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A72017	A booke of certaine canons, concernyng some parte of the discipline of the Churche of England In the yeare of our Lord. 1571.; Constitutions and canons. 1571	Church of England.	1571 (1571)	STC 10064; ESTC S125375	11,018	27

the day after all saintes which day not long since was kept holy for the soules of the dead neyther at any tyme at all whereas the custome of ringing shall seeme to encline to superstition They shall suffer ringing onely at those tymes which are appoynted in the booke of aduertisementes and to that onely vse and after that onely order It shall not be lawfull to keepe fayres and common markets vpon the sonday neyther on that day to put to death and openly punish offenders cōdemned by the sentence of the Iudge They shall not suffer that any of these light wanderers in markettes and pelting sellers which carry about and sell pinnes points and other small trifles whom they call pedlars to set out their wares to sale either in the churchyeardes or in the porches of churches or any where els on holidayes or sondayes whilest any part of the holy ministery is in doing or any sermon is preached neyther that beggars or vagabondes which haue no certain dwelling abyde eyther in the churchyearde or in the church porch all the time of seruice or preaching but shall commaunde them either to come in or to depart They shall also search and diligently enquire if any of the parishioners eyther come not at all to church or come later or slower at the times appointed by the lawes and whom they shall finde so to offende they shall punish them according to the appointing of the lawe They shall marke whether al euery of the parishioners come so often euery yeare to the holy communion as the lawes statutes do cōmaund and whether any straingers from other parishes come more often and commonly to their church and shall shew their curate of them lest perhaps he admit them to the Lordes table amongst others but shall sende them rather to their owne curates They shall receiue no parson nor vicar to the ministery of theyr church but whome the Bishop shall allow by his institution and by hys mandate shall put in possession of that church They shall receyue no curate but him that by the letters and seale of the Byshop is specially appointed for that church But if the Parson Vicar or Curate behaue hymselfe otherwise in hys ministery or that he read ill darckly and confusedly or that he lyue more losely and licentiously then is fitte for à man of that calling and therby great offence be taken the churchwardens shall spedely present him to the Bishop that by and by he may be punished and amendment of his fault may follow And that the Byshop may vnderstande what sermons are made in euery church of hys dioces the Churchwardens shall see that the names of all preachers which come to them from any other place be noted in a boke which they shall haue ready for that purpose and that euery preacher subscribe his name in that boke and the name of the Byshop of whom he had licence to preach Last of all the Churchwardens shall see that all thinges be diligently obserued which pertayne to theyr offices and that are contayned in the Queenes iniunctions and the boke of aduertisementes and that shall be set foorth by the Archbishop or Bishop in euery their visitations for the vse of the Churches But if any do rayle vpon them or goe to law with them for doing theyr dutie and detecting of offenders that also they shall presente vnto the Bishop that by his meanes and trauaill they may more easely be deliuered from that trouble Preachers NO man shal openly preach in his parish but being licenced by the Bishop neyther hereafter shall be so bold as preach out of his own cure church except he haue obtayned licence so to preach eyther of the Queenes Maiestie ouer all her realme eyther of the Archbishop through hys prouince or of the Bishop in his dioces And no licence to preach shall hereafter stande in force but that which hath bene obtayned after the last day of Aprill which was in the yeare 1571. Preachers shall behaue them selues modestly and soberly in all their life But chiefly they shall take heede that they teach nothing in their preaching which they would haue the people religiously to obserue and beleue but that which is agreeable to the doctrine of the olde Testament or the newe and that which the catholike fathers and auncient Bishops haue gathered out of that doctrine And because those articles of Christian religion agreed vpon by the Bishoppes in the lawfull and godly conuocation and by the commaundement and aucthoritie of our noble princesse Elizabeth assembled and holden vndoubtedly are gathered out of the holy bookes of the olde and newe Testamente and in all pointes agree with the heauenly doctrine contayned in them because also the booke of common prayers and the booke of the consecration of Archbishops Bishops Ministers and Deacons containe nothing repugnant to the same doctrine whosoeuer shall be sent to teach the people shall not onely in theyr preaching but also by subscription confirm the authoritie and truth of those articles He that doth otherwise or troubleth the people with contrary doctrine shall be excommunicated In preaching they shall weare à very modest and graue garment which may becomme and set foorth the minister of God and such as is prescribed in the booke of aduertisementes They shall require no money or rewarde for theyr preaching but shall be content with meat and drincke and playne prouision and one nightes lodging They shall teach no vayne and olde wiues opiniōs no heresies nor popish errors disagreeing from the doctrine and fayth of Christ neyther any thing at all whereby the rude people may be stirred vp to the desire of nouelties or contention But they shall alwayes teach that which may make for edifying and may vnite the hearers in Christian peace and loue Residences THe absence of the shepheard from the Lords flocke and that careles negligence which we doe see in many and forsakyng of the ministerie is à thing in it selfe to be abhorred odious to the people and pernitious to the Church of god Therefore we exhort all pastors of Churches in the Lorde Iesu that foorthwith they returne euery one to theyr parishes and diligently teach the Gospell according to their liuing to keep house to helpe the poore by hospitalitie and there to be resident euery yeare no lesse then lx dayes Pluralitie IT shall be lawfull for no man of what degree or order so euer he be to haue at one time any more then two ecclesiastical benefices neither shal it be lawful for any man at all to obtain two benifices if they be distant more then xxvj miles Of Scholemasters IT shall not be lawfull for any to teach the Latine tongue or to instructe children neyther openly in the scholes neyther priuately in any mans house but whome the Byshop of that dioces hath alowed and to whom he hath geuen licence to teach vnder the seale of hys office And here we except for honours sake the Lordes of the

¶ A BOOKE of certaine Canons concernyng some parte of the discipline of the Churche of England In the yeare of our Lord. 1571. AT LONDON Printed by Iohn Daye dwellyng ouer Aldersgate ¶ Cum gratia Priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis 3. Of Byshops 6. Of Deanes of churches 9. Of Archdeacones 11. Of Chauncelors c. 17. Of Churchwardens 22. Of Preachers 24. Of Residence 25. Of Pluralities 25. Of Scholemasters 27. Of Patrones c. Of Byshoppes ¶ Here foloweth in this booke some certayne articles of the holy ministerie and of the offices of the Church fully agreed vpon by Matthew Archbyshoppe of Caunterburie Primate of all England and Metropolitane and all other Byshops of the same Prouince which were partly present in person and partly subscribed by the handes of their Proctors in a Synode begonne at London in the Church of S. Paule the thirde day of April 1571. ALl Byshoppes shall diligently teach the Gospell not onely in their Cathedrall Churches which they ●…uerne but also indifferently in all the Churches of euery of their Dioces where they shall thynke it most needfull 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●●…pally they shall exhort their people 〈◊〉 the reading hearing of the holy scriptures and that they come together in times appoynted euery man to his owne Church and that they geue eare diligently to the preachers of the Gospell and that both they do heare reuerently the godly prayers which shall be spoken by the Minister and also pray them selues with hym and that they be partakers of the heauenly misteries as they be now godly ordeined and lawfully in our churches by the authoritie and commaundemente of the whole Realme Euery Byshop before the fyrst day of September next shall call vnto him the publique preachers such as shall be in his owne diocesse and shall require againe of them their licences of preaching which they haue signed with any autenticall seale which they shall retaine with themselues or els abolish After prudent choise made of them he shall geue readilye agayne new licences to them whom he shall finde able to that great office in respect of they ●●●res doctrine iudgement honestie of lyfe ▪ ●●●…ie and grauitie and yet so that they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he to the articles of Christian religion ●●●●…ly approued in the Synode and that 〈◊〉 ●…ake promise willingly to mayntayne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●hat doctrine which is contayned in the 〈◊〉 most agreeable to the veritie of Gods w●●●… The Bishop must very diligently 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what maner of men he do admit into hys housholde for it chaunceth sometymes where thys foresight is not vsed that wicked men enemies to the true religion vicious men and corrupte in all theyr life yea and men voyde of grace be admitted Whereby the aduersary wyll soone take occasion to speake euill The Byshops seruauntes shal so modestly orderly apparel thēselues in euery part of their garments that they do not offend their brethrē whom Paule calleth of the housholde of fayth The Byshop shall lay his handes on none henceforward but such as haue bene trayned vp in good letters eyther in the vniuersitie or some other inferior schole or that doth vnderstande the Latine tongue competently and hath bene well exercised in the holy scriptures nor yet on any except he be of that lawfull age which is appoynted by the statute and lawe nor except hys lyfe honest behauiour be commended by the testimony of graue and godly men and such as are well knowne vnto the byshop nor on any that hath bene brought vp in husbandrie or some other base and handicraft labour nor on any but such as haue some title as they call it whereby he may liue if by Gods sufferaunce he become blinde or fall into greeuous sicknesse of the body or into a continuall languishing disease nor except he will exercise the holy ministery wythin hys owne diocesse nor at any other time but when it shal chaunce that some place of ministration is voyde in the same diocesse And he shall admitte no straunger nor any that he knoweth not eyther to the profites of any benifice or to ecclesiasticall ministerie except he bring wyth him that Byshops letters of commendations which they cal letters dimissories out of whose diocesse he came The byshop shal not graunt vnto any man the next or second or thirde aduouson as they cal it of any prebend or benefice belonging vnto him for those aduousons are far from good doynges and christian charitie neyther shall he ratifie and confirme the leases of any profites or reuenewes of any parsonage or ecclesiasticall benefice for terme of many yeares in any wise The Byshop shall suffer no man to be occupyed in the ministration of the Church which calleth himselfe by the idle name of a Reader not hauing receiued imposition of handes Euery Archbishop and Bishop shal haue in hys house The holy Bible in the largest volume as it was lately printed at London and also that full and perfect history which is intituled Monumentes of Martyres and other such lyke bokes fit for the setting forth of religion These bookes must be placed eyther in the hall or in the great chamber that they may serue to the vse of their seruauntes and of straingers Deanes of Cathedrall Churches THe very same bookes which we spake of last euery Deane shall cause to be bought and to be bestowed in his Cathedrall Church in such conuenient place that the vicares and peticanons and other ministers of the Church as also straungers and forrieners may easely come vnto them and read thereon The Deane and euery chiefe Residentarie whome they call the dignities of the Church shall buye the same bookes euery one for hys owne family and shall lay them in some fitte place eyther in hall or in the chamber The Deane his prebendaries shall preach the worde of God diligently not onely in the cathedrall Church where they liue but in other Churches also of the same Dioces and especially in the same places whence they receaue yearely reuenewes and profites Which if they do not they shall be punished according to the discretion of the Byshop No Deane nor Archdeacon nor Residentarie nor master nor warden nor head of any colledge or cathedrall church neither president nor rector nor any of that order by what name soeuer they be called shall hereafter weare the Graye Amice nor any other garment which hath bene defiled with the like superstition But euery one of them in their churches shall weare onely that linnen garment which is as yet reteined by the Queenes commaundement and also hys Schollers hoode according to euery mans calling and degree in schole Euery Deane shal be resident in hys cathedrall Church foure tymes a yeare at the least And shall continue there by the space of a moneth euery time if he may possibly in preaching the worde of God and keeping good hospitalitie except he shall be otherwyse letted with weighty and vrgent causes Which causes he shall at euery such time