WHosoever shall hereafter affirm, That the King's Majesty hath not the same Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical, that the godly Kings had amongst the Jews, and Christian Emperours of the Primitive Church, or impeach any part of 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.

WHosoever shall hereafter affirm, That the Church of England by Law established under the King's Majesty, is not a true and an Apostolical Church, teaching and maintaining the Doctrine of the Apostles: Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto, and not restored, but only by the Archbishop, after his Repentance and Publick Revocation of this his wicked Errour.

WHosoever shall hereafter affim, That the Form of God's Worship in the Church of England, established by Law, and contained in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments, is a corrupt, superstitious, or unlawful Worship of God, or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures: Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto, and not restored, but by the Bishop of the Place, or Archbishop, after his Repentance and Publick Revocation of such his wicked Errors.

WHosoever shall hereafter affirm, That the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England by Law established, are wicked, Antichristian, or superstitious, or such as being commanded by lawful Authority, men who are zealously and godly affected, may not with any good Conscience approve them, use them, or as occasion requireth, subscribe unto them: Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto, and not restored until he repent, and publickly revoke such his wicked Errors.

WHosoever shall hereafter affirm or teach, That the Form and manner of making and consecrating Bishops, Priests and Deacons, containeth any thing in it, that is repugnant to the Word of God; or that they who are made Bishops, Priests or Deacons in that Form, are not lawfully made, nor ought to be accounted either by themselves or others; to be truly either Bishops, Priests or Deacons, until they have some other calling to those Divine Offices: Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto, not to be restored until he repent, and publickly revoke such his wicked Errors.

WHosoever shall hereafter separate themselves from the Communion of Saints, as it is approved by the Apostles Rules in the Church of England, and combine themselves together in a new Brother-hood, accompting the Christians who are conformable to the Doctrine, Government, Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, to be prophane and unmeet for them to joyn with in Christian Profession: Let them be Excommunicated ipso facto; and not restored, but by the Archbishop, after their Repentance and Publick Revocation of such their wicked Errors.

WHosoever shall hereafter affirm, That such Ministers as refuse to subscribe to the Form and manner of God's Worship in the Church of England, prescribed in the Communion Book, and their Adherents, may truly take unto them the Name of another Church not established by Law, and dare presume to publish it, That this their pretended Church hath of long time groaned under the Burthen of certain Grievances imposed upon it, and upon the Members thereof before mentioned, by the Church of England, and the Orders and Constitutions therein by Law established: Let them be Excommunicated, and not restored until they repent, and pulickly revoke such their wicked Errors.

WHosoever shall hereafter affirm or maintain, That there are within this Realm other Meetings, Assemblies or Congregations, of the King's born Subjects, 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, but by the Archbishop, after his Repentance, and Publick Revocation of such his wicked Errors.

WHosoever shall hereafter affirm, That it is lawful for any sort of Ministers and Lay-persons, or of either of them, to joyn together, and make Rules, Orders, or Constitutions in Causes Ecclesiastical, without the King's Authority, and shall submit themselves to be ruled and governed by them: Let them be Excommunicated ipso facto, and not be restored until they repent, and publickly revoke those their wicked and Anabaptistical Errors.

ALL manner of Persons within the Church of England, shall from henceforth celebrate and keep the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, and other Holy-days, according to God's Holy Will and Pleasure, and the Orders of the Church of England, prescribed in that behalf; 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 of the poor and Sick, using all godly and sober Conversation.

THE Common Prayer shall be said or sung distinctly and reverently upon such days as are appointed to be kept holy by the Book of Common-Prayer, and their Eves, and at convenient and usual times of those days, and in such place of every Church as the Bishop of the Doicess, 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 observe the Orders, Rites, and Ceremonies prescribed in the Book of Common-Prayer, 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.

THE Letany shall be said or sung when, and as it is set down in the Book of Common-Prayer, by the Parsons, Vicars, Ministers, or Curats, in all Cathedral, Collegiate, Parish Churches and Chapels, in some convenient Place, according to the discretion of the Bishop of the Diocess, or Ecclesiastical Ordinary of the Place. And that we may speak more particularly, upon Wednesdays and Fridays weekly, though they be not Holydays, the Minister at the accustomed hours of Service, shall resort to the Church and Chapel, and warning being given to the People by tolling of a Bell, shall say the Letany prescribed in the Book of Common-Prayer: whereunto we wish every Housholder dwelling within half a mile of the Church, to come or send one at the least of his Houshold fit to joyn with the Minister in Prayers.

IN the whole Divine Service, and Administration of the holy Communion, in all Colledges and Halls in both Universities, the Order, Form and Ceremonies, shall be duly observed, as they are set down and prescribed in the Book of Common-Prayer, without any Omission or Alteration.

ALL Masters and Fellows of Colledges or Halls, and all the Scholars and Students in either of the Universities, shall in their Churches and Chapels upon all Sundays, Holydays, and their Eves, at the time of Divine Service, wear Surplices according to the Order of the Church of England: and such as are Graduats, shall agreeably wear with their Surplices such Hoods as do severally appertain unto their Degrees.

IN the time of Divine Service, and of every part thereof, all due Reverence is to be used, for it is according to the Apostle's Rule, Let all things be done decently, and according to order: Answerable to which Decency and Order, we judge these our Directions following; No man shall cover his Head in the Church or Chapel in the time of Divine Service, except he have some Infirmity; in which case, let him wear a Night-cap or Coif. All manner of Persons then present, shall reverently kneel upon their knees when the general Confession, Letany, and other Prayers are read; and shall stand up at the saying of the Belief, according to the Rules in that behalf prescribed in the Book of Common-Prayer: And likewise when in time of Divine Service the Lord Jesus shall be mentioned, due and lowly Reverence shall be done by all Persons present, as it hath been accustomed; testifying by these Outward Ceremonies and Gestures, their inward Humility, Christian Resolution, and due acknowledgement, that the Lord Jesus Christ, the true Eternal Son of God, is the only Saviour of the World, in whom alone all the Mercies, Graces and Promises of God to Mankind, for this Life and the Life to come, are fully and wholly comprized. None, either Man, Woman or Child, of what calling soever, shall be otherwise at such times busied in the Church, than in quiet attendance to hear, mark and understand that which is Read, Preached or Ministred; saying in their due places audibly with the Minister, the Confession, the Lord's Prayer and the Creed; and making such other Answers to the Publick Prayers, as are appointed in the Book of Common-Prayer: Neither shall they disturb the Service or Sermon by walking or talking, or any other way, nor depart out of the Church during the time of Service or Sermon, without some urgent or reasonable cause.

THE Church-wardens of every Parish against the time of every Communion, shall at the charge of the Parish, with the advice and direction of the Minister, provide a sufficient quantity of fine white Bread, and of good and wholesom Wine for the number of Communicants that shall from time to time receive there: which Wine we require to be brought to the Communion Table in a clean and sweet standing Pot, or Stoop of Pewter, if not of purer Metal.

IN every Parish Church and Chapel where Sacraments are to be administred within this Realm, the holy Communion shall be ministred by the Parson, Vicar, or Minister, so often, and at such times as every Parishioner may Communicate, at the least thrice in the Year (whereof the Feast of Easter to be one) according as they are appointed by the Book of Common-Prayer. Provided, That every Minister as oft as he administreth the Communion, shall first receive that Sacrament himself. Furthermore, no Bread or Wine newly brought shall be used; but first the Words of Institution shall be rehearsed when the said Bread and Wine be present upon the Communion Table. Likewise the Minister shall deliver both the Bread and the Wine to every Communicant severally.

VVHereas every Lay Person is bound to receive the holy Communion thrice every Year, and many notwithstanding do not receive that Sacrament once in a year: We do require every Minister to give warning to his Parishioners publickly in the Church at Morning Prayer, the Sunday before every time of his administring that holy Sacrament, for their better preparation of themselves: Which said warning we enjoyn the said Parishioners to accept and obey, under the penalty and danger of the Law.

IN all Colledges and Halls within both the Universities, the Masters and Fellows, such especially as have any Pupils, shall be careful that all their said Pupils, and the rest that remain amongst them, be well brought up, and throughly instructed in Points of Religion, and that they do diligently frequent Publick Service, and Sermons, and receive the holy Communion; which we ordain to be administred in all such Colledges and Halls, the first and second Sunday of every Month, requiring all the said Masters, Fellows, and Scholars, and all the rest of the Students, Officers, and all other the Servants there so to be ordered, that every one of them shall communicate four times in the Year at the least, kneeling reverently and decently upon their Knees, according to the Order of the Communion Book prescribed in that behalf.

NO Minister shall in any wise admit to the receiving of the holy Communion, any of his Cure or Flock which be openly known to live in sin notorious without Repentance, nor any who have maliciously and openly contended with their Neighbours, until they shall be reconciled: Nor any Churchwardens or Side-men, who having taken their Oaths to present to their Ordinaries all such Publick Offences as they are particularly charged to enquire of in their several Parishes, shall (notwithstanding their said Oaths, and that their faithful discharging of them is the chief means whereby publick Sins and Offences may be reformed and punished) wittingly and willingly, desperately and irreligiously incur the horrible Crime of Perjury, either in neglecting or in refusing to present such of the said Enormities and Publick Offences, as they know themselves to be committed in their said Parishes, or are notoriously offensive to the Congregation there, although they be urged by some of their Neighbours, or by their Minister, or by their Ordinary himself, to discharge their Consciences by presenting of them, and not to incur so desperately the said horrible Sin of Perjury.

NO Minister when he celebrateth the Communion, shall wittingly administer the same to any but to such as kneel, under pain of Suspension, nor under the like pain to any that refuse to be present at Publick Prayers, according to the Orders of the Church of England, nor to any that are common and notorious Depravers of the Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and of the Orders, Rites, and Ceremonies therein prescribed, or of any thing that is contained in any of the Articles agreed upon in the Convocation, One thousand five hundred sixty and two, or of any thing contained in the Book of ordering Priests and Bishops, or to any that have spoken against and depraved His Majesty's Sovereign Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical; except every such Person shall first acknowledge to the Minister before the Church-wardens, his repentance for the same, and promise by word (if he cannot write) that he will do so no more; and except (if he can write) he shall first do the same under his Hand-writing, to be delivered to the Minister, and by him sent to the Bishop of the Diocess, or Ordinary of the Place. Provided, That every Minister so repelling any (as is specified either in this or in the next precedent Constitution) shall upon complaint, or being required by the Ordinary, signifie the cause thereof unto him, and therein obey his Order and Direction.

THE Church-wardens or Quest-men, and their Assistants, shall mark as well as the Minister, whether all and every of the Parishioners come so often every Year to the holy Communion, as the Laws and our Constitutions do require: And whether any Strangers come often and commonly from other Parishes to their Church, and shall shew their Minister of them, lest perhaps they be admitted to the Lord's Table amongst others, which they shall forbid, and remit such home to their own Parish Churches and Ministers, there to receive the Communion with the rest of their own Neighbours.

NO Parent shall be urged to be present, nor be admitted to answer as Godfather for his own Child: nor any Godfather or Godmother shall be suffered to make any other Answer or Speech, than by the Book of Common-Prayer is prescribed in that behalf: Neither shall any Person be admitted Godfather or Godmother to any Child at Christening or Confirmation, before the said Person so undertaking hath received the holy Communion.

FOrasmuch as the Ancient Fathers of the Church, led by Example of the Apostles, appointed Prayers and Fasts to be used at the Solemn ordering of Ministers; and to that purpose allotted certain times, in which only Sacred Orders might be given or conferred: We, following their holy and religious Example, do constitute and decree, That no Deacons or Ministers be made and ordained, but only upon the Sundays immediately following Jejunia quatuor temporum, commonly called Ember-weeks, appointed in Ancient time for Prayer and Fasting, (purposely for this cause at their first Institution) and so continued at this Day in the Church of England. And that this be done in the Cathedral or Parish-Church where the Bishop resideth, and in the time of Divine Service, in the presence not only of the Arch-deacon, but of the Dean and two Prebendaries at the least, or (if they shall happen by any lawful cause to be lett or hindred) in the presence of four other grave Persons, being Masters of Arts at the least, and allowed for Publick Preachers.

THE Office of Deacon being a step or degree to the Ministery, according to the Judgment of the Ancient Fathers, and the Practice of the Primitive Church; We do ordain and appoint, That hereafter no Bishop shall make any Person, of what qualities or gifts soever, a Deacon and a Minister both together upon one day; but that the order in that behalf prescribed in the Book of making and consecrating Bishops, Priests and Deacons, be strictly observed. Not that always every Deacon should be kept from the Ministery for a whole Year, when the Bishop shall find good cause to the contrary; but that there being now four times appointed in every Year for the Ordination of Deacons and Ministers, there may ever be some time of trial of their behaviour in the Office of Deacon, before they be admitted to the Order of Priesthood.

IT hath been long since provided by many Decrees of the Ancient Fathers, that none should be admitted either Deacon or Priest, who had not first some certain place where he might use his Function. According to which Examples we do ordain, that henceforth no Person shall be admitted into Sacred Orders, except he shall at that time exhibit to the Bishop of whom he desireth Imposition of hands, a Presentation of himself to some Ecclesiastical Preferment then void in that Diocess: or shall bring to the said Bishop a true and undoubted Certificate, that either he is provided of some Church within the said Diocess, where he may attend the cure of Souls, or of some Ministers place vacant, either in the Cathedral Church of that Diocess, or in some other Collegiate Church therein also situate, where he may execute his Ministery: or that he is a Fellow, or in right as a Fellow, or to be a Conduct or Chaplain in some Colledge in Cambridge or Oxford: or except he be a Master of Arts of five years standing, that liveth of his own Charge in either of the Universities: or except by the Bishop himself, that doth ordain him Minister, he be shortly after to be admitted either to some Benefice or Curatship then void. And if any Bishop shall admit any Person into the Ministery that hath none of these Titles, as is aforesaid, then he shall keep and maintain him with all things necessary, till he do prefer him to some Ecclesiastical Living. And if the said Bishop shall refuse so to do, he shall be suspended by the Archbishop, being assisted with another Bishop, from giving of Orders by the space of a Year.

NO Bishop shall henceforth admit any Person into Sacred Orders, which is not of his own Diocess, except he be either of one of the Universities of this Realm, or except he shall bring Letters Dimissory (so termed) from the Bishop of whose Diocess he is, and desiring to be a Deacon, is three and twenty years old, and to be a Priest, four and twenty years compleat, and hath taken some Degree of School in either of the said Universities, or at the least, except he be able to yield an account of his Faith in Latin, according to the Articles of Religion approved in the Synod of the Bishops and Clergy of this Realm, One thousand five hundred sixty and two, and to confirm the same by sufficient Testimonies out of the holy Scriptures: and except moreover, he shall then exhibit Letters Testimonial of his good Life and Conversation, under the Seal of some College of Cambridge or Oxford, where before he remained, or of three or four grave Ministers, together with the Subscription and Testimony of other credible Persons, who have known his life and behaviour by the space of three years next before.

THE Bishop before he admit any Person to holy Orders, shall diligently examine him in the presence of those Ministers that shall assist him at the Imposition of hands: And if the said Bishop have any lawful impediment, he shall cause the said Ministers carefully to examine every such Person so to be Ordered. Provided that they who shall assist the Bishop in examining and laying on of hands, shall be of his Cathedral Church, if they may conveniently be had, or other sufficient Preachers of the same Diocess, to the number of three at the least: And if any Bishop or Suffragan shall admit any to Sacred Orders, who is not so qualified and examined, as before we have Ordained, the Archbishop of his Province having notice thereof, and being assisted therein by one Bishop, shall suspend the said Bishop or Suffragan so offending, from making either Deacons or Priests for the space of two years.

NO Person shall hereafter be received into the Ministery, nor either by Institution or Collation admitted to any Ecclesiastical Living, nor suffered to Preach, to Catechize, or to be a Lecturer or Reader of Divinity in either University, 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 Licensed either by the Archbishop, or by the Bishop of the Diocess, (where he is to be placed) under their Hands and Seals, 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 King's Majesty under God, is the only Supream Governour of this Realm, and of all other His Highness Dominions and Countries, as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Things or Causes, as Temporal, and that no Foreign Prince, Person, Prelate, State or Potentate, hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority, Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, within His Majesty's said Realms, Dominions and Countries.

2. That the Book of Common-Prayer, and of Ordering of Bishops, Priests and Deacons, containeth in it nothing contrary to the Word of God, and that it may lawfully so be used, and that he himself will use the Form in the said Book prescribed in Publick Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and none other.

3. That he alloweth the Book of Articles of Religion 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 God, One thousand five hundred sixty and two: and that he acknowledgeth all and every the Articles therein contained, being in number Nine and thirty, besides the Ratification, to be agreeable to the Word Of God.

To these three Articles whosoever will subscribe, he shall for the avoiding of all ambiguities, subscribe in this Order and Form of Words, setting down both his Christian and Sirname, viz. IN. N. do willingly and ex animo subscribe to these three Articles above-mentioned, and to all things that are contained in them. And if any Bishop shall Ordain, Admit or License any, as is aforesaid, Except he first have subscribed in manner and form as here we have appointed, he shall be suspended from giving of Orders and Licences to Preach for the space of twelve Months. But if either of the Universities shall offend therein, we leave them to the danger of the Law, and His Majesty's Censure.

NOne Licensed, as is aforesaid, to Preach, Read Lecture, or Catechise, coming to reside in any Diocess, shall be permitted there to Preach, Read Lecture, Catechise or Minister the Sacraments, or to execute any other Ecclesiastical Function, by what Authority soever he be thereunto admitted) unless he first consent and subscribe to the three Articles before mentioned, in the presence of the Bishop of the Diocess, wherein he is to Preach, Read Lecture, Catechise or Administer the Sacraments, as aforesaid.

IF any Minister, after he hath once subscribed to the said three Articles, shall omit to use the Form of Prayer, or any of the Orders or Ceremonies prescribed in the Communion-Book, let him be suspended: and if after a Month he do not reform and submit himself, let him be excommunicated: and then if he shall not submit himself within the space of another Month, let him be deposed from the Ministery.

NO Bishop shall institute any to a Benefice, who hath been Ordained by any other Bishop, except he first shew unto him his Letters of Orders, and bring him a sufficient Testimony of his former good Life and Behaviour, if the Bishop shall require it: and lastly, shall appear upon due Examination to be worthy of his Ministery.

TO avoid the detestable sin of Simony, because buying and selling of Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Functions, Offices, Promotions, Dignities and Livings, is execrable before God; therefore the ArchBishop, and all and every Bishop or Bishops, or any other Person or Persons, having Authority to Admit, Institute, Collate, Install, or to Confirm the Election of any Archbishop, Bishop, or other Person or Persons to any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Function, Dignity, Promotion, Title, Office, Jurisdiction, Place or Benefice, with Cure or without Cure, or to any Ecclesiastical Living whatsoever, shall before every such Admission, Institution, Collation, Installation or Confirmation of Election, respectively minister to every Person hereafter to be Admitted, Instituted, Collated, Installed or Confirmed in or to any Archbishoprick, Bishoprick, or other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Function, Dignity, Promotion, Title, Jurisdiction, Place or Benefice with Cure or without Cure, or in or to any Ecclesiastical Living whatsoever, this Oath in Manner and Form following, the same to be taken by every one whom it concerneth in his own Person, and not by a Proctor: IN. N. do swear, That I have made no Simoniacal Payment, Contract or Promise, directly or indirectly, by my self or by any other to my Knowledge or with my Consent, to any Person or Persons whatsoever, for or concerning the Procuring and Obtaining of this Ecclesiastical Dignity, Place, Preferment, Office or Living, (respectively and particularly naming the same whereunto he is to be Admitted, Instituted, Collated, Installed or Confirmed) nor will at any time hereafter perform or satisfie any such kind of Payment, Contract or Promise made by any other without my knowledge or consent: So help me God through Jesus Christ.

NO Licence or Dispensation for the keeping of more Benfices with Cure than one, shall be granted to any, but such only as shall be thought very well worthy for his Learning, and very well able and sufficient to discharge his Duty, that is, who shall have taken the Degrce of a Master of Arts at the least in one of the Universities of this Realm, and be a publick and sufficient Preacher Licensed. Provided always, That he be by a good and sufficient Caution bound to make his personal Residence in each his said Benefices for some reasonable time in every year: And that the said Benefices be not more than thirty miles distant asunder: and lastly, that he have under him in the Benefice where he doth not reside, a Preacher lawfully allowed, that is able sufficiently to teach and instruct the People.

THE Dean, Master, Warden or chief Governour, Prebendaries and Canons in every Cathedral and Collegiate Church shall not only Preach there in their own Persons so often as they are bound by Law, Statute, Ordinance or Custom, but shall likewise Preach in other Churches of the same Diocess where they are Resident, and especially in those Places whence they or their Church receive any yearly Rents or Profits. And in case they themselves be sick, or lawfully absent, they shall substitute such licensed Preachers to supply their turns, as by the Bishop of the Diocess shall be thought meet to Preach in Cathedral Churches. And if any otherwise neglect or omit to supply his Course, as is aforesaid, the Offender shall be punished by the Bishop, or by him or them to whom the Jurisdiction of that Church appertaineth, according to the Quality of the Offence.

EVery Beneficed man allowed to be a Preacher, and residing on his Benefice, having no lawful Impediment, shall in his own Cure, or in some other Church or Chappel where he may conveniently, near adjoyning (where no Preacher is) preach one Sermon every Sunday of the Year, wherein he shall soberly and sincerely divide the Word of Truth to the glory of God, and to the best Edification of the People.

EVery Beneficed man, not allowed to be a Preacher, shall procure Sermons to be Preached in his Cure once in every Month at the least, by Preachers lawfully Licensed, if his Living in the Judgment of the Ordinary, will be able to bear it. And upon every Sunday when there shall not be a Sermon preached in his Cure, he or his Curate shall read some one of the Homilies prescribed, or to be prescribed by Authority to the intents aforesaid.

NO Curate or Minister shall be permitted to serve in any Place, without Examination and Admission of the Bishop of the Diocess or Ordinary of the Place having Episcopal Jurissdiction, in Writing under his Hand and Seal, having respect to the greatness of the Cure, and meetness of the Party. And the said Curates and Ministers, if they remove from one Diocess to another, shall not be by any means admitted to serve without Testimony of the Bishop of the Diocess, or Ordinary of the Place as aforesaid, whence they came, in Writing, of their Honesty, Ability, and Conformity to the Ecclesiastical Laws of the Church of England. Nor any shall serve more than one Church or Chapel upon one day, Except that Chapel be a Member of the Parish Church, or united thereunto; and unless the said Church or Chapel where such a Minister shall serve in two places, be not able in the Judgment of the Bishop or Ordinary as aforesaid, to maintain a Curate.

NO Person whatsoever not examined and approved by the Bishop of the Diocess, or not Licensed as is aforesaid, for a sufficient or convenient Preacher, shall take upon him to Expound in his own Cure or elsewhere, any Scripture or matter of Doctrine, but shall only study to read plainly and aptly (without glossing or adding) the Homilies already set forth, or hereafter to be published by Lawful Authority, for the Confirmation of the true Faith, and for the good Instruction and Edification of the People.

THE Deans, Presidents, and Residentiaries of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church, shall suffer no Stranger to Preach unto the People in their Churches, except they be allowed by the Archbishop of the Province, or by the Bishop of the same Diocess, or by either of the Universities. And if any in his Sermon shall publish any Doctrine, either strange or disagreeing from the Word of God, or from any of the Articles of Religion agreed upon in the Convocation House, Anno 1562. or from the Book of Common Prayers, the Dean or the Residents shall by their Letters subscribed with some of their Hands that heard him, so soon as may be, give notice of the same to the Bishop of the Diocess, that he may determine the Matter, and take such Order therein as he shall think convenient.

THAT the Bishop may understand (if Occasion so require) what Sermons are made in every Church of his Diocess, and who presume to preach without Licence, the Church-wardens and Side-men shall see that the Names of all Preachers which come to their Church from any other Place, be noted in a Book, which they shall have ready for that Purpose: wherein every Preacher shall subscribe his Name, the Day wherein he preached, and the Name of the Bishop of whom he had Licence to Preach.

IF any Preacher shall in the Pulpit particularly, or namely of purpose, impugn or confute any Doctrine delivered by any other Preacher in the same Church, or in any Church near adjoyning, before he hath acquainted the Bishop of the Diocess therewith, and received Order what to do in that Case, because upon such publick and Dissenting and contradicting, there may grow much Offence and Disquietness unto the People: the Church-wardens or Party grieved shall forthwith signifie the same to the said Bishop, and not suffer the said Preacher any more to occupy that place which he hath once abused, except he faithfully promise to forbear all such matter of Contention in the Church until the Bishop hath taken further Order therein: who shall with all convenient Speed so proceed therein, that publick Satisfaction may be made in the Congregation where the Offence was given. Provided, That if either of the Parties Offending do appeal, he shall not be suffered to preach pendentelite.

IF any man Licensed heretofore to Preach, by any Archbishop, Bishop, or by either of the Universities, shall at any time from henceforth refuse to conform himself to the Laws, Ordinances, and Rites Ecclesiastical established in the Church of England, he shall be admonished by the Bishop of the Diocess, or Ordinary of the Place, to submit himself to the Use and due Exercise of the same. And if after such Admonition, he do not conform himself within the space of one Month, We determine and decree, That the Licence of every such Preacher shall thereupon be utterly void and of none effect.

BEfore all Sermons, Lectures and Homilies, the Preachers and Ministers shall move the People to joyn with them in Prayer, in this Form or to this effect, as briefly as conveniently they may. Ye shall pray for Christ's holy Catholick Church, that is, for the whole Congregation of Christian People dispersed throughout the whole World, and especially for the Churches of England, Scotland and Ireland. And herein I require you most especially to pray for the Kings most excellent Majesty, our Soveraingn Lord IAMES, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and Supream Governor in these his Realms, and all other his Dominions and Countreys, over all Persons, in all Causes, as well Ecclesiastical as Temporal. Ye shall also pray for our gracious Queen Anne, the Noble Prince HENRY, and the rest of the King and Queens Royal Issue. Ye shall also pray for the Ministers of Gods holy Word and Sacraments, as well Archbishops and Bishops, as other Pastors and Curates. Ye shall also pray for the Kings most honourable Council, 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 the true Faith and Fear of God, in humble Obedience to the King, and Brotherly Charity one to another. Finally let us praise God for all those which are departed out of this Life in the Faith of Christ, and pray unto God that we may have Grace to direct our Lives after their good Example: that this life ended, we may be made Partakers with them of the glorious Resurrection in the Life everlasting; always concluding with the Lord's Prayer.

EVery Minister being possessed of a Benefice, that hath Cure and Charge of Souls, although he chiefly attend to Preaching, and hath a Curate under him to execute the other Duties which are to be performed for him in the Church, and likewise every other stipendiary Preacher that readeth any Lecture, or catechiseth or preacheth in any Church or Chappel, shall twice at the least every year read himself the Divine Service upon two several Sundays publickly, and at the usual times, both in the Fore-noon and After-noon in the Church which he so possesseth, or where he Readeth, Catechiseth, or Preacheth, as is aforesaid, and shall likewise as often in every year administer the Sacraments of Baptism (if there be any to be baptized) and of the Lords Supper, in such Manner and Form, and with the Observation of all such Rites and Ceremonies as are prescribed by the Book of Common-Prayer in that behalf: which if he do not accordingly perform, then shall he that is possessed of a Benefice (as before) be suspended: and he that is but a Reader, Preacher, or Catechiser, be removed from his Place by the Bishop of the Diocess, until he or they shall submit themselves to perform all the said Duties, in such manner and sort as before is prescribed.

EVery Parson, Vicar, or Curate, upon every Sunday and Holy-day before Evening Prayer, shall for half an hour or more, examine and instruct the Youth and ignorant Persons of his Parish, in the Ten Commandments, the Articles of the Belief, and in the Lord's Prayer: and shall diligently hear, instruct, and teach them the Catechism set forth in the Book of Common Prayer. And all Fathers, Mothers, Masters and Mistresses, shall cause their Children, Servants, and Apprentices, which have not learned the Catechism to come to the Church at the time appointed, obediently to hear, and to be ordered by the Minister until they have learned the same. And if any Minister neglect his Duty herein, let him be sharply reproved upon the first Complaint, and true notice thereof given to the Bishop or Ordinary of the Place. If after submitting himself, he shall willingly offend therein again, let him be suspended. If so the third time, there being little hope that he will be therein reformed, then excommunicated, and so remain until he will be reformed. And likewise, if any of the said Fathers, Mothers, Masters or Mistresses, Children, Servants, or Apprentices shall neglect their Duties, as the one sort in not causing them to come, and the other in refusing to learn as aforesaid: Let them be suspended by their Ordinaries, (if they be not Children) and if they so persist by the space of a month, then let them be excommunicated.

FOrasmuch as it hath been a solemn, ancient, and laudable Custom in the Church of God, continued from the Apostles times, that all Bishops should lay their Hands upon Children baptized and instructed in the Catechism of Christian Religion, praying over them and blessing them, which we commonly call Confirmation, and that this holy Action hath been accustomed in the Church in former Ages, to be performed in the Bishops Visitation every third Year: We will and appoint, that every Bishop or his Suffragan in his accustomed Visitation, do in his own Person carefully observe the said Custom. And if in that year, by reason of some Infirmity, he be not able personally to Visit, then he shall not omit the Execution of that Duty of Confirmation the next year after as he may conveniently.

EVery Minister that has Cure and Charge of Souls, for the better accomplishing of the Orders prescribed in the Book of Common-Prayer concerning Confirmation, shall take especial Care, as that none shall be presented to the Bishop for him to lay his Hands upon, but such as can render an account of their Faith according to the Catechism in the said Book contained. And when the Bishop shall assign any time for the Performance of that part of his Duty, every such Minister shall use his best endeavour to prepare and make able, and likewise to procure as many as he can to be then brought, and by the Bishop to be confirmed.

NO Minister, upon pain of Suspension per triennium ipso facto, shall celebrate Matrimony between any Persons without a Faculty or Licence granted by some of the Persons in these our Constitutions expressed, except the Banns of Matrimony have been first published three several Sundays or Holy-days in the time of Divine Service in the Parish-Churches and Chapels where the said Parties dwell, according to the Book of Common Prayer. Neither shall any Minister, upon the like pain, under any Pretence whatsoever, joyn any persons so Licensed in Marriage at any unseasonable times, but only between the hours of Eight and Twelve in the Fore-noon, nor in any private Place, but either in the said Churches or Chapels where one of them dwelleth, and likewise in time of Divine Service: nor when Banns are thrice asked (and no Licence in that respect necessary) before the Parents or Governours of the Parties to be married, being under the age of twenty and one years, shall either personally, or by sufficient Testimony, signifie to him their Consents given to the said Marriage.

EVery Parson, Vicar or Curate, shall in his several Charge declare to the People every Sunday at the time appointed in the Communion Book, whether there be any Holy-days, or Fasting-days the Week following. And if any do hereafter wittingly offend herein, and being once admonished thereof by his Ordinary, shall again omit that Duty, let him be censured according to Law, until he submit himself to the due performance of it.

ALL Ordinaries shall in their several Jurisdictions carefully see and give Order, that as well those who for obstinate refusing to frequent Divine Service established by publick Authority within this Realm of England, as those also (especially of the better sort and condition) who for notorious Contumacy or other notable Crimes stand lawfully Excommunicate, (unless within three months immediately after the said Sentence of Excommunication pronounced against them, they reform themselves, and obtain the Benefit of Absolution) be every six months ensuing, as well in the Parish Church as in the Cathedral Church of the Diocess, in which they remain, by the Minister openly in time of Divine Service upon some Sunday, denounced and declared Excommunicate, that others may be thereby both admonished to refrain their Company and Society, and excited the rather to procure out a Writ De Excommunicato capiendo, thereby to bring and reduce them into due order, and obedience. Likewise the Register of every Ecclesiastical Court, shall yearly between Michaelmas and Christmas, duly certifie the Archbishop of the Province of all and singular the Premises aforesaid.

EVery Minister being a Preacher, and having any Popish Recusant or Recusants in his Parish, and thought fit by the Bishop of the Diocess, shall labour diligently with them from time to time, thereby to reclaim them from their Errors. And if he be no Preacher, or not such a Preacher, then he shall procure, if he can possibly, some that are Preachers so qualified, to take pains with them for that purpose. If he can procure none, then he shall inform the Bishop of the Diocess thereof, who shall not only appoint some Neighbour Preacher or Preachers adjoyning to take that Labour upon them, but himself also (as his important Affairs will permit him) shall use his best Endeavour by Instruction, Persuasion, and all good means he can devise, to reclaim both them and all other within his Diocess so affected.

VVHEN any Person is dangerously sick in any Parish, the Minister or Curate (having Knowledge thereof) shall resort unto him or her (if the Disease be not known, or probably suspected to be infectious) to instruct and comfort them in their Distress, according to the Order of the Communion Book, if he be no Preacher; or if he be a Preacher, then as he shall think most needful and convenient. And when any is passing out of this Life, a Bell shall be tolled, and the Minister shall not then slack to do his last Duty. And after the Parties Death (if it so fall out) there shall be rung no more but one short Peal, and one other before the Burial, and one other after the Burial.

IF any Minister being duly without any manner of Collusion, informed of the Weakness and Danger of Death of any Infant unbaptized in his Parish, and thereupon desired to go or come to the Place where the said Infant remaineth, to Baptize the same, shall either wilfully refuse so to do, or of Purpose, or of gross Negligence shall so defer the time, as when he might conveniently have resorted to the Place, and have Baptized the said Infant, it dieth through such his Default unbaptized; the said Minister shall be suspended for three months, and before his restitution shall acknowledge his Fault, and promise before his Ordinary, that he will not wittingly incur the like again. Provided, that where there is a Curate or a Substitute, this Constitution shall not extend to the Parson or Vicar himself, but to the Curate or Substitute present.

IN every Parish Church and Chapel within this Realm, shall be provided one Parchment Book at the Charge of the Parish, wherein shall be written the day and year of every Christening, Wedding and Burial which have been in that Parish since the time that the Law was first made in that behalf, so far as the ancient Books thereof can be procured, but especially since the beginning of the Reign of the late Queen. 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 severally; so that neither the Minister without the two 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 or 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 Christened, together with the Names and Surnames of their Parents, and also the Names of all Persons Married and Buried in that Parish, in the Week before, and the day and year of every such Christening, Marriage and Burial: And that done, they shall lay up that Book in the Coffer as before: And the Minister and Church-wardens unto every Page of that Book, when it shall be filled with such Inscriptions, shall subscribe their Names. And the Church-wardens shall once every year within one Month after the five and twentieth 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 five and twentieth day of March) and the certain days and months in which, every such Christening, Marriage and Burial was had, to be subscribed with the Hands of the said Minister and Church-wardens, 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 Church-wardens shall be negligent in 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.

NO Minister shall Prench or Administer the holy Communion in any private House, except it be in times of necessity, when any being either so impotent as he cannot go to the Church, or very dangerously sick, are desirous to be Partakers of the holy Sacrament, upon pain of Suspension for the first Offence, and Excommunication for the second. Provided, that Houses are here reputed for Private Houses, wherein are no Chapels dedicated and allowed by the Ecclesiastical Laws of this Realm. And provided also under the pains before expressed, that no Chaplains do Preach or Administer the Communion in any other places, but in the Chapels of the said Houses; and that also they do the same very seldom upon Sundays and Holy-days: So that both the Lords and Masters of the said Houses and their Families shall at other times resort to their own Parish Churches, and there receive the holy Communion at the least once every year.

Forasmuch as all conventicles and secret Meetings of Priests and Ministers have been ever justly accounted very hurtful to the State of the Church wherein they live: We do now Ordain and Constitute, That no Priests or Ministers of the word of God, nor any other Persons shall meet together in any private House or elsewhere, to consult upon any matter or course to be taken by them or upon their motion or direction by any other, which may any way tend to the Impeaching or Depraving of the Doctrine of the Church of England, or of the Book of Common Prayer, or any part of the Government and Discipline now established in the Church of England, under pain of Excommunication ipso facto.

NO man being admitted a Deacon or Minister, shall from thenceforth voluntarily relinquish the same, nor afterward use himself in the Course of his Life, as a Lay-man, upon pain of Excommunication. And the Names of all such Men so forsaking their Calling, the Churchwardens of the Parish where they dwell shall present to the Bishop of the Diocess, or to the Ordinary of the Place, having Episcopal Jurisdiction.

NO Man shall teach either in publick School, or private House, but such as shall be allowed by the Bishop of the Diocess, or Ordinary of the Place under his Hand and Seal, being found meet, as well for his Learning and dexterity in Teaching, as for sober and honest Conversation, and also for right understanding of Gods true Religion, and also except he shall first subscribe to the first and third Articles aforementioned simply, and to the two first Clauses of the second Article.

ALL School-Masters shall teach in English or Latin, as the Children are able to bear, the larger or shorter Catechism heretofore by publick Authority set forth. And as often as any Sermon shall be upon Holy and Festival days, within the Parish where they teach, they shall bring their Schollars to the Church where such Sermon shall be made, and there see them quietly and soberly behave themselves, and shall examine them at times convenient after their return, what they have born away of such Sermons. Upon other days, and at other times they shall train them up with such Sentences of holy Scriptures, as shall be most expedient to induce them to all Godliness: and they shall teach the Grammar set forth by King Henry the Eighth, and continued in the times of King Edward the Sixth, and Queen Elizabeth of noble Memory, and none other. And if any School-Master being Licensed, and having subscribed, as aforesaid, shall offend in any of the premisses, or either speak, write, or teach against any thing whereunto he hath formerly subscribed, (if upon admonition by the Ordinary he do not amend and reform himself) let him be suspended from teaching School any longer.

THE Church-wardens or Quest-men of every Church and Chappel, shall at the charge of the Parish provide the Book of Common Prayer, lately explained in some few points by his Majesties Authority according to the Laws and his Highness Prerogative in that behalf, and that with all convenient speed, but at the furthest within two months after the publishing of these our Constitutions. And if any Parishes be yet unfurnished of the Bible of the largest Volume, or of the Books of Homilies allowed by Authority, the said Church-wardens shall within convenient time provide the same at the like charge of the Parish.

ACcording to a former Constitution, too much neglected in many places, we appoint, That there shall be a Font of Stone in every Church and Chappel where Baptism is to be ministred; the same to be set in the Ancient usual places. In which only Font the Minister shall baptize publickly.

VVHereas we have no doubt but that in all Churches within the Realm of England, convenient and decent Tables are provided and placed for the celebration of the holy Communion, we appoint that the same Tables shall from time to time be kept and repaired in sufficient and seemly manner, and covered in time of Divine Service with a Carpet of Silk or other decent stuff thought meet by the Ordinary of the place, if any question be made of it, and with a fair Linen cloth at the time of the ministration, as becometh that Table, and so stand, saving when the said holy Communion is to be administred. At which time the same shall be placed in so good sort within the Church or Chancel, as thereby the Minister may be more conveniently heard of the Communicants in his Prayer and Ministration, and the Communicants also more conveniently and in more number may Communicate with the said Minister: and that the Ten Commandments be set upon the Eastend of every Church and Chappel where the people may best see and read the same, and other chosen Sentences written upon the walls of the said Churches and Chappels in places convenient and likewise, that a convenient Seat be made for the Minister to read Service in. All these to be done at the charge of the Parish.

THE Church-wardens shall provide and have within three months after the publishing of these Constitutions, a strong Chest, with a hole in the upper part thereof, to be provided at the charge of the Parish (if there be none such already provided) having three Keys; of which one shall remain in the custody of the Parson, Vicar or Curate, and the other two in the custody of the Church-wardens for the time being: which Chest they shall set and fasten in the most convenient place, to the intent the Parishioners may put into it their Alms for their poor Neighbours. And the Parson, Vicar or Curate shall diligently from time to time, and especially when men make their Testaments, call upon, exhort, and move their Neighbours to confer, and give as they may well spare to the said Chest, declaring unto them, That whereas heretofore they have been diligent to bestow much substance otherwise then God commanded, upon superstitious uses, now they ought at this time to be much more ready to help the poor and needy, knowing that to relieve the poor, is a sacrifice which pleaseth God: And that also whatsoever is given for their comfort, is given to Christ himself, and is so accepted of him, that he will mercifully reward the same. The which Alms and Devotion of the people, the keepers of the Keys shall yearly, quarterly, or oftner (as need requireth) take out of the Chest, and distribute the same in the presence of most of the Parish, or six of the chief of them, to be truly and faithfully delivered to their most poor and needy neighbours.

THe Churchwardens or Questmen shall take care, and provide that the Churches be well and sufficiently repair'd, and so from time to time kept and maintained, that the Windows be well glazed, and that the Floors be kept paved, plain, and even, all things there in such an orderly and decent sort, without dust, or any thing that may be either noysome or unseemly, as best becometh the House of God, and is prescribed in an Homily to that effect. The like care they shall take, that the Church-yards be well and sufficiently repaired, fenced and maintained with Walls, Rails or Pales, as have been in each place accustomed, at their charges unto whom by Law the same appertaineth: but especially they shall see that in every meeting of the Congregation peace be well kept, and that all persons Excommunicated, and so denounced, be kept out of the Church.

EVery Dean, Dean and Chapter, Archdeacon, and others which have Authority to hold Ecclesiastical Visitations by Composition, Law or Prescription, shall survey the Churches of his or their Jurisdiction, once in every three years in his own person, or cause the same to be done, and shall from time to time within the said three years, certifie the High Commissioners for causes Ecclesiastical, every year of such defects in any the said Churches, as he or they do find to remain unrepaired, and the names and sirnames of the parties faulty therein. Upon which Certificate we desire that the said High Commissioners will ex officio mero send for such parties and compel them to obey the just and lawful Decrees of such Ecclesiastical Ordinaries making such Certificates.

WE Ordain, That the Archbishops, and all Bishops within their several Diocesses, shall procure (as much as in them lieth) that a true Note and Terrier of all the Glebes, Lands, Medows, Gardens, Orchards, Houses, Stocks, Implements, Tenements and portions of Tythes, lying out of their Parishes (which belong to any Parsonage, or Vicarage, or rural Prebend) be taken by the view of honest men in every Parish by the appointment of the Bishop, whereof the Minister to be one, and be laid up in the Bishops Registry there to be for a perpetual memory thereof.

ALL Church-wardens or Quest-men in every Parish, shall be chosen by the joynt consent of the Minister and the Parishioners, if it may be: But if they cannot agree upon such a choice, then the Minister shall chuse one, and the Parishioners another: and without such a joynt or several choice, none shall take upon them to be Church-wardens, neither shall they continue any longer then one year in that Office, except perhaps they be chosen again in like manner. And all Church-wardens at the end of their year, or within a month after at the most, shall before the Minister and the Parishioners, give up a just account of such Money as they have received, and also what particularly they have bestowed in Reparations, and otherwise for the use of the Church. And last of all, going out of their Office, they shall truly deliver up to the Parishioners whatsoever Money or other things of right belonging to the Church or Parish, which remaineth in their hands, that it may be delivered over by them to the next Church-wardens by Bill indented.

THE Church-wardens or Quest-men of every Parish and two or three or more discreet persons in every Parish to be chosen for Sidemen or Assistants, by the Minister and Parishioners, if they can agree, (otherwise to be appointed by the Ordinary of the Diocess) shall diligently see, that all the Parishoners duly resort to the Church upon all Sundays and Holydays, and there continue the whole time of Divine Service: and none to walk or to stand idle or taking in the Church, or in the Church-yard, or the Church-porch, during that time. And all such as shall be found slack or negligent in resorting to the Church, (having no great or urgent cause of absence) they shall earnestly call upon them: and after due monition (if they amend not) they shall present them to the Ordinary of the place. The choice of which persons, viz. Churchwardens or Quest-men, Side-men or Assistants shall be yearly made in Easter-week,

NO Parish Clerk upon any vacation shall be chosen within the City of London, or elsewhere within the Province of Canterbury, but by the Parson or Vicar: or where there is no Parson or Vicar, by the Minister of that place for the time being: Which choice shall be signified by the said Minister, Vicar or Parson, to the Parishioners the next Sunday following in the time of Divine Service. And the said Clerk shall be of twenty years of age at the least, and known to the said Parson, Vicar or Minister, to be of honest conversation, and sufficient for his Reading, Writing, and also for his competent skill in Singing (if it may be.) And the said Clerks so chosen shall have and receive their ancient Wages, without fraud or diminution, either at the hands of the Church-wardens at such times as hath been accustomed, or by their own collection according to the most ancient custom of every Parish.

NO Man shall hereafter be admitted a Chancellor, Commissary or Official, to exercise any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, except he be of the full age of six and twenty Years at the least, and one that is learned in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws, and is at the least a Master of Arts, or Batchelor of Law, and is reasonably well practised in the Course thereof, as likewise well affected, and zealously bent to Religion, tou • hing whose Life and manners no evil example is had, and except before he enter into, or execute any such Office, he shall take the Oath of the Kings supremacy in the presence of the Bishop, or in the open Court, and shall subscribe to the Articles of Religion, agreed upon in the Convocation, in the year one Thousand five Hundred, sixty and two, and shall also swear that he will to the uttermost of his Understanding, deal uprightly and justly in his Office, without respect, or favour of Reward: the said Oaths and Subscription to be recorded by a Register then present. And likewise all Chancellors, Commissaries, Officials, Registers, and all other that do now possess or execute any places of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, or Service, shall before Christmas next, in the Presence of the Archbishop of Bishop, or in open Court, under whom or where they exercise their Offices, take the same Oaths, and subscribe as before is said: Or upon refusal so to do, shall be suspended from the execution of their Offices, until they shall take the said Oaths, and subscribe as aforesaid.

NO Chancellor, Commissary, Arch-Deacon, Official, or any other person using Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, shall at any time substitute in their absence any to keep any Court for them, except he be either a grave Minister and a Graduate, or a licensed publick Preacher, and a beneficed man near the place where the Courts are kept, or a Batcheler of Law, or a Master of Arts at least, who hath some skill in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Law, and is a favourer of true Religion, and a man of modest and honest conversation, under pain of suspension for every time that they offend therein from the execution of their Offices for the space of three months toties quoties: And he likewise that is deputed, being not qualified as is before expressed, and yet shall presume to be a Substitute to any Judge, and shall keep any Court as is aforesaid, shall undergo the same censure in manner and form as is before expressed.

IF any Register or his Deputy, or Substitute whatsoever, shall receive any Certificate without the knowledge and consent of the Judge of the Court, or willingly omit to cause any person cited to appear upon any Court day to be called, or unduly put off, and defer the examination of witnesses to be examined by a day set and assigned by the Judge, or do not obey and observe the judicial and lawful monition of the said Judge, or omit to write, or cause to be written such Citations and Decrees as are to be put in execution and set forth before the next Court day, or shall not cause all Testaments exhibited into his Office to be Registred within a convenient time, or shall set down or enact as decreed by the Judge any thing false, or conceited by himself, and not so ordered o • decreed by the Judge, or in the transmission of Processes to the Judge Ad quem, shall add, or insert any falsehood or untruth, or omit any thing therein, either by cunning, or by gross negligence, or in causes of Instance, or promoted of Office, shall receive any reward in favour of either party, or to be of counsel directly or indirectly with either of the parties in Suit, or in the execution of their Office shall do ought else maliciously, or fraudulently, whereby the said Ecclesiastical Judge or his proceedings may be slandered or defamed: We Will and Ordain, that the said Register or his Deputy or Substitute, offending in all, or any of the premisses, shall by the Bishop of the Diocess be Suspended from the exercise of his Office, for the space of one, two or three months, or more, according to the quality of his offence, and that the said Bishop shall assign some other public Notary to execute and discharge all things pertaining to his Office, during the time of his said Suspension.

NO Bishop, Suffragan, Chancellor, Commissary, Arch-Deacon, Official, nor any other exercising Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction whatsoever, nor any Register of any Ecclesiastical Courts, nor any Minister belonging to any of the said Officers or Courts, shall hereafter for any cause incident to their several Offices, take or receive any other or greater Fees, then such as were certified to the most Reverend Father in God, John, late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, in the year of our Lord God, One thousand five hundred ninety and seven, and were by him ratified and and approved, under pain that every such Judge, Officer or Minister offending herein shall be Suspended from the exercise of their several Offices, for the space of six Months for every such offence. Always provided, that if any question shall arise concerning the certainty of the said Fees or any of them: those Fees shall be held for lawful, which the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for the time being shall under his Hand approve, except the Statutes of this Realm before made, do in any particular case express some other Fees to be due. Provided furthermore, that no Fee or Money shall be received either by the Arch-Bishop, or any Bishop or Suffragan, either directly or indirectly, for admitting of any into Sacred Orders, nor that any other person or persons under the said Arch-Bishop, Bishop or Suffragan, shall for Parchment, Writing, Wax, Sealing, or any other respect thereunto appertaining, take above ten shillings, under such pains as are already by Law prescribed.

FOrasmuch as a chief and principal cause and use of Visitation is, that the Bishop, Arch-Deacon or other assigned to Visit, may get some good knowledge of the State, Sufficiency and Ability of the Clergy, and other persons whom they are to Visit: We think it convenient, that every Parson, Vicar, Curate, Schoolmaster, or other person Licensed whosoever, do at the Bishops first Visitation, or at the next Visitation after his Admission, shew and exhibit unto him his Letters of Orders, Institution and Induction, and all other his Dispensations, Licences or Faculties whatsoever, to be by the said Bishop either allowed, or (if there be just cause) disallowed and rejected: and being by him approved, to be, as the custom is, signed by the Register; and that the whole Fees accustomed to be paid in the Visitations in respect of the Premisses, be paid only once in the whole time of every Bishop, and afterwards, but half of the said accustomed Fees, in every other Visitation during the said Bishops continuance.