Founders

&c. that

of one member

shall pre

vent any

Grant &c.

Rules made consented and agreed; yet, the saide common lawes notby some withstandinge, diverse founders of suche Deaneries Hospytals of Colleges Colleges and Corporacions within this saide Realme have, the dissent upon the foundacion and establishment of the same Deaneries Hospitals Colleges and other Corporacions, established and made, amonges other their peculier actes locall statutes and ordinaunces, that yf any one of suche Corporacion havinge power or auctoritie to assent or disassent shoulde and woulde denye anye suche graunte or grauntes, that then noe suche seale eleccion or graunte shoulde be had graunted or Oath for leassed; and for the performance of the same everie person vance of havinge power of assent to the same have bene and be such Rules. daylie thereunto sworne, and so the residue may not proceede to the perfection of suche eleccions grauntes and leases accordinge to the course of the common lawes of this Realme, unlesse they shoulde incurre the daunger of perjurie:

the obser

All Rules,

whereby

of the as

sent of tho
majority
is hinder-

voices, declared

void.

For the avoydinge whereof, and for the due execucion of the effect the common lawe universally within this Realme and everie place in one conformytie of reason to be used, be it ordeyned established and enacted by thauctoritie of this present Parliaed by a ment, that all and everie peculiar acte order rule and estatute, minority heretofore made or hereafter to be made by any Founder or of negative Founders of any Hospitall College Deanerie or other Corporacion at and upon the foundacion of any suche Hospitall College Deanerie or Corporacion, wherby the graunte lease gyfte or eleccion of the Governor or Ruler of suche Hospitall College Deanerie or other Corporacion, with thassent of the more parte of suche of the same Hospitall College Deanerie or Corporacion as have or shall have voice of assent to the same at the tyme of suche graunte lease gyfte or eleccion hereafter to be made, sholde be in anywise hindred or lett by any one or moe beinge the lesser nomber of suche Corporacion, contrarie to the fourme order and course of the common lawe of this Realme of Englande, shalbe from hensforth clerely frustrate voide and of none effecte; and that Oaths for all othes heretofore taken by any person or persons of suche Hospitall College Deanerie and other Corporation shalbe annulled. for and concerning the observaunce of any suche order estatute or rule demed voyde and of none effecte; and

their ob

servance

that from hensforth noe manner person or persons of any such Hospitall College Deanrie or other Corporacion shalbe in anywise compelled to take anye othe for the observinge of anye suche order estatute or rule, upon the peyne of everie person soe givinge suche othe to forfeyte for everie Penalty on giving such tyme soe offendinge five poundes, the one moytie thereof Oath, £5. to be to the use of our Soveraigne Lorde the Kinge, and thother moytie thereof to any of the Kinges subjectes which will sue for the same in any of the Kinges Courtes of Recorde by accion of debte bill playnt informacion or otherwise, wherein the defendaunt shall not be admytted to wage his lawe nor any proteccion nor essoyne or any other delatorie plea admytted or allowed.

37 HEN. VIII, Cap. XVII.

An Acte that the Doctors of the Civill Lawe may exercise Ecclesiastical Jurisdiccion.

IN

Head of the

N most humble wise shewe and declare unto your Highnes your most faithfull humble and obedient subjectes the Lordes spirituall and temporall and the Commons of this present Parliament assembled, that where your most Royall The King Majestie is and hath alwayes justly bene by the worde of supreme God supreame hedd in earth of the Churche of Englande, Church. and hath full power and auctoritie to correcte punyshe & represse all manner of heresies errors vices synnes abuses idolatrie ipocrisies and supersticions sprongen and growing within the same, and to exercise all other manner of jurisdiccions commonly called ecclesiasticall jurisdiccion; never- Ordinances theles the Bishopp of Rome and his adherentes, myndinge Bishop of utterly as muche as in him* lay to abolishe obscure and Rome delete suche power given by God to the princes of the earth, wherby they myght gather and gett to themselfes Married the governement and rule of the worlde, have in their cising any counsailes & synodes provinciall made ordeyned and estab- cal Jurislished and decreed diverse ordynaunces and constitucions, diction. that noe lay or married man shulde or myght exercise or *So in orig.

of the

against any

Lay or

men exer

Ecclesiasti

Repeal

thereof by * Hon. 8, 10, not sufficiently explicit.

occupy any jurisdiccion ecclesiasticall, nor shuld be any judge or registre in any courte commenly called ecclesiasticall courte, lest their false and usurped power which they pretended and went aboute to have in Christes Churche should decaye waxe vile and of no reputacion, as by the saide counsailes & constitucions provinciall appereth: which standinge & remaining in their effecte, not abolished by your Graces lawes, did sounde to appere to make greatly for the saido usurped power of the saide Bisshopp of Rome and to be directly repugnaunte to your Majestie of supreame hed of the Churche and prerogatyve royall, your Grace beinge a lay man. And albeit the said decrees ordynaunces and constitucions, by a Statute made in the xxv yere of your most noble Raigne, be utterly abolished frustrate and of none effecte, yet, because the contrary therunto is not used nor put in practise by the Archebisshopps Bisshopps Archedeacons and other ecclesiasticall persons, who have noe manner of jurisdiccion ecclesiasticall but by under and from your Royall Majestie, it addeth or at the lest may give occasion to some evill disposed persons to thinck and litle to regarde the procedinges and censures ecclesiasticall made by your Highnes and your vicegerent officialls commissaries and judges and visitators, beinge also lay & married men, to be of little or of none effecte or force; wherby the people gathereth harte and presumpcion to doe evill, and not to have such reverence to your most godly injunctions and proceadinges as becommeth them. But for asmuche as your Majestie is thonly and undoubtly supreame hed of the Churche of Englande and also of Irelande, to whom by holy Scripture all auctoritie and power is holy geven to heare and determyne all manner cause ecclesiasticall and to correct vice and synne whatsoever, and to all such persons as your Majestie shall appointe therunto; that in consideracion therof, aswell for the instruccion of ignorant persons, as also to avoyde the occasion of the opynion aforesaide, and settinge forth of your prerogatyve royall and supremacy, it may therfore please your Highnes that it may be ordeyned and enacted by aucthoritie of this present Parliament, that men, being all and singuler persons, aswell laye as those that nowe be Civil Law, married or hereafter shalbe married, being Doctors of the

Lay or
Married

Doctors of

cise Eccle

tion.

Civil Lawe laufully create and made in any Unyversitie, may exerwhich shall be made ordeyned constituted and deputed to giastical be any Chauncelor Vicar Generall Commissarie Officiall Scribe Jurisdicor Registre by your Majestie or any of your heires or successors, or by any Archebisshopp Bisshopp Archdeacon or other person whatsoever having auctoritie under your Majestie your heires & successours to make any Chauncelor Vicar Generall Commissarie Officiall or Registre, may laufully execute and exercise all manner of jurisdiccion commonly called ecclesiasticall jurisdiccion, and all censures and coertions apperteyninge or in any wise belonginge unto the same, albeit suche person or persons be laye married or unmaried, soe that they be Doctors of the Civil Lawe as is aforesaide; any lawe constitucion or ordynaunce to the contrarie notwithstanding.e

2 & 3 EDW. VI, Cap. I.

An Acte for the Unyformytie of Service and Admynistracion of the Sacramentes throughout the Realme.

of Common

Prayer to

[The Act enjoins on all Ministers the uniform use of "The The Book Booke of the Common Prayer and Admynistracion of the Sacramentes and other rightes and ceremonyes of the Churche be used by after the Use of the Churche of Englande."]

all Ministers.

Latin &c.

said pri

but not the

6. Provided alwaies that it shalbe laufull to anye man Prayers in that understandeth the Greke Latten and Hebrewe tongue, may be or other straunge tongue, to saye and have the saide prayers sately, and heretofore specified of Mattens and Evensonge in Latten or in College anye suche other tongue, sayinge the same privatlie, as they Chapels; doe understande; and, for the further encouraging of learn- Service for ynge in the tongues in the Universities of Cambridge and Holy ComOxforde, to use and exercise in their commen and open prayer in their Chappells, beinge noe Parishe Churches or other places of prayer, the Mattens Evensonge Letanye and all

• This Act was repealed by 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 8, s. 6, but revived by 1 Eliz. C. I, s. 3.

munion.

other prayers, the holie Communyon commenlye called the Masse excepted, prescribed in the saide booke prescribed, in Greko Latten or Hebrewe; anye thinge in this present Acte to the contrarie notwithstandinge.

Oath of the

of the Crown.

1 Euiz. Cap. I.

An Acte restoring to the Crowne thauncyent Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiasticall and Spirituall, and abolyshing all Forreine Power repugnaunt to the same.

[The 9th section, which has been repealed by 26 & 27 Vict. Hupromacy c. 125, enacted that all archbishops, bishops, and other ecclesiastical persons and officers, and all judges, magistrates, mayors, and other temporal officers, should take an oath of the Supremacy of the Crown according to the form therein prescribed 8.]

Persons taking

Orders or

tion shall tako tho

said Oath.

12. * * *

*

Also all and every person and persons taking Orders, and all and every other person and persons

Degrees in whiche shalbe promoted or preferred to any degree of lerning Universi in anyo Universitie within this your Realme or Dominions, before he shall receive or take any suche Orders or bee preferred to any suche degree of learning, shall make take and receive the said Othe by this Acte set foorthe and declared as ys aforesaid, before his or their Ordinarie Commissarie Chancellour or Vicechauncellour or their sufficient Deputies in the said Universitie.

This Act was continued in force by 5 & 6 Edw. VI, c. I. It was repealed by Mar. st. 2, c. 2, s. 1; but was revived by 1 Eliz. c. 2, s. 1; 1 Jac. I, c. 25, 8. 8.

The form of the Oath of Supremacy was altered by 1 W. & M. c. 8, s. 12; and the altered form was repeated in 1 Geo. I, st. 2, c. 13. It was combined with the Oaths of Allegiance and Abjuration into one Oath by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 48.