Office; and if the claim be found juft, the neceffary expences of adminiftering at Doctors Commons (which are limited as per claufe thirty-fecond of this Abftract) will be defrayed, and the balance will be directed to be paid to the executor or adminiftrator, if prefent, and, if abfent, by a remittance bill, to be made out in the manner hereinbefore described in the tenth clause of this Abstract, and which fhall be payable wherever he may refide, without any fee, reward, or deduction whatever.

Penfions due to Out-Penfioners of Greenwich Hospital fhall be paid by bill in like manner in any part of Great Britain or Ireland, upon application being made by the party in writing to the Governors of the faid Hospital.

Thofe who fhall be named as executors in wills, or who fhall be entitled to adminifter as widow, next of kin, or creditor, to Inferior Officers, Seamen, or Marines, may receive the wages which shall be due, without incurring the expence of taking out Letters of Administration, in cafes where fuch wages and other allowances do not exceed ten pounds, provided the juftness of their respective claims fhall be fatisfactorily afcertained at the Pay Office, and the faid wages, &c. fhall be remitted in like manner, if required, to any part of Great Britain or Ireland.

32. Regifters or Proctors in Doctors Commons, taking more than the fums allowed by the Act to be charged in the different events therein specified, fhall forfeit the fum of fifty pounds; and any Regifter or Proctor, aiding or affifting in procuring probates or adminiftrations, otherwife than in the manner prefcribed by the Act, fhall for ever be rendered incapable of acting in any Ecclefiaftical Court in Great Britain, and fhall, for every offence, forfeit the fum of five hundred pounds.

33. Whoever willingly and knowingly fhall perfonate, or falfely affume the name or character of, or procure any other to perfonate or falfely to affume the name or character of any Officer, Seaman, or other perfon entitled to wages, pay, allowances, or prize money, for fervice done on board of any fhip of the royal navy; or the executor, adminiftrator, wife, relation, or creditor of any fuch Officer, Seaman, or other perfon, in order to receive any wages, pay, allowances, or prize money; or fhall forge or counterfeit, or procure to be forged or counterfeited, any Letter of Attorney, or other power or authority whatsoever, in order to receive any wages, pay, allowances, or prize money; or fhall willingly and knowingly take a falfe oath, or procure a falfe oath to be taken, to obtain the

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probate of a Will or Letters of Administration, in order to receive any wages, pay, allowances, or prize money, shall be guilty of felony, and fuffer death; and whoever knowingly fhall forge or counterfeit any certificate of discharge, or certificate of fervitude, in order to entitle them to recover their own wages, or affift in fo doing, shall be punished as in cafes of perjury.

34. The tickets, certificates, pay lifts, bills, and duplicates, herein mentioned, fhall be fufficient vouchers to the Treasurer of the Navy for the payments made thereon.

35. Every part of the complement on board any of his Majefty's fhips is included under the denomination of Inferior or Petty Officers and Seamen, Non-commiffioned Officers of Marines, and Marines, except those who shall be rated as follow: Admirals or Flag Officers and their Secretaries, Captains, Lieutenants, Mafters, Second Mafters, and Pilots, Phyficians, Surgeons, Chaplains, Boatfwains, Gunners, Carpenters, Purfers, Captains of Marines, Captains Lieutenants of Marines, Lieutenants of Marines, and Quarter Mafters of Marines.

36. Copies of this Abftract fhall be tranfmitted to the principal Officers and Commiffioners of his Majefty's Navy, to the Commiffioners for fick and wounded Seamen, to the Commiffioners of the Excife and Customs in England and Scotland, to the Receivers General of the Land Tax, to the Registers and Deputy Registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, to the Clerks of the Check of his Majefty's Dock Yards, to the Governors and Agents of the Royal Hofpitals, to the Commanding Officers of the feveral Divifions of Marines, and to the Minifter of every parish in Great Britain, who are directed to hang up and affix the fame in fome confpicuous part of their several offices or parishes, and to promulgate the fame as much as may be in their refpective departments. A copy of this Abstract, together with the Articles of War, fhall also be kept hung up in the most public place of every ship of the royal navy, that it may be acceffible to all Inferior Officers and Seamen, Non-commiffioned Officers of Marines, and Marines; and every Captain and Commander fhall cause the fame to be read over once in every month, after the Articles of War are read, and the reading of the fame fhall be attested by the Captain or Commander and figning Officers at the foot of the mufter books; to the end that every Seaman in the royal navy may know the punishments he is liable to for any neglect or difobedience, and the encouragement he is entitled to by the

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performance of his duty, and that upon fuffering any injury he may be enabled to lay his complaint before the Lord High Admiral or the Commiffioners of the Admiralty, who are directed to enquire into the fame, and to grant redrefs, if fuch complaint be juftly founded, and to take especial care that this and the other Acts, of which this is an Abstract, be punctually carried into execution.

INJUNCTIONS given by the King's Majefty to the Archbishops of this realm, to be communicated by them to the Bishops, and the rest of the Clergy. Anno Dom. 1694.

To the moft Reverend Father in God, our right trusty and right entirely beloved Counsellor, Thomas Lord Archbishop of Canterbury; and to the moft Reverend Father in God, John Lord Archbishop of York.

WILLIAM R.

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OST Reverend Father in God, our right trufty and right entirely beloved Counsellor, and moft Reverend Father in God, we greet you well. We being very fenfible, that nothing can more effectually conduce to the honour and glory of God, and the fupport of the Proteftant religion, than the protecting and maintaining of the Church of England, as it is by law established; which we are refolved to do to the utmost of our power; have therefore, upon mature deliberation with you and other our Bifhops, by virtue of our royal and fupreme authority, thought fit, with the advice of our Privy Council, to ordain and publish the following Injunctions.

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1. That the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth Canons concerning Ordinations be ftrictly observed.

2. That every person to be admitted to holy Orders do fignify his name and the place of his abode to the Bishop fourteen days before he is ordained, to the end that enquiry may be made into his life and converfation. And that he appear at the furtheft on Thurfday in Emberweek, that fo fuch, who upon examination fhall be found fit, may have time to prepare themselves by fafting and prayer, before the day of Ordination.

3. That every Bishop fhall be well fatisfied, that all perfons that are to be ordained have a real title, with a fufficient maintenance, according to the thirty-third Canon, in which matter we require the Bishops to use an especial care.

4. That a certificate of the age of the perfon to be or

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dained be brought, if it can be, out of the parish regifter, or at least a certificate very well attested.

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5. That the part of the thirty-fourth Canon which relates to the giving of certificates concerning the lives and manners of those who are to be ordained, be strictly looked to. And that the Bishops lay it on the consciences of the Clergy, that they fign no certificates, unless, upon their own knowledge, they judge the perfons to be duly qualified.

6. That every Bishop fhall tranfmit, between Michaelmas and Christmas, to the Archbishop of the province, a lift of all fuch perfons as have been ordained by him during that year, according to the Conftitutions in the year 1584, in order to be put in a public register, which shall be prepared by you for that use.

7. That the Bishops fhall refide in their dioceses, and shall take care to oblige their Clergy to fuch refidence as the laws of the land and the Canons do require, particularly the forty-firft a Canon.

8. That they who keep Curates, have none but fuch as are licensed by the Bishop of the diocese, or in exempt jurifdictions by the Ordinary of the place having epifcopal jurifdiction, as is required both by the Act of Uniformity and the forty-eighth a Canon, that fo when the Incumbent does not refide, the Bishop, or fuch Ordinary, may know how the cure is fupplied; and that no perfon fhall prefume to ferve any cure without licence from the Bishop, or such Ordinary, upon pain of fufpenfion.

9. That you use your most effectual endeavours to fupprefs the great abuses occafioned by pluralities, and reftrain them as much as you can, except where the parishes lie near one another, and the livings are fmall: That all qualifications be carefully examined; we being determined to have no Chaplains to be qualified by us, but such as are admitted to attend upon us. And that due caution be taken before any faculty is granted. And that fuch perfons as are legally qualified thall refide at least two months in the year in each of their livings; and provide a Curate to ferve where they are not in perfon, with a due maintenance, to be determined by the Bishop of the diocefe, unless the two parishes lie fo near, that the Incumbent can constantly serve both cures.

10. That the Bishops fhall look to the lives and manners of their Clergy, that they may be in all things re

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