Promotion within this Kingdom of England, or the Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed; But shall be utterly disabled, and (ipso facto) deprived of the same; And all his Ecclesiastical Promotions shall be void, as if he was naturally dead.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no person whatsoever, shall thence∣forth be capable to be admitted to any Parsonage, Vicarage, Benefice, or other Ecclesiastical Promotion, or Dignity whatsoever, nor shall presume to Consecrate and Administer the holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper, before such time as he shall be Ordained Priest, according to the form and manner in and by the said Book prescribed, unless he have formerly béen made Priest by Episcopal Ordination, upon pain to forfeit for every offence, the sum of One hundred pounds; One moyety thereof to the Kings Majestie, the other moyety thereof to be equally di∣vided betwéen the poor of the Parish where the offence shall be committed, and such person, or persons as shall sue for the same by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record, wherein no Essoign, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be allow∣ed; And to be disabled from taking, or being admitted into the Order of Priest, by the space of one whole year then next following.
Provided, That the penalties in this Act shall not extend to the Forreiners or Aliens of the Forrein Reformed Churches allowed, or to be allowed by the Kings Majesty, his Heirs and Successors in England.
Provided alwayes, That no title to confer, or present by lapse, shall accrue by any avoi∣dance or deprivation (ipso facto) by vertue of this Statute, but after six months after notice of such voidance, or deprivation given by the Ordinary to the Patron, or such sentence of de∣privation openly and publickly Read in the Parish Church of the Benefice, Parsonage or Vicarage, becoming void, or whereof the Incumbent shall be deprived by vertue of this Act.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Form, or Order of Common Prayers, Administration of Sacraments, Rites or Ceremonies, shall be openly used in any Church, Chappel, or other publick place of, or in any Colledg, or Hall in either of the Vni∣versities, the Colledges of Westminster, Winchester, or Eaton, or any of them, other then what is prescribed, and appointed to be used in and by the said Book; And that the present Go∣vernour, or Head of every Colledge, and Hall in the said Vniversities, and of the said Col∣ledges of Westminster, Winchester, and Eaton, within one month after the Feast of St. Bartho∣lomew, which shall be in the year of our Lord, One thousand six hundred sixty and two; And every Governour or Head of any the said Colledges, or Halls hereafter to be elected, or appoin∣ted within one month next after his Election, or Collation, and Admission into the same Government, or Headship, shall openly and publickly in the Church, Chappel, or other pub∣lick place of the same Colledg, of Hall, and in the presence of the Fellows and Scholars of the same, or the greater part of them, then Resident, Subscribe unto the Nine and thirty Ar∣ticles of Religion, mentioned in the Statute made in the Thirtéenth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth, And unto the said Book, and declare his unfeigned assent, and consent un∣to, and approbation of the said Articles, and of the same Book, and to the use of all the Pray∣ers, Rites, and Ceremonies, Forms, and Orders in the said Book prescribed, and contained according to the form aforesaid; And that all such Governours, or Heads, of the said Col∣ledges and Halls, or any of them as are, or shall be in Holy Orders, shall once (at least) in every Quarter of the year (not having a lawful Impediment) openly and publickly Read the morning Prayer and Service in, and by the said Book appointed to be Read in the Church, Chap∣pel, or other publick place of the same Colledge, or Hall, upon pain to lose, and be suspended of, and from all the Benefits and Profits belonging to the same Government, or Headship, by the space of Six months by the Visitor, or Visitors of the same Colledge, or Hall; And if any Governour or Head of any Colledge, or Hall, Suspended for not Subscribing unto the said Articles, and Book, or for not Reading of the Morning Prayer, and Service as aforesaid, shall not at, or before the end of Six months next after such suspension, Subscribe unto the said Articles and Book, and declare his consent thereunto as aforesaid, or Read the Morning Prayer, and Ser∣vice as aforesaid, then such Government, or Headship, shall be (ipso facto) void.
Provided alwayes, That it shall, and may be lawful to use the Morning and Evening Prayer, and all other Prayers and Service prescribed in and by the said Book, in the Chappels, or other publick places of the respective Colledges, and Halls in both the Vniversities, in the Col∣ledges of Westminster, Winchester, and Eaton, and in the Convocations of the Clergies of either Province in Latine, any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwith∣standing.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no person shall be, or be received as a Lecturer, or permitted, suffered, or allowed to preach as a Lecturer, or to Preach, or Read any Sermon or Lecture in any Church, Chappel, or other place of Publick Worship, within this Realm of England, or the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, unless he be first approved, and thereunto Licensed by the Archbishop of the Province, or Bishop of the Diocess, or (in case the Sée be void) by the Guardian of the Spiritualties, under his Seal, and shall in the presence of the same Archbishop, or Bishop, or Guardian, Read the Nine and thirty