Constitutions, and canons ecclesiasticall treated vpon by the archbishops, and bishops, and the rest of the cleargie of Ireland. And agreed upon with the Kings Majesties licence in their synod begun at Dublin, Anno. Dom. 1634. And in the yeare of the raigne of our soveraigne, Lord Charles by the grace of God, king of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, the tenth. And now published for the due observation of them, by his Majesties authoritie under the great seale of Ireland.

LXXV. Peculiar & inferior Courts to exhibite the Originall copies of VVills into the Bishops Registry.

VVHereas Deanes, Archdeacons, Pre∣bendaries, Parsons, Vicars, & others exercising Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction, clayme liberty to prove the last Wills and Testa∣ments of persons deceased within their severall Iurisdictions, having no knowne nor certaine Re∣gisters, nor publike places to keepe their Records in; by reason whereof, many Wills, rights and Le∣gacies, upon the death, or change of such persons and their private Notaryes, miscarry, and cannot be found, to the great prejudice of his Ma••esties Subjects. We therefore order and enjoyne, that all possessors and exercisers of peculiar Iurisdiction, shall once in every yeare exhibite into the publike

Registry of the Bishop of the Diocesse, or of the Deane & Chapter, (under whose Iurisdiction the said peculiars are,) every originall testamēt of eve∣ry person in that time deceased, and by them pro∣ved in their severall peculiar Iurisdictions; or a true Copy of every such testament examined, subscri∣bed & sealed by the peculiar Iudge and his Nota∣ry. Otherwise, if any of them fayle so to doe, the Bishop of the Diocesse, or Deane and Chapter, un∣to whom the said Iurisdictions doe respectively belong, shall suspend the said parties, and everie of them, from the exercise of all such peculiar Iurisdi∣ction, untill they have performed this our Consti∣tution.