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<P><HI>INIVNCCI|ons</HI> geue~ by the mo&s;te ex|cellent prince, Edward the &s;ixte, by the grace of God, kyng of England, Frau~ce and Irelande: defendor of the Faithe, and in yearthe vnder Chri&s;t, of the chur|che of Englande and of Ireland the &s;upreme hedde: To all and &s;inguler his lo|uyng &s;ubiec|tes, a&s;well of the Clergie, as of the Laietie.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Iniunccio~s geuen by the mo&s;te ex|cellent Prince, Edward the .VI. by the grace of GOD, kyng of England, Fraunce, and Ireland: defen|dor of the faith, and in yearth vnder Chri&s;t, of the Churche of Englande and of Irelande, the &s;upreme hedde: to all and &s;ynguler his louyng Subiectes, a&s; well of the Clergie, as of the Laitie.</HEAD>
<P>_THE Kynges moo&s;te roy|all Maie&s;tie, by the adui&s;e of his mo&s;t dere vncle, the duke of Somer&s;et, Lorde Protec|tor of all his Realmes, Do|minions, and &s;ubiectes, and Gouernor of his mo&s;te roiall per&s;one, and the re&s;idewe of his mo&s;te honorable coun&s;aill, intendyng thad|uauncement of the true honor of almightie God the &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of Idolatrie, and Super&s;ticion, throughout all his Realmes and Dominions, and to plant true Religion, to the extirpacion of all Hypocry&s;y, enormities, and abu&s;es, as to his duetie apperteineth: Doth mini&s;ter vnto his lo|uyng &s;ubiectes, the&s;e Godly Iniunccio~s, hereaf|ter folowyng: Whereof, parte were geuen vnto theim heretofore, by aucthoritie of his mo&s;te de|rely beloued father, Kyng Henry the eighte, of mo&s;te famous memorie, and parte are nowe mi|ni&s;tered and geuen by his Maie&s;tie. All whiche Iniunccions, his highnes willeth and commau~+deth his &s;aied louyng &s;ubiectes, by his &s;upreme aucthoritie, obediently to receiue, and truely to ob&s;erue and kepe, euery man in their offices, de|grees,
<PB REF="3"> and &s;tates, as thei wil auoyde his di&s;plea|&s;ure, and the paynes in the&s;ame Iniunccions, hereafter expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> <HI>THE</HI> fir&s;te is, that all Deanes, Achedeaco~s, Per&s;ones, Vicars, and other Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per|&s;ones, &s;hall faithfully kepe and ob&s;erue, and as far as in them maie lie, &s;hal cau&s;e to be ob&s;erued and kept of other, al &amp; &s;inguler lawes and &s;tatu|tes, made a&s;wel for the aboli&s;hyng and extirpa|cion of the bi&s;hop of Rome, his preten&s;ed and v|&s;urped power and iuri&s;diccion, as for the e&s;tabli+&s;hement and confirmacion of the kynges autho|ritie, iuri&s;diccio~ and &s;upremacie of the church of England, &amp; Ireland. And furthermore, all eccle|&s;ia&s;ticall per&s;ones, hauyng cure of &s;oule, &s;hall to the vttermo&s;te of their wit, knowledge, and lear|nyng purely, &s;yncerely, and without any colour or di&s;&s;imulacion, declare, manife&s;t, and open, iiij. tymes euery yere at the lea&s;t, in their Sermons, and other collacions, that the bi&s;hop of Romes v&s;urped power and iuri&s;diccio~, hauyng no e&s;ta|bli&s;hement nor ground by the lawe of God, was of mo&s;te iu&s;t cau&s;es, taken awaie and aboli&s;hed, and that therfore, no maner of obedience or &s;ub|ieccion, within his Realmes and Dominions, is dewe vnto hym. And that the Kynges power, within his Realmes and Dominions, is the highe&s;t power vnder GOD, to whom all men, within the&s;ame Realmes and Dominions, by Godes lawes owe mo&s;te loyaltie and obedience, afore and aboue all other powers and potenta|tes
<PB REF="3"> in yearth.</P>
<P><HI>BESIDES</HI> this, to the intent that all Su|per&s;ticion and Hypocri&s;y, crept into diuer&s;e men+nes hartes, maie vani&s;h awaie, thei &s;hall not &s;et|furthe or extoll any Images, Reliques, or mira|cles, for any Super&s;ticion or lucre, nor allure the people by any inticementes, to the Pilgri|mage of any &s;ainct or ymage: but reprouyng the &s;ame, thei &s;hall teache, that all goodne&s;&s;e, healthe and grace, ought to be both a&s;ked and loked for onely of God, as of the verie aucthor and geuer of the&s;ame, and of none other.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> <HI>ITEM,</HI> that thei, the per&s;ones aboue reher&s;ed &s;hall make or cau&s;e to bee made in their Chur|ches, and euery other Cure thei haue, one Ser|mon, euery quarter of the yere at the lea&s;t, wher|in thei &s;hall purely and &s;yncerely, declare the woorde of GOD: and in the&s;ame, exhorte their hearers to the woorkes of Faithe, Mercie, and Charitie, &s;pecially pre&s;cribed and commaunded in &s;cripture, and that woorkes deui&s;ed by man|nes pha~ta&s;ies, be&s;ides &s;cripture: as wanderyng to pilgrimages, offeryng of money, candelles or tapers, to Reliques, or Images, or ki&s;&s;yng and lickyng of the&s;ame, praiyng vpon Beades, or &s;uche like &s;uper&s;ticio~, haue not onely no promi&s;e of reward in &s;cripture, for doyng of the~: but con|trariwi&s;e, great threates &amp; malediccions of God for that thei bee thynges, tendyng to Idolatrie and &s;uper&s;ticio~, whiche, of al other offences, god almightie doth mo&s;t dete&s;t and abhorre for that
<PB REF="4"> the&s;ame dimini&s;he mo&s;te his honor and glorie.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> <HI>ITEM,</HI> that &s;uche Images, as thei knowe in any of their Cures, to bee, or haue been &s;o abu|&s;ed with pilgrimage or offrynges, of any thyng made thereunto, or &s;halbee hereafter cen&s;ed vn|to, thei (and none other priuate per&s;ones) &s;hall, for the auoydyng of that mo&s;te dete&s;table offe~ce of Idolatrie, furthewith take doune or cau&s;e to be taken doune, and de&s;troye the&s;ame, and &s;hall &s;uffre from hen&s;efurthe, no Torches, nor Can|delles, Tapers or Images of waxe, to be &s;ette a|fore any Image or picture, but onely two ligh|tes vpon the high aulter, before the Sacrament whiche, for the &s;ignificacion, that Chri&s;te is the verie true light of the worlde, thei &s;hall &s;uffre to remain &s;till: Admoni&s;hyng their pari&s;hioners, that Images &s;erue for no other purpo&s;e, but to be a remembraunce, wherby, men maie be admo|ni&s;hed, of the holy lifes and conuer&s;acio~ of them that the&s;aied Images doo repre&s;ent: whiche I|mages, if thei do abu&s;e for any other intent, thei commit Idolatrie in the&s;ame, to the great daun|gier of their &s;oules.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4"> <HI>ITEM,</HI> that euery holy daie throughout the yere, when thei haue no Sermon, thei &s;hall im|mediatly after the Go&s;pell, openly and plainly, recite to their pari&s;hioners in the pulpit: The <HI>Pater no&s;ter,</HI> the <HI>Credo,</HI> and the tenne Commaun|dementes in Engli&s;he, to the intent the people maie learne the&s;ame by harte: exhortyng all pa|rentes and hou&s;holders, to teache their children
<PB REF="4"> and &s;eruau~tes the&s;ame, as thei are bound by the lawe of God, and in con&s;cience to do.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5"> <HI>ITEM,</HI> that thei &s;hall charge fathers and Mothers, Ma&s;ters and gouernors, to be&s;towe their children and Seruauntes, euen from their childhode, either to learnyng, or to &s;ome hone&s;t exerci&s;e, occupacion or hu&s;bandrie: Exhortyng and coun&s;ailyng, and by all the waies and mea|nes thei maie, a&s;well in their Sermons and col|lacions, as otherwaies, per&s;wadyng their &s;aied Fathers and Mothers, Ma&s;ters, and other Go|uernors, diligentely to prouide and for&s;ee, that the youthe bee in no maner of wi&s;e, brought vp in idlenes, lea&s;t at any tyme afterward, for lacke of &s;ome craft, occupacion, or other hone&s;t meane to liue by, thei be driuen to fall to beggyng, &s;tea|lyng, or &s;ome other vnthriftine&s;&s;e: For a&s;muche as we maie daily &s;e, through &s;lothe and idlenes, diuer&s;e valiaunt men fall, &s;ome to beggyng, and &s;ome to thefte and murdre, whiche after brought to calamitie and mi&s;erie, doo blame their paren|tes, frendes and gouernors, whiche &s;uffered them, to be brought vp &s;o idlely in their youthe, where, if thei had been well brought vp, in good learnyng, &s;ome occupacion, or crafte, thei &s;hould (beeyng rulers of their awne hou&s;holde) haue proffited a&s;well them&s;elfes, as diuer&s;e other per|&s;ones, to the greate commoditie and ornament of the common wealthe.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="6"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> that the&s;aied per&s;ones, Vicars, and other Curates, &s;hall diligently prouide, that the
<PB REF="5"> Sacramentes, be duely and reuerently mini&s;te|red in their Pari&s;hes. And if at any tyme it hap|pen, theim in any of the ca&s;es expre&s;&s;ed in the &s;ta|tutes of this Realme, or of &s;peciall licence geuen by the Kynges Maie&s;tie, to be ab&s;ent from their benefices, thei &s;hall leaue their Cure, not to a rude and vnlearned per&s;on, but to an hone&s;t wel learned and experte Curate, that can by his ha|bilitie, teache the rude and vnlearned of their cure, hole&s;ome doctryne, and reduce theim to the right way that do erre, and whiche will al&s;o exe|cute the&s;e Iniunccions, and doo their duetie o|therwi&s;e, as thei are bounde to doo in euery be|halfe: and accordyngly maie and will proflite their cure, no le&s;&s;e with good example of liuyng, then with the declaracion of the woorde of God, or els their lacke and defaulte, &s;halbee imputed vnto them, who &s;hall &s;traightly aun&s;were for the &s;ame if thei do otherwi&s;e. And alwaies let theim &s;ee, that neither thei nor their Curates, doo &s;eke more their awne proffite, promocion, or aduaun+tage, then the proffit of the &s;oules, that thei haue vnder their Cure or the glory of God.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="7"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> that thei &s;hall prouide, within three monethes, nexte after this vi&s;itacion, one booke of the whole Bible, of the large&s;t volume in En|gli&s;he. And within one twelfe monethes, next af|ter the &s;aied vi&s;itacion, the Paraphra&s;is of E|ra&s;mus al&s;o in Engli&s;he vpon the Go&s;pelles, and the&s;ame &s;ette vp, in &s;ome conuenient place, within the &s;aied Churche, that thei haue cure of,
<PB REF="5"> whereas their pari&s;hioners may mo&s;te co~mo|diou&s;ly, re&s;orte vnto the&s;ame, &amp; reade the&s;ame. The charges of whiche bokes &s;halbe ratably borne, betwene the Per&s;on or approprietary, and the pari&s;hioners afore&s;ayd, that is to &s;ay, the one halfe by the Per&s;on or proprietary, &amp; the other halfe, by the pary&s;hyoners. And they &s;hall di&s;courage no man (auctori&s;ed and licen|ced thereto) from the readynge of any parte of the Bible, either in Latyn or in Engli&s;he: But &s;hall rather conforme and exhorte euery per|&s;one to reade the&s;ame, as y^e very liuely worde of God, and the &s;peciall foode of mans &s;oule, that all chri&s;tian per&s;ones are bounde to em|brace, beleue, &amp; folowe, if they loke to be&s;aued: Wherby they may the better knowe their due|ties to God, to their &s;ouereigne lord y^e Kyng, and theyr neighbour, euer gentilly and chari|tably exhortynge theim, and in hys Maie&s;ties name, &s;traightly charginge and co~maunding theim, that in the readynge therof, no man to rea&s;on or contende, but quyetly to heare the reader.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="8"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> the &s;ayde Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per&s;ons, &s;hal in no wy&s;e, at any vnlaufull tyme, nor for any other cau&s;e, the~ for their hone&s;t nece&s;&s;itie, hau~te or re&s;orte to any Tauernes, or Alehou|&s;es. And after their dynner and &s;upper, they &s;hal not geue the~ &s;elfes to drinckyng or tyot, &s;pe~dyng their tyme ydely, by day or by night, at dy&s;e, cardes, or tables plaiyng, or any other
<PB REF="6"> vnlaufull game: But at all tymes, as they &s;hall haue lea&s;ure, they &s;hall heare or reade &s;omwhat of holy &s;cripture, or &s;hall occupie the~ &s;elfes with &s;ome other hone&s;t exerci&s;e, and that they alwayes do the thinges, whiche apper|teyne to hone&s;ty, with endeuour to profite the common weale, hauynge alwayes in mynde, that they ought to excel all other, in puritie of lyfe, and &s;houlde be example to the people, to lyue well and chri&s;tianly.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="9"> <HI>ITEM,</HI> that they &s;hall in confe&s;&s;ions euery Lent, examine euery per&s;on, that cometh to co~|fe&s;&s;ion to theim, whether they ca~ recite the ar|ticles of their Fayth, the <HI>Pater no&s;ter,</HI> and the tenne commaundementes in Engli&s;he, &amp; heare the~ &s;aye the &s;ame particularlie, wherin, if they be not perfite, they &s;hall declare then, that euery chri&s;tian per&s;onne, oughte to knowe the &s;ayde thynges, before they &s;houlde receyue the ble&s;&s;ed Sacrament of the aulter, and mony&s;h them to learne the &s;aid nece&s;&s;ary thinges, more perfitely, or els they ought not to pre&s;ume to come to Gods bourde, without perfite know|ledge, and will to ob&s;erue the&s;ame: and if they do, it is to the great periel of their &s;oules, and al&s;o to the worldly rebuke, that they might in|curre hereafter by the&s;ame.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="10"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> that they &s;hall admitte no man to preache, within any theyr cures, but &s;uche as &s;hall appeare vnto them, to be &s;ufficiently li|cenced therunto, by the Kynges Maie&s;tie, the
<PB REF="6"> lorde Protectors grace, the Archebi&s;hop of Canterbury, the Archebi&s;hop of Yorke in hys prouince, or the By&s;hop of the Dyoce&s;&s;e. And &s;uche as &s;halbe &s;o licenced, they &s;hall gladly receyue, to declare the woorde of God, without any re&s;i&s;tence, or contradiction.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="11"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> if they haue heretofore declared to their pary&s;hyoners any thynge, to the extol|linge, or &s;etting furth of pilgrimages, reliques or ymages, or lighting of ca~dels, ki&s;&s;inge, kne|ling decking of the&s;ame ymages, or any &s;uche &s;uper&s;ticion, they &s;hall now openly, before the &s;ame, recante, and reproue the &s;ame: &s;hewynge them (as the trueth is) that they did the &s;ame vpon no grounde of &s;cripture, but were ledde and &s;educed by a co~mon error and abu&s;e, crept into the churche, through the &s;ufferaunce &amp; a|uarice of &s;uche, as felt profite by the&s;ame.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="12"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> if they do, or &s;hall knowe any man within their pari&s;he, or els where, that is a let|ter of the woorde of God, to be redde in En|gli&s;he, or &s;yncerely preached, or of the execucio~ of the&s;e the Kynges mate&s;ties Iniunccions, or a fautor of the by&s;hop of Romes preten&s;ed power, now by the lawes of this realme, iu&s;tly reiected, extirped, and take~ away vtterly, they &s;hall detecte, and pre&s;ent the&s;ame, to the Kyng or hys coun&s;aill, or to the iu&s;tice of peace nexte adioyninge.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="13"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> that the Per&s;one, Vicar, or Curate, and pari&s;hyoners of euery pary&s;he, within
<PB REF="7"> this realme, &s;hall in their Churches and Cha|pels, kepe one boke, or regi&s;ter, wherin they &s;hal write the day and yere, of euery wedding, chri&s;tenynge, and buryall, made within their pari&s;he for their tyme, and &s;o euery man &s;uc|cedynge theim lykewy&s;e: and al&s;o therin &s;hal wryte euery per&s;ons name, that &s;halbe &s;o wed|ded, chri&s;tened, or buryed. And for the &s;aufe ke|ping of the&s;ame boke, y^e pari&s;he &s;halbe bou~de to prouide of their co~mon charges, one &s;ure cofer, with two lockes and keyes, wherof, the one to remayne with the Per&s;on, Vicar, or Cu|rate, &amp; the other with the Wardeynes of euery pari&s;he Churche or Chapel, wherin the &s;ayde boke &s;halbe layde vp: whiche boke they &s;hall euery &s;ondaye take furth, and in the pre&s;ence of the &s;ayde Wardeyns, or one of them, wryte &amp; recorde in the&s;ame, al the weddinges, chri&s;te|nynges, and buryalles, made the whole weeke before, and that done, to lay vp the boke in the &s;ayd cofer, as afore. And for euery tyme, that the&s;ame &s;halbe omitted, the partye that &s;halbe in the faulte therof, &s;hall forfaicte to the &s;ayde church .iii. s~ .iiii. <ABBR>d</ABBR>, to be employed to the poore mens boxe, of that pari&s;he.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="14"> <HI>FVRTHERMORE,</HI> becau&s;e the goodes of the churche, are called the goodes of y^e pore, and at the&s;e dayes, nothynge is le&s;&s;e &s;ene, then the pore to be &s;u&s;teyned with the&s;ame: al Per|&s;ons, Vicars, Pencionaries, Prebendaries, &amp; other beneficed men, within this deanry, not
<PB REF="7"> beynge re&s;ident vpon their benefices, whiche may di&s;pe~de yerely .xx. <ABBR>l.</ABBR> or aboue, either with|in this deanry, or els where, &s;hall di&s;tribute hereafter, emong their poore pari&s;hyoners, or other inhabitauntes there, in the pre&s;ence of y^e church wardeyns, or &s;ome other hone&s;t men of the pari&s;he, the fortye parte of the fruictes and reuenues of their &s;ayde benefices, lea&s;te they be worthely noted of ingratitude, whiche re&s;eruinge &s;o many partes to them&s;elfes, can|not vouche&s;afe, to imparte the forty porcion therof, emo~g the poore people of that pari&s;he, that is &s;o fruicteful, and profitable vnto the~.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="15"> <HI>AND</HI> to the intent, that learned men maye hereafter &s;pringe the more for the execucion of the premi&s;&s;es, euery Per&s;on, Vicar, clerke, or beneficed man, within thys deanry, hauynge yerely to di&s;pende in benefices, and other pro|mocions of the churche, an .C. <ABBR>l.</ABBR> &s;hall geue co~|pete~t exhibicio~ to one &s;cholar: and for a&s;many hundred poundes more, as he maye di&s;pende, to &s;o many &s;cholars more, &s;hal geue lyke exhi|bicion, in the vniuer&s;itie of Oxford, or Cam|bridge, or &s;ome gra~mer &s;chole, which after they haue proffited in good learning, may be par|teners of their patrones cure and charge, a&s;|well in preachynge, as otherwi&s;e in the execu|cion of their offices: or may when nede &s;halbe, otherwi&s;e proffite the co~mon weale, with their coun&s;aill and wi&s;edome.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="16"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> that all proprietaries, Per&s;ones,
<PB REF="8"> Vicars, and Clerkes, hauynge churches, cha|pels or man&s;ions, within thys deanry, &s;hal be|&s;towe yerely hereafter, vpon the&s;ame man&s;io~s or Chauncelles of their churches, being in de|caye, the fifth parte of that their benefices, till they be fullye repaired. And the&s;ame &s;o repai|red, &s;hal alwayes kepe and mainteyne in good e&s;tate.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="17"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> that the &s;ayde Per&s;ons, Vicars, and clerkes, &s;hall once, euery quarter of the yere, reade the&s;e Iniunccio~s geuen vnto them openly and deliberately, before all their pari|&s;hyoners, to the intent, that both they maye be the better admoni&s;hed of their duetye, &amp; theyr &s;ayd pari&s;hyoners the more moued, to folowe the&s;ame for their parte.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="18"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> for a&s;much, as by a lawe e&s;tabli&s;|&s;hed, euery man is bou~de to pay hys tithes, no man &s;hall by colour of duety omitted by their curates, deteigne their tithes, and &s;o redubbe and requite one wro~ge with another, or be hys awne Iudge, but &s;hall truely pay the&s;ame, as he hath been accu&s;tomed, to theyr per&s;ons, vi|cars, and curates, without any re&s;trainte or diminucion. And &s;uche lacke and default, as they can iu&s;tely fynde in their per&s;ons and cu|rates, to cal for reformacion therof, at their or|dinaries and other &s;uperiors ha~des, who, vpo~ complaint, and due profe therof, &s;hall refour|me the&s;ame accordingly.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="19"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> that no per&s;one &s;hall from hen&s;|furth,
<PB REF="8"> altre or chaunge the ordre and maner of any fa&s;tyng daye that is commaunded, nor of co~mon prayer or diuine &s;eruice, otherwi&s;e then is &s;pecified in the&s;e Iniunccio~s, vntil &s;uch ty|me as the&s;ame, &s;halbe otherwi&s;e ordered and tran&s;po&s;ed, by the Kynges auctoritie.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="20"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> that euery Per&s;on, Vicar, Curate, Chauntry pree&s;te and &s;tipendarye, being vn|der the degree of bachilar of Diuinitie, &s;hall prouyde, and haue of hys awne, within three monethes after this vi&s;itacion, the new Te&s;ta|ment, both in Latyn and in Engli&s;h, with Pa|raphra&s;is vpon the&s;ame of Era&s;mus, and di|ligently &s;tudye the&s;ame, conferringe the one with the other. And the Bi&s;hoppes, and other ordynaryes by them &s;elfes. or their officers, in their &s;ynodes and vi&s;itacions, &s;hall examyne the &s;ayde eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per&s;ones, howe they haue proffited in the &s;tudye of holy &s;cripture.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="21"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> in the tyme of highe ma&s;&s;e, within euery churche, he that &s;ayeth or &s;ingeth the &s;ame, &s;hall reade, or cau&s;e to be redde, the Epi|&s;tell and Go&s;pell of that ma&s;&s;e, in Engli&s;he, &amp; not in Latyn, in the pulpit, or in &s;uche conue|nient place, as the people may heare the &s;ame. And al&s;o euery Sondaye and holy daye, they &s;hall playnely and di&s;tinctely, reade, or cau&s;e to be redde, one chapiter of the new te&s;tament in Engli&s;he, in the &s;ayde place at Matyns, im|mediately after the le&s;&s;ons, and at Eue~&s;onge, after <HI>Magnificat,</HI> one Chapyter off the olde
<PB REF="9"> Te&s;tame~t. And to the inte~t the premi&s;&s;es, may be more conueniently done: The Kynges ma|ie&s;ties plea&s;ure is, that whe~. ix. le&s;&s;ons &s;hould be redde in the Churche, thre of them &s;halbe o|mitted, and left out with their re&s;pondes. And at Euen&s;onge tyme, the re&s;pondes with al the memories &s;halbe left of, for that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="22"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> becau&s;e tho&s;e per&s;ones, whiche be &s;icke, and in perel of death, be oftentymes put in di&s;paire, by the craft and &s;ubtiltie of y^e de|uill, who is then mo&s;t bu&s;y, and &s;pecially with them, that lacke the knowledge, &s;ure per&s;wa|&s;io~, and &s;tedfa&s;t belief, that they maye be made partakes of the greate and infinite mercye, whiche almightye God, of his mo&s;te bou~tiful goodnes, and meere liberalitie, without oure de&s;eruinge, hath offered frely to all per&s;ons, that putteth their full tru&s;t and confidence in him: Therfore, that this damnable vice of di&s;|paire, maye be clerely taken awaye, and firme belefe, and &s;tedfa&s;t hope, &s;urely conceyued of all their pari&s;hyoners, beyng in any dau~gier, they &s;hall learne, and haue alwayes in a redy|nes, &s;uche confortable places and &s;entences of &s;cripture, as do &s;etfurth the mercy, benefi|tes and goodnes of almighty God, towardes all penitent, and beleuyng per&s;ones, that they may at all tymes, when nece&s;&s;itie &s;hal require, promptly comfort their flocke, with the liuely woorde of God, whiche is the onely &s;taye of mans con&s;cience.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="23"> <PB REF="9"><HI>ALSO,</HI> to auoyde all contencion and &s;trief, whiche hertofore hath ri&s;en, emo~g the kynges Maie&s;ties &s;ubiectes, in &s;ondrie places of his Realmes and dominions, by rea&s;on of fonde curte&s;ie, and chalengyng of places in proce&s;&s;i|on, and al&s;o that they maie the more quietely, heare that whiche is &s;aied or &s;ong, to their ede|fiyng: they &s;hall not from hen&s;efurthe, in any pari&s;he churche, at any time v&s;e any proce&s;&s;io~, about the Churche or Churche yarde, or other place, but immediately before high Ma&s;&s;e, the prie&s;tes with other of the queire, &s;hal kneele in the middes of the Churche, and &s;ynge or &s;aye, plainly &amp; di&s;tinctly, the Letany, whiche is &s;et|furthe in Engli&s;he, with al the Suffrages fo|lowyng, and none other Proce&s;&s;ion, or Letany to be had or v&s;ed, but the &s;aied Letanie in En|gli&s;h, addyng nothyng therto, but as the kyn|ges grace, &s;hall hereafter appoynt: and in Ca|thedrall or Collegiate churches, the&s;ame &s;hal|be doen in &s;uche places, as our Commi&s;&s;aries in oure vi&s;itacion &s;hall appoynte. And in the tyme of the Letanie, of the high Ma&s;&s;e, of the Sermon, and when the prie&s;t readeth the &s;cri|pture to the pari&s;hioners, no maner of per&s;o|nes, without a iu&s;te and vrgent cau&s;e, &s;hal de|parte out of the Churche: and all ringing and knowlynge of Belles, &s;halbe vtterly forborne for that tyme, excepte one Belle, in conuenient time, to be ro~g or knowled before the Sermo~.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="24"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> like as the people be commonly oc|cupied
<PB REF="10"> on the worke day, with bodily labor, for their bodely &s;u&s;tenaunce: &s;o was the holy daye at the fir&s;te beginninge Godly in&s;tituted and ordeined, that the people &s;hould that day, geue them&s;elfes wholy to God. And wheras in oure tyme, God is more offended then plea&s;ed, more di&s;honored, then honored, vpon the holy daye, becau&s;e of idlenes, pryde, drunckenne&s;&s;e, que|rellyng, and brawlyng, whiche are mo&s;te v&s;ed, in &s;uche dayes, people neuerthele&s;&s;e, per&s;wa|dinge them&s;elfes, &s;ufficiently to honor God on that daie, if thei heare Ma&s;&s;e &amp; &s;eruice, though they vnder&s;tande nothyng, to their edefiynge: therfore all the Kynges faithfull and louynge &s;ubiectes, &s;hall from hen&s;efurth celebrate, and kepe their holy daye, accordynge to Gods ho|ly wil &amp; plea&s;ure, that is: in hearyng the worde of God redde and taughte: in priuate and pu|blique praiers: in knowledging their offences to God, and amendement of the&s;ame: in recon|cilynge their &s;elfes charitably to their neigh|bors, where di&s;plea&s;ure hath been: in often ty|mes receiuinge the communio~, of the very bo|die and bloudde of Chri&s;te: in vi&s;itynge of the poore &amp; &s;icke: in v&s;yng all &s;obernes, and godly conuer&s;acion, Yet notwith&s;tandynge, all Per|&s;ones, Vicars, and Curates, &s;hall teache and declare, vnto their pari&s;hioners, that thei may with a &s;aufe and quiete con&s;cience, in the tyme of Harue&s;te, labor vpon the holy and fe&s;tiuall dayes, and &s;aue that thyng whiche God hath
<PB REF="10" MS="y"> &s;ent. And if for any &s;crupulo&s;itie, or grudge of con&s;cience, men &s;hould &s;uper&s;ticiou&s;ly, ab&s;tain from working vpon tho&s;e daies, that then they &s;hould greuou&s;ly offende and di&s;plea&s;e God.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="25"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> fora&s;muche as variaunce and con|tencion, is a thynge whiche mo&s;te di&s;plea&s;eth God, and is mo&s;te contrary to the ble&s;&s;ed com|munion of the body and bloude of oure &s;auior Chri&s;te: Curates &s;hall in nowi&s;e admitt to the receyuinge therof, any of their cure and flocke, who hath maliciou&s;ly and openly contended with his neighbor, onles the&s;ame do fir&s;te cha|ritably and openly, reconcile hym &s;elf agayne, remittynge all rancor and malice, what&s;oeuer controuer&s;ie hath been betwene theim: and ne|uerthele&s;&s;e, their iu&s;te titles and rightes, they may charitably, pro&s;ecute before &s;uche as haue aucthoritie to heare the&s;ame.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="26"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> that euery Deane, Archedeacon, Ma&s;ter of Collegiate churche, Ma&s;ter of Ho|&s;pitall, and Prebendary, beynge Prie&s;te, &s;hall preache by him&s;elf per&s;onally, twi&s;e euery yere at the lea&s;te, either in the place, where he is en|tituled, or in &s;ome Churche, where he hath iu|ri&s;diccion, or els whiche is to the &s;aid place ap|propriate, or vnited,</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="27"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> that they &s;hal in&s;tructe and teache in their Cures, that no man ought ob&s;tinately, and maliciou&s;ly, breake and violate, the lau|dable Ceremonies of the Churche, by the kyng commaunded, to be ob&s;erued, and as yet not
<PB REF="11"> abrogated. And on the other&s;ide, that who&s;oe|uer doth &s;uper&s;ticiou&s;ly abu&s;e theim, doth the &s;ame to the greate periel and daungier of hys &s;oule healthe: as in ca&s;tinge holy Water vpon hys bedde, vpon Images, and other dedde thinges, or bearinge aboute hym holy breade, or &s;ainct Ihons Go&s;pell, or makynge Cro&s;&s;es of woodde vpon Palme Sundaye, in tyme of readinge of the Pa&s;&s;ion, or kepinge of priuate holy dayes, as Bakers, Brewers, Smithes, Shoomakers, &amp; &s;uche other do, or ringing of y^e holy Belles, or ble&s;&s;ing with the holy candel, to thintent, therby to be di&s;charged of the bur|den of &s;ynne, or to driue awaie Deuilles, or to put awaie dreames and phanta&s;ies, or in put|tinge tru&s;te and confidence of healthe and &s;al|uacion, in the&s;ame Ceremonies: when they be onely ordeyned, in&s;tituted and made, to put vs in remembraunce of the benefites, whiche wee haue receyued by Chri&s;te. And if he v&s;e theim for any other purpo&s;e, he greuou&s;ly offendeth GOD.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="28"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> that they &s;hall take awaye, vtterly extincte, and de&s;troye, all &s;hrines, couerynge of &s;hrines, all tables, candel&s;tickes, tryndilles or rolles of waxe, pictures, paintynges, and all other monumentes of fained miracles, pilgre|mages, Idolatry, and &s;uper&s;ticio~: &s;o that there remain, no memory of the&s;ame, in walles, gla&s;|&s;es, windowes, or els where, within their chur|ches or hou&s;es. And they &s;hall exhorte all their
<PB REF="11"> pari&s;hioners, to doo the lyke within their &s;eue|rall hou&s;es. And that the Churche Wardey|nes, at the common charge of the pari&s;hioners in euery Churche, &s;hall prouide a comely and hone&s;t pulpitte, to be &s;et in a conuenient place within the&s;ame, for the preachynge of Gods woorde.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="29"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> thei &s;hall prouide, and haue within three monethes after this vi&s;itacion, a &s;tronge Che&s;te, with a hoole in the vpper parte therof, to bee prouided, at the co&s;te and charge of the pari&s;he, hauyng three keyes, whereof, one &s;hall remayne in the cu&s;todie, of the Per&s;one, Vy|car, or Curate, and the other twoo, in the cu|&s;todie of the Churche Wardeynes, or any o|ther twoo hone&s;te men, to be appoynted, by the pari&s;he, from yere to yere. Whiche Che&s;te, you &s;hall &s;ette and fa&s;ten, nere vnto the highe aul|ter, to the intente, the Pari&s;hioners, &s;houlde putte into it, their Oblacion and almo&s;e, for their poore neighbours. And the Per&s;one, Vi|car, and Curate, &s;hall diligently, from tyme to tyme, and &s;pecially, when men make their Te|&s;tamentes, call vpon, exhorte, and moue their neighboures, to conferre and geue, (as they maye well &s;pare) to the &s;ayde Che&s;te: declaring vnto theim, whereas heretofore they haue been diligente, to be&s;towe muche &s;ub&s;taunce, otherwy&s;e then GOD commaunded, vpon Pardons, Pylgrymages, Trentalles, dec|kynge of Images, offerynge of Candelles,
<PB REF="12"> geuyng to Friers, &amp; vpon other like blynd de|uocions, they ought at this tyme, to be muche more ready to helpe the poore and nedy, know|yng that to releue the poore, is a true wor&s;hip|ping of God, required earne&s;tly, vpon payn of euerla&s;tyng dampnacion: and that al&s;o, what|&s;oeuer is geuen for their comforte, is geuen to Chri&s;t hym &s;elf, and &s;o is accepted of hym, that he will mercifully, rewarde the&s;ame with euer|la&s;tinge life. The whiche almo&s;&s;e, and deuocio~ of the people, the kepers of the keyes, &s;hall at tymes conuenient, take out of the Che&s;te, and di&s;tribute the&s;ame, in the pre&s;ence of the whole pari&s;he, or &s;ixe of theim, to be truly and faithe|fully deliuered, to their mo&s;te nedy neighbors: and if they be prouided for, then to the repara|cion of high waies, nexte adioynyng. And al&s;o the money whiche ri&s;eth of fraternities, guyl|des, and other &s;tockes of the Church (except by the Kynges Maie&s;ties aucthoritie, it be other|wi&s;e appoynted) &s;halbe put into the &s;aid che&s;t, and conuerted to the &s;aid v&s;e, and al&s;o the ren|tes of landes, the profite of cattaill, and money geuen or bequethed, to the findyng of torches, lightes, tapers, and lampes, &s;halbe conuerted to the &s;ayde v&s;e, &s;auyng that it &s;halbe lawfull for them, to be&s;towe parte of the &s;ayd profites, vpon the reparacion of the Churche, if greate neede require, and whereas the Pari&s;he is very poore, and notable otherwy&s;e to repaire the&s;ame.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="30"> <PB REF="12"><HI>AND</HI> for a&s;muche as Prie&s;tes be publique mini&s;ters of the Churche, and vpon the holy daies, ought to applie theim &s;elfes, to the com|mon admini&s;tracion of the whole pari&s;he, they &s;hall not be bounde to go to women liynge in chyld bedde, except in tyme of daungerous &s;ic|kenes, and not to fetche any cor&s;e, before it be brought to the Churche yarde: &amp; if the woman be &s;icke, or the cor&s;e brought to the Church, the Prie&s;t &s;hall do his duetie accordingly, in vi&s;i|tyng the woman, and buriyng the deed per&s;on.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="31"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> to auoide the dete&s;table &s;ynne of &s;y|mony, becau&s;e biyng and &s;ellyng of benefices, is execrable before God: Therfore, al &s;uch per|&s;ones as bye any benefices, or come to them by fraude or deceipte, &s;halbe depriued of &s;uche benefices, and be made vnhable at any tyme after, to receyue any other &s;piritual promocio~. And &s;uche as do &s;ell them, or by any colour do be&s;towe them, for their awne gain and profite, &s;hall lo&s;e their righte and title of patronage, and pre&s;entement for that tyme, and the gifte therof for that vacacion, &s;hall apperte in to the Kynges Maie&s;tie.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="32"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> becau&s;e through lacke of preachers in many places of the Kinges realmes and do|minions, the people continue in ignoraunce and blyndenes: all Per&s;ones, Vicars, and Curates, &s;hall reade in their Churches, euery Sondaye, one of the Homilies, whiche are and &s;halbe &s;ethfurthe, for the&s;ame purpo&s;e, by
<PB REF="13"> the Kynges aucthoritie, in &s;uche &s;orte, as they &s;halbe appoynted to doo, in the preface of the &s;ame.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="33"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> whereas many indi&s;crete per&s;ones, doo at this daye, vncharitably contempne and abu&s;e prie&s;tes and mini&s;ters of the Church, be|cau&s;e &s;ome of them, (hauinge &s;mall learninge) haue of long time fauoured phanta&s;ies, rather then Gods truthe: yet for a&s;muche, as their office and funccion, is appoynted of God: The Kynges Maie&s;tie willeth and chargeth, al his louynge &s;ubiectes, that from hen&s;efurthe, they &s;hall v&s;e theim charitably and reuerently, for their office and mini&s;tracion &s;ake, and e&s;peci|ally, all &s;uche as labor in the &s;ettynge furth of Gods holy woorde.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="34"> <HI>ALSO,</HI> that all maner of per&s;ones, whiche vnder&s;tande not the Latin toungue, &s;hall pray vpon none other Primer, but vpon that, whi|che was lately &s;etfurth in Engli&s;he, by auctho|ritie of Kynge Henry the .VIII. of mo&s;te fa|mous memorie. And that no teacher of youth, &s;hall teache any other, then the &s;ayde Prymer. And all tho&s;e, whiche haue knowledge of the latin toungue, &s;hall pray vpon none other la|tin Primer, but vpon that, whiche is likewi&s;e &s;etfurthe by the &s;ayde aucthoritie. And that all graces to be &s;ayde at dyner and &s;upper, &s;hal be alwaies &s;ayde in the Engli&s;he toungue. And that none other Grammer, &s;halbe taught in a|ny Schoole or other place, within the Kynges
<PB REF="13" MS="y"> realmes and dominions, but onely that which is &s;et furth by the &s;ayde aucthoritie.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="35"> <HI>ITEM,</HI> that all Chauntrie Prie&s;tes, &s;hall exerci&s;e them &s;elfes, in teachyng youth to read and write, and bringyng them vp in good ma|ners, and other vertuous exerci&s;es.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="36"> <HI>ITEM,</HI> when any Sermon or Homilye &s;halbe had, the Pryme and Houres &s;halbe o|mitted.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; The fourme of biddyng the common prayers.</HEAD>
<P><HI>YOV</HI> &s;hall praye for the whole congregacio~ of Chri&s;tes Churche, and &s;peciallie, for thys Churche of Englande and Irelande: wherin, fir&s;t, I commende to your deuoute praiers, the kynges mo&s;te excellent Maie&s;tie, &s;upreme hed ymmediately vnder GOD, of the &s;piritualtye and temporaltie of the&s;ame Churche: And for Quene Katharine dowag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">r, and al&s;o for my ladie Mary, and my ladie Elizabeth, the Kyn|ges &s;u&s;ters.</P>
<P><HI>SECONDLY</HI> you &s;hall praye for my lorde Protectors grace, with all the re&s;te of the kyn|ges Maie&s;ties Coun&s;aill: for all the lordes of this realme, and for the Cleargie, and the com|mons of the&s;ame: be&s;echynge almightie God, to geue euery of theim, in hys degree, grace to
<PB REF="14"> v&s;e the~&s;elfes in &s;uche wi&s;e, as maye be to God|des glorie, the Kynges honor, and the weale of this realme.</P>
<P><HI>THIRDELY,</HI> you &s;hall praye, for all them that be departed out of this world, in the fayth of Chri&s;te, that they with vs, and we with them at the daye of Iudgement, maye re&s;t both bo|dy and &s;oule, with Abraha~, I&s;aac, and Iacob, in the kyngdom of heauen.</P>
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<P><HI>_ALL</HI> whiche and &s;ynguler Iniunc|cions, the kynges Maie&s;tie, mini&s;te|reth vnto his Clergie, and their &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ours, and to all other his louyng &s;ubiectes: &s;traightly chargynge and commau~|dinge them, to ob&s;erue and kepe the&s;ame, vpon payne of depriuacio~, &s;eque&s;tracion of fruictes of benefices, &s;u&s;pen&s;ion, excommunicacio~, and &s;uche other cohercion, as to Ordinaries or other hauyng Eccle&s;ia&s;tical iuri&s;diccio~, whom his Maie&s;tie hath appoynted for the due exe|cucion of the &s;ame, &s;halbe &s;ene co~uenient: char|gyng and commaundyng them, to &s;e the&s;e In|iunccions, ob&s;erued and kepte of all per&s;ones, beynge vnder their Iuri&s;diccion, as they wyll aun&s;were to hys Maie&s;tie for the co~trary. And hys Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure is, that euery Iu|&s;tice of peace (beyng required) &s;hall a&s;|&s;i&s;t the Ordinaries, and euery of them, for the due execucion of the &s;ayde Iniunccions.</P>
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