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AN ACT FOR UNIFORMITY OF COMMON PRAYER,

sing or say any common or open| his second Offence concerning the Prayer, or to minister any Sacra- Premisses, shall be convict in form ment otherwise, or in any other aforesaid, do not pay the said Sum manner and form than is mention to be paid by virtue of his Convic­ed in the said Book; or that by tion and this Estatute, in such man­any of the said means shall unlaw- ner and form as the same ought to fully interrupt, or let any Parson, be paid, within six Weeks next Vicar, or other Minister, in any Ca- after his said second Conviction; thedral or Parish- Church, Chapel, That then every Person so con-. or any other place, to sing or say victed, and not paying the same, common and open Prayer, or to shall for the same second Offence, minister the Sacraments, or any of instead of the said Sum, suffer Im­them, in such manner and form, prisonment during twelve Months, as is mentioned in the said Book; without Bail or Mainprise. And that then every such Person, being that from and after the said Feast thereof lawfully convicted, in form of the Nativity of St. John Baptist abovesaid, shall forfeit to the Queen next coming, all and every Person cur Sovereign Lady, her Heirs and and Persons inhabiting within this Successors, for the first Offence, an Realm, or any other the Queen's hundred Marks. And if any Per- Majesty's Dominions, shall dili. son or Persons, being once convict gently and faithfully, having no of any such Offence, eftsoons of lawful or reasonable excuse to be fend against any of the last recited absent, endeavour themselves, to Offences, and shall in form afore- resort to their Parish Church or said be thereof lawfully convict; Chapel accustomed, or upon rea.. that the same Person so offending, sonable let thereof, to some usual and convict, shall for the second place, where Common Prayer, and Offence forfeit to the Queen our such Service of God, shall be used Sovereign Lady, her Heirs and in such time of let, upon every Successors, four hundred Marks. Sunday, and other days ordained And if any Person, after he in form or used to be kept as Holy- days, aforesaid shall have been twice and then and there to abide orderly convict of any Offence concerning and soberly, during the time of any of the last recited Offences, Common Prayer, Preaching, or shall offend the third time, and be other Service of God there to be thereof in form abovesaid lawfully used, and ministered; upon pain convict, that then every Person so of Punishment by the Censures of offending and convict, shall for his the Church, and also upon pain third Offence, forfeit to our Sove that every Person so offending, reign Lady the Queen, all his Goods shall forfeit for every such Of and Chattels, and shall suffer Im- fence, twelve Pence, to be levied by prisonment during his Life. And the Church- wardens of the Parish if any Person or Persons, that for where such Offence shall be done, his first Offence concerning the to the use of the Poor of the same Premisses, shall be convict in form Parish, of the Goods, Lands and aforesaid, do not pay the Sum to Tenements of such Offender, by be paid by virtue of his Conviction, way of Distress. 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 Imprison ment by the space of six Months, without Bail or Mainprise. And if any Person or Persons, that for

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 utter-. most of their knowledges, that the