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 whatsoever, and fhall be accounted as good records as this Book itself hereunto annexed; any law or custom to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding.

29. Provided alfo, That this Act, or any thing therein. contained, fhall not be prejudicial or hurtful unto the King's Profeffor of 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 bleffed memory.

30. Provided always, That whereas the fix 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 establishing of confent touching true religion, is in these words following, viz.

That the Book of Confecration of Archbishops 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 confecration and ordaining, neither bath it any thing that of itself is fuperftitious and ungodly: and therefore whosoever 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 ordered;

31. It be enacted, and be it therefore enacted by the authority aforefaid, That all fubfcriptions hereafter to be had or made unto the faid Articles by any Deacon, Priest, or ecclefiaftical perfon, or other perfon whatsoever, who by this Act, or any other law now in force, is required to fubfcribe unto the faid Articles, fhall be conftrued, and taken to extend, and fhall be applied (for and touching the faid fix and thirtieth Article) unto the Book containing the form and manner of making, ordaining, and confecrating of Bishops, Priefts, and Deacons, in this Act mentioned,

in fuch fort and manner as the fame did heretofore extend unto the Book set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth, mentioned in the said fix and thirtieth Article; any thing in the faid Article, or in any ftatute, act, or canon heretofore had or made, to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding.

32. Provided also, That the Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, together with the Form and Manner of Ordaining and Confecrating Bishops, Priefts, and Deacons, heretofore in ufe, and respectively established by Act of Parliament in the firft and eighth years of Queen Elizabeth, fhall be still 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 thousand fix hundred fixty and two,

13 Eliz.

13 Eliz. Cap. xii.

An Act for the Minifters of the Church to be of found
Religion.

THAT
THAT the churches of the Queen's Majefty's domi-
nions may be ferved with Paftors of found religion,
be it enacted, by the authority of this prefent Parliament,
That every person under the degree of a Bifhop, which
doth or fhall pretend to be a Prieft or Minifter of God's
holy Word and Sacraments, by reafon of any other form
of inftitution, confecration, or ordering, than the form fet
forth by Parliament in the time of the late King of most
worthy memory, King Edward the Sixth, or now used in
the reign of our moft gracious Sovereign Lady, before the
feaft of the Nativity of Chrift next following, fhall, in the
presence of the Bishop or Guardian of the Spiritualities of
fome one diocese where he hath or shall have ecclefiaftical
living, declare his affent, and fubfcribe to all the Articles
of Religion, which only concern the confeffion of the
true Chriftian faith, and the doctrine of the Sacraments,
comprised in a book imprinted, intituled, Articles, where-
upon it was agreed by the Archbishops and Bishops of both
Provinces, and the whole Clergy, in the Convocation bolden
at London, in the year of our Lord God one thousand five
bundred fixty and two, according to the computation of the
Church of England, for the avoiding of the diverfities of opi-
nions, and for the establishing of confent touching true Reli-
gion, put forth by the Queen's Authority: and fhall bring
from fuch Bishop or Guardian of Spiritualities, in writing,
under his feal authentic, a teftimonial of fuch affent and
fubfcription, and openly on fome Sunday, in the time of
the public fervice, afore noon, in every church where by
reafon of any ecclefiaftical living he ought to attend, read
both the faid teftimonial and the faid Articles, upon pain
that every fuch perfon which fhall not before the faid feaft
do as is above appointed, fhall be ipfo facto deprived, and
all his ecclefiaftical promotions fhall be void, as if he then
were naturally dead.

2. And that if any perfon ecclefiaftical, or which fhall have ecclefiaftical living, fhall advisedly maintain or affirm any doctrine directly contrary or repugnant to any of the faid Articles, and being convented before the Bishop of

the diocese, or the Ordinary, or before the Queen's Highnefs' Commiffioners in caufes ecclefiaftical, fhall perfift therein, or not revoke his error, or after fuch revocation eftfoon affirm fuch untrue doctrine, fuch maintaining or affirming, and perfifting, or fuch eftfoon affirming, fhall be juft caufe to deprive fuch perfon of his ecclefiaftical promotions; and it fhall be lawful to the Bishop of the diocefe, or the Ordinary, or the faid Commiffioners, to deprive fuch person so perfifting, or lawfully convicted of fuch eftfoons affirming, and, upon fuch fentence of deprivation pronounced, he fhall be indeed deprived.

3. And that no perfon fhall hereafter be admitted to any benefice with cure, except he then be of the age of three and twenty years at the least, and a Deacon, and hall firft have fubfcribed the faid Articles, in prefence of the Ordinary, and publicly read the fame in the parishchurch of that benefice, with declaration of his unfeigned affent to the fame and that every perfon after the end of this feffion of Parliament, to be admitted to a benefice with cure, except that within two months after his induction he do publicly read the faid Articles in the famé church whereof he fhall have cure, in the time of Common Prayer there, with declaration of his unfeigned affent thereunto, and be admitted to minifter the Sacraments within one year after his induction, if he be not fo admitted before, fhall be upon every fuch default, ipso facto, immediately deprived.

4. And that no perfon now permitted by any difpenfation, or otherwife, fhall retain any benefice with cure, being under the age of one and twenty years, or not being Deacon at the leaft, or which fhall not be admitted as is aforefaid, within one year next after the making of this Act, or within fix months after he thall accomplish the age of four and twenty years; on pain that fuch his difpenfation fhall be merely void.

5. And that none fhall be made Minifter, or admitted to preach or adminifter the Sacraments, being under the age of four and twenty years, nor unless be first bring to the Bishop of that diocefe, from men known to the Bishop to be of found religion, a teftimonial both of his honest life, and of his profeffing the doctrine expreffed in the said Articles: nor unless he be able to answer and render to the Ordinary an account of his faith, in Latin, according to the faid Articles, or have fpecial gift or ability to be a Preacher: nor fhall be admitted to the order of Deacon or Ministry, unless he shall firft fubfcribe to the faid Articles.

6. And that none hereafter fhall be admitted to any benefice with cure, of or above the value of thirty pounds yearly in the Queen's Books, unlefs he fhall then be a Bachelor of Divinity, or a Preacher lawfully allowed by fome Bishop within this realm, or by one of the Univerfities of Cambridge or Oxford.

7. And that all admiffions to benefices, inftitutions, and inductions, to be made of any perfon, contrary to the form or any provifion of this Act, and all tolerations, difpenfations. qualifications, and licences whatfoever to be made to the contrary hereof, fhall be merely void in law, as if they never were.

8. Provided alway, That no title to confer or prefent by lapfe fhall accrue upon any deprivation ipfo facto, but after fix months after notice of fuch deprivation given by the Ordinary to the Patron.

23 Geo. II. Cap. xxviii.

An Act to explain part of an Act paffed in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of the Reign of King Charles the Second, for the Uniformity of Public Prayers, and Adminiftration of Sacraments; and alfo Part of an A&t paffed in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, for the Minifters of the Church to be of found Religion.

WHE

HEREAS by an Act paffed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of the late King Charles the Second, intituled, An Act for the Uniformity of Public Prayers, and Administration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies; and for establishing the Form of Making, Ordaining, and Confecrating Bifhops, Priests, and Deacons, in the Church of England; it was enacted, That every person who fhould thereafter be prefented or collated, or put into any ecclefiaftical benefice or promotion, within England, the dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick upon Tweed, fhould, in the church, chapel, or place of public worship, belonging to his faid benefice or promotion, within two months next after that he fhall be in the actual poffeffion of the faid ecclefiaftical benefice or promotion, upon fome Lord's day, openly, publicly, and folemnly, read the Morning and Evening Prayers ap pointed to be read by and according to the Book of Common Prayer, at the times thereby appointed, or to be appointed;