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<P><HI>Aduerti&s;ments</HI> partly for due order in the publique admini&s;tration of common prayers and v&s;inge the holy Sacramentes, and partly for the apparrell of all per&s;ons eccle&s;ia&s;ti|call, by vertue of the Queenes maie&s;ties letters com|maunding the &s;ame, the xxv. day of Ianuary, in the &s;euenth yeare of the reigne of oure Soueraigne Lady <HI>ELYZABETH,</HI> by the grace of God, of Englande, Fraunce and Irelande Queene, de|fender of the faith &amp;c.</P>
<P>&leaf;</P>
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<P>LONDINI.</P>
<P>Cum priuilegio ad imprimen|dum &s;olum.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="preface">
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<HEAD>The Preface.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Queenes maie&s;ty of her godly zeale calling to remembraunce how nece&s;&s;a|ry it is to thauau~ceme~t of gods glory, and to the e&s;tabli&s;hment of Chri&s;tes pure Religion, for all her louinge &s;ub|iectes, e&s;pecially the &s;tate Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, to bee knitte together in one perfecte vnity of doctrine, and to be conioined in one vniformity of Rites and Maners in y^e mini&s;tration of gods holy word, in open prai|er and mini&s;tracion of Sacraments, as al&s;o to be of one decent behauiour in their outwarde appar|rell, to be knowne partly by their di&s;tinct habits to be of that vocation (who &s;houlde be reuerenced the rather in their offices as Mini&s;ters of the holye thinges wherto they be called) hath by her letters directed vnto the Archeby&s;hop of Canterbury and Metropolitane, required, enioyned and &s;traightlye charged, y^t with a&s;&s;i&s;tance and conference had with other by&s;hops, namely &s;uche as be in co~mi&s;&s;ion for cau&s;es eccle&s;ia&s;ticall, &s;ome orders might be taken, wherby all diuer&s;ities and varieties amonge them of the clergy and the people (as breadinge nothinge but contention, offence and breach of common cha|rity, and be again&s;t the lawes, good v&s;uage and or|dinaunces of the Realm) might be reformed and re|pre&s;&s;ed, and brought to one maner of vniformitye thoroughout y^e whole Realm, that the people may therby quietly honour and &s;erue almighty God in truthe, concord, vnity, peace and quietnes, as by her
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maie&s;ties &s;aid letters more at large dothe appeare. Whervppon by diligent conference and communi|cation in the &s;ame, and at la&s;te by a&s;&s;ent and con&s;ent of the per&s;ons before &s;aid, the&s;e orders and rules en+&s;uing, haue beene thought meete &amp; conuenient to be v&s;ed and folowed: not yet pre&s;cribing the&s;e rules as lawes equiualent with the eternal word of God, &amp; as of nece&s;&s;ity to binde the con&s;ciences of her &s;ub|iectes in the nature of them con&s;idered in them &s;el|ues: Or as they &s;houlde adde any efficacy, or more holines to the vertue of publique prayer and to the Sacraments, but as temporall orders mere Eccle|&s;ia&s;ticall, without any vaine &s;uper&s;tition, and as rules in &s;ome part of di&s;cipline concerning decency, di&s;tinction, and order for the time.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="instructions for ecclesiastical administration">
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Articles for doctrine, &amp; preaching.</HEAD>
<P>_Fir&s;t, that al they which &s;halbe admitted to preache, &s;halbe diligentlie examined for their co~formytie in vnitie of doctri|ne, e&s;tabli&s;&s;hed by publique authoritie: and admoni&s;&s;hed to v&s;e &s;obriety and di&s;|cretion in teachinge the people, namlye in matters of controuer&s;y, and to con&s;ider the grauity of theire office, &amp; to fore&s;ee with diligence the matters which they will &s;peake, to vtter them to the edification of the audience.</P>
<P>Item, that they &s;ett owte in theire preaching the reuerent e&s;timation of the holie Sacramentes of Bapti&s;me and the Lordes &s;upper, excitinge the peo|ple to thoften and deuoute receauing of the holy co~|munion of the bodie and bloude of Chri&s;t, in &s;uche forme as is already pre&s;cribed in the booke of Com+mon praier, and as it is further declared in an Ho|melye concernynge the vertue and efficacie of the &s;aid Sacramentes.</P>
<P>Item, that they move the people to all obedience, a&s;well in ob&s;eruation of the orders appointed in the booke of Common &s;eruice, as in the Queenes Ma|ge&s;ties iniunctions, as al&s;o of all other ciuil duetyes due for &s;ubiectes to doe.</P>
<P>Item, that allycences for preaching, graunted out by the archeby&s;hop &amp; by&s;hopes within the prouince of Canterbury, bearing date before the fir&s;te day of
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marche 1564 be voyde and of none effect: and neuer|thele&s;&s;e all &s;uch as &s;halbe thought meete for the of|fice, to be admitted againe without difficultye or charge, paing no more but iiii. pens for the writing, parchement and waxe.</P>
<P>Item, yf anye Preacher or par&s;on, vicar or curate &s;o licen&s;ed, &s;hall fortune to Preache any matter tendinge to di&s;&s;ention, or to the derogation of the religion and doctrine receiuid, that the hearers de|nounce the &s;ame to the Ordinaries, or the nexte by&s;|&s;hope of the &s;ame place: but no man openly to con|trary or to impugne y^e &s;ame &s;peache &s;o di&s;orderly vt|tered: wherebye may growe offence and di&s;quiet of the people, but &s;halbe conuinced and reproued by the ordinarye after &s;uche agreable order, as &s;hall be &s;eene to him according to the grauitie of the offen|ce. And that it be pre&s;entid within one moneth af|ter the wordes &s;poken.</P>
<P>Item, that they v&s;e not to exact or receaue vnre|&s;onable rewardes or &s;tipendes of the poore Pa|&s;tors, comminge to theyre Cures to preache, wherbye they might be noted as folowers of filthi lucre, rather then v&s;e thoffice of preaching of Cha|ritie and good zeale, to the &s;aluation of mens &s;ou|les.</P>
<P>Item, if the Par&s;on be able, he &s;hall preache in his own per&s;on euery thre monethes, or els &s;hal preache by an other, &s;o that his ab&s;ence be approued by the Ordinarie of y^e dioces in re&s;pecte of &s;ickenes, &s;eruice
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or &s;tudie at the Vniuer&s;ities. Neuerthele&s;&s;e yet for wante of able Preachers and Par&s;ons, to tolerate them without penaltye, &s;o that they preache in theyre owne per&s;ons, or by a Learned &s;ub&s;titute, once in euerie thre monethes of the yeare.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Articles for admini&s;tration of <HI>prayer and Sacramentes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_FIr&s;t, that the Common praier be &s;aid or &s;ong decently and di&s;tinctly, in &s;uche place as the Ordinarie &s;hall thinke meete for the largene&s;&s;e and &s;treightnes of the Churche &amp; quire, &s;o that the people maye be mo&s;te edified.</P>
<P>Item, that no Par&s;on or curate, not admitted by the by&s;&s;hoppe of the dioces to preache, do expoun|de in his owne Cure or other where, anye &s;cripture or matter of doctrine or by the way of exhortacion, but onlye &s;tudie to reade grauelie and aptlye, with|oute any glo&s;ing of the &s;ame, or anye additions, the homylies al readye &s;ett owte, or other &s;uche nece&s;&s;a|rie doctrine as is or &s;halbe pre&s;cribed for the quiet in+&s;truction and edification of the people.</P>
<P>Item, that in Cathedrall churches &amp; colledges y^t holye Communion be mini&s;tred vpon the fir&s;t or &s;e|conde &s;unday of euery monethe at the lea&s;te. So that both Deane, prebendaries, prei&s;tes and clerkes do receyue: and al other of di&s;cretion of the funda|tion, do receaue foure times in the yeare at the lea&s;t.</P>
<P><PB REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 5 -->Item, in the mini&s;tration of the holy Communi|on in cathedrall and collegiat churches, the princi|pal mini&s;ter &s;hall v&s;e a cope, with go&s;peller and epi&s;|toler agreablye, and at all other praiers to be &s;aid at that Communion table, to v&s;e no Copes but &s;urple&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>Item, that the Deane and Prebendaries weare a &s;urples with a &s;ilke hoode in the quier: and when they preache in the Cathedrall or collegiate church, to weare theyre hoode.</P>
<P>Item, that everie mini&s;ter &s;ayeng anye publique praiers or mini&s;tring the Sacramentes or other rites of the churche, &s;hall weare a comely &s;urples with &s;leues, to be prouided at the charges of the pa|ri&s;he: and that the Pari&s;he prouide a decent table &s;tandinge on a frame, for the Communion table.</P>
<P>Item, they &s;hall decentlie couer with Carpet, &s;ilke or other decent coueringe, and withe a fayre ly|nen cloth at the tyme of the mini&s;tration, the com|munyon table, and to &s;ett the tenne Commaunde|mentes vppon the Ea&s;t wall ouer the &s;aid table.</P>
<P>Item, that all communicates do receaue kneeling, and as is appointed by the lawes of the Realme, and the Quenes mage&s;tyes Iniunctions.</P>
<P>Item, that the fonte be not remoued, nor that the Curate do bapti&s;e in pari&s;he Churches in any Ba|&s;ons, nor in anye other forme then is alreadie pre|&s;cribed,
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without charginge the parent to be pre&s;ent or ab&s;ent at the Chri&s;tening of his childe, although the parent may bee pre&s;ent or ab&s;ent, but not to an|&s;were as Godfather for his childe.</P>
<P>Item, that no childe bee admitted to an&s;wer as Godfather or godmother, except the childe hath re|ceaued the Communion.</P>
<P>Item, that there be none other holidayes ob&s;erued be&s;ides the Sundayes, but onely &s;uche as be &s;et out for holidayes, as in the Statute <HI>Anno quinto &amp; &s;exto Edwardi &s;exti,</HI> &amp; in the new kalender autho|ry&s;ed by the Queenes maie&s;ty.</P>
<P>Item, that when any Chri&s;tian bodye is in pa&s;|&s;ing, that the bell be tolled, and that the Curate be &s;pecially called for to comforte the &s;icke per&s;on: and after the tyme of his pa&s;&s;inge, to ringe no more but one &s;horte peale: and one before the buriall, and an other &s;horte peale after the buriall.</P>
<P>Item, that on Sundaies there be no &s;hoppes ope~, nor artificers commonlye goinge aboute theire af|faires worldly. And that in all Faires and common markets, fallinge vppon the &s;unday, there be no &s;he|wing of any wares before the Seruice be done.</P>
<P>Item, that in the Rogation dayes of proce&s;&s;ion, they &s;inge or &s;aye in Engli&s;he the twoo P&s;almes beginninge, <HI>Benedic anima mea. &amp;c.</HI> with the Letanye and Suffrages there vnto, with one Ho|melye of thankes geuinge to God, already deui&s;ed and diuided into foure partes, without addition of any &s;uper&s;titiou&s;e ceremonyes heretofore v&s;ed.</P>
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<HEAD>Articles for certayne orders in ec|cle&s;ia&s;ticall policy.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, again&s;te the day of giuing of orders ap|poynted, the By&s;&s;hoppe &s;hall geue open moni|tions to all men, to except agayn&s;te &s;uche as they knowe not to be worthy, either for life or con|uer&s;ation. And there to giue notice that none &s;hall &s;ewe for orders, but within theire owne Dioces where they weare borne, or had theire longe tyme of dwellinge, except &s;uche, as &s;hall bee of degree in the Vniuer&s;itees.</P>
<P>Item, that younge Prei&s;tes or Mini&s;ters, made or to be made, be &s;o in&s;tructed, that they bee able to make apte aun&s;weres concerninge the forme of the Catechi&s;me pre&s;cribed.</P>
<P>Item, that no Curate or Mini&s;ter bee permitted to &s;erue without examination and admi&s;&s;ion of y^e Ordinary or his deputy, in writing, hauing re&s;pect to the greatnes of the Cure, and the meetenes of the party: and that the &s;ayde Mini&s;ters if they re|mooue from one Dioces to an nother, bee by no meanes admitted to &s;erue, without te&s;timonye of the Dioce&s;an from whence they come, in writing, of theyre hone&s;ty, and ability.</P>
<P>Item, that the By&s;&s;hop doe call home once in the yeare any Prebendary in his Churche, or beneficed in the Dioces whiche &s;tudieth at the Vniuer&s;ities, to knowe how hee profiteth in learninge: and that he be not &s;uffered to bee a &s;eruinge or a waytinge man di&s;&s;olutely.</P>
<P><PB REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 6 -->Item, that at the Archedeacons vi&s;itation, the Archedeacon &s;hall appoynte the Curates to cer|tayne taxes of the newe Te&s;tamente, to bee conde without booke. And at theire nexte Synode to ex|acte a rehear&s;all of them.</P>
<P>Item, that the Churchewardens once in y^e quar|ter declare by theyre Curates in billes &s;ub&s;cribed with their handes to the Ordinarye or to the nexte officer vnder him, who they bee whiche will not readyly paye theire penalties for not comminge to Goddes diuine &s;eruice accordingly.</P>
<P>Item, that the Ordinaries doe v&s;e good diligente examination, to fore&s;ee all Simoniacall pactes or couenaunts with the Patrons or pre&s;enters, for the &s;poyle of their glebe, tithes, or man&s;ion hou&s;es.</P>
<P>Item, that no per&s;ons be &s;uffered to marye with|in the Leuiticall degrees mentioned in a Table &s;et forthe by the Archeby&s;&s;hoppe of Caunterburye in that behalfe, <HI>Anno Domini</HI> 1563. and if any &s;uche bee, to be &s;eparated by order of lawe.</P>
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<HEAD>Articles for outwarde apparrell of per&s;ons Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;te, that all Archeby&s;hoppes &amp; By&s;hoppes do v&s;e and co~tineue their accu&s;tomed apparrell.</P>
<P>Item, that all Deanes of cathedrall churches, Ma&s;ters of Colledges, all Archedeacons, and other dignities in Cathedral churches: doctors, bachelers of Diuinitye and Lawe, hauing any Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall liuinge, &s;hall weare in their common apparrell a|brode, a &s;yde gowne with &s;leeues &s;treyght at the hande, without any cuttes in the &s;ame. And that al|&s;o without any fallinge cape: and to weare typpets of &s;arcenet, as is lawfull for them by thact of parli|ament, Anno 24. <HI>Henrici octaui.</HI></P>
<P>Item, that all doctors of Phy&s;ick, or of any other facultye, hauinge any liuinge eccle&s;ia&s;ticall, or any other that may di&s;pende by the churche one hu~dred markes, &s;o to bee e&s;temed by the fruites or tenthes of their promotions: and all Prebendaries, who&s;e promotions be valued at twe~ty pound or vpward, weare the like apparrell.</P>
<P>Item, that they and all eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per&s;ons, or other hauinge any eccle&s;ia&s;ticall liuinge, doe weare the cappe appointed by the Iniunctions. And they to weare no hattes but in their iourneinge.</P>
<P>Item, that they in their iourneinge do weare theire clokes with &s;leeues put on, and lyke in fa&s;&s;hi|on to their gownes, without gards, welts, or cuts.</P>
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<P>Item, that all inferiour Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per&s;ons &s;hall weare longe gownes of the fa&s;&s;hion afore|&s;ayde, and cappes as afore is pre&s;cribed.</P>
<P>Item, that all poore Par&s;ons, vicars and curates do endeuor them&s;elues to conforme their apparrell in like &s;orte, &s;o &s;oone and as conuenientlye as theire abilitye will &s;erue to the &s;ame. Prouided that their abilitye bee iudged by the By&s;&s;hop of the Dioces. And yf theire abilitye will not &s;uffer to buye them longe gownes of the forme afore pre&s;cribed, that then they &s;hall weare their &s;horte gownes, agrea|ble to the forme before expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>Item, that al &s;uche per&s;ons as haue ben or be Ec|cle&s;ia&s;ticall, and &s;erue not the miny&s;terie, or haue not accepted or &s;hall refu&s;e to accepte the othe of o|bedience to the Queenes Maie&s;ty, doe from hence|fourth abrode weare none of the &s;ayde apparrell of the forme &amp; fa&s;&s;hion afore&s;ayde, but to go as mere laye men, till they bee reconciled to obedience: and who &s;hall ob&s;tinately refu&s;e to do the &s;ame, y^t they bee pre&s;ented by the Ordinarye to the Commi&s;&s;io|ners in cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall, and by them to be re|formed accordingly.</P>
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<HEAD>Prote&s;tations to be made, promi&s;ed and &s;ub&s;cribed by them that &s;hall hereafter bee ad|mitted to any office, roome or cure in any Churche, or other place Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall.</HEAD>
<P><HI>IN primis,</HI> I &s;hall not preache or publiquely in|terprete, but onelye reade that whiche is appoin|ted by publique authoritye, without &s;peciall licen&s;e of the By&s;&s;hoppe vnder his &s;eale.</P>
<P>I &s;hall reade the &s;eruice appoynted, plainly, di&s;tin|ctly and audibly, that all the people may heare and vnder&s;tande.</P>
<P>I &s;hall keepe the Regi&s;ter booke accordinge to the Queenes Maie&s;ties Iniunctions.</P>
<P>I &s;hall v&s;e &s;obrietye in apparrell, and &s;pecially in the Churche at Common prayers, accordinge to order appoynted.</P>
<P>I &s;hall moue the pari&s;hioners to quiet and con|corde, and not geue them cau&s;e of offence, and &s;hall helpe to reconcile them whiche be at variaunce, to my vttermo&s;te power.</P>
<P>I &s;hall reade dayly at the lea&s;te one chapter of the Olde Te&s;tament, and an other of the Newe with good adui&s;ement, to thincrea&s;e of my knowledge.</P>
<P>I do al&s;o faithfully promi&s;e in my per&s;on, to v&s;e &amp; exerci&s;e my office and place to the honor of God, to the quiet of y^e Qeenes &s;ubiects within my charge, in truth, concorde and vnitye. And al&s;o to ob&s;erue,
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keepe and mentayne &s;uche order and vniformity in all externall policye, Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, as by the lawes, good v&s;uages and orders are allready well prouided and e&s;tabli&s;hed.</P>
<P>I &s;hall not openlye intermedle with any artificers occupacions, as couetou&s;lye to &s;eeke a gayne there|by, hauinge in Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall lyuinge to the &s;omme of twenty Nobles or aboue by yeare.</P>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>Agreed vpon and &s;ub&s;cribed by
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<HEAD>Commi&s;&s;ioners in cau&s;es Eccle|&s;ia&s;ticall.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Matthaeus Cantuarien&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edmundus Londonien&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richardus Elien&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edmundus Roffen&s;is.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Robertus VVintonien&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nicolaus Lincolnien&s;is. <HI>With others.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>Imprinted at London by Reginalde Wolfe.</P>
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