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Specially in Livings that are able to fupport a Refident Curate: And where that cannot be done, that they do, at least, refide fo near to the Place, that they may conveniently perform all their Duties both in the Church and Parish.

Thefe, my Lord, were the Orders and Refolutions to which we all agreed; and which I do hereby transmit to you, defiring you to communicate them to the Clergy of your Diocefe, with an Affurance that you are refolv'd, by the Grace of God, to direct your Practice in thefe Particulars agreeably thereunto. And fo commending you to the Bleffing of God, in thefe, and all your other Pious Endeavours for the Service of his Church, I am with great Truth,

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A Form of a TESTIMONIUM for one that defires to be Ordained, Admitted to a Curacy, Inftituted, &c.

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Mnibus Chrifti Fidelibus, ad quos Præfentes Literæ pervenerint, falutem & debitam reveren

Cum pium & officiofum fit Teftimonium veritati perhibere, cumq; A. B.. Literas noftras Teftimoniales de Vitâ fua laudabili, Morumq; probitate concedi fibi petierit; Nos tam Honefta ejus Petitioni volentes obfecundare, teftamur prædictum A. B. per (a) TRES annos PROXIME elapfos nobis PERSONALITER cognitum, pie, fobrie, & honefte vitam fuam inftituiffe, Studiis fuis fedulò operam navaffe, nec quicquam (quantum fcimus) unquam tenuifle, fcripfiffe, vel docuiffe, nifi quod Ecclefia Anglicana approbet & tueatur, eumq; infuper cenfemus dignum qui ad

(fi Paternitati veftræ ita videbitur) promoveatur. In cujus Rei Teftimonium Manus & Sigilla noftra præfentibus appofuimus

(a) If the Perfon to be Admitted has not refided Three Years in one Place, then he is required to make up the Complement of Three Years, by Testimonials from such other Place or Places where he has refided

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and your Lordship's do hereby nominate and to perform the Office of a Curate in my Church of aforefaid: and do promife to allow him the yearly Sum of for his Maintenance in the

fame, and to continue him to officiate in my faid Church, until he fhall be otherwise provided of fome Ecclefiaftical Preferment, unlefs by any Fault by him committed he fhall be lawfully removed from the fame. And I hereby folemnly declare, That I do not fraudulently give this Certificate to entitle the faid C. D. to receive Holy Orders, but with a real Intention to employ him in my faid Church, according to what is before exprefled. Witness my Hand, this Day of in the Year of our Lord,

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DIRECTIONS concerning the proper Inftruments to be brought to the Bishop, for obtaining Orders, Inftitutions, and Licences, &c.

For ORDER S.

A Signification of his Name, and Place of Abode;

according to the Ift Article of the Archbishop's Directions.

Certificate of having made Publication in the Church, of his Defign to enter into Holy Orders; according to the IIId Article of the Archbishop's. Directions.

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Letters Testimonial of his good Life and Behaviour, according to the Tenor of the 34th Canon, and the IVth and Vth Articles of the Archbishop's Directions.

Certificate of his Age from the Regifter-Book, under the Hands of the Minifters and Church-wardens of the Parish where he was Born.

Title upon which he is to be Ordained; according to the Tenor of the 33d Canon, and in the Form directed in this Appendix.

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Note, That by the Ift and Ild Articles of the Archbishop's Directions, all the forementioned Inftruments are to be tranfmitted to the Bishop, at least twenty Days before the Time of Ordination.

In cafe he come for Prieff's Orders, he is to exhibit to the Bishop his Letters of Orders for Deacon.

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For INSTITUTION.

HE Prefentation to be tender'd to the Bishop,

TH and left with Him to be confider'd.

The Orders of Deacon and Prieft, to be exhibited to the Bishop; according to the 39th Canon.

Testimonials of his former good Life and Behaviour, acording to the 39th Canon: and if he come our of another Diocefe, then a Teftimonial from the Bifhop or Ordinary of the Diocefe or Place from whence he comes.

For a Licence to a CURACY.

Nomination from the Incumbent; in which is

A to be exprefs'd the Salary proposed to be

allow'd for ferving the Cure.

To exhibit to the Bishop his Letters of Orders.

To bring Letters Testimonial from his College; or if he come not immediately from a College, then to bring them from the neighbouring Clergy, where he has dwelt for fome time before, if in the Bishop's own Diocese.

In cafe he come from another Diocefe, then to bring Letters Teftimonial from the Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocese or Place from whence he comes, according to the 48th Canon, and the VIIIth Article of the Archbishop's Directions. E

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