Likewife in chapels annexed, and all other places, there fhall be no celebration of the Lord's Supper, except there be fome to communicate with the Priest. And in fuch chapels annexed where the people hath not been accustomed to pay any holy bread, there they must either make fome charitable provifion for the bearing of the charges of the Communion, or elfe (for receiving of the fame) refort to their parish Church.

For avoiding of all matters and occafion of diffenfion, it is meet that the bread prepared for the Communion be made, through all this realm, after one fort and fashion: that is to fay, unleavened, and round, as it was afore, but without all manner of print, and fomething more larger and thicker than it was, fo that it may be aptly divided in divers pieces: and every one fhall be divided in two pieces, at the leaft, or more, by the difcretion of the minifter, and fo diftributed. And men must not think lefs to be received in part than in the whole, but in each of them the whole body of our Saviour Jesu Chrift.

And forfomuch as the Paftors and Curates within this realm fhall continually find at their cofts and charges in their cures fufficient bread and wine for the holy Communion (as oft as their parishioners fhall be difpofed for their spiritual comfort to receive

the fame) it is therefore ordered, that in recompenfe of fuch costs and charges, the parishioners of every parifh fhall offer every Sunday, at the time of the offertory, the juft valour and price of the holy loaf (with all fuch money and other things as were wont to be offered with the fame) to the use of their pastors and curates, and that in fuch order and courfe, as they were wont to find and pay the faid holy loaf.

Alfo that the receiving of the Sacrament of the blessed body and blood of Chrift, may be most agreeable to the inftitution thereof, and to the ufage of the primitive Church: In all Cathedral and Collegiate churches, there fhall always fome communicate with the Priest that miniftereth. And that the fame may be alfo obferved everywhere abroad in the country: Some one at the least of that house in every parish, to whom by course, after the ordinance herein made, it appertaineth to offer for the charges of the Communion, or fome other whom they shall provide to offer for them, shall receive the holy Communion with the Priest: the which may be the better done, for that they know before, when their courfe cometh, and may therefore difpofe themselves to the worthy receiving of the Sacrament. And with him or them who doth fo offer the charges of the Communion, all other, who be then Godly difpofed thereunto, shall like

wife receive the Communion. And by this means the Minifter having always fome to communicate with him, may accordingly folemnize so high and holy myfteries, with all the fuffrages and due order appointed for the fame. And the Priest on the week day fhall forbear to celebrate the Communion, except he have fome that will communicate with him.

Furthermore, every man and woman to be bound to hear and be at the divine fervice, in the Parish Church where they be refident, and there with devout prayer, or Godly filence and meditation, to occupy themselves. There to pay their duties, to communicate once in the year at the leaft, and there to receive and take all other Sacraments and rites, in this book appointed. And whosoever willingly, upon no just cause, doth absent themselves, or doth ungodly in the Parish Church occupy themfelves upon proof thereof, by the Ecclefiaftical laws of the realm, to be excommunicate, or fuffer punishment, as fhall to the Ecclefiaftical judge (according to his difcretion) feem convenient.

And although it be read in ancient writers, that the people, many years paft, received at the Priest's hands the Sacrament of the body of Chrift in their own hands, and no commandment of Chrift to the contrary: Yet forafmuch as they many times conveyed the fame fecretly away, kept it with them, and

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diverfely abufed it to fuperftition and wickedness: left any fuch thing hereafter should be attempted, and that an uniformity might be used throughout the whole realm, it is thought convenient the people commonly receive the Sacrament of Christ's body in their mouths, at the Priest's hand.

POSTSCRIPT.

UCH then was the living rule for the ornaments of divine fervice in the Church of England during the years

1548 and 1549—the former, the fecond, the latter, the third year of King Edward the Sixth, and the years following. As fuch it furnished the church in which, and the minifter by whom, the divine fervice was executed, with fitting inftruments and utenfils, furniture and vestments, wherewith and whereby to carry that service on. And it does fo ftill to those who, following the direction of convocation and Parliament in 1662, are willing that it shall still so do.

Now when we remember that the Church claims her worldly poffeffions, her finews of civil ftrength, her lordships and manors, her bishops' palaces, and caftles, her deaneries, her canons' refidences, her chapter eftates, her petty canons' colleges, her house-property, her Church patronage, her Church leafes, her glebes and glebe houses, her prebendal houses on the old prebends, her parfonages, her rectorial and vicarial rights,