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Ad primam respondemus; Ipso adulterii facto matrimonii vinculum dirimi. Nam alioquin, ob solum adulterium non liceret viro uxorem repudiare: voluntas viri solicitat judices, judices palam faciunt ecclesiæ, virum licite talem repudiare uxorem.

Ad secundam resp. Quod ob solam causam stupri dirimitur matrimonii vinculum: cujus ipso quidem facto, conjugii dissolvitur nodus, et loquimur his, qui sacrosancti matrimonii jus agnoscunt.

Ad tertiam resp. Quod non; quia mulier quamdiu vixerit, alligata est viro, Rom. 7. item ne fraudetis vos invicem, 1 Cor. 7. item in eodem loco uxori vir debitam benevolentiam reddat simpliciter, et uxor viro, item vir non habeat potestatem sui corporis, sed uxor similiter; nec uxor habeat potestatem sui corporis, sed vir.

Ad quartam patet in responsione ad tertiam.

Ad quintam respondemus; Quod exceptio ista, viz. nisi causa stupri; est subaudienda in Luca, Marco et Paulo: alioquin manifesta erit repugnantia inter Matthæum et

eos.

Ad sextam respond. Quod repudiata propter adulterium, quia uxor repudiantis desiit esse, ob idq; libera est sicut aliæ omnes post obitum virorum possunt aliis nubere; æquo jure juxta illud Pauli, Si non contineant, contrahant matrimonium, 1 Cor. 7.

Ad septimam respond. Quod non licet repudiatæ adulteræ redire ad repudiantem, tanquam alligatæ ei jugi vinculo matrimonii.

Ultima questio nihil ad nos.

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Dr. John.

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Number 21.

Injunctions given by the king's majesty's visitors, to all and every the clergie and laity, now resident within the deanry of Duncastre.

Item. You shall not hereafter, in the pulpit or elsewhere, on the Sunday, or any other day, give knowledg to your

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parishioners, when or what day in the week any of the ab- BOOK
rogate holy-days were solemnized or kept in the church,
but omit the same with silence as other working-days, for
the utter abolishing of the remembrance thereof.

Item. You shall teach your parishioners, That fasting in
the Lent, and other days, is a meer positive, that is to say,
man's law; and by the magistrates, upon considerations,
may be altered, changed, and dispensed with: and that
therefore all persons having just cause of sickness, or other
necessity, or being licensed thereto, may temperately eat all
kinds of meat, without scruple or grudg of conscience.

Item. You shall every day, that an high mass is said or sung at the high altar, before the same mass, read openly in your churches the English suffrages, for the preservation and safeguard of the king's majesty's people, and prosperous success of his affairs.

Item. You shall every Sunday, at the time of your going
about the church with holy-water, into three or four places,
where most audience and assembly of people is, for the
declaration of the ceremonies, say, distinctly and plainly,
that your parishioners may well hear and perceive the same,
these words,

Remember Christ's blood-shedding, by the which most holy
sprinkling, of all your sins you have free pardon.
And in like manner, before the dealing of the holy-bread,
these words,

Of Christ's body this is a token; which on the cross for
our sins was broken; wherefore of his death if you
will be partakers, of vice and sin you must be for-
sakers.

And the clarke in the like manner shall bring down the
paxe, and standing without the church-door, shall say loudly
to the people these words;

This is a token of joyful peace, which is betwixt God and
men's conscience: Christ alone is the Peace-maker, which
straitly commands peace between brother and brother.
And so long as ye use these ceremonies, so long shall ye
use these significations.

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Item. The church-wardens of every parish-church shall, some one Sunday, or other festival day, every month, go about the church, and make request to every of the parish for their charitable contribution to the poor; and the sum so collected shall be put in the chest of alms for that purpose provided. And forasmuch as the parish-clark shall not hereafter go about the parish with his holy water as hath been accustomed, he shall, instead of that labour, accompany the said church-wardens, and in a book register the name and sum of every man that giveth any thing to the poor, and the same shall intable; and against the next day of collection, shall hang up some-where in the church in open place, to the intent the poor having knowledg thereby, by whose charity and alms they be relieved, may pray for the increase and prosperity of the same.

Item. The church-wardens, for the better relief of honest poverty, shall, upon sufficient surety found for the repayment of the same, lend to some young married couple, or some poor inhabitants of their parish, some part of the said alms, whereby they may buy some kind of stuff: by the working, sale, and gains whereof, they may repay the sum borrowed, and also well relieve themselves; or else the said church-wardens to buy the stuff themselves, and pay the poor for their working thereof; and after sale of the same, to return the sum, with the gain, to the said chest, there to remain to such-like use.

Item. Forasmuch as heretofore you have not, by any means, diligence, or study, advanced your selves unto knowledg in God's word, and his scriptures, condignly, as appertaineth to priests, and dispensators of God's testament; to the intent you may hereafter be of better ability to discharge your selves towards God, and your offices to the world, you shall daily, for your own study and knowledg, read over diligently, and weigh with judgment, two chapters of the New Testament, and one of the Old, in English, and the same shall put in use and practice, as well in living as preaching, at times convenient, when occasion is given.

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Item. Forasmuch as drunkenness, idleness, brawls, dis- BOOK sention, and many other inconveniences do chance between neighbour and neighbour, by the assembly of people together at wakes, and on the Plough-Mundays; it is therefore ordered and enjoined, that hereafter the people shall use, make, or observe no more such wakes, Plough-Mundays, or drawing of the same, with any such assembly or rout of people, or otherwise, as hath been accustomed, upon pain of forfeiting to the king's highness 40s. for every default, to be paid by the owner of the plough and housholder, whereunto the said plough is drawn, or wakes are kept.

A proclamation against those that do innovate, alter, or leave undone any rite or ceremony in the church of their private authority; and against them which preach without license. Set forth the 6th day of February, in the second year of the king's majesty's most gracious reign.

Cranmer.

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THE king's majesty, by the advice of his most entirely Ex reg. beloved uncle, the duke of Somerset, governor of his most royal person, and protector of all his realms, dominions, and subjects, and others of his counsel; considering nothing so much to tend to the disquieting of this realm, as diversity of opinions, and variety of rites and ceremonies concerning religion, and worshipping of Almighty God; and therefore studying all the ways and means which can be to direct this church, and the cure committed to his highness, in one and most true doctrine, rite, and usage, yet is advertised, That certain privat curats, preachers, and other lay-men, contrary to their bounden duties of obedience, do rashly attempt, of their own and singular wit and mind, in some parish

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PART churches, and otherwise, not only to perswade the people from the old and accustomed rites and ceremonies, but also themselves bringeth in new orders every one in their church, according to their phantasies; the which, as it is an evident token of pride and arrogance, so it tendeth both to confusion and disorder, and also to the high displeasure of Almighty God, who loveth nothing so much as order and obedience. Wherefore his majesty straitly chargeth and commandeth, That no manner of person, of what estate, order, or degree soever he be, of his private mind, will, or phantasie, do omit, leave undone, change, alter, or innovate any order, rite, or ceremony, commonly used and frequented in the church of England, and not commanded to be left undone at any time in the reign of our late soveraign lord, his highness father, other than such as his highness, by the advice aforesaid, by his majesty's visitors, injunctions, statutes, or proclamations, hath already, or hereafter shall command to be omitted, left, innovated, or changed, but that they be observed after that sort as before they were accustomed, or else now sith prescribed by the authority of his majesty, or by the means aforesaid; upon pain, that whosoever shall offend contrary to this proclamation, shall incur his highness indignation, and suffer imprisonment, and other grievous punishments, at his majesty's will and pleasure. Provided always, that for not bearing a candle upon Candlemass-day; not taking ashes upon Ash-Wednesday; not bearing palm upon Palm-Sunday; not creeping to the cross; not taking holy bread, or holy water; or for omitting other such rites and ceremonies concerning religion, and the use of the church, which the most reverend father in God, the arch-bishop of Canterbury, by his majesty's will and commandment, with the advice aforesaid, hath declared, or hereafter shall declare to the other bishops, by his writing under seal, as heretofore hath been accustomed to be omitted or changed, no man hereafter be imprisoned, nor otherwise punished, but all such things to be reputed for the observation and following of the same, as though they were commanded by his majesty's injunctions. And to the in