APOLOGETICAL Animadversions of certain abuses that may be reform in Ecclesiastical persons and Ecclesiastical Courts without the utter extirpation of either.  
Presented to the consideration of the high and Honourable Court of Parliament.  
London Printed. 1641.   

Apologetical Animadversions of certain Abuses that may be reform in Ecclesiastical persons, and Ecclesiastical Courts, without the utter extirpation of either. Presented to the consideration of the high and Honourable Court of Parliament.  
1. THat every Archbishop, Bishop, Chancellor, Vicar General, Surrogate, Archdeacon, or any having authority in that behalf (when he Instituteth, Collateth, or Investeth any Clerk in any Benefice with cure of Souls, or any dignity in a Cathedral or Collegiate Church, or any other spiritual promotion) shall in the presence of the Register, and one or two public Notaries, minister the Oath of Simony to Patron and Clerk, and cause an Act to be made thereof, upon a certain pain.  
2. No Bishop to admit any youth under 23 years of age, nor any that is not of sufficient learning, unto Holy Orders, upon a pain to be inflicted upon the deliquent Bishop.  
3. No Archbishop or Bishop shall employ any to be Vicar General, but such as have potest tem clavium, neither shall any Simoniacal person use and exercise such authority in any visitation Provincial or Episcopal, upon a pain.  
4. No Bishop or other inferior Clergyman shall be a notorious Blasphemer, Drunkard, Sweater, Adulterer, Incestuous, fornicator, etc. or keep or maintain any such in his house, being by presentment under censure Ecclesiastical, upon a pain.  
5. No Bishop upon a Bond to save harmless, or such like pretence, shall discharge any party that is followed by due course of Law to an Exco. capiendo in a cause of instance between party and party, upon a pain.  
6. No man presented by Churchwardens or Minister for drunkenness, adultery, incest, fornication, or other criminal cause, and followed to Excom. capiend. shall be freed without public Confession of his offence, and an act of his Confession for satisfaction to the Church, upon a pain.  
7. No man shall be allowed above two months to profecute an appeal upon presentment, and the higher Court shall not hold it above a twelve month, upon a pain.  
8. Every Citation upon a judge a Quo, shall be served in open Court, And an Act thereof, upon a pain.  
9 No Archbishop, Bishop, Deane, etc. or other having authority, shall grant, seal, or deliver any Patent to a Register before he hath taken the Oath of Simony, and the Oath to do justly and uprightly, as is required by the Canon, upon a pain.  
10. All Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Chancellors, and all having authority, shall without fraud employ Commutation money to pious uses, and thereupon shall cause an Act to be made, where the name of the offender, his crime, the time, place, and sum of his Commutation, and he manner how it was bestowed, shall be expressed, upon a pain.  
11. Every Archbishop, Bishop, Dean, Archdeacon, Cannon, Prebend, or any person Lay or Ecclesiastical holding any Impropriation, shall lease it unto the Incumbent for the time being with Cure of Souls Sans fine upon the usual rent, upon a pain.  
12. The Registers negligence in transmitting a Record shall not be a cause sufficient for the judex ad quem to excommunicate the Iudex a quo, unless it appears, that being admonished, the judge a Quo did refuse to exhibit his Patent. And the judge ad Quem upon appeal, to avoid delay shall not intent the terms of the Courts as the Merit of the Cause.  
FINIS.