INJUNCTIONS GIVEN BY THAVCtoritie of the kings highness to the clergy of this his cealius.  
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. In the year of our lord god a thousand five hundredth . XXXVI. and of the most noble reign of our sovereign lord Henry the viii king of England and of France, defensor of the faith, lord of Ireland, and in earth Supreme heed of the church of England, the . XXVIII. year and the _____ day of _____ I Thomas Crumwell knight, lord Crumwell keeper of the privy seal of our said sovereign lord the king, and vicegerent to the same, for and concerning all his jurisdiction ecclesiastical within this realm, visiting by the kings highness supreme authority ecclesiastical, the people and clergy of this deanery of _____ by my trusty commissary _____ lawfully deputed and constitute for this part, have to the glory of almighty god, to the kings highness honour, the public weal of this his realm, and increase of virtue in the same, appointed and assigned these injunctions insuinge, to be kept and observed of the dean, persons, vicar's, curates, and stipendiaries, restant or having cure of soul, or any other spiritual administration within this deanery, under the pains hereafter lymitted and appointed.  
¶ The first is, that the dean, persons, vicar's, and other having cure of soul any where within this deanery, shall faithfully keep and observe, and as far as in them may lie, shall cause to be kept and observed of other, all and singular laws and statutes of this realm, made for the abolishing and extirpation of the bishop of Rome's pretenced and usurped power and jurisdiction within this realm: and for the establishment and confirmation of the kings authority and jurisdiction within the same, as of the supreme heed of the church of England: And shall to th'uttermost of their wit knowledge and learning, purely, sincerely, and without any colour or dissimulation, declare, manifest, and open for the space of one quarter of a year now next ensuing, ones every sunday, and after that at the least wise twice every quarter of a year, in their sermons and other collations, that the bishop of Rome's usurped power and jurisdiction, having no establishment nor ground by the law of god, was of most just causes taken away and abolished, and that therefore they own unto him no manner of obedience or subjection, and that the kings power is within his dominion the highest potentate and power under god, to whom all men within the same dominion by God's commandment own most loyalty and obedience, afore and above all other powers and potentates in earth.  
¶ ITEM where as certain articles were lately devised and put forth by the kings highness authority, and condescended upon by the preiates and clergy of this his realm in convocation, whereof part are necessary to be holden and believed for our salvation: and tother part do concern and touch certain laudable ceremonies, rites, and usages of the church, meet and convenient to be kept and used for a decent and politic order in the same, the said dean, persons, vicar's, and other curates, shall so open and declare in their said sermons and other collations, the said articles unto them that be under their cure, that they may plainly know and discern, which of them be necessary to be believed and observed for their salvation, and which be not necessary, but only do concern the decent and politic order of the said church according to such commandment and admonition as hath been given unto them heretofore by authority of the kings highness in that behalf.  
¶ MORE OVERDO that they shall declare unto all such as be under their cure, th'articles likewise devised, put forth, and authorized of late, for and concerning thabrogation of certain superfluous holy days, according to theffect and purport of the same articles, and persuade their parysshioners to keep and observe the same inviolably, as things wholesomely provided, decreed, and established, by common consent and public authority, for the weal commodity and profit of all this realm.  
¶ Besides this, to th'intent that all superstition, and hypocrisy, crept into divers men's hearts, may vanish away, they shall not set forth, or extol any images, relics, or miracles, for any superstition or lucre, nor allure the people by any enticements to the pilgrimages of any saint, otherwise than is permitted in the articles, lately put forth by th'authority of the kings majesty, and condescended upon by the prelate's and clergy of this his realm, in convocaiton, as though it were proper or peculiar to that saint, to give this commodity or that, seeing all goodness, health, and grace, aught to be both asked and looked for, only of god, as of the very author of the same, and of none other: For without him it can not be given. But they shall exhort as well their parishioners as other pilgrims, that they do rather apply themself to the keeping of god's commandments, and fulfilling of his works of charity, persuading them, that they shall please god more by the true exercising of their bodily labour, travail, or occupation, and providing for their families, than if they went about to the said pilgrimages, and that it shall profit more their soul health, if they do bestow that on the poor and needy, which they would have bestowed upon the said images or relics.  
¶ ALSO in the same their sermons and other collations, the persons, vicars, and other curates aforesaid, shall diligently admonish the fathers and mothers, masters, and governors of youth, being within their cure, to teach or cause to be taught their children and servants, even from their infancy, their Pater noster, th'articles of our faith, and the ten commandements in their mother tongue: And the same so taught, shall cause the said youth oft to repeat and understand. And to th'intent this may be the more easily done, the said curates shall in their sermons deliberately and plainly recite of the said pater noster, articles, or commandements, one clause or article one day, and an other an other day, till the hole be taught and learned by little and little (And shall deliver the same in writing, or show where printed books containing the same be to be fold, to them that can reed, or will desire the same) And thereto that the said fathers and mothers, masters and governors, do bestow their children and servants, even from their childhood, other to learning, or to some other honest exercise, occupation, or husbandry, exhorting, counselling, and by at the ways and means they may, as well in their said sermons and collations, as other ways, persuading the said fathers, mothers, masters, and other governors, being under their cure & charge, diligently to provide & foresee, that the said youth be in no manner wise kept or brought up in idleness, lest at any time after ward they be driven for lack of some mystery or occupation to live by, to fall to begging, stealing, or some other unthriftiness. For as much as we may daily see, through sloth and idleness, divers valiant men fall, some to begging, and some to theft and murder, which after brought to calamity and misery, impute a great part thereof to their friends and governors, which suffered them to be brought up so idly in their youth, where if they had been well educated and brought up in some good literature, occupation, or mystery, they should (being rulers of their own family) have profited as well themself, as divers other persons, to the great commodity and ornaments of the common weal.  
¶ ALSO that the said persons, vicar's, and other curates shall diligently provide, that the sacraments and sacramentals, be duly and reverently ministered in their parishes. And if at any time it happen them other in any of the cases expressed in the statutes of this realm, or of special licence given by the kings majesty, to be absent from their benefices, they shall leave their cure not to a rude and unlearned person, but to an honest, well learned and expert curate, that may teach the rude and unlearned of their cure, wholesome doctrine, and reduce them to the right way that do err. And always lett● them see, that neither they nor their vicars do seek more their own profit, promotion, or advantage, than the profit of the souls, that they have under their cure, or the glory of God.  
¶ ITEM that every person or proprietary of any parish church within this realm, shall on thisside the feast of saint Peter ad vincula next coming, provide a book of the hole Bible, both in Latin, and also in english, and lay the same in the choir for every man that will, to look and read thereon, and shall discourage no man from the reading of any part of the Bible, either in Latin or in English, but rather comfort exhort, and admonish every man to read the same, as the very word of God, and the spiritual food of man's soul, whereby they may the better know the duties to god, to their sovereign lord the king, and their neighbour. Ever gently and charitably exhorting them, that using a sober and a modest haviour in the reading and inquysition of the true sense of the same, they do in no wise stiffly or eygrely contend or strive one with an other about the same, but refer the declaration of those places, that be in controversy, to the judgement of them that be better learned.  
¶ ALSO the said dean, persons, vicar's, curates, and other priests, shall in no wise, at any unlaufulle time, nor for any other cause, than for their honest necessity, haunt or resort to any taverns or alehouses, and after their dinner and supper, they shall not give themself to drinking or riot, spending their time idly by day or by night, at tables or cards playing, or any other unlawful game: But at such times, as they shall have such leisure, they shall read or here somewhat of holy scripture, or shall occupy themself with some other honest exercise. And that they always do those things, which appertain to good congruence and honesty, with profit of the common weal: having always in mind, that they ought to excel all other in purity of life, and should be example to all other to live well and christianly.  
¶ Furthermore, because the goods of the church are called the goods of the poor, and at these days nothing is less seen, than the poor to be sustained with the same, all persons, vicars, pensionaries, prebendaries, and other beneficed men within this deanery, not being resident upon their benefices, which may dispend yearly. xx.li. or above, other within this deanery, or else where, shall distribute hereafter yearly amongs their poor parishioners, or other inhabitants there, in the presence of the church wardens, or some other honest men of the parish, the xl part of the fruits and revenues of their said benefices, lest they be worthily noted of ingratitude, which reserving so many parts to themself, can not vouchsafe to impart the xl portion thereof amongs the poor people of that parish, that is so fruitful and profitable to them.  
¶ AND to th'intent that learned men may hereafter spring the more for the execution of the premises, every person, vicar, clerk, or beneficed man within this deanery, having yearly to dispend in benefices and other promotions of the church an hundredth pounds, shall give competent exhibition to one scholar, and for as many hundredth pounds more, as he may dispend, to so many scholars more, shall give like exhibition, in the university of Oxenford or Cambrige, or some grammar school, which after they have profited in good learning, may be partners of their patrons cure & charge, aswell in preaching as otherwise in th'execution of their offices, or may when need shallbe otherwise profit the common wealth, with their counsel and wisdom.  
¶ ALSO that all persons, vicar's, and clerks, having churches, chapels, or mansions, within this deanery, shall bestow yearly hereafter upon the fame mansions, or chancels of their churches, being in decay, the .v. part of that their benefices, till they be fully repaired, and the same so repaired, shall always keep and maintain in good state.  
¶ ALL which and singular injunctions, shallbe inviolably observed of the said dean, persons, vicar's, curates, stipendiaries, and other clerks and beneficed men, under the pain of suspension and sequestration of the fruits of their benefices, until they have done their duty, according to these injunctions.   

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