authority to admit, inftitute, collate, inftall, or to confirm the election of any Archbishop, Bifhop, or other perfon or perfons, to any Spiritual or Ecclefiaftical function, dignity, promotion, title, office, jurifdiction, place, or benefice with cure or without cure, or to any Ecclefiaftical living whatsoever, fhall, before every fuch admiffion, inftitution, collation, installation, or confirmation of election, respectively minifter to every person hereafter to be admitted, inftituted, collated, inftalled, or confirmed in or to any Archbishopric, Bishopric, or other Spiritual or Ecclefiaftical function, dignity, promotion, title, office, jurisdiction, place, or benefice with cure or without cure, or in or to any Ecclefiaftical living whatsoever, this oath, in manner and form following, the fame to be taken by every one whom it concerneth in his own person, and not by a Proctor: IN. N. do fear, that I have made no Simoniacal payment, contract, or promife, directly or indirectly, by myself, or by any other, to my knowledge, or with my confent, to any perfon or perfons whatsoever, for or concerning the procuring and obtaining of this Ecclefiaftical dignity, place, preferment, office, or living, (refpectively and particularly naming the fame whereunto he is to be admitted, inftituted, collated, in stalled, or confirmed,) nor will at any time hereafter perform or fatisfy any fuch kind of payment, contract, or promife made by any other without my knowledge or confent: So help me God, through Jefus Chrift.

41. Licences for Plurality of Benefices limited, and Refidence enjoined.

N TO Licence or Difpenfation for the keeping of more Benefices with cure than one, fhall be granted to any but fuch only as fhall be thought very well worthy for his learning, and very well able and fufficient to discharge his duty; that is, who fhall have taken the degree of a Mafter of Arts at the leaft in one of the Univerfities of this realm, and be a public and fufficient Preacher licensed. Provided always, that he be by a good and fufficient caution bound to make his perfonal refidence in each his faid Benefices for fome reasonable time in every year; and that the faid Benefices be not more than thirty miles diftant afunder; and laftly, that he have under him in the Benefice, where he doth not refide, a Preacher lawfully allowed, that is able fufficiently to teach and inftruct the people.

42. Refidence

42. Refidence of Deans in their Churches. EVERY Dean, Mafter, or Warden, or chief Governor of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church, fhall be refident in his faid Cathedral or Collegiate Church four core and ten days conjunctim or divifim in every year at the leaft, and then fhall continue there in preaching the Word of God, and keeping good hofpitality, except he shall be otherwife let with weighty and urgent caufes, to be approved by the Bishop of the diocefe, or in any other lawful fort difpenfed with. And when he is prefent, he, with the reft of the Canons or Prebendaries refident, fhall take special care that the ftatutes and laudable customs of their Church, (not being contrary to the Word of God, or Prerogative Royal,) the ftatutes of this realm being in force concerning Ecclefiaftical Order, and all other Conftitutions now fet forth and confirmed by his Majefty's authority, and fuch as fhall be lawfully enjoined by the Bishop of the diocefe in his vifitation, according to the ftatutes and cuftoms of the fame Church, or the Ecclefiaftical laws of this realm, be diligently obferved; and that the Petty Canons, Vicars Choral, and other Minifters of their Church, be urged to the study of the holy Scriptures; and every one of them to have the New Teftament not only in English, but also in Latin.

43. Deans and Prebendaries to preach during their Refidence.

THE Dean, Mafter, Warden, or chief Governor, Preben

daries, and Canons in every Cathedral and Collegiate Church, fhall not only preach there in their own perfons fo often as they are bound by law, ftatute, ordinance, or cuftom, but shall likewife preach in other Churches of the fame diocefe where they are refident, and especially in those places whence they or their Church receive any yearly rents or profits. And in cafe they themselves be fick, or lawfully abfent, they fhall fubftitute fuch licensed Preachers to fupply their turns, as by the Bishop of the diocese fhall be thought meet to preach in Cathedral Churches. And if any otherwife neglect or omit to fupply his courfe, as is aforefaid, the offender fhall be punished by the Bifhop, or by him or them to whom the jurifdiction of that Church appertaineth, according to the quality of the offence.

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44. Prebendaries to be refident upon their Benefices.

NO Prebendaries nor Canons in Cathedral or Collegiate

Churches having one or more Benefices with Cure, (and not being Refidentiaries in the fame Cathedral or Collegiate Churches,) fhall, under colour of their faid Prebends, abfent themselves from their Benefices with Cure above the space of one month in the year, unless it be for fome urgent caufe, and certain time to be allowed by the Bishop of the diocefe. And fuch of the faid Canons and Prebendaries, as by the ordinances of the Cathedral or Collegiate Churches do ftand bound to be refident in the fame, fhall fo among themselves fort and proportion the times of the year, concerning refidency to be kept in the said Churches, as that fome of them always fhall be perfonally refident there; and that all thofe who be, or fhall be, Refidentiaries in any Cathedral or Collegiate Church, fhall, after the days of their refidency appointed by their local ftatutes or customs expired, prefently repair to their Benefices, or fome one of them, or to fome other charge where the law requireth their prefence, there to difcharge their duties according to the laws in that cafe provided. And, the Bishop of the diocefe fhall fee the fame to be duly performed and put in execution.

45. Beneficed Preachers, being refident upon their Livings, to preach every Sunday.

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VERY beneficed man allowed to be a Preacher, and refiding on his Benefice, having no lawful impediment, fhall in his own Cure, or in fome other Church or Chapel, where he may conveniently, near adjoining, (where no Preacher is,) preach one Sermon every Sunday of the year; wherein he thall foberly and fincerely divide the word of truth, to the glory of God, and to the beft edification of the people.

46. Beneficed Men, not Preachers, to procure monthly
Sermons.

E VERY beneficed man, not allowed to be a Preacher, shall procure Sermons to be preached in his Cure once in every month at the leaft, by Preachers lawfully licensed, if his living, in the judgment of the Ordinary, will be able to bear it. And upon every Sunday, when there shall

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not be a Sermon preached in his Cure, he or his Curate fhall read fome one of the Homilies prefcribed or to be prescribed by authority, to the intents aforefaid.

47. Abfence of beneficed Men to be fupplied by Curates that are allowed Preachers.

EVERY beneficed man, licensed by the laws of this realm, upon urgent occafions of other fervice not to refide upon his Benefice, fhall caufe his Cure to be fupplied by a Curate that is a fufficient and licensed Preacher, if the worth of the Benefice will bear it. But whofoever hath two Benefices fhall maintain a Preacher licenfed in the Benefice where he doth not refide, except he preach himself at both of them ufually.

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48. None to be Curates but allowed by the Bishop.

[O Curate or Minifter fhall be permitted to ferve in any place, without examination and admiffion of the Bishop of the diocefe, or Ordinary of the place, having epifcopal jurifdiction, in writing under his hand and feal, having refpect to the greatnefs of the Cure, and meetnefs of the Party. And the faid Curates and Minifters, if they remove from one diocese to another, fhall not be by any means admitted to ferve without teftimony of the Bishop of the diocefe, or Ordinary of the place, as aforefaid, whence they came, in writing, of their honefty, ability, and conformity to the Ecclefiaftical Laws of the Church of England. Nor fhall any ferve more than one Church or Chapel upon one day, except that Chapel be a member of the Parith-church, or united thereunto; and unless the faid Church or Chapel, where fuch a Minister shall serve in two places, be not able in the judgment of the Bishop or Ordinary, as aforefaid, to maintain a Curate.

49. Miniflers, not allowed Preachers, may not expound.

No perfon whatsoever not examined and approved by

the Bishop of the diocese, or not licenfed, as is aforefaid, for a fufficient or convenient Preacher, fhall take upon him to expound in his own Cure, or elsewhere, any Scripture or matter of Doctrine; but fhall only study to read plainly and aptly (without gloffing or adding) the Homilies already fet forth, or hereafter to be published by lawful authority, for the confirmation of the true faith,

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and for the good inftruction and edification of the people.

50. Strangers not admitted to preach without fhewing their

Licence.

N [EITHER the Minifter, Church-wardens, nor any other Officers of the Church, fhall fuffer any man to preach within their Churches or Chapels, but such as, by fhewing their Licence to preach, fhall appear unto them to be fufficiently authorized thereunto, as is aforefaid.

51. Strangers not admitted to preach in Cathedral Churches without fufficient Authority.

THE Deans, Prefidents, and Refidentiaries of any Cathe

dral or Collegiate Church, fhall fuffer no Stranger to preach unto the people in their Churches, except they be allowed by the Archbishop of the province, or by the Bishop of the fame diocefe, or by either of the Univerfities. And if any in his Sermon fhall publifh any doctrine, either ftrange, or difagreeing from the Word of God, or from any of the Articles of Religion agreed upon in the Convocation-houfe, Anno 1562, or from the Book of Common Prayer; the Dean or the Refidents fhall, by their letters fubfcribed with fome of their hands that heard him, fo foon as may be, give notice of the fame to the Bishop of the diocefe, that he may determine the matter, and take fuch order therein, as he fhall think convenient.

52. The Names of ftrange Preachers to be noted in a Book,

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HAT the Bishop may understand (if occafion so require) what Sermons are made in every Church of his diocefe, and who prefume to preach without Licence, the Church-wardens and Sidemen fhall fee that the Names of all Preachers, which come to their Church. from any other place, be noted in a Book, which they fhall have ready for that purpose; wherein every Preacher fhall fubfcribe his Name, the Day when he preached, and the Name of the Bishop of whom he had Licence to preach.