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A91273	The second part of The signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians under the Gospel, (especially in this our island) towards their Christian kings & emperors, whether orthodox or heterodox, virtuous or vicious, Protestants or papists, protectors or persecutors, ever since their kings and emperors first became Christian, till this present. Expressed in, and evidenced by their publike and private supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, options, acclamations, for their long life, health, safety, prosperity, victory over enemies, temporal, spiritual and eternal felicity; peaceable, just, glorious reign over them, &c. And likewise for their queens, children, royal posterity, realms, armies, counsels, officers. ... Together with the various forms of prayers, supplications, collects, votes, and acclamations used at the coronations of emperors and kings, especially of our ancient and late kings of England and Scotland (not hitherto published.) By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P4075; Thomason E1037_3; ESTC R203326	204,194	342

of the Faith and Supreme Governour in these his Realms and all other his Dominions and Countries over all persons in all causes aswell Ecclesiastical as Temporal Ye shall also pray for the Kings most honourable Councel 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 true Faith and Fear of God in humble obedience to the King and brotherly charity one to another Which all Ministers and Preachers duly observed usually adding this clause thereunto That God out of his infinite mercy would grant so to bl●sse the Kings Majestie and his Royal issue with a perpetual Posterity that there might never want a Man of that Royal race to sway the Scepter of these Realms so long as the Sun and Moon should endure and till all Scepters and Kingdoms should be resigned at the last day into the hands of Jesus Christ the King of Kings Anno 1603 The Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons of the Realm of England assembled in Parliament in the first year of King James do thus expresse and declare their own and the whole Kingdoms unspeakeable joys acclamations and thanksgivings unto God and their own and their posterities Signal Loyalty affection and Devotion to King James his Heirs and Royal progeny for ever in the Statute of 1 Jacobi ch 1. intituled A most joyfull and just Recognition of the immediate lawfull and undoubted succession descent and Right of the Crown Great and manifold were the benefits most dread and most gracious Soveraign wherewith almighty God blessed this Kingdom and Nation by the happy union and conjunction of the two Nobles houses of York and Lancaster thereby preserving this noble Realm formerly ●orn and almost wasted with long and miserable dissention and bloodie Civil War But more inestimable and unspeakable blessings are thereby powred upon us because there i● derived and grown from and out of that union of those two Princely families a more famous and greater union or rather a re-uniting of two Mighty Famous and antient Kingdoms yet antiently but one of England and Scotland under one Imperial Crown in your most Royal Pers●n who is lineally rightfully and lawfully descended of the body of the most excellent Lady Margaret eldest daughter of the most renowned King Henry the 7th and the high and noble Princesse Queen Elizabeth his wife eldest daughter of King Edward the 4th The said Lady Margaret being eldest sister of King Henry the 8th father of the high and mightie Princesse of famous memorie Elizabeth late Queen of England In consideration whereof albeit we your Majesties loyal and faithfull Subjects of all Estates and Degrees with all possible publike Ioy and Acclamation by open Proclamations within few houres after the decease of our late Soveraign Queen acknowledging thereby with one full voice of tongue and heart that your Majesty was our only lawfull and rightfull Leige Lord and Soveraign and by our unspeakable and general rejoycing and applause at your Majesties most happy inauguration and Coronation by the affectionate desire of infinite numbers of us of all degrees to see your Royal Person and by all possible outward means have indeavoured to make demonstration of our inward love zeal and devotion to your most excellent Majestie our undaubted rightfull Leige Soveraign Lord and King yet as we cannot do it too often or enough so can there be no means or way so fit both to sacrifice our unfeined and heartie thanks to Almighty God for blessing us with a Soveraign adorned with the rarest gifts of mind and body in such admirable peace and quietnesse and upon the knees of our hearts to agnize our most constant faith obedience and loyalty to your Majestie and your Royal Progenie as in this high Court of Parliament where all the whole body of the Realm and every particular Member thereof either in Person or Representation upon their own free Elections are by the Laws of this Realm deemed to be personally present To the present acknowledgment whereof to your Majestie we are the more deeply bounden and obliged as well in regard of the extraordinarie care and pains which with so great wisdom knowledge experience and dexteritie your Majestie since the Imperial Crown of this Realm descended to you have taken for the continuance and establishment of the blessed peace both of the Church of England in the true and sincere Religion and of the Common-wealth by due and speedy administration of justice as in respect of the gracious care and inward aff●ction which it pleased you on the first day of this Parliament so lively to expresse by your own words so full of high wisdom learning and virtue and so repleate with Royal and thankfull acceptation of all our faithfull and constant endeavours which is and ever will be to our inestimable consolation and comfort We therefore your most humble and loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do from the bottom of our hearts yield to the divine Majestie all humble thanks and prayses not only for the said unspeakable and inestimable benefits and blessings above mentioned but also that he hath further enriched your Highnesse with a most Royal Progenie of Most rare and excellent gifts and forwardnesse and in his goodnesse is like to increase the happy number of them And in most humble and lowly manner do beseech your most Excellent Majestie that as a memorial to all posterities amongst the Records of your high Court of Parliament for ever to endure of our Loyalty Obedience and harty and humble Affection it may be published and declared in this high Court of Parliament and enacted by authority of the same That we being bounden thereunto both by the Laws of God and Man do recognize and acknowledge and thereby expresse our unspeakable Ioyes That immediately upon the dissolution and decease of Elizabeth late Queen of England the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same did by inherent Birthright and lawfull and undoubted Successien descend and come to your most Excellent Majestie as being Lineally Iustly and Lawfully next and sole Heir of the Blood Royal of this Realm as is aforesaid And that by the goodnesse of God Almighty and lawfull Right of descent under one Imperial Crown your Majestie is of the Realms and Kingdoms of England Scotland France and Ireland the most Potent and migh●y King and by Gods goodnesse more able to protect and govern us your loving Subjects in all Peace and Plentie than any of your noble Progenitors And thereunto we most humbly and faithfully do submit and oblige our selves our heirs and posterities for ever until the last

Dominus omnium et Rex super omnia solus ut ipse participem vos faciat ex omnibus si qua sunt coram Deo bonis operibus nostris fratres nos socios in dilectione constituat in omni tempore amplius ac non minorem partem nostri obsequii reconsignet in suo regno quàm nobismetipsis provenire optamus Crimus etiam drinceps pro vobis sine dubio orantes assidue ut ipse Deus vobis subjiciat Hostes et Inimicos qui contra vos voluerint insurgere et confirmet vos in paterno solio ac propria Haereditate a most seasonable Prayer for our present exiled hereditary King as well as for King Edward the Confessor who after above 25. years dispossession of the Crown by the tyrannical invading Danish Usurpers was by their deaths restored to the Crown in peace by his Subjects without the least ●ffusion of blood for which mercy he repaired and re-founded this Abby as his first Charter to it recites Vestro desiderio voluntati Omnipotens Deus praestet effectum et confirmet vobis paterni Regni Imperium et tribuat Incrementum et post praesentis vitae Decursum perducat ad aeternum permanentis Gloriae Imperium This King in his Epistle to this Pope to confirm these privileges recorded by Ailredus hath this passage concerning Peter-pence which engaged the Pop● particularly to pray for him and his Realm Ego quoque pro modulo meo augeo confi●mo donationes consuetudines peouniarum quas sanctus Petrus habet in Anglia ipsas pecunias collectas cum Regalibus donis mitto vobis ut oretis pro me et pro pace Regni mei et continuam et sollempnem memoriam iusti●uatis totius Gentis Anglicae coram corporibus sanctorum Apostolorum And if the Pope thus prayed continually for this King his Realm and People upon this account no doubt his own Bishops Clergy and other Subjects did much more do it Anno 1096 King William the first in his Charter of confirmation of Lands and Liberties to the Church of Derherst Anno 1069. granted them by King Edward the Confessor his Predecessor that they might pray pro salute animae meae omniumque liberorum nostrorum Quatenus Nos Soboles nostri ipsius sancti Dionysii precibus sociorumque ejus adipisci mereamur prosperum praesentis vitae statum aeternae stationis portum Anno 1096 c. King William Rusus by several Charters granted and confirmed Lands and Liberties to the Abbies and Priories of Bermondesey Tavystock and Saint Mary Magdalen in Barnestable pro salute animae meae et Antecessorum meorum pro anima Patris mei Willielmi Regis et matris meae ipsiusque mei to be obtained by the Prayers of the Monks and religious persons in these Houses King Henry the first by sundry Charters during his reign granted and confirmed sundry Lands and Liberties to the Abbi●s Priories and Churches of Malverne Colum Bermondsey Lenton Thetford Mountacute St. Andrews Northampton Barnstaple and others besides to pray pro salute redemptione animae meae pro animabus Patris mei Willielmi Regis Anglorum matris et fratris mei Willielmi Regis et pro Successorum meorum salute pro pace et stabtlitate Regni et pro salute et incolumitate filii mei Gulielmi pro salute et incolumitate mei ipsius et statu Regni mei pro animabus Antecessorū meorum To which end they constantly made Prayers for them And William Peverel one of his Subjects pro divini cultus amore communi remedio animarum Dominorum meorum Willielmi Regis et uxoris ejus Matildis Reginae et filii eorum Willielmi Regis et omnium parentum suorum et meorum Necnon et pro salute Domini mei Henrici Regis et uxoris ejus Matildae Reginae et filii eorum Willielmi et ●●liae eorum Matildis pro statu quoque Regni sui Necnon et pro salute animae meae et uxoris meae et filii mei Willielmi et omnium liberorum meorum pia devotione et devota largitione ●ffero Deo et Ecclesiae Cluniacensi c. It being usual both in tha● and succeeding Ages for Subjects and Officers to our Kings to endow Monasteries and Churches with Lands to pray for the spiritual and temporal prosperity of the Persons Souls and Realms of their Kings Queens their Sons Children and Successors in the first place as well as for their own Souls Wives Childrens and Posterities mentioned only in the second and last place in their Charters and Endowments of which there are many Presidents in the first and second parts of Monasticon Anglieanum collected by Mr. Roger Dodsworth and Mr. William Dugdale to whom I refer the Reader for fuller satisfaction Anno 1108 * Pope Pascal the first in his Epistle to K. Henry the 1. touching the Liberties of the Church of Ely as he begins his Epistle with Salutem et Apostolicam benedic so he thus ends it Omnipotens Deus Apostoiorum suorum precibus et vos et prolem vestram custodiat et caeleste post terrenum vobis regnum concedat The like he doth in his Epistles to him concerning Archbishop Anselme concluding one of them in these words Ipse Omnipotens Deus in cujus manu corda sunt Regum assit hortatui nostro assit auditui tuo ut juxta praecepta ejus tuas disposueris actiones ipse Regnum tuum pacis et honoris sui stabilitate ac subliminatione disponant Amen He closeth other of his Epistle to him thus Dominus te misericordia sua in potentia et probitate custodiat et a terre●● ad coeleste regnum perducat Amen Again Haec si feceris pro te Dominum ipso adjuvante exorars curabimus et de peccatis tam tui quàm conjugis tuae sanctorum Apostolorum meritis absolvimus Anno 1100 Goffridus Abbas Vindocinensis in France in his Epistola●um l. 5. Epist 17. to King Henry the 1. of England hath this prayer for and profession of his constant fidelity to him Clarissimo Duci Normannorum et praecelleutissimo Regi Anglorum Henrico carissimo Domino praecordiali amico Frater Goffridus Vindocinensis Abbas in praesenti prospere semper et feliciter vivere et in suturo manere cum Rege Angelorum V●strae magnitudini dulcissime Pater et Domine significavi iter nostrum Et quia vobis sensi esse contrarium itineris statim mutavi propositum Vester itaque servus testis est mihi Deus in vestra Fidelitate remaneo in qua quandiu vixero Indesinenter permanebo Quod quando et quomodo Excellentiae vestrae placuerit secundum meum posse operibus compr●bab● Valeat Dominus meus Rex et vigeat quem omnipotens Deus ab omni advers●tate defendat et tribuat ei quod bene desiderat Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury begins his Epistles to this King Henry

during his exile thus Suo reverendo Domino Henrico Regi Anglorum Anselm Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus fidele Servicium cum orationibus fideles orationes cum fideli servicio And concludes them thus Omnipotens Deus sic regnet in corde vestro ut vos per ●undem regnetis in gratia ejus Omnipotens Deus sic in ●oc et in aliis actibus vestris dirigat a● vestrum secundum voluntatem suam ut post hanc vitam perducat Vos ad gloriam suam Amen In his Commentary and Exposition on the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. He presseth the Duty of praying for Kings though Pagans and Persecutors in these words Hujusmodi preces fiant pro omnibus hominibus c. Et pro illis etiam de quibus minus videbatur id est Pro Regibus licet sint mali et sanctis infesti pro omnibus qui in sublimitate secularium potestatum positi sunt ficut Consules et Duces quia de omni genere hominum convertentur ad religionem et perveniant ad salutem et de eis qui fastu et elatione secularis potentiae fidem et humilitatem videntur abhorrere sicut cernimus Quod ipst Reges desertis Idolis pro quibus persequebantur Christianos unum verum Deum cognoverunt et colunt et ideo pro illis orandum fuit cum etiam persequerentur Eccles●am ad hoc etiam orandum est pro Principibus ut nos qui sub illis sumus vitam agamus quietam a persecutione ut conversts Principibus Gentiles non andeant inquietare nos movendo persecutiones pro impietate idolatriae nec haeretici tranquillitatem nostram turbare praesumant volentes corrumpere castitatem fidei quorundam In pace Principum quie● et regnum servatur Ecclesiarum Nam in bellis et discordiis eorum dissipatur tranquillitas tepescit pietas solvitur Disciplina vel districtio Qua soluta infirmiorum castitas violatur Et ideo pro his orandum est ne eveniant haec per dissentionem Principum Unde et per Jeremiam Dominus Judaeis qui in Babylone captivi tenebantur praecepit dicens Quaerite pacem civitatis ad quam transmigrare vos fecit et orate pro ea ad Dom. quia in pace illius erit pax vobis Babylon vero quae dicitur confufio Societatē iniquorum significat Judaei autē cives supernae Jerusalem qui in hoc seculo peregrinantur inter malos et Regibus atque Principibus tributa xeddunt et caetera quae salvo Dei cultu constitutio secularis exigit Idcirco debet orate pro pace eorum quia in pace eorum erit illis pax utique interim temporalis quae b●nis malisque communis est Vtimur ergo et nos pace Babylonis ex qua per fidem et coelestis patriae desiderium ità populus D●i laetabitur ut apud hanc interim peregrinetur Pax antem nostra propria et hîc cum Deo est per fidem in aeternum cum illo per speciem Orate inguit pro pace Principum et pro salute omnium quia hoc agere est bonum id est utile Ecclesiae acceptum id est gratum atque placitum coram Deo salvatore nostro qui sicut nos salvat ita omnes homines vult salvos fieri ad agnitionem veritatis venire c. Omne genus hominum intelligamus per quascunque differentias distributum Reges Principes Nobiles ignobiles sublimes humiles c. Hoc enim bonum est coram Salvatore id est ut pro talibus oretur Hoc quipp● Deus bonum judicavit ut oratione humilium dignaretur salutem praestare sublimibus This was the received Doctrine of this great learned Arch-bishop of Canterbury Anselme both under King W●ll Rufus and H. the I. Anno 1140 Queen Maud his daughter and heir to the Crown by her Charter founded and granted to the Abby of Bardesley sundry Lands Pro Dei amore pro anima H. Regis Patris mei Et M. Reginae Matris meae parentum antecessorum meorum pro salute G. Comitis Andegaviae Domini mei mea H. Haeredis mei et aliorum filiorum meorum et pro pace et stabilitate Regni Angliae In her Charters of confirmation and grant to the Abbyes of Kingeswood Stoneley Cogeshale and St. Frideswide in Oxford she hath the like expressions for all which the Monks there were obliged to pray Anno 1142 Anno 1154 King Stephen by his respective Charters of grant and confirmation to the Monasteries of Feversham Billewas Sibeton and other Abbies gave and confirmed Lands and Liberties to them pro salute animae meae Mathildis Reginae uxoris meae E. filii mei et aliorum puerorum meorum et antecessorum meorum Regum Angliae et nominatim pro anima Regis Henrici et fratrum meorum by prayers to be made in them by the Monks therein for that purpose King Henry the II. by his Charters of grant and consirmation of Lands and Liberties to the Abbies and Monasteries of St. Maryes in York Eton Abberbury Feversham Quarrera St. Maryes near Dublin in Ireland Miraval Flexley Croxden Witteham and Tavystock granted sundry Lands and Franchises to them Pro Dei amore pro salute animae meae et reginae meae et haeredum meorum et pro anima Regis Henrici avi pro animabus antecessorum nostrorum et omnium parentum majorum et antecessorum meorum Regum Angliae et Successorum nostrorum et matris meae Imperatricis et puerorum meorum to be obtained by their Prayers inserting this Clause into his Charter of Confirmation to St. Maries in York Ne aliquis baeres vel successor quaerat relevamen vel aliquod Dominium praeter orationes et preces et eleemosynam animae suae de beneficiis vel eleemosynis quas aliquis dedit praedictae Abbathiae Anno 1154 King Henry the 2d comming into England to be crowned after King Stephens death ut decebat tantum tàm beatum virum cum summa laetitia et multis prae gaudio lachrymantibus in Regem benedictus est in throno Regni splendidiffimè collocatus est De cujus temporis beatitudine sic diximus heroicè writes Henry Huntingdon Anglia lethali jamdudum frigore torpens Nunc solis fervore novi rediviva calescens Erigis impressum terrae caput vacuatis Tristitiae lachrymis pro laetitia lachrymaris Cum lachrymis haec verba tuo profundis alumno Spiritus es caro sum Tu nunc intrante revixi Anno 1166 Anno 1171 Anno 1166. there falling out a difference between this King and Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury Pope Alexander thus begins all his Epistles to the King on Beckets behalf Alexander c. Dilecto filio Henrico illustri Regi Anglorum Salutem et Apostolicam benedictionem Advising him so to govern his Realm to the honour of God and

apud Altissimum de quo omnis gratia procedit tota mentis solicitudine preces orationes devotissimè infundant devotis precibus intercessionibus ac Processionibus Missarum celebrationibus ad specialem gratiam Dei impetrandam pro expeditione Nostra ac aliorum Magnatum fidelium nobiseum in excercitu nostro in partibus praedictis existentium qui corpora nostra propter salvation● terrae illius pericusis ponere non evitamus assiduè infistant apud Deum ut ipse Deus statum nostrum Ecclesiaeque Regni ac terrae praedictorum conservare dignetur prosperum tranquillum Nobisque fidelibus nostris in actibus nostris in terra nostra praedicta alibi expeditionem felicem pro sua magna pietate misericorditer tribuat concedat Teste Edmundo Duce Eborum Custode Angliae apud Westm xv die Octob. Consimile breve dirigitur Th. Episcopo Eborum Angliae Primati sub eadem Data Rex venerabili in Christo patri R. eadem gratia Episcopo London salutem Cum propter bonum regimen c. ut suprae usque ibi consideratis et tunc sic universos singulos clericos subditos vestros tam regulares quam seculares vestrae dioc ad devotionem suam erga summum Regem c. ut super Teste ut supra Consimilia brevia diriguntur subscriptis sub eadem data viz. W. Episcopo Wynton I. Episcopo Lincoln I. Episcopo Sarum R. Episcopo Bath Well R. Episcopo Covent Lich. I. Episcopo Elien W. Episcopo Dunolm Th. Episcopo Karliol R. Episcopo Cicest W. Episcopo Roffen I. Episcopo Hereford H. Episcopo Wygorn Th. Episcopo Exon. I. Episcopo Meneven H. Episcopo Norwicen I. Episcopo Bangoren T. Episcopo Landaven Custodi spiritual Episcopatus Assaven King Richard the 2d in the 22. year of his reign consirmed by his Charter to the Abby of Graces near the Tower of London founded by King Edward his Grand-Father sundry Lands and Tenements in respect of the various dangers to which he and the Kingdom were in humane reason exposed to by Land and Sea beyond recovery Ad Missas et alia divina officia singulis diebus celebrandas et faciendas in Abbatia praedicta pro salubri statu et prosperitate Nostra dum vixerimus Et pro anima nostra dum ab hac luce migraverimus pro anima ejusdem A●i nostri specialiter animabus omnium aliorum Progenitorum Haeredum Successorum nostrorum omnium fidelium defunctorum in perpetuum And Michael de la Poole founded the Monastery at Kingston upon Hull confirmed by King Richard the 2d granting sundry Lands to the Prior Monks and their successors upon this condition Volumus itaque ordinamus quod praefati Prior Monachi eorum successores habeant specialiter in Missis orationibus aliis divinis serviciis recommendatum statum nobilissimi Domini Regis Ricardi praedicti nostrum and of several others particularly mentioned dum vixerimus cum ab hac luce migraverimus orent celebrent celebrari facient pro animabus nostris ac specialiter et continuè pro anima dicti Domini nostri Regis Edwardi defuncti and of several others particularly mentioned pro quibus orare tenemur et omnium fidelium defunctorum I could adde many more Writs and Mandates of the former nature upon extraordinary Occasions out of the Clause Rolls of King John Hen. the 3d. Edw. the 3d. Henry the 4 5 6. Edward 4. H. 7 8. Edward 6. Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles which because they would rather surfit than delight or instruct the Readers I shall wholy pretermit King Henry the 5th founded a Monasterie at S●ene the grounds and ends whereof he thus expressed in his Charter C●m excelsae Majestatis exennia quae gloriam nostri regiminis de die in diem ubertim ut ipsi videmus extollant ritè à Nobis gratiarum vendicant actiones justissimum credimus ut eo ●●dio in a●ctor●m tendant quo nobis ab auctore fl●●●runt nomine Salvatoris ut sicut per M●diatorem Deiet hominum Dominum Jesum ad Nos indignos depatre luminum bon● cuncta procedunt ità nostrae laudes quamvis inutiles per eundem Jesum Christum et datorem gratiarum omnis boni principium revertantur Whereupon he granted and confirmed for him and his Heirs sundry Lands to this Monastery free from all secular exaction and service Pro orationibus et aliis divinis Officiis inivi faciendis pro salubri statu nostro dum vixerimus ac anima nostra cum ab h●c luce migraverimus animabus parentum progenitorum nostrorum omnium fidelium defunctorum Necnon pro pace tranquillitate et quiete populi et Regni nostri ac insuper pro aliis pietatis operibus ibidem sustinendis ministrandis et supportandis juxta ordinationem nostram haereredum et executorum nostrorum in hac parte plenius faciendam which was accordingly executed King Edward the 4th by his Charter of 17 Febr. in the first year of his Reign granted the Priory of Shirburn to the Hospital of St. Julian called Domus Dei in the Town of Southampton In augmentationem divinae cultus infra hospitale nostrum sancti Juliani c Necno● ut dilect● Nobis in Christo Magister Jahannes P●reson nunc Custos Hospitalis praedicti ac nunc Capellani et Fratres ejusdem Hospitalis ac successores sui pro salubri statu nostri et Haeredum et Successorum nostrorum dum agimus in humanis Necnon pro animabus nostris cum universae carnis viam ing●essi fuerimus necnon pro animabus recolendae memoriae Principis Ricardi nuper Ducis Eb●rici Patris nostri c. Et omnium aliorum Primogenitorum nostrorum Imperpetuum specialiter exorare teneantur King Henry the 7th appropriated the Churches of Potterspiry and Eggemond to the Priory and Covent of St. Anne by Coventre founded by his Ancestors Ut iidem Prior Conventus Pro bono statu nostro ac Consortis nostrae liberorumque nostrorum ac carissimae matris nostrae Deum altissimum deprecentur indies et exorent ac missam de Spiritu sancto pro Nobis semel in ebdomade durante vita nostra faciant celebrari et quendam solempnem annualem obitum pro anima nostra cum ab hac luce migraverimus custodiant et observent Anno 1519 Anno 10 H. 8. In the Book entituled Horae beatissimae Mariae ad ligituum Ecclesiae Salisburiensis ritum printed Parisiis 1519. the 10. year of King Henry the 8th but generally used throughout England some hundreds of years before f. 12. there is this set form of Prayer for the King of England for the time being Deus regnorum et Christiani maximè Protector Imperii Da Servo tuo H. Regi nostro de Hoste triumphum ut qui tua providentia

voluntate jussu utantur Obumbret eos virtus sapientia Altissimi Illuminet conservet eos in amore Dei divina tua gratia Da illis ô Domine sapientiam intellectum Concede quietam gubernationem ut omnes subditos in veritate sidei dilectione justitia quae tibi cordi sit regant dicto audientes conservent Proroga ipsis Dies vitae suae et annos multos largire ut prospera laudata ipsorum functione nomen tuum sanctificetur laudetur in omne aevum Amen Towards the end of the Book follow certain Latin Prayers and Graces to be used before and after meals to which there is this Conclusion added Gratiarum actiones à Cibo semper concludantur hac precatiuncula Deus servet Ecclesiam Regem vel Reginam custodiat Consiliarios ejus regat populum universum tueatur pacem Nobis donet perpetuam Amen In imitation whereof this Prayer was commonly used in all Colleges Schools Hospitals Families throughout the Realm in their Graces after every Meal GOD SAVE his Church our King Queen Prince the rest of the Royal Issue when there were such living and Realms God send us Peace in Jesus Christ our Lord. Am●n The like Prayers in English for the Queen to be used in i● Christian Families were published by John Field in his Prayers and Meditations for the use of private Families 1581. The Kings Psalms and Queens Prayers 1590. in Christian private prayers by Edw. Deering 1590. in the Manuel of Prayers set out by Iohn Rogers Anno 1591. in ●hristian Prayers set out by Henry Bull Anno 1592. in Tho. Sampsons Prayers 1592. with sundry others But I shall close up all with Bishop Iewels Prayer for the Queens Majesty in his Epistle to her prefixed to his Apology of the Church of England printed 1570. and after re-printed God evermore enflame and direct your Majesty with his holy Spirit that the zeal of his House may sincerely devour your Gracious heart that you may safely walk in the wayes of your Father David that you may utterly abandon all Groves and Hill-Altars That you may live an old Mother in Israel that you may see an end of all Distractions and stablisht Peace and Unity in the Church of God Amen And with the Prayer of Doctor Thomas Bilson in the close of his Epistle to her Majesty before his Books of The true difference between Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion A very learned and seasonable Treatise wherein he produceth some Testimonies of Fathers praying for Heretical and persecuting Emperors The King of Kings and Lord of Lords bless and preserve your Majesty and as he hath begun a good and glorious work in you and in the Realm by you so continue the same by lightening you with his holy Spirit and defending you with his mighty Arm as he hath done from the day that he chose you to be the Leader and Guider of his People that you may long keep them in truth and peace by the assistance of his Grace to the prayse of his glory increase of the Godly and grief of his and your Subjects Even so Lord Iesus The Clergy of England assembled in Convocation Anno 1603. the first year of King Iames his Reign in their Constitations and Canons Ecclesiastical then agreed upon by them ratified and published by the Kings Authority under his Great Seal did thus evidence to the world their loyalty to the King and his Royal posterity Can. 1. As our Duty to the Kings Most excellent Majesty requireth we first decree and ordain That the Arc●bishop of Canterbury from time to time all Bishops of this Province or Deans Archdeacons Vicars and all other Ecclesiastical persons shall faithfully keep and observe and as much as in them lyeth shall cause to be observed and kept of others all and singular Laws and Statutes made for the restoring to the Crown of this Kingdom the antient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and abolishing of all forein power repugant 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 forein 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 and subjection within his Majesties Realms and Dominions is due unto any such forein power but that the Kings power within his Realms of England Scotland and Ireland and other his Dominions and Countries IS THE HIGHEST POWER VNDER GOD to whom all men as well Inhabitants as born within the same do by Gods Laws owe most loyalty and obedience afore and above all other Powers and Potentates in the earth Canon II. Impugners of the Kings Supremacy censured Whosoever shall hereafter affirm that the Kings Majesty hath not the ●ame authority in causes Ecclesiastical that the godly Kings had among 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 ipso facto and not restored but only by the Archbishop after his repentance and publick revocation of those his wicked errors Canon XXXVI Subscription required of all such who are to be made Ministers No person shall hereafter be received into the Ministry nor either by Institution or Collation admitted to any Ecclesiastical living nor suffered to preach to Chatechize or to be a Lecturer or Reader of Divinity in either Universities 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 licenced by the Archbishop or by the Bishop of the Diocesse where he is to be placed under their Hands and Seal 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 Kings Majesty under GOD is the only supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesse Dominions and Countries aswell in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal and that no forein Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate have or ought to have Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within his Majesties said Realms Dominions and Countreys c. And Can. 55. They prescribed this form of prayer to be used by them in their prayers before all their Ser-Lectures and Homilies And herein I require you most especially to pray for the Kings most excellent Majesty our Soveraign Lord CHARLES King of England Scotland France and Ireland Desendor