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gistrars belonging to every such Ecclesiastical Judge shall place two tables, containing the several rates and sums of all the said fees; one in the usual place or consistory where the court is kept, and the other in his registry; and both of them in such sort, as every man, whom it concerneth, may without difficulty come to the view and perusal thereof, and take a copy of them: the same tables to be set up before the Feast of the Nativity next ensuing. And if any Registrar shall fail to place the said tables according to the tenor hereof, he shall be suspended from the execution of his office, until he cause the same to be accordingly done: and the said tables being once set up, if he shall at any time remove, or suffer the same to be removed, hidden, or any way hindered from sight, contrary to the true meaning of this Constitution, he shall for every such offence be suspended from the exercise of his office for the space of six

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137. The whole Fees for shewing Letters of Orders, and other Licences, due but once in every Bishop's time. FORASMUCH as the chief and principal cause and use of Visitation is, that the Bishop, Archdeacon, or other assigned to visit, may get some good knowledge of the state, sufficiency, and ability of the Clergy, and other persons whom they are to visit; we think it convenient, that every Parson, Vicar, Curate, Schoolmaster, or other person lícensed whosoever, do at the Bishop's first Visitation, or at the next Visitation after his admission, shew and exhibit unto him his Letters of Orders, Institution, and Induction, and all other his Dispensations, Licences, or Faculties whatsoever, to be by the said Bishop either allowed, or (if there be just cause) disallowed and rejected; and being by him approved, to be, as the custom is, signed by the Registrar; and that the whole fees accustomed to be paid in the Visitations in respect of the premises, be paid only once in the whole time of every Bishop, and afterwards but half of the said accustomed fees in every other Visitation, during the said Bishop's continuance.

Apparitors.

138. The Number of Apparitors restrained. FORASMUCH as we are desirous to redress such abuses and aggrievances as are said to grow by Somners or Appa

ritors, we think it meet that the multitude of Apparitors be (as much as is possible) abridged or restrained; wherefore we decree and ordain, That no Bishop or Archdeacon, or their Vicars, or Officials, or other inferior Ordinaries, shall depute or have more Apparitors to serve in their jurisdictions respectively, than either they or their predecessors were accustomed to have thirty years before the publishing of these our present Constitutions. All which Apparitors shall by themselves faithfully execute their offices; neither shall they, by any colour or pretence whatsoever, cause or suffer their mandates to be executed by any Messengers or Substitutes, unless it be upon some good cause to be first known and approved by the Ordinary of the place. Moreover, they shall not take upon them the office of Promoters or Informers for the court, neither shall they exact more or greater fees than are in these our Constitutions formerly prescribed. And if either the number of the Apparitors deputed shall exceed the aforesaid limitation, or any of the said Apparitors shall offend in any of the premises; the persons deputing them, if they be Bishops, shall, upon admonition of their superior, discharge the persons exceeding the number so limited; if inferior Ordinaries, they shall be suspended from the execution of their office, until they have dismissed the Apparitors by them so deputed; and the ties themselves so deputed shall for ever be removed from the office of Apparitors; and if, being so removed, they desist not from the exercise of their said offices, let them be punished by ecclesiastical censures, as persons contumacious. Provided, That if upon experience the number of the said Apparitors be too great in any diocese in the judg ment of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being, they shall by him be so abridged, as he shall think meet and convenient.

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Authority of Synods.

139. A National Synod the Church Representative. WHOSOEVER shall hereafter affirm, That the sacred Synod of this nation, in the name of Christ and by the King's authority assembled, is not the true Church of England by representation, let him be excommunicated, and not restored, until he repent, and publickly revoke that his wicked error.

140. Synods conclude as well the absent as the present. WHOSOEVER shall affirm, That no manner of person, either of the Clergy or Laity, not being themselves particularly assembled in the said sacred Synod, are to be subject to the decrees thereof in causes ecclesiastical, (made and ratified by the King's Majesty's supreme authority,) as not having given their voices unto them, let him be excommunicated, and not restored, until he repent, and publicly revoke that his wicked error.

141. Depravers of the Synod censured. WHOSOEVER shall hereafter affirm, That the sacred Synod, assembled as aforesaid, was a company of such of such persons as did conspire together against godly and religious professors of the Gospel; and that therefore both they and their proceedings in making of Canons and Constitutions in causes ecclesiastical by the King's authority, as aforesaid, ought to be despised and contemned, the same being ratified, confirmed, and enjoined by the said regal power, supremacy, and authority; let them be excommunicated, and not restored, until they repent, and publicly revoke that their wicked error.

WE of our princely inclination and royal care for the maintenance of the present estate and government of the Church of England, by the laws of this our realm now settled and established, having diligently, with great contentment and comfort, read and considered of all these their said Canons, Orders, Ordinances, and Constitutions, agreed upon, as is before expressed; and finding the same such as we are persuaded will be very profitable, not only to our Clergy, but to the whole Church of this our kingdom, and to all the true members of it, if they be well observed; have therefore for us, our Heirs, and lawful Successors, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, given, and by these presents do give our royal assent, according to the form of the said Statute or Act of Parliament aforesaid, to all and every of the said Canons, Orders, Ordinances, and Constitutions, and to all and every thing in them contained, as they are before written.

And furthermore, we do not only by our said prerogative royal, and supreme authority in causes ecclesiastical, ratify, confirm, and establish, by these our letters patent, the said Canons, Orders, Ordinances, and Constitutions, and all and

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every thing in them contained, as is aforesaid; but do likewise propound, publish, and straightway enjoin and command by our said authority, and by these our letters patent, the same to be diligently observed, executed, and equally kept by all our loving subjects of this our kingdom, both within the provinces of Canterbury and York, in all points wherein they do or may concern every or any of them, according to this our will and pleasure hereby signified and expressed; and that likewise, for the better observation of them, every Minister, by what name or title soever he be called, shall in the Parish Church or Chapel where he hath charge, read all the said Canons, Orders, Ordinances, and Constitutions, once every year, upon some Sundays or Holydays, in the Afternoon, before Divine Service, dividing the same in such sort, as that the one half may be read one day, and the other another day: the Book of the said Canons to be provided at the charge of the Parish, betwixt this and the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God next ensuing: straitly charging and commanding all Archbishops, Bishops, and all other that exercise any ecclesiastical jurisdiction within this realm, every man in his place, to see, and procure (so much as in them lieth) all and every of the same Canons, Orders, Ordinances, and Constitutions, to be in all points duly observed; not sparing to execute the penalties in them severally mentioned, upon any that shall wittingly or wilfully break or neglect to observe the same, as they tender the honour of God, the peace of the Church, the tranquillity of the Kingdom, and their duties and service to us their King and Sovereign.

In witness, &c.

The Table of the Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical.

Of the Church of England.

1. THE King's Supremacy over the Church of England, in Causes Ecclesiastical, to be maintained

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2. Impugners of the King's Supremacy censured 3. The Church of England a true and apostolical Church ib. 4. Impugners of the public Worship of God, established in the Church of England, censured

ib. 5. Impugners of the Articles of Religion, established in the Church of England, censured

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6. Impugners of the Rites and Ceremonies, established in the Church of England, censured ib. 7. Impugners of the Government of the Church of England by Archbishops, Bishops, &c. censured ib. 8. Impugners of the Form of consecrating and ordering Archbishops, Bishops, &c. in the Church of England, censured ib. 9. Authors of Schism in the Church of England censured 10. Maintainers of Schismatics in the Church of England censured

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11. Maintainers of Conventicles censured

ib.

12. Maintainers of Constitutions made in Conventicles censured

ib.

Of Divine Service, and Administration of the Sacraments.

13. Due Celebration of Sundays and Holydays

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14. The prescript Form of Divine Service to be used on Sundays and Holydays

ib.

15. The Litany to be read on Wednesdays and Fridays 16. Colleges to use the prescript Form of Divine Service 17. Students in Colleges to wear Surplices in time of Divine Service

ib.

18. A reverence and attention to be used within the Church in time of Divine Service

ib.

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19. Loiterers not to be suffered near the Church in time of Divine Service

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20. Bread and Wine to be provided against every Communion ib. 21. The Communion to be thrice a year received ib. 22. Warning to be given beforehand for the Communion 28 23. Students in Colleges to receive the Communion four times a Year ib. 24. Copes to be worn in Cathedral Churches by those that administer the Communion

ib.

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