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'chofen by his Majesty, is to be Confecrated as other Bithops, but his Authority is to be li mited by Commiffion from the Diocefan. There are now no fuch Suffragans.

But it may be obferv'd, that as these Suffra gans have their Sees in Boroughs, not Cities; fo the four Welsh Bithops have their Sees in meer Villages. For St. David's, St. Asaph, Llandaff and Bangor, are not fo much as Parlia ment Towns; and Ely is neither City, nor Borough, with Privilege to chufe Burgeffes.

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The four Bishops in Wales had an antient Custom of taking Mortuaries of Priefts, which was confirm'd to them by a Statute made in the 21ft Year of Henry VIII; but by an A&t made in the laft Parliament all fuch Mortuaries are to be extinguish'd in the Diocefes of St. Asaph, and Bangor, upon the next Vacancy (after Midfum mer 1714) of a Rectory fine curâ in the Collati. on of each of the faid Bifhops, or of their Suc ceffors; And in recom pence of the faid Mortuaries, each of the faid Bishops have fuch Rectory fine curâ annext to their feveral Bishopricks; not to be leafed beyond the Term of their own Lives. All fuch Mortuaries are extinguifh'd" in the Diocefe of Llandaff, upon the next voi dance of the Treafurerfhip of Landaff, with the Prebend thereunto annex'd; and in the Diocefe of St. Davids, upon the next Voidance of the Prebend of Longamarch in the Collegiate Church of Brecon; and the Treafurership, with the Prebend annex'd, is for ever after annex'd to the Bishoprick of Llandaff, and the Prebend of Longamarch to the Bishoprick of St. Davids in lieu of thefe Mortuaries.

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CHAP. VII.

Of Priefts and Deacons.

HE fecond Order is that of Priest, in the Saxon Ppeort, which is the fame Word with the French, Preftre; the Dutch, Priefter; the Spanish Prefbytero; they all being evidently derived from the Greek, geobúτiçC, from which the Latin, Prefbyter; only our English Word, Prieft, is fomewhat more contracted than any of the reft.

None is capable of this Order, by our Statute Law, till he be full twenty four Years of Age. See Pref. to Ordin. Service, and Stat. 13 Eliz. 12. by which At laft mention'd, All Toleration and Difpenfations to the contrary are void in Law. Young Clergymen ought to take spe cial notice of this: for if they be not Statutable Priefts, they can have no legal Right to any Benefice or Dignity, but only to be Curates or Chaplains.

No Man is to be ordained Prieft, or Deacon, without a Title. This Title was originally nothing but the having one's Name enter'd in the Bishop's Roll or Lift, whereby he was oblig❜d to bear his part in the Labours of the Clergy of that Diocefe, and entitul'd to a Share in the common Stock of the Church: Since Diocefes have had other Churches, and Chapels, befides the Cathe dral, a Title is an Infurance of being employ'd and maintain'd, as an Officiating Clergyman,

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in fome Cathedral, or parochial Church, or other Place of Divine Worfhip. And no one is to be Ordained by the 33d Canon, but in order to be a Curate, or Incumbent, or to have fome Minifter's Place in fome Church, or except he be Fellow, Conduct, or Chaplain in fome College in the Univerfity, or be Mafter of Arts of five Years ftanding, and live there at his own Coft. The Bishop who Ordains a Clerk without Title, fhall keep him till he prefer him to fome Ecclefiaftical Living." Ibid.

No Bishop ought to admit any Perfon into Sacred Orders, who is not of his own Diocefe, except he be of one of the Univerfities, or bring Letters Dimiffory from the Bishop of whofe Diocefe he is. Can. 34.

By Stat. 13 El. 12. He that defires to be Or lain'd Minifter (that is, Priest) must bring a Teftimonial from four Perfons, known to the Bishop to be of found Religion, of his Life and Doctrine, and be able to render an Account of is Faith in Latin, according to the 39 Artiles, or to have Special Gift or Ability to be a Preacher. The 34th Canon requires Teftimo ials likewife for thofe who defire Deacons Or ers, as well as Priests, either under the Seal f fome College in the Univerfities, or of three r four grave Minifters, and other credible Per2159 who have known his Life and Conversati n for three Years next before.

Farther, both he that is to be admitted Prieft, nd he that is to be admitted Deacon, muft take e Oaths enjoin'd by the first of William and Lary, before his refpective Bishop, and make

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his Subfcription to the King's Supremacy, th Lawfulness and Ufe of the Liturgy, and the 3 Articles. See Can. 36. and not only that Cano but the Stat. 13 Eliz. 2. requires the 39 Art cles to be fubfcribed by thofe who would be o dained Minifters.

'Tis entirely at the Bishop's Difcretion, whe ther he will admit one to the Order of Prief or Deacon; nor is he obliged to give any Rea fon for his Refufal.

By receiving Priefts Orders, a Man is exprefl impower'd to preach in the Congregation wher be fhall be thereunto appointed. See Bifho Stilling fleet's Eccl. Cafes, p. 18. But they wh do ordinarily Preach in other Churches, whe they are neither Incumbents nor Curates, mu have a Licenfe from the Bishop. But even De cons may preach in the Churches where they a Curates, fays Lynd. L. 3. T. 4. Cap. præterea · Gloff

I fuppofe the firft Prohibition against Preac ing, was made at the fame Time that the fir Statute was enacted for burning Hereticks, vi in the Reign of Henry IV. for then, A. D. 140 Archbishop Arundel's Conftitution, Reverez diffima

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*There is one Claufe in this Conflitution, whi Clergymen, who are called to be licensed, ought be apprized of; that is, that the Examination fuch Perfons to be licenfed, and their Lette from the Bishop, ought to be difpatch'd grati without demanding any Money. Lynd. in b Gloffays, That Money ought not to be accep ed, tho' it be offer'd, The Canon is certain fill in force, as much as thofe in 1603.

diffime, was publifh'd, forbidding any to Preach without a Licenfe from his Diocefan, But in this there was an exprefs Referve for alt perpetual Curates: Such are declared to be licensed of common Right to preach to the Place and People of their own Cure. And there is the fame Exception in the Stat. 2. H. IV. c. 15. But Parish-Priests, or Temporary Vicars, i. e. Affiftants (fee Chap. 24. beginning) were only al low'd to rehearfe, and paraphrafe the Creed in the Words of Archbishop Peckham, with which Lyndwood begins the Provincials. This was the Method then taken to ftifle the Doctrine of Wickliff Henry VIII. when he had declared hinfelf Head of the Church, went farther, for bidding all Sermons from the 12th of July to Michaelmas-day 1536, except in Cathedrals, or before the Bishops; and from Michaelmas-day forward, that none fhould Preach on that Subjet, but only to read the Articles to be fent them without adding, or diminishing. And in King Edw. VI's Reign, 1548, came out a Proclamation, wholly filencing all Preachers.

In Q. Elizabeth's Time the Clergy being fo very Illiterate, that by her Injunctions of 1559, the Archdeacon is required to give every Curate a Leffon out of the New Teftament in Latin, to be conn'd by him against the next Vifitation; and farther, the State having a jealous Eye on the Clergy, as if they were not perfectly well affected to the Reformation, none were permit ted to preach without Licenfe, but to study to read the Homilies gravely and aptly; and they that were inftituted, fubfcribed a Promife to this effect; and this continu'd in fome Meafure

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