¶ Injunctions for the clerge. Exhibit Die mensis Anno dni. M. CCCCC. xxxviii. In the name of God Amen.  
By the authority and commission of the most excellent Prince Henry by the grace of god king of Engeland, and of France defensor of the faith, lord of Ireland, & in earth supreme heed under christ of the church of England. I Thomas lord Crumwell, lord privi seize, vicegerent unto the kings said highness, for all his jurisdiction ecclesiastical within this realm, do for the advancement of the true honour of almighty god, increase of virtue, and discharge of the kings majesty, give and exhybite unto you these Injunctions following to be kept/ observed and fulfilled upon the pains hereafter declared.  
¶ first that ye shall truly observe and keep all and singular the kings highness injunctions, given unto you heretofore in my name by his grace's authority, not only upon the pains therein expressed, but also in your default now after this second monition continued, upon further punishment to be straightly extended toward you by the kings highness arbitrement/ or his vicegerent afore said.  
¶ Item that ye shall provide on thisside the feast of next coming, one book of the hole bible of the largyest volume in english and the same set up in sum convenient place within the said church that ye have cure of, where as your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it. The charge of which book shallbe rateably borne between you the person & the parishioners afore said: that is to say, th'one half by you, and tother half by them.  
¶ Item that you shall discourage no man privily or apertly from the reading, or hearing of the said bible/ but shall expressly provoke, ●ere, and exhort every person to read the same, as that which is the very lively word of god, that every christian person is bound to embrace, believe, and follow/ if they look to be saved/ admonishing them nevertheless to avoid all contention and altercation therein, but to use an honest sobriety in thinquisition of the true sense of the same, and to refer thexplication of obscure places to men of higher judgement in scripture.  
¶ Item that ye shall every sunday and holydaye through the year openly and plainly recite to your parishioners twice or thrice together, or oftener if need require, one particle or sentence of the Pater noster or crede in English, to th'intent they may learn the same by heart. And so from day to day to give them one like lesson or sentence of the same, till they have learned the hole Pater nofter and Crede in english by rote. And as they be taught every sentence of the same by rote, ye shall expound and declare the understanding of the same unto them, exhorting all parents and householders, to teach their children and servants the same, as they are bound in conscience to do. And that done ye shall declare unto them the ten commandments one by one every sunday & holiday till they be likewise perfect in the same.  
¶ Item that ye shall in confessions every Lent examine every person that cometh to confession to you, whither they can recite th'articles of our faith, and the Pater noster in English, and here them say the same particularly, wherein if they be not perfit ye shall declare to the same that every christian person ought to know them before they should receive the blessed sacrament of th'altar, and monish them to learn the same more perfitly by the next year following/ or else, like as they ought not to presume to come to gods board without perfit knowledge of the same, and if they do, it is to the great peril of their souls: So ye shall declare unto them that ye look for other Injunctions from the kings highness by that time to stay and repel all such from god's board as shallbe found ignorant in the premises/ whereof ye do thus admonish them, to th'intent they should both eschew the peril of their souls, and also the worldly rebuke that they might incur hereafter by the same.  
¶ Item that ye shall make or cause to be made in the said church and every other cure ye have, one sermon every quarter of a year at the least, wherein ye shall purely, and sincerely declare the very gospel of christ, and in the same exhort your hearers to the works of charity, mercy and faith, specially prescribed, & commanded in scripture, and not to repose there trust or affiance in any other works devised by men's phanthasyes besides scripture, as in wandering to pilgrimage, offering of money, candles or tapers to Images or relics, or kissing or licking the same, saying over a number of beads, not understanded ne minded on, or in such like superstition, for the doing whereof, ye not only have no promise of reward in scripture, but contrary wise great threats and maledictions of god, as things tending to idolatry & superstition, which of all other offences god almighty doth most detest and abhor, for that the same diminysheth most his honour and glory.  
¶ Item that such Images as ye know in any of your cures to be so abused with pilgrimages or offerings of any thing made thereunto, ye shall for avoiding of that most detestable offence of Idolatry, forthwith take down and deley, and shall suffer from henceforth no candles, tapers or Images of war to be set afore any Image or picture, but only the light that commonly goeth across the church, by the rood loft, the light afore the sacrament of th'altar, and the light about the sepulchre, which for thadorning of the church and divine service ye shall suffer to remain still admonishing your parishioners, that Images serve for no other purpose, but as to be books of unlearned men, that can no letters, whereby they might be otherwise admonished of the lives & conversation of them that the said Images do represent, which Images if they abuse for any other intent than for such remembrances/ they commit idolatry in the same to the great danger of their souls. And therefore the kings highness graciously tendering the weal of his subiectis souls hath in part already and more will hereafter travail for the abolisshinge of such Images, as might be occasion of so great an offence to god, and so great danger to the souls of his loving subjects.  
¶ Item that in all such benefices or cures as ye have, where upon ye be not yourself resident, ye shall appoint such curates in your stead/ as both can by there ability, and will also promptly execute these Injunctions, & do there duty otherwise that ye are bound to do in every behalf accordingly, & may profit there cure, no less with good exemple of living, than with declaration of the word of god, or else their lack and default shallbe imputed unto you, who shall straightly answer for the same, if they do otherwise.  
¶ Item that ye shall admit no man to preach within any of your benefices or cures, but such as shall appear unto you to be sufficiently licensed thereto by the kings highness or his grace authority, by tharchbishop of Cantorb. or the bishop of this diocese And such as shallbe so licensed ye shall gladly receive to declare the word of god without any resistance or contradiction.  
¶ Item if you have heretofore declared to your parishioners any thige to thextollig or setting forth of pilgrimages, relics, or Images or any such superstition, ye shall now openly afore the same recant and reprove the same, showing them (as the truth is) that ye did the same upon no ground of scripture, but as one being led & seduced by a comen error and abuse crept into the church through the sufferance and avarice of such as felt profit by the same.  
¶ Item if you do or shall know any man within your parish, or else where y is a letter of the word of god to be red in English, or 〈◊〉 preached, or of th'execution of these injunctions, or a fautor of the bishop of Rome's pretenced power, now by the laws of this realm 〈…〉.