AN ACT FOR UNIFORMITY OF COMMON PRAYER.

yearly within fifteen Days after the Feast of Easter and Saint Michael the Archangel, in like manner and form as Justices of Assize and Oyer and Determiner may do.

Ordinary: any thing contained in this Act to the contrary notwith­standing.

Provided always, and be it Or­dained and Enacted by the Autho­rity aforesaid, That all and singular Archbishopsand Bishops, and every of their Chancellors, Commissaries, Archdeacons, and other Ordinaries, having any peculiar Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, shall have full Power and Authority, by virtue of this Act, as well to enquire in their Visitation, Synods, and elsewhere within their Jurisdiction, at any other time and place, to take Ac­cusations and Informations of all and every the things above- men­tioned, done, committed, or per­petrated, within the limits of their Jurisdictions and Authority, and to punish the same by Admonition, Excommunication, Sequestration or Deprivation, and other Cen­sures and Process, in like form, as heretofore hath been used in like Cases by the Queen's Ecclesiastical

Laws.

Provided always, and be it En­acted, That whatsoever Person of­fending in the Premisses, shall for their Offences, first receive Punish­ment of the Ordinary, having a Testimonial thereof under the said Ordinary's Seal, shall not for the same Offence eftsoons be convicted before the Justices: And likewise receiving for the said Offence, Punishment first by the Justices, shall not for the same Offence eft­soons receive Punishment of the

Provided always, and be it En­acted, That such Ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers there­of, shall be retained, and be in use, as was in this Church of England, by Authority of Parliament, in the second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth, until other Order shall be therein taken by the Authority of the Queen's Majesty, with the Advice of her Commis­sioners appointed and authorized under the Great Seal of England for Causes Ecclesiastical, or of the Metropolitan of this Realm. And also, that if there shall happen any Contempt or Irreverence to be used in the Ceremonies or Rites of the Church, by the misusing of the Orders appointed in this Book, the Queen's Majesty may, by the like advice of the said Commissioners or Metropolitan ordain and publish such further Ceremonies or Rites as may be most for the advance­ment of God's Glory, the edifying of his Church, and the due rever­ence of Christ's holy Mysteries and Sacraments.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Laws, Statutes and Ordinances, wherein or whereby any other Service, Administration of Sacraments, or Common Prayer, is limited, estab­lished, or set forth to be used within this Realm, or any other the Queen's Dominions or Countries, shall from henceforth be utterly void and of none effect.

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