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england_n	archbishop_n	bishop_n	york_n	3,248	5	9.6221	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52125	An account of the growth of popery and arbitrary government in England more particularly, from the long prorogation of November, 1675, ending the 15th of February, 1676, till the last meeting of Parliament, the 16th of July, 1677.	Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.	1677 (1677)	Wing M860; ESTC R22809	99,833	162

Bill is a scandalous falshood and devised by the Authors to throw the Odium off from themselvs upon the Clergy and the Bills that aimed at the ruine of the Church of England having miscarried to compasse the same end by this defamation A sufficient warning to the Clargy how to be intrigued with the Statesmen for the future The second Bill follows An Act for further securing the Protestant Religion by Educating the Children of the Royal Family therein and for the providing for the continuance of a Protestant Clergy TO the Intent that the Protestant Religion which through the blessing of God hath been happily Established in this Realm and is at present sufficiently secured by his Majestys known Piety and Zeal for the preservation thereof may remain secure in all future times Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That upon the demise of his Majesty that now is to whom God grant a long and prosperous Reign and upon the demise of any other King or Queen Regnant that shall hereafter bear the Imperial Crown of this Realme the Arch-Bishops and all and every the Bishops of England and Wales for the time being as shall not be disabled by Sicknesse or other Infirmity shall within fourty dayes next after such Demise repaire to Lambeth House and being there assembled to the number of nine at least shall cause to be fairely ingrosed in Parchment the Oath and Declaration following 1. 〈◊〉 King or Queen of England do declare and Svvear that I do beleive that there is not any Transubstantiation in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper or in the Elements of Bread and Wine at or after the Consecration thereof by any person vvhatsoever So help me God Which blanck shall be filled up with the Christian Name of such King or Queen And thereupon the Prelates so bled shall without delay repaire to the persons of such succeeding King or Queen Regnant and in humble manner tender 〈◊〉 said Oath or Declaraiton to be taken by such succeeding King or Queen Regnant which they are hereby Authorised to Administer and shall abide in or near the Court by the space of fourteen dayes and at convenient 〈◊〉 as often as conveniently they may they shall appear in the presence of such King and Queen ready to receive Commands for Administring the said Oath and Declaration which if such succeeding King and Queen shall make and subscribe in presence of them or any nine or more of them they shall attest the doing thereof by subscribing their Names to a Certificate Indorsed upon the said Indorsment and carry the same into the high Court of Chancery there to be safely deposited amongst the Records of the said Court. And if such King or Queen Regnant shall refuse or omit to make and subscribe the said Oath and Decalration for the space of fourteen dayes after such humble tender made in manner aforesaid the said Prelates may depart from the Court without any further attendance on this occasion But if at any time afterward such King or Queen shall be pleased to take and subcribe the said Oath and Declaration and shall signifie such pleasure to the Arch-Bishops and Bishops or any nine or more of them the said Arch-Bishops and Bishops or such nine or more of them are hereby Authorised and required forthwith to Administer the same and to attest and certify the same in manner aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any succeeding King or Queen Regnant shall refuse or Omit to make such Oath and Declaration within the time therefore limitted the same having been tendered in manner aforesaid or there shall be any Let Obstruction or hindrance whatsoever to their making the said tender in manner aforesaid they are hereby enjoyned and required to endorse upon the said Engrosement such refusall or omission or any obstruction let or hinderance that shall happen to them whereby they are not able to make the said tender according to the Act and attest the same by subscribing their names thereunto and carry the same into the high Court of Chancery there to be safely deposited in manner aforesaid And if any the said persons hereby appointed to make the said tender shall neglect or refuse to do the same or in case of any refusal or omission of making the said Oath and Declaration or in case of any Obstruction or hindrance to the making of the said tender shall refuse or neglect to make certificate thereof in manner aforesaid that the Arch-Bishoprick or Bishoprick of the Person or Persons so refusing shall be Ipso Facto voide as if he or they were naturally Dead and the said Person or Persons shall be incapable during his or their Life or Lifes of that or any other Ecclesiastical perferment And be it further Enacted That if any King or Queen Regnant at the time when the Imprial Crown of this Realme shall devolve shall he under the age of fourteen years and that upon his or her attaining the said age of fourteen years the Arch-Bishops and Bishops shall and are upon the like penalties hereby enjoyned within fourteen dayes next after such attaining to the said Age to assemble at the said place and thereupon to do and perform all things in proparing and tendring the said Oath and Declaration and making certificate of the taking or omission thereof that are required by this Act to be done upon the demise of any King or Queen Regnant And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That untill any succeeding King or Queen Regnant shall make the said Oath and Declaration in manner aforesaid such respective King or Queen shall not grant confer or dispose of any Arch-Bishoprick or any Bishoprick in England or Wales otherwise than in manner following that is to say within seven dayes after the Vacancy of any Biship-prick or See shall be known to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for the time being he shall and is hereby required to send forth a Summons in Writing to all the Prelates in England and Wales requiring them to meet at a certain convenient time and place to be appointed by the summons to consult concerning the nomination of sit persons for the supply of that Vacancy And in case of vacancy of the Arch Bishop-prick of Canterbury the Arch Bishop of York for the time being And if that See shall be also vacant such Prelate of the Realm as by the Statute of 31 H. 8. ought to have place before the rest in Parliament shall and are hereby required to issue forth the said Summons and at the said time and place so appointed in manner aforesaid the Prelates then assembled being seven at the least or the major part of them shall by writing under their Hands and Seals nominate three persons natural born subjects of the King and in holy Orders

may effectally have the Care and Government of such Children according to the true intent of this Law Be it Enected That after any such Children shall have attained their respective Ages of fourteen years no person shall have enjoy bear and execute any office service imployment or place of attendment relateing to their persons but such as shall be approved of in writing under the Hands and Seals of the said Arch-Bishops and Bishops in being or the Major part of such of them as are there in being And if any person shall take upon him to Execute any such Office Service Imployment or place of Attendance contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act he shall forfeit the sum of 100 l. for every moneth he shall so Execute the same to be recovered by any person that will sue for the same in any Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information ' in any of his Majesties Courts at VVestminister shall also suffer Imprisonment for the space of six months without Bayle or Manieprize And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person born within this Realme or any other of his Majesties Dominions being a Popish Preist Deacon or Ecclesiiastical Person made or deemed or professed by any Authority or Jurisdiction derived challenged or pretended from the See of Rome or any Jesuite whatsoever shall be allowed to attend the person of the Queens Majesty that now is or any Quen Consort or Queen Dowager that shall be hereafter whilst they are within this Realme ●…or by pretence of such service or any other matter shall be Exempted from the penall Laws already made against such persons coming into being or remaining in this Kingdom but shall be and are hereby lyable to the utmost severity thereof Provided alwayes That it shall and may be lawfull for Master John Huddleston being one of the Queens Majesties Domestique servant to attend her said Majesties service any thing in this Act or any other Law to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted That after the Death of the Queens Majesty to whom God grant a long and happy life all lay persons whatsoever born within this Realme or any other of his Majesties Dominions that shall be of the Houshold or in the service or Employment of any succeeding Queen Consort or Queen Dowager shall do and performe all things in a late Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for preventing Dangers vvhich may happen from Popish Recusants required to be done and performed by any person that shall be admitted into the service or Employment of his Majesty or his Royal Highnesse the Duke of York which if they shall neglect or refuse to do and perform and neverthelesse after such Refusall and execute any Office Service or Employment under any succeeding Queen Consort or Queen Dowager every person so offending shall be lyable to the same penalties and disabilities as by the said Act are may be inflicted upon the breakers of that Law Provided alwayes That all and every person or persons that shallby vertue of this Act have or claym any Arch-Bishoprick Bishoprick Deanry Prebendary Parsonage Vicarage or other Ecclesiastical Benefits with Cure or without Cure shall be and is hereby enjoyned under the like penalties and disabilitys to do and perform all things whatsoever which by Law they ought to have done if they had obteyned the same and by the usuall course and form of Law without the help and benefit of this Act. And be it further Enacted That all and every Arch-Bishops Bishops appointed by this Act to Assemble upon the Demise of his Majesty or any other King or Queen Regnant in order to repaire and make humble tender of the Oath and Declaration aforementioned to any succeeding King or Queen be bound by this Act to Administer the same shall before such tender and Administration thereof and are hereby required to Administer the same Oath and Declaration to one another with such of the Arch-Bishops and Bishops at any time assembled as by the statute 31. H. 8. ought to have precedence of all the rest of them that shall be so assembled is hereby Authorized and required to administer to the rest of them and the next in order to such Prelates is hereby Authorized and required to administer the same to him and the same Oath and Declaration being Engrossed in other peice of Parchment they and every of them are hereby enjoyned to subscribe their names to the same and to return the same into the high Court of Chancery hereafter with their Certificate which they are before by this Act appointed to make And if any of the said Arch-Bishops or Bishops shall be under 〈◊〉 same penalties forfeiture and disabilities as are hereby ●…ointed for such Arch-Bishops and Bishops as neglect or refuse to make any tender of the said Oath and Declaration to any succeeding King or Queen Regnant And be it further Enacted That the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury or Arch-Bishop of York or such other Bishop to whom it shall belong to issue forth summons to all the Bishops of England and Wales requiring to meet and consult concerning the Nomination of fit persons for the supply of any Arch-Bishopprick or Bishopprick according to this Act shall make the said summons in such manner that the time therein mentioned for the meeting the said arch-Arch-Bishops and Bishops shall not be more then forty days distinct from the time of the Date and Issuing out of the said summons And be it further Enacted That in case any person intituled by this Act doth demand Consecration in order to make him Bishop of any vacant See in manner aforesaid shall demand the same of the Arch-Bishop of the Province and such Arch Bishop that shall neglect or refuse to do the same either by himself or by others Commissioned by him by the space of thirty days that then such Arch Bishop shall over and besides the trebble Dammages to the party before appointed forfeit the summe of 1000 l. to any person that will sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And being thereof lawfully convicted his Arch-Bishopprick shall thereby become Ipso Facto voyd as if he were naturally Dead and he shall be and is hereby made uncapable and disabled to hold have receive the same or any other Bishopprick or Ecclesiastical Benefice whatsoever And be it further Enacted That after such neglect or refusall by the space of thirty dayes after Demand to make such Consecration or in case of the vacancy of the Arch-Bishopprick such Bishop of the said Province for time being who by the Statute of 31. H. 8. ought to have presidents of all the rest calling to his Assistance a sufficient number of Bishops who are likewise required to assist at such time and place as he shall thereunto appoint shall and is hereby required upon reasonable