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<P>Con&s;titutions, AND CANONS ECCLESIASTICAL, Treated upon by the Archbi&s;hops, and Bi&s;hops, and the re&s;t of the Clergy of IERLAND.</P>
<P>And agreed upon with the Kings Maje&s;ties Licence in their Synod begun at <HI>Dublin Anno Dom.</HI> 1634. And in the year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord <HI>CHARLES</HI> by the grace of God, King of Great <HI>Brittain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> the Tenth.</P>
<P><HI>And publi&s;hed for the due Ob&s;ervation of them, by His Maje&s;ties Authority under the Great Seal of</HI> IRELAND.</P>
<P><HI>D&V;BLIN,</HI> Printed by <HI>Benjamin Tooke,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, and are to be &s;old by <HI>Samuel Dancer</HI> in <HI>Ca&s;tle &s;treet.</HI> 1669.</P>
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<HEAD>THE TABLE Of the Church of <HI>Ireland.</HI></HEAD>
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<ITEM>1. <HI>OF the agreement of the church of</HI> England <HI>and</HI> Ireland <HI>in the profe&s;&s;ion of the &s;ame chri&s;tian Religion.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>The Kings &s;upremacy in cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;tical to be maintained.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Of the Pre&s;cript form of Divine &s;ervice contain|ed in the book of Common Prayer.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>Of the form of con&s;ecrating and ordering Arch|bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>and of the churches e&s;tabli&s;hed according to that order.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5. <HI>Anthors of &s;chi&s;mes and maintainers of con|venticles cen&s;ured.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
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<HEAD>&para; Of Divine Service, preaching of the Word, and Admini&s;tration of the Sacraments.</HEAD>
<ITEM>6. <HI>D&V;e celebration of Sundayes and Holy-dayes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>7. <HI>The pre&s;crip form of Divine &s;ervice to be u&s;ed on &s;undayes and holy-dayes, with all decency, and due reverence.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>8, <HI>Of the ordering of certain parts of the &s;ervice.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>9, <HI>Beneficed Preachers being re&s;ident upon their liv|ings, to preach every &s;unday.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>10. <HI>No publick oppo&s;ition between Preac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ers.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>11. <HI>Mini&s;ters to Catechize every Sunday.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>12. <HI>The people to be informed in the body of Chri|&s;tian Religion; and reformed in their conver&s;ation.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>13. <HI>Preachers and Lecturers to read Divine Ser|vice, and admini&s;ter the &s;acraments twice a year at the lea&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>14. <HI>Mini&s;ters not to refu&s;e to Chri&s;ten or Bury.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>15. <HI>Mini&s;ters not to defer chri&s;tening, if the child be in danger.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>16. <HI>Fathers not to be Godfathers in Bapti&s;m, nor children not communicants.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>17. <HI>Confirmation, or laying hands upon children, to be performed by the Bi&s;hop once in three years.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>18. <HI>Of the receiving of the holy communion.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>19. <HI>Warning to be given before hand for the com|munion.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>20. <HI>Notorious offenders not to be admitted to the communion.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>21. <HI>Mini&s;ters not to preach or admini&s;ter the com|munion in private hou&s;es.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>22. <HI>Mini&s;ters not to hold private conventicles.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
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<HEAD>&para; Of Bi&s;hops, Archdeacons, Deans, and Preben|daries.</HEAD>
<ITEM>23 OF <HI>Ordering Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Juri&s;diction.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>24. <HI>Of ordering the revennes of Eccle&s;ia&s;tical per&s;ons.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>25. <HI>Of Archdeacens.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>26. <HI>Re&s;idence of Deans in their Churches.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>27. <HI>Deans and Prebendaries to preach during their Re&s;idence.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>28. <HI>Prebendaries to be re&s;ident upon their benefices.</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>&para; Of the Ordination, function, and charge of Mi|ni&s;ters.</HEAD>
<ITEM>29. <HI>FOur &s;olemn times appointed for the making of Mini&s;ters.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>30. <HI>The titles of &s;uch as are to be made Mini&s;ters.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>31. <HI>The quality of &s;uch as are to be made Mini&s;ters.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>32. <HI>The examination of &s;uch as are to be made Mi|ni&s;ters.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>33. <HI>Caution for In&s;titution of Mini&s;ters into Bene|fices.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>34. <HI>Patrons of Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Benefices.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>35. <HI>Prevention of Symoniacal contract, in tho&s;e that are pre&s;ented by them.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>36. <HI>Small Pari&s;hes to be united and re&s;idence enjoyn|ed.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>37. <HI>Ab&s;ence of Beneficed men, and livings appro|priated to be &s;upplyed by Curats that are allowed Preachers.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>38. <HI>None to be Curats but allowed by the Bi&s;hop.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>39. <HI>Strangers not admitted to preach without Li|cence.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>40. <HI>Mini&s;ters to confer with Recu&s;ants.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>41. <HI>Mini&s;ters to vi&s;it the &s;ick.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>42. <HI>Soberne&s;s of conver&s;ation, and decency of ap|parel required in Mini&s;ters.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>43. <HI>Of Con&s;ecration of Churches.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>44. <HI>A Terrier of gleabe lands and other po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions belonging to Churches.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>45. <HI>Payment of Tythes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>46. <HI>A Regi&s;try to be kept of Chri&s;tnings, Weddings, and Burials.</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>&para; Of Marriages and divorces.</HEAD>
<ITEM>47. <HI>NOne to marry within the degrees prohibited.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>48. <HI>None to marry under XXI years without their Parents con&s;ent.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>49. <HI>Security to be taken at the granting of &s;uch Li|cences, and under what conditions.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>50. <HI>Oaths to be taken for the conditions.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>51. <HI>An exception for tho&s;e that are in Widowhood.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>52. <HI>Ministers not to marry any per&s;on without Bannes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>53. <HI>No &s;entence for divorce to be given upon the &s;ole confe&s;&s;ion of the parties.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>54. <HI>No &s;entence of divorce to be given but in open court.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>55. <HI>In all &s;entences for divorce, bond to be taken for not marrying during each others life.</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>&para; Of Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Courts, and Juri&s;diction.</HEAD>
<ITEM>56. <HI>THe order of Juri&s;dictions to be kept.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>57. <HI>The re&s;traint of double Quarrels upon the re&s;pite of In&s;titution.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>58. <HI>Inhibitions not to be granted without the &s;ub|&s;cription of an Advocate.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>59. <HI>Inhibitions not to be granted until the Appeal be exhibited to the judge.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>60. <HI>Solemn denunciation of parties excommunicated.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>61. <HI>Notorious crimes and &s;candals to be certified into Eccle&s;ia&s;tical courts by pre&s;entments.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>62. <HI>Schi&s;maticks to be pre&s;ented.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>63. <HI>Not communicants at</HI> Ea&s;ter, <HI>to be pre&s;ented.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>64. <HI>Mini&s;ters may pre&s;ent.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>65. <HI>Mini&s;ters and church-wardens not to be &s;ued for pre&s;enting.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>66. <HI>church wardens not bound to pre&s;ent oftner than twice a year.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>67. <HI>Church wardens not to be troubled for not pre|&s;enting oftner than twice a year.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>68. <HI>Convenient time to be a&s;&s;igned for framing pre|&s;entments.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>69. <HI>None to be cited into Eccle&s;ia&s;tical courts by Proce&s;s of</HI> Quorum nomina.</ITEM>
<ITEM>70. <HI>Maturity required in proceeding.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>71. <HI>No &s;entence of deprivation or depo&s;ition to be prenounced against a Minister but by the Bi&s;hop.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>72. <HI>No Act to be &s;ped but in open court.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>73. <HI>No court to have more than one Seal.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>74. <HI>Convenient places to be cho&s;en for keeping of courts.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>75. <HI>Peculiar and inferiour courts to exhibit the o|riginal copies of Wills into the Bi&s;hops Regi&s;try.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>76. <HI>The quality and Oath of Judges and Surrogates.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>77. <HI>Proctors not to retain cau&s;es without the law|full a&s;&s;ignment of the parties.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>78. <HI>Proctors prohibited the Oath</HI> in animam domi|ni &s;ui.</ITEM>
<ITEM>79. <HI>Proctors not to be clamorous in court.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>80. <HI>The Oath</HI> de calumni&acirc; <HI>not to be refu&s;ed.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>81. <HI>Abu&s;es to be reformed in Regi&s;ters.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>82. <HI>A certain rateof fees to all Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Officers.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>83. <HI>A table of the rates of fees to be &s;et up in, courts and Registries.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>84. <HI>The whole fees for &s;hewing Letters of orders and other licences, due but once, in every Bi&s;hops time.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>85. <HI>The number of Apparators re&s;trained.</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>&para; Of Pari&s;h Clerks, Church wardeus, and School|ma&s;ters, and their &s;everal duties.</HEAD>
<ITEM>86. <HI>PAri&s;h clerks to be cho&s;en by the Mini&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>87. <HI>The choice of church-wardens, and their ac|compt.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>88. <HI>The choice of Sidermen, and their joynt office with church-wardens.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>89. <HI>The old church-wardens to make their Pre&s;ent|ments before the new be&s;worn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>90. <HI>The duty of church wardent touching &s;uch per|&s;ons as are out of the church in the time of Gods wor&s;hip on &s;undayes and Holy dayes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>91. <HI>Their duty touching tho&s;e per&s;ons that are in the church at that time.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>92. <HI>To keep the church from being prophaned at all other times.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>93. <HI>To &s;ee churches and church yards kept in &s;uffi|cient reparation</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>94. <HI>To furni&s;h all churches with things nece&s;&s;ary for the celebration of Divine &s;ervice, Preaching and admini&s;tration of the &s;acraments.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>95. <HI>To provide things &s;itting for every communion, and to ob&s;erve tho&s;e that come, or come not to the &s;ame.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>96. <HI>To provide a che&s;t for Alms in every church.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>97. <HI>To aboli&s;h all monuments of &s;uper&s;tition.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>98. <HI>None to teach &s;chool without Licence, and cu|rates de&s;irous to teach to be licenced before others.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>99. <HI>The duty of &s;chool masters.</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>&para; Of the authority of the Synod.</HEAD>
<ITEM>100. <HI>The Authority of this National &s;ynod e&s;tabli&s;h|ed.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>CHARLES by the Grace of God King of <HI>England, Scot|land, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> De&s;ender of the faith, &amp;c. To all men to whom the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall come, greeting. Whereas our Bi&s;hops, Deans of our cathedral churches, Arch-deacons, chapters and colledges, and the re&s;t of the clergy within our Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> were &s;ummoned and called by vertue of our writs directed to the Arch-bi&s;hops of the four &s;everal Provinces, and bearing date the four and twentieth day of <HI>May,</HI> in the teuth year of our Reign to appear before the &s;aid Arch-bi&s;hops in the cathedral church of St. <HI>Patricks Dublin</HI> upon the one and twentieth day of <HI>July</HI> then next en&s;uing, then and there to treat and conclude upon certain high and ur|gent affairs in the &s;aid writs mentioned, who did thereupon at the time appointed, and in the &s;aid cathedral church of <HI>St. Patricks</HI> afore&s;aid, a&s;&s;emble them&s;elves and appear in convocation for that purpo&s;e, according to the tenor of the &s;aid writs. And whereas we for divers urgent and weighty occa&s;ions us thereunto mov|ing, of our e&s;pecial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, did by vertue of our prerogative royal and &s;upream authority in
<PB N="2" REF="17">cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, give and grant by our Letters Patents under our Great Seal of <HI>Ireland</HI> bearing date the one and twentieth day of <HI>July</HI> in the teuth year of our Reign, full power and authority unto the &s;aid Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Deans, Archdeacons, chapters, colledges and clergy of this Kingdom then a&s;&s;embled in convocation, in the &s;aid cathedral church of <HI>St. Patrick,</HI> that they from time to time during the Parliament then begun at <HI>Dublin</HI> might confer, treat, con&s;ult and conclude of and upon &s;uch Articles, canons, Orders, Ordinances, Statutes and con&s;titu|tions Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, as they &s;hall think nece&s;&s;ary, fit and convenient for the honour and &s;ervice of Almighty God, and augmentation of his divine wor&s;hip, the rooting out of here&s;ies and errours out of the Vineyard of Chri&s;t, for the procuring of the good and quiet of the church and pre&s;ervation of good government in cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, and to the Juri&s;diction of the church belonging, as al&s;o to make and &s;et down ordinances and decrees to have &s;uch force and effect as other canons and con&s;titutions of the church have, and the &s;ame (our royal a&s;&s;ent being there|unto fir&s;t had and obtained) to &s;et forth and publi&s;h freely and lawfully, and that as well the Archbi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops, and all other inferiour per&s;ons whom it may concern, &s;hould yield due obedience thereunto, as in and by our &s;aid letters Patents more at large it doth and may appear. Fora&s;much as the &s;aid Arch|bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Deans, Archdeacons, chapters and colledges with the re&s;t of the clergy of this Kingdom having met together at the time and place before mentioned, and then and there by vertue of our &s;aid authority granted unto them, have treated of, concluded and agreed upon certain canons, orders, ordinances, and con&s;titutions, to the end and purpo&s;e by Us limited and pre&s;cribed unto them, and have thereupon offered and pre&s;ented the &s;ame unto Us, mo&s;t humbly de&s;iring Us to give our royal a&s;&s;ent unto their &s;aid canons, orders, ordinances and con&s;tituti|ons, according to the form of a certain Statute or Act of Parlia|ment made in that behalf, and by our &s;aid Prerogative royal, and &s;upream authority in cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, to ratifie by our letters Patents under our Great Seal of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and to confirm the &s;aid canons being one hundred in number, and contained in a book, Entituled, <HI>Con&s;titutions</HI> and <HI>Canons Eccle&s;ia&s;tical,</HI> treated upon by
<PB N="3" REF="17">the Archbi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops, and the re&s;t of the Clergy of <HI>Ire|land,</HI> and agreed upon with the Kings Maje&s;ties licence in their Synod begun at <HI>Dublin, Anno Domini</HI> 1634. and in the year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord, <HI>CHARLES</HI> by the grace of God King of Great Brittain, <HI>France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> the Tenth, which book is remaining with <HI>John Forth</HI> Clerke of the upper hou&s;e of <HI>Convocation.</HI> We of our Princely inclination and royal care for the maintenance of the pre&s;ent e&s;tate and government of the church of <HI>Ireland</HI> by the laws of this our Realm now &s;etled and e&s;tabli&s;hed, having diligently with great contentment and com|fort read and con&s;idered of all the&s;e their &s;aid canons, orders, ordinances and con&s;titutions agreed upon, as is before expre&s;&s;ed, and finding the &s;ame &s;uch, as we are per&s;waded will be very pro|fitable, not only to our elergy, but to the whole church of this our Kingdom; and to all the true members of it, (if they be well ob&s;erved.) Have therefore for us our Heirs and lawfull Suc|ce&s;&s;ors, of our e&s;pecial grace, certain knowledge and meer moti|on, by the advice and con&s;ent of our right tru&s;ty and right well beloved cou&s;in &agrave;nd Councellour, <HI>Thomas Vi&s;ecunt Wentworth</HI> our Deputy general of our &s;aid Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and Pre&s;ident of our council e&s;tabli&s;hed in the North parts of our Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> given and by the&s;e pre&s;ents do give our royal a&s;&s;ent ac|cording to the form of the &s;aid Statute or Act of Parliament afore&s;aid, to all and every the &s;aid canons, orders, ordinances and con&s;titutions, and all and every thing in them contained. And furthermore, we do not only by our &s;aid Prerogative royal and &s;upream authority in cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, ratifie, confirm and e&s;tabli&s;h by the&s;e our letters Patents the &s;aid canons, orders, or|dinances and con&s;titutions, and all and every thing in them con|tained, as is afore&s;aid, but do likewi&s;e propound, publi&s;h, and &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">aightly enjoyn and command by our &s;aid authority, and by the&s;e our letters Patents the &s;ame to be diligently ob&s;erved, exe|cuted, and equally kept by all our loving Subjects of this our Kingdom, in all points wherein they do, or may concern every or any of them; according to this our will and plea&s;ure hereby &s;ig|ni&s;ied and expre&s;&s;ed. And that likewi&s;e for the better ob&s;ervation of them, every Mini&s;ter, by what name or title &s;oever he be called, &s;hall in the Pari&s;h Church or chappel where he hath charge,
<PB N="4" REF="18">read all the &s;aid canons, orders, ordinances and con&s;titutions once every year, upon &s;ome Sundayes or Holy-dayes in the af|ternoon before divine &s;ervice; dividing the &s;ame in &s;uch &s;ort, as that the one half may be read one day, and the other another day. The book of the &s;aid canons to be provided at the charge of the Pari&s;h betwixt this, and the Fea&s;t of <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> next en&s;uing. Straightly charging and commanding all Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, and all other that exerci&s;e any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Juri&s;diction within this Realm, every man in his place to &s;ee and procure (&s;o much as in them lyeth) all and every of the &s;ame canons, orders, ordi|nances and con&s;titutions to be in all points duly ob&s;erved, not &s;paring to execute the penalties in them &s;everally mentioned upon any that &s;hall wittingly or wilfully break or neglect to ob&s;erve the &s;ame, as they tender the honour of God, the peace of the Church, tranquillity of the Kingdom, and their duties and &s;or|vice unto Us their King and Soveraign. In witne&s;s, &amp;c.</P>
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<HEAD>Con&s;titutions, AND CANONS ECCLESIASTICAL, Treated upon by the Archbi&s;hops, and Bi&s;hops, and the re&s;t of the Clergy of <HI>Ireland;</HI> and agreed upon by the Kings Maje&s;ties licence in their Synod begun and holden at <HI>Dublin, Anno Do|mini,</HI> 1634. and in the year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord <HI>Charles</HI> by the Grace of God King of Great <HI>Brittain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> the Tenth.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>I. <HI>Of the agreement of the Church of</HI> England <HI>and</HI> Ireland, <HI>in the pro|fe&s;&s;ion of the &s;ame Chri&s;tian Religion.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOR the manife&s;tation of our agreement with the church of <HI>England</HI> in the confe&s;&s;ion of the &s;ame chri&s;tian faith, and the doctrine of the Sacraments: We do receive and approve the book of Articles of Religion agreed upon by the Archbi&s;hops, and Bi&s;hops, and the whole clergy in the convocation holden at <HI>London</HI> in the year of our Lord God, 1562. for the avoiding of diver&s;ities of opinions, and for the e&s;tabli&s;hing of con&s;ent touch|ing true Religion. And therefore if any hereafter &s;hall affirm that any of tho&s;e Articles are in any part &s;uper&s;titious or erroneous,
<PB N="6" REF="19">or &s;uch as he may not with a good con&s;cience &s;ub&s;cribe unto, let him be excommunicated, and not ab&s;olved before he make a publick revocation of his errour.</P>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>II. <HI>The Kings &s;upremacy in cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;tical to be maintained.]</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALl Eccle&s;ia&s;tical per&s;ons having cure of &s;ouls, and all other Preachers, and Readers of Divinity lectures, &s;hall to the uttermo&s;t of their wit, knowledge and learning, purely and &s;in|cerely (without any colour or di&s;&s;imulation) teach, manife&s;t, open and declare, four times every year (at the lea&s;t) in their Sermons, and other collations and lectures; That all u&s;urped and &s;orrain power, (fora&s;much as the &s;ame hath no e&s;tabli&s;h|ment nor ground by the law of God,) is for mo&s;t ju&s;t cau&s;es, taken away and aboli&s;hed: and that therefore no manner of obedience or &s;ubjection within his Maje&s;ties Realms and Domi|nions, is due unto &s;uch forreign power: but that the Kings pow|er within his Realm of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and all other his Dominions and Countries, is the highe&s;t power under God, to whom all men, as well Inhabitants, as born within the &s;ame, do by Gods laws, owe all loyalty and obedience, and to no other forreign power and potentate in the earth. And who&s;oever &s;hall hereafter main|tain, that the Kings-Maje&s;ty hath not the &s;ame authority in cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, that the godly Kings had among&s;t the Jews, and Chri&s;tian Emperours in the Primitive Church, or impeach in any part his Regal &s;upremacy in the &s;aid cau&s;es re&s;tored to the Crown, and by the laws of this Realm therein e&s;tabli&s;hed, let him be excommunicated, and not re&s;tored but only by the Arch|bi&s;hop of the Province, after his repentance, and publick revo|cation of his errour.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>III. <HI>Of the pre&s;cript form of Divine Service, contained in the book of Common Prayer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat form of Liturgy or Divine Se<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">vice, and no other, &s;hall be u&s;ed in any Church of this Realm, but that which is
<PB N="7" REF="19">e&s;tabli&s;hed by the law, and compri&s;ed in the book of Common-Prayer, and admini&s;tration of Sacraments. And if any one &s;hall preach, or by other open words declare or &s;peak any thing in the derogation or de&s;pi&s;ing of the &s;aid book, or of any thing therein contained, let him be excommunicated, and not re&s;tored, until he repent, and publickly revoke his errour.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>IV. <HI>Of the form of con&s;ecrating and ordering Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>and of the churches e&s;tabli&s;hed according to that order.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat form of ordination, and no other, &s;hall be u&s;ed in this Church, but that which is contained in the book of Ordering Bi&s;hops, Prie&s;ts, and Deacons, allowed by au|thority, and hitherto practi&s;ed in the Churches of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland.</HI> And if any &s;hall affirm, that they who are con&s;ecrated, or ordered according to tho&s;e rites, are not lawfully made, nor ought to be accounted either Bi&s;hops, Prie&s;ts, or Deacons; or &s;hall deny that the Churches, e&s;tabli&s;hed under this government, are true Churches; or refu&s;e to joyn with them in chri&s;tian pro|fe&s;&s;ion, let him be excommunicated, and not re&s;tored until he repent and publickly revoke his errour.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>V. <HI>Authors of Schi&s;me, and maintainers of Conventicles cen&s;ured.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHo&s;oever &s;hall &s;eparate them&s;elves from the communion of Saints, as it is approved by the Apo&s;tles rules in the Church of <HI>Ireland;</HI> and combine them&s;elves rogether in a new brotherhood; (accounting the chri&s;tians, who are conformable to the doctrine, government, rites and ceremonies of the Church of <HI>Ireland,</HI> to be prophane and unmeet for them to joyn with in chri&s;tian profe&s;&s;ion) or &s;hall affirm and maintain, that there are within this Realm other meetings, a&s;&s;emblies, or congregations, than &s;uch as by the laws of this Land are held and allowed, which may rightly challenge to them&s;elves the name of true and lawful Churches, let him be excommunicated, and not re&s;tored until he repent and publickly revoke his errour.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="section">
<PB N="8" REF="20">
<HEAD>VI. <HI>Due celebration of Sundayes and Holy-dayes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALl manner of per&s;ons &s;hall celebrate and keep the Lords day, commonly called Sunday, and other Holy-dayes, ac|cording to Gods holy will and plea&s;ure, and the orders of this Church; 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 &s;ame, in reconciling them&s;elves charitably to their neighbours, where di&s;plea&s;ure hath been, in oftentimes receiving the Communion of the Body and Blood of Chri&s;t, in vi&s;iting the poor and fick, u&s;ing all godly and &s;ober con|ver&s;ation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>VII. <HI>The pre&s;cript form of Divine Service to be u&s;ed on Sundayes and Holy|dayes, with all decency and due reverence.</HI></HEAD>
<P>EVery Sunday and Holy-day, the Par&s;ons, Vicars, and Curates, &s;hall celebrate Divine Service, at convenient and u&s;ual times of the day, and in &s;uch place of every Church, as the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, or Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Ordinary of the place, &s;hall think meet, for the largene&s;s or &s;traitne&s;s of the &s;ame, &s;o as the people may be mo&s;t edified. All Mini&s;ters likewi&s;e &s;hall u&s;e and ob|&s;erve the Orders: Rites, Ornaments and Ceremonies pre&s;cribed in the book of Common prayer, and in the Act for Uniformity printed therewith, as well in reading the holy Scriptures, and &s;aying of prayers, as in admini&s;tration of the Sacraments; with|out either dimini&s;hing in regard of preaching, or in any other re&s;pect, or adding any thing in the matter or form thereof. And in Cathedral, and Collegiate Churches, all Deans, Ma&s;ters, and Heads of Collegiate Churches, Canons and Prebendaries, being Graduates, &s;hall daily at the times both of Prayer and Preaching, wear with their Surplices, &s;uch Hoods as are agreeable to their degrees. No man al&s;o &s;hall cover his head in any Church or Chappel in the time of Divine Service, except he have &s;ome in|firmity,
<PB N="9" REF="20">in which ca&s;e he may wear a night-cap or coi&s;e. Neither &s;hall any per&s;on be otherwi&s;e at &s;uch times bu&s;ied, than in quiet attendance to hear, marke, and under&s;tand that which is read, preached or mini&s;tred: u&s;ing all &s;uch reverent ge&s;tures and actions, as by the book of Common Prayer are pre&s;cribed in that behalf, and the commendable u&s;e of this Church received; and not departing out of the Church, during the time of Service and Sermon, without &s;ome urgent or rea&s;onable cau&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>VIII. <HI>Of the ordering of certain parts of the Service.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AL&s;o the Mini&s;ter reading the le&s;&s;ons, Epi&s;tle and Go&s;pel, and the Ten commandements, and &s;uch other parts of Divine &s;ervice, as do greatly tend to the edifying of the people; &s;hall &s;o place him&s;elt, and &s;o turn him to the people, as they may be&s;t hearken thereunto, and be edified by the &s;ame. And every Be|neficiary and Curate, &s;hall endeavour, that the confe&s;&s;ion of &s;inns and ab&s;olution, and all the &s;econd &s;ervice, (at or before the communion, to the Homily or Sermon) where the people all, or mo&s;t, are Iri&s;h, &s;hall be u&s;ed in Engli&s;h, fir&s;t, and after in Iri&s;h, if the Ordinary of the place, &s;hall &s;o think meet.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>IX. <HI>Beneficed P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">eachers being re&s;ident upon their livings, to preceh every Sunday.</HI></HEAD>
<P>EVery beneficed man, allowed to be a Preacher, and re&s;iding on his benefice, having no lawful impediment, &s;hall in his own cure, preach one Sermon every Sunday of the year: And therein he &s;hall reach no vain opinions, no He<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ies, nor Popi&s;h errors, di&s;agreeing from the Articles of Religion, generally re|ceived in the Churches of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> nor any thing at all, whereby the people may be &s;tirred up to the de&s;ire of novelties or contention; but &s;hall &s;oberly and &s;incerely divide the Word of truth, to the glory of God, and to the be&s;t edification of the people.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="section">
<PB N="10" REF="21">
<HEAD>X. <HI>No publick oppo&s;ition between Preachers.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF any Preacher &s;hall in the Pulpit, particularly or namely, of purpo&s;e, impugne or confute any doctrine delivered by any other Preacher in the &s;ame Church, or in any other near adjoyn|ing; or otherwi&s;e make any publick oppo&s;ition unto him, before he hath acquainted the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s therewith, and re|ceived order from him what to do in that ca&s;e, (becau&s;e upon &s;uch publick di&s;&s;enting and contradicting, there may grow much offence and di&s;quieting to the people;) the Church-wardens, or party grieved, &s;hall forthwith &s;ignifie the &s;ame to the &s;aid Bi&s;hops, and not &s;uffer the &s;aid Preacher any more to occupy that place which he has once abu&s;ed, except he faithfully promi&s;e to forbear all &s;uch matter of contention in the Church, until the Bi&s;hop hath taken further order therein: who &s;hall with all convenient &s;peed &s;o proceed therein, that publick &s;atisfaction may be made in the congregation where the offence was given. Provided that if either of the parties offending, do appeal, he &s;hall not be &s;uffered to preach <HI>pendente lite.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XI. <HI>Mini&s;ters to catechize every Sunday.</HI></HEAD>
<P>EVery Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, upon every Sunday before Evening Prayer, &s;hall for half an hour, or more, examine and in&s;truct the youth and ignorant per&s;ons of his Pari&s;h, in the Ten commandements, the Articles of the belief, and in the lords pray|er, and &s;hall diligently hear, and in&s;truct and teach them the cate|chi&s;me, &s;et forth in the book of Common prayer. And all Fa|thers, Mothers, Ma&s;ters and Mi&s;tre&s;&s;es, &s;hall cau&s;e their children, Servants and Apprenti&s;es, which have not learned the catechi&s;m, to come to Church at the time appointed, obediently to hear, and to be ordered by the Mini&s;ter, until they have learned the &s;ame. And if any Mini&s;ter neglect his duty herein, let him be &s;harply reproved upon the fir&s;t complaint, and true notice there|of given to the Bi&s;hop or Ordinary of the place. If after &s;ubmit|ting
<PB N="11" REF="21">him&s;elf, he &s;hall wil&s;ully offend therein again, let him be &s;u&s;|pended. If &s;o the third time, there being little hope that he will be therein reformed, then excommunicated, and &s;o remain until he will be reformed. And likewi&s;e if any of the &s;aid Fa|thers, Mothers, Ma&s;ters or Mi&s;tre&s;&s;es, children, &s;ervants or appren|tices &s;hall neglect their duties, as the one &s;ort in not cau&s;ing them to come, and the other in refu&s;ing to learn, as afore&s;aid, let them be &s;u&s;pended (if they be not children) and if they &s;o per&s;i&s;t by the &s;pace of a moneth, let them be excommunicated. Neither &s;hall the Mini&s;ter admit any to be married, or to be Godfathers or God mothers, at the Bapti&s;m of any childe, or to receive the holy communion, before they can &s;ay the Articles of the belief, the Lords Prayer, and the commandements, in &s;uch a language as they under&s;tand.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XII. <HI>The People to be informed in the body of Chri&s;tian Religion, and re|formed in their conver&s;ation.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOr the better grounding of the People in the Principles of chri&s;tian Religion, We ordain, that the heads of the cate|chi&s;m, being divided into &s;o many parts as there are Sundayes in the year, &s;hall be explained to the people in every Pari&s;h church. In the handling whereof, the Mini&s;ters and Curates are to u&s;e &s;uch moderation, that they do not run into curious que&s;tions, or unnece&s;&s;ary controver&s;ies, but &s;hortly declare, and confirm the doctrine propo&s;ed, and make application thereof to the behoof of the hearers. The Mini&s;ters al&s;o in all their preachings, and catechizings, and private conferences, when need requireth, &s;hall teach the people to place their whole tru&s;t and confidence in God, and not in creatures, neither in the Habit or Scapular of any Fryer, or in hallowed Beads, Medals, Reliques, or &s;uch like trumperies. They &s;hall do their endeavour likewi&s;e to root out all ungodly, &s;uper&s;titious, and barbarous cu&s;toms; as u&s;ing of charms, &s;orcery, enchantments, witchcra&s;t, or &s;ooth &s;aying; and generally to re&s;orm the manners of the people committed to their charge, unto a chri&s;tian, &s;ober, and civil conver&s;ation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="section">
<PB N="12" REF="22">
<HEAD>XIII. <HI>Preachers and Lecturers to read Divine Service, and admini&s;ter the Sacraments twice a year at the lea&s;t.</HI></HEAD>
<P>EVery Mini&s;ter being po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of a benefice, that hath cure and charge of Souls, although he chiefly attend to preaching and hath a Curate under him, to execute other duties, which are to be performed for him in the Church; and likewi&s;e every o|ther &s;tipendary Preacher, that readeth any lecture, or catechizeth, or preacheth in any Church or Chappel, &s;hall twice at the lea&s;t every year, read him&s;elf the Divine Service, upon two &s;everal Sundayes, publickly, and at the u&s;ual times both in the forenoon and afternoon, in the Church which he &s;o po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth, or where he readeth, catechizeth, or preacheth; as is afore&s;aid, and &s;hall like|wi&s;e as often in every year admini&s;ter the Sacraments of Bapti&s;m (if there be any to be baptized) and of the Lords Supper, in &s;uch manner and form, and with the u&s;e and ob&s;ervation of all &s;uch Rites, Ornaments, and Ceremonies, as are pre&s;cribed by the book of Common prayer, (and the Act for Uniformity printed therewith) in that behalf, which if he do not accordingly per|form, then &s;hall he that is po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of a benefice (as before) be &s;u&s;pended, and he that is but a Reader, Preacher, or catechizer, be removed from his place by the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, until he or they &s;hall &s;ubmit them&s;elves to perform all the &s;aid duties, in &s;uch manner and &s;ort, as before is pre&s;cribed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XIV. <HI>Mini&s;ters not to refu&s;e to Chri&s;ten er bury.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Mini&s;ter &s;hall refu&s;e or delay to chri&s;ten any childe, ac|cording to the form of the book of Common prayer, that is brought to the Church to him on Sundayes or Holy-dayes to be chri&s;tened; or to bury any Corps, that is brought to the Church or church-yard, (convenient warning being given to him thereof before,) in &s;uch manner as is pre&s;cribed in the &s;aid book of common prayer. And if he &s;hall refu&s;e to chri&s;ten the one, or bury the other, (except the party decea&s;ed were denounced
<PB N="13" REF="22">excommunicated <HI>majori excommunicatione,</HI> for &s;ome grievous and notorious crime, and no man able to te&s;tifie of his repentance,) he &s;hall be &s;u&s;pended by the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s from his Mi|ni&s;tery by the &s;pace of three months.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XV. <HI>Mini&s;ters not to defer chri&s;tening, if the child be in danger.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF any Mini&s;ter, being duely (without any manner of collu&s;ion) informed of the weakne&s;s and danger of death of any Infant unbaptized in his Pari&s;h, and thereupon de&s;ired to go or come to the place where the &s;aid In&s;ant remaineth, to baptize the &s;ame, &s;hall either wilfully refu&s;e &s;o to do, or of gro&s;s negligence &s;hall &s;o defer the time, as when he might conveniently have re&s;orted to the place, and have baptized the &s;aid Infant, it dyeth through &s;uch default unbaptized: The &s;aid mini&s;ter &s;hall be &s;u&s;pended for three months, and before his re&s;titution, &s;hall acknowledge his fault, and promi&s;e before his Ordinary, that he not wittingly in|curr the like again. Provided, that where there is a Curate or a Sub&s;titute, this con&s;titution &s;hall not extend to the Par&s;on or Vicar him&s;elf, but the Curate or Sub&s;titute pre&s;ent.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XVI. <HI>Fathers not to be Godfathers in bapti&s;m, nor Children not communi|cants.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Parent &s;hall be urged to pre&s;ent, nor be admitted to an&s;wer as Godfather for his own child; nor any Godfather or Godmother &s;hall be &s;uffered to make any other an&s;wer or &s;peech, than by the book of Common Prayer is pre&s;cribed in that behalf. Neither &s;hall any per&s;on be admitted Godfather, or Godmother to any childe, at chri&s;tening or confirmation, be|fore the &s;aid per&s;on &s;o undertaking, hath received the holy com|munion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="17" TYPE="section">
<PB N="14" REF="23">
<HEAD>XVII. <HI>Confirmation, or laying hands upon children, to be performed by the Be&s;hop, once in three years.</HI></HEAD>
<P>EVery Mini&s;ter that hath cure and charge of Souls, for the better accompli&s;hing of the Orders pre&s;cribed in the book or common prayer, concerning confirmation, &s;hall take &s;uch &s;pe|cial care, as that none may be pre&s;ented to the Bi&s;hop, for him to lay his hand upon, but &s;uch as can render an account of their &s;aith, according to the catechi&s;m in the &s;aid book contained. The Bi&s;hop al&s;o in his own per&s;on, every third year (at lea&s;t) in the time of his Vi&s;itation, &s;hall perform that duty of confir|mation; or if in that year, by rea&s;on of &s;ome infirmity, he be not able per&s;onally to vi&s;it his Dioce&s;s, he &s;hall not omit to do it the next year after, as he may conveniently. And when&s;oever the time &s;hall by him be a&s;&s;igned, every &s;uch Mini&s;ter &s;hall u&s;e his be&s;t endeavour to prepare and make able, and likewi&s;e to procure as many as he can, to be then brought to be confirmed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="18" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XVIII. <HI>Of the receiving of the holy Communion.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN every Cathedral and Collegiate Church, at lea&s;t once every moneth, and in every Pari&s;h Church and Chappel, where Sa|craments are to be admini&s;tred within this Realm, the holy com|munion &s;hall be mini&s;tred by the Par&s;on, Vicar, or Mini&s;ter, &s;o often, and at &s;uch times as every Pari&s;hioner may communicate at the lea&s;t thrice in the year, (whereof the Fea&s;t of <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> to be one) according as they are appointed by the book of common prayer. And that no mini&s;ter when he celebrateth the commu|nion, &s;hall wittingly admini&s;ter the &s;ame to any but &s;uch as kneel: Provided that every mini&s;ter as often as he admini&s;treth the com|munion, &s;hall fir&s;t receive the Sacrament him&s;elf. Furthermore, no bread, nor wine newly brought &s;hall be u&s;ed, but fir&s;t the words of In&s;titution &s;hall be rehear&s;ed, when the &s;aid bread and wine be pre&s;ented upon the communion Table. Likewi&s;e the mini&s;ter &s;hall deliver both the bread and wine to every commu|nicant, &s;everally.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="19" TYPE="section">
<PB N="15" REF="23">
<HEAD>XIX. <HI>Warning to be given before hand for the Communion.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHereas every Lay per&s;on is bound to receive the holy communion thrice every year, and many notwith&s;tanding do not receive that Sacrament once in a year. We do require every mini&s;ter to give warning to his Pari&s;hioners, publickly in the Church, at morning prayer the Sunday before every time of his admini&s;tring the holy Sacrament, for the better preparation of them&s;elves. Which &s;aid warning, we enjoyn the &s;aid Pari&s;hio|ners to accept and obey under the penalty and danger of the law. And the mini&s;ter of every Pari&s;h, and in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, &s;ome principal mini&s;ter of the Church, &s;hall the afternoon, before the &s;aid admini&s;tration, give warning by tolling of the Bell, or otherwi&s;e, to the intent, that if any have any &s;cruple of con&s;cience, or de&s;ire the &s;pecial mini&s;tery of re|conciliation, he may afford it to tho&s;e that need it. And to this end, the people are often to be exhorted, to enter into a &s;pecial examination of the &s;tate of their own &s;ouls: and that finding them&s;elves either extream dull, or much troubled in mind, they do re&s;ort unto Gods mini&s;ters, to receive from them as well ad|vi&s;e and coun&s;el for the quickning of their dead hearts, and the &s;ubduing of tho&s;e corruptions, whereunto they have been &s;ubject, as the benefit of ab&s;olution likewi&s;e, for the quieting of their con&s;ciences, by the power of the Keys, which Chri&s;t hath com|mitted to his mini&s;ters for that purpo&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="20" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XX. <HI>Notorious offenders not to be admitted to the Communion.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO mini&s;ter &s;hall in any wi&s;e admit to the receiving of the holy communion any of his cure, or flock, which be ope<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ly known to live in &s;in notorious, without repentance. Nor any who have maliciou&s;ly and openly contended with their Neighbours, until they &s;hall be reconciled. Nor any Church|wardens or Sidemen, who having taken their Oaths, to pre&s;ent to their Ordinaries all &s;uch publick offences, as they are particular|ly
<PB N="16" REF="24">charged to inquire of in their &s;everal Pari&s;hes, &s;hall notwith|&s;tanding their &s;aid Oaths, and that their faithful di&s;charging of them is the chiefe&s;t means whereby publick &s;ins and offences may be reformed and puni&s;hed) wittingly and willingly, de&s;perately and irreligiou&s;ly incurre the horrible crime of perjury, either in neglecting, or refu&s;ing to pre&s;ent &s;uch of the &s;aid enormities and publick offence, as they know them&s;elves to be committed in their &s;aid Pari&s;hes; or are notoriou&s;ly offen&s;ive to the Congrega|tion there, although they be urged by &s;ome of their Neighbours, or by their mini&s;ter, or by their Ordinary him&s;elf, to di&s;charge their con&s;ciences by pre&s;enting of them, and not to incur &s;o de&s;|perately the &s;aid horrible &s;in of perjury.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="21" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXI. <HI>Mini&s;ters not to preach, or admini&s;ter the Communion in private hou&s;es.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Mini&s;ter &s;hall Preach, or admini&s;ter the Holy communion in any private hou&s;e, except it be in times of nece&s;&s;ity, when any being either &s;o impotent, as he cannot go to the Church, or very dangerou&s;ly &s;ick, are defirous to be partakers of that Holy Sacrament, under pain of &s;u&s;pen&s;ion for the fir&s;t offence, and Excommunication for the &s;econd. Provided, that hou&s;es are here reputed for private hou&s;es, wherein are no Chappels dedi|cated and allowed by the Eccle&s;ia&s;tical laws of this Realm. And provided al&s;o under the pain before expre&s;&s;ed, that no Chaplains do preach, or admini&s;ter the Communion in any other places but in the Chappels of the &s;aid hou&s;es, and that al&s;o they do the &s;ame very &s;eldome upon Sundays and Holy-days. So that both the Lords and ma&s;ters of the &s;aid hou&s;es, and their families, &s;hall at other times re&s;ort to their own Pari&s;h Churches, and there re|ceive the Holy Communion at the lea&s;t once every year.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="22" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXII. <HI>Mini&s;ters not to hold private Conventicles.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as all Conventicles and &s;ecret meetings of Prie&s;ts and Mini&s;ters, have been ever ju&s;tly accounted very hurtfull to the &s;tate of the church wherein they live: We do now ordain
<PB N="17" REF="24">and con&s;titute, that no Prie&s;ts or mini&s;ters of the word of God, nor any other per&s;ons, &s;hall meet together in any private hou&s;e, or el&s;ewhere, to con&s;ult upon any matter or cour&s;e 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 <HI>Ireland,</HI> or of the Book of Common prayer, or of any part of the Government and Di&s;cipline now e&s;tabli&s;hed in the Church of <HI>Ireland,</HI> under pain of Excommunication.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="23" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXIII. <HI>Of Ordering Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Juri&s;diction.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Archbi&s;hop, Bi&s;hop, or other per&s;on what&s;oever, having Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Juri&s;diction, &s;hall appoint, con&s;titute, make and confirm any Chancellor, Commi&s;&s;ary, or Official for longer time than their own incumbency, except he be of the full age of twenty &s;ix years at lea&s;t, and one that is learned in the civil and eccle&s;ia&s;tical laws, and is at the lea&s;t a ma&s;ter of Arts, or Batche|lor of law, and is rea&s;onably well practi&s;ed in the cour&s;e thereof. Neither &s;hall they let their Juri&s;dictions to farm, or grant, or confirm to any man, the next, &s;econd, or third advow&s;on of any Prebend or Benefice, being in their gift. And if they &s;hall make or confirm any &s;uch Grant or Patent of the place of Chancellor, Commi&s;&s;ary, or Official, for longer term than during their In|cumbency, to any that is not qualified, as is hereby required, then the &s;aid per&s;on &s;o accepting the &s;aid Patent or Grant, is to be held and declared uncapable thereof, to all intents what&s;oever. La&s;tly, the &s;aid Archbi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops, &s;hall provide, that the clergy and people be not burdened with unju&s;t exactions by their &s;ervants and Officers in their Vi&s;itations: And that neither the Archbi&s;h|ops therein, &s;hall charge their Suffragans, nor the Bi&s;hops their clergy, with any Noctials, or Refections, over and above their or|dinary procurations, (re&s;erving notwith&s;tanding unto the Arch|bi&s;hops in their Vi&s;itations, the Refections u&s;ually heretofore re|ceived in tho&s;e Dioce&s;&s;es, where the &s;ame procurations are not received by them, which are yearly paid by the clergy unto their Bi&s;hops.) And that no Archbi&s;hop, or Bi&s;hop, &s;hall demand from the Executors or Admini&s;trators of any of their clergy, any
<PB N="18" REF="25">Heriots or Mortuaries; as in &s;ome place of this Kingdom here|tofore hath been accu&s;tomed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="24" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXIV. <HI>Of ordering the Revenues of Eccle&s;ia&s;tical per&s;ons.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Archbi&s;hop, Bi&s;hop, Dean and Chapter, or Dignitary, &s;hall in any wi&s;e dimini&s;h the ancient Revenues of their Sees, or Churches, nor alienate their Lands in Fee-farm, nor de&s;troy their woods, nor give power to their Tenants to make wa&s;t thereof, nor by any devi&s;e, demi&s;e their Men&s;al or Demea&s;ne Lands, unle&s;s it be to their Curates, actually di&s;charging the &s;aid cures, without forty days ab&s;ence in any one year, and to them for no longer time or term, than during their own Incumbency. Neither &s;hall they joyn with any Dignitary, Prebend, or other Beneficiary or Beneficiaries to confirm the Lea&s;es or alienations, made or to be made, by him or them, of any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical profits or obventions. And the &s;aid Archbi&s;hops, and Bi&s;hops, &s;hall carefully provide, that all Churches, Chancels, and Man&s;e hou&s;es, the repair whereof properly belongeth to them, or any of them, or to any other Eccle&s;ia&s;tical per&s;on or per&s;ons be from time to time pre&s;erved from ruine and decay.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="25" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXV. <HI>Of Archdeacons.</HI></HEAD>
<P>EVery Archdeacon which hath authority to vi&s;it, either by common right, or by pre&s;cription, &s;hall vi&s;it the precinct of his Juri&s;diction, once every year, in his own per&s;on, and he &s;hall not &s;ub&s;titute any to be his Official, but &s;uch a one as hath been brought up in the Univer&s;ity, and hath &s;tudied the civil law (if &s;uch a one may be had) being able not only in learning, but al&s;o with gravity and mode&s;ty to di&s;charge that Office.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="26" TYPE="section">
<PB N="19" REF="25">
<HEAD>XXVI. <HI>Re&s;idence of Deans in their Churches.</HI></HEAD>
<P>EVery Dean, Ma&s;ter, or Warden, or chief Governor of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church, &s;hall be re&s;ident in his &s;aid Cathedral or collegiate Church, four&s;core and ten days, <HI>conjunctim aut divi&s;im,</HI> in every year at lea&s;t, &s;o that they have hou&s;es, or ground to build hou&s;es upon, belonging to their Churches; and then &s;hall continue there in preaching of the word of God, and keeping good ho&s;pitality, (evcept he &s;hall be otherwi&s;e letted with weighty and urgent cau&s;es, to be approved by the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s.) And when he is pre&s;ent, he, with the re&s;t of the Canons or Prebendaries re&s;ident, &s;hall take &s;pecial care, that the Statutes and laudable cu&s;toms of their Church, (not being con|trary to the word of God, or Prerogative Royal) the Statutes of this Realm being in force concerning Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Orders, and all other con&s;titutions, now &s;et forth and confirmed by His Ma|je&s;ties Authority, and &s;uch as &s;hall be lawfully enjoyned by the bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s in his Vi&s;itation, according to the Statutes and cu&s;toms of the &s;ame Church, or the Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Laws of this Realm, be diligently ob&s;erved. And that the petty canons, Vicars chorals, and other Mini&s;ters of their church, be urged to the &s;tudy of the Holy Scriptures, and every one of them to have the New Te&s;tament, not only in Engli&s;h, but al&s;o in Latin.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="27" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXVII. <HI>Deans and Prebendaries to preach during their re&s;idence.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Dean, Ma&s;ter, Warden, or other chief Governor, Pre|bendaries, and canons in every cathedral, and collegiate church, &s;hall not only Preach there in their own per&s;ons, &s;o often as they are bound by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">aw, Statute, Ordinance, or cu&s;tome, but &s;hall likewi&s;e preach in other churches of the &s;ame Dioce&s;s where they are re&s;ident, and e&s;pecially in tho&s;e places, whence they, or their churches receive any yearly rents or profits. And in ca&s;e they them&s;elves be &s;ick, or lawfully ab&s;ent, they &s;hall &s;ub&s;titute &s;uch licen&s;ed preacher to &s;upply their turns, as by the bi&s;hop of
<PB N="20" REF="26">the Dioce&s;s &s;hall be thought meet to preach in cathedral churches. And if any other wi&s;e neglect or omit to &s;upply his cour&s;e, as is afore&s;aid, the offender &s;hall be puni&s;hed by the Bi&s;hop, or by him or them, to whom the Juri&s;diction of that church appertain|eth, according to the quality of the offence.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="28" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXVIII. <HI>Prebendaries to be re&s;ident upon their benefices.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Prebendaries, or canons in cathedral or collegiate Churches, having one or more benefices with cure, (and not being Re&s;identaries in the &s;ame cathedral or collegiate Churches) &s;hall under colour of the &s;aid Prebends, ab&s;ent them|&s;elves from their benefices; with cure, above the &s;pace of one moneth in the year, unle&s;s it be for &s;ome urgent cau&s;e, and cer|tain time to be allowed by the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s. And &s;uch of the &s;aid canons and prebendaries, as by the Ordinances of the &s;aid cathedral or collegiate churches, do &s;tand bound to be re&s;ident in the &s;ame, &s;hall &s;o among them&s;elves &s;ort and pro|portion the times of the year, concerning re&s;idence to be kept in the &s;aid Churches, as that &s;ome of them always &s;hall be per&s;o|nally re&s;ident there. And that all tho&s;e who be, or &s;hall be Re|&s;identaries in any cathedral, or collegiate church, &s;hall after the days of their re&s;idency, appointed by their local Statutes or cu&s;toms, expired; pre&s;ently repair to their benefices, or &s;ome of them, or to &s;ome other charge where the Law requireth their pre&s;ence, there to di&s;charge their duties, according to the law in that ca&s;e provided. And the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s &s;hall &s;ee the &s;ame to be duly performed and put in execution.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="29" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXIX. <HI>Four &s;olemn times appointed for the making of Mini&s;ters.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as the ancient Fathers of the church, led by the examples of the Apo&s;tles, appointed Prayers and Fea&s;ts to be u&s;ed at the &s;olemn ordering of Mini&s;ters, and to that pur|po&s;e allotted certain times, in which, only &s;acred Orders might be given or conferred. We following their holy and religious
<PB N="21" REF="26">example, do con&s;titute and decree, that no Deacons or Mini&s;ters be ordained and made, but only upon the Sundays, immediately following <HI>Jejunia quatuor temporum,</HI> commonly called Ember|weeks, appointed in ancient time for prayer and fa&s;ting, (pur|po&s;ely for this cau&s;e at their fir&s;t In&s;titution,) and &s;o continued at this day in the church of <HI>Ireland:</HI> And that this be done in the cathedral or pari&s;h church, where the Bi&s;hop re&s;ideth, and in the time of Divine Service, in the pre&s;ence not only of the Arch|deacon, but of the Dean and two Prebendaries at the lea&s;t, or (if they &s;hall happen by any lawfull cau&s;e to be let or hindered) in the pre&s;ence of four other grave per&s;ons, being allowed for publick Preachers. And la&s;tly, that no per&s;on, of what quality or gifts &s;oever, be made a Deacon and a Presbyter both together upon the &s;ame day.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="30" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXX. <HI>The titles of &s;uch as are to be made Mini&s;ters</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO per&s;on &s;hall be admitted into Sacred Orders, except he &s;hall at that time exhibit to the Bi&s;hop, of whom he de|&s;ireth impo&s;ition of hands, a pre&s;entation of him&s;elf: to &s;ome Eccle&s;ia&s;tical preferment, then void in that Dioce&s;s, or &s;hall bring to the &s;aid Bi&s;hop, a true and undoubted certificate, that either he is provided of &s;ome church within the &s;aid Dioce&s;s, where he may attend the cure of &s;ouls, or of &s;ome Mini&s;ters place vacant, either in the cathedral church of that Dioce&s;s, or in &s;ome other collegiate church therein al&s;o &s;cituate, where he may execute his Mini&s;tery, or that he is a Senior Fellow of &s;ome Colledge in the Univer&s;ity, or except he be a Ma&s;ter of Arts of five years &s;tand|ing, that liveth of his own charge in the Univer&s;ity, or except by the Bi&s;hop him&s;elf that doth ordain him Mini&s;ter, he be &s;hort|ly after to be admitted either to &s;ome Benefice or Curate&s;hip then void, not to be removed, until he be otherwi&s;e provided for; except by his notable evil carriage he de&s;erve the contrary. And if any Bi&s;hop &s;hall admit any per&s;on into the Mini&s;tery, that hath none of the&s;e Titles, as is afore&s;aid, then he &s;hall keep and maintain him with all things nece&s;&s;ary, till he do prefer him to &s;ome Eccle&s;ia&s;tical living. And if the &s;aid Bi&s;hop &s;hall refu&s;e &s;o
<PB N="22" REF="27">to do, he &s;hall be &s;u&s;pended by his Archbi&s;hop, being a&s;&s;i&s;ted with another Bi&s;hop, from giving of Orders by the &s;pace of a year.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="31" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXXI. <HI>The quality of &s;uch as are to be made Mini&s;ters.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Bi&s;hop &s;hall hereafter admit any per&s;on into Sacred Or|ders, which is not of his own Dioce&s;s, except he be a gra|duate of &s;ome Univer&s;ity within the Kings Dominions, or except he &s;hall bring letters dimi&s;&s;ory (&s;o termed) from the Bi&s;hop of who&s;e Dioce&s;s he is; and de&s;iring to be a Deacon, is three and twenty years old, and to be a Presbyter four and twenty years compleat: and hath taken &s;ome degrees of School in &s;ome of the &s;aid Univer&s;ities, or at the lea&s;t, except he be able to yield an account of his faith in latin, (according to the Articles of Religion, generally received in the Church of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ire|land,</HI>) and to confirm the &s;ame by &s;ufficient te&s;timonies out of the holy Scriptures. And except moreover he &s;hall then exhibit letters Te&s;timonial, or authentical certificate of his good life and conver&s;ation, under the Seal of &s;ome Colledge where before he remained, or of three or four grave Mini&s;ters together, with the &s;ub&s;cription and te&s;timony of other credible per&s;ons, who have known his life and behaviour, by the &s;pace of three years next before.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="32" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXXII. <HI>The examination of &s;uch as are to be made Mini&s;ters.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Bi&s;hop, before he admit any per&s;on to holy Orders, &s;hall diligently examine him in the pre&s;ence of tho&s;e Mini&s;ters that &s;hall a&s;&s;i&s;t him at the Impo&s;ition of hands. And if the &s;aid Bi&s;hop have any lawfull impediment, he &s;hall cau&s;e the &s;aid Mi|ni&s;ters carefully to examine every &s;uch per&s;on, &s;o to be ordered. Provided, that they who &s;hall a&s;&s;i&s;t the Bi&s;hop in examining and laying on of hands, &s;hall be of his Cathedral Church, if they may conveniently be had, or other &s;ufficient Preachers of the &s;ame Dioce&s;s, to the number of three at the lea&s;t. And if any
<PB N="23" REF="27">bi&s;hop or Suffragan, &s;hall admit any toSacred Orders, who is not &s;o qualified and examined, as before we have ordained, the Archbi&s;hop of that Province having notice thereof, and being a&s;&s;i&s;ted by one bi&s;hop, &s;hall &s;u&s;pend the &s;aid bi&s;hop or Suffragan &s;o offending, from making either Deacons or Prie&s;ts, for the &s;pace of two years. Neither &s;hall any per&s;on be received into the Mini&s;tery, nor admitted to any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical living, nor per|mitted to preach, read Lecture, catechize, or mini&s;ter the Sacra|ments; except he &s;hall fir&s;t by &s;ub&s;cription declare his con&s;ent to the fir&s;t four Canons of this pre&s;ent Synod, and every thing contained therein.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="33" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXXIII. <HI>Caution for in&s;titution of Mini&s;ters into benefices.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO bi&s;hop &s;hall in&s;titute any into a benefice, who hath been ordained by any other bi&s;hop, except he fir&s;t &s;hew unto him his letters of Orders, and bring him a &s;ufficient te&s;timony of his former good life and behaviour, if the bi&s;hop &s;hall re|quire it, and la&s;tly &s;hall appear upon the due examination to be worthy of his mini&s;try.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="34" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXXIV. <HI>Patrons of E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">cle&s;ia&s;tical benefices.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Bi&s;hop &s;hall earne&s;tly and diligently exhort Patrons of benefices to con&s;ider the nece&s;&s;aries of the Churches, and to have before their eyes the la&s;t day of judgment, and the Tribu|nal &s;eat of God: Therefore that they prefer no man to any Ec|cle&s;ia&s;tical living, but him which by doctrine, judgement, god|line&s;s, hone&s;ty and innocency of life, is able to bear &s;o heavy a burthen, that they do nothing therein, but uprightly, uncorrupt|ly and truly: but if any Patron &s;hall be convicted to have made any Symoniacal contract, either directly or indirectly, let him be excommunicated <HI>ip&s;o facto,</HI> not to be ab&s;olved but alter publick penance, in the Cathedral Church, and the Church &s;o Symonia|cally pre&s;ented unto.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="35" TYPE="section">
<PB N="24" REF="28">
<HEAD>XXXV. <HI>Prevention of Symoniacal contracts in tho&s;e that are pre&s;ented by them.</HI></HEAD>
<P>TO avoid the dete&s;table &s;in of Symony, becau&s;e buying and &s;elling of Eccle&s;ia&s;tical functions, offices, promotions, digni|ties and livings is execrable before God, therefore the Arch|bi&s;hop, and all, and every Bi&s;hop or bi&s;hops, or any other per&s;on or per&s;ons, having authority to admit, in&s;titute, collate, in&s;tall, or to confirm the election of any Archbi&s;hop, bi&s;hop, or other per&s;on or per&s;ons to any &s;piritual or Eccle&s;ia&s;tical function, dig|nity, promotion, title, office, juri&s;diction, place, or benefice, with cure, or without cure, or to any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical living what|&s;oever, &s;hall before every &s;uch admi&s;&s;ion, in&s;titution, collation, in&s;tallation, or confirmation of election, re&s;pectively mini&s;ter to every per&s;on thereafter to be admitted, in&s;tituted, collated, in|&s;talled, or confirmed in or to any Archbi&s;hoprick or other &s;pi|ritual or Eccle&s;ia&s;tical function, dignity, promotion, title, office, Juri&s;diction, place, or benefice, with cure, or without cure, or in any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical living what&s;oever, this oath in manner and form following, the &s;ame to be taken by every one whom it con|cerneth in his own per&s;on, and not by a Proctor. <HI>IN. N.</HI> do &s;wear that I have made no Symoniacal payment, contract, or pro|mi&s;e directly or indirectly, by my &s;elf, or by any other to my knowledge or with my con&s;ent, to any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;o|ever, for or concerning the procureing and obtaining of this Ec|cle&s;ia&s;tical dignity, place, preferment, office or living, (re&s;pect|ively and particularly, naming the &s;ame whereunto he is admitted, in&s;tituted, collated, in&s;talled, or confirmed) nor will at any time hereafter perform or &s;atisfie any &s;uch kind of payment, contract, or promi&s;e made by any other without my knowledge or con&s;ent, &s;o help me God through Je&s;us Chri&s;t. And for the better ex|pre&s;&s;ing of this cur&s;ed abu&s;e, we ordain and appoint, that if any Clerk, or any other with his con&s;ent &s;hall Seal any bond or bill to any per&s;on or per&s;ons, with condition of re&s;ignation of his benefice, whereto he is to be, or hath been pre&s;ented, or &s;hall make or covenant to make any Lea&s;e of the profits of the &s;aid
<PB N="25" REF="28">benefice, or any part thereof unto the Patron or any belonging to him or any other per&s;on to his or their u&s;e, to continue during his Incumbency, or for above three years, or with notable dimi|nution of the rent under the true value, he &s;hall be holden for convict of Symony, and proceeded again&s;t according to the &s;eve|rity of the ancient Canons in that behalf.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="36" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXXVI. <HI>Small Pari&s;hes to be united, and Re&s;idence enjoyned.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOr remedy of the &s;malne&s;s of the maintenance of the Clergy, We ordain that when there is in one Pari&s;h a Rectory and Vicarage, or portion of Tythes collative, the bi&s;hop &s;hall unite them perpetually: And tho&s;e Unions the Deans and Chapters &s;hall be bound to confirm to remain perpetually, as one entire benefice, and that no di&s;pen&s;ations be granted to hold more than one benefice of greater value than forty pounds Engli&s;h per an|num: But to &s;uch only as &s;hall be very well able and &s;ufficient to di&s;charge his duty, having taken the degree of a Ma&s;ter of Art at Jea&s;t, in &s;ome Univer&s;ity within His Maje&s;ties Dominions, and being a publick and &s;ufficient Preacher licenced. Provided that he who is qualified as afore&s;aid, &s;hall alwayes re&s;ide in one of his benefices, and &s;ome rea&s;onable time of every year in each of them. And la&s;tly, that he have under him, where he doth not re&s;ide, a Curate able to catechize, and in&s;truct the people, to have &s;uch maintenance as to the Ordinary &s;hall &s;eem fit.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="37" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXXVII. <HI>Ab&s;ence of beneficed men, and livings appropriated to be &s;upplyed by Curates that are allowed Preachers.</HI></HEAD>
<P>EVery beneficed man licenced by the laws of this Realm (up|on urgent occa&s;ions of other &s;ervice,) not to re&s;ide upon his benefice, &s;hall cau&s;e his Cure to be &s;upplyed by a Curate that is a &s;ufficient, and licenced Preacher, if the worth of the bene|fice will bear it. But who&s;oever hath two benefices, &s;hall main|tain a Preacher licenced, in the benefice where he doth not re|&s;ide, except he preach him&s;elf at both of them u&s;ually. Al&s;o
<PB N="26" REF="29">every beneficed man not allowed to be a Preacher, &s;hall procure Sermons to be preached in his cure once every moneth at the lea&s;t, by Preachers lawfully licenced, if his living in the judg|ment of the Ordinary will be able to bear it. And upon every Sunday, when there &s;hall not be a Sermon preached in his cure, he or his curate &s;hall read one of the Homilies pre&s;cribed by au|thority, to the intents afore&s;aid. And as for tho&s;e Churches where all the Tythes both great and &s;mall are taken by the Ap|propriator, we ordain that the bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, according to the laws of the Church, &s;hall allot out of the &s;aid appropria|tion, &s;uch maintenance to a &s;ufficient curate, as in equity in his di&s;creeion &s;hall &s;eem meet and competent.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="38" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XXXVIII. <HI>None to be Curates but allowed by the Bi&s;hop.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Curate or Mini&s;ter &s;hall be permitted to &s;erve in any place without examination, and tryal fir&s;t to be made of his &s;ufficiency, &s;obriety and fitne&s;s every way for the mini&s;tration, whereunto he is to be deputed. Having re&s;pect to the greatne&s;s of the cure, and meetne&s;s of the party. And being found wor|thy, he &s;hall be admitted by the bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s in writing under his hand and Seal. And the &s;aid curates and mini&s;ters, if they remove from one Dioce&s;s to another, &s;hall not be by any means admitted to &s;erve, without te&s;timony of the bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s or Ordinary of the place, as afore&s;aid, whence they came, in writing, of their hone&s;ty, ability and conformity to the Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Laws of the Church of <HI>Ireland.</HI> Nor any &s;hall &s;erve more than two Churches or chappels in one day, and tho&s;e to be in a convenient di&s;tance, and unle&s;s the &s;aid Church or chappel, where &s;uch a mini&s;ter &s;hall &s;erve in two places, be not able in the judgment of the bi&s;hop, or ordinary, as afore&s;aid, to maintain a curate. Provided that no clergy-man, holding any benefice in title, &s;hall by this con&s;titution be debarred from nominating an able curate to &s;uch benefice, &s;o often as the &s;aid cure &s;hall be void, to be examined and admitted by the bi&s;hop as afore&s;aid.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="39" TYPE="section">
<PB N="27" REF="29">
<HEAD>XXXIX. <HI>Strangers not admitted to preach without licence.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NEither the Mini&s;ter, Church-wardens, or other Officers of any parochial or collegiate church, &s;hall &s;uffer any &s;tranger to preach unto the people in their churches, except they know him to be &s;ufficiently authori&s;ed thereto, as is afore&s;aid. And if any in his Serm on &s;hall publi&s;h any doctrine, either &s;trange, or di&s;agreeing from the word of God, or from the Articles of Re|ligion generally received in the churches of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> they &s;hall by their letters &s;ub&s;cribed with &s;ome of their hands that heard him, &s;o &s;oon as may be, give notice of the &s;ame to the bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, that he may determine the matter, and take &s;uch order therein as he &s;hall think convenient.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="40" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XL. <HI>Mini&s;ters to confer with Recu&s;ants.</HI></HEAD>
<P>EVery Mini&s;ter being a Preacher, and having any Popi&s;h Re|cu&s;ant or Recu&s;ants in his Pari&s;h, (and thought fit by the bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s,) &s;hall labour diligently with them from time to time, thereby to reclaim them from their errors. And if he be not a Preacher, or not &s;uch a Preacher; then he &s;hall procure, (if he can po&s;&s;ible,) &s;ome that are Preachers &s;o quali|fied, to take pains with them for that purpo&s;e. If he can pro|cure none, then he &s;hall inform the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s there|of, who &s;hall not only appoint &s;ome neighbour Preacher, or Prea|chers adjoyning to take that labour upon them: but him&s;elf al&s;o (as his important affairs will permit him,) &s;hall u&s;e his be&s;t endeavour by in&s;truction, per&s;wa&s;ion, and all good means he can devi&s;e, to reclaim both them, and all other within his Dioce&s;s &s;o affected.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="41" TYPE="section">
<PB N="28" REF="30">
<HEAD>XLI. <HI>Mini&s;ters to vi&s;it the &s;ick.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHen any per&s;on is dangerou&s;ly &s;ick in any Pari&s;h, (al|though they have not formerly re&s;orted to the church,) the mini&s;ter or curate, having knowledge thereof, &s;hall re&s;ort un|to him or her; (if the di&s;ea&s;e be not known or probably &s;u&s;|pected to be infectious,) to in&s;truct and comfort them in their di&s;tre&s;s, according to the order of the communion book, if he be no Preacher: Or if he be a Preacher, then as he &s;hall think mo&s;t needfull and convenient. And when any is pa&s;&s;ing out of this life, a bell &s;hall be tolled, and the mini&s;ter &s;hall not then &s;lack to do his la&s;t duty. And after the parties death, (if &s;o it fall out,) there &s;hall be rung no more but one &s;hort peal, and one other before the burial, and one after the burial.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="42" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XLII. <HI>Soberne&s;s of conver&s;ation, and decency of apparel required in Mi|ni&s;ters.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Eccle&s;iu&s;tical per&s;ons &s;hall at any time, other than for their hone&s;t nece&s;&s;ities, &s;o much as re&s;ort to any Taverns or Alehou&s;es, neither &s;hall they board or lodge in any &s;uch places. Further more they they &s;hall not give them&s;elves to any ba&s;e or &s;ervile labour, or to drinking, or ryot, &s;pending their time idlely by day or by night, nor &s;hall they give them&s;elves to playing at dice, cards, or tables, or any other game unbe&s;eeming their function; but at all times convenient they &s;hall hear or read &s;omewhat of the holy Scriptures, or &s;hall occupy them&s;elves with &s;ome other hone&s;t &s;tudy or exerci&s;e, alwayes doing the things which &s;hall appertain to hone&s;ty, and endeavouring to pro|fit the church of God, having alwayes in mind that they ought to excell others in purity of life, and &s;hould be examples to the people to live well and chri&s;tianly, under pain of Eccle&s;i|a&s;tical cen&s;ures to be inflicted with &s;e verity according to the qualities of their offences. We do likewi&s;e con&s;titute and ap|point, that Archbi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops &s;hall not intermit to u&s;e the
<PB N="29" REF="30" MS="y">accu&s;tomed apparel of their degrees. Likewi&s;e all Deans, Ma&s;t|ers of Colledges, Archdeacons, and Prebendaries in cathedral and collegiate churches, (being Prie&s;ts or Deacons) Doctors in Divinity, Law, and Phy&s;ick, Bachellors in Divinity, Ma&s;ters of Arts, and bachellors of law, having any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical living, &s;hall u&s;ually wear Gowns with &s;landing-collars, and &s;leeves &s;treight at the hands; or wide &s;leeves, as is u&s;ed in the Univer&s;ities, with Hoods, or Tippets of &s;ilk or &s;arcener, and &s;quare caps in places and times convenient. And that all other mini&s;ters, admitted or to be admitted into that function, &s;hall al&s;o u&s;ually wear the like apparell as is afore&s;aid, except Tippets only. We do fur|ther in like manner ordain, that all the &s;aid Eccle&s;ia&s;tical per&s;ons above mentioned &s;hall u&s;ually wear in their journeys, Cloaks with &s;leeves, commonly called Prie&s;ts-cloaks, without guards, welts, long buttons, or cuts. And no Eccle&s;ia&s;tical per&s;ons &s;hall wear any coy&s;e, or wrought night-cap, but only plain night-caps of black &s;ilk, Sattin, or Velvet. In all which particulars con|cerning the apparel here pre&s;cribed, our meaning is to attribute any holine&s;s, or &s;pecial worthine&s;s to the &s;aid Garments, but for decency, gravity and order. In private hou&s;es, and in their &s;tudies, the &s;aid per&s;ons Eccle&s;ia&s;tical may u&s;e any comely and Schollarlike apparel. Provided that it be not cut or pinkt, and that in publick they go not in their Dublet and ho&s;e without coats, or ca&s;&s;ocks: And al&s;o that they wear not any light colour|ed Stockings.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="43" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XLIII. <HI>Of con&s;ecrating of Churches.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AS often as Churches are newly built, where formerly there were not, or Church yards appointed for burial, they &s;hall be dedicated and con&s;ecrated. Provided that the ancient churches and church-yards, &s;hall not be put to any ba&s;e and un|worthy u&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="44" TYPE="section">
<PB N="30" REF="31">
<HEAD>XLIV. <HI>A Terrier of Gleabe-lands, and other po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions belonging to Church|es.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WE ordain that the Archbi&s;hops and all Bi&s;hops within their &s;everal Dioce&s;&s;es, &s;hall procure, as much as in them lyeth, that a true note and Terrier of all the Lands, Gleabes, Meadows, Gardens, Orchards, Hou&s;es, Stocks, Implements, Te|nements and portions of Tythes, and all rights what&s;oever, which are in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, or of right do belong to their &s;everal Sees, or to any dignity, Par&s;onage, or Vicarage, or rural Prebend, with|in any of their Dioce&s;&s;es, be taken by the view of hone&s;t men in every Pari&s;h, by the appointment of the &s;aid Archbi&s;hops or Bi&s;hops whereof the Mini&s;ter to be one, and be laid up in their &s;everal Regi&s;tries to the u&s;e of po&s;terity. And the Archbi&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ps and bi&s;hops &s;hall in their Vi&s;itations carefully provide, that this canon be ob&s;erved, and that the &s;aid Terrier be renewed every ten years. And no mini&s;ter &s;hall make a lea&s;e of his Gleabe|lands, or of his benefice, or the profits or means thereof, above the term of three years at the uttermo&s;t, &s;aving unto all Paten|tees from His Maje&s;tie &s;uch power as is, or he ea&s;ter &s;hall be granted to them in their Patents, to demi&s;e their Gleabe or any part thereof.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="45" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XLV. <HI>Payment of Tythes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as every man is bound to pay his Tythes, no man &s;hall by colour of duty omitted by their Curates, detain their Tythes, and &s;o requite one wrong with another, or be his own judge; but &s;hall truly pay the &s;ame, as hath been ac|cu&s;tomed, to their Par&s;ons, Vicars and Curates, without any re|&s;traint or diminution. And for &s;uch lack and default, as they can ju&s;tly find, in their Par&s;on, Vicars and Curates, they &s;hall &s;eek for reformation to their Ordinaries, and other Superiors; who upon complaint and due reproof thereof, &s;hall reform the &s;ame accordingly.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="46" TYPE="section">
<PB N="31" REF="31">
<HEAD>XLVI. <HI>A Regi&s;try to be kept of Chri&s;tnings, Weddings, and burials.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN every Pari&s;h church and chappel within this Realm, &s;hall be provided one parchment book, at the charge of the Pari&s;h, wherein &s;hall be written, the day and year of every chri&s;tning, wedding, and burial, which &s;hall be in the Pari&s;h, from the time that this canon &s;hall be e&s;tabli&s;hed. And for the &s;afe keeping of the &s;aid book, the Church-wardens, at the charge of the Pari&s;h, &s;hall provide one &s;ure coffer, with three locks and keys, whereof the one to remain with the mini&s;ter, and the other two with the church-wardens &s;everal: So that neither the mini&s;ter without the church-wardens, nor the church-wardens without the mini&s;t|er, &s;hall at any time take that book out of the &s;aid coffer. And henceforth, upon every Sabbath-day, immediately after morning, and evening prayer, the mini&s;ter and church-wardens, &s;hall take the &s;aid parchment book out of the &s;aid coffer: And the mini&s;t|er in the pre&s;ence of the church-wardens &s;hall write and Record in the &s;aid book, the names of all per&s;ons chri&s;tned, together with the names and &s;urnames of their Parents, and al&s;o the names of all per&s;ons, married and buried in that pari&s;h the week before, by the mini&s;ter or his curate, and the day and the year of every &s;uch chri&s;tening, marriage and burial. And that done, they &s;hall lay up the book in the coffer, as before. And the mini&s;ter, and churchwardens, unto every page of that book, (when it &s;hall be filled with &s;uch in&s;criptions) &s;hall &s;ub&s;cribe their names. And the churchwardens, &s;hall once every year within one moneth after the 25. day of <HI>March,</HI> tran&s;mit unto the bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, or his chancellor, a true copy of the names of all per&s;ons chri&s;tened, married, or buried, in their pa|ri&s;h in the year before (ended the &s;aid 25. day of <HI>March,</HI>) and the certain dayes and moneths, in which every &s;uch chri&s;tening, marriage and burial was had, to be &s;ub&s;cribed with the hands of the &s;aid mini&s;ter and churchwardens, to the end the &s;ame may faithfully be pre&s;erved in the Regi&s;try of the &s;aid bi&s;hop, which certificate &s;hall be received without Fee. And if the mini&s;ter or churchwardens &s;hall be negligent in the performance of any thing
<PB N="32" REF="32">herein contained, it &s;hall be lawful for the Bi&s;hop, or his chancel|lor to convent them, and proceed again&s;t every of them, as con|temners of this our con&s;titution.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="47" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XLVII. <HI>None to marry within the degrees prohibited.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO per&s;ons &s;hall marry within the degrees prohibited by the laws of God, and expre&s;&s;ed in a Table &s;et forth by au|thority in <HI>England,</HI> in the year of our Lord God 1563. And all marriages &s;o made and contracted, &s;hall be adjudged ince&s;tuous and unlawfull, and con&s;equently &s;hall be di&s;&s;olved, as void from the beginning. And the parties &s;o married, &s;hall be by cour&s;e of law &s;eparated. And the afore&s;aid Table &s;hall be in every Church publickly &s;et up, and fixed at the charge of the Pari&s;h.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="48" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XLVIII. <HI>None to marry under XXI. years without their Parents con&s;ent.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO children under the age of XXI. years compleat, &s;hall contract them&s;elves, or marry without the con&s;ent of their Parents, or of their Guardians and Governours, if their Parents be decea&s;ed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="49" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XLIX. <HI>Security to be taken at the granting of &s;uch licences, to marry with|out publication of banns, and under what conditions.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe &s;ecurity mentioned &s;hall contain the&s;e conditions: Fir&s;t, that, at the time of the granting every &s;uch licence, there is not any impediment of precontract, con&s;anguinity, affinity, or other lawfull cau&s;e, to hinder the &s;aid marriage: Secondly, that there is not any controver&s;ie or &s;uit depending in any court be|fore any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Judge, touching any contract or marriage of either of the &s;aid parties with any other. Thirdly, that they have obtained thereunto the expre&s;s con&s;ent of their Parents, (if they be living,) or otherwi&s;e of their Guardians or Gover|nours. La&s;tly, that they &s;hall celebrate the &s;aid matrimony
<PB N="33" REF="32">publickly, in the Pari&s;h church or chappel, where one of them dwelleth, and in no other place; and that, between the hours of eight and twelve in the &s;orenoon. Neither in the time of Lent, nor of any publick fa&s;t, nor of the &s;olemn fe&s;tivities of the Na|tivity, Re&s;urrection, and A&s;cen&s;ion of our lord, or of the De&s;|cen&s;ion of the holy Gho&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="50" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>L. <HI>Oaths to be taken for the conditions.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOr the avoiding of all fraud and collu&s;ion, in the obtaining of &s;uch licences and di&s;pen&s;ations; We further con&s;titute and appoint, that be ore any licence for the celebration of Ma|trimony, without publication of bannes, be had and granted, it &s;hall appear to the Judge, by the Oaths of two &s;ufficient wit|ne&s;&s;es, one of them to be known to the afore&s;aid Judge him&s;elf, or to &s;ome other per&s;on, of good reputation then pre&s;ent, and known likewi&s;e to the &s;aid Judge: That the expre&s;s con&s;ent of the Parents, or Parent, (if one be dead,) or guardians or guar|dian of the parties, is thereunto had and obtained. And fur|thermore, that one of the parties per&s;onally &s;wear, that he be|lieveth there is no let or impediment of precontract, kindred or allyance, or of any other lawfull cau&s;e what&s;oever; nor any &s;uit commenced in any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical court, to bar, or hinder the proceeding of the &s;aid Matrimony, according to the Tenor of the afore&s;aid licence.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="51" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LI. <HI>An exception for tho&s;e that are in Widdew-bood.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF both the parties, which are to marry, being in Widdow. hood, do &s;eek a faculty, for the forbearing of Bannes; Then the clau&s;e before mentioned, requiring the Parents con&s;ent, may be omitted, but the Pari&s;hes where they dwell both, &s;hall be ex|pre&s;&s;ed in the licence, as al&s;o the Pari&s;h named, where the marri|age &s;hall be celebrated. And if any, having power to grant li|cence, &s;hall offend in the premi&s;&s;es, or any part thereof, he &s;hall for every time &s;o offending, be &s;u&s;pended from the execution of
<PB N="34" REF="33">his Office for the &s;pace of &s;ix moneths: and every &s;uch licence or di&s;pen&s;ation, &s;hall be held void to all effects and purpo&s;es, as if there had never been any &s;uch granted; and the parties marry|ing by vertue thereof, &s;hall be &s;ubject to the puni&s;hments which are appointed for Clande&s;tine marriages.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="52" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LII. <HI>Mini&s;ters not to marry any per&s;on without Bannes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO mini&s;ter of what place &s;oever, nor under colour of any peculiar liberty or priviledge, claimed to appertain to any Church or Chappel, &s;hall upon pain of deprivation, if he be beneficed, or degradation, if he be not beneficed, celebrate matrimony between any per&s;ons, without a faculty or licence granted, except the bannes of matrimony have been fir&s;t publi&s;hed three &s;everal Sundays or holy dayes, in the time of Divine &s;ervice, in the Pari&s;h churches and chappels, wherein the &s;aid parties have dwelled, by the &s;pace of three moneths before. Neither &s;hall any mini&s;ter upon the like pain, under any pretence what&s;oever, joyn any per&s;ons in marriage at any un&s;ea&s;onable times, but only between the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon, nor in any private place; but either in the &s;aid churches or chappels, where one of them dwelleth, and likewi&s;e in time of Divine &s;ervice, nor when Bannes are thrice asked before the parties and Governors of the parties to be married being under the age of 21. years, &s;hall either per&s;onally, or by &s;ufficient te&s;timony, &s;ignifie to him their con&s;ents given to the &s;aid marriage.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="53" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LIII. <HI>No &s;entence for Divorce to be given upon the &s;ole confe&s;&s;ion of the parties.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as Matrimonial cau&s;es have been alwayes reckon|ed, and reputed among&s;t the weightie&s;t, and therefore re|quire the greater caution, when they come to be handled, and debated in judgment, e&s;pecially in cau&s;es wherein Matrimo|ny, having been in the church duly &s;olemnized, is required upon any &s;ugge&s;tion, or pretext what&s;oever, to be di&s;&s;olved or annul|led.
<PB N="35" REF="33">We do &s;tralghtly charge and enjoyn, that in all proevedings to divorce, and nullities of Matrimony, good circum&s;pection and advi&s;e be u&s;ed, and that the truth may (as far as is po&s;&s;ible) be &s;i&s;ted out, by the depo&s;ition of witne&s;&s;es, and other lawfull proofs and evictions, and that credit be not given to the &s;ole confe&s;&s;ion of the parties them&s;elves, how&s;oever taken upon Oath, either within or without the court.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="54" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LIV. <HI>No &s;entence of Divorce to be given but in open Court.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO &s;entence &s;hall be given, either for &s;eparation <HI>&agrave; Thoro &amp; Men&s;&acirc;,</HI> or for annulling of pretended Matrimony, but in open court, and in the &s;eat of Ju&s;tice. And that with the know|ledge, and con&s;ent, either of the Archbi&s;hop within his Province, or of the Bi&s;hop within his Dioce&s;s, or <HI>Sede vacante,</HI> of the Guardians of the &s;piritualities, or the judge of the Prerogative, in their &s;everal Juri&s;dictions, and courts, and concerning them only, that are then dwelling under their Juri&s;diction.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="55" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LV. <HI>In all Sentences for Divorce, bond to be taken for not marrying during each others life.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN all &s;entences proncunced only for Divorce and &s;eparation <HI>&agrave; Thoro &amp; Men&s;&acirc;,</HI> there &s;hall be a caution and re&s;traint in&s;erted in the Act of the &s;aid &s;entence, That the parties &s;o &s;eparated &s;hall live cha&s;tly, and continently, neither &s;hall they during each others li&s;e, contract Matrimony with any other per&s;on, and for the better ob&s;erving of this la&s;t clau&s;e, the &s;aid &s;entence of Divorce &s;hall not be pronounced, untill the party, or parties requiring the &s;ame, have given good &s;ufficient caution and &s;ecurity into the Court, that they will not any way break, or tran&s;gre&s;s the &s;aid re&s;traint or prohibition. And if any Judge afore&s;aid, giving &s;entence of Divorce, or &s;eparation, &s;hall not fully keep and ob|&s;erve the premi&s;es, he &s;hall be &s;u&s;pended from the exerci&s;e of his Office, for the &s;pace of a whole year.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="56" TYPE="section">
<PB N="36" REF="34">
<HEAD>LVI. <HI>The order of Juri&s;diction to be kept.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOr the a voiding of the unju&s;t vexation of the people, and for the better pre&s;erving of order in the exerci&s;e of Eccle|&s;ia&s;tical Juri&s;diction, we ordain and appoint that the Pro|bate of all Wills, and granting Admini&s;tration of the goods of any defunct, &s;hall be had before the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s where he dwelled, unle&s;s it do appear, that the &s;aid defunct had goods to the value of five pounds &s;terling in any other Dioce&s;s: In which ca&s;e, the &s;aid Probate, and granting Admini&s;trations, &s;hall be referred to the Prerogative court, Provided, That if any dye, <HI>in itinere,</HI> the goods that he hath about him at that prefent, &s;hall not cau&s;e his Te&s;tament, or the Admini&s;tration to be lyable to the Prerogative court. And the &s;ame order &s;hall be holden in Appeals; without pa&s;&s;ing by the intermediate Juri&s;diction, upon pain of nullity in all Acts contrary to this canon. And if any Judge of the Prerogative court, or any his Surrogate, or his Regi&s;ter, or Apparitor, &s;hall cite or cau&s;e to be cited, <HI>Ex offi|cio,</HI> any man to the intents afore&s;aid, contrary to this canon, not having knowledge, that the probate of a Will, or granting Ad|mini&s;tration or Devolution of the cau&s;e, do appertain to his cogni&s;ance, he &s;hall re&s;tore to the party &s;o cited all his co&s;ts and charges, and the Acts and proceedings in that behalf, &s;hall be held void and fru&s;trate: which expences, if the &s;aid Judge, or Regi&s;ter or Apparitor &s;hall refu&s;e accordingly to pay, he &s;hall be &s;u&s;pended from the exerci&s;e of his Offiee, untill he yield to the performance thereof.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="57" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LVII. <HI>The re&s;traint of double Quarrels upon re&s;pite of In&s;titution.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WE do ordain and appoint, that no double Quarrels &s;hall be hereafter granted out of any the Archbi&s;hops or prerogative court, at the &s;uit of any clerk pre&s;ented to any benefice, except he &s;hall fir&s;t take his per&s;onal Oath, that the &s;pace of two moneths at the lea&s;t is expired, &s;ince he fir&s;t ten|dred
<PB N="37" REF="34">his pre&s;entation to the Bi&s;hop, and that he refu&s;ed to grant him In&s;titution thereupon, under pain of &s;u&s;pen&s;ion of the gran|ter thereof, from the execution of his office for half a year, and nullity of the &s;aid double Quarrell, &s;o unduly procured to all intents and purpo&s;es.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="58" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LVIII. <HI>Inhibitions not to be granted, without the &s;ub&s;cription of an Advo|cate.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat the Juri&s;dictions of bi&s;hops may be pre&s;erved, as near as may be entire and free from prejudice; and that for the behoof of the Subjects of this land, better provi&s;ion be made, that henceforward they be not grieved with frivolous and wrongful &s;uits and mole&s;tations: It is ordained and provided, That no Inhibition &s;hall be granted out of any court, belonging to the Archbi&s;hop of the Province, or the &s;upream Prerogative, at the in&s;tance of any party, unle&s;s it be &s;ub&s;cribed by an Advo|cate, practi&s;ing in the &s;aid Court, which, the &s;aid Advocate &s;hall do freely, not taking any Fee for the &s;ame, except the party pro&s;ecuting the &s;uit, do voluntarily be&s;tow &s;ome gratuity upon him for his coun&s;el and advi&s;e in the &s;aid ca&s;e. The like cour&s;e &s;hall be taken in granting forth any inhibition at the in&s;tance of any party, by the Bi&s;hop or his Chancellor again&s;t the Arch|deacon, or any other per&s;on exerci&s;ing Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Juri&s;diction, and if in the court or con&s;i&s;tory of any Bi&s;hop, there be no Ad|vocate at all, then &s;hall the &s;ub&s;cription of a Proctor practi&s;ing in the &s;ame court, be held &s;ufficient.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="59" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LIX. <HI>Inhibitions not to be granted, untill the Appeal be exhibited to the Judge.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is further ordered and decreed, that henceforward, no In|hibition be granted by occa&s;ion of any interlocutory decree, or in cau&s;e of correction what&s;oever, except under the form afore&s;aid. And moreover, that before the going out of any &s;uch Inhibition, the Appeal it &s;elf, or a copy thereof, avouched
<PB N="38" REF="35">by Oath to be ju&s;t and true, be exhibited to the Judge, or his lawfull Surrogate, whereby he may be fully informed, both of the quality of the crime, and the cau&s;e of the grievance, before the granting forth of the &s;aid Inhibition. And every Appellant, or his lawfull Proctor &s;hall before the obtaining of any &s;uch In|hibition, &s;hew and exhibite to the Judge, or his Surrogate in writing, a true copy of tho&s;e Acts, wherewith he complaineth him&s;elf to be agrieved, and from which he appealeth: Or &s;hall take a corporal oath, that he hath performed his diligence and true endeavour, for the obtaining of the &s;ame, and could not ob|tain it at the hands of the Regi&s;ter in the Country, or his Depu|ty, tendring him his Fee. And if any Judge, or Regi&s;ter, &s;hall either procure, or permit any Inhibition to be &s;ealed, &s;o as is &s;aid; contrary to the form and limitation above &s;pecified, let him be &s;u&s;pended from the execution of his Office, for the &s;pace of three moneths. If any Proctor, or other per&s;on what|&s;oever by his appointment, &s;hall oflend in any of the premi&s;&s;es, either by making, or &s;ending out any Inhibition, contrary to the Tenor of the &s;aid premi&s;&s;es, let him be removed from the exer|ci&s;e of his Office, for the &s;pace of a whole year, without hope of relea&s;e or re&s;toring.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="60" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LX. <HI>Solemn Denunciation of parties Excommunicated.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALl Ordinaries &s;hall in their &s;everal Juri&s;dictions carefully &s;ee, and give order that as well tho&s;e, who for revolting, and &s;till ob&s;tinate refu&s;ing to feequent Divine Service, e&s;tabli&s;h|ed by publick authority within this Realm of <HI>Ireland,</HI> as al&s;o, (e&s;pecially of the better &s;ort and condition,) who for notori|ous contumacy, or notable crimes &s;tand lawfully excommuni|cate, (unle&s;s within three moneths immediately after the &s;aid &s;entence of excommunication pronounced again&s;t them, they reform them&s;elves, and obtain the benefit of ab&s;olution) be every &s;ix moneths en&s;uing, as well in the Pari&s;h Church, as in the Cathedral Church of the Dioce&s;s, in which they remain, by the Mini&s;ter openly, in the time of Divine &s;ervice upon &s;ome Sun|day declared, and pronounced excommunicate; that others may
<PB N="39" REF="35">be thereby admoni&s;hed, and excited to refrain their company and &s;ociety.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="61" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXI. <HI>Notorious crimes and &s;candals to be certified into Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Courts by pre&s;entments.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF any offend their brethren, either by Adultery, Whoredom, Ince&s;t, or Drunkenne&s;s, or by Swearing, Ribauldry, U&s;ury, or any other uncleanne&s;s and wickedne&s;s of life; the church|wardens, or Que&s;tmen and Sidemen, in their next pre&s;entments to their Ordinaries, &s;hall faithfully pre&s;ent all and every of the &s;aid offenders, to the intent, that they, and every of them, may be puni&s;hed by the &s;everity of the laws, according to their de|&s;erts, and &s;uch notorious offenders &s;hall not be admitted to the holy Communion, till they be reformed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="62" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXII. <HI>Schi&s;maticks to be pre&s;ented.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF the Churchwardens, or Que&s;tmen, or a&s;&s;i&s;tants, do, or &s;hall know any man within the Pari&s;h, or el&s;ewhere, that is an hinde|rer of the word of God to be read, or &s;incerely preached, or of the execution of the&s;e our con&s;titntions, or a fautor of any u&s;urped or forraign power by the laws of this Realm ju&s;tly re|jected, and taken away, or a defender of Popi&s;h or erronious doctrine, they &s;hall detect and pre&s;ent the &s;ame, to the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, or Ordinary of the place, to be cen&s;ured and pu|ni&s;hed, according to &s;uch Eccle&s;ia&s;tical laws, as are pre&s;cribed in that behalf.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="63" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XLIII. <HI>Not Communicants at Ea&s;ter to be pre&s;ented.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Mini&s;ter, Churchwardens, Que&s;tmen and a&s;&s;i&s;tants of eve|ry Pari&s;h Church and Chappel, &s;hall yearly within forty days after Ea&s;ter, exhibite to the Bi&s;hop, or his Chancellor, the names and &s;urnames of all the Pari&s;hioners, as well Men as Wo|men;
<PB N="40" REF="36">Women; which being at the age of &s;ixteen years, received not the Communion at Ea&s;ter before.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="64" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXIIII. <HI>Mini&s;ters may pre&s;ent.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BEcau&s;e it often cometh to pa&s;s, that the Churchwardens, Side|men, Que&s;tmen, and &s;uch others of the Laity, as are to take care for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of &s;in and wickedne&s;s, in their &s;everal Pari&s;hes, as much as in them lyeth, by admonition, reprehen&s;ion, and denunciation to their Ordinaries, do forbear to di&s;charge their duties therein, either through fear of their Superiors, or through negligence (more than were fit,) the licenciou&s;ne&s;s of the&s;e times con&s;idered. We ordain, that hereafter every Par&s;on and Vicar, or in the lawfull ab&s;ence of any Par&s;on, or Vicar, then their Curates and &s;ub&s;titutes may joyn in every pre&s;entment, with the &s;aid Churchwardens, Sidemen, and the re&s;t above men|tioned, at the times hereafter limited, if the &s;aid Churchwardens and the re&s;t will pre&s;ent &s;uch e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ormities, as are apparent in the Pari&s;h; or if they will not, then every &s;uch Par&s;on and Vicar, or in their ab&s;ence, as is afore&s;aid, their Curates may them&s;elves pre&s;ent to their Ordinaries, at &s;uch times, and when el&s;e they think it meet, all &s;uch crimes, as they have in charge otherwi&s;e, as by them, (being the per&s;on that &s;hould have the chief care for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of &s;in, and impiety in their Pari&s;hes,) &s;hall be thought to require due reformation. Provided alwayes, that, if any one confe&s;s his &s;ecret and hidden &s;in to the Mini&s;ter, for the unburthening of his con&s;cience, and to receive &s;piritual con&s;ola|tion and ea&s;e of his minde from him, We do not any way binde the &s;aid Mini&s;ter, by this our con&s;titution, but do &s;traightly charge and admoni&s;h him, that he do not at any time reveal, and make known to any per&s;on what&s;oever, any crime, or offence &s;o committed to his tru&s;t and &s;ecre&s;ie, (except they be &s;uch crimes, as by the Laws of this Realm his own life may be called into que&s;tion for concealing of the &s;ame) under pain of irregulari|ty.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="65" TYPE="section">
<PB N="41" REF="36">
<HEAD>LXV. <HI>Mini&s;ters, and Churchwardens not to be &s;ued for pre&s;enting.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHereas for the reformation of criminous per&s;ons, and di&s;orders in every Pari&s;h, the Churchwardens, Que&s;tmen, Sidemen, and &s;uch other Officers, as are &s;worn, and the Mini&s;ter charged to pre&s;ent, as well the crimes and di&s;orders committed by the &s;aid criminous per&s;ons, as al&s;o the common fame which is &s;pread abroad of them, whereby they are often maligned, and &s;ometimes troubled by the &s;aid delinquents, or their friends: We do admoni&s;h and exhort all Judges, both Eccle&s;ia&s;tical and temporal, as they regard and reverence the fearfull judgement &s;eat of the highe&s;t Judge, that they admit not in any of their Courts, any complaint, plea, &s;uit, or &s;uits, again&s;t any &s;uch Churchwarden, Que&s;tmen, Sidemen, or other Church Officers, for making any &s;uch pre&s;entments, nor again&s;t any Mini&s;ter for any pre&s;entment he &s;hall make, tending to the re&s;traint of &s;hame|le&s;s impiety: and con&s;idering that the rules both of charity and government, do pre&s;ume that they did nothing therein of malice, but for the di&s;charge of their con&s;cience.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="66" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXVI. <HI>Churchwardens not bound to pre&s;ent oftner than twice a year.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Churchwardens, Que&s;tmen, or Sidemen of any Pari&s;h &s;hall be inforced to exhibit their pre&s;entments to any, hav|ing Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Juri&s;diction, above once in every year, where it hath been no oftner u&s;ed, nor above twice in any Dioce&s;s what&s;oe|ver; the Bi&s;hops vi&s;itation whereof to be one: for the which pre&s;entments of every Pari&s;h Church or Chappel, the Regi&s;ter of any Court, where they are to be exhibited, &s;hall not receive in one year above four pence, under pain for every offence there|in of &s;u&s;pen&s;ion from the execution of his Office, for the &s;pace of a moneth, <HI>toties quoties,</HI> Provided alwayes, that as good occa&s;ion &s;hall require it, it &s;hall be lawfull for every Mini&s;ter, Church|warden, and Sidemen, to pre&s;ent offenders, as often as they &s;hall think meet. And likewi&s;e, for any godly di&s;po&s;ed per&s;on, or for
<PB N="42" REF="37">any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Judge upon knowledge, or notice given unto him or them, of any enormous crime within his Juri&s;diction, to move the Mini&s;ter, Churchwardens, or Sidemen, as they ten|der the glory of God, and reformation of &s;in, to pre&s;ent the &s;ame, if they &s;hould find &s;ufficient cau&s;e to induce them there un|to; that it may be in due time puni&s;hed and reformed. Provid|ed, that for the&s;e voluntary pre&s;entments there be no Fee requi|red, or taken of them, under the pain afore&s;aid.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="67" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXVII. <HI>Churchwardens not to be troubled, for not pre&s;enting oftner than twice a year.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Churchwardens, Que&s;tmen, or Sidemen, &s;hall be called or cited, but only at the &s;aid time or times before limited, to appear before any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Judge who&s;oever, for refu&s;ing at other times, to pre&s;ent any faults committed in their pari&s;hes, and puni&s;hable by Eccle&s;ia&s;tical laws; Neither &s;hall they nor any of them, after their pre&s;entments exhibited at any of tho&s;e times, be any further troubled for the &s;ame, except upon manife&s;t, and evident proof, it may appear, that they did then, wittingly and willingly omit to pre&s;ent &s;ome &s;uch publick crime or crimes, as they knew to be committed, or could not be igno|rant, that there was then a publick fame of them among&s;t divers hone&s;t, and well reputed per&s;ons; or unle&s;s there be very ju&s;t cau&s;e to call them, for the explanation of their former pre&s;ent|ments. In which ca&s;e of wilfull omi&s;&s;ion, their Ordinaties &s;hall proceed again&s;t them, in &s;uch &s;ort as in cau&s;es of wilfull perjury, in a Court Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, is already by law provided.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="68" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXVIII. <HI>Convenient time to be a&s;&s;igned for framing pre&s;entments.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOr the avoiding of &s;uch inconveniencies, as heretofore have happened, by the ha&s;ty making of Bills of pre&s;entments, up|on the dayes of the Vi&s;itation and Synods, it is ordered; That alway hereafter every Chancellor, Archdeacon, Commi&s;&s;ary and Official, and every other per&s;on having Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Juri&s;diction,
<PB N="43" REF="37">at the ordinary time, when the Churchwardens are &s;worn; and the Archbi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops, when he or they do &s;ummon their Vi&s;itation, &s;hall deliver or cau&s;e to be delivered to the Church|wardens, Que&s;tmen, and Sidemen of every Pari&s;h, or to &s;ome of them &s;uch books of Articles, as they, or any of them, &s;hall require for the year following, the &s;aid Churchward|ens, Que&s;tmen and Sidemen, to ground their pre&s;entments upon; at &s;uch times as they are to exhibite them. In which book &s;hall be contained the form of the Oath, which mu&s;t be taken imme|diately before every &s;uch pre&s;entment. To the intent, that ha|ving before hand, time &s;ufficient not only to peru&s;e, and con&s;ider what their &s;aid Oath &s;hall be, but the Articles al&s;o, whereupon they are to ground their pre&s;entments; they may frame them at home, both advi&s;edly and truly, to the di&s;charge of their own con&s;ciences, after they are &s;worn, as becometh hone&s;t and godly men.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="69" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXIX. <HI>None to be cited into Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Courts by Proce&s;s of</HI> Quorum nomina.</HEAD>
<P>NO Bi&s;hop, Chancellor, Archdeacon, Official or other Ec|cle&s;ia&s;tical Judge, &s;hall &s;uffer any general Proce&s;s of <HI>Quorum nomina</HI> to be &s;ent out of his Court, except the names of all &s;uch as are thereby to be cited, &s;hall be fir&s;t expre&s;ly entred by the hand of the Regi&s;ter, or his Deputy, under the &s;aid Proce&s;&s;es; and the &s;aid proce&s;&s;es and names, be fir&s;t &s;ub&s;cribed by the Judge or his deputy, and his &s;eal thereto affixed. And we further or|dain, that when any per&s;on appeareth upon citation what&s;oever, that if the next Court day after, there be not Articles or a libell put in again&s;t him, he &s;hall then be di&s;mi&s;&s;ed with his co&s;ts.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="70" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXX. <HI>Maturity required in proceeding.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO man for neglect of appearance &s;hall be excommunicated for the fir&s;t ab&s;ence, but &s;hall be cited again upon the &s;ame Proce&s;s, And if he cannot be found, nor afterwards appear upon <HI>viis &amp; medis;</HI> then to be decreed <HI>Excemmunicandum fore.</HI>
<PB N="44" REF="38">Yet for preventing &s;uch neglect, and that the party querelant may &s;u&s;tain no detriment; hereby it is likewi&s;e ordered, that in cau&s;es of in&s;tance upon the appearance of any &s;uch per&s;on, he &s;hall pay the charge pa&s;t, before he be admitted to &s;tand <HI>Rectus in curi&acirc;.</HI> And in the end of every Court, the names of tho&s;e that are deereed, &s;hall be publickly read, to the intent that they may avoid the danger of the fearfull &s;entence of Excommunication. Which cour&s;e al&s;o, we ordain &s;hall be holden with tho&s;e that be already denounced excommunicate, before the time of the &s;igni|fying of their ob&s;tinacy: to the end they and others may be admoni&s;hed of the danger in which they &s;tand, and to the aggra|vation of their ob&s;tinacy, if they continue in the &s;ame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="71" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXXI. <HI>No &s;entence of deprivation or depo&s;ition to be pronounced again&s;t a Mi|ni&s;ter but by the Bi&s;hop.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHen any Mini&s;ter is complained of in any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Court, belonging to any Bi&s;hop for any crime, the chan|cellor, commi&s;&s;ary, Official, or any other, having Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Juri&s;diction, (to whom it &s;hall appertain) &s;hall expedite the cau&s;e by Proce&s;&s;es and other proceedings again&s;t him; and upon contumacy, for not appearing &s;hall fir&s;t &s;u&s;pend him, and after|ward (his contumacy continuing) excommunicate him. But if he appear and &s;ubmit him&s;elf to the cour&s;e of law, then the mat|ter being ready for &s;entence, and the merits of his offence, ex|acting by law, either deprivation from his living, or depo&s;ition from the Mini&s;tery, no &s;uch &s;entence &s;hall be pronounced by any per&s;on who&s;oever, but only by the Bi&s;hop, with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of his chancellor, the Dean, (if they may conveniently be had,) and &s;ome of the Prebendaries, if the court be kept near the ca|thedral church, or of the Archdeacon, if he may be had con|veniently, and two other at the lea&s;t grave Mini&s;ters and Prea|chers, to be called by the Bi&s;hop, when the court is kept in other places. It is likewi&s;e ordered that no chancellor, commi&s;&s;ary, Official, or any other per&s;on &s;hall exerci&s;e any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Ju|ri&s;diction, over a Mini&s;ter in cau&s;es criminal, except he him&s;elf have been admitted into the holy Orders of Prie&s;thood.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="72" TYPE="section">
<PB N="45" REF="38">
<HEAD>LXXII. <HI>No act to be &s;ped but in open court.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Chancellor, Commi&s;&s;ary, Archdeacon, Official, or any other per&s;on u&s;ing Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Juri&s;diction who&s;oever &s;hall &s;peed any judicial Act, either of contentious or vo|luntary Juri&s;diction, except he have the ordinary Regi&s;ter of that Court, or his lawfull Deputy, or if he or they will not, or cannot be pre&s;ent then &s;uch per&s;ons, as by law are allowed in that behalf, to write or &s;peed the &s;ame, under pain of &s;u&s;pen&s;ion, <HI>ip&s;o facto.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="73" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXXIII. <HI>No Court to have more than one Seal.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Chancellor, Commi&s;&s;ary, Archdeacon, Official, or any other exerci&s;ing Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Juri&s;diction, &s;hall, without the Bi&s;hops con&s;ent, have any more than one &s;eal for the &s;ealing of all matters incident to his Office, which Seal &s;hall alwayes be kept either by him&s;elf, or by his lawfull &s;ub&s;titute exerci&s;ing Juri&s;diction for him, and remaining within the Juri&s;diction of the &s;aid Judge, or in the City, or principal Town of the county. This &s;eal &s;hall contain the title of that Juri&s;diction, which every of the &s;aid Judges, or their Deputies do execute.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="74" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXXIV. <HI>Convenient places to be cho&s;en for keeping of courts.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALl chancellors, commi&s;&s;aries, Archdeacons, Officials, and all others exerci&s;ing Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Juri&s;diction, &s;hall appoint &s;uch meet places for the keeping of their courts, by the a&s;&s;igne|ment or approbation of the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, as &s;hall be convenient for entertainment of tho&s;e who are to make their ap|pearance there, and mo&s;t indifferent for their travel. And like|wi&s;e they &s;hall keep and end their courts in &s;uch convenient time, as every man may return homewards, in as due &s;ea&s;on as may be.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="75" TYPE="section">
<PB N="46" REF="39">
<HEAD>LXXV. <HI>Peculiar and inferiour courts to exhibite the Original copies of Wills into the Bi&s;hops Regi&s;try.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHereas Deans, Archdeacons, Prebendaries, Par&s;ons, Vicars, and others exerci&s;ing Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Juri&s;diction, claim liberty to prove the la&s;t Wills and Te&s;taments of per&s;ons decea&s;ed within their &s;everal Juri&s;dictions, having no known nor certain Regi&s;ters, nor publick places to keep their Records in; by rea&s;on whereof, many Wills, rights and legacies, upon the death, or change of &s;uch per&s;ons and their private No|taries, mi&s;carry, and cannot be found, to the great prejudice of his Maje&s;ties Subjects. We therefore order and enjoyn, that all po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors and exerci&s;ers of peculiar Juri&s;diction, &s;hall once in every year exhibite into the publick Regi&s;try of the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, or of the Dean and chapter, (under who&s;e Juri&s;|diction the &s;aid peculiars are,) every original te&s;tament of every per&s;on in that time decea&s;ed, and by them proved in their &s;everal peculiar Juri&s;dictions; or a true copy of every &s;uch te&s;tament examined, &s;ub&s;cribed and &s;ealed by the peculiar Judge and his Notary. Otherwi&s;e, if any of them fail &s;o to do, the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, or Dean and chapter, unto whom the &s;aid Juri&s;dicti|ons do re&s;pectively belong, &s;hall &s;u&s;pend the &s;aid parties, and every of them from the exerci&s;e of all &s;uch peculiar juri&s;dicti|on, until they have performed this our con&s;titution.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="76" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXXVI <HI>The quality and Oath of Judges and Surrogates.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO man &s;hall hereafter be admitted a chancellor; commi&s;|&s;ary, official or Surrogate, to exerci&s;e any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical juri&s;diction, except he be of the full age of &s;ix and twen|ty years at the lea&s;t, and one that is learned in the civil and Ec|cle&s;ia&s;tical laws, and is at the lea&s;t a ma&s;ter of Arts, or Bachellor of law, and is rea&s;onably well practi&s;ed in the cour&s;e thereof, as likewi&s;e well affected and zealou&s;ly bent to Religion, touching who&s;e life and manners no evil example is had; and except be|fore
<PB N="47" REF="39">he enter into or execute any &s;uch office, he &s;hall take the Oath of the Kings Supremacy, in the pre&s;ence of the Bi&s;hop, or in the open Court: and &s;hall declare his con&s;ent, by &s;ub&s;cription to the two fir&s;t Canons of this pre&s;ent Synod, And al&s;o &s;hall &s;wear that he will, to the uttermo&s;t of his under&s;tanding deal uprightly and ju&s;tly in his Office, without re&s;pect of favour or reward; The &s;aid Oaths and &s;ub&s;cription to be recorded by a Regi&s;ter then pre&s;ent. And it is likewi&s;e ordered that every Regi&s;ter &s;hall take the &s;aid Oath of Supremacy, and &s;ub&s;cribe as afore&s;aid, before he be admitted to exerci&s;e that Office. And al&s;o that all Chancellors, Commi&s;&s;aries, Officials, Regi&s;ters, and all others that do now po&s;&s;e&s;s, or execute any places of Eccle&s;i|a&s;tical Juri&s;diction or &s;ervice, &s;hall before Chri&s;tmas next in the pre&s;ence of the Archbi&s;hop or Bi&s;hop, or in open court, (under whom or where they exerci&s;e their Offices,) take the &s;ame oaths. Or upon refu&s;al &s;o to do, &s;hall be &s;u&s;pended from the ex|ecution of their Offices, untill they &s;hall take the &s;aid Oaths.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="77" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXXVII. <HI>Proctors not to retain cau&s;es without the lawfull a&s;&s;ignment of the parties.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NOne &s;hall procure in any cau&s;e what&s;oever, unle&s;s he be thereunto con&s;tituted, and appointed by the party him&s;elf, either before the judge, and by Act in court; or unle&s;s in the beginning of the &s;uit, he be by a true and &s;ufficient Proxey there|unto warranted and enabled. We call that Proxey &s;ufficient, which is &s;trengthened, and confirmed by &s;ome authentical Seal, the parties approbation, or at lea&s;t his ratification therewithall concurring. All which Proxeys &s;hall be forthwith by the &s;aid Proctors exhibited into the court, and be &s;afely kept and pre&s;er|ved by the Regi&s;ter in the publick Regi&s;try of the &s;aid court. And if any Regi&s;ter or Proctor &s;hall offend herein, he &s;hall be &s;ecluded from the exerci&s;ing of his office, for the &s;pace of two moneths, without hope of velea&s;e or re&s;toring.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="78" TYPE="section">
<PB N="48" REF="40">
<HEAD>LXXVIII. <HI>Proctors prohibited the Oath</HI> in animam domini &s;ui.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as in the probate of Te&s;taments, and &s;uits for Ad|mini&s;tration of the goods of per&s;ons dying inte&s;tate, the Oath u&s;ually taken by Proctors of Court, <HI>in animam con&s;tituentis,</HI> is found to be inconvenient. We do therefore decree, and or|dain, that every Executor or &s;uiter for admini&s;tration, &s;hall per|&s;onally repair to the judge in that behalf, or to his Surrogate; and in his own per&s;on, (&amp; not by Proctor,) take the oath accu&s;t|omed in the&s;e ca&s;es. But if by rea&s;on of &s;ickne&s;s or age, or any other ju&s;t lett or impediment, he be not able to make his per&s;onal appearance before the Judge; it &s;hall be lawfull for the Judge (there being faith fir&s;t made, by a credible per&s;on of the truth of his &s;aid hinderance, or impediment,) to grant a commi&s;&s;ion to &s;ome grave Eccle&s;ia&s;tical per&s;on, abiding near the party afore|&s;aid, whereby he &s;hall give power and authority to the &s;aid Ec|cle&s;ia&s;tical per&s;on in his &s;tead, to Mini&s;ter the accu&s;tomed oath above mentioned, to the Executor, or &s;uiter for &s;uch admini&s;tra|tion. Requiring his &s;aid &s;ub&s;titute, that by a faithfull and tru&s;ty me&s;&s;enger, he certifie the &s;aid Judge, truly and faithfully, what he hath done therein. La&s;tly, we ordain and appoint, that no judge, or Regi&s;ter, &s;hall in any wi&s;e receive for the writing, drawing, or &s;ealing of any &s;uch Commi&s;&s;ion, above the &s;um of &s;ix &s;hillings and eight pence: whereof one moyety to be for the Judge, and the other for the Regi&s;ter of the &s;aid court.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="79" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXXIX. <HI>Proctors not to be clamorous in Court.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as it is found by experience, that the lond and confu&s;ed cries, and clamors of Proctors in the Eccle&s;ia&s;tical courts in this Kingdom, are not only trouble&s;ome and offen|&s;ive to the judge, and Advocates; but al&s;o give occa&s;ion to the &s;tanders by, of contempt, and calumny toward the court it &s;elf. That more re&s;pect may be had to the dignity of the judge, than heretofore, and that cau&s;es may more ea&s;ily and commodiou&s;ly
<PB N="49" REF="40">be handled and di&s;patched: We charge and enjoyn, that all Pro|ctors in the &s;aid court do e&s;pecially intend, that the Acts may be faithfully entred, and &s;et down by the Regi&s;ter, according to the advice and direction of the Advocate, That the &s;aid Proctors refrain loud &s;peech, and brabling, and behave them&s;elves quietly and mode&s;tly, and that when either the judges, or Advocates, or any of them &s;hall happen to &s;peak, they pre&s;ently be &s;ilent, upon pain of &s;ilencing for two whole terms, then immediately follow|ing every &s;uch offence of theirs. And if any of them &s;hall the &s;econd time offend herein, and after due monition &s;hall not re|form him&s;elf, let him be for ever removed from his practice.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="80" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXXX. <HI>The Oath</HI> de Calumnia <HI>not to be refu&s;ed.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WE ordain and appoint, that as well the Actor, as his Proctor and Advocate, (if they be required,) &s;hall take the Oath <HI>De c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">lumni&acirc;</HI> where&s;oever in the &s;uit the &s;ame &s;hall be tendred be|fore &s;entence, upon pain that the cau&s;e &s;hall be di&s;mi&s;&s;ed by the Judge, with co&s;ts for the party grieved.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="81" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXXXI. <HI>Abu&s;es to be reformed in Regi&s;ters.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF any Regi&s;ter, or his Deputy, or &s;ub&s;titute what&s;oever &s;hall receive any certificate, without the knowledge and con&s;ent of the Judge of the court, or willingly omit, to cau&s;e any per&s;ons cited to appear upon any court day, to be called or unduely put off, and deferre the examination of witne&s;&s;es to be examined by a day &s;et, and a&s;&s;igned by the Judge, or do not obey and ob&s;erve the &s;aid Judicial, and lawfull monition of the &s;aid Judge, or omit to write, or cau&s;e to be written &s;uch Citations and decrees, as are to be put in execution, and &s;et forth before the next court day: or &s;hall not cau&s;e all te&s;taments exhibited into his office, to be regi&s;tred within a convenient time; or &s;hall &s;et down or enact, as decreed by the Judge, any thing fal&s;e or conceited by him&s;elf, and not &s;o ordered and decreed by the Judge; or in the tran&s;mi&s;&s;ion of <HI>Proce&s;&s;es</HI> to the Judge <HI>ad quem,</HI> &s;hall add or
<PB N="50" REF="41">in&s;ert any fal&s;hood, or untruth, or omit any thing therein, either by cunning, or by gro&s;s negligence, or in ca&s;es of in&s;tance, or pro|moted of Office; &s;hall receive any reward in favour of either party, or be of coun&s;el directly or indirectly, with either of the parties in &s;uit, or in the execution of their Office, &s;hall do ought el&s;e malitiou&s;ly or fraudulently, whereby the &s;aid Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Judge or his proceeding may be &s;landered or defamed: We will and ordain, that the &s;aid Regi&s;ter, or his deputy, or &s;ub&s;titute, offending in all, or any the premi&s;&s;es, &s;hall by the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s be &s;u&s;pended from the exerci&s;e of his Office, for the &s;pace of one, two, or three moneths, or more, according to the quality of the offence. And that &s;ome other publick Notary do execute and di&s;charge all things pertaining to his Office, during the time of his &s;aid &s;u&s;pen&s;ion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="82" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXXXII. <HI>A certain rate of Fees to all Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Officers.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Bi&s;hop, Suffragan, Chancellor, Commi&s;&s;ary, Archdeacon, Official, or any other exerci&s;ing Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Juri&s;diction what&s;oever, nor any Regi&s;ter of any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical courts; nor any Mini&s;ter belonging to any of the &s;aid Offices, or courts &s;hall hereafter, (for any cau&s;e incident to their &s;everal Offices,) take or receive any other or greater Fee, than &s;uch as are, or &s;hall be allowed by lawfull authority in this Kingdom: under pain that every &s;uch Judge, Officer, or Mini&s;ter offending therein, &s;hall be &s;u&s;pended from the exerci&s;e of their &s;everal Offices, for the &s;pace of &s;ix moneths, for every &s;uch offence.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="83" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXXXIII. <HI>A table of the rates of Fees to be &s;et up in courts and Regi&s;tries.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WE do likewi&s;e con&s;titute and appoint, that the Regi&s;ters belonging to every Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Judge, &s;hall place two Tables, containing the &s;everal rates and &s;ums of all the &s;aid Fees, one, in the u&s;ual place or con&s;i&s;tory, where the court is kept; and the other in his Regi&s;try: and both of them in &s;uch &s;ort, as every man, whom it concerneth, may without difficulty come
<PB N="51" REF="41">to the view and peru&s;al thereof, and take a copy of them. And if any Regi&s;ter &s;hall fail to place the &s;aid Tables according to the Tenor hereof, within the &s;pace of a moneth, after the &s;ame hath been delivered to him, by the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s; he &s;hall be &s;u&s;pended from the execution of his Office, untill he cau&s;e the &s;ame to be accordingly done. And the &s;aid Table being once &s;et up, if he &s;hall at any time remove, or &s;uffer the &s;ame to be removed, hidden, or any way hindered from &s;ight, (contrary to the true meaning of this con&s;titution,) he &s;hall for every offence be &s;u&s;pended from the exerci&s;e of his Office, for the &s;pace of &s;ix moneths.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="84" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXXXIV. <HI>The whole Fees for &s;hewing letters of orders, and other licences, due but once in every Bi&s;hops time.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as a chief and principal cau&s;e, and u&s;e of Vi&s;ita|tions, is, that the Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, or other a&s;&s;igned by them to vi&s;it, may get &s;ome good knowledge of the &s;tate, &s;ufficiency and ability of the clergy, and other per&s;ons whom they are to vi&s;it. We think it convenient that every Par|&s;on, Vicar, Curate, Schoolma&s;ter, or other per&s;on licenced who|&s;oever, do at the Archbi&s;hops or Bi&s;hops fir&s;t vi&s;itation, or at the next vi&s;itation after his admi&s;&s;ion, &s;hew and exhibit unto them, his letters of Orders, In&s;titution and Induction, and all other his di&s;pen&s;ations, licences or faculty what&s;oever, to be by the &s;aid Archbi&s;hops or bi&s;hops, either allowed of, or (if there be ju&s;t cau&s;e,) di&s;-allowed and rejected, and being by them approved, to be, (as the cu&s;tom is,) &s;igned by the Regi&s;ter. And that the whole Fees accu&s;tomed, be paid only once in the whole time of every Archbi&s;hop or bi&s;hop; and afterwards but halfe of the &s;aid accu&s;tomed Fees, in every vi&s;itation, during the &s;aid bi&s;hops continuance.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="85" TYPE="section">
<PB N="52" REF="42">
<HEAD>LXXXV <HI>The number of Apparitors re&s;trained.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as we are de&s;irous to redre&s;s &s;uch abu&s;es and grievances, as are &s;aid to grow by Sumners or Apparitors. We think it meet that the multitude of Apparitors, be (as much as is po&s;&s;ible,) abridged or re&s;trained. Wherefore, we decree and ordain, that no Bi&s;hop or Archdeacon, or their Vicars or Officials, or other inferior Ordinaries, &s;hall depute, or have more Apparitors, to &s;erve in their Juri&s;dictions re&s;pectively, than one in every Deanery at the mo&s;t, be&s;ides the general Apparitor of the Bi&s;hop. All which Apparitors &s;hall by them&s;elves faith|fully execute their Offices; neither &s;hall they, by any colour or pretence what&s;oever, cau&s;e or &s;uffer their Mandats to be executed by any me&s;&s;engers or &s;ub&s;titutes; unle&s;s it be, upon &s;ome good cau&s;e to be fir&s;t known, and approved by the ordinary of the place. Moreover they &s;hall not take upon them the Office of Promotors, or Informers for the Court; neither &s;hall they ex|act more or greater Fees, than are in the&s;e our con&s;titutions for|merly pre&s;cribed. And if either, the number of the Apparitors deputed, &s;hall exceed the fore&s;aid limitation, or any of the &s;aid Apparitors &s;hall offend in any of the premi&s;&s;es; the per&s;ons deputing them, if they be Bi&s;hops, &s;hall upon admonition of their Superior, di&s;charge the per&s;ons exceeding the number &s;o limited; if inferior Ordinaries, they &s;hall be &s;u&s;pended from the execution of their Offices, untill they have di&s;mi&s;&s;ed the Apparitors by them &s;o deputed; and the parties them&s;elves &s;o deputed, &s;hall for ever be removed, from the Office of Appari|tors. And if being &s;o removed, they de&s;i&s;t not from the exer|ci&s;e of their &s;aid Offices, let them be puni&s;hed by Eccle&s;ia&s;tical cen&s;ures, as per&s;ons contumacious. Provided, that if upon ex|perience, the number of the &s;aid Apparitors be too great, in any Dioce&s;s, in the judgement of the Archbi&s;hop of the Province, they &s;hall by him be &s;o abridged, as he &s;hall think meet and con|venient.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="86" TYPE="section">
<PB N="53" REF="42">
<HEAD>LXVI. <HI>Pari&s;h Clerks to be cho&s;en by the Mini&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NO Pari&s;h Clerk, upon any vacation, &s;hall be cho&s;en, but by the Par&s;on or Vicar, or where there is no pre&s;entative, or collative Par&s;on, or Vicar, by the Mini&s;ter of that place for the time being: which choice &s;hall be &s;ignified by the &s;aid Mini&s;ter, Vicar, or Par&s;on, to the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, to be by him ap|proved. And if the Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, &s;hall fail to make choice of &s;uch a man, and pre&s;ent him to the Bi&s;hop, to be by him allowed, by the &s;pace of forty dayes after the vacancy: in &s;uch ca&s;e, the Bi&s;hop &s;hall have power to nominate and appoint a Clerk for that place. And the &s;aid Clerk &s;hall be of twenty years of age at the lea&s;t, and known to the &s;aid Par&s;on, Vicar, or Mi|ni&s;ter, to be of hone&s;t conver&s;ation, and &s;ufficient for his reading, writing, and al&s;o for his competent skill in &s;inging, (if it may be.) And, where the Mini&s;ter is an Engli&s;h man, and many Iri&s;h in the Pari&s;h, &s;uch a one, as &s;hall be able to read tho&s;e parts of the Service, which &s;hall be appointed to be read in Iri&s;h (if it may be:) and the Clerks &s;o cho&s;en &s;hall be re&s;ident; and per|form their duties in their own per&s;ons. For which they &s;hall re|ceive their d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e wages without diminution at &s;uch times as have been accu&s;tomed. And if any que&s;tion do ari&s;e, concerning the &s;aid cu&s;tom or wages, the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s &s;hall &s;et an order therein.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="87" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXXXVII. <HI>The choice of churchwardens and their accompt.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALl Churchwardens or Que&s;tmen in every Pari&s;h, &s;hall be cho&s;en, on Monday or Tue&s;day in <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> week by the joynt con&s;ent of the Mini&s;ter and the Pari&s;hioners, (if it may be:) but if they cannot agree upon &s;uch a choice, then the Mini&s;ter &s;hall choo&s;e one, and the Pari&s;hioners another, and without &s;uch a joynt, or &s;everal choice, none &s;hall take upon them to be Churchwardens, neither &s;hall they continue any longer than one year in that Office, except perhaps they may be cho&s;en again in
<PB N="54" REF="43">like manner. And upon the next con&s;i&s;tory day after &s;uch election, they &s;hall take their Oath before the Bi&s;hop or his Chancellor: and in ca&s;e the Pari&s;h &s;hall fail to joyn, or elect as is afore&s;aid, the Ordinary &s;hall &s;upply the defect. And all Churchwardens at the end of their year, or within a moneth after, at the mo&s;t, &s;hall before the Mini&s;ter and Pari&s;hioners, give up a ju&s;t accompt of &s;uch mony, as they have received, and al&s;o what particularly, they have be&s;towed in reparations and other|wi&s;e, for the u&s;e of the Church. And la&s;t of all, going out of their Office, they &s;hall truly deliver up to the Pari&s;hioners, what|&s;oever mony or other things, of right belonging to the Church or Pari&s;h, which remaineth in their hands: that it may be deli|vered over by them to the next Churchwardens by Bill indent|ed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="88" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LXXXVIII. <HI>The choice of Sidemen, and their joynt Office with Churchwardens.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Churchwardens of every Pari&s;h, and two or more di&s;|creet per&s;ons, in every Pari&s;h, to be cho&s;en for Sidemen or a&s;&s;i&s;tants by the Mini&s;ter and Pari&s;hioners, if they can agree; (otherwi&s;e to be appointed by the Ordinary of the Dioce&s;s,) &s;hall diligently &s;ee, that all the pari&s;hioners duely re&s;ort to their Church, upon all Sundayes and Holydayes, and there to continue the whole time of Divine Service, and none to walke or &s;tand idle, or talking in the Church-yard or Church-porch, during that time. But e&s;pecially they &s;hall &s;ee, that in every meeting of the Congregation, peace be well kept: and that all per&s;ons excommunicated, and &s;o denounced, be kept out of the Church, during the time of Divine Service. And all &s;uch, as &s;hall be found &s;lack, or negligent in re&s;orting to the Church, (having no great or urgent cau&s;e of ab&s;ence,) they &s;hall earne&s;tly call upon them; and after due monition, (if they amend not,) they &s;hall pre&s;ent them to the Ordinary of the place. The choice of which per&s;ons, <HI>viz.</HI> Churchwardens, or Sidemen or A&s;&s;i&s;tants; &s;hall be yearly made in Ea&s;ter week.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="89" TYPE="section">
<PB N="55" REF="43">
<HEAD>LXXXIX. <HI>The old Churchwardens to make their Pre&s;entments, before the new be &s;worn.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Office of all Churchwardens and Sidemen, &s;hall be re|puted ever hereafter to continue, untill the new Church|wardens that &s;hall &s;ucceed them, be &s;worn; which &s;hall be the fir&s;t court after <HI>Ea&s;ter,</HI> or according to the direction of the Or|dinary: which time &s;o appointed, &s;hall alwayes be the time in every year, or one of the two times, when the Churchwardens, and Sidemen of every Pari&s;h, &s;hall exhibit to their &s;everal Or|dinaries, the pre&s;entments of &s;uch enormities, as have happened in their Pari&s;hes &s;ince the la&s;t pre&s;entments. And this duty they &s;hall perform, before the newly cho&s;en Churchwardens and Side|men be &s;worn: And &s;hall not be &s;uffered to pa&s;s over the &s;aid pre&s;entments, to tho&s;e that are newly come into Office, and are, (by intendment) ignorant of &s;uch crimes; under pain of tho&s;e cen&s;ures, which are appointed for the reformation of &s;uch dallyers, and di&s;pen&s;ers with their own con&s;ciences, and oaths.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="90" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XC. <HI>The duty of Churchwardens touching &s;uch per&s;ons, as are out of the Church, in the time of Gods wor&s;hip, on Sundayes or Holy-dayes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Churchwardens and their a&s;&s;i&s;tants, &s;hall warne Inholders, Taverners, Victuallers, and Alehou&s;e-keepers, that they &s;ell no meat, or drink, and that they receive none into their Ta|vern, or Alehou&s;e, all the time wherein there is preaching or celebration of Divine Service, upon Sundayes or Holy-dayes, If any do contrary upon contempt, or &s;tubborne&s;s; they &s;hall pre&s;ent both him and them, whom he received, by name, in the next vi&s;itation. Al&s;o, they &s;hall &s;ee, that none of tho&s;e light wanderers in markets, and pelting-&s;ellers, which carry about, and &s;ell Pins, Points, and other &s;mall trifles, whom they call Pedlers, &s;et out their Wares to &s;ale: And that no Beggars, or idle per|&s;ons abide, either in the Church-yard, or near the Church, all that time, but &s;hall cau&s;e them either, to come in, or to depart.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="91" TYPE="section">
<PB N="56" REF="44">
<HEAD>XCI. <HI>Their duty touching tho&s;e per&s;ons that are in the church at that time.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey &s;hall al&s;o &s;ee, that in every meeting of the congregation, peace be well kept; and that none behave them&s;elves rudely, or di&s;orderly in the church. And to that end, they &s;hall warn the people, that they bring not with them to the church, Dogs, Hawkes with bels or children which are not &s;o nurtured, as they can be kept quiet in their &s;eats, without running up and down; Neither &s;hall they &s;uffer any per&s;on to di&s;turb the Service or Sermon, either, by untimely ringing of bels, or by walking, talk|ing, laughing, or any other noi&s;e, which may hinder the Mini&s;ter, or offend the people. And the names of all &s;uch as offend in this kinde, they &s;hall truly, and per&s;onally pre&s;ent in the Ordi|naries vi&s;itations.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="92" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XCII. <HI>To keep the churches from being prophaned at all other times.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey &s;hall &s;uffer no playes, fea&s;ts, banquets, &s;uppers, church|ales, drinkings, expo&s;ing any wares to &s;ale, temporal coures or leets, lay-juries, Mu&s;ters, commi&s;&s;ions, (other than for cau&s;e; Eccle&s;ia&s;tical,) playing at ball, or any other prophane u&s;age, to be kept in the church, chappel, or church-yard: neither the bels to be rung, either in the fea&s;t of all Souls; or upon any Holy|dayes or Eves, abrogated by the book of common prayer, nei|ther for moneths or twelve moneths minds, or remembrances of the dead, nor at any time at all prohibited by the Bi&s;hop.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="93" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XCIII. <HI>To &s;ee Churches and Church-yards kept in &s;ufficient reparations.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey &s;hall take care and provide, that the Churches be well and &s;ufficiently repaired, and &s;o from time to time kept, and maintained; that the Windowes be well glazed, and that the floores be kept paved, plain and even; and all things there, in &s;uch an orderly and decent &s;ort, (without du&s;t, or any thing
<PB N="57" REF="44">that may be noi&s;ome, or un&s;eemly, J as be&s;t becometh the hou&s;e of God. The like care they &s;hall take, that the church-yards, be well and &s;ufficiently repaired, fenced, and maintained, with walls, rayles and pales, as have been in each place accu&s;tomed, at their charge, unto whom, by law the &s;ame appertaineth.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="94" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XCIV. <HI>To furni&s;h all churches, with things nece&s;&s;ary for the celebration of Divine Service, preaching, and admini&s;tration of the Sacraments.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey &s;hall provide in every church, at the common charge of the Pari&s;h, two books of common prayer; one for the Mi|ni&s;ter, and the other for the clerk, with all convenient &s;peed; but at farthe&s;t, within &s;ix moneths after the publi&s;hing of the&s;e canons. And likewi&s;e the Bible of the la&s;t tran&s;lation, &s;et forth in the time of King <HI>James,</HI> of ble&s;&s;ed memory. And where all, or the mo&s;t part of the people are Iri&s;h, they &s;hall provide al&s;o the &s;aid books in the Iri&s;h tongue; &s;o &s;oon as they may be had. The charge of the&s;e Iri&s;h books, being to be borne al&s;o, wholly by the Pari&s;h. They &s;hall al&s;o at the &s;ame common charge, provide a fit &s;eat for the Mini&s;ter to read Service in, a comely and decent Pulpit, to be &s;et in a convenient place for the preaching of Gods word; a Font of &s;tone &s;et in the ancient u&s;u|al place, for the mini&s;tration of bapti&s;m; together with a fair Table, to be placed at the Ea&s;t end of the church or chancel, and a cup of Silver for the celebration of the Holy communion. Which Table al&s;o &s;hall &s;tand covered in time of Divine Service, with a carpet of Sikl, or other decent &s;tuffe, thought meet by the Ordinary of the place, (if any que&s;tion be made of it;) and with a fair linnen cloath, at the time of the mini&s;tration, as be|cometh that Table.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="95" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XCV. <HI>To provide things fitting for every communion, and to ob&s;erve tho&s;e that come, or come not to the &s;ame.</HI></HEAD>
<P>LIkewi&s;e, they &s;hall at the charge of the Pari&s;h, again&s;t the time of every communion, with the advi&s;e and direction of
<PB N="58" REF="45">the Mini&s;ter, provide a &s;ufficient quantity of fine white bread, and of good and whol&s;om Wine, for the number of communi|cants, that &s;hall from time to time receive there; which wine they &s;hall cau&s;e to be brought, to the communion Table, in a clean and &s;weet &s;tanding pot, or &s;toop of Pewter, if not of purer mettal. Al&s;o they &s;hall mark, as well as the Mini&s;ter, whether all and every of the Pari&s;hioners, come &s;o often every year, to the holy communion, as the laws and our con&s;titutions do re|quire; and whether any &s;trangers come often, and commonly, from other Pari&s;hes to their Church: and &s;hall &s;hew their Mi|ni&s;ter of them, lea&s;t perhaps they be admitted to the Lords Table, among&s;t others which they &s;hall forbid, and remit &s;uch home, to their own Pari&s;h Churches and Mini&s;ters, there to re|ceive the communion, with the re&s;t of their own neighbours.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="96" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XCVI. <HI>To provide a che&s;t for Almes in every church.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey &s;hall provide and have, within three moneths next after the publi&s;hing of the&s;e con&s;titutions, a &s;trong che&s;t with a hole in the upper part thereof; to be provided at the charge of the Pari&s;h, having three keys: of which, one &s;hall remain in the cu&s;tody of the Par&s;on, Viear, or Curate; and the other two, in the cu&s;tody of the churchwardens for the time being. Which che&s;t they &s;hall &s;et and fa&s;ten in the mo&s;t convenient place, to the intent the Pari&s;hioners may put into it, the Almes for their poor neighbours. And the Par&s;on, Vicar or curate, &s;hall diligently from time to time, (and e&s;pecially, when men make their Te&s;ta|ments,) call upon, exhort, and move their neighbours, to con|ferr and give, (as they may well &s;pare,) to the &s;aid che&s;t, de|claring unto them, that whereas, heretofore they have been di|ligent, to be&s;tow much &s;ub&s;tance otherwi&s;e than God command|ed, upon &s;uper&s;titious u&s;es; 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 &s;acrifice which plea&s;eth God, and that al&s;o what&s;oever is given for their comfort, is given to Chri&s;t him|&s;elf, and is &s;o accepted of him, that he will mercifully reward the &s;ame. The which Almes, and devotion of the people, the
<PB N="59" REF="45">keepers of the keyes, &s;hall yearly, quarterly, or ofther (as need requireth) take out of the che&s;t, and di&s;tribute the &s;ame, in the pre&s;ence of mo&s;t of the Pari&s;h, or fix of the chief of them; to be truly and faithfully delivered, to their mo&s;t poor and needy neighbours.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="97" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XCVII. <HI>To aboli&s;h all Monuments of &s;uper&s;tition.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MOreover they &s;hall, (with the approbation of the Ordinary of the place,) &s;ee, that all Rood-lofts, in which wooden cro&s;&s;es &s;tood: all &s;hrines, and all coverings of &s;hrines, and all other Monuments of fained miracles, pilgrimages, idolatry, and &s;uper&s;tition, be clean taken away and removed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="98" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>XCVIII. <HI>None to teach School without licence, and curates de&s;irous to teach, to be licenced before others.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT &s;hall not be lawfull for any to teach the Latine tongue, or to in&s;truct children either in publick Schoole, or private hou&s;e, but &s;uch, as &s;hall be allowed by the Ordinary of the place, under his hand and Seal, being found meet, as well for his learning, and dexterity in teaching, as for &s;ober, and hone&s;t conver&s;ation; and al&s;o for right under&s;tanding of Gods true Religion, (&s;aving to all Patrons and Founders of Schooles the right of nomination.) And in what Pari&s;h &s;oever, there is a Curate, which is a Ma&s;ter of Arts, or Bachellor of Arts, or is otherwi&s;e well able to teach youth, and will willingly &s;o do, for the better increa&s;e of his living, and training of children in the principles of true Religion: We will, and ordain, that the licence to teach Grammar, &s;hall be granted to none by the Ordinary of that place, but only to the &s;aid Mini&s;ter or Schoolema&s;ter. Pro|vided alwayes, that this con&s;titution &s;hall not extend to any Pari&s;h, where there is a publick Schoole founded already. In which ca&s;e, we think it not meet, to allow any to teach Gram|mar, but only him, that is allowed for the &s;aid publick Schoole.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="99" TYPE="section">
<PB N="60" REF="46">
<HEAD>XCIX. <HI>The duty of Schoolema&s;ters.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALl Schoolema&s;ters, and U&s;hers, &s;hall endeavour to train up the children committed to their charge, in good learning, civility and piety. And in the latine tongue, they &s;hall teach the Grammar, &s;et forth in England by King <HI>Henry</HI> the eight, and &s;o continned ever &s;ince; and none other. They &s;hall al&s;o teach &s;uch other books as &s;hall be allowed, and appointed by the Bi|&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s. Provided, that according to the priviledge granted to the Univer&s;ity, near <HI>Duotin,</HI> Logick and Philo&s;ophy &s;hall not be taught in Grammar Schooles. Provided al&s;o, that none be admitted, or licenced to be a Schoolema&s;ter, or U&s;her within this Kingdom, unle&s;s he fir&s;t, by his &s;ub&s;cription, te&s;tifie his con&s;ent to the two fir&s;t canons. And al&s;o, that every Archbi|&s;hop, and Bi&s;hop, and other Ordinary (having Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Ju|ri&s;diction) &s;hall, by cen&s;ures of the Church, re&s;pectively compel, all &s;uch as are &s;ubject to their Juri&s;diction, which do now teach Schoole, or hereafter &s;hall pre&s;ume to teach Schoole, not having te&s;tified their con&s;ent by &s;ub&s;cription as afore&s;aid, to de&s;i&s;t from teaching of Schoole.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="100" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>C. <HI>The authority of this National Synod e&s;tabli&s;hed.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis &s;acred Synod, being the repre&s;entative body of the Church of <HI>Ireland</HI> in the name of Chri&s;t, and by the Kings authority, lawfully a&s;&s;embled, doth pronounce and decree, that if any, within this Nation, &s;hall de&s;pi&s;e and contemn the con&s;ti|tutions thereof, (being by the &s;aid Regal power ratified and confirmed;) or affirm, that none are to be &s;ubject thereunto, but &s;uch as were pre&s;ent, and gave theirm voices unto them&punc; he &s;hall be excommunicated, and not re&s;tored, untill he &s;hall pub|lickly revoke his error.</P>
</DIV2>
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