Iniunctions geuen by the Quenes Maiestie Anno Domini. 1.5.5.9. The first yere of the raigne of our soueraigne Lady Quene Elizabeth. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis.
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Iniunctions geuen by the Quenes Maiestie Anno Domini. 1.5.5.9. The first yere of the raigne of our soueraigne Lady Quene Elizabeth. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis.
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Church of England.
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[Imprinted at London :: In Powles Church yarde by Richard Iugge and Iohn Cawood, printers to the Quenes Maiestie],
[1570?]
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Church of England -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Church history -- 16th century.
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For the tables in the Church.
WHereas her Maiestie vnderstan∣deth that in manye and sundrye partes of the Realme, the Alters of the Churches be remoued, and tables placed for ministration of the holy Sacrament, accordyng to the fourme of the law therfore prouided, and in some other places the Alters be not yet remo∣ued, vpon opinion conceaued of some other or∣der therin to be takē by her Maiesties visitours. In thorder wherof, sauing for an vniformitie, ther semeth no matter of great moment, so that the Sacrament be duely and reuerently mini∣stred. Yet for obseruation of one vniformitie through the whole Realme, and for the better imitacion of the lawe in that behalfe, it is orde∣red
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that no alter be taken downe, but by ouer∣syght of the Curate of the Churche, and the Churchwardens, or one of them at the leaste, wherein no riotous or disordred maner to be v∣sed: and that the holy table in euery Church be decently made, and sette in the place where the Alter stoode, and there commonly couered as thereto belongeth, and as shalbe appoynted by the visitours, and so to stand, sauyng when the Communion of the Sacrament is to be distri∣buted, at which tyme the same shalbe so placed in good sort within the Chauncell, as whereby the minister may be more conueniently hearde of the communicantes, in his prayer and mini∣stration, and the communicantes also more con¦uenientlye and in more nomber communicate with the sayde minister, and after the Commu∣nion done, from tyme to tyme the same holy ta∣ble to be placed where it stode before.
Item where also it was in the tyme of kyng Edwarde the .vi. vsed to haue the sacramentall breade of common fine breade: It is ordered for the more reuerence to be geuen to these holy mi¦steries, being the Sacramentes of the body and bloud of our sauior Iesus Christ, that the fame sacramentall bread be made and fourmed plain without any figure therupon, of the same fine∣nesse and fashion rounde, though somwhat big∣ger in compasse and thickenesse, as the vsuall breade and wafer heretofore named syngyng cakes, whiche serued for the vse of the priuate masse.