the English Tongue, differing nothing in any Order or Form from the faid English Book; for which Book, fo Tranflated and Imprinted, the Church wardens of every of the faid Parifhes fhall pay out of the Parifh-money in their hands for the use of the refpective Churches, and be allowed the fame on their Account; and, That the faid Bishops and their Succeffors, or any Three of them, at the least, shall fet and appoint the price, for which the said Book fhall be fold; And one other Book of Common prayer in the English Tongue fhall be bought and had in every Church throughout Wales, in which the Book of Common-prayer in Welfh is to be had, by force of this Act, before the Firft day of May, One thousand fix hundred fixty and four, and the Book to remain in such convenient places, within the faid Churches, that fuch as understand them may refort at all convenient times to read and peruse the fame, and alfo fuch as do not undertand the faid Language, may, by conferring both Tongues together, the fooner attain to the knowledge of the English Tongue; Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding; And until Printed Copies of the faid Book, fo to be tranflated, may be had and provided, the Form of Common prayer, eftablifhed by Parliament before the making of this Act, fhall be used as formerly in fuch parts of Wales, where the English Tongue is not commonly understood.

And to the end that the true and perfect Copies of this Act, and the faid Book hereunto annexed

nexed, may be fafely kept, and perpetually pre ferved, and for the avoiding of all difputes for the time to come; Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the refpective Deans and Chapters of every Cathedral, or Collegiate Church, within England and Wales, shall, at their proper colts and charges, before the twenty-fifth day of December, One thousand fix hundred fixty and two, obtain under the Great Seal of England a true and perfect printed Copy of this Act, and of the faid Book annexed hereunto, to be by the faid Deans and Chapters, and their Succeffors, kept and preserved in safety, for ever, and to be alfo produced, and fhewed forth in any Court of Record, as often as they shall be thereunto lawfully required; And alfo there thall be delivered true and perfect Copies of this Act, and of the fame Book into the respective Courts at Westminster, and into the Tower of London, to be kept and preferved for ever among the Records of the faid Courts, and the Records of the Tower, to be alfo produced and fhewed forth in any Court as need fhall require; which faid Books, lo to be exemplified under the Great Seal of England, fhall be examined by fuch perfons as the King's Majefty fhall appoint under the Great Seal of England for that purpose, and fhall be compared with the Original Book hereunto annexed, and fhall have power to correct, and amend in writing any Error committed by the Printer in the printing of the fame Eook, or of any thing therein contained, and fhall certify in writing

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writing under their Hands and Seals, or the Hands and Seals of any three of them, at the end of the fame Book, that they have examined and compared the fame Book, and find it to be a true and perfect Copy; which faid Books, and every one of them, fo exemplified under the Great Seal of England, as aforefaid, fhall be deemed, taken, adjudged, and expounded to be good, and available in the Law, to all intents and purposes whatfoever, and shall be accounted as good Records as this Book itself hereunto annexed; Any Law or Custom to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding,

Provided alfo, That this A&t or any thing. therein contained, fhall not be prejudicial or hurtful unto the King's Profeffor of the Law within the Univerfity of Oxford, for, or concerning the Prebend of Shipton, within the Cathedral Church of Sarum, united and annexed unto the place of the fame King's Profeffor for the time being, by the late King James of blessed me

mory.

Provided always, That whereas the Six and thirtieth Article of the Nine and thirty Articles agreed upon by the Archbishops, and Bishops of both Provinces, and the whole Clergy, in the Convocation holden at London, in the year of our Lord, One thousand five hundred fixty two, for the avoiding of diverfities of opinions, and for eftablishing of confent, touching true Religion, is in these words following, viz.

"That

"That the Book of Confecration of Arch "bishops, and Bishops, and Ordaining of Priests "and Deacons, lately fet forth in the time of "King Edward the Sixth, and confirmed at the "fame time by Authority of Parliament, doth "contain all things neceffary to fuch Confecra"tion and Ordaining, neither hath it any thing "that of felf is fuperftitious, and ungodly; "And therefore whofoever are Confecrated or "Ordered according to the Rites of that Book, "fince the fecond year of the aforenamed King "Edward unto this time, or hereafter shall be "Confecrated or Ordered according to the "fame Rites; We decree all fuch to be rightly, orderly, and lawfully Confecrated and Or

dered;'

It be enacted, and be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all fubfcriptions hereafter to be had or made unto the faid Arti cles, by any Deacon, Prieft, or Ecclefiaftical perfon, or other perfon whatfoever, who by this A&t, or any other Law now in force, is required to subscribe unto the faid Articles, fhall be conftrued and taken to extend, and fhall be applied. (for and touching the faid Six and thirtieth Article) unto the Book containing the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Confecrating of Bishops, Priefts, and Deacons, in the Act mentioned, in fach fort and manner as the fame did heretofore extend unto the Book fet forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth, mentioned.

in the faid Six and thirtieth Article; Any thing in the laid Article, or in any Statute, Act, or Canon, heretofore had or made, to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding,

Provided alfo, That the Book of Commonprayer, and Adminiftration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of this Church' of England, together with the Form and Manner of Ordaining and Confecrating Bishops, Pricfts, and Deacons, heretofore in ufe, and refpectively established by Act of Parliament in the First and Eighth years of Queen Elizabeth, thall be ftill used and obferved in the Church of England, until the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, which fhall be in the year of our Lord God, One thoufand fix hundred fixty and two.

Prieft. Your Acts against your ancestors, the Catholics, are produced by the fpirit that enraged the Jews to crucify their Mellah; defpair and mifrepresentation is capable, and hiftory informs us, productive of innumerable tragical fcenes, as. is known. Thefe Acts have been fimilar to the Imperial Edicts in the first three Centuries of Christianity. The many executions, which are authentically attefted, with the thoufands that are at this inftant obliged to feek bread, though of the first families, many of them in foreign fervice, through thefe bloody edicts, is a ftigma that will ever entail infamy, and, if the greateft politicians mistake not, the deftruction of our Nation. Every Proteftant State, for fome time paft, have found, according to true policy, that Catholic alliances

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