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A32989	Constitutions and canons ecclesiastical treated upon by the Bishop of London, president of the convocation for the province of Canterbury, and the rest of the bishops and clergy of the said province, and agreed upon with the King's Majesty's licence in their synod begun at London Anno Domini 1603, and in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord James, by the grace of God, King of England, France, and Ireland the first, and of Scotland the thirty seventh : and now published for the due observation of them, by His Majesty's authority, under the great seal of England.	Church of England.; Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610.	1678 (1678)	Wing C4101; ESTC R40829	53,888	80

pray for Christ's holy Catholick Church that is for the whole Congregation of Christian People dispersed throughout the whole World and especially for the Churches of England Scotland and Ireland And herein I require you most especially to pray for the Kings most excellent Majesty our Soveraingn Lord IAMES King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and Supream Governor in these his Realms and all other his Dominions and Countreys over all Persons in all Causes as well Ecclesiastical as Temporal Ye shall also pray for our gracious Queen Anne the Noble Prince HENRY and the rest of the King and Queens Royal Issue Ye shall also pray for the Ministers of Gods holy Word and Sacraments as well Archbishops and Bishops as other Pastors and Curates Ye shall also pray for the Kings most honourable Council and for all the Nobility and Magistrates of this Realm that all and every of these in their several Callings may serve truly and painfully to the glory of God and the edifying and well governing of his People remembring the Account that they must make Also ye shall pray for the whole Commons of this Realm that they may live in the true Faith and Fear of God in humble Obedience to the King and Brotherly Charity one to another Finally let us praise God for all those which are departed out of this Life in the Faith of Christ and pray unto God that we may have Grace to direct our Lives after their good Example that this life ended we may be made Partakers with them of the glorious Resurrection in the Life everlasting always concluding with the Lord's Prayer LVI Preachers and Lecturers to read Divine Service and administer the Sacraments twice a year at the least EVery Minister being possessed of a Benefice that hath Cure and Charge of Souls although he chiefly attend to Preaching and hath a Curate under him to execute the other Duties which are to be performed for him in the Church and likewise every other stipendiary Preacher that readeth any Lecture or catechiseth or preacheth in any Church or Chappel shall twice at the least every year read himself the Divine Service upon two several Sundays publickly and at the usual times both in the Fore-noon and After-noon in the Church which he so possesseth or where he Readeth Catechiseth or Preacheth as is aforesaid and shall likewise as often in every year administer the Sacraments of Baptism if there be any to be baptized and of the Lords Supper in such Manner and Form and with the Observation of all such Rites and Ceremonies as are prescribed by the Book of Common-Prayer in that behalf which if he do not accordingly perform then shall he that is possessed of a Benefice as before be suspended and he that is but a Reader Preacher or Catechiser be removed from his Place by the Bishop of the Diocess until he or they shall submit themselves to perform all the said Duties in such manner and sort as before is prescribed LVII The Sacraments not to be refused at the hands of unpreaching Ministers WHereas divers Persons seduced by false Teachers do refuse to have their Children baptized by a Minister that is no Preacher and to receive the Holy Communion at his hands in the same respect as though the Vertue of those Sacraments did depend upon his Ability to preach Forasmuch as the Doctrine both of Baptism and of the Lord's Supper is so sufficiently set down in the Book of Common-Prayer to be used at the Administration of the said Sacraments as nothing can be added unto it that is material or necessary We do require and charge every such Person seduced as aforesaid to reform that their Wilfulness and to submit himself to the Order of the Church in that behalf both the said Sacraments being equally effectual whether they be ministred by a Minister that is no Preacher or by one that is a Preacher And if any hereafter shall offend herein or leave their own Parish Churches in that respect and communicate or cause their Children to be baptized in other Parishes abroad and will not be moved thereby to reform that their Error and unlawful Course Let them be presented to the Ordinary of the place by the Minister Church-wardens and Side-men or Quest-men of the Parishes where they dwell and there receive such punishment by Ecclesiastical Censures as such Obstinacy doth worthily deserve that is Let them persisting in their wilfulness be suspended and then after a months further Obstinacy excommunicated And likewise if any Parson Vicar or Curate shall after the publishing hereof either receive to the Communion any such persons which are not of his own Church and Parish or shall baptize any of their Children thereby strengthening them in their said Errors Let him be suspended and not released thereof until he do faithfully Promise that he will not afterwards offend therein LVIII Ministers reading Divine Service and administring the Sacraments to wear Surplices and Graduates therewithal Hoods EVery Minister saying the publick Prayers or ministring the Sacraments or other Rites of the Church shall wear a decent and comely Surplice with Sleeves to be provided at the Charge of the Parish And if any question arise touching the Matter Decency or Comeliness thereof the same shall be decided by the Discretion of the Ordinary Furthermore such Ministers as are Graduates shall wear upon their Surplices at such times such Hoods as by the Orders of the Universities are agreable to their Degrees which no Minister shall wear being no Graduate under pain of Suspension Notwithstanding it shall be lawful for such Ministers as are not Graduates to wear upon their Surplices instead of Hoods some decent Tippet of black so it be not Silk LIX Ministers to catechize every Sunday EVery Parson Vicar or Curate upon every Sunday and Holy-day before Evening Prayer shall for half an hour or more examine and instruct the Youth and ignorant Persons of his Parish in the Ten Commandments the Articles of the Belief and in the Lord's Prayer and shall diligently hear instruct and teach them the Catechism set forth in the Book of Common Prayer And all Fathers Mothers Masters and Mistresses shall cause their Children Servants and Apprentices which have not learned the Catechism to come to the Church at the time appointed obediently to hear and to be ordered by the Minister until they have learned the same And if any Minister neglect his Duty herein let him be sharply reproved upon the first Complaint and true notice thereof given to the Bishop or Ordinary of the Place If after submitting himself he shall willingly offend therein again let him be suspended If so the third time there being little hope that he will be therein reformed then excommunicated and so remain until he will be reformed And likewise if any of the said Fathers Mothers Masters or Mistresses Children Servants or Apprentices shall neglect their Duties as the one sort in not causing them to come

CONSTITUTIONS AND Canons Ecclesiastical TREATED UPON By the BISHOP of LONDON President of the CONVOCATION FOR THE Province of CANTERBURY AND The rest of the Bishops and Clergy of the said Province AND Agreed upon with the King's Majesty's Licence in their Synod begun at London Anno Domini 1603. And in the Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord JAMES by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland the First and of Scotland the Thirty seventh AND Now Published for the due Observation of them by His Majesty's Authority UNDER THE Great Seal of England LONDON Printed for Samuel Mearne Stationer to the King 's most Excellent Majesty and Robert Pawlet 1678. JAMES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas our Bishops Deans of our Cathedral Churches Archdeacons Chapters and Colledges and the other Clergy of every Diocess within the Province of Canterbury being summoned and called by Virtue of our Writ directed to the most Reverend Father in God John late Archbishop of Canterbury and bearing Date the 31. Day of January in the First Year of Our Reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the 37. to have appeared before him in our Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London the 20. Day of March then next ensuing or elsewhere as he should have thought it most convenient to treat consent and conclude upon certain difficult and urgent Affairs mentioned in the said Writ Did thereupon at the time appointed and within the Cathedral Church of St. Paul aforesaid assemble themselves and appear in Convocation for that purpose according to Our said Writ before the Right Reverend Father in God Richard Bishop of London duly upon a second Writ of Ours dated the 9. Day of March aforesaid authorized appointed and constituted by reason of the said Archbishop of Canterbury his Death President of the said Convocation to execute those things which by Virtue of Our first Writ did appertain to him the said Archbishop to have executed if he had lived We for divers urgent and weighty Causes and Considerations Us thereunto especially moving of Our especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion did by Virtue of our Prerogative Royal and Supreme Authority in Causes Ecclsieastical give and grant by Our several Letters Patents under Our Great Seal of England the one dated the 12. Day of April last past and the other the 25. Day of June then next following full free and lawful Liberty Licence Power and Authority unto the said Bishop of London President of the said Convocation and to the other Bishops Deans Archdeacons Chapters and Colledges and the rest of the Clergy before mentioned of the said Province That they from time to time during Our first Parliament now Prorogued might confer treat debate consider consult and agree of and upon such Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions as they should think necessary fit and convenient for the Honour and Service of Almighty God the good and quiet of the Church and the better Government thereof to be from time to time observed performed fulfilled and kept as well by the Archbishops of Canterbury the Bishops and their Successors and the rest of the whole Clergy of the said Province of Canterbury in their several Callings Offices Functions Ministeries Degrees and Administrations as also by all and every Dean of the Arches and other Iudge of the said Archbishop's Courts Guardians of Spiritualties Chancellors Deans and Chapters Archdeacons Commissaries Officials Registers and all and every other Ecclesiastical Officers and their inferiour Ministers whatsoever of the same Province of Canterbury in their and every of their distinct Courts and in the order and manner of their and every of their Proceedings and by all other Persons within this Realm as far as lawfully being Members of the Church it may concern them as in our said Letters Patents amongst other Clauses more at large doth appear Forasmuch as the Bishop of London President of the said Convocation and others the said Bishops Deans Archdeacons Chapters and Colledges with the rest of the Clergy having met together at the time and place before mentioned and then and there by Virtue of Our said Authority granted unto them treated of concluded and agreed upon certain Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions to the end and purpose by Us limited and prescribed unto them and have thereupon offered and presented the same unto Us most humbly desiring Us to give Our Royal Assent unto their said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions according to the Form of a certain Statute or Act of Parliament made in that behalf in the 25. Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth and by Our said Prerogative Royal and Supreme Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical to ratifie by Our Letters Patents under Our Great Seal of England and to confirm the same the Title and Tenour of them being word for word as ensueth Constitutions and Canons ECCLESIASTICAL Treated upon by the Bishop of London President of the Convocation for the Province of Canterbury and the rest of the Bishops and Clergy of the said Province and agreed upon with the King's Majesty's Licence in their Synod begun at London Anno Dom. 1603. And in the year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord JAMES by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland the First and of Scotland the Thirty seventh Of the Church of ENGLAND I. The King's Supremacy over the Church of England in Causes Ecclesiastical to be maintained AS our Duty to the King 's most Excellent Majesty requireth We first decree and ordain That the Archbishop of Canterbury from time to time all Bishops of this Province all Deans Archdeacons Parsons Vicars and all other Ecclesiastical Persons shall faithfully keep and observe and as much as in them lieth shall cause to be observed and kept of others all and singular Laws and Statutes made for restoring to the Crown of this Kingdom the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and abolishing of all Foreign Power repugnant to the same Furthermore all Ecclesiastical Persons having Cure of Souls and all other Preachers and Readers of Divinity Lectures shall to the uttermost of their Wit Knowledge and Learning purely and sincerely without any colour or dissimulation teach manifest open and declare four times every Year at the least in their Sermons and other Collations and Lectures That all usurped and Foreign Power forasmuch as the same hath no Establishment nor ground by the Law of God is for most just Causes taken away and abolished and that therefore no manner of Obedience or Subjection within His Majesty's Realms and Dominions is due unto any such Foreign Power but that the King's Power within His Realms of England Scotland and Ireland and all other His Dominions and Countries is the Highest Power under God to whom all men as well Inhabitants as born within the same do by

now four times appointed in every Year for the Ordination of Deacons and Ministers there may ever be some time of trial of their behaviour in the Office of Deacon before they be admitted to the Order of Priesthood XXXIII The Titles of such as are to be made Ministers IT hath been long since provided by many Decrees of the Ancient Fathers that none should be admitted either Deacon or Priest who had not first some certain place where he might use his Function According to which Examples we do ordain that henceforth no Person shall be admitted into Sacred Orders except he shall at that time exhibit to the Bishop of whom he desireth Imposition of hands a Presentation of himself to some Ecclesiastical Preferment then void in that Diocess or shall bring to the said Bishop a true and undoubted Certificate that either he is provided of some Church within the said Diocess where he may attend the cure of Souls or of some Ministers place vacant either in the Cathedral Church of that Diocess or in some other Collegiate Church therein also situate where he may execute his Ministery or that he is a Fellow or in right as a Fellow or to be a Conduct or Chaplain in some Colledge in Cambridge or Oxford or except he be a Master of Arts of five years standing that liveth of his own Charge in either of the Universities or except by the Bishop himself that doth ordain him Minister he be shortly after to be admitted either to some Benefice or Curatship then void And if any Bishop shall admit any Person into the Ministery that hath none of these Titles as is aforesaid then he shall keep and maintain him with all things necessary till he do prefer him to some Ecclesiastical Living And if the said Bishop shall refuse so to do he shall be suspended by the Archbishop being assisted with another Bishop from giving of Orders by the space of a Year XXXIV The Quality of such as are to be made Ministers NO Bishop shall henceforth admit any Person into Sacred Orders which is not of his own Diocess except he be either of one of the Universities of this Realm or except he shall bring Letters Dimissory so termed from the Bishop of whose Diocess he is and desiring to be a Deacon is three and twenty years old and to be a Priest four and twenty years compleat and hath taken some Degree of School in either of the said Universities or at the least except he be able to yield an account of his Faith in Latin according to the Articles of Religion approved in the Synod of the Bishops and Clergy of this Realm One thousand five hundred sixty and two and to confirm the same by sufficient Testimonies out of the holy Scriptures and except moreover he shall then exhibit Letters Testimonial of his good Life and Conversation under the Seal of some College of Cambridge or Oxford where before he remained or of three or four grave Ministers together with the Subscription and Testimony of other credible Persons who have known his life and behaviour by the space of three years next before XXXV The Examination of such as are to be made Ministers THE Bishop before he admit any Person to holy Orders shall diligently examine him in the presence of those Ministers that shall assist him at the Imposition of hands And if the said Bishop have any lawful impediment he shall cause the said Ministers carefully to examine every such Person so to be Ordered Provided that they who shall assist the Bishop in examining and laying on of hands shall be of his Cathedral Church if they may conveniently be had or other sufficient Preachers of the same Diocess to the number of three at the least And if any Bishop or Suffragan shall admit any to Sacred Orders who is not so qualified and examined as before we have Ordained the Archbishop of his Province having notice thereof and being assisted therein by one Bishop shall suspend the said Bishop or Suffragan so offending from making either Deacons or Priests for the space of two years XXXVI Subscription required of such as are to be made Ministers NO Person shall hereafter be received into the Ministery nor either by Institution or Collation admitted to any Ecclesiastical Living nor suffered to Preach to Catechize or to be a Lecturer or Reader of Divinity in either University or in any Cathedral or Collegiate Church City or Market-Town Parish-Church Chapel or in any other place within this Realm except he be Licensed either by the Archbishop or by the Bishop of the Diocess where he is to be placed under their Hands and Seals or by one of the two Universities under their Seal likewise and except he shall first subscribe to these three Articles following in such manner and sort as we have here appointed 1. That the King's Majesty under God is the only Supream Governour of this Realm and of all other His Highness Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Things or Causes as Temporal and that no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within His Majesty's said Realms Dominions and Countries 2. That the Book of Common-Prayer and of Ordering of Bishops Priests and Deacons containeth in it nothing contrary to the Word of God and that it may lawfully so be used and that he himself will use the Form in the said Book prescribed in Publick Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and none other 3. That he alloweth the Book of Articles of Religion agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred sixty and two and that he acknowledgeth all and every the Articles therein contained being in number Nine and thirty besides the Ratification to be agreeable to the Word Of God To these three Articles whosoever will subscribe he shall for the avoiding of all ambiguities subscribe in this Order and Form of Words setting down both his Christian and Sirname viz. IN. N. do willingly and ex animo subscribe to these three Articles above-mentioned and to all things that are contained in them And if any Bishop shall Ordain Admit or License any as is aforesaid Except he first have subscribed in manner and form as here we have appointed he shall be suspended from giving of Orders and Licences to Preach for the space of twelve Months But if either of the Universities shall offend therein we leave them to the danger of the Law and His Majesty's Censure XXXVII Subscription before the Diocesan NOne Licensed as is aforesaid to Preach Read Lecture or Catechise coming to reside in any Diocess shall be permitted there to Preach Read Lecture Catechise or Minister the Sacraments or to execute any other Ecclesiastical Function by what Authority soever he

said Arch-Bishop Bishop or Suffragan shall for Parchment Writing Wax Sealing or any other respect thereunto appertaining take above ten shillings under such pains as are already by Law prescribed CXXXVI A Table of the Rates and Fees to be set up in Courts and Registries VVE do likewise constitute and appoint That the Registers belonging to every such Ecclesiastical Judge shall place two Tables containing the several Rates and Sums of all the said Fees one in the usual place or Consistory where the Court is kept and the other in his Registry and both of them in such sort as every man whom it concerneth may without difficulty come to the view and perusal thereof and take a Copy of them the same Tables to be so set up before the Feast of the Nativity next ensuing And if any Register shall fail to place the said Tables according to the Tenour hereof he shall be Suspended from the execution of his Office until he cause the same to be accordingly done And the said Tables being once set up if he shall at any time remove or suffer the same to be removed hidden or any way hindered from sight contrary to the true meaning of this Constitution he shall for every such offence be Suspended from the exercise of his Office for the space of six Months CXXXVII The whole Fees for shewing Letters of Orders and other Licences due but once in every Bishops time FOrasmuch as a chief and principal cause and use of Visitation is that the Bishop Arch-Deacon or other assigned to Visit may get some good knowledge of the State Sufficiency and Ability of the Clergy and other persons whom they are to Visit We think it convenient that every Parson Vicar Curate Schoolmaster or other person Licensed whosoever do at the Bishops first Visitation or at the next Visitation after his Admission shew and exhibit unto him his Letters of Orders Institution and Induction and all other his Dispensations Licences or Faculties whatsoever to be by the said Bishop either allowed or if there be just cause disallowed and rejected and being by him approved to be as the custom is signed by the Register and that the whole Fees accustomed to be paid in the Visitations in respect of the Premisses be paid only once in the whole time of every Bishop and afterwards but half of the said accustomed Fees in every other Visitation during the said Bishops continuance Apparitors CXXXVIII The Number of Apparitors restrained FOrasmuch as we are desirous to redress such abuses and aggrievances as are said to grow by Somners or Apparitors We think it meet that the multitude of Apparitors be as much as is possible abridged or restrained Wherefore we decree and ordain That no Bishop or Archdeacon or their Vicars or Officials or other inferior Ordinaries shall depute or have more Apparitors to serve in their Jurisdictions respectively then either they or their Predecessors were accustomed to have thirty years before the publishing of these our present Constitutitions All which Apparitors shall by themselves faithfully execute their Offices neither shall they by any colour or pretence whatsoever cause or suffer their Mandates to be executed by any Messengers or Substitutes unless it be upon some good cause to be first known and approved by the Ordinary of the place Moreover they shall not take upon them the Office of Promoters or Informers for the Court neither shall they exact more or greater Fees than are in these our Constitutions formerly prescribed And if either the number of the Apparitors deputed shall exceed the fore said limitation or any of the said Apparitors shall offend in any of the Premisses the Persons deputing them if they be Bishops shall upon Admonition of their Superiour discharge the Persons exceeding the number so limited If inferiour Ordinaries they shall be suspended from the execution of their Office until they have dismissed the Apparitors by them so deputed and the Parties themselves so deputed shall for ever be removed from the Office of Apparitors and if being so removed they desist not from the exercise of their said Offices let them be punished by Ecclesiastical censures as persons contumacious Provided that if upon experience the number of the said Apparitors be too great in any Diocess in the judgment of the Archbishop of Canturbury for the time being they shall by him be so abridged as he shall think meet and convenient Authority of Synods CXXXIX A National Synod the Church Representative WHosoever shall hereafter affirm that the sacred Synod of this Nation in the Name of Christ and by the KING's Authority assembled is not the true Church of England by representation let him be Excommunicated and not restored until he repent and publickly revoke that his wicked Error CXL Synods conclude as well the absent as the present WHosoever shall affirm That no manner of person either of the Clergy or Laity not being themselves particularly assembled in the said sacred Synod are to be subject to the Decrees thereof in causes Ecclesiastical made and ratified by the Kings Majesties supream Authority as not having given their voices unto them let him be Excommunicated and not restored until he repent and publickly revoke that his wicked Error CXLI Depravers of the Synod censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That the sacred Synod assembled as aforesaid was a company of such persons as did conspire together against godly and religious professors of the Gospel and that therefore both they and their proceedings in making of Canons and Constitutions in causes Ecclesiastical by the Kings Authority as aforesaid ought to be despised and contemned the same being ratified confirmed and enjoyed by the said Regal Power Supremacy and Authority let them be Excommunicated and not restored until they repent and publickly revoke that their wicked Error WE of our Princely inclination and Royal care for the maintenance of the present Estate and Government of the Church of England by the Laws of this our Realm now settled and established having diligently with great contentment and comfort read and considered of all these their said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions agreed upon as is before expressed and finding the same such as We are perswaded will be very profitable not only to our Clergy but to the whole Church of this our Kingdom and to all the true members of it if they be well observed Have therefore Us our Heirs and lawful Successors of our special Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion given and by these presents do give our Royal Assent according to the form of the said Statute or Act of Parliament aforesaid to all and every of the said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions and to all and every thing in them contained as they are before written And furthermore We do not only by our said Prerogative Royal and supream Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical ratifie confirm and establish by these our Letters Patents the said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions and all and