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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 Parishes thall pay out of the Parifh-money in their hands for the ufe of the refpective Churches, and be allowed the fame on their Account; and, That the faid Bifhops and their Succeffors, or any Three of them, at the least, shall fet and appoint the price, for which the faid 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 First day of May, One thousand fix hundred fixty and four, and the Book to remain in fuch convenient places, within the faid Churches, that fuch as underftand them may refort at all convenient times to read and perufe the fame, and alfo fuch as do not underftand 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, eftablished by Parliament before the making of this Act, shall be used as fornerly in fuch parts of Wales, where the English Tongue is not commonly underflood.

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

nexed, may be fafely kept, and perpetually preferved, 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 preferved in fafety for ever, and to be alfo produced, and thewed forth in any Court of Record, as often as they fhall be thereunto lawfully required; And alfo there fhall be delivered true and perfect Copies of this Act, and of the fame Book into the refpective 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, fo 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 Book, or of any thing therein contained, and fhall certify in

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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 said 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 Cuftom to the contrary in any wife hotwithstanding. to bonisal

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 University 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.

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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 thoufand five hundred fixty two, for the avoiding of diverfities of opinions, and for establishing of confent, touching true Religion, is in thefe words following, viz.

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"That the Book of Confecration of Archbishops, and Bishops, and Ordaining of Priests "and Deacons, lately set forth in the time of

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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 cof delf is fuperftitious, and ungodly;

And therefore whofoever are Confecrated or "Ordered according to the Rites of that Book, "Gince the fecond year of the aforenamed King

Edward unto this time, or chereafter fhall be "Confecrated or Ordered according to the fame Rites; We decree all fuch to be rightly, "orderly, and lawfully Confecrated and Or dered; tlter"

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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 whatsoever, who by this A&, or any other Law now in force, is required to fubfcribe unto the faid Articles, fhall be con ftrued and haken to extend, and fhall be applied (for and touching the faid Six and thirtieth Are ticle) unto the Book containing the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Confecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, in the Act mentioned, in fuch fort and manner as the fame did heretofore extend unto the Book fet forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth, mentioned

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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, Priests, and Deacons, heretofore in ufe, and refpectively established by Act of Parliament in the First and Eighth years of Queen Elizabeth, fhall 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 spirit that enraged the Jews to crucify their Meffiah; despair and mifrepresentation is capable, and history informs us, productive of innumerable tragical scenes, as is known. These Acts have been fimilar to the Imperial Edicts in the first three Centuries of Chriftianity. The many executions, which are authentically attefted, with the thousands that are at this inftant obliged to feek bread, though of the first families, many of them in foreign fervice, through thefe bloody edits, is a ftigma that will ever entail infamy, and, if the greatest politicians mistake not, the deftruction of our Nation. Every Proteftant State, for fome time past, have found, according to true policy, that Catholic alliances

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