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(4)duty to be performed by him, the value of the Benefice, and the othercircumstances of the case, a sufficient salary, according to the powervested in you by the Laws of the Church, and the particular directionof the Act of Parliament for the better maintenance of Curates.XI. That you take care, as much as is possible, that whosoever isadmitted to serve any Cure, do reside in the Parish where he is toserveespecially in Livings that are able to support a resident Curate:And where that cannot be done, that he do at least reside so near tothe place, that he may conveniently perform all the Duties both in the;Church and Parish.Xn. That you be very cautious in accepting Resignations ; and endeavour with the utmost care, by every legal method, to guard againstcorrupt and simoniacal Presentations to Benefices.Xin. That you require your Clergy to wear their proper Habits,preserving always an evident and decent distinction from the Laity intheir Appareland to show in their whole behaviour, that seriousness,gravity, and prudence, which becomes their functionabstaining fromall unsuitable Company and Diversions.These Directions I desire you would, with all convenient speed,communicate to the Clergy of your Diocese, assuring them, that it isyour fixed resolution to make them the rule of your own practice.Inthe mean time, commending you to the Divine Blessing,;;Iremain,myYourLord,truly aflectionate Brother,Tho. Cant.Lambeth,May8,1759.
FORMSOftheOaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, andCanonical Obedience, &c.PROCLAMATIONDeclaring that the Proceedings of his MajestiesEcclesiasticalCourts and Ministers, areaccording to theLawsof the Realm.LONDON:Imprinted by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty.MDCXXXVH.1
The Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, andCanonical Obedience,The OathA. B.of Allegiance.Dotruly and sincerely acknowledge, profess,and declare in ray Conscience before God and theWorld, That our Sovereign Lord King CHARLES islawful and rightful King of this Realm, and of all otherhis Majesties Dominions and Countries: And that thePope, neither of himself, nor by any Authority of the Church or Seaof Rome, or by any other means with any other, hath any Power orAuthority to depose the King, or to dispose any of his MajestiesKingdoms or Dominions, or to authorize any Foreign Prince to invadeor annoy him or his Countries, or to discharge any of his Subjects oftheir Allegiance and Obedience to his Majesty, or to give license orleave to any of them to bear Arms, raise Tumults, or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royal Person, State or Government, orto any of his Majesties Subjects within his Majesties Dominions.testifiedo swear from my heart, that notwithstanding any DeclaraExcommunication or Deprivation made or granted,or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successours, or by anyAuthority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his Sea,against the said King, his Heirs or Successours, or any Absolution ofthe said Subjects from their Obedience; I will bear faith and trueAllegiance to his Majesty, his heirs and Successours, and him andthem will defend to the uttermost of my power, against all Conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his ortheir Persons, their Crown and Dignity, by reason or colour of anysuch Sentence or Declaration, or otherwiseand will do my best enAlsoItion or sentence of;
THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.deavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty, his Heirs andSuccessours, all Treasons and Traiterous Conspirades which I shallknow or hear of, to be against him or any of them.do further swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest andand heretical, this damnable Doctrine and Position,that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, maybe deposed or murthered by their Subjects, or any other whatsoever.AndIabjure, as impiousAnd I do believe, and in Conscience am resolved, Tliat neither thePope, nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of thisOath, or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and fullAuthority to be lawfully administred unto me, and do renounce allPardons and Dispensations to the contrary. And all these things I doplainly and sincerely acknowledge, and swear according to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and commonsense and understanding of the same words, without any equivocationor mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoeverAnd I do makethis Recognition and acknowledgment heartily, willingly and truly,upon the true faith of a Christian. So help me God, &c.:The Oathof Supremacy.Do utterly testifie and declare in my conscience. ThatHighness is the only supreme Governor of this Realm,and of all other his Highness Dominions and Countries, as well in allSpiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes, as TemporalAnd that noForeign Prince, Person, Prelate, State or Potentate, hath or ought tohave any Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority, Pre-eminence or AuthorityIA. B.the Kings:Ecclesiastical or SpiritualwithinthisRealm:Andtheretbre{doForaign Jurisdictions, Powers, Superiorities and Authorities, and do promise from henceforth 1 shall bearfaith and true Allegiance to the Kings Highness, his Heirs and lawfulSuccessours, and to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions,Priviledges, Pre-eminences and Authorities granted, or belonging toutterly renounce and forsakeall
THE OATH OF SUPREMACY.the Kings Highness, his Heirs and Successours, or united and annexedCrown of this Realm. So help me God and the Con-to the ImperialtentsofthisBook.The OathIA. B.Doswear thatIof Simony.have made no Simoniacal payment,contract, or promise directly or indirectly by myself, or by any otherto my knowledge, or with my consent, to any person or persons whatsoever for or concerning the procuring or obtaining of the R. or V,Nor will at any lime hereafter peril. in the Diocess of London.form or satisfie any such kind of payment, contract or promise madeby any other without my knowledge or consent. So help me Godthrouyh Jesus Christ.ofJuramentumEGOEpiscopolionestis.de Canonica Obedientia.A. B. juro quod prasstabo veram&Canonicam ObedientiamLondinensi ejusque successoribusSic me Deus adjuvet.inJuramentum de continud ResidentidEGO A. B. juro Quod ero residenspensatum fuerit k Diocesano r dis-
BY THE KING.AProclamation declaring that the proceedings of hisMajesties Ecclesiastical Courts and Ministers, areaccording to the Laws of the Realm.HERE ASsome oftho Libellous Books and Pamphletsmost Reverend Father in God, theLord Archbishop and Bisliops of this Realm, are said toliave usurped upon his Majesties Prerogative Royal, andlo have proceeded in the high Commission and otherI'xclesiasiical Courts, contrary to tiit Laws and Statutes of this Realm;It was ordered by his Majesties high Court of Star-Cliamber, thetwelfth day of June last, that the opinion of the two Lords chief Justices, the Lord chief Baron, and the rest of the Judges and Barons,should be had and certified in those particulars, viz.Whether Proinlately publislied, themay not issue out of the Ecclesiastical Courts in the Name ofWhether a Patent under the great Seal be necessarythe Bishops?for the keepino: of the Ecclesiastical Courts, and enabling Citations,cessesSuspensions, Excommunications, and other censures of the Church?Citations ought to be in the Kings Name, and underhis Seal of Arms, and the like for Institutions and Inductions to Benefices, and Correction of Ecclesiastical offences?Whether Bishops,Arch-Deacons and other Ecclesiastical persons may or ought to keepany Visitation at any time unless they have express Commission orPatent under the great Seal of England to do it, and that as hisMajesties Visitors only, and in his name and right alone ?And whetherWhereuponJudges having taken the same intounanimously concur and agree in opinion, and the first day of July last certified under their hands as followeth. That Processes may issue out of the Ecclesiastical Courts inthe name of the Bishopsand that a Patent under the great Seal isnot necessary for the keeping of the said Ecclesiastical Courts, or forenabling of Citations, Suspensions, Excommunications, and otherhis Majesties saidtheir serious consideration, did;censures of the Church;Andthatit isnot necessary thatSummons,
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.Citations, or other Processes Ecclesiastical in the said Courts, or In-Inductions to Benefices, or correction of Ecclesiasticalstitutions, oroffences by censure in those Courts, be in the Kings name, or with thestyle of theKing, or under the Kings Seal, or that their Seals ofthem the Kings Arms ; And that the Statute of PrimaEdvardfi sextiy cap. secundo, which enacted the contrary, is not nowin force : And that the Bishops, Arch-Deacons and other Ecclesiastical persons, may keep their Visitations as usually they h?ive done,without Commission under the great Seal of England so to doWhich Opinions and Resolutions being declared under the hands ofall his Majesties said Judges, and so certified into his Court of Starchamber, were there recorded. And it was by that Court further ordered the fourth day of the said month of Jw/y, that the aid Certificate should be enrolled in all other his Majesties Courts at Westminster, and in the High Commission, and other Ecclesiastical Courts, forthat the proceedings in the High Commisthe satisfaction of all mension and other Ecclesiastical Courts, are agreeable to the Laws andStatutes of the Realm.officehavein:;AndRoyal Majesty hath thoughtwith advice of his Council,and Resolutions ofhis Reverend and Learned Judges, being agreeable to the Judgmentand Resolutions of former times, should be made known to all hisSubjects, as well to vindicate the legal proceedings of his Ecclesiastical Courts and Ministers, from the unjust and scandalous imputationof invading or entrenching on his Royal Prerogative, as to settle theminds and stop the mouths of all unquiet spirits, that for the futurethey presume not to censure his Ecclesiastical Courts or Ministers inthese their just and warrantable proceedings : And hereof his Majestyadmonisheth all his Subjects to take warning, and as they shallhisfit,that a publick Declaration of these the Opinionsanswer the contrary at theirGivenCourtperils.Lyndhurst, the 18 dayof August, in the 13 year of his MajestiesReign.at theatGodsavetheKING.Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings Most ExcellentMajesty, and by the Assigns of John Bill.MDCXXXVII.
«CONSTITUTIONSANDCANONS ECCLESIASTICAL.Treated upon by theARCHBISHOPSOFCANTERBURY AND YORK,Presidents of the Convocations for the respectiveProvinces of Canterbury and York, and therest of the Bishops and Clergy of thoseProvinces.Andagreed upon with the Kings Majesties License in theirseveral Synods begun at London and Yorky 1640.In the year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles bythe grace of God, King of England, Scotlandf France andIreland, the Sixteenth.And nowpublished for the due observation of them, by His MajestiesAuthority under the Great Seal of England.London, Printed by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most ExcellentMajesty, and by the Assigns of John Bill.1640.
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FORMS OftheOathsofAllegiance,Supremacy,and CanonicalObedience,&c. PROCLAMATION DeclaringthattheProceedin
