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<HEAD>&para; Certaine nece&s;&s;arie Articles &s;et out by the Archbi&s;hop of Yorke and his A&s;&s;ociates, Commi&s;&s;ioners in cau&s;es <HI>Eccle&s;iasticall, to be ob&s;erued in the Dioce&s;&s;e of Yorke.</HI> <DATE>1582. <HI>Martij.</HI> 3.</DATE></HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas not withstandyng the greate plentie of knowledge whiche in the&s;e daies of the Go&s;pell it hath plea&s;ed God to powre forth among vs in mo&s;t bountifull maner: yet diuers of the people in many places remaine &s;till in ignoraunce and Superstition, not muche regardyng godly instruction, and withdrawyng them &s;elues more and more from diuine &s;eruice on the Sabboth daies and other Hollidaies by law appoin|ted, vpon euery triefling occa&s;ion, whiche rather folowyng their owne phanta&s;ie, and &s;eeking their owne plea&s;ures, then &s;tudying to &s;erue God according to his lawes. VVe haue thought good on the behalf of the glorie of God, and for the &s;oules health of the people, to haue a &s;pe|ciall regarde to this matter, and by the aucthoritie of the high Commi&s;&s;ion for cau&s;es Eccle&s;iasticall to vs committed, to prouide that the good and godlie lawes on that behalfe made, bee more diligently put in execution, vppon paine of &s;uche cen&s;ures, puni&s;hmentes, and fines, as by the Queenes Maistes lawes and her highne&s;&s;e Commi&s;&s;ion to vs directed are alreadie prouided: and &s;o muche the rather at this pre&s;ent, becau&s;e of the want of conuenient instruction, and by meanes of &s;o muche ab&s;enting them&s;elues from the Church, and the needful exerci&s;es of Religio~ v&s;ed therein, diuers of them do become in the end wilful recu|&s;antes, and very euill &s;ubiectes be&s;ides: as diuers examples of late haue giuen &s;ufficient testimonie thereof.</HI></P>
<P><HI>VVe therfore, Edwin by the grace of God, Archbi&s;hop of Yorke, Primate of England, and Metropoli|tane, and other our A&s;&s;ociates her Maiesties Commi&s;&s;ioners for cau&s;es Eccle&s;iasticall within the Pro|uince of Yorke: who&s;e names are vnder written, do in the name of God mo&s;t instantly require, and by ver|tue of her Maiesties Co~mi&s;&s;ion afore &s;aid, to vs and others directed mo&s;t &s;traightly, charge and co~maund that the&s;e fewe pointes en&s;ewing, be more diligently ob&s;erued of all, as vnto euery one it &s;hall appertaine.</HI></P>
<P>_FIr&s;t, <NOTE PLACE="marg">That Mini|&s;ters doe their duetie.</NOTE> that all which are of the Mini&s;terie, do not only reade vnto the people di&s;tinctly and re|uerently diuine Seruice and Homilies, and (&s;uche as are able and aucthori&s;ed) preache vnto them likewi&s;e as is appointed, but al&s;o that they Catechi&s;e the yonger &s;orte as is pre&s;cribed, teaching them both to &s;aie it by harte and to vnder&s;tande the &s;ame in rea&s;onable maner: And that in quiet and gentle maner they likewi&s;e teach the re&s;idue of their Pari&s;he (&s;o many <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> <UNCLEAR>alreadie</UNCLEAR> can+not doe it) the Articles of the faith, the ten Commaundements, and the Lords Praier, both to &s;aie them by harte, and in &s;ome good mea&s;ure al&s;o to vnder&s;ta~d them, and that they doe it in &s;o diligent and faith|ful maner, as becometh &amp; behoueth tho&s;e which are to giue accompt of the &s;ame in the daie of the Lord.</P>
<P>Secondly, <NOTE PLACE="marg">That the people keepe Church and Catechi&s;me.</NOTE> that the people them&s;elues together with their children and &s;eruaunts come diligently bothe to Mornyng and Euenyng Praier: and that then and there they giue diligent eare withal reue|rence to the worde of God, and that they haue their &s;eruauntes and children at conuenient tyme in the afternoone at Euening Praier, as is alreadie appointed, to the Catechi&s;me, to be in&s;tructed and exami|ned therein: and them&s;elues likewi&s;e &s;o oft as thei may conueniently be al&s;o there, to heare tho&s;e things expounded for their owne in&s;truction, that &s;o they maie be more readie to come to the Lords Table &s;o often and accordingly, as by law they are bounde at the lea&s;t.</P>
<P>Thirdly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">That church warde~s take the forfaiture of ab&s;entes.</NOTE> that the Church wardens bee not ab&s;ent them&s;elues neither from Morning nor Euening Praier without &s;peciall cau&s;e: and in &s;uche ca&s;e, that they haue &s;ome of their hone&s;t neighbors &s;ufficient for the office to &s;upplie their roumes. And that they diligently marke what Hou&s;holders or others of their families are ab&s;ent either from diuine Seruice or Catechi&s;me, or otherwi&s;e mi&s;behaue them&s;elues there, that after Seruice together with their Mini&s;ter they take a note thereof in writing (e&s;pecially of the cheefe&s;t offenders) and after leuy of them by way of di&s;tre&s;&s;e the for faiture by Statute appointed (if they haue not lawfull and rea&s;onable cau&s;e of their ab&s;ence) as they are by Statute directed: and that they be&s;tow the &s;ame on the poore as accordingly is appointed: And that if any Churchwardens make default herein, the Mini&s;ter certifie vs thereof in conuenient time, that reformation thereof be not ouer|long delaied.</P>
<P>Fourthly, <NOTE PLACE="marg">That church wardens keepe a note thereof.</NOTE> that the Churchwardens &s;hall keepe a continuall accompt of &s;uch &s;ommes &s;o receiued and be&s;towed, and once euery quarter of the yere make by tho&s;e accomptes to their owne proper Mini&s;ters in writing: and that done, laie the &s;ame vp in the common Che&s;t vnder &s;afe cu&s;todie to be in a readine&s;&s;e to be &s;hewed to the &s;aied Archbi&s;hopp and his &s;aied A&s;&s;ociates, or to three of them; &s;o often as they &s;hall thinke good to call for the &s;ame, or otherwi&s;e to be &s;hewed to &s;uch as they &s;hall think good from tyme to tyme to appoint for the better execution thereof and ea&s;e of the people, that &s;o the offenders therein may be knowne and puni&s;hed accordingly.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, wee exhorte and require all Preachers lawfully aucthori&s;ed, that thei doe not onely looke to their owne charge, but al&s;o &s;o much as conueniently they can, help to &s;upplie the want which is in their next and nigh neighbours not able by them&s;elues to feed their flock. And we al&s;o charge &amp; commaunde the Churchwardens that they &s;uffer none to preache, or &s;erue as Curate, vnle&s;&s;e they bee allowed and lawfull<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> licen&s;ed therevnto by &s;ufficient aucthoritie.</P>
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<ITEM>Edwyne Eborum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam Palmer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mathewe Hutton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Henry VVright.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ro. Lougher.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ry. Percy.</ITEM>
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