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A79651	A collection of articles, injunctions, canons, orders, ordinances and consitutions ecclesiastical, with other publick records of the Church of England chiefly in the times of K. Edward VI. Q. Elizabeth, [double brace] K. James, & K. Charles I. Published to vindicate the Church of England, and to promote uniformity and peace in the same. : With a learned preface by Anthony Sparrow, D.D. Lord Bishop of Norwich.	Church of England.; Sparrow, Anthony, 1612-1685.; England and Wales. Laws, etc.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4094cA; ESTC R173968	232,380	430

eisdem Archiepiscopo Episcopo vel Suffragano subservientes pro membrana scriptione cera sigillatione vel alia quavis causa hoc negotium contingente supra decem solidos percipient sub paenis hac in parte lege constitutis 136. Statarius Feodorum census in tabulas relatus publicè in Consistoriis Archivis proponendus STatuimus porrò ordinamus ut cujusque Judicis Ecclesiastici Registrarius tabulas binas in quibus certae singulorum feodorum summae separatim exprimentur publicè figi curet proponi unam in Confistorio vel loco consueto ubi dicta Curia teneri solet alteram in suo Archivo utramque in loco ita congruo ut quilibet cujus intererit ejusdem inspiciendae legendae vel etiam transcribendae liberam habeat facultatem quod ante Festum Nativitatis proximè futurum perfici volumus Quod siquis Registrarius dictas tabulas juxta tenorem praemissorum publicê figendas non curaverit ab executione Officii sui eousque suspendetur quoad praemissa modo forma specificatis perfecerit easque tabulas semel fixas siquando vel auferet v●l in fraudem hujus Constitutionis ex loco in quo primùm positae erant removeri vel quovis pacto occultari patietur tunc pro singulis ejusmodi delictis ab exercitio muneris sui per semestre spatium suspendetur 137. Feoda pro ordinum literis aliisque licentiis Episcocopo exhibendis tantùm dimidia praeterquam in prima Episcopi visitatione persolvenda CUm non minima sit Visitationis causa effectus ut Episcopus Archidiaconus aut alius Visitans de statu sufficientia facultatibus Cleri aliorum visitandorum perfectiorem aliquem notitiam consequantur aequum duximus ut quilibet Rector Vicarius Curatus Ludimagister alius quicunque licentiatus literas Ordinum Institutionis Inductionis itemque Dispensationes Licentias Facultates suas quascunque in Visitatione prima illius Episcopi vel in proxima post ejus admissionem exhibeat per dictum Visitantem approbandas aut si justa fuerit causa rejiciendas si approbatae fuerint per Registrarium uti moris est consignandas quodque feoda in Visitationibus intuitu praemissorum consueta solvi semel duntaxat tempore alicujus Episcopi integra persolvantur in reliquis verò ejusdem Visitationibus quamdiu in ea sede permanserit dictorum feodorum dimidium tantùm exigatur Apparitores 138. Apparitorum excessus coerciti QUoniam excessibus gravaminibus quae per Apparitores inferri dicuntur remedium cupimus adhibere opportunum censemus Apparitorum multitudinem quantum fieri poterit restringendam Statuimus ergo ordinamus nullatenùs licitum fore Episcopis vel Archidiaconis eorumve Vicariis seu Officialibus aliisque inferioribus Ordinariis deputare habere plures Apparitores jurisdictionibus suis respectivè infervientes quàm ante triginta annos praet●ritos vel ipsi vel ipsorum praedecessores habere consueverunt qui omnes per se suum fideliter exequantur Officium nec per nuntios aut substitutos quocunque quaesito colore suâ vice mandatorum executiones demandent aut permittant nisi ex causa à loci O dinario priùs cognita approbata neque vero promotorum Officii vel denunciatorum personas omninô sustinebunt feodave ampliora vel majora quàm quae his Constitutionibus superiùs statuuntur ullatenùs exiget Quòd si vel plures quàm superiùs est expressum deputati extiterint vel illorum aliqui praemissa violaverint deputantes si Episcopi sint per Superiorem moniti supernumerarios dimittant si Ordinarii Episcopis inferiores ab executione Officii suspendantur donec hujusmodi deputatos amoverint Deputati autem ipsi ab Apparitorum Officio amoveantur perpetuô si amoti non desistant tanquam contumaces Canonicis censuris coerceantur Proviso semper quòd si Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis experientia compertum habuerit Apparitorum numerum in aliqua Dioecesi redundare tum omnem ejusmodi redundantiam dicto Archiepiscopo relinquimus pro ipsius beneplacito minuendam Authoritas Synodorum 139. Synodus nationalis Ecclesia repraesentativa QUisquis de caetero affirmabit sacrosanctam hujus Nationis Synodum in Christi nomine ac de Regis mandato congregatam non esse repraesentativè veram Ecclesiam Anglicanam excommunicetur nequaquàm absolvendus priusquam resipuerit impium hunc errorem publicè revocârit 140. Synodi acta tàm absentes quàm praesentes obligant QUisquis de caetero affirmabit nullos sive Clericos sive Laicos qui in eàdem sacra Synodo personaliter non convenerint ejusdem Decretis Ecclesiasticas causas concernentibus quantumvis ex suprema Regiae Majestatis authoritate conditis per eandem ratihabitis ullatenùs obligari ut quibus ipsi votum consensum suum non praebuerint excommunicetur nequaquam absolvendus priusquam resipuerit ac impium hunc errorem publicè revocârit 141. Synodi authoritati derogantes coerciti QUsquis de caetero affi●mabit dictam sacram Synodum congregatam ut suprà fuisse coetum ex talibus conflatum qui in pios religiosos Evangelii professores conspirabant ac proinde tùm ipsos tùm ipsorum act● in Canonibus sive Constitutionibus circa causas Ecclesiasticas ex Regis authoritate ut praedictum est condendis ac sanciendis rejici ac contemni debere quantumvis eaedem per dictam potestatem Regiam ac supremam ej sdem authoritatem ratihabitae confirmatae ac injunctae sint excommunicetur haudquaquam absolvendus priùsquam resipuerit ac impium hunc errorem publicè revocârit FINIS CONSTITUTIONS AND CANONS ECCLESIASTICAL Treated upon by the ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBVRY YORK Presidents of the Convocations for the respective Provinces of Canterbury and York and the rest of the Bishops and Clergy of those Provinces And agreed upon with the Kings Majesties License in their several Synods begun at London and York 1640. In the year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland the Sixteenth And now published for the due observation of them by His Majesties Authority under the Great Seal of England London Printed by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty and by the Assigns of John Bill 1640. CHARLES 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 several Provinces of Canterbury and York being respectively summoned and called by vertue of our several Writs to the most Reverend Father in God Our right trusty and right well-beloved Councellor William by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of all England and Metropolitan and to the most Reverend Father in God Our right

the twelfth day of May then next following for the Province of Canterbury And by Our like Letters Patents dated the seven and twentieth day of the same month of April and the twentieth day of the month of May aforesaid for the Province of York did give and grant full free and lawful liberty license power and authority unto the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury President of the said Convocation for the Province of Canterbury and unto the said Lord Archbishop of York President of the said Convocation for the Province of York and to the rest of the Bishops of the said Provinces and unto all Deans of Cathedral Churches Archdeacons Chapters and Colledges and the whole Clergy of every several Diocess within the said several Provinces and either of them that they should and might from time to time during the Present Parliament and further during Our will and pleasure confer treat debate consider consult and agree of and upon Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions as they should think necessary fit and convenient for the honor 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 said Archbishop of Canterbury and the said Archbishop of York the Bishops and their Successors and the rest of the whole Clergy of the said several Provinces of Canterbury and York in their several Callings Offices Functions Ministeries Degrees and Administrations As by all and every Dean of the Arches and other Iudges of the said several Archbishops of Courts Guardians of Spiritualties Chancellours Deans and Chapters Archdeacons Commissaries Officials Registers and all and every other Ecclesiastical Officers and their inferiour Ministers whatsoever of the same respective Provinces of Canterbury and York 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 Now forasmuch as the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury President of the said Convocation for the Province of Canterbury and the said Archbishop of York President of the said Convocation for the Province of York and others the said Bishops Deans Archdeacons Chapters and Colledges with the rest of the Clergy having met together respectively at the time and places before mentioned respectively and then and there by vertue 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 Vs limited and prescribed unto them and have thereupon offered and presented the same unto Vs most humbly desiring Vs to give Our Royal assent unto the same according to the form of a certain Statute or Act of Parliament made in that behalf in the five and twentieth 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 Archbishops of Canterbury and York Presidents of the Convocations for the respective Provinces of Canterbury and York and the rest of the Bishops and Clergy of those Provinces And agreed upon with the Kings Majesties License in their several Synods begun at London and York 1640. In the year of the Raign of our Soveraign Lord CHARLES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland the Sixteenth I. Concerning the Regal Power WHereas sundry Laws Ordinances and Constitutions have been formerly made for the acknowledgment and profession of the most lawful and independent Authority of our dread Soveraign Lord the Kings most Excellent Majesty over the State Ecclesiastical and Civil We as our duty in the first place binds us and so far as to us appertaineth enjoyn them all to be carefully observed by all persons whom they concern upon the penalties of the said Laws and Constitutions expressed And for the fuller and clearer instruction and information of all Christian people within this Realm in their duties in this particular We do further ordain and decree That every Parson Vicar Curate or Preacher upon some one Sunday in every quarter of the year at Morning-prayer shall in the place where he serves treatably and audably read these Explanations of the Regal Power here inserted THE most High and Sacred Order of Kings is of Divine Right being the Ordinance of God Himself founded in the prime Laws of Nature and clearly established by express Texts both of the Old and New Testaments A supreme Power is given to this most excellent Order by God Himself in the Scriptures which is That Kings should Rule and Command in their several Dominions all persons of what rank or estate soever whether Ecclesiastical or Civil and that they should restrain and punish with the Temporal Sword all stubborn and wicked doers The care of Gods Church is so committed to Kings in the Scripture that they are commended when the Church keeps the right way and taxed when it runs amiss and therefore her Government belongs in chief unto Kings For otherwise one man would be commended for anothers care and taxed but for anothers negligence which is not Gods way The Power to call and dissolve Councils both National and Provincial is the true right of all Christian Kings within their own Realms and Territories And when in the first times of Christs Church Prelates used this Power 't was therefore only because in those days they had no Christian Kings And it was then so only used as in times of persecution that is with supposition in case it were required of submitting their very lives unto the very Laws and Commands even of those Pagan Princes thar they might not so much as seem to disturb their Civil Government which Christ came to confirm but by no means to undermine For any person or persons to set up maintain or avow in any their said Realms or Territorities respectively under any pretence whatsoever any independent Coactive Power either Papal or Popular whether directly or indirectly is to undermine their great Royal Office and cunningly to overthrow that most sacred Ordinance which God Himself hath established And so is treasonable against God as well as against the King For Subjects to bear Arms against their Kings Offensive or Defensive upon any pretence whatsoever is at least to resist the Powers which are ordained of God And though they do not invade but only resist St. Paul tells them plainly They shall receive to themselves damnation And although Tribute and Custom and Aid and Subsidy and all manner of necessary support and supply be respectively due to Kings from their Subjects by the Law of God

of this Realm And also that if there shall happen any contempt or irreverence to be used in the Ceremonies or Rites of the Church by the misusing of the orders appointed in this Book the Queens Majesty may by the like advice of the said Commissioners or Metropolitan ordain and publish such farther Ceremonies or Rites as may be most for the advancement of Gods glory the edifying of his Church and the due reverence of Christs holy mysteries and Sacraments And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Laws All Laws and Ordinances made for other service shall be void Statutes and Ordinances wherein or whereby any other Service Administration of Sacraments or Common-prayer is limited established or set forth to be used within this Realm or any other the Queens Dominions or Countries shall from henceforth be utterly void and of none effect Coke pla fol. 352. A Clause Anno 8. Eliz. cap. 1. A Confirmation of the Stat. of 2 Eliz. 1 touching the Book of Common-prayer and Administration of the Sacraments WHerefore for the plain declaration of all the premises and to the intent that the same may the better be known to every of the Queens Majesties Subjects whereby such evil speech as heretofore hath been used against the high state of Prelacy may hereafter cease Be it now declared and enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That the said Act and Statute made in the first year of the Reign of our said Severaign Lady the Queens Majesty whereby the said Book of Common-prayer and the Administration of Sacraments with other Rites and Ceremonies is authorised and allowed to be used shall stand remain good and perfect to all respects and purposes And that such order and form for the Consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops A Confirmation of the Stat. of 5. 6. Ed. 6. 1. touching the form of consecrating of Archbishops c. and for the making of Priests Deacons and Ministers as was set forth in the time of the said late King Edward the sixth and authorized by Parliament in the fifth and sixth years of the said late King shall stand and be in full force and effect and shall from henceforth be used and observed in all places within this Realm and other the Queens Majesties Dominions and Countries Anno 13. Eliz. cap. 12. Reformation of Disorders in the Ministers of the Church c. THat the Churches of the Queens Majesties Dominions may be served with Pastors of sound Religion be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament that every person under the degree of a Bishop which doth or shall pretend to be a Priest or Minister of Gods holy Word and Sacraments by reason of any other form of Institution Consecration or ordering than the form set forth by Parliament in the time of the late King of most worthy memory 3 Ed. 6. 12. 5 Ed 6. 1. Dyer f. 377. King Edward the sixth or now used in the Reign of our most gracious Soveraign Lady before the Feast of the Nativity of Christ next following shall in the presence of the Bishop or Guardian of the Spiritualities of some one Diocess where he hath or shall have Ccclesiastical Living declare his assent and subscribe to all the Articles of Religion which only concern the Confession of the true Christian Faith and the Doctrine of the Sacraments comprised in a Book imprinted entituled Articles Every Ecclesiastical person shall subscribe to the Articles touching the Confession of the Faith and declare his assent there unto Reading of the Articles and Testimonial The penalty of maintaining of Doctrine against the Articles whereupon it was agreed by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the year of our Lord 1562. according to the computation of the Church of England for the avoiding of the diversities of Opinions and for the establishing of consent touching true Religion put forth by the Queens Authority and shall bring from such Bishop or Guardian of Spiritualities in writing under his Seal authentick a testimonial of such assent and subscription openly on some Sunday in the time of some publick Service afternoon in every Church where by reason of any Ecclesiastical living he ought to attend read both the said testimonial and the said Articles upon pain that every such person which shall not before the said Feast do as is appointed shall be ipso facto deprived and all his Ecclesiastical promotions shall be void as if he were then naturally dead And that if any person Ecclesiastical or which shall have Ecclesiastical Livings shall advisedly maintain or affirm any Doctrine directly contrary or repugnant to any of the said Articles and being convented before the Bishop of the Diocess or the Ordinary or before the Queens Highness Commissioners in causes Ecclesiastical shall persist therein or not revoke his errour or after such revocation eftsoons affirm such untrue Doctrine such maintaining or affirming and persisting or such eftsoon affirming shall be just cause to deprive such person of his Ecclesiastical Promotions And it shall be lawful to the Bishop of the Diocess Several things required in him which shall be admitted to a Benefice or to the Ordinary or the said Commissiones to deprive such persons so persisting or lawfully convicted of such eftsoons affirming and upon such sentence or deprivation pronounced he shall be indeed deprived And that no person shall hereafter be admitted to any Benefice with Cure except he then be of the age of 23 years at the least and a Deacon shall first have subscribed the said Articles in presence of the Ordinary and publickly read the same in the Parish-Church of that Benefice with declaration of his unfeigned assent to the same And that every person after the end of this Session of Parliament to be admitted to a Benefice with Cure except that within two Months after his Induction he do publickly read the said Articles in the same Church whereof he shall have Cure in the time of Common-prayer there with declaration of his unfeigned assent thereto and be admitted to minister the Sacraments within one year after his Induction if he be not so admitted before shall be upon every such default ipso facto immediately dep●ived And that no person now permitted by any dispensation or otherwise shall retain any Benefice with Cure being under the age of 21 years or not being Deacon at the least or which shall not be admitted as is aforesaid within one year next after the making of this Act or within six Months after he shall accomplish the age of 24 years on pain that such his dispensation shall be meerly void The Age of a Minister or Preacher and his testimonial And that none shall be made Minister or admitted to preach or administer the Sacraments being under the age of 24 years nor unless he first bring to the Bishop of that Diocess from

trusty and well-beloved Councellor Richard by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of York Primate and Metropolitan of England respectively directed bearing date the twentieth day of February in the fifteenth year of Our Reign to appear before the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury in Our Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London and before the said Lord Archb●shop of York in the Metropolitan Church of St. Peter in York the fourteenth day of April then next ensuing or elsewhere as they respectively should think it most convenient to treat consent and conclude upon certain difficult and urgent affairs contained in the said Writs Did thereupon at the time appointed and within the Cathedral Church of S. Paul and the Metropolitan Church of S. Peter aforesaid assemble themselves respectively together and appear in several Convocations for that purpose according to the said several Writs before the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the said Lord Archbishop of York respectively And forasmuch as We are given to understand that many of Our Subjects being misled against the Rites and Ceremonies now used in the Church of England have lately taken offence at the same upon an unjust supposal that they are not only contrary to Our Laws but also introductive unto Popish Superstitions whereas it well appeareth unto Vs upon mature consideration that the said Rites and Ceremonis which are now so much quarrelled at were not onely approved of and used by those learned and godly Divines to whom at the time of Reformation under King Edward the sixth the compiling of the Book of of Common-Prayer was committed divers of which suffered Martyrdom in Queen Maries days but also again taken up by this whole Church under Queen Elizabeth and so duly and ordinarily practised for a great part of her Reign within the memory of divers yet living as that it could not then be imagined that there would need any Rule or Law for the observation of the same or that they could be thought to savour of Popery And albeit since those times for want of an express Rule therein and by subtile practises the said Rites and Ceremonies began to fall into disuse and in place thereof other forraign and unfitting usages by little and little to creep in Yet forasmuch as in our own Royal Chappels and in many other Churches most of them have been ever constantly used and observed We cannot now but be very sensible of this matter and have cause to conceive that the Authors and Fomentors of these jealousies though they colour the same with a pretence of Zeal and would seem to strike only at some supposed iniquity in the said Ceremonies Yet as we have cause to fear aim at Our own Royal Person and would fain have Our good Subjects imagine that we Our Self are perverted and doe worship God in a Superstitious way and that we intend to bring in some alteration of the Religion here established Now how far we are from that and how utterly We detest every thought thereof We have by many publick Declaracions and otherwise upon sundry occasions given such assurance to the World as that from thence We also assure Our Self that no man of wisdom and discretion could ever be so beguiled as to give any serious entertainment to such brain-sick jealousies and for the weaker sort who are prone to be misled by crafty seducers We rest no less confident that even of them as many as are of loyal or indeed but of charitable hearts will from henceforth utterly banish all such causeless fears and surmises upon these our sacred professions so often made by Vs a Christian Defender of the Faith their King and Soveraign And therefore if yet any person under whatsoever mask of Zeal or counterfeit Holiness shall henceforth by speech or writing or any other way notwithstanding these Our right hearty faithful and solemn Protestations made before Him whose Deputy We are against all and every intention of any Popish Innovation be so ungracious and presumptuous as to vent any poisoned conceits tending to such a purpose and to cast these develish aspersions and jealousies upon Our Royal and Godly proceedings We require all Our loyal Subjects that they forthwith make the same known to some Magistrate Ecclesiastical or Civil And We straightly charge all Ordinaries and every other person in any Authority under Vs as they will answer the contrary at their utmost peril that they use no palliation connivance or delay therein but that taking particular information of all the passages they do forthwith certifie the same unto Our Court of Commission for causes Ecclesiastical to be there examined and proceeded in with all fidelity and tenderness of Our Royal Majesty as is due to Vs their Soveraign Lord and Governour But forasmuch as we well percieve that the misleaders of Our well-minded people do make the more advantage for the nourishing of this distemper among them from hence that the foresaid Rites and Ceremonies or some of them are now insisted upon but only in some Diocesses and are not generally revived in all places nor constantly and uniformly practised thorowout all the Churches of Our Realm and thereupon have been liable to be quarrelled and opposed by them who use them not We therefore out of Our Princely inclination to Vniformity and Peace in matters especially that concern the holy worship of God proposing to Our Self herein the pious examples of King Edward the sixth and of Queen Elizabeth who sent forth Injunctions and Orders about the Divine Service and other Ecclesiastical matters and of Our dear Father of blessed memory King James who published a Book of Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical and according to the Act of Parliament in this behalf having fully advised herein with Our Metropolitan and with Our Commissioners authorised under Our great Seal for causes Ecclesiastical have thought good to give them free leave to treat in Convocation and agree upon certain other Canons necessary for the advancement of Gods glory the edifying of his holy Church and the due reverence of his blessed Mysteries and Sacraments that as We ever have been and by Gods assistance by whom alone We Reign shall ever so continue careful and ready to cut off Superstition with one hand so We may no less expel Irreverence and Profaneness with the other whereby it may please Almighty God so to bless Vs and this Church committed to Our Government that it may at once return unto the true former splendour of Vniformity Devotion and holy Order the lustre whereof for some years by-past hath been overmuch obscured through the devices of some ill-affected to that sacred Order wherein it had long stood from the very beginning of the Reformation and through inadvertency of some in Authority in the Church under Vs We therefore by vertue of Our Prerogative Royal and supreme Authority in causes Ecclesiastical by Our several and respective Letters Patents under Our Great Seal of England dated the fifteenth day of April now last past and

Nature and Nations for the publick defence care and protection of them yet nevertheless Subjects have not only possession of but a true and just right title and propriety to and in all their Goods and Estates and ought to have And these two are so far from crossing one another that they mutually go together for the honourable and comfortable support of both For as it is the duty of the Subjects to supply their King so is it part of the Kingly Office to support his Subjects in the property and freedom of their Estates And if any Parson Vicar Curate or Preacher shall voluntarily or carelesly neglect his duty in publishing the said Explications and Conclusions according to the Order above described he shall be suspended by his Ordinary till such time as upon his penitence he shall give sufficient assurance or evidence of his amendment and in case he be of any exempt jurisdiction he shall be censurable to his Majesties Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical And we do also hereby require all Archbishops Bishops and all other inferiour Priests and Ministers that they Preach Teach and Exhort their People to obey honor and serve their King and that they presume not to speak of His Majesties Power in any other way than in this Canon is expressed And if any Parson Vicar Curate Preacher or any other Ecclesiastical Person whatsoever any Dean Canon or Prebendary of any Collegiate or Cathedral Church any Member or Student of Colledge or Hall or any Reader of Divinity or Humanity in either of the Universities or elsewhere shall in any Sermon Lecture Common-place Determination or Disputation either by word or writing publickly maintain or abet any position or conclusion in opposition or impeachment of the aforesaid explications or any part or Article of them he shall forthwith by the Power of His Majesties Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical be excommunicated till he repent and suspended two years from all the profits of his Benefice or other Ecclesiastical Academical or Scholastical Preferments And if he so offend a second time he shall be deprived from all his Spiritual Promotions of what nature or degree soever they be Provided always that if the offence aforesaid be given in either of the Universities by Men not having any Benefice or Ecclesiastical Preferment that then the Delinquent shall be censured by the ordinary authority in such cases of that University respectivly where the said fault shall be committed II. For the better keeping of the day of His Majesties most happy Inauguration THe Synod taking into consideration the most inestimable benefits which this Church enjoyeth under the peaceable and blessed Government of our dread Sovereign Lord King CHARLES and finding that as well the godly Christian Emperors in the former times as our own most Religious Princes since the Reformation have caused the days of their Inaugurations to be publickly celebrated by all their Subjects with Prayers and Thanksgiving to Almighty God and that there is a particular form of Prayer appointed by Authority for that day and purpose and yet withal considering how negligent some people are in observance of this day in many places of this Kingdom Doth therefore decree and ordain That all manner of Persons within the Church of England shall from henceforth celebrate and keep the morning of the said day in coming diligently and reverently unto thei Parish Church or Chap. at the time of Prayer and there continuing all the while that the Prayers Preaching or other service of the day endureth in testimony of their humble gratitude to God for so great a blessing and dutiful affections to so benign and merciful a Soveraign And for the better execution of this our Ordinance the holy Synod doth straightly require and charge and by authority hereof enableth all Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters Archdeacons and other Ecclesiastical persons having exempt or peculiar jurisdiction as also all Chancellors Commissaries and Officials in the Church of England that they enquire into the keeping of the same in their Visitations and punish such as they shall find to be delinquent according as by Law they are to censure and punish those who wilfully absent themselves from Church on Holy-days And that the said day may be the better observed we do enjoyn that all Church-wardens shall provide at the Parish-charge two of those Books at least appointed for that day and if there be any want of the said Book in any Parish they shall present the same at all Visitations respectively III. For the suppressing of the growth of Popery ALL and every Ecclesiastical persons of what rank or condition soever Archbishops and Bishops Deans Archdeacons all having exempt or peculiar jurisdiction with their several Chancellors Commissaries and Officials all persons intrusted with cure of souls shall use respectively all possible care and diligence by conferring privately with the parties and by censures of the Church in inferiour and higher Courts as also by complaints unto the Secular Power to reduce all such to the Church of England who are misled into Popish Superstition And first These private Conferences shall be performed in each several Diocess either by the Bishop in person if his occasion will permit it or by some one or more learned Ministers at his special appointment and the said Bishop shall also defign the time and place of the said several Conferences and all such persons as shall be present thereat which if Recusants refuse to observe they shall be taken for obstinate and so certified to the Bishop And if the said time and place be not observed by the Minister or Ministers so appointed they shall be suspended by their Ordinary for the space of six months without a very reasonable cause alledged to the contrary Provided that they be not sent above ten miles from their dwelling If the said Conferences prevail not the Church must and shall come to her Censures and to make way for them the said Ecclesiastical persons shall carefully inform themselves in the places belonging to their several charges of all Recusants above the age of twelve years both of such as come not at all to Church as also of those who coming sometimes thither do yet refuse to receive the holy Eucharist with us as likewise of all those who shall either say or hear Mass and they shall in a more especial manner enquire out all those who are either dangerously active to seduce any Persons from the Communion of the Church of England or seditiously busie to disswade his Majesties Subjects from taking the Oath of Allegiance together with all them who abused by their Sophistry refuse to take the said Oath And we straightly command all Parsons Vicars and Curates that they carefully and severally present at all Visitations the names and sirnames of the Delinquents of these several kinds in their own Parishes under pain of suspension for six months And likewise we straightly enjoyn all Church-wardens and the like sworn Officers whatsoever that by

Privigni filius Aff. Privignae filia 24 Wives daugh daug 24 Husb. daught son ff Privignae filius   Secund. gr in aequalis linea transversali descendente           Secun grad in aequalis linea transvers Des                   25 Brothers son   Nepos ex fratre         26 Sisters son Con Nepos ex sorore Con Neptis ex fratre 25 Brothers daughter 27 Broth. daug Husb. Con Neptis ex frat relict Con Neptis ex sorore 26 Sisters daughter 28 Sisters daugh husb Aff Neptis ex sor relict Aff. Nepotis ex frat rel 27 Brothers sons wife     Aff. Leviri filius i nepos maritri ex fratre Aff. Nepotis ex sor rel 28 Sisters sons wife 29 Husbands bro. son Aff.   Neptis uxor ex fra 29 Wives brot daught 30 Husban sisters son   Gloris filius i nepos maritri ex sorore   Neptis uxor ex sor 30 Wives Sist daught     ●ff Set forth by the most Reverend Father in God Mathew Parker Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Primate of England and Metrapolitan 1563. CONSTITUTIONES SIVE Canones Ecclesiastici Per Episcopum LONDINENSEM Praesidem Synodi pro CANTUARIENSI Provincia ac reliquos Episcopos Clerum ejusdem Provinciae ex Regia Authoritate tractati conclusi In ipsorum Synodo inchoata Londini Anno salutis millesimo sexcentesimo tertio regnique Serenissimi Principis Clementissimi Domi ni nostri JACOBI Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regis primo Scotiae tricesimo septimo Ab eadem Regia Majestate deinceps approbati rati habiti ac confirmati ejusdemque Authoritate sub magno Sigillo Angliae promulgati per utramque Provinciam tam Conturiensem quàm Eboracensem diligenter observandi LONDINI Excudebat Johannes Norton Serenissimae Regiae Majestatis in Latinis Graecis Hebraicis Typographus Anno 1604. CONSTITUTIONUM Capita Contenta De Ecclesia Anglicana 1 SVprema in Ecclesiam Anglicanam authoritas Regi Majestati asserenda 2 Regii in Ecclesiam Anglicanam primatus impugnatores coerciti 3 Ecclesia Anglicana Orthodoxa 4 Divini cultus ratio in Ecclesia Anglicana stabilita pia Orthodoxa 5 Doctrinae Articuli in Ecclesia Anglicana stabiliti pii Orthodoxi 6 Caeremoniarum in Ecclesia Anglicana obtinentium usus pius licitus 7 Ecclesiae Anglicanae administratio Verbo Divino consona 8 Cleri ordinandi ratio in Ecclesia Anglicana Verbo Divino consona 9 Authores schismatis ac dissidii ab Ecelesiae Anglicanae communione coerciti 10 Schismaticorum in Ecclesia Anglicana fautores coerciti 11 Conventiculorum in Ecclesia Anglicana propugnatores coerciti 12 Ordinationum in conventiculis conditarum propugnatores coerciti De Liturgia publica Sacramentorum administratione 13 LIturgia publica reliqua pietatis exercitia diebus sacris celebranda 14 Liturgiae publicae praescriptus Canon diebus sacris observandus 15 Litania diebus Mercurii Veneris recitanda 16 Liturgiae publicae praescriptus Canon in Academiis observandus 17 Inter Liturgiae publicae celebrationem Saperpellicea Epomides in Academiis adhibendae 18 Inter Liturgiae publicae celebrationem reverentia solennis adhibenda 19 Inter Liturgiae publicae celebrationem otiosi ab Ecclesiae ambitu repellendi 20 Panis vinum in sacrae Coenae usum paranda 21 Coenae trina perceptio quotannis indicta 22 Coenae administrationem solennis indictio praeire jussa 23 Coenae usus frequentior Academicis indictus Coena utentibus genuum flexio injuncta 24 Coenae in festis solennibus administratio in Ecclesiis Cathedralibus indicta Coenam administrantibus Caparum usus injunctus 25 Vestis linteae Epomidum usus Coena non administrata in Ecclesiis Cathedralibus injunctus 26 Notorii peccati consuetudine infames à sacra Coena repellendi 27 Schismatici à Coenae communione arcendi 28 Extranei à Coenae communione repellendi 29 Parentes in liberorum suorum Baptismate pueri Coenae Dominicae incapaces Susceptores esse prohibiti 30 Crucis in Baptismo caeremonia explicata De Ministiis eorumque ordinatione functione 31 JEjunia Quatuor Temporum Ministrorum ordinationi decreta 32Vtrumque ordinem eodem die non conferendum 33 Neminem sine certo titulo ●rdinandum 34 Certae conditiones in ordinandis requisitae 35 Neminem nisi praevio solenni examine ordinandum 36 Neminem nisi praevia trium Articulorum subscriptione ordinandum 37 Ordinatis dioecesin mutantibus subscriptio coram Episcopo Dioecesano iteranda 38 Ordinati post subscriptionem praevaricantes à Ministerio removendi 39 Ordinati sine congruo testimonio ac examine in Beneficia non instituendi 40 Instituendi in Beneficia Simoniae suspicionem solenni jurejurando jussi avertere 41 Beneficiorum pluralitas parciùs dispensanda ac de dispensatorum residentia cavendum 42 Cathedralium Ecclesiarum Decani ad congruam residentiam tenentur 43 Decani Prebendarii in Ecclesiis Cathedralibus residentes ad sedulam concionandi diligentiam tenentur 44 Praebendarii Beneficiati ad congruam in Beneficiis suis residentiam tenentur 45 Beneficiati concionatores in Beneficiis suis residentes ad jugem concionandi industriam tenentur 46 Beneficiati non concionatores vicariam concionatoris op●ram jubentur singulis mensibus adhibere 47 Beneficiati à beneficiis suis legitimè absentes Curatum concionatorem jubentur adhibere 48 Ministri nisi ex Episcopi vel Ordinarii approbatione pro Curatis non admittendi 49 Ministris ad concionandum non admissis glossae paraphrases in publica scripturarum lectione interdictae 50 Concionatores adventitii absque legitima missione ad concionandum non admittendi 51 Advenae Concionatores nisi authentico testimonio commendati ad concionandum in Ecclesiis Cathedralibus non admittendi 52 Concionatorum advenarum nomina in librum referenda 53 Concionatorum mutuis oppositionibus pulpita non patebunt 54 Concionatores schismatici licentiis suis mulctati 55 Precationis formula à concionatoribus in concionum suarum ingressu imitanda 56 Ministris merè concionatoribus precum publicarum lectio Sacramentorum administratio bina annuatim injuncta 57 A Ministris non concionatoribus Sacramenta efficaciter administrari 58 Ministris sacra peragentibus linteae vestis Epomidum usus injunctus 59 Catechizandi diligentia Ministris injuncta 60 Confirmationis solennitas in triennali Episcoporum visitatione celebranda 61 Catechumeni Episcopo visitanti per Ministrum ad Confirmationem sistendi 62 Ministri sine bannis rite indictis vel legitimè dispensatis matrimonium celebrare prohibiti 63 Ministri in locis exemptis sine bannorum justa indictione vel dispensatione legitima matrimonium celebrare prohibiti 64 Feriae à Ministris solenniter indicendae 65 Recusantes Excommunicati à Ministris solenniter denunciandi 66 Recusantium conversio à Ministris sedulò elaboranda 67 Ægrotantes