of Common Prayer.

sing or say any common or open Prayer, or to minister any Sacra­ment otherwise, or in any other manner and form than is mention ed in the said Book; or that by any of the said means shall unlaw­fully interrupt, or let any Parson, Vicar, or other Minister, in any Ca­thedral or Parish- Church, Chapel, or any other place, to sing or say common and open Prayer, or to minister the Sacraments, or any of them, in such manner and form, as is mentioned in the said Book; that then every such Person, being thereof lawfully convicted, in form abovesaid, shall forfeit to the Queen our Sovereign Lady, her Heirs and Successors, for the first Offence, an hundred Marks. And if any Per­son or Persons, being once convict of any such Offence, eftsoons of fend against any of the last recited Offences, and shall in form afore­said be thereof lawfully convict; that the same Person so offending, and convict, shall for the second Offence forfeit to the Queen our Sovereign Lady, her Heirs and Successors, four hundred Marks. And if any Person, after he in form aforesaid shall have been twice convict of any Offence concerning any of the last recited Offences, shall offend the third time, and be thereof in form abovesaid lawfully convict, that then every Person so offending and convict, shall for his third Offence, forfeit to our Sove­reign Lady the Queen, all his Goods and Chattels, and shall suffer Im­prisonment during his Life. And if any Person or Persons, that for his first Offence concerning the Premisses, shall be convict in form aforesaid, do not pay the Sum to be paid by virtue of his Conviction, in such manner and form, as the same ought to be paid, within six Weeks next after his Conviction; That then every Person so convict, and so not paying the same, shall for the same first Offence, instead of the said Sum, suffer Imprison­ment by the space of six Months. without Bail or Mainprise. And if any Person or Persons, that for

his second Offence concerning the Premisses, shall be convict in form aforesaid, do not pay the said Sum to be paid by virtue of his Convic­tion and this Estatute, in such man­ner and form as the same ought to be paid, within six Weeks next after his said second Conviction; That then every Person so con­victed, and not paying the same, shall for the same second Offence, instead of the said Sum, suffer Im­prisonment during twelve Months, without Bail. or Mainprise. And that from and after the said Feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist next coming, all and every Person and Persons inhabiting within this Realm, or any other the Queen's Majesty's Dominions, shall dili­gently and faithfully, having no lawful or reasonable excuse to be absent, endeavour themselves, to resort to their Parish Church or Chapel accustomed, or upon rea­sonable let thereof, to some usual place, where Common Prayer, and such Service of God, shall be used in such time of let, upon every Sunday, and other days ordained or used to be kept as Holy- days, and then and there to abide orderly and soberly, during the time of Common Prayer, Preaching, or other Service of God there to be used, and ministered; upon pain of Punishment by the Censures of the Church, and also upon pain that every Person so offending, shall forfeit for every such Of­fence, twelve Pence, to be levied by the Church- wardens of the Parish where such Offence shall be done, to the use of the Poor of the same Parish, of the Goods, Lands and Tenements of such Offender, by way of Distress.

And for the due execution here­of, the Queen's most excellent Ma­jesty, the Lords Temporal, and all the Commons in this present Par­liament assembled, do in God's name earnestly require and charge all the Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries, that they shall endeavour themselves to the utter­most of their knowledges, that the