land, that all our pofterities enfuing, confeffing thy holy name, profeffing thy holy Gofpel, and leading an holy life, may perpetually praife and magnify thee, with thy only Son Jefus Chrift our Saviour, and the Holy Ghoft: to whom be all laud, praife, glory, and empire, for ever and ever. Amen. END OF THE HOMILIES. CONSTITUTIONS and CANONS Ecclefiaftical, treated upon by the Bishop of London, Prefident of the Convocation for the Province of Canterbury, and the reft of the Bishops and Clergy of the faid Province; and agreed upon with the King's Majefty's Licence, in their Synod begun at London, Anno Domini 1603, and in the Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord JAMES, by the Grace of God, King of England, France, and Ireland, the Firft, and of Scotland the Thirtyfeventh and now published for the due obfervation of them, by his Majesty's Authority under the Great Seal of England. JAMES, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. to all to whom these prefents fhall come, greeting: Whereas our Bishops, Deans of our Cathedral Churches, Archdeacons, Chapters, and Colleges, and the other Clergy of every Diocefe within the Province of Canterbury, being fummoned and called by virtue of our Writ directed to the Moft Reverend Father in God, John, late Archbishop of Canterbury, and bearing date the one and thirtieth day of January, in the first year of our reign of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the thirty-feventh, to have appeared before bim in our Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London, the twentieth day of March then next enfuing, or elsewhere, as he should bave thought it most convenient, to treat, confent, and conclude upon certain difficult and urgent affairs mentioned in the faid Writ; did thereupon, at the time appointed, and within the Cathedral Church of St. Paul aforejaid, affemble themselves, and appear in Convocation for that purpose, according to our faid Writ, before the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard Bishop of London, duly (upon a fecond Writ of ours, dated the ninth day of March aforefaid) authorized, appointed, and conflituted, by reafon of the faid Archbishop of Canterbury bis death, Prefident of the faid Convocation, to execute thofe things, which, by virtue of our first Writ, did appertain to him the faid Archbishop to have executed, if be bad lived: We, for divers urgent and weighty causes and confi L14 derations derations us thereunto especially moving, of our efpecial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, did, by virtue of our Prerogative Royal, and Supreme Authority in Caufes Ecèlefiaftical, give and grant by our feveral Letters Patent under our Great Seal of England, the one dated the twelfth day of April laft paft, and the other the twenty-fifth day of June then next following, full, free, and lawful liberty, licence, power, and authority unto the faid Bishop of London, Prefident of the faid Convocation, and to the other Bishops, Deans, Archdeacons, Chapters, and Colleges, and the rest of the Clergy before mentioned, of the faid Province, that they, from time to time, during our first Parliament now prorogued, might confer, treat, debate, confider, confult, and agree of and upon fuch Canons, Orders, Ordinances, and Conflitutions, as they fhould think neceffary, fit, and convenient, for the honour and fervice of Almighty God, the good and quiet of the Church, and the better government thereof, to be from time to time obferved, performed, fulfilled, and kept, as well by the Archbishops of Canterbury, the Bishops, and their Succeffors, and the rest of the whole Clergy of the faid Province of Canterbury, in their feveral callings, offices, functions, miniflries, degrees, and adminiflrations; as alfo by all and every Dean of the Arches, and other Judge of the faid Archbishop's Courts, Guardians of Spiritualities, Chancellors, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, Commiffaries, Officials, Registrars, and all and every other Ecclefiaflical Officers, and their inferior Minifters, whatsoever, of the fame Province of Canterbury, in their and every of their diftinct Courts, and in the order and manner of their and every of their Proceedings; and by all other Perfons within this realm, as far as lawfully, being members of the Church, it may concern them, as faid Letters Patent amongst other claufes more at large doth appear. Forafmuch as the Bishop of London, Prefident of the faid Convocation, and others, the faid Bifbops, Deans, Archdeacons, Chapters, and Colleges, with the rest of the Clergy, having met together, at the time and place before mentioned, and then and there, by virtue of our faid authority granted unto them, treated of, concluded, and agreed upon certain Canons, Orders, Ordinances, and Conflitutions, to the end and purpofe by us limited and prefcribed unto them; and have thereupon offered and prefented the fame unto us, mofl bumbly defiring us to give our royal affent unto their faid Canons, Orders, Ordinances, and Conflitutions, according to the form of a certain Statute or Act of Parliament, made in that behalf in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, and by our faid Prerogative Royal in our and |