity Sermon or Lecture but that the same Sermons and Lectures may be preached or read in such sort and manner as the same have béen heretofore preached or read this Act or any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several good Laws The Lawes and Statutes formerly made for Vniformity of Common Prayer confirmed and to be executed for punishing offendors against this Law and Statutes of this Realm which have béen formerly made and are now in force for the Vniformity of Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments within this Realm of England and places aforesaid shall stand in full force and strength to all intents and purposes whatsoever for the establishing and confirming of the said Book Intituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the form or manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons herein before mentioned to be joyned and annexed to this Act and shall be applied practised and put in ure for the punishing of all offences contrary to the said Lawes with relation to the Book aforesaid and no other Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Letanies and Collects relating to the King Queen c. That in all those Prayers Letanies and Collects which do any way relate to the King Quéen or Royal Progeny the Names be altered and changed from time to time and fitted to the present occasion according to the direction of lawful Authority True printed Copies of the Book of Common Prayer to be provâ—ded in all Parishes and Churches Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That a true Printed Copy of the said Book Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the form and manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons shall at the costs and charges of the Parishioners of every Parish-Church and Chappelry Cathedral Church Colledg and Hall be attained and gotten before the Feast-day of St. Bartholomew in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two upon pain of forfeiture of thrée pounds by the moneth for so long time as they shall then after be unprovided thereof by every Parish or Chappelry Cathedral Church Colledge and Hall making default therein Proviso for the Bishops of Hereford St. Davies Asaph Bangor Landaff Provided alwayes and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Bishops of Hereford St. Davies Asaph Bangoâ— and Landaff and their Successors shall take such order among themselves for the souls health of the Flocks committed to their Charge within Wales That the Book hereunto annexed be truly and exactly Translated into the Brittish or Welsh Tongue and that the same so Translated and being by them or any thrée of them at the least viewed perused and allowed be Imprinted to such number at least so that one of the said Books so Translated and Imprinted may be had for every Cathedral Collegiate and Parish Church and Chappel of Ease in the said respective Diocesses and places in Wales where the Welsh is commonly spoken or used before the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty five And that from and after the Imprinting and publishing of the said Book so Translated the whole Divine Service shall be used and said by the Ministers and Curates throughout all Wales within the said Diocesses where the Welsh Tongue is commonly used in the Brittish or Welsh Tongue in such manner and form as is prescribed according to the Book hereunto annexed to be used in the English Tongue differing nothing in any order or form from the said English Book for which Book so Translated and Imprinted the Church-Wardens of every the said Parishes shall pay out of the Parish-money in their hands for the use of the respective Churches and be allowed the same on their Accompt And that the said Bishops and their Successors or any thrée of them at the least shall set and appoint the price for which the said Book shall be sold And one other Book of Common Prayer in the English Tongue shall be bought and had in every Church throughout Wales in which the Book of Common Prayer in Welsh is to be had by force of this Act before the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and four and the same Book to remain in such convenient places within the said Churches that such as understand them may resort at all convenient times to read and peruse the same and also such as do not understand the said Language may be conferring both Tongues together the sooner attain to the knowledg of the English Tongue Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding and until Printed Copies of the said Book so to be Translated may be had and provided The Form of Common Prayer established by Parliament before the making of this Act shall be used as formerly in such parts of Wales where the English Tongue is not commonly understood And to the end that the true and perfect Copies of this Act and the said Book hereunto annexed may be safely kept and perpetually preserved and for the avoiding of all disputes for the time to come True and perfect Copies of this Act and the Book of Common Prayer by whom and how to be had and kept Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Deans and Chapters of Every Cathedral or
Collegiate Church within England and Wales shall at their proper costs and charges before the Twenty fifth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty two obtain under the Great Seal of England a true and perfect printed Copy of this Act and of the said Book annexed hereunto to be by the said Deans and Chapters and their Successors kept and preserved in safety for ever and to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court of Record as often as they shall be thereunto lawfully required And also there shall be delivered true and perfect Copies of this Act and of the same Book into the respective Courts at Westminster and into the Tower of London to be kept and preserved for ever among the Records of the said Courts and the Records of the Tower to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court as néed shall require which said Books so to be exemplified under the Great Seal of England shall be examined by such persons as the Kings Majesty shall appoint under the Great Seal of England for that purpose and shall be compared with the Original Book hereunto annexed and shall have power to correct and amend in writing any Error committed by the Printer in the Printing of the same Book or of any thing therein contained and shall certifie in writing under their Hands and Seals or the hands and seals of any thrée of them at the end of the same Book that they have examined and compared the same Book and find it to be a true and perfect Copy which said Books and every one of them so exemplified under the Great Seal of England as aforesaid shall be déemed taken adjudged and expounded to be good and available in the Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever and shall be accounted as good Records as this Book it self hereunto annexed Any Law or Custome to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the Kings Professor of Law in Oxford Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be prejudicial or hurtful unto the Kings Professor of the Law within the Vniversity of Oxford for or concerning the Prebend of Shipton within the Cathedral Church of Sarum united and annexed unto the place of the same Kings Professor for the time being by the late King James of blessed memory Provided alwayes Proviso concerning the 3â—th Article agreed in the Convocation Anno 1562. That whereas the Six and thirtieth Article of the Nine and thirty Articles agréed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy holden at London in the year of our Lord One thousand five hundred sixty two for the avoiding of diversities of Opinions and for establishing of consent touching true Religion is in these words following viz. That the Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops and Ordaining of Priests and Deacons lately set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth and confirmed at the same time by Authority of Parliament doth contain all things necessary to such Consecration and Ordaining neither hath it any thing that of it self is superstitious and ungodly And therefore whosoever are Consecrated or Ordered according to the Rites of that Book since the second year of the aforenamed King Edward unto this time or hereafter shall be Consecrated or Ordered according to the same Rites We decree all such to be rightly orderly and lawfully Consecrated and Ordered It be Enacted And be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Subscriptions hereafter to be had or made unto the said Articles by any Deacon Priest or Ecclesiastical person or other person whatsoever who by this Act or any other Law now in force is required to subscribe unto the said Articles shall be construed and be taken to extend and shall be applied for and touching the said Six and thirtieth Article unto the Book containing the form and manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons in this Act mentioned in such sort and manner as the same did heretofore extend unto the Book set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth mentioned in the said Six and thirtieth Article Any thing in the said Article or in any Statute Act or Canon heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also That the Book of Common Prayer The Common Prayer used by Authority of Parliament 1. Eliz. to be used untill Bartholomew Day 1662. EXP. and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of this Church of England together with the form and manner of Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons heretofore in use and respectively established by Act of Parliament in the First and Eighth years of Quéen Elizabeth shall be still used and observed in the Church of England until the Feast of St. Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two EXP. as to this last Clause CAP. V. For Regulating the Making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich WHereas divers abuses and deceipts have of late years béen had and used in the making of Worsteds and other Stuffs commonly called Norwich Stuffs and in the Réeling of Yarnes whereof the said Stuffs are either wholly or in part made which tends to the debasing of the said Manufacture unto the prejudice of the publique which said Trade of Weaving of Stuffs hath of late times béen very much increased and great variety of new sorts of Stuffs have béen invented 7 E. 4. cap. 1. so that the Power given by the Statute of the Seventh of Edward the Fourth Chapter the First is not sufficient for the Regulating of the same And that the number of the Wardens by the same Act appointed being but Eight are too few for the Governing and Ordering the same Trade by which means the same Manufacture will soon be lost if not prevented and carried into forreign Nations to the great diminution of His Majesties Customs and turning out of the work many thousands of poor people For prevention of which abuses deceipts and evils The number of Wardens and Assistants of Master Weavers in Norwich how and when to be chosen It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament and by the Authority of the same That there shall be Twelve Wardens and Thirty Assistants all which are to be Master-Weavers within the County of the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk sir of which said Wardens and fiftéen of the said Assistants shall be chosen the first Monday after Pentecost in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two and from thenceforth yearly and every year on the next Monday after Pentecost at some publique place by the Master-Weavers or the greater part of them present of the said City and County of Norwich And the other six
Ordnance shall make without Fée Charge or Delay And that all Orders for repayment of money lent shall be registred in course according to the Date of the Tallies respectively And that all Orders signed by the Lord Treasurer and Vnder-Treasurer of the Exchequer for payment of money for Goods Wares Victuals and other necessaries furnished to Your Majesty Your Officers Master or Commissioners aforesaid shall be registred in course according to the time of bringing to the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt the Certificates above mentioned And that all Orders so signed for payments directed by his Majesty shall be entred in course according to their respective Dates and none of the sorts of Orders above mentioned either for Loans of Moneys Supplies of Wares Goods Victuals or Necessaries or by special direction shall have preference one before another but shall all be entred in their course according to the Dates of the Tallies the times of bringing the Certificates and the Dates of the Orders for payments directed by his Majesty as they are in point of time respectively before each other And that all and every person and persons shall be paid in course according as their Orders shall stand entred in the said Register-Book be it Orders for payments directed by his Majesty or for Moneys lent or for Wares Commodities or other Necessaries furnished as aforesaid so as that person his Executors Administrators and Assigns who shall have his Warrant or Order Warrants or Orders first entred in the said Book of Registry shall be taken and accounted as the first person to be paid upon the moneys to come in by vertue of this Act and he or they that shall have his or their Warrants or Orders Warrant or Order next entred shall be taken and accounted the second person to be paid and so successively and in course And that the moneys to come in by this Act shall be in the same order liable to the satisfaction of the said respective parties their Executors Administrators or Assigns successively without preference of one before another and not otherwise And that no Fée Reward or Gratuity directly or indirectly be demanded or taken of any of Your Majesties Subjects for providing or making of such Books Registers Entries View Search Certificate in or for payment of money Lent or the Interest thereof or for payment of any money upon any Order upon any Contract for Wares and Goods furnished to the Vse of Your Majesties Navy and Ordnance as aforesaid by any of Your Majesties Officer or Officers their Deputies or Clerks on pain of payment of treble Damages to the party grieved by the party offending with costs of Suit And if the Officer himself take or demand any such Fée or Reward then to lose his place also And if any undue preference of one before another shall be made either in point of Registring contrary to the true meaning of this Act by any such Officer or Officers then the party offending shall be liable by Action of Debt or on the Case to pay the value of the Debt Damages and Costs to the party grieved And shall be forejudged from his Place or Office And if such preference be unduly made by any his Deputy or Clerk without Direction or Privity of his Master then such Deputy or Clerk only shall be liable to such Action Debt Damages and Costs And shall for ever after be incapable of the same And in case the Auditor shall not direct the Order or the Clerk of the Pells Record or the Teller make payment according to each persons due place and order as afore directed then he or they shall be judged to forfeit and their respective Deputies and Clerks herein offending be liable to such Action Debt Damages and Costs in such manner as aforesaid Provided always And it is hereby Declared That if it happen that several Tallies of Loan or Certificates for Wares Delivered or Orders for Payments from his Majesty as aforesaid bear Date or be brought the same day to the Auditor of the Exchequer to be Registred Then it shall be interpreted no undue preference which of these he enters so he enter them all the same day Provided also That it shall not be interpreted any undue preference to incur any penalty in point of payment if the Auditor direct and the Clerk of the Pells Record and the Teller do pay subsequent Orders of persons that come to demand their money and bring their Orders before other persons that did not come to demand their money and bring their Order in their course so as there be so much money reserved as will satisfie their Orders which shall not be otherwise disposed but kept for them Interest upon Loan being to cease from the time the money is so reserved and kept in Bank for them And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person or persons to whom any money shall be due by vertue of this Act after Warrant or Order entred for payment thereof his Executors Administrators or Assigns by Indorsement of his Order or Warrant may assign and transfer his Interest and Benefit of such Warrant to any other which being notified and an Entry and Memorial thereof also made in the said Registry for Warrants which the Officers shall on request without Fées or charge accordingly make shall Intitle such Assignée his Executors Administrators and Assigns to the Benefit thereof and payment thereon And such Assignée may in like manner assign again and so toties quoties and afterwards it shall not be in the power of such person or persons who have made such Assignments to make void release or discharge the same or the moneys thereby due or any part thereof And in case any person or persons be willing to advance the Tax they themselves are to pay or the Tax of any Tything Hundred Parish Division or County for six moneths or more unto the Receiver-General of that Place or County The said Receiver-General is hereby authorized to receive the same and to make deduction of so much for Interest after the Rate of six per Centum per annum as the Advance amounts unto and the Receivers acquittance shall be a sufficient Discharge for the same which money so advanced shall be accounted for and paid into the Exchequer by it self Quarterly CAP. II. Non-Conformists restrained from Inhabiting in Corporations WHereas divers Parsons Vicars Curates Lecturers and other persons in Holy Orders have not declared their unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things contained and prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England or have not subscribed the Declaration or acknowledgment contained in a certain Act of Parliament made in the Fourtéenth year of His Majesties Reign and Intituled An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and
in Church or State And that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath and Imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the known Laws and Liberties of this Kingdome Which said Declaration and Acknowledgment shall be Subscribed by every of the said Masters and other Heads Fellows Chaplains and Tutors of or in any Colledge Hall or House of Learning and by every publick Professor and Reader in either of the Vniversities before the Vice-Chancellor of the respective Vniversities for the time being or his Deputy And the said Declaration or Acknowledgment shall be Subscribed before the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess by every other person hereby enjoyned the same The penalty for not subscribing upon pain that all and every of the persons aforesaid failing in such Subscription shall lose and forfeit such respective Deanry Canonry Prebend Mastership Headship Fellowship Professors place Readers place Parsonage Vicarage Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion Curates place Lecture and School and shall be utterly disabled and ipso facto deprived of the same And that every such respective Deanry Canonry Prebend Mastership Headship Fellowship Professors place Readers place Parsonage Vicarage Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion Curates place Lecture and School shall be void as if such person so failing were naturally dead And if any School-master or other person Instructing School-Masters in private houses or Teaching Youth in any private House or Family as a Tutor or School-Master shall Instruct or Teach any Youth as a Tutor or School-Master before Licence obtained from his respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess according to the Lawes and Statutes of this Realm for which he shall pay twelve-pence only and before such Subscription and Acknowledgment made as aforesaid Then every such School-master and other Instructing and Teaching as aforesaid shall for the first offence suffer thrée months Imprisonment without bail or mainprize and for every second and other such offence shall suffer thrée months Imprisonment without bail or mainprize and also forfeit to his Majesty the sum of Five pounds And after such Subscription made every such Parson Vicar Curate and Lecturer shall procure a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess who are hereby enjoyned and required upon demand to make and deliver the same and shall publickly and openly Read the same together with the Declaration or Acknowledgment aforesaid upon some Lords Day within thrée months then next following in his Parish Church where he is to officiate in the presence of the Congregation there assembled in the time of Divine Service upon pain that every person failing therein shall lose such Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice Curates place or Lecturers place respectively and shall be utterly disabled and ipso facto deprived of the same And that the said Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice Curates place or Lecturers place shall be void as if he was naturally dead Provided alwayes That from and after the Twenty fifth day of March What to be omitted in the Declaration after the 25. March 1682. which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred eighty two there shall be omitted in the said Declaration or Acknowledgment so to be Subscribed and Read these words following Scilicet ANd I do declare That I do hold there lies no Obligation on me or on any other person from the Oath commonly called the Solemn League and Covenant to endeavour any change or alteration of Government either in Church or State and that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath and imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the know Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom So as none of the persons aforesaid shall from thenceforth be at all obliged to Subscribe or Read that part of the said Declaration or Acknowledgment Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That from and after the Feast of St. Bartholomew Persons not Ordained Priests or Deacons according to Episcopal Ordination shall not hold any Ecclesiastical Promotion which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two no person who now is Incumbent and in possession of any Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice and who is not already in Holy Orders by Episcopal Ordination or shall not before the said Feast-day of St. Bartholomew be Ordained Priest or Deacon according to the form of Episcopal Ordination shall have hold or enjoy the said Parsonage Vicarage Benefice with Cure or other Ecclesiastical Promotion within this Kingdom of England or the Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed But shall be utterly disabled and ipso facto deprived of the same And all his Ecclesiastical Promotions shall be void as if he was naturally dead Nor shall consecrate or administer the Holy Sacrament if not Ordained according to the Book of Common Prayer And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person whatsoever shall thenceforth be capable to be admitted to any Parsonage Vicarage Benefice or other Ecclesiastical Promotion or Dignity whatsoever nor shall presume to Consecrate and Administer the holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper before such time as he shall be Ordained Priest according to the form and manner in and by the said Book prescribed unless he have formerly béen made Priest by Episcopal Ordination upon pain to forfeit for every offence the sum of One hundred pounds The Penalty One moyety thereof to the Kings Majestie the other moyety thereof to be equally divided betwéen the poor of the Parish where the offence shall be committed and such person or persons as shall sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And to be disabled from taking or being admitted into the Order of Priest by the space of one whole year then next following Provided That the penalties in this Act shall not extend to the Forreiners or Aliens of the Forrein Reformed Churches allowed or to be allowed by the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors in England Provided alwayes That no title to confer or present by lapse shall accrue by any avoidance or deprivation ipso facto by vertue of this Statute but after six months after notice of such voidance or deprivation given by the Ordinary to the Patron or such sentence of deprivation openly and publickly Read in the Parish Church of the Benefice Parsonage or Vicarage becoming void or whereof the Incumbent shall be deprived by vertue of this Act. No other form of Common Prayer to be openly used in any Church or publique place And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Form or Order of Common Prayers Administration of Sacraments Rites or Ceremonies shall be openly used in any Church Chappel or other publick place of or in any Colledg or Hall in either of the Vniversities the Colledges of