The Copy of an Act for the abolishing and taking away of all archbishops, Bishops, chancellors, Commissaries, Deans, Deacons and Chapiters, Arch deacons, and Prebendaries, Canons, and all other under-officers out of the Church of England.  
WHereas the government of the Church of England by archbishops, Bishops, chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Arch-Deacons, and other their ecclesiastical Officers hath been found by long experience, to be a great impediment to the perfect reformation and growth of Religion, and very prejudicial to the civil government of this kingdom. Be it therefore enacted by the Kings Most Excellent majesty, the Lords and Commons assembled in this present Parliament, and by the authority of the same; That from henceforth there shall be no archbishops, Bishops, chancellors, or Commissaries of any Bishops, Deans, Deacons, or Chapiters, Arch-Deacons, Prebendaries, chanters, Canons, or petty Canons, or any other their Officers within this Church or kingdom; And every person that shall hereafter use or exercise any power or jurisdiction, Office or authority ecclesiastical or civil, by colour of any such name, title, or dignity, office, or jurisdiction, to incur the penalty and forfeiture contained in the Act of provision of praemunire, made in the 16. of R. 2. And that all Acts hereafter done by any such archbishops, Bishops, their chancellors and Commissaries, Deans or Chapiters, Arch-Deacons, Prebendaries, Canons, petty Canons, or any other Officers, by colour of any of their dignities or offices aforesaid, shall be merely void and of none effect in Law, any Statute or Ordinance heretofore made to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And that all manors, Lands, Rectories, Impropriations, Houses, Rents, Services, and other Hereditaments whatsoever of the said archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Deacons and Chapiters, Arch-Deacons, Prebendaries, Canons, and petty Canons, which they or any of them have in the right of the said Churches and Dignities, shall be disposed and ordered of in such manner and form as the Kings Most Excellent majesty, the Lords temporal and Commons of the Parliament shall appoint.  
And be it further enacted by the authority of Parliament aforesaid; That all ecclesiastical jurisdiction fit to be exercised in the Church and kingdom of England, shall be committed to such a number of persons and in such manner, as by this present Parliament shall be appointed▪   

Printed at London, Jan. 26. 1643.