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A52023	The parson's vade mecum containing choice observations about the accounts of the year, ecclesiastical censures, of the primitive fathers and their writings, a catalogue of the arch-bishops, bishops and deans in England and Wales, their election, consecration, instalment, with the clergies tenths, and their valuation in the King's book ...	R. M.	1693 (1693)	Wing M73; ESTC R5583	28,330	126

THE PARSON' 's Vade Mecum Containing choice Observations about the accounts of the Year Ecclesiastical Censures of the Primitive Fathers and their writings a Catalogue of the Arch-bishops Bishops and Deans in England and Wales their Election Consecration Instalment with the Clergies Tenths and their Valuation in the King's Book Degrees of Marriage Non-Residence Dispensations Pluralities Deprivation Dilapidations Tythes and Symony c. Very fit for the Perusal of all Clergy-men and Gentlemen Licensed Novemb. 4th 1692. E. Bohur London Printed for T. Salusbury at the King's-Arms near St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1693. THE EPISTLE TO THE Clergy-Reader Reverend Sir I Have perused several voluminous peices concerning the Acts Offices Qualifications and Priviledges of your Sacred Function and several other matters and Ecclesiastical Histories Laws and Statutes relating thereto but in some they lye scattered and immethodical and in others the treatises are so prolix that neither time nor money can well be spared by the inferiour laborious Clergy to read or purchase them I then thought it would be a work not unacceptable to cast my choicest observations into a methodical Abstract the persuance of which Thought hath produced this little Peice there are many new things inserted with which most of the Clergy are unacquainted and which they will take pleasure to be informed in The rest are notes out of the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom under proper Titles and the abstract of Ecclesiastick Story which will be very instructive to you in many cases especially the Chapter of Tithes which comprehends the principal of the whole Learning thereof and many new cases lately adjudged are therein cited In short Parsons love to have good penniworths and I dare presume to say That after perusal of this you will not think twelve Pence ill bestowed I am your Humble Servant R. M. THE Parsons Vade Mecum CHAP. I. Short observations of the account and beginning of the Years and Days Of certain Feast-days And of Ember Weeks THE English Church and State begins the Year on the 25th day of March which is also observed in Spain The Portuguese begin the Year on the 29th day of August The Venetians on the first of March The Grecians on the longest day as the old Romans did on the shortest day The Natural Day consisting of Four and Twenty Hours is begun at midnight in England In Italy Bohemia and Poland their account is from Sun setting and at Noremberg and Wittenberg in Germany according to the old Babylonian account they begin the first hour after Sun-rising to count one of the Clock and so again at the first hour after Sun set Amongst the Jews the Night was divided into Four Quarters or Watches each Watch containing three Hours The first they called Caput Vigilarum The second the Middlewatch because it ended at Midnight The third began at Midnight and held till Three in the Morning Luke 12. 38. The last called the morning Watch began at three and ended at six Matt. 14. 25. In the Fourth Watch of the Night Jesus went to them the first was also called the Evening the second Midnight the third Cock-crowing the fourth Dawning Ye know not when the Master of the House will come at Even or at Midnight or at Cock-crowing or at the Dawn Matt. 13. 35. Their Day was likewise divided into Four Quarters Matt. 20. As appears by the Parable of the Vineyard The first Quarter began at six of the Clock in the Morning and held till nine The second Quarter ended at twelve The third Quarter at three in the afternoon and the fourth at six at night The first Quarter was called the third Hour The second Quarter the sixth Hour The third Quarter the ninth Hour and the fourth Quarter the eleventh Hour The Roman Account is ten Days before our English Account so that our first day of the Month is their Eleventh Day This is called Stylo Novo The Old Stile or Julian Account is observed by the English Nation and all other Reformed States except Holland and Zealand The new Stile or Gregorian Account is observed by all those still under the Romish Yoke Easter and other moveable Feasts in England are thus sound Shrovetuesday is always the f●rst Tuesday after the first New Moon of January except that New Moon happen on a Tuesday then the next is Shrovetuesday and the Sunday following is Quadragesima and the sixth Sunday after is Easter day and the fifth Sunday after Easter is Rogation Sunday and the Thursday following being forty Days after the Resurrection is Ascension Day ten Days after which or fifty Days after Easter is Pentecost or Whitsunday and the Sunday following is Trinity Sunday which computation of the Church of England agrees with all the Eastern Christian Churches and these Rules were generally received by all Christendom till Anno Dom. 1582. It was altered by the Pope yet it cannot be denied but that old Computation is become Erroneous For by our Rules two Easters will be observed in one Year as it was in the Year 1667. Advent Sunday is always the fourth Sunday before Christmass Day or the nearest Sunday to St. Andrews whether before or after Ember Days which the Antient Fathers call Quatuor Tempora are observed on Wednesday Fryday and Saturday next after Quadragesima Sunday Whitsunday Holy-rood-day in September and St. Lucyes day in December therefore the Lord L. Coke in his three Institutes Fol. 200. where he saith These Ember Days are next before Quadragesima is under a mistake they are called Ember Days because our Fore-fathers would in those Days Eat no Bread but Cakes made under Ashes and so it put them in mind they were but Ashes c. And that these days were devoutly observed by our Ancestors we may be perswaded out of the Laws of King Cnute Ch. 16. Let every man observe the Fasts which are commanded with earnest care whether it be the Imber Fast or Lent Fast The Ordination of Priests and Deacons is four times in the Year upon four several Sundays in the Ember Weeks CHAP. II. Of Ecclesiastical Censures THE Punishments inflicted by Ecclesiastical Courts proceed in this manner 1. Excommunicatio Minor From the Lord's Supper and he that is thus is disabled to be plaintiff in a Law Suit this commonly is for Contumacy in not appearing on Summons or not obeying Orders this the Bishop may delegate to any grave Priest with the Chancellor 2. Excommunicatio Minor As for Heresie Schism Incest c. pronounced by the Bishop himself If he continue so Excommunicate forty Days an Excommunicato Capiendo goes out against him and he is thereby Imprisoned 3. Anathamatismus Against an obstinate Heretick 4. Interdictum Whereby he is prohibited all Divine Offices as Christian Burial c. The Punishment of the Clergy is 1. Suspensio ab Officio 2. Suspensio a Beneficio 3. Deprivatio a Beneficio 4. Deprivatio ab Officio which is degradation Having met with an old Discourse about

by Lapse a Clerk of his own choosing This is called in Law a Collation and if the Bishop shall not Collate within six Months then the Archbishop shall Collate his Clerk and if the Archbishop do not Collate within six Months then the King shall Present The six Months shall be accounted according to the Calendar and not according to 28 days to the Month. If the Church become void by Death of the incumbent the six Months shall be accounted from the time of his Death So it is if the Church become void by Creation i. e. by making the present incumbent there of a Bishop but if the Church become void by Resignation which Resignation must be made to the Bishop or by Deprivation then the Bishop must give notice of such Resignation or Deprivation and the six Months shall be accounted from the time of such notice If the King be Patron and doth not present his Clerk to the Church within six Months there the Ordinary ought not de jure to Collate in regard of the said Lapse he ought only to Sequest the Profits of the Church till the King will Present A common Person cannot revoke repeal or vary from his first Presentation because he hath put it out of himself and he hath given the Bishop power to perfect what he himself began yet before Induction the King may revoke his Presentment Before the Clerk is admitted and instituted he ought to be examined by the Bishop If once the Bishop refuseth a Man for insufficiency he cannot afterwards accept of him The Clerk is not bound to shew his Letters of Orders or Letters Testimonial to the Bishop upon his Examination Trin. 43. Eliz. B. R. Palms and the Bishop of Peterborough's case If the Bishop find the Clerk able he admits him in these words Admitto te habilem And afterwards he doth institute him unto the benefice or Church thus Instituo te rectorem Ecclaesie parochialis de D habere curam animarum accipe curam tuam meam The Bishop may examin admit and institute a man cut of his own Diocess In all cases if a Church Lapse to the Bishop or Archbishop and the Pation presents his Clerk before the Bishop or Archbishop have collated the Bishop is bound to admit the Clerk of the true Patron and cannot take advantage of the Lapse A Clerk must subscribe to three Articles 1. To the Supremacy 2. That the book of Common prayer and of ordering Bishops Preists and Deacons contains nothing in it contrary to the word of God 3. That he alloweth of the 39 Articles of Religion and acknowledgeth them to be agreeable to the word of God The Delinquent against the Canons of King James made at a Convocation in London Anno Dom. 1003. is to be preceeded withal by the censures of the Church Cheif Justice Wr●y Pasch 23. Eliz. reports that whereas one Smith subscribed the 39 Articles with this addition so far forth as the same were agreeable to the word of God that this was not according to the Stat. 13. Eliz. Induction is usually done by the Archdeacon It is the putting the Clerk in Possession of the Church Glebelands Tyths c. by the institution he is admitted ad Officium by induction he is intitled ad beneficium No man is capable to be a Parson Vicar c. before he is a Priest in Orders which cannot be before he is four and twenty years of 〈◊〉 By the Stat. 14. Car. 2. Cap. 4. he must make a Subscription according to the said Act and have a Certificate from the Bishop that he hath so done Within 2 Months after he is inducted he must during Divine Service read the 39 Articles in the Parish Church and declare his unfeigned assent and consent to all that is therein contained positively He must within 2 Months after he is inducted upon some Sunday read the book of Common Prayer i. e. the whole Service of the Church appointed for that day and likewise declare his assent and consent to all the matters and things therein contained in these words J. A. B. Do 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 w●th the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in the Churches and the form or manner of making ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Preists and Deacons He must likewise within 3 Months after his Institution upon some Lord's day during Divine Service publickly read his Certificate from the Bishop of his Subscription to the Declaration following and he must at the same time read the Declaration it self in the Church where he is to Officiate before the Congregation there assembled The Declaration follows I A. B. declare that it is not Lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Trayterous position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person or against these that are Commissi●nated by him and that I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now Established The clause about the solemn League and Covenant is now expired Observe That the Parson Vicar c. must upon the accoptance of every new Living or Ecclesiastical Preferment within this Law repeat all these things Let him have some credible Witnesses present when he makes his Subscription before the Bishop and that they attest the Bishop's Certificate and that they get two books of Articles and when they read them that he gives one of them to some Parishioners to read with him and attest the same that they were present and heard the Clerk read the 39 Articles during the time of Common Prayer and declare his unfeigned assent and Consent to all the matters and things therein contained by subscribing their names thereunto When he reads the Book of Common Prayer let some intelligent Parishoners read with him and give them a copy of the Declaration aforesaid and let them attest under their hands his reading of the Common Prayer and Declaration whith may be done in this Form In a fair legible hand write the Declaration aforesaid Then write under Memorandum That upon Sunday the in the year of our Lord _____ A. B. Parson of D. in the County of D. read common Prayers in the said Parish Church of D. both in the forenoon and afternoon of the same day according to the form and order prescribed and directed by the book entituled the book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other rights and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England c. and immediately after reading the same made a declaration of his unfeigned assent and consent to all the matters and things therein contained in the form and words

By real composition between the Parson and the Abbots confirmed by the Patron and Ordinary 3. By Prescription 4. By Order Cistertians Hospitalers and Templars and the Praemonstratenses were discharged of the payment of tythes But the priviledges granted to these Orders extended only to the Lands these Orders held in their own hands and not to any which was held by their Tenants or Farmers The Templars Anno Dom. 1311. were condemned for Heresie and their possessions were by Act of Parliament given to the Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem 5. By Perpetual Unity That is where an Abbot Prior c. time out of mind hath been seised of the Lands out of which the tythes arise and the Rectory within which Parish the Lands lie It must be perpetual that is the Abby must be founded and endowed with the Land and Rectory before the time of memory which by the Rules of the Common-Law must be before the first year of Rich. 1. for if by any Records Deeds or other Legal Evidence it can be made appear that eirher the Land or Rectory came to the Abbey since the first year of R. 1 the Union is not perpetual The Stat. 31 H. 8. extends not to free or discharge any Lands from the payment of tythes save those that came to the Crown by that Act. No man shall pay a Mortuary unless he died possessed of Goods to the value of ten Marks If he had ten Marks in moveable goods and under thirty pounds then he should pay 3 s. 6 d. if above thirty and under forty pounds then he should 6 s. 8 d. if above forty pounds 10 s. The Citizens of London pay yearly for every ten shillings rent of all Houses Shops c. within London 16 d. ob If tythes be in the hands of temporal men they are by reason of them contributory to temporal charges Tythes are at this day chargeable with all charges imposed by Act of Parliament wherein they are not exempted Tythes are at this day subject to pay first fruits which are the first years profits of every Spiritual Benefice at a new Incumbents entry into his Living The First Fruits are not rated at full and utmost value of the Living they are to be paid for but according to the valuation taken and made in the 26th year of King H 8. and now used in the First Fruits Office These First Fruits are not to be paid all at once but one quarter of them is to be paid at the end of six months from the time of the induction another fourth part at the end of twelve months another fourth part at the end of eighteen months and the last fourth part at the end of two years All Vicaridges not exceeding ten pounds and all Parsonages not exceeding ten Marks according to the valuation in the First Fruits Office are discharged from the payment of First Fruits by Stat. 1 Eliz. c. 4. now the reason why Vicaridges not exceeding ten pounds should be freed of this charge and Parsonages of ten marks should pay them was that the Vicaridges in time of Popery and when the valuation was taken had a great income by voluntary Offerings which falling to little or nothing upon the dissolution of Monasteries this favour was afforded them in their First Fruits CHAP. XIV Simony Vid. Stat. 13 Eliz. Cap. 6. IF any shall receive or take Money Fee Reward or Profit for any Presentation to a Benifice with Cure altho he which was presented be not knowing of it yet the Presentation Admission and Induction are void For he is Simoniace Promotus 12 Rep. Coll. Dr. Hucthinsons Case Every Incumbent that comes in by Simony is so disabled for ever after to be presented to the same Church that the King to whom the Law gives the presentment cannot present the same man again to the same Church The King cannot dispense with the said Statute by any non obstante and though he pardon the Simony yet that makes not the party capable If the Church be void by Simony the Ordinary is not bound to give notice of the Avoidance to the Patron One presents I. S. to a Church which is void and upon the Presentation he takes an Obligation of him to resign upon request that the Obligee may present his Son when he is of full Age this is a good Obligation and not made on a Simoniacal Contract M. 8. Jac. B. R. Johns and Lanrence's Case FINIS A Catalogue of some New curious Books the four first never Published before ●his Michaelmass Term 1692 and most of the others published but a little before in the same year all Printed for and Sold by Tho. Salusbury at at the King's Arms next S. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet THE Reformed Gentleman or the Old English Morals rescued from the Immoralities of the present Age shewing how Inconsistent those pretended Geenteel Accomplishments of Swearing Drinking Whoring and Sabbath breaking are with the true Generosity of an English man With an account of the proceedings of the Government for the Reformation of Manners By A. M. of the Church of England bound in 8. price 1 s. 6 d. 2. An Essay against Vnequal Marriages in four Chapters 1. The Introduction 2. Against Old Persons Marrying with Young 3. Against Persons Marrying without Parents or Friends Consent 4. Against Persons Marrying without their own Consent By S. Bufford Gent. in 12. bound price 1 s. 3. The Parsons Vade Mecum or A Treatise containing Choice Observations about the accounts of the year moveable Feasts Ember-weeks Ecclefiastical Censures the memorable things in the three first Centuries and some after Ages Archbishops and Bishopricks their Election Consecration Installment c. Patronage Institution Induction Non-residence Dispensations Pluralities Deprivation Dilapidation Priviledges of Clergymen Tithes and Simony very fit for all Clergymen and Gentlemen in 12. bound price 1. s. 4 Sermo Mirabilis or the silent Language Whereby one may learn perfectly in the space of six hours how to impart his mind to his Friend in any Language English Latin French Dutch c. tho never so deep and dangerous a Secret without the least Noise Word or Voice and without the Knowledge of any in Company Being a wonderful Art kept secret for several Ages in Padua and now published only for the wise and prudent who will not expose it as a Prostitute to every Foolish and Ignorant Fellow By Monfieur La Fin once Secretary to his Eminence the Cardinal of Richlieu 5 Blunts Law Dictionary being the best extant 10 s. 6 Behmens Theosopick Phylosophy unfolded 4 to 6 s. 7 The History of the late great Revolution in England and Scotland 5 s. 8 Eachara's Gazzetteer or Newsmans Interpreter 2 s. 9 Compendium of Geography general and special c. 1 s 6 d. 10 Description of Ireland with 5 Maps 1 s. 6. d. 11 Description of Flanders with a Map 1 s. 12 Description of the Duke of Savoys Dominions 3 d. 13 Tryons new Art of Brewing Beer Ale c. 1 s. 14 his Rules for preserving health 1 s. 15 Mystery of Dreams and Visions unfolded 1 s. 6 d. 16 New Art of making English Wines and Brandy 1 s. 6 d. 17 Chymicus Rationalis or the Art of Chymistry 2 s. 18 Leadbetter's Arithmetical Rules made easie 1 s. 19 Barker's Measurers Guide with the Art of Gaging 1 s. 20 Secret History of the French King 1 s. 21 Taxilla or Love preferr'd before Duty 1 s. 22 Treatise of Civil Bonds and Contracts 1 s. 6 d. 23 Bragadcia a Comedy 1 s. 24 George Whither 's wonderful Prophesies 6 d. 25 Remarks on the late Queen's Dream 6 d. 26 The Declaration of the Vaudois 2 d. 27 Rale's Vindication of the Church of Scotland 6 d. 28 Whitehall's Miscellany Poems 6 d. 29 Rise and Progress of the New Reformation 6 d. 30 An Essay against unequal Marriages c. 1 s.