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England and Scotlands covenant with their God in viz, the protestation, the vow, and covenant, and an ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the taking the same / ordered by the Commons in Parliament that these covenants and ordinances bey forthwith printed and published.
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dressing and sale of Victuals in a moderate way in Innes or Victualling-houses for the use of such as otherwise cannot be provided for or to the crying or selling of Milk before Nine of the clock in the Morning or after Four of the clock in the Afternoon from the Tenth of September till the Tenth of March or before Eight of the clock in the morning or after five of the clock in the afternoon from the Tenth of March till the Tenth of September And whereas there is great breach of the Sabbath by Rogues Vagabonds and Beggars It is further Ordained That the Lord Mayor of the City of London and all Iustices of Peace Constables Church-wardens and other Officers and Ministers whatsoever shall from time to time cause all Laws against Rogues Vagabonds and Beggars to be put in due execution and take order that all Rogues Vagabonds and Beggars do on every Sabbath day repair to some Church or Chappell and remain there soberly and orderly during the time of Divine Worship And that all and singular person and persons that shall do any thing in the execution of this Ordinance shall be protected and saved harmlesse by the power and Authority of Parliament And be it further Ordained that this Ordinance be Printed and published and read in all Parish Churches and Chappels before the Sermon in the Morning on some Lords day before the first of May next on the South-side of Trent and before the first of Iune next on the North-side of Trent Die Sabbathi 6. April 1644. ORdered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament That this Ordinance be printed and published and read in all Churches and Chappels before the Sermon in the Morning on some Lords day before the first of May next on the South-side of Trent and before the first day of Iune next on the North-side of Trent H Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the better Observing and Keeping a Monethly Fast within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales VVHereas the Kings Most Excellent Majesty upon the request of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by and with their advice and consent considering the lamentable and distressed condition of his good Subjects in the Kingdom of Ireland that there might be a generall Humiliation of all the Estates of this Kingdom before Almighty God in Fasting and Prayer was graciously pleased to command the keeping of a Monethly Fast and to the end that all persons might the better take notice thereof and to leave such without excuse as should not duly keep and observe the same did afterward by his Proclamation of the 8th of Ianuary 1641. appoint that the same should be generally publikely and solemnly holden and kept as well by abstinence from food as by publike prayers preaching and hearing of the Word of God and other Religious and holy duties in all Cathedrals Collegiate and Parish Churches and Chappels within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales without any exception on the last Wednesday of every Moneth to continue during the troubles in the said Kingdom of Ireland All which his Majesty did straightly charge and command should be reverently and devoutly performed by all his Subjects as they desire the blessing of Almighty God and would avoyd his heavy indignation against this Land and people and upon pain of such punishments as may justly be inflicted upon all such as shall contemne or neglect so Religious a work and duty And whereas the Lords and Commons in both Houses of Parliament have received divers informations from severall parts of this Kingdom and Dominion of Wales of the great neglect of the due observation and keeping of the said Fast upon the dayes appointed and of the prophanations of the same by many irreligious ill-affected loose and scandalous persons as well of the Clergy as others who are so farre from afflicting their soules and loosing the bands of wickednesse as that they provoke the wrath of Almighty God and make so pious a meanes to procure his blessings the occasion of greater Iudgements For the prevention whereof for the time to come the Lords and Commons do Order Declare Ordain that in all and every the Cathedrals Collegiate and Parish Churches and Chappels within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales without any exception upon every Lords day next and immediately before any the dayes appointed for the said publike Fast the Parson Vicar Curate or Minister that upon that day shall Officiate or exercise in any of the said Cathedrals Collegiate Parish Churches or Chappels shall give publike notice in every of the said Cathedrals Collegiate Parish Churches or Chappels respectively of the Fast day next ensuing immediately after Sermon or prayer ended in the forenoon before the Congregation be dismissed carnestly exhorting and perswading all the people to the Solemne due keeping and Religious observation of the whole day appointed for the said Fast and that they would repair to some Church or Chappell there diligently and reverently to attend all such holy duties as shall be used in the observance of the same that they forbear to use all manner of sports and pastimes whatsoever and their ordinary Trades and callings upon the said day as well Carriers Waggoners Carters Wainâ—â—n Drovers Butchers Hucksters Shop-keepers Labourers or any others using any Art Trade Mistery or manuall Occupation whatsoever and that all Vintners Taverners Ale-house-keepers and keepers of Victualling-houses do forbear to keep open their doors Bulks or Shops or to sell or utter except in cases of extream necessity any Wine Beer Ale or victuall till the publike exercises and Religious duties of that day in the respective Cathedrals Collegiate Parish Churches and Chappels be past and over And lastly all and every the Iustices of the Peace Mayors Bayliffs Constables Church-wardens and other Officers inhabiting or residing within the limits or precincts of any such Cathedrall Collegiate Parish Church or Chappell are hereby required to take speciall notice aswell of such Parson Vicar Curate or other Minister that ought to Officiate in any of the said Cathedrals Collegiate and Parish Churches or Chappels upon any such day appointed for the said Fast that shall either refuse or neglect to do the same or not do or cause the same to be done in that religious and solemn manner as it ought to be or that shall refuse to give notice of the Fast day at the time and in manner as aforesaid and forthwith to return their names and the names of all such from time to time as shall wilfully offend herein in contempt of the Laws His Majesty and both Houses of Parliament unto some one or more of the Knights Citizens or Burgesses that serve for the county where such offence is or shall be committed that some speedy course may be taken for the severe punishing of such as shall offend herein according to the Laws Die Mercurii 22. Aug. 1642. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and published H Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. 24 April 1643. VVHereas the Lords and Commons in Parliament have made an Ordinance for the more strict and solemne keeping of the dayes of publike Fast which are not by all persons duly observed even in these times of publike calamity to the great dishonour of God and the contempt of the Authority of both Houses of Parliament Now that more particular notice may be given unto all such as shall offend herein before any exemplary punishment be inflicted upon them It is ordered by the Commons now Assembled in Parliament That all Constables or their Deputies shall the day before every publike Fast repair to every House within their severall and respective liberties and charge all persons That they strictly observe the Fast according to the directions in the said Ordinance And they shall upon the said dayes of the publike Fast walk through their said liberties diligently searching for and taking notice of all persons who either by following their work of their calling or sitting in Taverns Victualling or Alehouses or any other wayes shall not duly observe the same And they are hereby required to return the Names of all such persons as they shall finde so offending as also such Informations as they shall receive against any other persons within their liberties guilty of the like offence unto the Committee for Examinations that so they may be proceeded against for the contempt of the said Ordinance And all Constables are to observe these directions from time to time so long as the said publike Fast shall be kept without expecting any further Order H Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. FINIS
they received the said copies as also the day they sent them forth and to what Parishes they have sent them which certificate they are to return to the Clerk of the Parliament appointed for the Commons House that so an accompt may be given of it as there shall be occasion IV. That the severall Ministers be required to read the said Covenant publikely unto their people the next Lords day after they receive it and prepare their people for it against the time that they shal be called to take it V. That the said League and Covenant be taken by the Committees of Parliament in the place where they reside and tendred also to the Inhabitants of the Town within seven daies after it comes to the said Committees hands VI. That the said Committees after they have taken it themselves do speedily disperse themselves through the said counties so as three or four of them be together on dayes appointed at the chief places of meeting for the severall divisions of the said counties And summon all the Ministers Church wardens Constables and other Officers unto that place where after a Sermon preached by one appointed by the Committee for that purpose they cause the same Minister to tender the League and Covenant unto all such Ministers and other Officers to be taken and subscribed by them in the presence of the said Committees VII That the said Committees do withall give the said Ministers in Charge to tender it unto all the rest of their Parishioners the next Lords Day making then unto their said Parishioners some solemn exhortation concerning the taking and observing therof and that the said Committees do also return to the severall Parishes the names of all such as have taken the Covenant before them who yet shall also subscribe their names in the Book or Roll with their neighbors in their severall Parishes And if any Minister refuse or neglect to appear at the said summons or refuse to take the said Covenant before the Committee or to tender it to his Parish that then the Committees be carefull to appoint another Minister to do it in his place VIII That the League and Covenant be tendred to all men within the severall Parishes above the age of eighteen as wel lodgers as inhabitants IX That it be recommended to the earl of Manchester to take speciall care that it be tendered and taken in the Vniversity of Cambridge X. That for the better incouragement of all sorts of Persons to take it It be recommended to the assembly of Divines to make a brief Declaration by way of Exhortation to all sorts of Persons to take it as that which they judge not only lawfull But all things considered exceeding expedient and necessary for all that wish well to Religion the King and Kingdom to joyn in and to be a singular pledge of Gods gracious goodnesse to all the three Kingdoms XI That if any Minister do refuse to take or to tender the Covenant or any other person or persons do not take it the Lords day that it is tendred that then it be tendred to them again the Lords day following and if they still continue to refuse it that then their names be returned by the Minister that tenders it and by the Church-wardens or Constables unto the Committees and by them to the House of Commons that such further course may be taken with them as the Houses of Parliament shall see cause XII That all such persons as are within the severall Parishes when notice is given of the taking of it and do absent themselves from the Church at the time of taking it and come not in afterwards to the Minister Church-wardens or other Officers to take it in their presence before the return be made be returned as refusers The manner of the taking it to be thus The Minister to read the whole Covenant distinctly and audibly in the Pulpit and during the time of reading thereof the whole Congregation to be uncovered and at the end of his reading thereof all to take it standing lifting up their Right hands bare and then afterwards to subscribe it severally by writing their names or their marks to which their names are to be added in a parchment Roll or a Bock wherein to the Covenant is to be inserted purposely provided for that end and kept as a Record in the Parish XIIII That the Assembly of Divines do prepare an Exhortation for the better taking of the Covenant And that the said Exhortation and the Declaration of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland joyned in the Armies for the vindication and defence of their Religion Liberties and Lawes against the Popish Prelaticall and Malignant party and passed the 30. of Ian. last be publikely read when the Covenant is read according to the fourth and sixth Articles And that a sufficient number of Copies of the said Declaration be sent by the persons appointed to send the true Copies of the said Covenant in the first and second Articles FINIS An Exhortation to the taking of the Solemn League and Covenant for Reformation and Defence of Religion the Honour and happinesse of the King and the Peace and safety of the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland IF the power of Religion or solid Reason if Loyalty to the King and piety to their native Countrey or love to themselves and naturall affection to their posterity if the Example of men touched with a deep sense of all these or Extraordinary successe from God thereupon can awaken an embroyled bleeding remnant to imbrace the soveraigne and onely means of their recovery there can be no doubt but this Solemn League and Covenant wil find wheresoever it shall be tendred a people ready to entertain it with all cheerfulnesse and duty And were it not commended to the Kingdom by the concurrent encouragement of the Honourable Houses of Parliament the Assembly of Divines the renowned City of London multitudes of other persons of eminent rank and quality in this Nation and the whole Body of Scotland who have all willingly sworn and subscribed it with rejoycing at the Oath so graciously seconded from Heaven already by blasting the Counsels and breaking the power of the Enemy more than ever yet it goeth forth in its own strength with such convincing evidence of Equity Truth and Righteousnesse 〈◊〉 may raise in all not wilfully ignorant or miserably seduced inflamed affections to joyn with their Brethren in this happy Bond for putting an end to the present miseries and for saving both of King and Kingdom from utter ruine now so strongly and openly laboured by the Popish faction and such as have been bewitched and besotted by that viperous and bloody generation For what is there almost in this Covenant which was not for substance either expressed or manifestly included in that solemn Protestation of May 5. 1641. wherein the whole Kingdom stands ingaged untill this day The sinfull neglect whereof doth as we may justly fear open one floodgage