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An Act

FOR THE UNIFORMITY OF COMMON PRAYER, AND SERVICE IN THE CHURCH, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS.

PRIMO ELIZABETHE.

THERE at the death of our and Ceremonies, with the Altera­W Sovereign Kingtions,

Edward the Sixth, there remain­ed one uniform Order of Common Service and Prayer, and of the Ad­ministration of Sacraments, Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, which was set forth in one Book, intituled, The Book of Common Prayer, and Adminis­tration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England, Authorized by Act of Parliament, holden in the fifth and sixth years of our said late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, intituled, An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacra­ments; The which was repealed, and taken away by Act of Parlia­ment, in the first Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Mary, to the great decay of the due honour of God, and discom­fort to the Professors of the Truth of Christ's Religion:

ed and appointed by this Statute, shall stand, and be from and after the said Feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist, in full force and effect, according to the tenor and effect of this Statute: Any thing in the foresaid Statute of Repeal to the contrary notwithstanding.

And further be it Enacted by the Queen's Highness, with the assent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all and singular Ministers in any Cathedral, or Parish Church, or other place within this Realm of England, Wales, and the Marches of the same, or other the Queen's Dominions, shall from and after the Feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist next coming, be bounden to say and use the Mattins, Even­song, Celebration of the Lord's Supper, and Administration of each of the Sacraments, and all their Be it therefore Enacted by the common and open Prayer, in such Authority of this present Parlia- order and form as is mentioned in ment, That the said Statute of the said Book, so Authorized by Repeal, and every thing therein Parliament in the said fifth and contained, only concerning the said sixth Years of the Reign of Book, and the Service, Adminis- Edward the Sixth: with one alter­tration of Sacraments, Rites and ation, or addition of certain Les­Ceremonies, contained or appoint- sons to be used on every Sunday ed in or by the said Book, shall be in the Year, and the Form of the void and of none effect, from and Litany altered and corrected, and after the Feast of the Nativity of two Sentences only added in the St. John Baptist next coming: delivery of the Sacrament to the and that the said Book with the Communicants, and none other, or Order of Service, and of the Ad- otherwise. And that if any man­ministration of Sacraments, Rites ner of Parson, Vicar, or other what­

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