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Constitutions and canons ecclesiastical treated upon by the archbishops and bishops and the rest of the clergy of Ierland [sic] and agreed upon with the Kings Majesties license in their synod begun at Dublin Anno Dom. 1634 and in the year of the reign of our sovereign Lord Charles ... King of Great Brittain, ... the tenth.
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Church of Ireland.
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Wing C4098; ESTC R29961
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not sparing to execute the penalties in them severally mentioned upon any that shall wittingly or wilfully break or neglect to observe the same as they tender the honour of God the peace of the Church tranquillity of the Kingdom and their duties and sorvice unto Us their King and Soveraign In witness c. Constitutions AND CANONS ECCLESIASTICAL Treated upon by the Archbishops and Bishops and the rest of the Clergy of Ireland and agreed upon by the Kings Majesties licence in their Synod begun and holden at Dublin Anno Domini 1634. and in the year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles by the Grace of God King of Great Brittain France and Ireland the Tenth I. Of the agreement of the Church of England and Ireland in the profession of the same Christian Religion FOR the manifestation of our agreement with the church of England in the confession of the same christian faith and the doctrine of the Sacraments We do receive and approve the book of Articles of Religion agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops and the whole clergy in the convocation holden at London in the year of our Lord God 1562. for the avoiding of diversities of opinions and for the establishing of consent touching true Religion And therefore if any hereafter shall affirm that any of those Articles are in any part superstitious or erroneous or such as he may not with a good conscience subscribe unto let him be excommunicated and not absolved before he make a publick revocation of his errour II. The Kings supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical to be maintained 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 sorrain 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 Majesties Realms and Dominions is due unto such forreign power but that the Kings power within his Realm of 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 Gods laws owe all loyalty and obedience and to no other forreign power and potentate in the earth And whosoever shall hereafter maintain that the Kings-Majesty hath not the same authority in causes Ecclesiastical that the godly Kings had amongst the Jews and Christian Emperours in the Primitive Church or impeach in any part his Regal supremacy in the said causes restored to the Crown and by the laws of this Realm therein established let him be excommunicated and not restored but only by the Archbishop of the Province after his repentance and publick revocation of his errour III. Of the prescript form of Divine Service contained in the book of Common Prayer THat form of Liturgy or Divine Seâ—vice and no other shall be used in any Church of this Realm but that which is established by the law and comprised in the book of Common-Prayer and administration of Sacraments And if any one shall preach or by other open words declare or speak any thing in the derogation or despising of the said book or of any thing therein contained let him be excommunicated and not restored until he repent and publickly revoke his errour IV. Of the form of consecrating and ordering Archbishops Bishops c. and of the churches established according to that order THat form of ordination and no other shall be used in this Church but that which is contained in the book of Ordering Bishops Priests and Deacons allowed by authority and hitherto practised in the Churches of England and Ireland And if any shall affirm that they who are consecrated or ordered according to those rites are not lawfully made nor ought to be accounted either Bishops Priests or Deacons or shall deny that the Churches established under this government are true Churches or refuse to joyn with them in christian profession let him be excommunicated and not restored until he repent and publickly revoke his errour V. Authors of Schisme and maintainers of Conventicles censured WHosoever shall separate themselves from the communion of Saints as it is approved by the Apostles rules in the Church of Ireland and combine themselves rogether in a new brotherhood accounting the christians who are conformable to the doctrine government rites and ceremonies of the Church of Ireland to be prophane and unmeet for them to joyn with in christian profession or shall affirm and maintain that there are within this Realm other meetings assemblies or congregations than such as by the laws of this Land are held and allowed which may rightly challenge to themselves the name of true and lawful Churches let him be excommunicated and not restored until he repent and publickly revoke his errour VI. Due celebration of Sundayes and Holy-dayes ALl manner of persons shall celebrate and keep the Lords day commonly called Sunday and other Holy-dayes according to Gods holy will and pleasure and the orders of this Church that is in hearing the word of God read and taught in private and publick prayers in acknowledging their offences to God and amendment of the same in reconciling themselves charitably to their neighbours where displeasure hath been in oftentimes receiving the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ in visiting the poor and fick using all godly and sober conversation VII The prescript form of Divine Service to be used on Sundayes and Holy-dayes with all decency and due reverence EVery Sunday and Holy-day the Parsons Vicars and Curates shall celebrate Divine Service at convenient and usual times of the day and in such place of every Church as the Bishop of the Diocess or Ecclesiastical Ordinary of the place shall think meet for the largeness or straitness of the same so as the people may be most edified All Ministers likewise shall use and observe the Orders Rites Ornaments and Ceremonies prescribed in the book of Common prayer and in the Act for Uniformity printed therewith as well in reading the holy Scriptures and saying of prayers as in administration of the Sacraments without either diminishing in regard of preaching or in any other respect or adding any thing in the matter or form thereof And in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches all Deans Masters and Heads of Collegiate Churches Canons and Prebendaries being Graduates shall daily at the times both of Prayer and Preaching wear with their Surplices such Hoods as are agreeable to their degrees No man also shall cover his head in any Church or Chappel in the time of Divine Service except he have some infirmity in which case he may wear a night-cap or coise Neither shall any person be otherwise at such times
at the charge of the Parish wherein shall be written the day and year of every christning wedding and burial which shall be in the Parish from the time that this canon shall be established And for the safe keeping of the said book the Church-wardens at the charge of the Parish shall provide one sure coffer with three locks and keys whereof the one to remain with the minister and the other two with the church-wardens several So that neither the minister without the church-wardens nor the church-wardens without the minister shall at any time take that book out of the said coffer And henceforth upon every Sabbath-day immediately after morning and evening prayer the minister and church-wardens shall take the said parchment book out of the said coffer And the minister in the presence of the church-wardens shall write and Record in the said book the names of all persons christned together with the names and surnames of their Parents and also the names of all persons married and buried in that parish the week before by the minister or his curate and the day and the year of every such christening marriage and burial And that done they shall lay up the book in the coffer as before And the minister and churchwardens unto every page of that book when it shall be filled with such inscriptions shall subscribe their names And the churchwardens shall once every year within one moneth after the 25. day of March transmit unto the bishop of the Diocess or his chancellor a true copy of the names of all persons christened married or buried in their parish in the year before ended the said 25. day of March and the certain dayes and moneths in which every such christening marriage and burial was had to be subscribed with the hands of the said minister and churchwardens to the end the same may faithfully be preserved in the Registry of the said bishop which certificate shall be received without Fee And if the minister or churchwardens shall be negligent in the performance of any thing herein contained it shall be lawful for the Bishop or his chancellor to convent them and proceed against every of them as contemners of this our constitution XLVII None to marry within the degrees prohibited NO persons shall marry within the degrees prohibited by the laws of God and expressed in a Table set forth by authority in England in the year of our Lord God 1563. And all marriages so made and contracted shall be adjudged incestuous and unlawfull and consequently shall be dissolved as void from the beginning And the parties so married shall be by course of law separated And the aforesaid Table shall be in every Church publickly set up and fixed at the charge of the Parish XLVIII None to marry under XXI years without their Parents consent NO children under the age of XXI years compleat shall contract themselves or marry without the consent of their Parents or of their Guardians and Governours if their Parents be deceased XLIX Security to be taken at the granting of such licences to marry without publication of banns and under what conditions THe security mentioned shall contain these conditions First that at the time of the granting every such licence there is not any impediment of precontract consanguinity affinity or other lawfull cause to hinder the said marriage Secondly that there is not any controversie or suit depending in any court before any Ecclesiastical Judge touching any contract or marriage of either of the said parties with any other Thirdly that they have obtained thereunto the express consent of their Parents if they be living or otherwise of their Guardians or Governours Lastly that they shall celebrate the said matrimony publickly in the Parish church or chappel where one of them dwelleth and in no other place and that between the hours of eight and twelve in the sorenoon Neither in the time of Lent nor of any publick fast nor of the solemn festivities of the Nativity Resurrection and Ascension of our lord or of the Descension of the holy Ghost L. Oaths to be taken for the conditions FOr the avoiding of all fraud and collusion in the obtaining of such licences and dispensations We further constitute and appoint that be ore any licence for the celebration of Matrimony without publication of bannes be had and granted it shall appear to the Judge by the Oaths of two sufficient witnesses one of them to be known to the aforesaid Judge himself or to some other person of good reputation then present and known likewise to the said Judge That the express consent of the Parents or Parent if one be dead or guardians or guardian of the parties is thereunto had and obtained And furthermore that one of the parties personally swear that he believeth there is no let or impediment of precontract kindred or allyance or of any other lawfull cause whatsoever nor any suit commenced in any Ecclesiastical court to bar or hinder the proceeding of the said Matrimony according to the Tenor of the aforesaid licence LI. An exception for those that are in Widdew-bood IF both the parties which are to marry being in Widdow hood do seek a faculty for the forbearing of Bannes Then the clause before mentioned requiring the Parents consent may be omitted but the Parishes where they dwell both shall be expressed in the licence as also the Parish named where the marriage shall be celebrated And if any having power to grant licence shall offend in the premisses or any part thereof he shall for every time so offending be suspended from the execution of his Office for the space of six moneths and every such licence or dispensation shall be held void to all effects and purposes as if there had never been any such granted and the parties marrying by vertue thereof shall be subject to the punishments which are appointed for Clandestine marriages LII Ministers not to marry any person without Bannes NO minister of what place soever nor under colour of any peculiar liberty or priviledge claimed to appertain to any Church or Chappel shall upon pain of deprivation if he be beneficed or degradation if he be not beneficed celebrate matrimony between any persons without a faculty or licence granted except the bannes of matrimony have been first published three several Sundays or holy dayes in the time of Divine service in the Parish churches and chappels wherein the said parties have dwelled by the space of three moneths before Neither shall any minister upon the like pain under any pretence whatsoever joyn any persons in marriage at any unseasonable times but only between the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon nor in any private place but either in the said churches or chappels where one of them dwelleth and likewise in time of Divine service nor when Bannes are thrice asked before the parties and Governors of the parties to be married being under the age of 21. years shall either personally or by sufficient