PART shall be rehersed. And shall furthermore declare unto III. them, that they shall not be admytted to resave the blessed sacrament of the alter at Easter, tyll they can perfectlie reherse them all three by rote: and therfore everie gostelie father, accordinge to the king's Injunctions, muste everie Lent examen ther parochians, in time of confession, to knowe wheder they have learned the premisses perfytly, or

not.

Item, All curates muste continuallye call upon thaire parochians, to provide a booke of the hole Byble in Englyshe, of the largieste forme, within fourtie dayes nexte after the puplication hereof, that may be chayned in some open place in the churche, that all men may resorte to reade in it for theare instruction, under the payne of suspencion of ther churches. And the same to be boughte at the charges of the vicare or parsonne, and parochians, accordinge to the king's Injunctions.

Item, All curates muste cause one booke, comprisinge the Pater Noster and Ave Maria in Englishe, the Crede and the Tenne Commaundements in Englishe, to be set upon a table in the churche openlie, that all men may reasorte to learne them, at all such tymes as they woll. And this to be done, within twentie days after the puplication hereof.

Item, No curates, nor oder preistes of what sorte soever they be, shall haunte taverns or alehowses, or open hoistres, oder wayes than for necessarie meales and reflections; if they canne have none in oder places, accordinge to the king's highnes Injunctions; but shall occupie themselves, ether in the churche, or in thaire chambers, with reading of holy scripture, or teachinge of children.

Item, All curates and preistes, beinge in one churche togeddre, shall (if they can so provide) live togedder at one commons; and not one to be in one place, and ane oder in an oder place. And shall, in all theire behaviors, shew good example, in worde, dede, countenaunce and habyte, to the better edifienge of the laye-people.

Item, They shall not be common hunters ne hawkers, ne

playe at gammes prohibytede, as dycese and cartes, and BOOK suche oder.

Item, That they shall (accordinge to the king's highnes Injunctions) in no wise discorage any man to reade in the English Byble, which is the booke of lyefe; but shall comfort them therin: never the lesse exhorting them to entre in to the readinge thereof, withe the sperite of mekenes, and purpose to be gostelie edified. And not to be brablers ne praters, arguers ne disputers thereof; ne to presume that they know therin that they know not; but, for ther instruction, to resorte to such as be better lerned than they be, when they finde any dyfficultie therin.

Item, All curates and heades of congregations, religiouse and oder, privileged and oder, shall everie holy day reade the Gospell, and the Epistle of that day out of the Inglishe Byble, planely and distinctlie: and they that have such grace, shall make some declaracion odre, of the one, or of bothe, (if the time may serve) every holy day.

Item, Every curate, resident and hable, shall make 4 solempne sermons in the yeare, one everie quarter: not rescoent, havinnge 51. or 67. 13s. 4d. de claro, shall finde one solempne sermon for the instruction of the people, in the begyninge of Lent: havyng 10l. de claro, 2 solempne sermons; one in the begyning of Lent, an othur at sume othur time of the yere. Having 157. 3 sermons; one in the begynninge of Lent, thoder at two convenient tymes. Havinge 201. 4 sermons; one at Lent, thoder three, at three convenient times. Havinge 30l. de claro, 5 sermons; one at Lent, and the oder four at convenient times. Having 407. 6 sermons; one in the beginninge of Lent, and the oder five at convenient times. And as the cleare valew dothe encrease, so mo sermons.

And yet nevertheles we now monishe, under the payne of the lawe, all parsons and vicares to be resident upon theire curis, beinge within this dioces, afore the feaste of Christenmas next; oneles they can and do shew, afore that day, a lawfull cause, why they may not, or shoulde not do so.

Item, That none be admytted to kepe cure, ne to say

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PART masse in any churche of this dioces; oneles he be admitted by me, or my officer, havinge commission fro me for the same; and allso do shewe the lettes of his orders.

Item, That no man be admitted to preache within this dioces, onelesse he have auctorite under the king's seale, or myne, accordinge to the king's highnes Injunctions.

Item, All curates and oder, havinge charge of any congregacion, must diligentlie informe theire flocke, accordinge to the king's highnes Injunctions, that they may in no wise yelde worshippe to any images, lowtinge or bowinge downe, or knelinge to the saide images, ne offering to them any money, or wax lighte or unlighte, or any oder thing: for so muche, as offeringe is to be made to God onlie, and to no creature under God. Neverthelesse they may still use lightes in the roode lofete, and afore the sacrament, and at the sepulture at Easter; accordinge to the king's Injunctions so that they none use to the honer or worshippe of any image, ne by the way of offeringe made, odre to any image, or to any sainct represented by the same.

Item, They must teache theire flocke, that images be suffred onelie as bokes, by which our hertes may be kindeled to folow the holy steppes and examples of the saintes represented by the same; even as sainctes lives be written, and muste be redde in written bookes for the same purpose: and that, as we do not worshipe our booke when we have rede the saint's liefe; so likewise, we shall not worshipe the images, which is as the booke to them that cannot read in odre bokes.

Item, They muste declare to thaire flocke, that althoughe they see the image of the Fadre represented as an olde man, yet they maye in no wise beleve, that the hevenlie Father is any man, or that he haithe any bodie or age; but that he is a nature and substaunce, above all mesure passinge the capacite and undrestandinge, oder of mans witt or aungelles.

Item, Alle suche ymagies, to whiche any maner of resorte is usede, by waye of peregrenage or offeringe, they must depose and sequestre frome all sighte of men, and suffre them no more to be sett upp.

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Item, They must charge all the faders and moders, and BOOK heades of howse-holdes, and gode-fatheres, and gode-motheres, and scoole-maystres, accordinge to the king's highnes Injunctions, to see theire children, servantes and scoleres, well instructe in the Pater-Noster, Ave Maria, Crede, and Tenne Commandiments in Englishe, and all oder thinges compprised in theis Injunctions. And for that purpose, all curates and heades of congregacions, must ons in a quarter rede theis Injunctions, in the churche, in thaudience of all the people; aswell for the remembrance of theire owne dewtie, as for ther citinge the people to knowe theire dewtie. And we charge and commaunde all curates, and all oder of this dioces to whom it shall apperteigne, to have a copy of theis Injunctions, within fourtie days next followinge the puplication hereof. And when the same shall be imprinted, we charge them to have them so imprinted within sex days aftre the same shall come to thire knowledge, under payne of excommunication.

Item, They muste instructe their parochians, that they nothinge please God, but displease him; doeng workes onlie in thaire owne will and devocion, by man's tradicion, and leaving the workes by God commanded, undone.

Item, They muste instruct their flocke, that their confidence for thatteyning of everlasting lief, must be only in God, and in his grace and marcy, and in the merits and redemption of our Saviour Jesu Christe: and that none of our workes, as ours, have any efficacie or vertue to save us, but only have their vertue and efficacie by the grace of God, and merits of Christ's passion.

Item, All curates must openly, in the church, teach and instruct the mydwiefes, of the very wordes and fourme of baptisme; to thentente that they may use them perfietly, and none oder: in time of nede, that is to say; that they, naming the child, must say these wordes; John, or Thomas, or Agnes, I baptize thee in the name of the Fader, the Sonne, and the Holie Gost: and that saying thies wordes, they must cast water upon the child. For which purpose, they must have ready at hand a vessel of cleane water.

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Item, They must often upon the holidays, and specially at times of mariages, warn their parochians, that they in no wise make any privie contract of mariage, but afore two or three sufficient witnes required to be present for that purpose: and that afore they make any contract, they do their best endevour, to know wheder there be betwene them any lawfull impediment, oder by Godds lawe, or any oder ecclesiastical yet used, afore they entre to make any contract.

Item, That the fadres, and oder freyndes, constrayne not them that be under their correccion and governance, to marry agenst their willes, ne afore they have discretion to consider what the bounde of mariage meaneth.

Item, All curates and oder heddes of congregacyons must never ceasse to imprinte in the hertes of their flocke the two commaundiments which our Saviour calleth the fulnes of the lawe; that is, the love of God above all thing, and thei love of thye neighbore as thy self: and likewise the sayd curates must continuallie engrave in the hertes of their flocke the two preceptes of the lawe of nature; that is, do as thou wolde be done unto, and do not that thou wolldest not to be done unto the.

Item, They muste alway emploie them self to mainteyn charitie and peace in our Lorde Jesu amonges their parochians, and to avoide all rancor and dissention amongs them.

Item, That they in no wise kepe thoes dayes for holy whiche by our soveraigne lord the kynge opon juste consideracion be abrogat: ne asmoche as in them is suffer of their parochians to kepe them as holie, but that they in theme be occupied everie man in his busines, as in oder days according to the kinges highnes Injunctions.

Item, They muste instructe their flocke, that in those dayes whiche be observed and kept for holiedayes, they must utterlie withdrawe themselfes from all worldlie and fleshelie busines and occupacions, and houses of gammes and playes; speciallie frome all synne; and entierlie, and hollie emploie themselfes to goostelie works, behoveable for manis soule and that therefore taverns, vitailing-houses, may not thyes dayes be used and exercised, and speciallie