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CLASS
IX.
No. 1.

Stat. 32

more than the sums allowed by the Act to be charged in PART II. the different events therein specified, shall forfeit the sum of fifty pounds; and any Register or Proctor, aiding or assisting in procuring probates or administrations, otherwise than in the manner prescribed by the Act, shall for ever be G. rendered incapable of acting in any Ecclesiastical Court in Great Britain, and shall, for every offence, forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds.

3. c. 67.

c. 10.

c. 33.

32 Geo. 3.

33. Whoever willingly and knowingly shall personate, 31 Geo. 2. or falsely assume the name or character of, or procure any 32 Geo. 3. other to personate or falsely to assume the name or character of any Officer, Seaman, or other person entitled to wages, pay, allowances, or prize money, for service done on board of any ship of the royal navy; or the executor, 32 Geo. 3. administrator, wife, relation, or creditor of any such Officer, c. 34. Seaman, or other person, in order to receive any wages, c. 67. pay, allowances, or prize money; or shall 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 shall willingly and knowingly take a false oath, or procure a false oath to be taken, to obtain the 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 suffer death; and whoever knowingly shall forge or 32 Geo. 3. counterfeit any certificate of discharge, or certificate of c. 34. servitude, in order to entitle them to recover their own wages, or assist in so doing, shall be punished as in cases of

perjury.

c. 10.

34. The tickets, certificates, pay lists, bills, and dupli- 31 Geo. 2. cates, herein mentioned, shall be sufficient vouchers to the 32 Geo. 3. Treasurer of the Navy for the payments made thereon.

c. 33. 32 Geo. 3. c. 34. 32 Geo. 3. c. 67.

35. Every part of the complement on board any of his 32 Geo. 3. Majesty's ships is included under the denomination of infe- c. 34. rior or Petty Officers and Seamen, non-commissioned Officers of Marines, and Marines, except those who shall be rated as follow: Admirals or Flag Officers and their Secretaries, Captains, Lieutenants, Masters, Second Masters, and Pilots, Physicians, Surgeons, Chaplains, Boatswains, Gunners, Carpenters, Pursers, Captains of Marines, Captains Lieutenants of Marines, Lieutenants of Marines, and Quarter Masters of Marines.

36. Copies of this Abstract shall be transmitted to the 32 Geo. 3. principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majesty's navy, c. 67.

IX.

PART II. to the Commissioners for sick and wounded Seamen, to the CLASS Commissioners of the Excise and Customs in England and No. 1. Scotland, to the Receivers General of the Land Tax, to Stat. 32 the Registers and Deputy Registers of the Prerogative G. 3. c. 67. Court of Canterbury, to the Clerks of the Check of his

Majesty's Dock Yards, to the Governors and Agents of the Royal Hospitals, to the commanding Officers of the several divisions of Marines, and to the Minister of every parish in Great Britain, who are directed to hang up and affix the same in some conspicuous part of their several offices or parishes, and to promulgate the same as much as may be in their respective departments. A copy of this Abstract, together with the Articles of War, shall also be kept hung up in the most public place of every ship of the royal navy, that it may be accessible to all inferior Officers and Seamen, non-commissioned Officers of Marines, and Marines; and every Captain and Commander shall cause the same to be read over once in every month, after the Articles of War are read, and the reading of the same shall be attested by the Captain or Commander and signing Officers at the foot of the muster books; to the end that every Seaman in the royal navy may know the punishments he is liable to for any neglect or disobedience, and the encouragement he is entitled to by the performance of his duty, and that upon suffering any injury he may be enabled to lay his complaint before the Lord High Admiral or the Commissioners of the Admiralty, who are directed to inquire into the same, and to grant redress, if such complaint be justly founded, and to take especial care that this and the other Acts, of which this is an Abstract, be punctually carried into execution.

No. 2.

BY 12 Anne, stat. 2. c. 6. mortuaries are taken away within the dioceses of Bangor, Landaff, St. David's, and St. Asaph; and a recompense is given to the Bishops of the said respective dioceses: and by the same Act, the several letters patent, granted by her Majesty for perpetually annexing a prebend of Gloucester to the mastership of Pembroke College in Oxford, and a prebend of Rochester to the provostship of Oriel College in Oxford, and a prebend of Norwich to the mastership of Catherine Hall in Cambridge, are confirmed.

BY stat. 28 Geo. 2. c. 6. the clause in stat. 21 Hen. 8. No. 3. c. 6. which made it lawful for the Bishop of Chester, as Archdeacon thereof, to take such mortuaries of the Priests within his diocese and jurisdiction, as he had been accustomed to, was repealed, and the living of Wareton was annexed to the see of Chester in compensation for such mortuaries.

BY stat. 26 Hen. 8. c. 15. certain portions or pensions in No. 4. the nature of mortuaries, before payable within the archdeaconry of Richmond in the county of York, (and founded upon a decree of the Pope, in mitigation of a former custom,) are entirely taken away without compensation, under the penalty of præmunire against the person levying or demanding the same.

INJUNCTIONS given by the King's Majesty 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 most Reverend Father in God, our right trusty and
right entirely beloved Counsellor, Thomas Lord Archbi-
shop of Canterbury; and to the most Reverend Father
in God, John Lord Archbishop of York.

WILLIAM R.

MOST Reverend Father in God, our right trusty and right entirely beloved Counsellor, and most Reverend Father in God, we greet you well. We being very sensible, that nothing can more effectually conduce to the honour and glory of God, and the support of the Protestant religion, than the protecting and maintaining of the Church of England, as it is by law established; which we are resolved to do to the utmost of our power; have therefore, upon mature deliberation with you and other our Bishops, by virtue of our royal and supreme authority, thought fit, with the advice of our Privy Council, to ordain and publish the following Injunctions.

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

2. That every person to be admitted to holy Orders do signify his name and the place of his abode to the Bishop fourteen days before he is ordained, to the end that inquiry may be made into his life and conversation. And that he appear at the furthest on Thursday in Ember-week, that so such, who upon examination shall be found fit, may have time to prepare themselves by fasting and prayer, before the day of ordination.

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3. That every Bishop shall be well satisfied that all sons that are to be ordained have a real title, with a sufficient maintenance, according to the thirty-third a Canon, in which matter we require the Bishops to use an especial

care.

4. That a certificate of the age of the person to be ordained be brought, if it can be, out of the parish register, or at least a certificate very well attested.

5. That the part of the thirty-fourth a 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 sign no certificates, unless, upon their own knowledge, they judge the persons to be duly qualified.

6. That every Bishop shall transmit, between Michaelmas and Christmas, to the Archbishop of the province, a list of all such persons as have been ordained by him during that year, according to the Constitutions 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 shall reside in their dioceses, and shall take care to oblige their Clergy to such residence as the laws of the land and the Canons do require, particularly the forty-first a Canon.

8. That they who keep Curates, have none but such as are licensed by the Bishop of the diocese, or in exempt jurisdictions by the Ordinary of the place having episcopal jurisdiction, as is required both by the Act of Uniformity and the forty-eighth a Canon, that so when the Incumbent does not reside, the Bishop, or such Ordinary, may know how the cure is supplied; and that no person shall presume to serve any cure without licence from the Bishop, or such Ordinary, upon pain of suspension.

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9. That you use your most effectual endeavours to suppress the great abuses occasioned by pluralities, and restrain them as much as you can, except where the parishes lie near one another, and the livings are small: 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 such persons as are legally qualified shall reside at least two months in the year in each of their livings; and provide a Curate to serve where they are not in person, with a due maintenance, to be determined by the Bishop of the diocese, unless the two parishes lie so near, that the Incumbent can constantly serve both cures.

10. That the Bishops shall look to the lives and manners of their Clergy, that they may be in all things regular and exemplary, according to the seventy-fifth Canon.

11. That the Bishops do use their utmost endeavour to oblige their Clergy to have public prayers in the church, not only on holidays and Litany-days, but as often as may be, and to celebrate the holy Sacrament frequently.

12. That the Bishops shall require the Clergy to use their utmost endeavours, that the Lord's day be religiously observed. That they set a good example to their people, and exhort them frequently to their duty herein.

13. That the Bishops remind their Clergy to visit the sick frequently, and require them to perform that duty with great care and diligence, according to the sixty-seventh c Canon.

14. That catechising be duly performed, according to the fifty-ninth Canon.

15. That the Bishops be careful to confirm, not only in their triennial visitations, but at other convenient seasons.

16. That care be taken, that the Archdeacons make their visitations personally; and that, as much as may be, they live within the bounds of their jurisdiction, and do their duty according to the Canons.

17. That no commutation of penance shall be made, but by the express order and directions of the Bishop himself, which shall be declared in open Court. And that the commutation money shall be applied only to pious and charitable uses, according to the Articuli pro Clero, made in the year 1584, and the Constitutions made in the year .1597.

Anno Dom. 1603.

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