disabled from thenceforth to Preach the said or any other Lecture or Sermon in the said or any other Church Chapel or place of publick Worship untill such time as he Conform in all points as aforesaid but if the said Sermon or Lecture be to be Preached or read in any Cathedral or Collegiate Church or Chapel it is sufficient for the Lecturer at the said time to declare his assent to the said Book of Common-Prayer in Form as aforesaid 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. When any Sermon or Lecture is to be Preached the Common-Prayers shall be read Every time when any Sermon or Lecture is to be Preached the Common-Prayers and Service appointed for that time of the day shall be publickly and openly read by some Priest or Deacon in the Church Chapel 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 But this is not to extend to the publick University Lectures but that they may be Preached as formerly they used 14. Car. 2. cap. 4. No Form or Order of Common No Order of common-Common-Prayer but what is in the Book of common-Common-Prayer to be used Prayers Administration of Sacraments Rights or Ceremonies are to be openly used in Church or Chapel or other publick place of Worship other then what is prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer aforesaid but the said Prayers and Service in the Chapels or other publick places of the Colleges and Halls in both the Universities and in the Colleges of Westminster Winchester and Eaton and in the Convocations of the Clergie in either Province may be in Latin 14 Car. 2 cap. 4. The Penalty for refusing to use the common-Common-Prayers or using any other Form of Prayers And if any Minister refuse to use the same Form and Order of Prayers c. according to the said Book or wilfully use any other Rite Ceremony Order or Form of Prayers or Administration of the Sacraments c. openly or privily then is prescribed there or shall Preach Declare or Speak any thing in the derogation or depraving of the said Book or any thing therein contained or of any part thereof and be thereof lawfully convicted by verdict of twelve men or by his own Confession or by the notorious Evidence of the Fact shall for the first Ofsence forfeit to the King's Highness the profit of such one of his Spiritual Benefices or promotions as his Majesty shall Assign or Appoint for one whole year then next following after such Conviction and suffer six Months Imprisonment without Bail and for the second Offence they forfeit all their Spiritual promotions and the Patrons may present as if the parties were naturally dead and for the third Offence they are to be Imprisoned during Life and if the person offending have no Spiritual promotion then the first Offence is Imprisonment six Months without Bail and the second Offence Imprisonment during Life 2. 3. Eliz. 6 cap. 1. and by the 1 Eliz. cap. 2. the first Offence aforesaid forfeits the profits of all his Spiritual promotions for a year and to suffer six Months Imprisonment without Bail the second Offence a years Imprisonment without Bail and ipso facto to be deprived of all his Spiritual promotions and the Patrons to present as aforesaid and the third Offence Imprisonment during Life and ipso facto to be deprived of all his Spiritual promotions and if such Person have no Spiritual promotion then the first Offence is Imprisonment for a year without Bail and the second Offence during Life both these Statutes of the 2 and 3 Eliz. 6 cap. 1. and 1 Eliz. cap. 2. are to have Relation to the Book of Common Prayer now used 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. one Flemming was Indicted a second time for giving the Sacrament of Baptism in other Form than is prescribed in the stat 1 Eliz. and in the Book of Common Prayer and it was Awarded that he should suffer Imprisonment for a year and should be Adjudged ipso facto deprived of all his Spiritual promotions m. 26 and 27 Eliz. B. R. Flemming's Case Leon. Rep. 1. parte f. 295. pl. 403. If any Person or Persons whatsoever common- The Penalty for depraving of the Common Prayer Book or compelling any Minister c. to say any other common-Common-Prayer shall in any Interludes Plays Songs Rymes or by other open words declare or speak any thing in derogation of the Common Prayer Book or of any thing therein contained or shall by open Act Deed or by open threatning compel or cause or otherwise procure or maintain any Parson Vicar or other Minister in any Cathedral or Parish Church or Chapel or other place to say any Common or open Prayer or to Administer any Sacrament otherwise than is mentioned in the Common-Prayer Book or shall unlawfully interrupt them in saying or singing of the said Prayers according to the said Book and be thereof Lawfully Convicted as aforesaid for the first Offence he forfeits to the King's Majesty ten pounds and if not paid within six weeks after Conviction then instead of the said ten pounds to suffer three Months Imprisonment without Bail the second Offence to pay twenty pounds and if not paid within six weeks after Conviction then instead thereof to suffer six Months Imprisonment without Bail and for the third Offence to forfeit all his Goods and Chattels and suffer Imprisonment during Life 2. 3 Eliz. 6. cap. 1. but by the 1 Eliz. the first of these Offences is an hundred Marks forfeiture and if not paid within six weeks to suffer six Months Imprisonment without Bail the second Offence is four hundred Marks and if not paid within six weeks to suffer twelve Months Imprisonment without Bail and the third Offence is a forfeiture of all their Goods and Chattels and Imprisonment during Life But no Person is to be Impeached for any of these Offences or the Offences mentioned in the last Section unless he be Indicted at the next General Sessions to be holden before any Justices of Oyer and Terminer or Justices of Assize next after such Offence committed or done nor is any one to be punished twice for one Offence that is both by the Ecclesiastical Judge and Civil Magistrate 1 Eliz. cap. 2. these statutes are to have Relation to the Common-Prayer Book now used 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. Any Man understanding the Greek Any Man may say privately the Common-Prayer in Hebrew c. or such other Language as he understands Latin and Hebrew Tongue or other strange Tongue may say the Common-Prayers before-mentioned in Latin or any such other Tongue saying the same privately as they do understand and in the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford they may use and exercise in their Common and open Prayer in their Chapels being not Parish Churches or other places of Prayer the Mattens Evening Song Litany and all other Prayers
and will do my best endeavour to disclose make known unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Trayterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do further swear that I do from my Heart abhor detest and abjure as Impious and Heretical this damnable Doctrine and Position That Princes which be Excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe in my Conscience am resolved that neither the Pope nor any Person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full Authority to be Lawfully Ministred on to me and do renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express Words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same Words without any equivocation or mental evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And I do make this Recognition and acknowledgment heartily willingly and truly upon the true Faith of a Christian so help me God 3 Jac. cap. 4. Note That every Person that is admitted Minister to read the â—9 Articles of Religion within Two Months after Induction to a Benefice with cure must within two Months after his Induction to the same reade the 39 Articles of Religion set down verbatim in the next Chapter in the same Church where he shall have cure in the time of Common-Prayer there that is after some part thereof be reade and before all the Prayers be done and then declare his unfeigned assent thereunto and must be admitted to Administer the Sacraments within one Year after his Induction if he be not admitted so before and if he fail in either of these things he shall be ipso facto immediately deprived 13. Eliz. cap. 12. The reading of the Articles and subsâ—â—iption must be absâ—â—uâ—e And observe that this reading of the Articles must be of the very Book it self and no other and it must be verbatim as it is in the Book and not otherwise and the subscription must be absolute and not qualified as to say I subscribe them with this or the like addition viz. so far forth as the same are agreeable to the Word of God for if the subscription be not absolute it is not good and so it was resolved m. 33. and 34. Eliz. B. R. in Smith's and Clerk's Case Cro. Eliz. f. 252. p. 19. Co. 4 part Inst f. 324. vide H. 22. and 23 Car. 2. C. B. Rot. 680. Shute's and Higden's Case where Higden lost the Rectory of Elm in the County of Somerset for not reading the Articles within two Months after his Induction Vaugh. Rep. f. 129. Every Person also who shall be presented Every Person put into any Ecclesiastical Benefice is within two Months after Induction to read the Morning and Evening Prayers c. collated or put into any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion is within two Months after Induction or Installation in the Church Chapel or place of publick Worship belonging to his said Benefice or Promotion upon some Lord's-day publickly openly and solemnly to read the Morning and Evening Prayers appointed to be read by and according to the Book of common-Common-Prayer now appointed and allowed 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 in these following Words and no other viz. 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 And every Person who withoutsome Lawfull Impediment be allowed by the Ordinary shall neglect or refuse to doe the same within the time aforesaid or in Case of such Impediment within one Month after such Impediment removed shall ipso facto be deprived of all his said Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions the Patrons may present again as if such Persons were naturally dead 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. Inâ—umbents Reseâ—enâ— and keeping Curaâ—es to reade the Common-Prayers once every Month themselves In all places where the proper Incumbent of any Parsonage or Vicarage or Benefice with cure doth reside on his Living and keeps a Curate the Incumbent himself in Person not having some Lawfull Impediment to be allowed by the Ordinary of the place shall once every Month at least openly and publickly read the Common-Prayers and Service prescribed in and by the Book of Common-Prayer and also Administer each of the Sacraments and other Rites if there be occasion in the Parish Church or Chapel of or belonging to the same Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice on pain of Five Pounds to the use of the poor of the Parish for every Offence upon Conviction by Confession or proof of two Witnesses on Oath before two Justices of the Peace and in default of payment within ten days to be Levyed by distress and sail of his goods and Chattels by the Church-Wardens or Overseers of the poor of the same Parish by Warrant from the said Justices rendring the Surplusage to the party 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. In all cases of avoidance or deprivation Nâ— Lapse to Inâ—â—r upon avoidance on the stat 14 Car. 2. without notice given ipso facto by virtue of the stat 14. Car. 2. no Title to confer or present by Lapse shall accrew but after six Months after notice of such 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 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. Lecturers â—o reade the Common-Prayers at their entrance and once every Month afteâ— Every Person who shall be Licensed and appointed or received as a Lecturer to Preach upon any day of the week in any Church Chapel or place of publick Worship the first time he Preacheth before his Sermon shall openly and publickly read the Common-Prayers appointed to be read for that time of the day and declare his assent to the Book as aforesaid and upon the first Lecture day of every Month afterwards so long as he continues Lecturer and Preaches there at the place appointed for his said Lecture or Sermon before his said Sermon he must also read the said Prayers and declare his assent to the Book as aforesaid and for neglect hereof every such Lecturer is
the Holy Communion Excepted prescribed in the said Book in Greek Latin or Hebrew and all Men as well in Churches Chapels Oratories or other places may use openly any Psalms or Prayer taken out of the Bible at any time nor letting or omitting thereby the service or any part thereof mentioned in the Book of Common-Prayer 2. 3 Eliz. 6. cap. 1. If any Person or Persons who do not Conform and are disabled to Preach The Penalty against such persons who Preach and are disabled by 14. Car. 2. by the statute of the 14 Car. 2. shall during such time as they continue so disabled Preach any Sermon or Lecture that then for every such Offence the Person and Persons so offending are to suffer three Months Imprisonment in the common Goal without Bail and any two Justices of the Peace of the County and the Mayor or other chief Officer of any City or Town Corporate upon Certificate from the Ordinary of the place to him or them of the Offence committed may commit the Person or Persons to the Goal of the County City or Town Corporate accordingly 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. The Penalty for refusing to hear Common Prayer and being present and joyning with other Religious Assemblies If any Person or Persons above the age of sixteen Years shall obstinately refuse to repair to some Church Chapel or usual place of Common-Prayer and shall forbear by the space of a Month to hear Divine Service and shall either of him or themselves or by the perswasion of any others willingly joyn in or be present at any Assemblies Conventicles or Meetings under colour or pretence of the exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm every Person so offending and being Lawfully Convicted are to be committed to Prison there to remain without Bail till they Conform and yield to come to some Church Chapel or usual place of Common-Prayer and hear Divine Service established according to Law and make such open Submission and Declaration of their said Conformity as hereafter follows and if the Person offending shall not within three Months after Conviction Conform and make Submission being required thereunto by the Bishop of the Diocess or any Justice of the Peace of the County where the party is or by the Minister or Curate of the Parish then such Offender shall abjure the Realm and refusing to abjure or returning again after abjuration without the King's Licence shall be adjudged a Felon and suffer as a Felon But if such party before he be warned to make abjuration do repair to some Parish Church on some Sunday or Feastival day and hear Divine Service and before Sermon time or reading of the Gospel and make open Submission then the Offender is to be clearly discharged from all the Penalties and Punishments aforesaid 35 Eliz. cap. 1. 16 Car. 2. cap. 4. Popish Reâ—usant and Feme Covert not to abjure No Popish Recusant or Feme Covert shall be compelled to abjure by virtue of the said Act 35 Eliz. and every Person that shall abjure by virtue thereof or refuse to abjure shall forfeit to the King's Majesty all his Goods and Chattels for ever and loose all his Lands and Tenements during his Life but the Wife not to loose her Dower nor any Corruption of Blood to be for any of the said Offences and the Heir to enjoy the Lands and Tenements after the Offender's Death 35 Eliz. cap. 1. The Form of Submission The Form of the Submission aforementioned is to be in these words viz. I. A. B. do humbly confess and acknowledge that I have grievously offended God in contemning his Majestie 's Godly and Lawfull Government and Authority by absenting my self from Church and from hearing Divine Service contrary to the Godly Laws and Statutes of this Realm and in using and frequenting disordered unlawfull Conventicles and Assemblies under pretence and Colour of Exercise of Religion And I am heartily sorry for the same and do acknowledge and testify in my Conscience that no other Person hath or ought to have any Power or Authority over his Majesty And I do promise and protest without any dissimulation or any colour or means of any dispensation that from henceforth I will from time to time obey and perform his Majestie 's Laws and Statutes in repairing to the Church and hearing Divine Service and to my uttermost endeavour to maintain and defend the same 35 Eliz. cap. 1. The Penalty of Relapsing after Submission Note That if after such Submission the Offender Relaps then he looseth all advantage got by his Submission and shall be in the same condition as if such Submission had never been made And every Minister or Curate of every Parish where such Submission is made is to enter the same into a Book to be kept for that purpose and within ten days then next following to Certifie the same in writing to the Bishop of the same Diocess 35 Eliz. cap. 1. this stat is declared to be still in force by the 16 Car. 2. cap. 4. Observe That the Governour or Masters of Collâ—ges c. to Subscribe to the Articles of Religion and Book of Common-Prayer c. Head of every College and Hall in either of the Universities and the Colleges of Westminster Winchester and Eaton within one Month after his Election or Collation and Admission into the said Government or Headship must openly and publickly in the Church Chapel or other publick place of the same College or Hall and in the presence of the Fellows and Schollars of the same or the greater part of them then Resident Subscribe unto the Book of Articles of Religion and declare his unfeigned assent and consent unto and approbation of the same and to the use of all the Prayers Rites and Ceremonies Forms and Orders in the Book of common-Common-Prayer And they must also once every quarter of a Year at least not having a Lawfull Impediment openly and publickly read the Morning Prayer and Service in and by the said Book appointed to be read in the Church Chapel or other publick place of the same College or Hall upon pein to loose and be suspended of and from all the benefits and profits belonging to the same Government and Headship by the space of six Months by the visitor or visitors of the same College or Hall and being suspended for the causes aforesaid if they do not at or before the end of six Months after such suspension Subscribe unto the said Articles and Book and declare their consent thereunto as aforesaid or read the Morning Prayer and Service as aforesaid then such Government or Headship shall be ipso facto void 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. If any Person Ecclesiastical or having Ecclesiastical Living shall advisedly The punishment for affirming any Doctrine contrary to the 39 Articles of Religion or any of them maintain or affirm any Doctrine directly contrary or repugnant to any of the nine and thirty Articles
to give it under his hand to the Minister who is to send it to the Bishop of the Diocese or Ordinary of the place Provided that every Minister so repelling any for the causes aforesaid upon complaint to the Ordinary shall obey his Order and Direction therein and the Minister is to observe whether all his Parishioners come so often every year to the Communion as is required and whether any Strangers come commonly from other Parishes to his Church and shall acquaint their Minister with it least they be such as their own Ministers turn back that so they may be remitted and sent home to their own Parish Churches and Ministers there to receive the Communion with the rest of their own Neighbours Can. 26 27 28. No Ministeris to delay the Christning of any Child that is brought to him upon Ministers not to delay Christning or Burial Registers to be kept c. Sundays or Holy-days to be Christned nor to Bury any Corps brought to the Church or Church-yard convenient warning being given him thereof before upon pein in either of these cases to be suspended by the Bishop of the Diocese for three Months unless the party to be Buried were excommunicated majori excommunicatione and in such case he may refuse to bury him and if an Infant be weak and in danger of Death the Minister upon notice and request thereof is to goe to the place where it is and Baptise the Infant without delay upon like pein as aforesaid and not to be restored till he promise before the Ordinary not to incur the like again willingly but if the Minister keep a Curate then this shall not extend to the Parson or Vicar but to the Curate and no Minister can urge any Parent to be present nor is any Parent to be Godfather for his own Child nor is any Godfather or Godmother to make any other answer than is prescribed by the Book of Common-Prayer or to be admitted to be Godfather or Godmother to any Child at Christning or Confirmation before they have taken the Communion nor is any Minister to omit Signing every Infant at Baptism with the Sign of the Cross and in every Parish there must be provided a Parchment-Book at the Parish charge for Registring all Christnings Weddings and Burials in and this Book is to be kept in a Coffer with three Locks and Keys whereof one is to remain with the Minister and the other two with the Church-Wardens and upon every Sabbath-day after Morning or Evening Prayer they are to take the Book out of the Coffer and the Minister in the presence of the Church-Wardens must write down in the said Book the Names of all persons Christned together with the Names and Sirnames of their Parents and also the Names of all persons Married and Buried in that Church in the week before and the day and year of every such Christning Marriage and Burial and then the Book to be laid up again and to every page of the Book when it is filled with Subscriptions they are to Subscribe their Names and the Church-Wardens once every year within a Month after the five and twentieth day of March are to Transmit a true Coppy thereof to the Bishop of the Diocese or his Chancellour Subscribed with their hands as aforesaid to the end the same may be faithfully preferved in the Registrie of the said Bishop which Certificate is to be received without Fee Can. 68 69. 29.30.70 The Common-Prayer is to be said Ministers to reade the Common-Prayer upon Holy-days and all Wednesdays and Fridays c. or sung reverently upon all Holy-days appointed by the Book of common-Common-Prayer and their Eves at the usual time of the days in such place of the Church as the people may be most Edified and all Ministers are to observe the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed by the said Book without diminishing or adding any thing and Ministers upon Wednesdays and Fridays weekly though they be not Holy-days are to say the Littany and give warning to the people to repair to the Church by the Tolling of a Bell and in the whole Service and Administration of the Holy Communion in all Colleges and Halls in both the Universities the Ceremonies c. prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer are to be duly observed without adding or diminishing any thing and all the Masters Fellows Schollers and Students of such Colleges and Halls in their Churches and Chapels upon all Sundays Holy-days and their Eves at the time of Divine Service must wear Surplices and the Graduates Hoods upon their Surplices according to their several Degrees Can. 14 15 16 17. No Minister not Licensed by the Bishop None to expound unlâ—ss he be a Licenc'd Preacher c. to Preach is to take upon him to expound any part of the Scripture but is to reade the Homilies without making a gloss upon them nor is any Minister to suffer any Man to Preach within his Church or Chapel but such as are Lawfully Licensed nor are the Deans Presidents and Residentiaries of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church to suffer any stranger to Preach without Lawfull Licence and if any such stranger in his Sermon Preach any thing contrary to the Word of God or the nine and thirty Articles of Religion the Dean or Residents shall by their Letter subscribed with some of ther Hands that heard him so soon as they can give notice thereof to the Bishop of the Diocese and the Church-Wardens and Side-men are to have a Book wherein they are to take care that every strange Minister that Preacheth in their Church shall subscribe his Name the day when he Preached and Bishop's Name from whom he had his Licence And no Preacher before he hath acquainted the Bishop of the Diocese and received his Order is purposely to Impugne any Doctrine delivered by any other Preacher in the same Church or any other near adjoyning and if any offend herein the party grieved or Church-Wardens are to acquaint the Bishop and not to suffer him to Preach there any more unless he promise to forbear all such matter of Contention till the Bishop take Order therein who is withall speed so to proceed that publick satisfaction may be made in the Congregation where the Offence was given and if either party offending do appeal he must not Preach Pendente Lite Can. 49 50 51 52 53. Every Parson Vicar or Curate upon Ministers to Catechise every Sunday before Evening Prayer and to Marry none without Licence or asking in the Church c. every Sunday and Holy-day before Evening Prayer is for half an hour or more to examine and instruct the Youth and Ignorant Persons of his Parish and teach them the Catechism set forth in the Book of Common-Prayer and if any Minister neglect for the first Offence he is to be sharply reproved by the Ordinary upon complaint made the second time wilfully offending is suspension and the third time Excommunication and all Fathers Mothers
containeth any thing in it that is Repugnant to the word of God or that they who are so made are not Lawfully made and Ordained they are to be Excommunicated ipso facto and not to be restored till they Repent and Publickly Revoke such wicked Errors Gan. 8. Also if any affirm that the King's The Penalty of such as Impugne the King's Supremacy c. Majesty hath not the same Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical that the godly Kings had amongst the Jews Or Impeach in any part his Regal Supremacy Or affirm that the Church of England by Law established under the King's Majesty is not a true and an Apostolical Church Or that the Form of God's Worship contained in the Book of Common-Prayer and Administration of Sacraments is Corrupt Superstitious and Unlawfull Or that any of the 39 Articles of Religion made in the Year 1562. are in any part Superstitious or Erronious Or that the Rites and Cerimonies established in the Church of England are wicked Antichristian or Superstitious Or 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 they are also ipso facto to be Excommunicate and not to be restored till they Repent and Publickly a revoke such wicked Errors Can. 2 3 4 5 6 7. And if any affirm that such Ministers The punishment of such as affirm that such Ministers as refuse to subscribe to the form of God's Worship in the Church of England may take unto the Name of another Church c. as refuse to subscribe to the form of God's Worship in the Church of Engl. and their Adherents may take unto them the Name of another Church not established by Law or that they a long time groaned under the burthen of certain grievances imposed on them Or that there are other Assemblies of the King's Subjects within the Realm other then such as by the Laws of this Kingdom are held and allowed to be such who may rightly challenge to them selves the Name of true and Lawfull Churches Or that it is Lawfull for any Ministers or People to joyn together and make Constitutions in Causes Ecclesiastical without the King's Authority They are to suffer the like pain of Excommunication and not to be restored till Repentance and Publick Revocation of their Errors Can. 10 11 12. The punishment of these which affirm that the Sacred Synode of the Nation assembled by the King's Authority is not the 〈◊〉 Church by Representation Likewise if any affirm that the sacred Synode of the Nation assembled in the Name of Christ and by Authority of the King is not the true Church of England by Representation Or that none are bound by the Decrees of such Synode that are not present there themselves or do not agree to them Such Person so affirming is to be Excommunicate and not to be restored till he Repent and Publickly Revoke his Errors Can. 139. 140. How Ministers are to be Apparelled Note That all Ministers shall usually wear Gowns with standing Collers and Sleeves straight at the Hands or wide Sleeves as is used in the Universities and in their Journies they shall usually wear Cloaks with sleeves commonly called Priests Cloaks without Gards Welts long Buttons or Cuts and no Ecclesiastical Person shall wear any Coif or wrought night Cap but only plain night Cap of black Silk Satten or Velvet and in private Houses and in their Studies They may use any comely and Schollar-like Apparel provided it be not Cut or Pinkt and that in Publick they go not in their Dublet and Hose without Coats or Cassocks and also that they wear not any light coloured Stockins likewise Poor Beneficed-men and Curates not being able to Provide themselves long Gowns may go in short Gowns of the Fashion aforesaid Can. 74. Ecclesiastical Persons not to frequent Taverns or Ale-houses No Ecclesiastical Persons shall at any time other then for their honest necessities resort to any Taverns or Ale-houses neither shall they board or lodge in any such places Nor shall they give themselves to any base or servile labour or to drinking or riot spending their time idlely by Day or by Night Playing at Cards Diee or Tables or any other unlawfull 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 alwaies doing the things-that-shall appertain to Honestie and indeavouring to profit the Church of God having alwaies in mind that they ought to excell all other 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 Can. 75. Ministers not Relinquish their callings No man being admitted a Deacon or Minister shall voluntarily Relinquish the same nor afterwards use himself in the course of his Life as a Lay-man upon pein of Excommunication Can. 76. CHAP. II. What things are required both by the Laws of this Kingdom and the Canons in force to be observed and performed by Ministers upon and after their Admission Institution and Induction to a Living with some few things relating to the Convocation And lastly the King's Majestie 's Letters and Directions in the fourteenth year of his Reign to the Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the Clergy SUCH Person as is Qualified as the He who is presented to a Living must carry his Presentation to the Bishop c. Law requires and hopes to obtain a Living and is promised to be presented according to Law must in the first place get a Presentation from the right and undoubted Patron of the Church where he designs to be Parson the form of which Presentation see in the fifth Chapter and after such Presentation obtained he is within six Months after the Church becomes void by Death Creation or Cession of the last Incumbent to tender his Presentation to the Bishop of that Diocess within which the Church is or to his Vicar General or in the Vacation when there is no Bishop of such Diocess to the Guardian of the Spiritualities to whom the Law allows a reasonable time to Examine his Abilities for the Ordinary is not bound to dispatch him as soon as he goes but may appoint him a convenient time within the six Months to attend him for his Approbation Hob. Rep. f. 317. Hughe's Parson's Law cap. 11. 15. H. 7. 7. b. Examin del Incumbent deg cap. 2. Hughe's grand abridgm 1 part p. 134. Case 5. What Admission and Institution signifie And if the Bishop or Ordinary c. upon Examination of the Clerk find him capable and able he may then admit and Institute him Admission in propriety of Speech is when the Bishop finding the Clerk able saith admitto te habilem and Institution is when the Bishop saith
of Religion and being Convented before the Bishop of the Diocess or the Ordinary shall persist therein or not revoke his Error or after such revocation affirm the same again either of these Offences shall be just cause to deprive such Person of his Ecclesiastical Promotions and the Bishop of the Diocess or the Ordinary may deprive him 13 Eliz. cap. 12. The Sacrament to be Administred in both kinds Every Minister is to administer the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in both kinds that is to say of Bread and Wine to every Person that humbly and devoutly desires it and shall at least one day before exhort the People to prepare themselves for it 1 Eliz. 6 cap. 1. And the forfeiture for using any other Form of Administration of the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper than is set down in the Book of Common Prayer for the first second and third Offence you may see before in this Chapter The Penalty for depraving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper or Administring the same not being Ordained a Priest If any Person shall deprave despise or contemn the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper by any contemptuous words and be thereof lawfully convicted within three Months after such Offence committed by a Jury of twelve men upon the Testimony of two lawful Witnesses in any of the four quarter Sessions he is to be Imprisoned and make Fine and Ransome at the King's Will and Pleasure 1 Eliz. 6. cap. 1. And he that shall Administer the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper who is not Ordained a Priest according to the Book of Common Prayer forfeits an hundred pounds 14 Car. 2 cap. 4. Ministers to give notice the Sunday before they Administer the Sacrament the Parishioners to Communicate three times in the year and every Minister who keeps a Curate must twice every year Administer the Sacraments himself c. Every Minister is to give warning to his Parishioners publickly in his Parish Church at Morning Prayer the Sunday before every time of his Administring the Sacrament for their better preparing of themselves and every Parishioner is to Communicate at the least three times in the year whereof Easter is to be one and the Minister is first to receive it himself and deliver it in both kinds to every Communicant severally and no Bread and Wine newly brought in must be used before the words of Institution be rehearsed when the Bread and Wine are upon the Table and every Minister possessed of a Benefice with Cure who keeps a Curate under him and every other Stipendary Preacher that readeth any Lecture Catechiseth or Preacheth in any Church or Chapel must twice every year upon two several Sundays Forenoon and Afternoon in his Church or Chapel read Divine Service himself and as often every year Administer the Sacraments of Baptism if there be any to be Baptised and of the Lord's Supper upon pain of Suspension or Removal from his place by the Bishop of the Diocess until he submit to perform the said Duties And no Minister is to Preach or Administer the Communion in any private house except in Case of Necessity where one is so Impotent that he cannot goe to the Church and being dangerously sick desires to receive the Communion upon pein of Suspension for the first Offence and Excommunication for the second but in houses where there are Chapels allowed by the Ecclesiastical Laws the Chaplains may Preach or Administer the Communion in such houses in the Chapels there only but the Lords and Masters of such houses and their Families must receive the Communion at least once every year in their own Parish Churches and no person is to refuse the Communion at the hands of an unpreaching Minister upon pein of Suspension and Excommunication after a Months obstinacy and if any Parson Vicar or Curate receive any such Persons to the Communion which are out of his own Church and Parish thereby strengthening them in their Errors he may be Suspended and not released thereof till he promise not to offend therein afterwards Car. 21 22. 56 57 71. Note that the Communion is to be Administred in all Colleges and Halls The Communion to be Administred in Colleges c. the first or second Sunday in every Month c. within both the Universities the first or second Sunday of every Month and the Masters Fellows and Schollers and all the rest of the Students Officers and all other the Servants are to Communicate four times in the year at the least kneeling decently upon their knees when they receive it and all Deans Wardens Masters or Heads of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches Prebendaries Cannons Vicars petty Cannons Singing-men and all others are also to Communicate four times in the year and in all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches it is to be Administred on principal Feast-days sometimes by the Bishop if then present and sometimes by the Dean and at sometimes by a Cannon or Prebendary the principal Minister using a decent Cope and being assisted with the Gospeller or Epistler and in such Cathedral and Collegiate Churches in time of Divine Service and Prayers when there is no Communion it is sufficient to wear Surplices onely but all Deans Masters and Heads of Collegiate Churches and Cannons and Prebendaries being Graduates are to wear such Hoods with their Surplices as are agreeable to their degrees and all Ministers saying the publick Prayers or Administring the Sacraments or other Rites of the Church are to wear decent Surplices with sleeves to be provided at the charge of the Parish and such as are Graduates must upon their Surplices at such times wear such Hoods as are agreeable to their degrees which no Minister must wear being no Graduate under pain of Suspension but such as are no Graduates may instead of Hoods wear some decent Tippet of black so it be not Silk Can. 23 24. 25. 58. What Parsons Ministers may refuse to admit to the Communion No Minister is to admit to the receiving the Holy Communion any of his Parishoners who are openly known to live notoriously in sin without repentance nor such as are at variance with their Neighbours till Reconciliation nor any Church-Wardens or Sidemen who have neglected or refused to present such publick Offences as they themselves know are committed within their Parishes or are notoriously offensive to the Congregation there nor are the Ministers to give Communion to any but such as kneel nor to any that refuse to be present at publick Prayers or deprave publickly the Book of Common-Prayer or any thing that is contained in the nine and thirty Articles of Religion or in the Book of ordering Priests and Bishops nor to any that have spoken against his Majestie 's Supremacy under pein to be suspended unless every such person do first acknowledge to the Minister before the Church-Wardens his Repentance for the same and promise by word if he cannot write to doe so no more and if he can write then
What shall be accounted no Benefice with cure No Deanry Archdeaconry Chancellorship Treasurership Chantership or Prebend in any Cathedral or Collegiate Church nor Parsonage that hath a Vicar endowed nor any Benefice perpetually appropriate are to be taken or comprehended under the name of Benefice with cure of Souls 21 H. 8. cap. 13. The Archbishop of Canterbury for The Archbishop of Canterbury may grant Dispensations c. the time being and his Successors after good and due examination by them had of the causes and qualities of the Persons procuring for Licences Dispensations Compositions Faculties Delegacies Rescripts Instruments or other writings by themselves or by their sufficient Commissary or Deputy by their discretions from time to time have power to grant and dispose by an Instrument under the Name and Seal of the said Archbishop to any of the King's Subjects all manner of such Licences Dispensations Faculties Compositions Delegacies Rescripts Instruments or other writings for any such cause or matter whereof heretofore such Dispensations c. have been accustomed to be had at the See of Rome or by the Authority thereof or any Prelate of this Realm but no such Licences c. which have not been accustomed to be had or obtained at the Court of Rome nor by Authority thereof nor by any Prelate of this Realm shall be granted without the approbation of the King and his Council upon pein that the Granter of such Licences c. shall make fine at the King's will and pleasure 25 H. 8. cap. 21. And no manner of Dispensations Licences c. to be granted by the What Licences c. are to be confirmed under the King 's great Seal Archbishop or his Commissary whose Tax for the Expidition thereof at Rome extended to the sum of four pounds or above are to be put in Execution till the same be first confirmed by the King under the great Seal and Inrolled in the Chancery by the Clerk appointed for the same which writing under the Archbishop's Seal and the Confirmation thereof under the great Seal are to be remitted to the parties from time to time procuring the same but such Licences c. whose Tax for the Expedition thereof at Rome was under four pounds shall pass under the Archbishop's Seal and need not be confirmed under the great Seal unless the parties desire to have them confirmed and in such Case they are to pay for the great Seal only five Shillings and not above over and besides such Taxes as are to be paid for the writing making registring confirming and inrolling of such Licences c. under the said Tax of four pounds and all such Licences c. granted as aforesaid have the same force and power as those formerly obtained of the See of Rome any decree Canon Decretal c. to the contrary notwithstanding and both the Archbishop's Clerk or Register for Dispensations Faculties c. and the King 's inrolling Clerk in Chancery must subscribe their names to every such Licence Dispensation c. that shall come to their Hands to be written made granted sealed confirmed registred and inrolled in Form aforesaid and those that receive more for Dispensations c. than is set down in the Books of Taxes one whereof remains with the Archbishop's Register of Faculties c. and the other with the King 's inrolling Clerk of Dispensations c. in Chancery are to forfeit ten times the value of what they so exact and receive one Moiety to the King and the other to the Informer 25 H. 8. cap. 21. Note that it is provided by the said What remedy where the Archbishop refuseth to grant Dispensations c. Statute 25. H. 8. that nothing therein contained shall be prejudicial to the Archbishop of York or to any Bishop or Prelate of this Realm but that they may Lawfully dispence in all causes in which they wont to dispence by the Common Law or custome of thâ—â— Realm afore the making of the saiâ— Act with a Proviso also that when thâ— See of Canterbury should at any timâ— be void that then such Licences Dispensations c. may be granted undâ— the Name and Seal of the Guardian â—â— the Spiritualities of the said Archbishoprick for the time being according to the Form aforesaid which shall have the same force as if they had been granted by the Archbishop himself and it is further enacted that if the Archbishop of Canterbury or Guardian of the Spiritualities do refuse to grant such Licences Dispensations c. as aforesaid then the Chancellor of England or Keeper of the great Seal for the time being upon complaint thereof shall direct the King 's Writ to the said Archbishop or Guardian so refusing enjoyning him thereby upon a certain pein therein to be Limited by the discretion of the said Chancellor or Keeper of the great Seal that he do in due Form grant such Licence Dispensation c. according to the Request of the Procurers of the same or else signify to the King in Chancery at a certain day the occasion why he denies the same and if it appear to the Chancellor c. by such Certificate that the cause was reasonable and good and being proved by due search and examination of the said Chancellor or Lord Keeper it is to be allowed and if it appears upon the said Certificates that the said Archbishop or Guardian wilfully without just cause do refuse or deny to grant such Licences c. then it being made appear to the King that such Licences c. may be granted without offending the Holy Scriptures and Laws of God his Majesty in such Case may send his Writ of Injunction under the Great Seal out of his Court of Chancery commanding the Archbishop or Guardian so refusing c. to make sufficient grant theof by a certain day under a certain pein and if the Archbishop or Guardian after the recept of the said Writ refuse or deny to grant such Licences c. and shew and prove before the King's Majesty no just cause for the same then the said Archbishop or Guardian so refusing shall forfeit to the King such penalty as is expressed in the said Writ of Injunction and the King may grant his Commission under the great Seal to any two Spiritual Prelates whom be pleaseth as will grant the same Licences c. so refused to be granted by the Archbishop or Guardian as aforesaid and such Licences c. granted by such two Prelates shall have the same force as if they were granted by the saiâ— Archbishop or Guardian 25 H. 8. cap. 21. And it is further provided that this The penalty for suing to the Court of Rome for Dispensaâ—ions c. Act shall not extend to the repeal or derogation of the 21 H. 8. cap. 13. nor to give Licence to any Person or Persons to have any more number of Benefices than is Limitted in the said Act and it is also provided that if any Person or