Archbishop Abbot the Lord-Keeper Williams and the Learned Andrews Bishop of Winchester commissioned thereunto by the King received the Royal Assent June 30. in the 21st Year of His Majesty's Reign and were thereupon transmitted to JERSEY to have there the Force of Laws in Matters Ecclesiastical as they have to this Day A Copy of which Canons collated with the old French Original extant in our Records is hereunto added for publick Satisfaction JAMES R. JAMES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our right Trusty and well beloved Counseller the Reverend Father in God Lancelot Bishop of Winton and to our Trusty and well beloved Sir John Peyton Knight Governor of our Isle of JARSEY and to the Governor of the said Isle for the time being To the Bailiff and Jurats of the said Isle for the time being and to the Officers Ministers and Inhabitants of the said Isle for the time being To whom it shall or may appertain Greeting Whereas we held it fitting heretofore upon the Admission of the now Dean of that Island unto his Place in the Interim until we might be more fully informed what Laws Canons or Constitutions were meet and fit to be made and established for the good Government of the said Island in Causes Ecclesiastical appertaining to the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to command the said Bishop of Winton Ordinary of the said Island to grant his Commission unto David Bandinel now Dean of the said Island to exercise the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction there according to certain Instructions signed with our Royal Hand to continue only until we might establish such Constitutions Rules Canons and Ordinances as we intended to settle for the regular Government of that our Island in all Ecclesiastical Causes conformed to the Ecclesiastical Government established in our Realm of England as near as conveniently might be And whereas also to that purpose our Pleasure was that the said Dean with what convenient Speed he might after such Authority given unto him as aforesaid and after his Arrival into that Island and the publick Notice given of his Admission unto the said Office should together with the Ministers of that our Isle consider of such Canons and Constitutions as might be fitly accommodated to the Circumstances of Time and Place and the Persons whom they concern and that the same should be put into Order and intimated to the Governor Bailiff and Jurats of that our Isle that they might offer to us and to Our Council such Acceptions and give such Informations touching the same as they should think good And whereas the said Dean and Ministers did conceive certain Canons and presented the same unto Vs on the one part and on the other part the said Bailiff and Jurats excepting against the same did send and depute Sir Philip de Carteret Knight Joshua de Carteret and Philip de Carteret Esquires three of the Jurats and Justices of Our said Isle All which Parties appeared before Our right Trusty and well beloved Councellors the Most Reverend Father in God the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Lincoln Lord-Keeper of Our great Seal of England and the Right Reverend Father in God the said Lord Bishop of Winton to whom We gave Commission to examine the same who have accordingly heard the said Parties at large read examined corrected and amended the said Canons and have now made Report unto Vs under their Hands that by a mutual Consent of the said Deputies and Dean of our Island they have reduced the said Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical into such Order as in their Judgments may well fit the State of that Island KNOW ye therefore that We out of Our Princely Care of the quiet and peaceable Government of all Our Dominions especially affecting the Peace of the Church and the Establishment of true Religion and Ecclesiastical Discipline in one uniform Order and Course throughout all Our Realms and Dominions so happily united under Vs as their supreme Governor on Earth in all Causes as well Ecclesiastical as Civil having taken consideration of the said Canons and Constitutions thus drawn perused and allowed as aforesaid do by these Presents ratify confirm and approve thereof AND further We out of Our Princely Power and Regal Authority do by these Presents signed with Our Royal Hand and sealed with Our Royal Signet for Vs Our Heirs and Successors will and command that the said Canons and Constitutions hereafter following shall from henceforth in all Points be duely observed in Our said Isle for the perpetual Government of the said Isle in Causes Ecclesiastical unless the same or some Part or Parts thereof upon further Experience and Trial thereof by the mutual Consent of the Lord Bishop of Winton for the Time being the Governor Bailiffs and Jurats of the said Isle and of the Dean and Ministers and other Our Officers of Our said Isle for the time being representing the Body of Our said Isle and by the Royal Authority of Vs Our Heirs or Successors shall receive any Additions or Alterations as Time and Occasion shall justly require And therefore We do further will and command the said Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot now Lord Bishop of Winton that he do forthwith by his Commission under his Episcopal Seal as Ordinary of that Place give Authority unto the said now Dean to exercise Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Our said Isle according to these Canons and Constitutions thus made and established De la Souveraineté du Roy. PRemierement selon le Devoir que nous devons a la Tres-Excellente Majesté du Roy il est Ordonné que le Doyen Ministres ayans cure des Ames seront tenus un chascun de tout leur Pouvoir Scavoir Cognoissance d'enseigner mettre en Evidence desclarer purement sincérement sans aucune feintise ou dissimulation le plus souvent que faire se pourra que les occasions s'en presenteront que toute Puissance Forreine estrangere Vsurpée pour autant qu' elle nâ aucun fondement en la Parole de Dieu est totalement pour bonnes justes Causes ostée abolie par conséquent que nulle sorte d'Obeissance ou Subjection dedans les Royaumes Dominions de sa Majesté n'est deüe à aucune telle Puissance Ains que la Puissance du Roy dedans les Royaumes d'Angleterre d'Ecosse d'Irlande autres ses Dominions Contrées est la plus haute Puissance sous Dieu à laquelle Toutes Personnes habitans natifs dans icelles doivent par la Loy de Dieu toute Fidélité Obeissance avant par dessus toute autre Puissance 2. Quiconque affermera maintiendra que la Majesté du Roy n'a la méme Authoritè en causes Ecclesiastiques comme entre les Juiss ont eû les Rois Religieux les Empereurs Chrestiens en
trouve point soit en se cachant ou autre Collusion la Citation sera affichée à l'huis du Temple Paroissial d'icelle en cas qu'il n'ayt aucun Domicile ce en jour de Dimanche 49. S'il parvient aux oreilles du Doyen par Relation de gens de bien que quelqu ' un vit notoirement en quelque Scandale il en pourra avertir le Ministre les Surveillâ—ns de la Paroisse afin que s'en estant informés ils Presentent telles personnes qui meritent d'estre punies ou Censurées 50. Là où il constera de la faute commise par quelque Ministre le Doyen aprés Monition réitérée procédera à la Reformation par l'avis Consentement de deux Ministres jusqu'a Suspension Sequestration en cas que ledit Ministre demeure Refractaire le Doyen procédera par le Consentement de la plus part des Ministres presents en l'Isle jusqu'a Déprivation 51. On ne fera point de Commutation pour Pénitence sinon avec grande Circonspection ayant égard à la qualité des Personnes Circonstances des fautes Et sera la Commutation enregistrée ès Actes de la Court pour estre employée aux Pauvres usages pi eux dont Accomptes seront rendus selon ledit Registre 52. Aprés la premiere Defaute la Non-comparence de ceux qui seront derechef cités par Mandat sera reputée Contumace si estans cités par aprés en Péremptoire ils ne comparoissent on pourra procéder à l'encontre d'eux à l' Excommunication Que si dans le prochain jour de Court la Partie ne fait devoir d'obtenir Absolution on procédera à la Publication de la Sentence Mineure Excommunication laquelle sera delivrée au Ministre de la Paroisse pour en faire lecture à jour Solennel à l'oâ—ye de la plus part des Paroissiens assemblés lapartie persistant en son Endurcissement on procédera à la Majeure Excommunication qui forclost le Pécheur à Sacris Societate Fidelium Que si cette Censure ne sert pour l'induire à Obéissance se ranger dans le Terme de 40 jours alors le Doyen parson Certificat authentique donnera Avertissement au Bailly Jurétz de ladite Contumace les requerra en Assistance de sa Jurisdiction de le faire saisir par les Officiers Civils pour le rendre Prisonnier en Détention Corporelle jusqu'a ce quil se soit submis obligé d'obtemperer à l'Ordonnance de l'Eglise devant qu'estre Absous sera tenu de payer les frais Coustages de la poursuite de la Cause 53. En Causes de Paillardise sur la Presentation des Surveillans avec les Probabilités commun Bruit Scandale Presumptions à ce requises la partie sera sujette de subir le Serment de sa Purgation ou autrement sera tenu pour Convaincu 54. En cas d'Adultére à l'Instance de Partie on y procédera meurement par bonnes preuves Informations pour avoir Evidence du faict objecte le sujet Preuve du fait le requerant on pourra conclurre jusqu'a Séparation à Thoro Mensâ 55. Là où il y aura Calomnie ou Diffamation prouvée on fera Recognoissance des Injures selon l'Exigence du cas pourveu que l'Action ne soit prescrite par lapse de temps d'un an entier pourveu que le sujet de l'Action soit de Crimes Ecclesiastiques cy devant Specifiés Des Appellations 56. Les Appeaux en Causes Ecclesiastiques seront oûis définis par le Révérend Pére en Dieu l'Evesque de Winchestre en personne en cas de Vacance de ce Siége par le Trés Révérend Pére en Dieu l'Archvesque de Canterbury en personne 57. Tout Appels interjettera dans Quinze jours aprés Cognoissance de la Sentence sera la partie obligée de prendre exhiber tout le Procés Actes du Registre ou Rolles de la Court lesquels Actes aussy luy seront delivrés en forme temps convenable authentiqués sous le sceau de l'Office sera l'Appellant sujet de le poursuivre dans an jour aut Sententiae latae stare compellitur 58. Il ne sera licite d'Appeller qu'aprés Sentence Définitive de la Cause sinon pour ces deux égards ou quand l'Interlocutoire est telle qu'elle met fin à la Cause ou quand ladite Interlocutoire estant obéie elle apporte tel Damage irreparable à la partie qu'il ne peut estre amendé par Appel de la Définitive Of the King's Supremacy FIrst according to the Duty we owe to the King 's most Excellent Majesty it is ordained that the Dean and Ministers having Cure of Souls shall be obliged to the utmost of their Power Knowledge and Learning purely and sincerely without any Backwardness or Dissimulation to teach publish and declare as often as they may and as occasion shall offer it self that all forreign strange and usurped Power for as much as it has no ground in the Word of God is wholly for good and just Causes taken away and abolished and that therefore no manner of Obedience or Subjection within His Majesty's Kingdoms and Dominions is due unto any such Power But that the King's Power within his Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland and other his Dominions and Countries is the highest Power under God to which all Persons Natives and Inhabitants within the same do by God's Law owe Loyalty and Obedience before and above all other Power 2. Whosoever shall affirm and maintain that the King's Majesty hath not the same Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical which Godly Kings had among the Jews and Christian Emperors in the Primitive Church or shall in any manner of way impeach or obstruct the King's Supremacy in the said Causes Moreover whosoever shall affirm that the Church of England as it is established under the King's Majesty is not a true and Apostolical Church purely teaching the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles or shall impugne the Government of the said Church by Archbishops Bishops and Deans affirming it to be Anti-christian shall be ipso facto Excommunicated and not restored but by the Dean sitting in Court after his Repentance and publick Recantation of his Error Of Divine Service 3. It is injoyned unto all sorts of Persons to submit to the Divine Service contained in the Book of Common Prayers of the Church of England And for as much as concerns the Ministers they shall be obliged to observe with Uniformity the said Liturgy without Addition or Alteration And no Conventicle or Congregation shall be suffered to make Sect apart or withdraw themselves from the Ecclesiastical Government established in the Island 4. The Lord's Day shall be sanctified by the Exercises of publick
undergo Purgation upon Oath or otherwise shall be held as if he were convicted 54. In Cases of Adultery at the Instance of either of the Parties the Proceedings shall go on maturely by good Proofs and Informations in order to have Evidence of the Fact objected And the Subject and Proof of the Fact requiring it the Court may proceed to Separation à Thoro Mensâ 55. Upon Proof of Calumny or Defamation the Party guilty shall make acknowledgment of the injury according to the Exigency of the Case provided the Suit be prosecuted before Lapse of Time or that a Year be expired and provided that the Matter of the Suit be of Crimes Ecclesiastical before specified Of Appeals 56. Appeals in Causes Ecclesiastical shall be heard and determined by the Reverend Father in God the Bishop of Winchester in Person or in the Vacancy of that See by the most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury in Person 57. All Appeals shall be entered within fifteen Days after notice of the Sentence and the Party shall be obliged to take out and exhibit the whole Process and Acts of the Register or Rolls of the Court which Acts shall also be delivered to him in Form and Time convenient authenticated under the Seal of the Office And the Appellant shall be bound to prosecute his Appeal within a Year and a Day aut Sententiae latae stare compellitur 58. It shall not be lawful to appeal but after Sentence Definitive of the Cause unless in these two Cases either when the Interlocutory is such as puts an End to the Cause or when the said Interlocutory being obeyed brings such irreparable Damage to the Party that he cannot be relieved by Appeal from the Sentence Definitive Table des Droicts appartenants au Doyen a ses Officiers pour toutes Causes Ecclesiastiques POur l'Approbation des Testaments où les Biens du Deffunct n'excéderont la Valeur de 50 l. Tournois de claro au Doyen o au Greffier pour l'Escriture Enregistrement 5 s. Pour l'Approbation des Testaments au dessus de la Valeur de 50 l. Tournois au Doyen 20 s au Greffier 10 s. Pour Lettres d'Administration où les Biens du Deffunct n'excéderont la Valeur de 50 l. Tournois de claro au Doyen o au Greffier pour l'Escriture de ladite Lettre 5 s. Pour Lettres d'Administration au dessus de ladite Somme au Doyen 30 s au Greffier 10 s. Pour Enregistrement des Inventoires des Biens des Pupilles là où ledit Inventoire ne se montera à 50 l. Tournois au Doyen o au Greffe pour ledit Enregistrement 3 s. Pour Enregistrement des dits Inventoires excédants la Somme de 50 l. Tournois au Doyen 20 s au Greffe 10 s. Pour Copie authentique desdits Testaments Lettres d'Administration ou Inventoires au Doyen pour son Sceau 5 s. au Greffe 5 s. Pour le Compulsoire des Testaments au Doyen Appariteur 10 s. Pour Dispense des Bans de Marriage au Doyen 30 s. Four la Sequestration des Fruicts d'aucun Bénéfice au Doyen 60 s. Pour Induction des Ministres au Doyen 30 s. Pour les Mandats Citations au Doyen 2 s. au Greffe pour l Escriture d'yceux 1 s. à l'Appariteur pour exécuter les Citations ou Mandats 2 s. 6 d. au Cousteur pour les Citations qu'il fera dans sa Paroisse 1 s. Au Doyen pour l'Absolution de la Mineure Excommunication 10 s. au Greffe 2 s. a l'Appariteur 2 s. 6 d. Au Doyen pour l'Absolution de la grande Excommunication 20 s. au Greffier 5 s. a l'Appariteur 5 s. Pour Causes entre Parties litigants la Partie succombante payera les Salaires Droicts des Officiers 3 s. par Acte a la Partie a chasque Tesmoin produit en Court 3 s. Aux Avocats de la Court pour chasque Cause qu'ils plaideront 5 s. Au Greffe pour chasque Acte de Court 1 s. Pour chasque premiere deffaute en Court 1 s. Pour la Contumace 3 s. Suivant ce que dessus est Ordonné que le Doyen ses Successeurs ou aucuns des Officiers qui sont à present seront par cy aprés ne pourront directement ny indirectement lever exiger ou recevoir des Habitants de ladite Isle autres Droicts Salaires que ceux qui sont Specifiés en la Table cy dessus escripte Plus outre est Ordonné que ce qui a esté par cy devant exercé mis en exécution en ladite Isle en quelques Causes que ce soit par Vertu d'aucune Jurisdiction Ecclesiastique demeurerà pour abrogé pour ne pouvoir estre tiré en President par ledit Doyen ou aucuns de ses Successeurs à exercer ou Executer en temps a venir contre ou outre la Teneur desdits Canons à present conceûs Ordonnés Mais que le tout soit rapportê limité au contenu desdits Canons Constitutions Ecclesiastiques Comme aussy ne sera donné aucun empeschement par le Magistrat Civil de ladite Isle audit Doyen ses Successeurs en l'Exécution paisible de ladite Jurisdiction au contenu d'iceux Canons comme n'estans prêjudiciables aux Priviléges Loix Coustumes de ladite Isle auxquelles n'est entendu déroger Donné sous nostre Signet comme devant est dit à nostre Palais de Greenwich le dernier jour de Juin l'An de nostre Regne d'Angleterre France Irelande le XXI me Et d'Escosse le LVI me PUrsuant to what is above said it is ordained that neither the Dean nor his Successors nor any of the Officers which are now or shall hereafter be shall either directly or indirectly raise exact or receive from the Inhabitants of the said Island any other Fees or Salaries than those specified in the Table above-written Moreover it is ordained that what has been heretofore done or put in Execution in the said Isle in any Causes whatsoever by virtue of any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction shall remain abrogated and shall not be drawn into Precedent by the said Dean or any of his Successors to exercise or execute the same in time to come contrary or beyond the Tenor of the said Canons now conceived and ordained But that all be referred to and limited by the Contents of the said Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical As also that there shall be no hindrance given by the Civil Magistrate in the said Island to the said Dean and his Successors in the peaceable Execution of the said Jurisdiction according to the Contents of the said Canons as not being prejudicial to the Priviledges Laws and Customs of the said Isle to which 't is not intended to Derogate Given under Our Signet as before is said at Our Palace at Greenwich the last Day of June in the Year of Our Reign of England France and Ireland the XXI th and of Scotland the LVI th