¶ Injunctions to be observed and kept, within the Diocese of Saint n1g-nn's, exhibited in the Visitation, of the right Reverend Father in God, Marmaduke Bishop of Saint n1g-nn's aforesaid, in the 25. year of the reign of our most gracious sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England etc.  
BEcause I dnderstande, there is used in most parts of my Diocese, an infinite number of Popish Ceremonies and other things, contrary to the Laws of God, and the queens majesties most godly proceedings: I thought good, for the avoiding of the same to set down these Injunctions following: Requiring you, and every of you (for that it tendeth to the glory of almighty God and the benefit of those people committed to my charge) to have a special care, within the limits of your charge, for the speedy observation, and fulfilling of the same: In doing whereof, you shall not only obey God's Commandments, observe her highness laws, and discharge your own duties. But shall also greatly benefit the common weal, increase true Religion, and maintain the Country in all virtue and godliness; where heretofore it hath been (for the most part) trained up in erroneous opinions, Idolitious amity, and wicked Superstition.   

Injunctions to be observed, aswell of the Clergy, as laity: within the Diocese of Saint Davies, etc.  
FIrst, whereas heretofore in sundry places, it hath been a foolish use amongst a sort of ignorant, blind Priests and Ministers, that at the saying of these words, immediately going before the distribution of the Sacramental Bread and Wine: Who in the same night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks etc. Likewise after supper he took the cup etc. They would take the bread and wine in their hands, lift it up and show it unto the people: whereupon hath ensued, horrible Idolatries, and religious adoration of the Sacraments themselves, or rather of the bread and wine, as by kneeling, knocking of the breast, lifting up of hands, closing of their eyes, with the finger and the thumb. For the avoiding whereof it is decreed, that no Person, Vicare, or Curate, whatsoever, hereafter shall handle, lift up, or show unto the people, the bread and wine, but shall let it lie still upon the Table, until the distribution thereof, and then to break it, receive it himself, and distribute it unto others, according to the orders of the book, without any addition or detraction.  
2 Item, for the better edifying and hearing of the people in the ordinary Service, the Minister shall always stand, either in the body of the Church, or at the least, in the lower end of the Chancel, (where commonly the seat of the Minister is) with his face always turned down unto the people, and thence reverently, distinctly, and with a loud voice, read the said Service.  
3 Item, that no notorious offender, wrong doer, malicious person, Infant under fourteen years of age, Idiot, Frenticke, or others, ignorant of the principles of the Christian religion, and the doctrine of the Sacraments, shallbe admitted by any Minister to communicate.  
4 Item, that there be no recourse by the Minister, to the Communion Table, to say any part of service there, saving only when there is a Communion to be ministered: for is doth retain a memory, of the Idolatrous Mass: For the avoiding whereof, all the Service shallbe said by the Minister, in his own seat or Pulpit, with his face turned down towards the people: saving that when there is any thing extraordinarily to be done: as Baptism, Burial, Marriage, or thanks giving for women delivered: then he may use the accustomed place thereof.  
5 Item, that there be no Linen clothe laid upon the Communion Table, saving that when there is a Communion to be ministered.  
6 Item, when there is a Communion to be ministered, that the Communion Table be placed at the lower end of the Chancel, as near unto the people as may be convenient, and when the Ministration is done, remove it to the upper end of the said Chancel.  
7 Item, that when there is a Communion, that all the people which will not communicate being called thereunto, be commanded to depart for that time out of the Church: after the general Confession made, in the name of the communicantes, and if any be so stubborn, that they will no depart, than the Minister to proceed no further in the Communion, but in the next consistory court, complain of them, as interrupters and troublers of Gods divine service.  
8 Item, that no Minister, do presume to minister any more Communions but only one, in one Church in one day.  
9 Item, that there be no Communion ministered in any Church, or otherwise private, except there be at the least, three for every score communicantes that Bee in the Parish, to communicate with the Minister.  
10 Item, that none be admitted to receive the holy Communion, but such as the Minister (by due examination) shall know, can perfectly say the Articles of their faith, the ten Commandments, and the lords Prayer, at the least, yea, the younger sort must say the whole catechism.  
11 Item, that every man and woman do receive the holy Communion thrice in every year at the least.  
12 Item, that no Minister do admit any of an other Parish, to communicate in his Parish Church.  

Baptism.  
FIrst, that no lay man or woman do presume to minister Baptism, but (if the child be weak) that they send for the Minister of the Parish, and the Midwife not to meddle with it at all, otherwise than is in the book of Common Prayer.  
2 Item, (to take away Superstition) the Minister shall not dip the child that is to be baptized in water, but once only, and that discreetly, or else poor water upon him, once only, in the name of the Father, the Son, and of the holy Ghost.  
3 Item, that no Minister or Priest, do put on, or suffer others to put on the child's head that is baptized, the Chrism (as it is superstitiously called) wherein hath been great superstition, and yet is in sundry places.  
4 Item, that none be admitted to be Gossippes which be under 14. years of age, and they to make an open confession at the Font, of the Articles of their faith, yea, the younger sort must say the whole catechism.  
5 Item, that the father of the child that is to be baptized, be present at the baptizing of his said child, during the whole action of Baptism.  
6 Item, that the Minister shall not meet and receive the child that is to be baptised, at the Church door or porch, nor shall there say any piece of Service for that purpose, which heretofore superstitiously hath been used.  
7 Item, the Minister shall not suffer the sureties or Gossippes, to put their hands upon the head of the child, immediately after it is named, and baptized, as if there were some virtue or hidden mystery therein.   

Burial.  
FIrst, that there be no Crosses of wood made & erected in sundry places, where they use to rest with the corpses: and especially that no wooden Crosses, be set upon the Cross in the Church yard, or upon, or about his grave.  
2 Item, that the Clerk nór his deputy, do carry about the Town, a little bell called the Saints bell before the Burial, after the use of Popish superstition.  
3 Item, that there be no offerings at Burials, whether directly or indirectly: their Months minds, or twelve Months minds, as sustpersticiously they have been termed and used.  
4 Item, that there be no prayers made for the dead, either in the house or upon the way, or else where: which thing superstitiously hath been frequented and tolerated by the Ministers.  
5 Item, that the Clerk and one or two with him at the most, shall cast the earth upon the corpses, and none but they.  
6 Item, that there be no Candles used upon the corpses, whilst it is in the Church.  
7 Item, that no Ministers, when they resort to Burials, to any other Churches than their own, shall wear any Surplice, or such like attire more than usual.  
8 Item, that there be no ringing of Bells at Burials, saving one short peal before the Burial, and an other after.   

¶ At the thanks giving for the deliverance of Women.  
FIrst, the Minister shall not meet the Woman at the Church door, or porch, there taking her by the hand, and leading her into the Church, mumbling to himself I know not what, and that namely in Latin, as heretofore amongst them hath been used.  
2 Item, that the Midwife go not before the woman, that is to yield her thanks into the Church, and so up to the Communion Table: for these two foolish and superstitious customs, the one by the Priest, and the other by the Midwife hath baedd and hatched, aswell superstitious terms, as also act of Churching of women: as if for that conceiving and bringing a child into the world (and that in lawful Wedlock) a woman should be unclean and profane.  
3 Item, that the woman that is to give her thanks, either else the Midwife, shall not kiss the Communion Table, when they offer the accustomed duties.   

ITem, that Images, Pictures, and all Monuments of feigned miracles, aswell in walls, as in glass windows, be defaced, and namely the Image of the Crucifix, and the two Maries in the Chancel windows.  
2 Item, that the Paraphrase may be provided in every Church, or rather bullinger's Decadies in English, for it is much more profitable.  
3 Item, that the quarter Sermons may be provided for.  
4 Item, that the Ministers shall buy for their study in divinity, all such Books as shall concern the same, and be nominated by me: and that within two months after the denomination and receipt of these Injunctions.  
5 Item, that altars and Rood lofts, may be pulled down and utterly defaced, and the timber thereof, either sold, or else put to some good uses: for as yet, they stand in most Churches little or nothing blemished.  
6 Item, that the lords day, and other lawful Holidays be spent in the divine service of almighty God, and that old superstitious holdays, be justly abrogated and put down: yet, bidden to be observed by the Minister in the Churches.  
7 Item, that the twelve pence forfeited for absence from the Church, belevied and taken according to the Statutes.  
8 Item, that no Ministers receive common Whores and wicked women, to give their thanks aswell as honest Women, without first they be examined by the Ordinary, and allowed thereunto under his seal.  
9 Item, that the Minister done usually teach the catechism, to the youth of their Parish, which now is altogether neglected.  
10 Item, that the Minister shall read the Queen's majesties Injunctions, openly to their Parishioners, four times in the year at the least, and that they (usually in the Rogation week) do by perambulation, compass in the uttermost bounds of their Parish.  
11 Item, that no Minister shall play at Dice, Cards, Tables, Bowls, or any other unlawful game.  
12 Item, that no Minister shall sell any Ale, or Beers, or keep any victualling house, or haunt any other Alehouse, or Tavern.  
13 Item, that the Minister solemnize no Matrimony in private houses, Gardens, profane chapels, or in any other place, otherwise then the law doth permit them.  
14 Item, that the Minister do wear such decent and comely apparel, as doth belong to their vocation, and (so many as be able) to provide cloaks with slecues.  
15 Item, that every parson, or Vicar, be resident upon his benefice, or otherwise (having a sufficient Dispensation) do substitute a fit person in the place, allowed by the Ordinary, and the same to be always there resident.  
16 Item, that every parson, Vicar, or Curate, do from time to time, use good persuasions, to all their Parishioners, lying on their death beds, to give by their Testament, or otherwise, some thing towards the repairing of the decayed Church of Saint n1g-nn's.  
17 Item, that no parson, Vicar, or Curate, do Marry any person within the degrees prohibited nor that h●●e any more wives, or husbands then one.  
18 Item, that the Churchwardens of every Parish, have an especial care, that no Curate be permitted, to serve in their Parishes, except he do first she we unto them, his licence from the Ordinary so to do, and they to keep the same safely, for their own discharge.  
These Injunctions above written, and every part and parcel of them, I straightly charge and command every man (to whom they do appertain) fully to observe, maintain, and keep, upon pain of the Laws, for that cause made and provided.   
FINIS.