the next of her kinsfolks, or, for lack of knowledge of such, of her master or mistress where she serveth . . . And for the manner of marriages of any bishops, the same shall be allowed and approved by the metropolitan of the province, and also by such commissioners, as the Queen's Majesty thereunto shall appoint. And if any master or dean or any head of any college shall purpose to marry, the same shall not be allowed but by such to whom the visitation of the same doth properly belong...

XXX. Item, her Majesty being desirous to have the prelacy and clergy of this realm to be had as well in outward reverence, as otherwise regarded for the worthiness of their ministries . . . willeth and commandeth that all archbishops and bishops, and all that may be called or admitted to preaching or ministry of the sacraments, or that be admitted into vocation ecclesiastical or into any society of learning in either of the universities or elsewhere, shall use and wear such seemly habits, garments, and such square caps, as were most commonly and orderly received in the latter year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth; ..., XLIII. Item, Forasmuch as in these latter days many have been made priests being children and otherwise utterly unlearned, so that they could read to say matins or mass, the ordinaries shall not admit any such to any cure or spiritual function.

XLIV. Item, every parson, vicar and curate shall upon every holy-day, and every second Sunday in the year, hear and instruct all the youth of the parish . . . in the Ten Commandments, the Articles of the Belief, and in the Lord's Prayer, and diligently examine them, and teach the Catechism set forth in the book of public prayer.

LI. Item, Because there is a great abuse in the printers of books ... the Queen's Majesty straitly chargeth and commandeth that no manner of person shall print any manner of book or paper . . . except the same be first licensed by her Majesty by express words in writing, or by six of her Privy Council; or be perused and licensed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London, the Chancellors of both Universities, the bishop being ordinary and the archdeacon also of the place where any such shall be printed, or by two of them, whereof the ordinary of the place to be always

one . . . And because many pamphlets, plays and ballads be oftentimes printed . . . her Majesty likewise commandeth that no manner of person shall enterprise to print any such, except the same be to him licensed by such her Majesty's commissioners, or three of them, as be appointed in the city of London to hear and determine divers causes ecclesiastical, tending to the execution of certain statutes made last parliament for uniformity of order in religion . . . And touching all other books of matters of religion or policy or governance, . . . her Majesty referreth the prohibition or remission thereof to the order which her said commissioners within the city of London shall take and notify ... Provided that these orders do not extend to any profane authors and works in any language, that have been heretofore commonly received or allowed in any of the Universities and schools, but the same may be printed and used as by good order they were accustomed.

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An admonition to simple men, deceived by malicious.

The Queen's Majesty being informed that . . . sundry of her native subjects, being called to ecclesiastical ministry of the church, be... induced to find some scruple in the form of an oath, which by an Act' of the last Parliament is prescribed to be required of divers persons for the recognition of their allegiance to her Majesty,... forbiddeth all manner her subjects to give ear or credit to such . . . persons which . . . labour to notify to her loving subjects how by words of the said oath it may be collected that the Kings or Queens of this realm . . . may challenge authority and power of ministry of divine service in the church ... For certainly her Majesty neither doth nor ever will challenge any authority than that was challenged and lately used by the noble kings of famous memory, King Henry the Eighth and King Edward the Sixth, which is and was of ancient time due to the imperial crown of this realm, that is, under God to have the sovereignty and rule over all manner of persons born within these her realms, . . . so as no other foreign power shall or ought to have any superiority over them . . .

1 1 Eliz. 1. § 9.

For tables in the church.

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Whereas her Majesty understandeth that in many parts of the realm the altars of the churches be removed, and tables placed for the administration of the Holy Sacrament, according to the form of the law therefore provided, and in some other places the altars be not yet removed; . . in the order whereof, saving for an uniformity, there seemeth no matter of great moment, so that the sacrament be duly and reverently ministered; yet for observation of one uniformity through the whole realm. . . it is ordered. . . that the holy table in every church be decently made, and set in the place where the altar stood, . . . and so to stand, saving when the communion of the sacrament is to be distributed; at which time the same shall be so placed within the chancel, as whereby the minister may be more conveniently heard... and the communicants also more conveniently and in more number communicate with the said minister. And after the communion done, from time to time the same holy table to be placed where it stood before.

Item, . . . It is ordered . . . that the sacramental bread be made plain, without any figure thereupon, of the same fineness and fashion round, though somewhat bigger in compass and thickness, as the usual bread and water heretofore named singing cakes, which served for the use of the private mass.

The form of bidding the prayers to be used generally in this uniform sort: Ye shall pray [&c.] ...

Sparrow's Articles, p. 65.

3. Summons to Convocation, 1562.

Elizabetha, Dei gratia [&c.], reverendissimo in Christo Patri Matthaeo eadem gratia Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, totius Angliae Primati et Metropolitano, salutem. Quibusdam arduis et urgentibus negotiis nos, securitatem et defensionem Ecclesiae Anglicanae ac pacem et tranquillitatem, bonum publicum et defensionem regni nostri et subditorum nostrorum ejusdem concernentibus, vobis in fide et dilectione quibus nobis tenemini rogando mandamus, quatenus, praemissis debito intuitu attentis et ponderatis, universos et singulos episcopos vestrae provinciae ac decanos ecclesiarum cathedralium, necnon archidiaconos, capitula et collegia totumque clerum cujuslibet

dioceseos ejusdem provinciae ad comparendum coram vobis in ecclesia cathedrali S. Pauli Lond., duodecimo die Januarii ex futuro, debito more convocari faciatis, ad tractandum consentiendum et concludendum super praemissis et aliis quae sibi clarius exponentur tunc ibidem ex parte nostra. Et hoc, sicut nos et statum regni nostri et honorem et utilitatem ecclesiae praedictae diligitis, nullatenus omittatis. Teste meipsa, apud Westmon. xi. die Novemb. anno regni nostri quarto. Strype, Parker, I. p. 236.

4. Convocation of 1563: Puritan demands.

I. That all the Sundays in the year, and principal feasts of Christ be kept holydays, and all other holydays to be abrogated..

II. That in all parish churches the minister in common prayer turn his face toward the people, and there distinctly read the divine service appointed, where all the people assembled may hear and be edified.

III. That in ministering the sacrament of baptism the ceremony of making the cross in the child's forehead may be omitted, as tending to superstition.

IV. That, forasmuch as divers communicants are not able to kneel during the time of the communion for age, sickness and sundry other infirmities, and some also superstitiously both kneel and knock, that order of kneeling to be left to the discretion of the ordinary within his jurisdiction.

V. That it be sufficient for the minister, in time of saying divine service and ministering the sacraments, to use a surplice, and that no minister say service or minister the sacraments but in a comely garment or habit.

VI. That the use of organs be removed.

Strype, Annals, I. p. 502.

5. Parker's Advertisements, 1565.

Advertisements partly for due order in the public administration of common prayer and using the holy sacraments, and

These articles were brought into the Lower House of Convocation, Feb. 13, 1563, and rejected by a majority of one vote (58 for, 59 against). A previous petition, signed by thirty-three members of the Lower House, had demanded among other things, the total abolition of surplices and square caps (Strype, Annals, I. pp. 500-505).

An earlier draft of these advertisements, differing in some particulars, is printed in Strype, Parker, III. p. 84.

partly for the apparel of all persons ecclesiastical, by virtue of the Queen's Majesty's letters commanding the same, the 25th day of January in the seventh year of the reign of our sovereign lady Elizabeth [&c.].

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The Queen's Majesty, of her godly zeal calling to remembrance how necessary it is to the advancement of God's glory and to the establishment of Christ's pure religion, for all her loving subjects, especially the state ecclesiastical, to be knit together in one perfect unity of doctrine and to be conjoined in one uniformity of rites and manners, . . . hath by her letters' directed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury... straitly charged that, with assistance and conference had with other bishops, namely such as be in commission for causes ecclesiastical, some orders might be taken whereby all diversities and varieties among them of the clergy and the people... might be reformed ... Whereupon . . . by consent of the persons before said, these orders and rules ensuing have been thought meet and convenient to be used and followed; not yet prescribing these rules as laws equivalent with the eternal word of God and as of necessity to bind the consciences of her subjects in the nature of them considered in themselves, or as they should add any efficacy or more holiness to the virtue of public prayer and to the sacraments, but as temporal orders mere ecclesiastical, without any vain superstition, and as rules in some part of discipline concerning decency, distinction and order for the time.

I. Articles for doctrine and preaching".

(1) First, That all they which shall be admitted to preach, shall be diligently examined for their conformity in unity of doctrine, established by public authority; and admonished to use sobriety and discretion in teaching the people, namely in matters of controversy..

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(4) Item, That all licenses for preaching granted out by the archbishops and bishops within the province of Canterbury, bearing date before 1 March, 1564, be void and of none effect;

See the letter alluded to in Parker Correspondence, p. 223.

2 Cf. Strype, Parker, I. pp. 313, 430; text in III. p. 84.

This is preceded in Strype's draft by three sections declaring the validity of the thirty-nine articles and enacting that all clergymen shall declare their adhesion to them.