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A50670	The parson's monitor, consisting of such cases and matters as principally concern the clergy collected from the statute and common laws, as also the constitutions and canons ecclesiastical : confirmed 1 Jac. anno Dom. 1603 : together with the Articles of religion, authority of the convocation, privilege of churches and church-yards, payment of first-fruits and tenths, in whose name and style ecclesiastical courts are to be kept, and the process issuing out of the same are to run in, and with what seal to be sealed : with several other matters (never before extant) very material and necessary to be known by the clergy in general, and all persons concerned either as patron, or incumbent / by G. Meriton, gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1681 (1681)	Wing M1808; ESTC R702	137,500	344

year upon some Sunday after Evening-Prayer to reade in their Parish Churches the Statute of the 20 Jac. cap. 20. against prophane cursing and swearing and once every year upon some Sunday or Holyday in the Afternoon before Divine Service they are to reade the Book of Canons agreed upon in the Synod begun at London Anno Dom. 1603. and every Minister every year in his Church the Sunday next before the 29 day of May at Morning-Prayer is to reade the Statute of the 12 Car. 2. cap. 14. Ministers before their Sermons Lectures What Order Ministers are to observe in their Prayer before their Sermons c. and Homilies are to Pray first for the Holy Catholick-Church of Christ through the whole World and especially for the Churches of England Scotland and Ireland then for the King Queen and Royal Family next for all Arch-Bishops Bishops and other Pastors and Curates of God's Holy Word and Sacraments then for the King's Privy-Council and all the Nobility and Magistrates of his Realm and for the Commons that they may live in true Faith and fear of God in humble Obedience to the King and Brotherly Charity one to another and lastly they must praise God for all those who have departed out of this Life in the Faith of Christ and must pray to God that we by Grace may learn to follow their Good Example that after this Life ended we may be partakers with them of the Glorious Resurrection of the Life Everlasting and must always conclude with the Lord's Prayer Can. 55. The Supream Ecclesiastical power in the King Note That the King hath the Supream Ecclesiastical Power in him as it hath been held and agreed and may without Parliament make Orders and Constitutions for the Government of the Clergy and may deprive them if they obey not and they can make no Canons or Constitutions without his Assent Cro. Jac. f. 37. Mo. Rep. f. 155. pl. 1043. and Vaugh. Rep. f. 329. The power of the Convecations But some Clergy-men seem to think and others do not stick to say that no Orders or Constitutions can be made to bind them but what are agreed upon in the Convocations of the Clergy therefore I think it will not be amiss to insert here the Authority of the Convocation as my Lord Coke sets it down in his fourth part of his Institutes which take as followeth he saith it is called Convocation a Convocando because they are called together by the King 's Writ and their Authority being never assembled together but by the King 's Writ was to deal with Heresies Schisms and other meer Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Causes and therein they did proceed juxta Legem Divinam Canones Sanctae Ecclesiae and as they could never assemble but by the King 's Writ so they were oftentimes commanded by the King 's Writ to deal with nothing that concerned the King's Laws of the Land his Crown and Dignity his Person or his State or the State of his Council or Kingdom and so whatsoever Act is done in the Convocation is under the Power and Authority of the King but not è contra what he doth under them see the King's Letters in the conclusion of this Chapter vide Co. Inst 4 part f. 322. 26 H. 6. 13. and 21 Eliz. 4. f. 45. a. p. Vavasour and f. 45. 6 p. Starkey and Brown and Rolls Cases 1 p. f. No Canons to be made in the Convocation without the King's Licence And the Lord Coke saith further that the King did often appoint Commissioners by writ to sit with them at the Convocation and to have Conusance of such things as they meant to establish that nothing should be done in prejudice ut supra And therefore the Statute of 25 H. 8 cap. 19. whereby it is provided that no Canons Constitutions or Ordinance should be made or put in Execution within this Realm by Authority of the Convocation of the Clergy which were contrariant or repugnant to the King's Prerogative Royal or the Customes Laws or Statutes of this Realm is but declaratory of the old Common-Law but by the said Act their Jurisdiction and Power is much lestned concerning making of new Canons for they must have both Licence to make them and after they be made they must have the King 's Royal Assent to the allowance thereof before they be put in Execution 25 H. 8. cap. 19. Co. Inst 4 part f. 323. The King's Letters of direction to the Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the Clergy The King's Majesty in his Letters and Directions to the Archbishop of Canterbury dated the fourteenth Year of his now Majestie 's Reign in the Month of October declares there to this effect First That no Preachers in their Sermons shall presume to meddle with matters of State to modell new Governments or take upon them to Declare Limit or bound out the Authority and Power of Sovereign Princes or to State and Determine the difference between Princes and People but that as they have occasion they Faithfully tell the People of their duty of Subjection and Obedience to their Governors Superior and Subordinate of all sorts and to the established Laws according to the Word of God and the Doctrine of the Church of England as it is contained in the Homilies of Obedience and Articles of Religion set forth by publick Authority Secondly That they spend not their time in the search of speculative and abstruse Notions especially in and about the deep points of Election and Reprobation the Incomprehensible manner of the Concurrence of God's free Grace and Man's free Will and such Controversies as depend thereon And that however they do not presume possitively and doctrinaly to determine any thing concerning the same Thirdly That they forbear in their Sermons ordinarily and causelesly to enter upon the handling of any other Controversies of less moment and difficulty And when occasionally they be invited by their Text or Auditory to fall into them that they doe it with all Modesty Gravity and Candor asserting the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England from the Cavils and Objections of such as are Adversaries to either without bitterness railing jeering or other unnecessary or unseemly Provocation Fourthly That they Catechise the Younger sort according to the Book of Common-Prayer and in their ordinary Sermons do chiefly insist upon Catechistical Doctrines containing the necessary Truths of Christian Religion and setting forth withall what Influence such Doctrine ought to have in their Lives and Conversations and stirring up the People by their Lives and Doctrine to the practice of such Religious and Moral duties as are the proper result of the said Doctrines as Self-denyal Contempt of the World Humility Patience Meekness Temperance Justice Mercy Obedience and the like and to hate and shun sin especially the sins so rife and common amongst us and more especially those usually called the seven deadly sins and all kind of Debauchery Sensuality Rebellion Prophaneness Atheisin

containeth any thing in it that is Repugnant to the word of God or that they who are so made are not Lawfully made and Ordained they are to be Excommunicated ipso facto and not to be restored till they Repent and Publickly Revoke such wicked Errors Gan. 8. Also if any affirm that the King's The Penalty of such as Impugne the King's Supremacy c. Majesty hath not the same Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical that the godly Kings had amongst the Jews Or Impeach in any part his Regal Supremacy Or affirm that the Church of England by Law established under the King's Majesty is not a true and an Apostolical Church Or that the Form of God's Worship contained in the Book of Common-Prayer and Administration of Sacraments is Corrupt Superstitious and Unlawfull Or that any of the 39 Articles of Religion made in the Year 1562. are in any part Superstitious or Erronious Or that the Rites and Cerimonies established in the Church of England are wicked Antichristian or Superstitious Or that the Government of the Church of England under his Majesty by Archbishops Bishops Deans Archdeacons and the rest that bear Office in the same is Antichristian or Repugnant to the word of God they are also ipso facto to be Excommunicate and not to be restored till they Repent and Publickly a revoke such wicked Errors Can. 2 3 4 5 6 7. And if any affirm that such Ministers The punishment of such as affirm that such Ministers as refuse to subscribe to the form of God's Worship in the Church of England may take unto the Name of another Church c. as refuse to subscribe to the form of God's Worship in the Church of Engl. and their Adherents may take unto them the Name of another Church not established by Law or that they a long time groaned under the burthen of certain grievances imposed on them Or that there are other Assemblies of the King's Subjects within the Realm other then such as by the Laws of this Kingdom are held and allowed to be such who may rightly challenge to them selves the Name of true and Lawfull Churches Or that it is Lawfull for any Ministers or People to joyn together and make Constitutions in Causes Ecclesiastical without the King's Authority They are to suffer the like pain of Excommunication and not to be restored till Repentance and Publick Revocation of their Errors Can. 10 11 12. The punishment of these which affirm that the Sacred Synode of the Nation assembled by the King's Authority is not the 〈◊〉 Church by Representation Likewise if any affirm that the sacred Synode of the Nation assembled in the Name of Christ and by Authority of the King is not the true Church of England by Representation Or that none are bound by the Decrees of such Synode that are not present there themselves or do not agree to them Such Person so affirming is to be Excommunicate and not to be restored till he Repent and Publickly Revoke his Errors Can. 139. 140. How Ministers are to be Apparelled Note That all Ministers shall usually wear Gowns with standing Collers and Sleeves straight at the Hands or wide Sleeves as is used in the Universities and in their Journies they shall usually wear Cloaks with sleeves commonly called Priests Cloaks without Gards Welts long Buttons or Cuts and no Ecclesiastical Person shall wear any Coif or wrought night Cap but only plain night Cap of black Silk Satten or Velvet and in private Houses and in their Studies They may use any comely and Schollar-like Apparel provided it be not Cut or Pinkt and that in Publick they go not in their Dublet and Hose without Coats or Cassocks and also that they wear not any light coloured Stockins likewise Poor Beneficed-men and Curates not being able to Provide themselves long Gowns may go in short Gowns of the Fashion aforesaid Can. 74. Ecclesiastical Persons not to frequent Taverns or Ale-houses No Ecclesiastical Persons shall at any time other then for their honest necessities resort to any Taverns or Ale-houses neither shall they board or lodge in any such places Nor shall they give themselves to any base or servile labour or to drinking or riot spending their time idlely by Day or by Night Playing at Cards Diee or Tables or any other unlawfull Game But at all times convenient they shall hear or read somewhat of the Holy Scriptures or shall occupy themselves with some other honest study or exercise alwaies doing the things-that-shall appertain to Honestie and indeavouring to profit the Church of God having alwaies in mind that they ought to excell all other in purity of Life and should be Examples to the People to Live well and christianly under pain of Ecclesiastical Censures to be inflicted with severity according to the Qualities of their Offences Can. 75. Ministers not Relinquish their callings No man being admitted a Deacon or Minister shall voluntarily Relinquish the same nor afterwards use himself in the course of his Life as a Lay-man upon pein of Excommunication Can. 76. CHAP. II. What things are required both by the Laws of this Kingdom and the Canons in force to be observed and performed by Ministers upon and after their Admission Institution and Induction to a Living with some few things relating to the Convocation And lastly the King's Majestie 's Letters and Directions in the fourteenth year of his Reign to the Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the Clergy SUCH Person as is Qualified as the He who is presented to a Living must carry his Presentation to the Bishop c. Law requires and hopes to obtain a Living and is promised to be presented according to Law must in the first place get a Presentation from the right and undoubted Patron of the Church where he designs to be Parson the form of which Presentation see in the fifth Chapter and after such Presentation obtained he is within six Months after the Church becomes void by Death Creation or Cession of the last Incumbent to tender his Presentation to the Bishop of that Diocess within which the Church is or to his Vicar General or in the Vacation when there is no Bishop of such Diocess to the Guardian of the Spiritualities to whom the Law allows a reasonable time to Examine his Abilities for the Ordinary is not bound to dispatch him as soon as he goes but may appoint him a convenient time within the six Months to attend him for his Approbation Hob. Rep. f. 317. Hughe's Parson's Law cap. 11. 15. H. 7. 7. b. Examin del Incumbent deg cap. 2. Hughe's grand abridgm 1 part p. 134. Case 5. What Admission and Institution signifie And if the Bishop or Ordinary c. upon Examination of the Clerk find him capable and able he may then admit and Institute him Admission in propriety of Speech is when the Bishop finding the Clerk able saith admitto te habilem and Institution is when the Bishop saith

the Holy Communion Excepted prescribed in the said Book in Greek Latin or Hebrew and all Men as well in Churches Chapels Oratories or other places may use openly any Psalms or Prayer taken out of the Bible at any time nor letting or omitting thereby the service or any part thereof mentioned in the Book of Common-Prayer 2. 3 Eliz. 6. cap. 1. If any Person or Persons who do not Conform and are disabled to Preach The Penalty against such persons who Preach and are disabled by 14. Car. 2. by the statute of the 14 Car. 2. shall during such time as they continue so disabled Preach any Sermon or Lecture that then for every such Offence the Person and Persons so offending are to suffer three Months Imprisonment in the common Goal without Bail and any two Justices of the Peace of the County and the Mayor or other chief Officer of any City or Town Corporate upon Certificate from the Ordinary of the place to him or them of the Offence committed may commit the Person or Persons to the Goal of the County City or Town Corporate accordingly 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. The Penalty for refusing to hear Common Prayer and being present and joyning with other Religious Assemblies If any Person or Persons above the age of sixteen Years shall obstinately refuse to repair to some Church Chapel or usual place of Common-Prayer and shall forbear by the space of a Month to hear Divine Service and shall either of him or themselves or by the perswasion of any others willingly joyn in or be present at any Assemblies Conventicles or Meetings under colour or pretence of the exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm every Person so offending and being Lawfully Convicted are to be committed to Prison there to remain without Bail till they Conform and yield to come to some Church Chapel or usual place of Common-Prayer and hear Divine Service established according to Law and make such open Submission and Declaration of their said Conformity as hereafter follows and if the Person offending shall not within three Months after Conviction Conform and make Submission being required thereunto by the Bishop of the Diocess or any Justice of the Peace of the County where the party is or by the Minister or Curate of the Parish then such Offender shall abjure the Realm and refusing to abjure or returning again after abjuration without the King's Licence shall be adjudged a Felon and suffer as a Felon But if such party before he be warned to make abjuration do repair to some Parish Church on some Sunday or Feastival day and hear Divine Service and before Sermon time or reading of the Gospel and make open Submission then the Offender is to be clearly discharged from all the Penalties and Punishments aforesaid 35 Eliz. cap. 1. 16 Car. 2. cap. 4. Popish Re●usant and Feme Covert not to abjure No Popish Recusant or Feme Covert shall be compelled to abjure by virtue of the said Act 35 Eliz. and every Person that shall abjure by virtue thereof or refuse to abjure shall forfeit to the King's Majesty all his Goods and Chattels for ever and loose all his Lands and Tenements during his Life but the Wife not to loose her Dower nor any Corruption of Blood to be for any of the said Offences and the Heir to enjoy the Lands and Tenements after the Offender's Death 35 Eliz. cap. 1. The Form of Submission The Form of the Submission aforementioned is to be in these words viz. I. A. B. do humbly confess and acknowledge that I have grievously offended God in contemning his Majestie 's Godly and Lawfull Government and Authority by absenting my self from Church and from hearing Divine Service contrary to the Godly Laws and Statutes of this Realm and in using and frequenting disordered unlawfull Conventicles and Assemblies under pretence and Colour of Exercise of Religion And I am heartily sorry for the same and do acknowledge and testify in my Conscience that no other Person hath or ought to have any Power or Authority over his Majesty And I do promise and protest without any dissimulation or any colour or means of any dispensation that from henceforth I will from time to time obey and perform his Majestie 's Laws and Statutes in repairing to the Church and hearing Divine Service and to my uttermost endeavour to maintain and defend the same 35 Eliz. cap. 1. The Penalty of Relapsing after Submission Note That if after such Submission the Offender Relaps then he looseth all advantage got by his Submission and shall be in the same condition as if such Submission had never been made And every Minister or Curate of every Parish where such Submission is made is to enter the same into a Book to be kept for that purpose and within ten days then next following to Certifie the same in writing to the Bishop of the same Diocess 35 Eliz. cap. 1. this stat is declared to be still in force by the 16 Car. 2. cap. 4. Observe That the Governour or Masters of Coll●ges c. to Subscribe to the Articles of Religion and Book of Common-Prayer c. Head of every College and Hall in either of the Universities and the Colleges of Westminster Winchester and Eaton within one Month after his Election or Collation and Admission into the said Government or Headship must openly and publickly in the Church Chapel or other publick place of the same College or Hall and in the presence of the Fellows and Schollars of the same or the greater part of them then Resident Subscribe unto the Book of Articles of Religion and declare his unfeigned assent and consent unto and approbation of the same and to the use of all the Prayers Rites and Ceremonies Forms and Orders in the Book of Common-Prayer And they must also once every quarter of a Year at least not having a Lawfull Impediment openly and publickly read the Morning Prayer and Service in and by the said Book appointed to be read in the Church Chapel or other publick place of the same College or Hall upon pein to loose and be suspended of and from all the benefits and profits belonging to the same Government and Headship by the space of six Months by the visitor or visitors of the same College or Hall and being suspended for the causes aforesaid if they do not at or before the end of six Months after such suspension Subscribe unto the said Articles and Book and declare their consent thereunto as aforesaid or read the Morning Prayer and Service as aforesaid then such Government or Headship shall be ipso facto void 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. If any Person Ecclesiastical or having Ecclesiastical Living shall advisedly The punishment for affirming any Doctrine contrary to the 39 Articles of Religion or any of them maintain or affirm any Doctrine directly contrary or repugnant to any of the nine and thirty Articles

to give it under his hand to the Minister who is to send it to the Bishop of the Diocese or Ordinary of the place Provided that every Minister so repelling any for the causes aforesaid upon complaint to the Ordinary shall obey his Order and Direction therein and the Minister is to observe whether all his Parishioners come so often every year to the Communion as is required and whether any Strangers come commonly from other Parishes to his Church and shall acquaint their Minister with it least they be such as their own Ministers turn back that so they may be remitted and sent home to their own Parish Churches and Ministers there to receive the Communion with the rest of their own Neighbours Can. 26 27 28. No Ministeris to delay the Christning of any Child that is brought to him upon Ministers not to delay Christning or Burial Registers to be kept c. Sundays or Holy-days to be Christned nor to Bury any Corps brought to the Church or Church-yard convenient warning being given him thereof before upon pein in either of these cases to be suspended by the Bishop of the Diocese for three Months unless the party to be Buried were excommunicated majori excommunicatione and in such case he may refuse to bury him and if an Infant be weak and in danger of Death the Minister upon notice and request thereof is to goe to the place where it is and Baptise the Infant without delay upon like pein as aforesaid and not to be restored till he promise before the Ordinary not to incur the like again willingly but if the Minister keep a Curate then this shall not extend to the Parson or Vicar but to the Curate and no Minister can urge any Parent to be present nor is any Parent to be Godfather for his own Child nor is any Godfather or Godmother to make any other answer than is prescribed by the Book of Common-Prayer or to be admitted to be Godfather or Godmother to any Child at Christning or Confirmation before they have taken the Communion nor is any Minister to omit Signing every Infant at Baptism with the Sign of the Cross and in every Parish there must be provided a Parchment-Book at the Parish charge for Registring all Christnings Weddings and Burials in and this Book is to be kept in a Coffer with three Locks and Keys whereof one is to remain with the Minister and the other two with the Church-Wardens and upon every Sabbath-day after Morning or Evening Prayer they are to take the Book out of the Coffer and the Minister in the presence of the Church-Wardens must write down in the said Book the Names of all persons Christned together with the Names and Sirnames of their Parents and also the Names of all persons Married and Buried in that Church in the week before and the day and year of every such Christning Marriage and Burial and then the Book to be laid up again and to every page of the Book when it is filled with Subscriptions they are to Subscribe their Names and the Church-Wardens once every year within a Month after the five and twentieth day of March are to Transmit a true Coppy thereof to the Bishop of the Diocese or his Chancellour Subscribed with their hands as aforesaid to the end the same may be faithfully preferved in the Registrie of the said Bishop which Certificate is to be received without Fee Can. 68 69. 29.30.70 The Common-Prayer is to be said Ministers to reade the Common-Prayer upon Holy-days and all Wednesdays and Fridays c. or sung reverently upon all Holy-days appointed by the Book of Common-Prayer and their Eves at the usual time of the days in such place of the Church as the people may be most Edified and all Ministers are to observe the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed by the said Book without diminishing or adding any thing and Ministers upon Wednesdays and Fridays weekly though they be not Holy-days are to say the Littany and give warning to the people to repair to the Church by the Tolling of a Bell and in the whole Service and Administration of the Holy Communion in all Colleges and Halls in both the Universities the Ceremonies c. prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer are to be duly observed without adding or diminishing any thing and all the Masters Fellows Schollers and Students of such Colleges and Halls in their Churches and Chapels upon all Sundays Holy-days and their Eves at the time of Divine Service must wear Surplices and the Graduates Hoods upon their Surplices according to their several Degrees Can. 14 15 16 17. No Minister not Licensed by the Bishop None to expound unl●ss he be a Licenc'd Preacher c. to Preach is to take upon him to expound any part of the Scripture but is to reade the Homilies without making a gloss upon them nor is any Minister to suffer any Man to Preach within his Church or Chapel but such as are Lawfully Licensed nor are the Deans Presidents and Residentiaries of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church to suffer any stranger to Preach without Lawfull Licence and if any such stranger in his Sermon Preach any thing contrary to the Word of God or the nine and thirty Articles of Religion the Dean or Residents shall by their Letter subscribed with some of ther Hands that heard him so soon as they can give notice thereof to the Bishop of the Diocese and the Church-Wardens and Side-men are to have a Book wherein they are to take care that every strange Minister that Preacheth in their Church shall subscribe his Name the day when he Preached and Bishop's Name from whom he had his Licence And no Preacher before he hath acquainted the Bishop of the Diocese and received his Order is purposely to Impugne any Doctrine delivered by any other Preacher in the same Church or any other near adjoyning and if any offend herein the party grieved or Church-Wardens are to acquaint the Bishop and not to suffer him to Preach there any more unless he promise to forbear all such matter of Contention till the Bishop take Order therein who is withall speed so to proceed that publick satisfaction may be made in the Congregation where the Offence was given and if either party offending do appeal he must not Preach Pendente Lite Can. 49 50 51 52 53. Every Parson Vicar or Curate upon Ministers to Catechise every Sunday before Evening Prayer and to Marry none without Licence or asking in the Church c. every Sunday and Holy-day before Evening Prayer is for half an hour or more to examine and instruct the Youth and Ignorant Persons of his Parish and teach them the Catechism set forth in the Book of Common-Prayer and if any Minister neglect for the first Offence he is to be sharply reproved by the Ordinary upon complaint made the second time wilfully offending is suspension and the third time Excommunication and all Fathers Mothers