or put into any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion within this Realm of England and places aforesaid shall in the Church Chappel or place of publick Worship belonging to his said Benefice or Promotion within two months next after that he shall be in the actual possession of the said Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion upon some Lords day openly publickly and solemnly read the Morning and Evening Prayers appointed to be read by and according to the said Book of Common Prayer at the times thereby appointed and after such reading thereof shall openly and publickly before the Congregation there assembled declare his unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things therein contained and prescribed according to the form before appointed And that all and every such person who shall without some lawful impediment to be allowed and approved by the Ordinary of the place neglect or refuse to do the same within the time aforesaid or in case of such impediment within one month after such Impediment removed shall ipso facto be deprived of all his said Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions And that from thenceforth it shall and may be lawful to and for all Patrons and Donors of all and singular the said Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions or any of them according to their respective Rights and Titles to present or collate to the same as though the person or persons so offending or neglecting were dead And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all places where the proper Incumbent of any Parsonage or Vicarage or Benefice with Cure doth reside on his Living and keep a Curate the Incumbent himself in person not having some lawful Impediment to be allowed by the Ordinary of the place shall once at the least in every month openly and publickly read the Common Prayers and Service in and by the said Book prescribed and if there be occasion Administer each of the Sacraments and other Rites of the Church in the Parish-Church or Chappel of or belonging to the same Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice in such order manner and form as in and by the said Book is appointed upon pain to forfeit the sum of Five pounds to the use of the poor of the Parish for every offence upon conviction by confession or proof of two credible witnesses upon Oath before two Justices of the Peace of the County City or Town-Corporate where the offence shall be committed which Oath the said Justices are hereby impowered to administer and in default of payment within ten days to be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender by the Warrant of the said Justices by the Church-Wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish rendring the surplusage to the party And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Dean Canon and Prebendary of every Cathedral or Collegiate Church and all Masters and other Heads Fellows Chaplains and Tutors of or in any Colledge Hall House of Learning or Hospital and every publick Professor and Reader in either of the Universities and in every Colledge elsewhere and every Parson Vicar Curate Lecturer and every other person in holy Orders and every School-master keeping any publick or private School and every person instructing or teaching any Youth in any house or private family as a Tutor or School-master who upon the first day of May which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty two or at any time thereafter shall be Incumbent or have possession of any Deanry Canonry Prebend Mastership Headship Fellowship Professors place or Readers place Parsonage Vicarage or any other Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion or of any Curates place Lecture or School or shall instruct or teach any Youth as Tutor or School-master shall before the Feast-day of Saint Bartholomew which shall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two or at or before his or their respective admission to be Incumbent or have possession aforesaid subscribe the Declaration or Acknowledgment following Scilicet I A. B. do declare That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King and that I do abhor that traiterous position of taking Arms by His Authority against his Person or against those that are commissionated by Him and that I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by Law established And I do declare that I do hold there lies no obligation upon me or on any other person from the Oath commonly called the Solemn League and Covenant to endeavour any change or alteration of Government either in Church or State and that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath and imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the known Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom Which said Declaration and Acknowledgment shall be subscribed by every of the said Masters and other Heads Fellows Chaplains and Tutors of or in any Colledge Hall or House of Learning and by every publick professor and Reader in either of the Universities before the Vice-chancellor of the respective Universities for the time being or his Deputy And the said Declaration or Acknowledgment shall be subscribed before the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess by every other person hereby enjoyned to subscribe the same upon pain that all and every of the persons aforesaid failing in such subscription shall lose and forfeit such respective Deanry Canonry Prebend Mastership Headship Fellowship Professors place Readers place Parsonage Vicarage Ecclesiastical Dignity or promotion Curates place Lecture and School and shall be utterly disabled and ipso facto deprived of the same and that every such respective Deanry Canonry Prebend Mastership Headship Fellowship Professors place Readers place Parsonage Vicarage Ecclesiastical dignity or promotion Curates place Lecture and School shall be void as if such person so failing were naturally dead And if any Schoolmaster or other person instructing or teaching Youth in any private House or Family as a Tutor or Schoolmaster shall instruct or teach any Youth as a Tutor or Schoolmaster before license obtained from his respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm for which he shall pay twelve pence only and before such subscription and acknowledgment made as aforesaid then every such Schoolmaster and other instructing and teaching as aforesaid shall for the first offence suffer three months imprisonment without Bail or Mainprise and for every second and other such offence shall suffer three months Imprisonment without Bail or Mainprise and also forfeit to his Majesty the sum of Five pounds And after such subscription made every such Parson Vicar Curate and Lecturer shall procure a Certificate under the hand and seal of the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess who are hereby enjoyned and required upon demand to make and deliver the same and shall publickly and openly read the
same together with the Declaration or Ackowledgment aforesaid upon some Lords day within three months then next following in his parish Church where he is to officiate in the presence of the Congreatgion there assembled in the time of Divine Service upon pain that every person failing therein shall lose such Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice Curates place or Lecturers place respectively and shall be utterly disabled and ipso facto deprived of the same and that the said Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice Curates place or Lecturers place shall be void as if he were naturally dead Provided always That from and after the twenty fifth day of March which shall be in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred eighty two there shall be omitted in the said Declaration or Acknowledgment so to be subscribed and read these words following scilicet ANd I do declare that I do hold there lies no obligation upon me or on any other person from the Oath commonly called the Solemn League and Covenant to endeavour any change or alteration of Government either in Church or State and that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath and imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the known Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom So as none of the persons aforesaid shall from thenceforth be at all obliged to subscribe or read that part of the said Declaration or Acknowledgment Provided always and be it Enacted That from and after the Feast of Saint Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two no person who now is Incumbent and in possession of any Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice and who is not already in holy Orders by Episcopal Ordination or shall not before the said Feast-day of Saint Bartholomew be ordained Priest or Deacon according to the Form of Episcopal Ordination shall have hold or enjoy the said Parsonage Vicarage Benefice with Cure or other Ecclesiastical Promotion within this Kingdom of England or the Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed but shall be utterly disabled and ipso facto deprived of the same and all his Ecclesiastical Promotions shall be void as if he were naturally dead And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person whatsoever shall thenceforth be capable to be admitted to any Parsonage Vicarage Benefice or other Ecclesiastical promotion or dignity whatsoever nor shall presume to Consecrate and Administer the holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper before such time as he shall be ordained Priest according to the form and manner in and by the said Book prescribed unless he have formerly been made Priest by Episcopal Ordination upon pain to forfeit for every offence the sum of one hundred pounds one Moiety thereof to the Kings Majesty the other Moiety thereof to be equally divided between the Poor of the Parish where the offence shall be committed and such person or persons as shall sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed and to be disabled from taking or being admitted into the Order of Priest by the space of one whole year next following Provided that the penalties in this Act shall not extend to the Foreigners or Aliens of the Foreign Reformed Churches allowed or to be allowed by the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors in England Provided always That no Title to confer or present by lapse shall accrue by any avoidance or deprivation ipso facto by virtue of this Statute but after six months after notice of such voidance or deprivation given by the Ordinary to the Patron or such sentence of deprivation openly and publickly Read in the Parish-Church of the Benefice Parsonage or Vicarage becoming void or whereof the Incumbent shall be deprived by virtue of this act And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Form or Order of Common Prayers Administration of Sacraments Rites or Ceremonies shall be openly used in any Church Chappel or other publick place of or in any Colledge or Hall in either of the Universities the Colledges of Westminster Winchester or Eaton or any of them other then what is prescribed and appointed to be used in and by the said Book and That the present Governour or Head of every Colledge and Hall in the said Universities and of the said Colledges of Westminster Winchester and Eaton within one month after the Feast of Saint Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two And every Governour or Head of any of the said Colledges or Halls Hereafter to be elected or appointed within one month next after his Election or Collation and Admission into the same Government or Headship shall openly and publickly in the Church Chappel or other publick place of the same Colledge or Hall and in the presence of the Fellows and Scholars of the same or the greater part of them then resident subscribe unto the Nine and thirty Articles of Religion mentioned in the Statute made in the Thirteenth year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth and unto the said Book and declare his unfeigned assent and consent unto and approbation of the said Articles and of the same Book and to the use of all the prayers Rites and Ceremonies Forms and Orders in the said Book prescribed and contained according to the Form aforesaid and That all such Governours or Heads of the said Colledges and Halls or any of them as are or shall be in Holy Orders shall once at least in every quarter of the year not having a lawful impediment openly and publickly Read the Morning Prayer and Service in and by the said Book appointed to be read in the Church Chappel or other publick place of the same Colledge or Hall upon pain to lose and be suspended of and from all the benefits and profits belonging to the same Government or Headship by the space of six months by the Visitor or Visitors of the same Colledge or Hall And if any Governour or Head of any Colledge or Hall suspended for not subscribing unto the said Articles and Book or for not Reading of the Morning Prayer and Service as aforesaid shall not at or before the end of six months next after such suspension subscribe unto the said Articles and Book and declare his consent thereunto as aforesaid or read the Morning Prayer and Service as aforesaid then such Government or Headship shall be ipso facto void Provided always that it shall and may be lawful to use the Morning and Evening Prayer and all other Prayers and Service prescribed in and by the said book in the Chappels or other publick places of the respective Colledges and Halls in both the Universities in the Colledges of Westminster Winchester and Eaton and in the Convocations of the Clergies of either Province in Latine Any thing in this Act
Bartholomew in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two upon pain of forfeiture of Three pounds by the month for so long time as they shall then after be unprovided thereof by every Parish or Chappelry Cathedral Church Colledge and Hall making default therein Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Bishops of Hereford S. Davids Asaph Bangor and Landaff and their Successors shall take such order among themselves for the souls health of the Flocks committed to their charge within Wales that the Book hereunto annexed be truly and exactly Translated into the British or Welsh Tongue and that the same so Translated and being by them or any three of them at the least viewed perused and allowed be Imprinted to such number at least so that one of the said Books so Translated and Imprinted may be had for every Cathedral Collegiate and Parish Church and Chappel of Ease in the said respective Diocesses and places in Wales where the Welsh is commonly spoken or used before the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty five and That from and after the Imprinting and Publishing of the said Book so Translated the whole Divine Service shall be used and said by the Ministers and Curates throughout all Wales within the said Diocesses where the Welsh Tongue is commonly used in the British or Welsh Tongue in such manner and form as is prescribed according to the Book hereunto annexed to be used in the English Tongue differing nothing in any Order or Form from the said English Book for which Book so Translated and Imprinted the Church-wardens of every the said Parishes shall pay out of the Parish-money in their hands for the use of the respective Churches and be allowed the same on their Account and That the said Bishops and their Successors or any three of them at the least shall set and appoint the Price for which the said Book shall be sold And one other Book of Common Prayer in the English Tongue shall be bought and had in every Church throughout Wales in which the Book of Common Prayer in Welch is to be had by force of this Act before the first day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and four and the same Book to remain in such convenient places within the said Churches that such as understand them may resort at all convenient times to read and peruse the same and also such as do not understand the said Language may by conferring both Tongues together the sooner attain to the knowledge of the English Tongue Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And until printed Copies of the said Book so to be Translated may be had and provided the Form of Common Prayer established by Parliament before the making of this Act shall be used as formerly in such 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 said Book hereunto annexed may be safely kept and perpetually preserved and for the avoiding of all disputes for the time to come Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Deans and Chapters of every Cathedral or Collegiate Church within England and Wales shall at their proper coâ—s and charges before the twenty fifth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty and two obtain under the Great Seal of England a true and perfect Copy of this Act and of the said Book annexed hereunto to be by the said Deans and Chapters and their Successors kept and preserved in safety for ever and to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court of Record as often as they shall be thereunto lawfully required and also there shall be delivered true and perfect Copies of this Act and of the same Book into the respective Courts at Westminster and into the Tower of London to be kept and preserved for ever among the Records of the said Courts and the Records of the Tower to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court as need shall require which said Books so to be exemplified under the Great Seal of England shall be examined by such persons as the Kings Majesty shall appoint under the Great Seal of England for that purpose and shall be compared with the Original Book hereunto annexed and shall have power to correct and amend in writing any Error committed by the Printer in the Printing of the same book or of any thing therein contained and shall certifie in writing under their Hands and Seals or the Hands and Seals of any three of them at the end of the same Book that they have examined and compared the same Book and find it to be a true and perfect Copy which said Books and every one of them so exemplified under the Great Seal of England as aforesaid shall be deemed taken adjudged and expounded to be good and available in the Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever and shall be accounted as good Records as this Book it self hereunto annexed any Law or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided also that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be prejudicial or hurtful unto the Kings Professour of the Law within the University of Oxford for or concerning the Prebend of Shipton within the Cathedral Church of Sarum united and annexed unto the place of the same Kings Professour for the time being by the late King James of blessed memory Provided always That whereas the Six and thirtieth Article of the Nine and thirty Article 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 sixty two for the avoiding of diversities of opinions and for establishing of consent touching true Religion is in these words following viz. That the Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops and Ordaining of Priests and Deacons lately set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth and confirmed at the same time by Authority of Parliament doth contain all things necessary to such Consecration and Ordaining neither hath it any thing that of it self is superstitious and ungodly And therefore whosoever are Consecrated or Ordered according to the Rites of that Book since the second year of the aforenamed King Edward unto this time or hereafter shall be Consecrated or Ordered according to the same Rites We decree all such to be rightly orderly and lawfully Consecrated and Ordered It be Enacted and be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Subscriptions hereafter to be had or made unto the said Articles by any Deacon Priest or Ecclesiastical person or other person whatsoever who by this Act or any other Law now in force is required to subscribe unto the said Articles shall be construed and taken to extend and shall be applied for and touching the said Six and thirtieth