THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER And Administration of the SACRAMENTS AND OTHER Rites and Ceremonies of the CHURCH According to the Use of the Church of England Together with the PSALTER or PSALMS OF DAVID Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches AND THE Form and Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties MDCXCIII The CONTENTS of this BOOK THe Acts for the Vniformity of Common Prayer The Preface Concerning the Service of the Church Concerning Ceremonies The Order how the Psalter is appointed to be read The Order how the rest of the Holy Scripture is appointed to be read A Table of Proper Lessons and Psalms The Kalendar with the Table of Lessons Tables and Rules for the Feasts and Fasts throughout the whole Year The Order for Morning Prayer The Order for Evening Prayer The Creed of S. Athanasius The Litany Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several occasions The Collects Epistles and Gospels to be used at the Ministration of the holy Communion throughout the Year The Order of the Ministration of the holy Communion The Order of Baptism both Publick and Private The Order of Baptism for those of riper years The Catechism with the Order for Confirmation of Children The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony Visitation of the Sick and Communion of the Sick The Order for the Burial of the Dead Thanksgiving for Women after Child-bearing A Commination or denouncing of Gods anger and judgments against Sinners The Psalter The Order of Prayers to be used at Sea The Form and Manner of Ordaining Bishops Priests and Deacons A Form of Prayer for the Fifth day of November A Form of Prayer for the Thirtieth day of January A Form of Prayer for the Nine and twentieth day of May. An ACT for the Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the CHURCH and Administration of the SACRAMENTS PRIMO ELIZ. WHere at the death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth there remained one uniform order of Common Service and Prayer and of the Administration of Sacraments Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England which was set forth in one Book intituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England Authorized by Act of Parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of our said late Sovereign Lord King Edward the sixth intituled An Act for the Vniformity of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments The which was repealed and taken away by Act of Parliament in the first year of the reign of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Mary to the great decay of the due honour of God and discomfort to the professors of the truth of Christs Religion Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That the said Statute of Repeal and every thing therein contained only concerning the said Book and the Service Administration of Sacraments Rites and Ceremonies contained or appointed in or by the said Book shall be void and of none effect from and after the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming and That the said Book with the order of Service and of the Administration of Sacraments Rites and Ceremonies with the alteration and additions therein added and appointed by this Statute shall stand and be from and after the said Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist in full force and effect according to the tenour and effect of this Statute Any thing in the foresaid Statute of Repeal to the contrary notwithstanding And further be it Enacted by the Queens Highness with the assent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That all and singular Ministers in any Cathedral or Parish-Church or other place within this Realm of England Wales and the Marches of the same or other the Queens Dominions shall from and after the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming be bounden to say and use the Mattens Evensong celebration of the Lords Supper and Administration of each of the Sacraments and all their Common and open Prayer in such order and form as is mentioned in the said Book so Authorized by Parliament in the said fifth and sixth year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth with one alteration or addition of certain Lessons to be used on every Sunday in the year and the form of the Litany altered and corrected and two sentences only added in the delivery of the Sacrament to the Communicants and none other or otherwise and That if any manner of Parson Vicar or other whatsoever Minister that ought or should sing or say Common Prayer mentioned in the said Book or minister the Sacraments from and after the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming refuse to use the said Common Prayers or to minister the Sacraments in such Cathedral or Parish-Church or other places as he should use to minister the same in such order and form as they be mentioned and set forth in the said Book or shall wilfully or obstinately standing in the same use any other Rite Ceremony Order Form or manner of celebrating of the Lords Supper openly or privily or Mattens Evensong Administration of the Sacraments or other open Prayers then is mentioned and set forth in the said Book Open Prayer in and throughout this Act is meant that Prayer which is for other to come unto or hear either in Common Churches or private Chappels or Oratories commonly called the Service of the Church or shall preach declare or speak any thing in the derogation or depraving of the said Book or any thing therein contained or of any part thereof and shall be thereof lawfully convicted according to the Laws of this Realm by verdict of twelve men or by his own confession or by the notorious evidence of the fact he shall lose and forfeit to the Queens Highness Her Heirs and Successors for his first offence the profit of all his Spiritual Benefices or Promotions coming or arising in one whole year next after this conviction And also that the person so convicted shall for the same offence suffer imprisonment by the space of six months without Bail or Mainprise And if any such person once convict of any offence concerning the premisses shall after his first conviction eftsoons offend and be thereof in form aforesaid lawfully convict That then the same person shall for his second offence suffer imprisonment by the space of one whole year and also shall therefore be deprived ipso facto of all his Spiritual Promotions and That it shall be lawful to all Patrons or Donors of all and singular the same Spiritual Promotions or of any of them to present or collate to the same as though the person and persons so offending were dead and That if any such person
settling the peace of the Church and for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted The Kings Majesty according to his Declaration of the five and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred and sixty granted his Commission under the great Seal of England to several Bishops and other Divines to review the Book of Common Prayer and to prepare such Alterations and Additions as they thought fit to offer And afterwards the Convocations of both the Provinces of Canterbury and York being by his Majesty called and assembled and now sitting His Majesty hath been pleased to authorize and require the Presidents of the said Convocations and other the Bishops and Clergy of the same to review the said Book of Common Prayer and the Book of the Form and manner of the Making and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons And that after mature consideration they should make such Additions and Alterations in the said Books respectively as to them should seem meet and convenient And should exhibit and present the same to His Majesty in writing for his further allowance or confirmation Since which time upon full and mature deliberation they the said Presidents Bishops and Clergy of both Provinces have accordingly reviewed the said Books and have made some Alterations which they think fit to be incerted to the same and some Additional Prayers to the said Book of Common Prayer to be used upon proper and emergent occasions and have exhibited and presented the same unto His Majesty in writing in one Book Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form and Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons All which His Majesty having duly considered hath fully approved and allowed the same and recommended to this present Parliament that the said Book of Common Prayer and of the Form of Ordination and Consecration of Bishops Priests and Deacons with the Alterations and Additions which have been so made and presented to His Majesty by the said Convocations be the Book which shall be appointed to be used by all that officiate in all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Chappels and in all Chappels of Colledges and Halls in both the Universities and the Colledges of Eaton and Winchester and in all Parish-Churches and Chappels within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and by all that make or Consecrate Bishops Priests or Deacons in any of the said places under such Sanctions and Penalties as the Houses of Parliament shall think fit Now in regard that nothing conduceth more to the settling of the Peace of this Nation which is desired of all good men nor to the honour of our Religion and the propagation thereof then an universal agreement in the publick Worship of Almighty God and to the intent that every person within this Realm may certainly know the Rule to which he is to conform in Publick Worship and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England and the Manner how and by whom Bishops Priests and Deacons are and ought to be Made Ordained and Consecrated Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Advice and with the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and singular Ministers in any Cathedral Collegiate or Parish-Church or Chappel or other place of Publick Worship within this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall be bound to say and use the Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Celebration and Administration of both the Sacraments and all other the Publick and Common Prayer in such order and form as is mentioned in the said Book annexed and joyned to this present Act and intituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form and Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons and That the Morning and Evening Prayers therein contained shall upon every Lords day and upon all other days and occasions and at the times therein appointed be openly and solemnly read by all and every Minister or Curate in every Church Chappel or other place of Publick Worship within this Realm or England and places aforesaid And to the end that Uniformity in the Publick Worship of God which is so much desired may be speedily effected Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Parson Vicar or other Minister whatsoever who now hath and enjoyeth any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion within this Realm of England or places aforesaid shall in the Church Chappel or place of Publick Worship belonging to his said Benefice or Promotion upon some Lords day before the Feast of Saint Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two openly publickly and solemnly read the morning and Evening Prayer appointed to be read by and according to the said Book of Common Prayer at the times thereby appointed and after such reading thereof shall openly and publickly before the Congregation there assembled declare his unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said Book contained and prescribed in these words and no other I A. B. do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and prescribed in and by the Book Intituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form and Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons And that all and every such person who shall without some lawful impediment to be allowed and approved of by the Ordinary of the place neglect or refuse to do the same within the time aforesaid or in case of such impediment within one month after such impediment removed shall ipso facto be deprived of all his spiritual Promotions And that from thenceforth it shall be lawful to and for all Patrons and Donors of all and singular the said spiritual Promotions or of any of them according to their respective Rights and Titles to present or collate to the same as though the person or persons so offending or neglecting were dead And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person who shall hereafter be presented or collated
or persons after he shall be twice convicted in form aforesaid shall offend against any of the premisses the third time and shall be thereof in form aforesaid lawfully convicted That then the person so offending and convicted the third time shall be deprived ipso facto of all his Spiritual promotions and also shall suffer imprisonment during his life And if the person that shall offend and be convict in form aforesaid concerning any of the premisses shall not be Beneficed nor have any Spiritual Promotion That then the same person so offending and convict shall for the first offence suffer imprisonment during one whole year next after his said Conviction without Bail or Mainprise And if any such person not having any Spiritual Promotion after his first conviction shall eftsoons offend in any thing concerning the premisses and shall in form aforesaid be thereof lawfully convicted That then the same person shall for his second offence suffer imprisonment during his life And it is Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons whatsoever after the said Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming shall â—…n any Enterludes Plays Songs Rimes or by other open words declare or speak any thing in the derogation depraving or despising of the same Book or of any thing therein contained or any part thereof or shall by open fact deed oâ—… by open threatnings compel or cause or otherwise procure or maintain any Parson Vicar or other minister in any Cathedral or Parish-Church or in Chappel or in any other place to sing or say any Common or open Prayer or to minister any Sacrament otherwise or in any other manner and form then is mentioned in the said Book or by any of the said means shall unlawfully interrupt or let any Parson Vicar or other Minister in any Cathedral or Parish-Church or Chappel or any other place to sing or say Common and open Prayer or to minister the Sacraments or any of them in such manner and form as is mentioned in the said Book That then every such person being thereof lawfully convicted in form abovesaid shall forfeit to the Queen our Sovereign Lady Her Heirs and Successors for the first offence an hundred marks And if any person or persons being once convict of any such offence eftsoons offend again any of the last recited offences and shall in form aforesaid be thereof lawfully convict That then the same person so offending and convict shall for the second offence forfeit to the Queen our Sovereign Lady Her Heirs and Successors four hundred marks and if any person after he in form aforesaid shall have been twice convict of any offence concerning any of the last recited offences shall offend the third time and be thereof in form abovesaid lawfully convict That then every person so offending and convict shall for his third offence forfeit to our Sovereign Lady the Queen all his Goods and Chattels and shall suffer imprisonment during his life And if any person or persons that for his first offence concerning the premisses shall be convict in form aforesaid do not pay the sum to be paid by virtue of his conviction in such manner and form as the same ought to be paid within six weeks next after his conviction That then every person so convict and so not paying the same shall for the same first offence instead of the said sum suffer imprisonment by the space of six months without Bail or Mainprise and if any person or persons that for his second offence concerning the premisses shall be convict in form aforesaid do not pay the said sum to be paid by virtue of his conviction and this estatute in such manner and form as the same ought to be paid within six weeks next after his said second conviction That then every person so convicted and not so paying the same shall for the same second offence in the stead of the said sum suffer imprisonment during twelve months without Bail or Mainpriseâ— and That from and after the said Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming all and every person and persons inhabiting within this Realm or any other the Queens Majesties Dominions shall diligently and faithfully having no lawful or reasonable excuse to be absent endeavour themselves to resort to their Parish-Church or Chappel accustomed or upon reasonable let thereof to some usual place where Common Prayer and such service of God shall be used in such time of let upon every Sunday and other days ordained and used to be kept as holy days and then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of the Common Prayer Preachings or other Service of God there to be used and ministred upon pain of punishment by the Censures of the Church and also upon pain that every person so offending shall forfeit for every such offence twelve pence to be levied by the Church-wardens of the Parish where such offence shall be done to the use of the poor of the the same Parish of the goods lands and tenements of such offender by way of distress And for due execution hereof the Queens most excellent Majesty the Lords Temporal and all the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do in Gods name earnestly require and charge all the Archbishops Bishops and other Ordinaries that they shall endeavour themselves to the uttermost of their knowledges that the due and true execution hereof may be had throughout their Diocesses and Charges as they will answer before God for such evils and plagues wherewith Almighty God may justly punish his people for neglecting this good and wholsom Law And for their Authority in this behalf Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the same Archbishops Bishops and all other their Officers exercising Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction as well in places exempt as not exempt within their Diocesses shall have full power and Authority by this Act to reform correct and punish by Censures of the Church all and singular persons which shall offend within any of their Jurisdictions or Diocesses after the said Feast of the Nativity of S. John Baptist next coming against this Act and Statute Any other Law Statute Priviledge Liberty or Provision heretofore made had or suffered to the contrary notwithstanding And it is Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Justice of Oyer and Determiner or Justices of Assize shall have full power and Authority in every of their open and general Sessions to enquire hear and determine all and all manner of offences that shall be committed or done contrary to any Article contained in this present Act within the limits of the Commission to them directed and to make process for the execution of the same as they may do against any person being indicted before them of trespass or lawfully convicted thereof Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Archbishop and Bishop
Bartholomew in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two upon pain of forfeiture of Three pounds by the month for so long time as they shall then after be unprovided thereof by every Parish or Chappelry Cathedral Church Colledge and Hall making default therein Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Bishops of Hereford S. Davids Asaph Bangor and Landaff and their Successors shall take such order among themselves for the souls health of the Flocks committed to their charge within Wales that the Book hereunto annexed be truly and exactly Translated into the British or Welsh Tongue and that the same so Translated and being by them or any three of them at the least viewed perused and allowed be Imprinted to such number at least so that one of the said Books so Translated and Imprinted may be had for every Cathedral Collegiate and Parish Church and Chappel of Ease in the said respective Diocesses and places in Wales where the Welsh is commonly spoken or used before the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty five and That from and after the Imprinting and Publishing of the said Book so Translated the whole Divine Service shall be used and said by the Ministers and Curates throughout all Wales within the said Diocesses where the Welsh Tongue is commonly used in the British or Welsh Tongue in such manner and form as is prescribed according to the Book hereunto annexed to be used in the English Tongue differing nothing in any Order or Form from the said English Book for which Book so Translated and Imprinted the Church-wardens of every the said Parishes shall pay out of the Parish-money in their hands for the use of the respective Churches and be allowed the same on their Account and That the said Bishops and their Successors or any three of them at the least shall set and appoint the Price for which the said Book shall be sold And one other Book of Common Prayer in the English Tongue shall be bought and had in every Church throughout Wales in which the Book of Common Prayer in Welch is to be had by force of this Act before the first day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and four and the same Book to remain in such convenient places within the said Churches that such as understand them may resort at all convenient times to read and peruse the same and also such as do not understand the said Language may by conferring both Tongues together the sooner attain to the knowledge of the English Tongue Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And until printed Copies of the said Book so to be Translated may be had and provided the Form of Common Prayer established by Parliament before the making of this Act shall be used as formerly in such parts of Wales where the English Tongue is not commonly understood And to the end that the true and perfect Copies of this Act and the said Book hereunto annexed may be safely kept and perpetually preserved and for the avoiding of all disputes for the time to come Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Deans and Chapters of every Cathedral or Collegiate Church within England and Wales shall at their proper coâ—s and charges before the twenty fifth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty and two obtain under the Great Seal of England a true and perfect Copy of this Act and of the said Book annexed hereunto to be by the said Deans and Chapters and their Successors kept and preserved in safety for ever and to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court of Record as often as they shall be thereunto lawfully required and also there shall be delivered true and perfect Copies of this Act and of the same Book into the respective Courts at Westminster and into the Tower of London to be kept and preserved for ever among the Records of the said Courts and the Records of the Tower to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court as need shall require which said Books so to be exemplified under the Great Seal of England shall be examined by such persons as the Kings Majesty shall appoint under the Great Seal of England for that purpose and shall be compared with the Original Book hereunto annexed and shall have power to correct and amend in writing any Error committed by the Printer in the Printing of the same book or of any thing therein contained and shall certifie in writing under their Hands and Seals or the Hands and Seals of any three of them at the end of the same Book that they have examined and compared the same Book and find it to be a true and perfect Copy which said Books and every one of them so exemplified under the Great Seal of England as aforesaid shall be deemed taken adjudged and expounded to be good and available in the Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever and shall be accounted as good Records as this Book it self hereunto annexed any Law or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided also that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be prejudicial or hurtful unto the Kings Professour of the Law within the University of Oxford for or concerning the Prebend of Shipton within the Cathedral Church of Sarum united and annexed unto the place of the same Kings Professour for the time being by the late King James of blessed memory Provided always That whereas the Six and thirtieth Article of the Nine and thirty Article agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the year of our Lord One thousand five hundred sixty two for the avoiding of diversities of opinions and for establishing of consent touching true Religion is in these words following viz. That the Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops and Ordaining of Priests and Deacons lately set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth and confirmed at the same time by Authority of Parliament doth contain all things necessary to such Consecration and Ordaining neither hath it any thing that of it self is superstitious and ungodly And therefore whosoever are Consecrated or Ordered according to the Rites of that Book since the second year of the aforenamed King Edward unto this time or hereafter shall be Consecrated or Ordered according to the same Rites We decree all such to be rightly orderly and lawfully Consecrated and Ordered It be Enacted and be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Subscriptions hereafter to be had or made unto the said Articles by any Deacon Priest or Ecclesiastical person or other person whatsoever who by this Act or any other Law now in force is required to subscribe unto the said Articles shall be construed and taken to extend and shall be applied for and touching the said Six and thirtieth