AN ORDINANCE Of The LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT.  
That all the temporal Livings, Dignities, and ecclesiastical Promotions belonging unto William Lord Arch-bishoppe of Canterbury, be forthwith Sequestered by and unto the Parliament, and that he shall be suspended until he be either convicted or acquitted of high Treason, which he stands now Accused.  
And that during the suspension and Sequestration, his jurisdiction shall be exercised by his Vicar-Generall, and other his inferior Judges and Officers.  

Die Sabbathi, 10. Junii, 1643.  
ORdered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, that this Ordinances shall be forthwith Printed and Published.  
John brown clear. Parliamentorum.   
june 13. Printed for John W●ight in the Old-Bailey. 1643.   

AN ORDINANCE OF THE Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT.  
Die Sabbathi, 10 junii, 1643.  
whereas by an Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament, of the 17. of May, 1643. the Arch-bishop of Canterbury is required from time to time until his trial, to collate such fit persons unto any ecclesiastical preferment in his Patronage, as shall by both Houses be nominated unto him, and in pursuance of the said Ordinance, another Ordinance of the Lords and Commons past the 20. of the same month, requiring the said Arch▪ Bishop to collate upon Edward Corbet, Fellow of Me●ton college in the university of Oxford, the Rectory of Chartham in the County of Kent, void by death of Doctor Bargrave, the last Incumbent; And whereas the said Arch-bishop refuseth obedience to the said Ordinance, It is therefore Ordered, and be it so Ordained, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, that all the Temporalties of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury, be hereby sequestered by and unto the Parliament, and William Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury suspended, ab officio et beneficio, et omni et omnimoda jurisdictione Archi piscopali, until he be either convicted or acquitted of high Treason, for which he stands now accused, and whatsoever Livings, Dignities, or ecclesiastical Promotions, in the said Arch-bishops Gift or collation, are, or hereafter shall be void, shall henceforth be Instituted and inducted unto by the Arch-bishops Vicar-Generall, or any other having authority in this behalf, upon the nomination& recommendation of both Houses of Parliament, during the time of the suspension and Sequestration aforesaid; And upon this Ordinance, it is Ordered, and be it so Ordained, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, That the said Edward Corbet be, and is hereby nominated and recommended, forthwith upon sight hereof, to be Admitted, Instituted, and Inducted, by the Vicar general aforesaid, or any other having authority in this behalf, into the said Rectory of Chartham, ratione suspensionis Domini Gulielmii Archi episcopi Cantuariensis, et Sequestrationis temporalium Archi episcopatus in manibus supremae Curiae Parliamenti jam existentium, the same belonging unto their Gift: And it is hereby further Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, that during the Suspension and Sequestration aforesaid, the jurisdiction of the said Arch-bishop shall be executed and exercised by his Vicar-Generall, and other his inferior Iudges and Officers, as formerly the same hath been.   

Die Martis, 16. may, 1643.  
WHereas William Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury, standeth Impeached in this present Parliament for high Treason, and for divers other great offences and misdemeanours, and by reason of many great and weighty businesses he cannot yet be brought to trial for the said offences and misdemeanours, and he in respect of his said Archbishopwrick of Canterbury hath power to give and Collate fit Clerks, divers Parsonages, Vicaxidges, Prebends, and other ecclesiastical promotions and preferments, and if any of them should become void, and he left to prefer whom he please to the same, the same may prove very inconvenient, he bestowing them upon unfit and unworthy persons; Be it therefore Ordered and Ordained, by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament, that in case any of the foresaid Parsonages, vicarages, Prebends, or other ecclesiastical promotions or preferments now be, or shall hereafter and before the trial of the said Lord Arch bishop become void, that the said Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury shall forbear to present or Collate any person or persons thereunto, without the leave& Order of both Houses of Parliament: And it is further Ordered and Ordained, that the said Lord Arch-bishop shall from time to time until his said trial present and Collate such fit person or persons, to every such Parsonage, vicarage, Prebend, and other ecclesiastical preferment as aforesaid which now are, or hereafter before his said trial shall become void, as by both Houses of Parliament shall be nominated and appointed. And it is further Ordered by the said Lords and Commons in Parliament, that all Archdeacons, Registers, and other Officers, Ministers, and persons whatsoever, shall forbear to give or make any Admission, Institution, Collation, or Induction, of any person or persons whatsoever which by the said Archbishop shall be presented, in or to any such Parsonage, vicarage, Prebend, or other Ecclesiastical preferment, other then such person and persons as shal be nomtnated and appoynted by both Houses of Parliament as aforesaid. And it is lastly Ordered, that the said Lord Archbishop, and the Churchwardens of every Parish and other Officers of the Church, where any Parsonage, vicarage, Prebend, or other ecclesiastical promotions or preferments, in the Donation or gift of the said Archbishop is, shall within two moneths after the respective avoidance thereof, give notice of such avoydances to the Lord Speaker of the House of Peers for the time being.   
FINIS.