Item; That ye being absent from your Benefices, in cases lawfully permitted by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, do suffer no Priest to keep your Cure, unless he being first by you presented, and by me or my Officers thereunto abled and admitted. And for the more and better assurance and perform ance thereof to be had, by these presents I warn and monish peremptorily, all and singular Beneficed Parsons having Benefices with Cure, within my Diocess and Jurisdiction, that they and every of them, shall either be personally resident upon their Benefices and Cures, before the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-Angel now next ensuing; or else present, before the said Feast, to me the said Bishop, my Vicar-General, or other my Of ficers deputed in that behalf, such Curats as upon examination made by me, or my said Officers, may be found able and sufficient to serve and discharge their Cures in their absence; and also at the said Feast, or before, shall bring in and exhibite before my said Officers their sufficient Dispensations authorized by the King's Majesty, as well for non-residence, as for keeping of more Benefices with Cure than one.

Item; That every Parson, Vicar, and other Curats, once in every quarter, shall openly in the Pulpit, exhort and charge his Parishioners, that they in no wise do make any privy or secret contract of Matrimony between themselves, but that they utterly defer it until such time as they may conveniently have the Father and Mother, or some other Kinsfolks or Friends of the Person that shall make such Contract of Matrimony; or else two or three honest Persons to be present, and to hear and record the words and manner of their Contract, as they will avoid the extream pains of the Law provided in that behalf, if they presumptuously do or attempt the contrary.

Item; That in the avoiding of divers and grievous Offences and Enormities, and specially the most detestable sin of Adultery, which oft-times hath hapned by the negligence of Curats in marrying Persons together which had been married before, and making no due proof of the death of their other Husbands and Wives at the time of such Marriages, I require and command you, and monish peremptorily by these presents, all manner of Parsons, Vicars, and Curats, with other Priests, being of my Diocess and Jurisdiction, that they, nor any of them from henceforth, do presume to solemnizate Matrimony in their Churches, Chappels, or elsewhere, between any Persons that have been married before, unless the said Parson, Vicar, Curat, or Priest, be first plainly, fully, and sufficiently informed and certified of the Decease of the Wife or Husband of him or her, or of both, that he shall marry, and that in writing, under the Ordinaries Seal of the Diocess, or place where he or she inhabited or dwelt before, under pain of Excommunication, and otherwise to be punished for doing the contrary,

according to the Laws provided and made in that behalf.

Atem; That ye, and every of you that be Parsons, Vicars, Curats, and also ChauntryPriests and Stipendiaries, do instruct, teach, and bring up in Learning the best ye can, all such Children of your Parishioners as shall come to you for the same; or at the least, to teach them to read English, taking moderately therefore of their Friends that be able to pay, so that they may thereby the better learn and know how to Believe, how to Pray, how to live to God's pleasure.

Item; That every Curat do at all times his best diligence to stir, move, and reduce such as be at discord to Peace, Concord, Love, Charity, and one to remit and forgive one another, as often howsoever they shall be grieved or offended: And that the Curat shew and give example thereof, when and as often as any variance or discord shall happen to be between him and any of his Cure.

Item; Where some froward Persons, partly for malice, hatred, displeasure, and disdain, neglect contemn and despise their Curats, and such as have the Cure and Charge of their Souls, and partly to hide and cloak their leud and naughty living, as they have used all the Year before, use at length to be confessed of other Priests which have not the Cure of their Souls: Wherefore I will and require you to declare, and show to your Parishioners, That no Testimonials brought from any of them, shall stand in any effect, nor that any such Person shall be admitted to God's Board, or receive their Communion, until they have submitted themselves to be confessed of their own Curats, (Strangers only except) or else upon arduous and urgent Causes and Considerations, they be otherwise dispensed with in that behalf, either by me or by my Officers aforesaid.

Item; That whereupon a detestable and abominable practice universally reigning in your Parishes, the young People, and other ill-disposed Persons doth use upon the Sundays and Holy-days, in time of Divine Service, and preaching the Word of God, to resort unto Ale-houses, and there exerciseth unlawful Games, with great Swearing, Blasphemy, Drunkenness, and other Enormities, so that good and devout Persons be much offended therewith: Wherefore I require and command you, to declare to such as keepeth Alehouses, or Taverns within your Parishes, that at such times from henceforth, they shall not suffer in their Houses any such unlawful and ungodly Assemblies: neither receive such Persons to Bowling and Drinking at such Seasons, into their Houses, under pain of Excommunication, and otherwise to be punished for their so doing, according to the Laws in that behalf.

Item; That all Curats shall declare openly in the Pulpit, twice every Quarter to their Parishioners, the seven deadly Sins, and the Ten Commandments, so that the People there

forth to the people the true meaning of the same, in such sort that the people may perceive thereby, what is meant and signified by such ceremony, and also know how to use and accept it to their own edifying. Furthermore, That no Preacher shall rage or rail in his Sermon, but coldly, discreetly, and charitably, open, declare, and set forth the excellency of Vertue, and to suppress the abomination of Sin and Vice; every Preacher shall, if time and occasion will serve, instruct and teach his Audience, what Prayer is used in the Church that day, and for what thing the Church prayeth, specially that day, to the intent that all the people may pray together with one heart for the same; and as occasion

will serve, to shew and declare to the people what the Sacraments signifieth, what strength and efficacy they be of, how every man should use them reverently and devoutly at the re ceiving of them. And to declare wherefore the Mass is so highly to be esteemed and honoured, with all the Circumstances appertaining to the same. Let every Preacher beware that he do not feed his Audience with any Fable, or other Histories, other than he can avouch and justify to be written by some allowed Writer. And when he hath done all that he will say and utter for that time, he shall then in few words recite again the pith

and effect of his whole Sermon, and add thereunto as he shall think good.

Item; That no Parson, Vicar, Curat, or other Priest, having Cure of Souls within my Diocess and Jurisdiction, shall from henceforth permit, suffer, or admit any manner of person, of whatsoever estate or condition he be, under the degree of a Bishop, to preach, or make any Sermon or Collation openly to the people within their Churches, Chappels, or else where within their Cures, unless he that shall so preach, have obtained before special License in that behalf, of our Sovereign Lord the King, or of me Edmund Bishop of London, your Ordinary; And the same License so obtained, shall then and there really bring forth in writing under Seal, and shew the same to the said Parson, Vicar, Curat, or Priest, before the beginning of his Sermon, as they will avoid the extream Penalties of the Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances, provided and established in that behalf, if they presumptuously do or attempt any thing to the contrary.

Item; I desire, require, exhort, and command you, and every of you, in the Name of God, That ye firmly, faithfully, and diligently, to the uttermost of your powers, do observe, fulfil, and keep all and singular these mine Injunctions. And that ye, and every of you, being Priests, and having Cure, or not Cure, as well Benefice as not Benefice, within my Diocess and Jurisdiction, do procure to have a Copy of the same Injunctions, to the intent ye may the better observe, and cause to be observed the contents thereof.

The Names of Books prohibited, delivered to the Curats Anno 1542, to the intent that they shall present them with the Names of the Owners, to their Ordinary, if they find any such within their Parishes.

THE Disputation between the Father and the Son.

The Supplication of Beggars; the Author Fish.

The Revelation of Antichrist.

The Practice of Prelates, written by Tindall. The Burying of the Mass, in English Rithme.

The Book of Friar Barnes, twice printed. The Matrimony of Tindall.

The Exposition of Tindall, upon the 7th Chap. to the Corinth.

Canonick of St. John.
The Exposition of Tindall upon the Epistles

The New Testament of Tindall's Transla

tion, with his Preface before the whole Book, and before the Epistles of St. Paul ad Rom.

The Preface made in the English Prymmers, by Marshall.

The Church of John Rastall.

The Table, Glosses, Marginal, and Preface

before the Epistle of St. Paul ad Romanos, of Thomas Mathews doing, and printed beyond the Sea without priviledg, set in his Bible in English.

The A. B. C. against the Clergy.

the Seven Sacraments. The Book made by Fryar Roys, against

The Wicked Mammon.

The Parable of the Wicked Mammon.
The Liberty of a Christian Man.
Ortulus Anime, in English.

The Supper of the Lord, by G. Jove. Frith's Disputation against Purgatory. Tyndal's Answer to Sir T. More's Defence of Purgatory.

Prologue to Genesis, translated by Tindal. The Prologues to the other Four Books of Moses.

The Obedience of a Christian Man.
The Book made by Sir John Oldcastle.
The Summn of Scripture.

The Preface before the Psalter, in English. The Dialogue between the Gentleman and the Ploughman.

The Book of Jonas, in English.

The Dialogue of Goodale. Defensorium Paris; out of Latin into English.

The Summ of Christianity.

The Mirror of them that be Sick and in

Pain.

Treatise of the Supper of the Lord; by Calwyn.*

Every one of Calwyn's Works,

• The celebrated Reformer, John Calvin.

Dist. 10. De Sententia Excommunicationis, Noverit 25. q. 11. omne.

Princes Laws, if they be against the Canons and Decrees of the Bishop of Rome, be of no force nor strength.

Dist. 19, 20, 24, q. 1. A recta memor. Quotiens hæc est. 25. q. 1. General. violatores. All the Decrees of the Bishop of Rome ought to be kept perpetually of every Man, without any repugnancy, as God's Word spoken by the Mouth of Peter; and whosoever doth not receive them, neither availeth them the Catholick Faith, nor the four Evangelists, but they blaspheme the Holy Ghost, and shall have no forgiveness.

35. q. 1. Generali.

All Kings, Bishops, and Noblemen, that believe or suffer the Bishop of Rome's Decrees in any thing to be violate, be accursed, and for ever culpable before God, as transgressors of the Catholick Faith.

Dist. 21. Quamvis, et 24. q. 1. A recta memor. The See of Rome hath neither spot nor wrinkle in it, nor cannot err.

35. q. 1. Ideo de Senten. et re judicata, de jurejurando licet ad Apostolica li. 6. de jurejurando.

The Bishop of Rome is not bound to any Decrees, but he may compel, as well the Clergy as Lay-men, to receive his Decrees and Canon Law.

9.

9. 2. Ipsi cuncta. Nemo z. q. 6. dudum
aliorum. 17. y. 4. Si quis de Baptis.
et ejus effectu majores.

The Bishop of Rome hath authority to judg all men, and specially to discern the Articles of the Faith, and that without any Counsel, and may assoil them that the Counsel hath damned; but no man bath authority to judg him, nor to meddle with any thing that he hath judged, neither Emperor, King, People, nor the Clergy: And it is not lawful for any man to dispute of his Power.

gr Duo sunt 25. q. 6. Alios Nos Sanctorum juratos in Clemen. de Hareticis aut officium. The Bishop of Rome may excommunicate Emperors and Princes, depose them from

their States, and Assoil their Subjects from their Oath and Obedience to them, and so constrain them to rebellion.

De Major. et obedien. solit. Clement. de Sententia et re judicata. Pastoral.

The Emperor is the Bishop of Rome's Subject, and the Bishop of Rome may revoke the Emperor's Sentence in temporal Causes. De Elect. et Electi potestate Venerabilem. It belongeth to the Bishop of Rome to allow or disallow the Emperor after he is elected; and he may translate the Empire from one Region to another.

De Supplenda Negligen. prælat. Grand. li. 6. The Bishop of Rome may appoint Coadjutors unto Princes.

Nothing may be done against him that appealeth unto Rome.

1. q. 3. Aliorum Dist. 40. Si Papa. Dist. 96. Satis.

The Bishop of Rome may be judged ot none but of God only; for altho he neither regard his own Salvation, nor no Man's else, but draw down with himself innumerable people by heaps unto Hell; yet may no mortal Man in this World presume to reprehend him: forsomuch as he is called God, he may not be judged of man, for God may be judged of no man.

3. z. q. 5.

The Bishop of Rome may open and shut Heaven unto Men.

Dist. 40. Non nos. The See of Rome receiveth holy Men, or else maketh them holy.

De Pænitentia. Dist. 1. Serpens.

He that maketh a Lye to the Bishop of Rome committeth Sacriledg. De Consecra. Dist. 1. De locorum præcepta. Ecclesia de Elect. et Electi potestate

Fundamenta.

To be Senator, Capitane, Patrician, Governour, or Officer of Rome, none shall be elected or pointed, without the express license and special consent of the See of Rome.

De Electione et Electi potestate Venerabilem.

It appertaineth to the Bishop of Rome to judg which Oaths ought to be kept, and which not.