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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81033	By His Highness. A proclamation for the better encouragement of godly ministers and others and their enjoying their dues and liberty according to lavv.	England and Wales. Lord Protector (1658-1660 : R. Cromwell); Cromwell, Richard, 1626-1712.	1658 (1658)	Wing C7189; Thomason 669.f.21[13]; ESTC R211099	3,156	2

PROTECTOR OLIVARIVS DEI GRA REIPVB ANGLIAE SCOTIAE ET HIBERNIAE c By His Highness A PROCLAMATION FOR THE Better encouragement of GODLY MINISTERS and others and their enjoying their Dues and Liberty according to LAVV. HIs Highness the Lord Protector having been informed by Complaints from several parts of this Nation how much discouragement hath been lately given to many Godly and Painful Ministers endeavoring Reformation according to the present happy Establishment by the practices of some not onely in withholding from them the Tithes and other Duties which by the Laws of this Common-wealth are belonging unto them as Publique Preachers but prosecuting them by Indictments for not using the Common-prayer Book not administring Sacraments unto all their Parishioners and the like omissions and considering how apt the evil example and suggests of some few persons is to provoke and mislead others hath thought it fit and necessary to apply a seasonable remedy for preventing so great an evil It is evident that as soon as the Lord began to deliver this Nation out of the darkness of Popery in the times of Edward the sixth and Queen Elizabeth much opposition was raised against that Reformation on the one hand by Popish Priests who pretending a Conformity continued in their several Cures but yet retained their old Superstitious practices in administring the Sacrament of the Lords Supper under the form of Bread onely to the people and denying the same unto such as would not so receive it and in private Communions wherein the Priest onely did partake of both Elements of Bread and Wine And on the other hand by the People who being wedded to their old Customs and because they could not have Divine Service and Devotions in such a Popish and Superstitious Form as before time did not onely by Songs Libels and Scurrilous reflections endeavor to reproach the present Reformation and the faithful Ministers that were forward and zealous in it but did also refuse to allow and pay such Ministers their due Maintenance putting them upon many chargeable Suits and troublesome Contentions which became a great hindrance to the progress of the Gospel And as the latter of those evils occasioned Queen Elizabeth according to the example of Edward the sixth before in like case in the first year of her Reign with the advice of her Council by her publique Injunctions amongst other things strictly to require and enjoyn as followeth Forasmuch as by Laws established every man is bound to pay his Tithes no man shall by colour of Duty omitted by their Curats detain their Tithes and so requite one wrong for another or be his own Judge but shall truly pay the same as hath been accustomed to their Parsons Vicars and Curats without any restraint or diminution Which Injuction as formerly so then took good effect and prevented those many Suits in Law and other disturbances which before Ministers were molested with So for relief of the People and reforming the Superstitious practices aforesaid remedy was provided by a Statute made in the first year of the Reign of the said King Edward the sixth And although it plainly appears by the words of the said Statute that the same was intended onely to compel the Administration of that Sacrament under both kindes unto all such as should receive according to the first Institution and to abolish the Superstitious practice of the Priests receiving alone and administring it to the people under the form of Bread onely nor doth the same enjoyn the admitting all persons to that Ordinance but that the Minister should not without lawful cause deny the same to such as should desire it and by certain Injunctions set forth in the time of the said King several Causes were assigned for which the Minister might keep persons from that Sacrament which hath been owned and practised in all times since the said Statute was made And the Lord having by the light of the Gospel which hath shined more clearly in our days discovered many things necessary to be further Reformed for the preserving the purity of his Ordinance did put it into the hearts of the Parliament begun in 1640. not onely to take away the Liturgy or Book of common-Common-prayer but also to impose a Penalty upon any Minister that shall use the same or the forms of Baptizing Churchings Burials together with the Ceremonies of the Cross Surplice and other Superstitious Rites in the Service of God And likewise to provide that unfit and unworthy persons should by the Minister be refused and kept back from the Supper of the Lord that those holy Mysteries might not be abused yet nevertheless under colour of the said Act of 1º Edward the sixth though contrary to the true meaning and end for which the same was made and contrary to that liberty given and established by the Humble Petition and Advice divers godly and faithful Ministers have been Indicted Presented and otherwise molested for not Administring the Sacrament to all their Parishioners and the Tithes and other Duties belonging to them detained upon that account and for not conforming to the old maner of Baptizing Burials and other things of the like kinde And as several Laws have been made both in former and latter times for the due and better payment of Tithes so for the avoiding of contentions between the people and their Ministers about the same by the Wisdom and Godly care of His late Highness with the Advice of His Council an Ordinance was made appointing Commisoners consisting of Pious and Learned men to judge of the worth and fitness both for Gifts and Graces of such persons as shall be from time to time presented to Livings throughout the Nation to the end such fit and approved persons faithfully laboring in the Work of the Gospel might be in a capacity without farther controversie to receive such Publique Maintenance which after some years experience being found of great advantage for furnishing the Nation with a Pious and Able Ministery hath since received the Approbation and Confirmation of Par Vpon consideration of all which His Highness holds himself obliged to use his Authority that those Laws be observed and to follow the good examples of the Governors of this Nation in former times for the due encouragement of the Faithful and Conscientious Preachers of the Gospel and preventing dissensions and Suits between them and such as live under their Ministry And therefore His Highness with the Advice of his Privy Council hath thought fit to enjoyn and require and doth hereby enjoyn and require all and every person and persons within this Nation that they do well and duly pay discharge and satisfie from time to time their Tithes and other Duties accrewing growing due or belonging unto the respective Ministers and Publique Preachers in their respective Parishes within all and every the Counties Cities Towns and Places within this Nation which by the Laws of the Land are or shall be setled and established for the Maintenance of the Minister or Ministers there with the Arrears thereof And that no person or persons do withhold or diminish such legal and rightful Dues and Duties or molest any Minister by Presentments or Indictments or otherwise Vpon pretence of such omissions or refusals as are by the present Establishment and Laws in force for further Reformation permitted or allowed And His Highness doth further will and require all His Iudges Iustices of Assize Iustices of Oyer and Terminer Iustices of the Peace Mayors and Chief Officers within their respective Iurisdictions to take especial care that no Minister or Ministers be molested or troubled contrary to the liberty granted by the Humble Petition and Advice and that the Laws and Statutes for payment of Tithes and Duties to Ministers be duely put in execution and that no encouragement be given unto any person or persons who shall deny the payment thereof upon any such pretences as aforesaid but that they discountenance the same And His Highness doth hereby Declare That it is his full purpose through the assistance of the Lord to carry on and promote to the utmost of his power the Work of Reformation so happily begun and owned by God and that he will make use of the Authority the Lord hath betrusted him with for the Protection and Encouragement of such Godly and Painful Preachers of the Gospel whose hearts are engaged and whose care and labours shall be conscientiously exercised in furthering so blessed a Work in the enjoyment of the Liberty aforesaid And His Highness further pleasure is That His Highness Iudges Iustices of Assize and all other his Iustices of the Peace within this Commonwealth do take special care that no person or persons in prejudice of the Liberty given by the Humble Petition and Advice or any other Laws or Ordinances in force be interrupted molested or troubled for their going to or from any place for the Service of God on the Lords day Given at White-Hall the Twenty fifth day of November in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred fifty and eight LONDON Printed by Henry Hills and John Field Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector 1658. And are to be sold at the Sign of the Seven Stars in Fleetstreet over against DUNSTANS Church