A GRANT OF THE BENEVOLENCE OR CONTRIBUTION To His most Excellent Majesty, by the Clergy of the Province of Canterbury.  
In the Convocation or Sacred Synod holden at London. Anno Domini 1640.  
LONDON: Printed by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty: And by the Assigns of JOHN BILL. 1640.   

❧ A Grant of the Benevolence or Contribution to His most Excellent Majesty, by the Clergy of the Province of Canterbury.  
In the Convocation or Sacred Synod holden at London. Anno Domini 1640.  
AVgustissimo & Serenissimo Domino nostro. CAROLO, Dei gratiâ, Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae Regi, fidei defensori, etc. Guilielmus, providentiâ divinâ Cant. Archiepiscopus, totius Angliae Primas & Metropolitanus, propensissimam subjectionem & obedientiam, ac in eo qui est Rex Regum, & dominus dominantium summam felicitatem. Serenissimae vestrae Majestati per publicum hoc Instrumentum testatum facimus; Quod Praelati & Clerus Provinciae nostrae Cantuar. in Convocatione sive sacrâ Synodo Provinciali, autoritate Brevis vestri Regii ad nos dati, in domo Capitulari Ecclesiae Cathedralis Sancti Pauli London, decimo quarto die mensis Aprilis, Anno Dom. millesimo sexcentesimo quadragesimo (ex continuatione & prorogatione ejusdem) inchoatâ & celebratâ ac de die in diem usque ad, & in decimum sextum diem instantis Maii, Anno praedict. ante meridiem etiam continuatâ in Ecclesia Collegiata beati Petri Westmonast. eodem decimo sexto die praesentis mensis legitimè congregati pro quibusdam arduis & urgentibus causis per nos ejusdem Provinciae Clero propositis, ac inter eos sedulò pensitatis, quandam Benevolentiam sive Contributionem, magnificentiae vestrae Regiae, spontaneo unanimique consensu dederunt & concesserunt, prout tenore hujus publici Instrumenti pleniùs liquet, Majestatem vestram suppliciter obnixèque rogantes, ut hanc eorum Concessionem benignè accipere ac aequi bonique consulere dignemini. Tenor verò praedictae Concessionis de verbo in verbum sequitur, & est talis.  
MOst Excellent and most gracious Sovereign LORD, We your Majesty's faithful Subjects, the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury, being called together by authority of Your Majesty's Writ, and at this present being lawfully assembled in a Provincial Synod or Convocation, well weighing and maturely considering with themselves that great and bounden duty, which by the rules of the Sacred Scripture they do owe to your gracious Majesty their Sovereign Lord, especially for your constant defence of the Faith, and the protection of Christ's holy Church amongst us, by the maintenance of the happy government thereof, together with the continuance of the sincere Preaching of the Gospel. And moreover, as obedient Subjects, well weighing the singular care which Your Majesty hath, for the well guiding and governing of all that people which is by God committed to Your charge. And not forgetting those great expenses whereat Your Majesty now is, and hereafter is more likely to be, as well for the Honourable sustentation of Your Royal estate at home, and the necessary defence of this Your Realm, as also for the effectual furtherance of Your Majesty's most Royal and extraordinary designs abroad, have with one agreement and unanimous consent given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant to Your Majesty, Your Heirs and Successors, one Benevolence, or extraordinary Contribution of four shillings in the pound yearly, during the space of six years next ensuing the date hereof, by two several payments in every of the said six years, by even and equal portions in name and form as here followeth; That is to say, That every Archbishop, Bishop, Deane, Archdeacon, Provost, Master of College, Prebendary, Parson, & Vicar, and every other person and persons, of whatsoever name or degree he or they be within the Province of Canterbury, having or enjoying any spiritual promotion, or other temporal possession to the same spiritual promotion annexed, now not divided nor separated by act of Parliament or otherwise, from the possession of the Clergy, shall pay to Your Majesty, Your Heirs and Successors, for every pound that he may yearly receive and dispend by reason of the said spiritual promotion, the sum of four shillings yearly for every of the said six years. And for the true and certain value of all the promotions and every of them, whereof the payment of this Benevolence or Contribution shall be made, the Rate, Taxation, Valuation, and Estimation now remaining upon Record in your Majesty's Court of Exchequer, for the payment of a perpetual Disme or Tenth granted unto King Henry the eight of worthy memory in the six and twentieth year of his Reign, concerning such promotions as now be in the possession of the Clergy, shall only be followed and observed, without making any other Valuation, Rate, Taxation, or Estimation, then in the said Record is comprised.  
Provided always, that forasmuch as the tenth part of the said Rate and valuation is yearly paid to Your Majesty for the said perpetual Disme or Tenth, so as there remain only nine parts yearly to the Incumbent clear; This present Benevolence or Contribution of four shillings in the pound, shall be understood and meant only of every full pound of the said nine parts, and nothing for any other money not amounting to a full pound. And your Prelates and Clergy do also grant, that this present Benevolence or Contribution of four shillings of the full pound of the nine parts of the yearly value of every spiritual promotion aforesaid, within the said Province taxed as aforesaid, shallbe paid to Your Majesty, Your Heirs and Successors, in manner and form following; That is to say, The first payment of the said Benevolence or Contribution in every of the said six years next following, to be due upon the first day of November; And the second payment to be due the first day of May, in every one of the said six years, as afore is said, to be delivered and paid to the Lord high Treasurer or under Treasurer of England, or to such person or persons as Your Majesty, Your Heirs and Successors shall appoint for receipt thereof, to the use of Your Majesty, Your Heirs, and Successors, according to the several times of payment above specified, and at such place and places as it shall please Your Majesty, Your Heirs, and Successors to appoint for the payment of the same, without any deduction, saving of six pence of every pound, for the Monition or Citation, Collection, and Portage, safe-conveying and attendance in paying of the said Benevolence or Contribution, and without any manner of charge of the Accountant, saving three shillings four pence for the general Acquittance for every one of the payments of the said Benevolence or Contribution.  
Provided always, that no person which at this present is, or hereafter shall be in composition with Your Majesty, Your Heirs and Successors, for the first-fruits of any Benefice or spiritual promotion, shall be contributory or charged for the same Benefice or promotion to Your Majesty, Your Heirs or Successors, with any part of the said Benevolence or Contribution during the first year after the time of any such compounding for his first-fruits.  
Provided also, that all Deans, Archdeacon's, Dignities, Masters, Wardens, and Prebendaries of all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Colleges, or any of them within the said Province, shall be charged with this Benevolence or Contribution for those possessions, revenues, and promotions only, which to their several promotions, dignities, and rooms are clearly and distinctly limited, and to their only use severed, thereof to pay (the tenth part being deducted) for every and each of the said payments, in manner and form as is above rehearsed. And that all those rents, possessions, profits, portions, Hereditaments, and spiritual promotions, and every of them heretofore by Your Majesty, or any of the Kings or Queens of this Realm, or any other person or persons whatsoever, given, granted, bequeathed, devised, or impropriated unto the said Cathedral or Collegiate Churches or Colleges, or to any of them, which any ways be assigned, employed, or used, either for or toward the yearly maintenance of Readers of Divinity, Schoolmasters, Ushers, Grammarians, Petti-canons, Conducts, Vicars-chorall, Singing-men, Choristers, Vergers, Sextons, poor men, or of any other necessary or daily Officers or Ministers in such Cathedral or Collegiate Churches or Colleges, or any of them, or for or towards the re-edifying or repairing of any of the same Cathedral or Collegiate Churches or Colleges, shall not in any of the said six years be charged with any part of this Benevolence or Contribution.  
Provided always, that every Parson, Vicar, or other spiritual person paying any Pension whereof no allowance is made in the valuation of his promotion or Benefice, shall and may retain to his own use and relief so much of every pound of every such Pension for every payment of this Benevolence or Contribution as he standeth charged by this Grant to pay for every part and payment of this Benevolence or Contribution, out of every pound for the whole valuation of his spiritual promotion, any Covenant, Grant, or Bond to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided also, that this Benevolence or Contribution, or any part thereof, shall not be demanded or levied out of any Benefice, house of Students, or College situate or set within either of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, or any Benefice, lands, or other Revenues, unto the said Universities, or either of them, or to any house of Students, or College in any of the said Universities, united, appropriated, or appertaining, or out of any Benefice, lands, or Revenues of the College of Windsor, or of the College of Westminster, or of the College of Eton near Windsor, or of the College called Saint Mary College by Winchester, founded by William Wickham, sometime Bishop of Winchester, or of any Hospital, Almshouses, Grammar-Schools, or of any Church-Benefice, or other Revenues to the said Colleges, Hospitals, Almshouses, or Grammar-Schools, or to any of them annexed, appropriated, or otherwise appertaining.  
Provided always, that all Parsons, Vicars, and all other Ecclesiastical persons, whose Benefices are not above six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence by the year, after the taxation aforesaid, shall not be charged with this Benevolence or Contribution, or any part of the same.  
Provided also, that every Vicar whose Benefice is eight pounds or above, and not above ten pounds by the year, according to the taxation aforesaid, shall pay unto your Majesty, your Heirs and Successors, six shillings and eight pence at every payment afore limited, of the said Benevolence or Contribution, at such times and to such persons as is aforesaid, for his part of the said Benevolence or contribution: And if any Vicarage be under eight pounds, by the taxation aforesaid, the Incumbent shall not be charged with any part or payment of the said Benevolence or Contribution.  
And we your said Prelates and Clergy, most humbly beseech your most excellent Majesty to take in good part our loving minds and hearty good wills herein, and to accept of this small gift of ours, though it be nothing answerable to our good desires, and yet according to the best of our poor abilities.  
IN quorum omnium & singulorum praemissorum fidem & testimonium, nos Guilielmus, providentia divina Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus antedictus, hoc praesens publicum Instrumentum ad humilem rogatum Praelatorum, & Cleri nostrae Cant. Provinciae praedictae, Sigilli nostri Archiepiscopalis appensione, ac signo, nomine & subscriptione Sacvilli Wade Notarii publici, Deputati Willielmi Sherman Registrarii nostri principalis, jussimus & fecimus communiri. Datum in Ecclesia Collegiata divi Petri Westmonasteriensis, dicto decimo sexto die mensis Maii, Anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo quadragesimo, Regnique vestri felicissimi decimo sexto; Et nostrae Translationis anno septimo.  
Et ego Sacvillus Wade, in Diocesia Roffensi natus, publicus supremâ Regiâ autoritate notarius; Quia Benevolentiae sive Contributionis praedictae concessioni ceterisque praemissis omnibus & singulis praenotatis, dum sic (ut praemittitur) expediebantur & fiebant, und cum praefato Reverendissimo patre & coeteris Patribus Cantuariensis Provinciae in eadem sacra Synodo sive Convocatione congregatis, praesens personaliter interfui, eaque omnia sic fieri geri & expediri vidi, scivi & audivi, atque in notam sumpsi. Ideo hoc praesens publicum Instrumentum, tenorem concessionis Benevolentiae sive Contributionis praedictae in se continens, manu alterius (me interim aliis impedito negotiis) fideliter scriptum exinde confeci, subscripsi, & publicavi: atque in hanc publicam & authenticam formam redegi, signoque, nomine, cognomine & subscriptione meis solitis & consuetis, und cum appensione Sigilli praefati Reverendissimi patris signavi in fidem & testimonium omnium & singulorum praemissorum jussus, & requisitus.  

Ordinationes sive Canones Ecclesiastici in Sacra Synodo praedicta, facti pro levatione & collectione Benevolentiae sive Contributionis voluntariae antedictae, una cum censuris & poenis Ecclesiasticis contra non solventes vel solvere recusantes.  
ORdinationes aliquot Synodales factae vicesimo primo die mensis Maii, Anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo quadragesimo, per Reverendissimum in Christo Patrem & dominum, Dominum Guilielmum Divina providentia Cant. Archiepiscopum, totius Angliae Primatem & Metropolitanum, aliosque Praelatos provinciae Cantuar, secum sedentes, & per reliquum Clerum inferiorem in sacra Synodo infra Ecclesiam Collegiatam Divi Petri Westmonaster. pro collectione & solutione cujusdam Benevolentiae, seu voluntariae contributionis quatuor solidorum in qualibet libra, serenissimo Domino nostro Carolo Dei gratia Angliae. Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Regi, fidei Defensori, etc. per eosdem, Archiepiscopum, Praelatos ac Clerum in dicta Synodo congregatos, decimo sexto die mensis Maii praedicti, concessae.  
QUum Nos Guilielmus providentia Divina Cantuar. Archiepiscopus, totius Angliae Primas & Metropolitanus, Episcopi, Praelati, & Clerus, &c in sacra Synodo provinciali, sive Praelatorum & Cleri ejusdem Cantuar. provinciae Convocatione in Ecclesia Cathedrali Divi Pauli Londini, decimo quarto die mensis Aprilis ultimò praeteriti inchoata & celebrata, ac de tempore in tempus ex causis urgentibus ad Ecclesiam Collegiatam Divi Petri Westmonaster. ac ibidem de diebus in dies continuata, congregati: post multa ibidem per nos tractata, die Sabbathi decimo sexto, viz. die mensis Maii supradicti, quandam benevolam Contributionem quatuor solidorum pro qualibet libra augustissimo & potentissimo Regi & Domino nostro Carolo, etc. concesserimus ex Beneficiis & proventibus nostris Ecclesiasticis colligendam & levandam infra sexennium proximum, persolvendam singulis viz. annis durante illo sexennio, modo, forma, diebus, ac sub cautionibus & conditionibus in quodam instrumento publico inde confecto, & sigillo Archiepiscopali Cantuar. munito; Dat. dicto decimo sexto die mensis Maii, pleniùs liquet.  
Quumque idem Serenissimus Dominus noster Rex per literas suas patentes sub magno sigillo Angliae, facultatem huic sacrae Synodo concesserit, non modò Canones Ecclesiasticos ordinandi, pro commodiore Ecclesiae Anglicanae regimine, sed etiam de alijs quibuscunque rebus & negotiis tractandi atque decernendi per ipsum Dominum Regem eidem Synodo sub signetto suo transmissis vel transmittendis; sub quo signetto literis suae Majestatis datis vicesimo die instantis mensis Maii dictus serenissimus Dominus Rex praecepit monuitque, ut ad Canones & Synodales Ordinationes pro collectione & levatione dictae Contributionis faciendos atque ordinandos procederemus.  
Ut igitur supradicta nostra Concessio faciliorem & magis expeditum consequi possit effectum, utque omnes & singulae pecuniarum summae per nos singulis dicti sexennii annis concessae certiùs & commodiùs colligantur, ac terminis & locis suis ad usum dicti Domini nostri Caroli persolvantur, Statuimus, ordinamus, & volumus, quod dicta Contributio ab omnibus & singulis personis Ecclesiasticis Cantuar. provinciae, quae vigore dictae Concessionis contribuere tenentur, per Collectores idoneos ad hoc, per suos Diocesanos, seu sede vacante, per Decanum & Capitulum, singulis annis per dictum sexennium deputandos modo & forma subsequentibus levetur & colligatur.  
Item authoritate praesentis Convocationis sive Synodi ordinamus & statuimus, quòd ante primum diem mensis Augusti cujuslibet anni qui in dictum sexennium incidet, Reverendissimus pater Cant. Archiepiscopus, omnesque & singuli dictae Cant. provinciae Epis. Diocesani & (sede Episcopali vacante) Decanus & Capitulum Collectores idoneos in omnibus locis exemptis, & non exemptis, in singulis suis respective Diocesibus, ad dictam contributionem & quamlibet ejus partem, modo, forma, & terminis infrà expressis debitè levandam & colligendam juxta eorum arbitria, & sanas discretiones per Literas suas patentes sigillis suis Episcopalibus, seu Capitularibus respective munitas, annuatim constituent, ordinabunt & deputabunt, ac ipsos sic deputatos, & eorum quemlibet si fuerint Ecclesiastici, ad hujusmodi Collectionis Officium suscipiendum per censuras Ecclesiasticas, viz. per suspensionis, interdicti, aut Excommunicationis sententias, ac per sequestrationem fructuum, & proventuum Beneficiorum aut Dignitatum, ac alia Juris remedia, si hujusmodi onus subire recusaverint, coerceant & compellant. Quod si dictus Archiepiscopus, Episcopus aliquis, Diocesanus, vel (sede vacante) Decanus & Capitulum laicam personam aliquam deputaverit, talis sit istiusmodi persona laica, pro qua dicti Archiepiscopus, Episcopus, aut Decanus & Capitulum respondere tenebuntur. De quorum quidem collectorum nominibus singuli Episcopi supradicti & Decani & Capitula Reverendissimum Patrem Cant. Archiepiscopum ante primum diem mensis Septembris singulis dicti sexennii annis debitè & distinctè certificare teneantur.  
Item, quòd Collectores hujusmodi quolibet dicti sexennij anno sic constituti & deputati, constituendi, vel deputandi hujus sacri Consilij authoritate plenam habeant potestatem omnes & singulos infra suae collectionis praecinctum hujusmodi Contributionis solutione onerandos ante primum diem quorumlibet mensium Octobris & Aprilis cujuslibet anni dicti sexennij, vel personaliter, vel in valvis Ecclesiarum & locorum pro quibus hanc Contributionem solvere tenentur, per Apparitorem, vel Apparitores, vel eorum deputatos in scriptis monendi, ut pecuniarum summas per eos solvendas ante primum diem mensium Novembris & Maij tunc proximè sequentium, per dictum sexennium, in aliquo loco vel locis publicis, commodis & usitatis per dictos Diocesanos, aut (sede vacante) per dictos Decanos & Capitula assignandis infra Collectionis suae limites plenè & integrè solvant.  
Item volumus, concedimus & ordinamus, quòd quilibet collector, si Ecclesiastica fuerit persona, ad hanc Contributionem vel aliquam ejus partem colligendam deputatus aut deputandus, omnes & singulos huic Contributioni obnoxios, & personaliter, vel in valvis Ecclesiarum sive locorum pro quibus hanc contributionem solvere tenentur, sufficienter monitos, & comparere ad dies praestitutos & assignatos negligentes, vel non solventes, seu solvere recusantes, aut ultra diem solutioni praefinitum differentes, per censuras Ecclesiasticas, suspensionis, excommunicationis, aut interdicti, vel per sequestrationem & venditionem fructuum, ad plenam solutionem faciendam efficaciter compellendi & coercendi, ac etiam eosdem plene & integrè solventes, seu satisfacientes, a quibuscunque censuris, sententijs & poenis in ipsos & eorum quemlibet in eâ parte promulgatis & inflictis absolvendi, ac quemcunque processum contra non comparentes aut non solventes, per eos factum, revocandi & relaxandi authoritate praesentis Convocationis sufficientem habeat potestatem. Quod si Episcopus aliquis, seu, sede vacante, Decanus & Capitulum laicam aliquam personam ad hanc contributionem colligendam deputaverit, Ordinamus & statuimus quòd ipse Episcopus, seu, sede vacante, Decanus & Capitulum dictas censuras & poenas infligendi & erogandi, easdemque relaxandi & revocandi authoritate praefentis Synodi plenam habebunt potestatem.  
Item volumus insuper, & praesentis Convocationis authoritate decernimus, quòd omnes & singuli collectores (ut praefertur) deputati vel deputandi omnes & singulas pecuniarum summas collectas & levatas, seu quas recipere potuerunt, & negligenter omiserunt ante decimum quintum diem quorumlibet mensium Decembris & Junij infra dictum sexennium suis respective Episcopis, sedibus plenis, & Decanis & Capitulis sedium vacantium sine aliquâ monitione in eâ parte eisdem collectoribus fiendâ, sub poena, si fuerint Ecclesiastici, suspensionis, excommunicationis aut interdicti, ac per sequestrationem & venditionem fructuum suorum beneficiorum, & dignitatum, & si opus fuerit, per deprivationem per eosdem Episcopos, sedibus plenis, vel per Decanum & Capitulum, sede vacante infligenda totaliter & integrè solvent, seu solvi curabunt ab eisdem Episcopis & Decano & Capitulo respectiuè Quietancias idoneas pro summis hujusmodi solutis recipientes.  
Proviso semper, quod quilibet Collector, eisdem diebus quibus dictas summas, ita ut praefertur, collectas solvit, Diocesanum suum Episcopum, sede plenâ, & Decanum & Capitulum, sede vacante, de nominibus ad dies praescriptos integrè non solventium in scriptis certiores faciet, & per Juramentum suum fidem praestabit, quod ab illis summas debitas levare & colligere non potuerit, neque possit, licêt diligentiam suam in eâ parte adhibuerit, ac contra non solventes modo & forma praescriptis processerit, in eo casu volumus, quòd hujusmodi Collector coram dicto suo Ordinario, sede plenâ, vel Decano & Capitulo, sede vacante, ad fidem & Juramentum suum praestandum in eâ parte admittatur. Et si nec auxilio & authoritate Episcopi, sede plenâ, vel Decani & Capituli, sede vacante, nec diligentiâ suâ per Juris remedia suprascripta Collector hujusmodi ante dictos dies viz. decimum quintum diem mensium Decemb. & Junij cujuslibet anni praedictorum sexennorum ab hujusmodi recusantibus, vel differentibus summas debitas integrè, vel pro parte recuperare non possit: volumus & ordinamus, quod dictus collector, vel totaliter vel pro eâ portione quam recipere non potuit, exoneretur, ac liber dimittatur & acquietur. Et quod Episcopus (sede plena) vel Decanus & Capitulum (sede vacante) respectiuè per Juramentum collectoris ita certiorati, ad Reverendissimum Patrem Cant. Archiepiscopum nomina omhium non solventium, vel solvere differentium, sub sigillo suo authentico Episcopali vel capitulari, ante decimum quintum diem mensium Januarii, & Julii, singulis annis dicti sexennii transmittet sub paenâ sequestrationis, suspensionis, vel privationis, arbitrio dicti Reverendissimi Patris cum concilio & consensu trium aliorum hujus provinciae Episcoporum, per cundem Reverendissimum Patrem ad hoc nominandorum & accersendorum infligendae. Et quod tres Episcopi ita nominati, & per literas privatas, manu dicti Archiepiscopi subscriptas, acciti comparere & eidem Archiepiscopo assistere, per omnia Juris remedia per dictum Archiepiscopum, authoritate hujus Sacrae Synodi compelli possint.  
Item volumus, ordinamus, & statuimus quod dictus Reverendissimus Pater omnes & singulos non solventes, vel solvere differentes, in dictis literis Certificatoriis dicti Episcopi (sede plena) vel Decani & Capituli (sede vacante) nominatos, vigore hujusmodi Certificatorii, absque aliâ Citatione aut probatione, ab omnibus suis dignitatibus, Praebendis & Beneficiis pro quibus summas debitas non solverunt, privare & amovere per sententiam suam finalem, & definitivam, omni appellatione remotâ & proamotis & privatis decernendi, & declarandi authoritate hujus sacri Concilii provincialis plenam & sufficientem habeant potestatem & authoritatem.  
Item authoritate quâ supra, volumus, ordinamus, & statuimus quod omnes provinciae Cant. Episcopi sedibus plenis, & Decani & Capitula sedium vacantium ante d●cimum quintum diem mensium Februarii & Augusti singulis annis dictorum sex annorum omnes pecuniarum summas, tam per ipsos Episcopos respectu Episcopatuum, & per Decanos & Capitula intuitu Ecclesiarum Cathedralium sedium vacantium, quam ab aliis quibuscunque hujus Benenevolae contributionis solutione oneratis, levatas & collectas cuicunque aut quibu scunque per Serenissimum Regem Dominum Carolum ad hoc assignando vel assignandis, sub suspensionis, excommunicationis interdicti, fructuum sequestrationis & venditionis, vel (si opus fuerit) privationis paenâ; per dictum Reverendissimum Archiepiscopum cum consilio, & consensu trium Confratrum suorum hujus provinciae Episcoporum, tam contra dictos Episcopos quam contra Eccles. Cathedrales & singulas earundem personas hujus contributionis solutione oneratas infligenda, integrè solvent, vel solvi curabunt, & dictum Archiepiscopum de integrâ summâ solutâ & de acquietantia quacunque à receptore Regio vel receptoribus Regiis sic assignando, vel assignandis ante vicesimum diem dictorum mensium Februarii, & Augusti authenticè unà cum nominibus illorum omnium denuo à quibus summas debitas colligere non potuerunt sub poenis praedictis, certificabunt, seu certificari curabunt, nisi fide dicto Reverendissimo Patri factâ, quod dictus Receptor vel dicti Receptores summas solvendas per integrum quadriduum recipere distulerit vel distulerint, aut tales acquietantias tradere recusaverit vel recusaverint. Et quia res cum suo onere transite debet, ordinamus & statuimus, quod si contingat dignitatum & Beneficiorum praedictorum possessorem quemcunque dictâ contributione aut aliquâ ejus parte non solutâ, ab hac luce migrare, resignare, cedere, aut privari, quod tunc & in eo casu non solum Successores in Dignitatibus vel Beneficiis, hujus Contributionis solutione oneratis per supra dicta omnia superius in hisce ordinationibus provisa remedia pro ultimâ solutione anni ultimò clapsi solvere & satisfacere compellantur, verum etiam quod Executores & Administratores eorundem sic decedentium (siopus fuerit) & ipsimet resignantes, cedentes, & deprivati, juxta ratam portionem fructuum quae ad manus suas eo anno pervenerit, per omnia legitima Juris remedia ad hujusmodi contributionem, & quamlibet eiusdem portionem solvendam compelli possint.  
Item volumus, statuimus & ordinamus pro efficaciori & expeditiori hujus contributionis collectione, quod Episcopi dictae provinciae Cantuariensis, sede plena, & Decanus & Capitulum, sede vacante, dignitatum & beneficiorum illorum omnium qui ab hac luce (eâdem contributione aut aliquâ ejus parte non solutâ) abierint, resignaverint, cesserint vel amoti aut privati fuerint, quamdiu eorum Beneficia vacaverint per sequestrationem & venditionem fructuum & emolumentorum talium dignitatum, & Beneficiorum ita vacantium integram contributionem vel quamcunque ejus portionem non solutam levare & colligere authoritate hujus Convocationis licitè valeant & possint: quorum tamen conscientias oneramus ut satisfactione secuta, quamprimum sequestrationes ob hanc causam interpositas revocent, & cum effectu relaxent.  
Volumus etiam, & authoritate hujus Synodi decernimus & ordinamus, quod a censuris Ecclesiasticis vel sententiis & decretis sequestrationum quibuscunque suprà provisis, & per Collectores, vel Episcopos sedibus plenis, & Decanum & Capitulum sedium vacantium pronunciatis & promulgatis, nullus sit appellationi vel recusationi locus.  
Item, volumus, ordinamus, & statuimus, quod nullus Collector praesentis Contributionis recipiet pro aliquâ acquietantiâ fiendâ ultra quatuor denarios, nec pro censuris ullis, aut sententiis suspensionis, interdicti, vel sequestrationis, & absolutione & relaxatione eorundem aut corum cujusvis ultra summam duorum solidorum: & quod quilibet Collector infra praecinctum suae Collectionis authoritatem habeat compellendi apparitorem & apparitores ordinarios ejusdem praecinctus ad monendos omnes & singulos hujus Contributionis solutione oneratos, & onerandos, quoties occasio aut necessitas postulabunt, cui appparitori, seu apparitoribus concedimus unum denarium de singulis sex denariis in Concessione nostrâ Serenissimo Domino nostro Regi factâ, reservatis, pro citatione, monitione, collectione, & solutione hujus Benevolentiae, seu extraordinariae Contributionis.  
Item, hujus sacrae Synodi authoritate volumus & ordinamus, quod si in posterum aliqua dubia, ambiguitates, difficultates, aut querelae circa has Ordinationes, vel aliquem earundem articulum, aut circa modum aut formam Collectionis hujus Contributionis oriantur: Tunc & in co casu omnium hujusmodi dubiorum, ambiguitatum, difficultatum, aut querelarum interpretationes & declarationes fiant per Reverendissimum in Christo Patrem Archiepiscopum Cantuar. Dominos Episcopos London. Winton. Sarum. Elien. & Roffen. pro tempore existente, aut duos eorundem, quorum idem Reverendissimus Pater sit unus, cujus quidem Reverendissimi Patris interpretationi & declarationi, ut praefertur, fiendae, omnino stare & acquiesci authoritate quâ suprà decernimus & ordinamus.  
Proviso tamen semper, quod propter sententiam suspensionis in Curia Camerae stellatae jampridem latam contra johannem Episcopum Lincoln. dicta sedes Lincoln. quoad hanc rem pro sede vacante reputabitur, adeòque totius circa praesentem concessionem negotii onus, omnisque ejusdem exequendi, & expediendi cura atque potestas, quantum ad omnes & singulas clausulas in supra recitatis Canonibus comprehensas, non in ipsum Episcopum, nec in Metropolitanum, sed in Decanum, atque Capitulum Ecclesiae Lincoln. vigore praesentis decreti devolvetur durante dictâ suspensione ejusdem Episcopi.   
FINIS.