the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and four, or any time hereafter, shall be Incumbent, or have possession of any Deanry, Dignity, Canonry, Prebend, Wardenship, Mastership, Headship, Fellowship, Professor's place, or Reader's place, Parsonage, Vicarage, or any other Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion, or of any Curate's place, Lecture, or School; or shall instruct or teach any Youth as Tutor or Schoolmaster, shall, before the feast day of the purification of the blessed Virgin Mary, Commonly called Candlemas day, which shall be in year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and four, or at or before his or their respective admissions, to be Incumbent, or have possession of any the Dignities, Promotions, or Places aforesaid, subscribe the Declaration or Acknowledgement following, scilicet: I A. B. do declare, That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms against the King; and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person, or against those that are commissionated by him; and that I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England, as it is now by law established in this Kingdom. And I do declare, that I do hold, that there lies no obligation upon me, or on any other Person, from the oath commonly called, The Solemn League and Covenant, to endeavour any change or alteration of Government, either in Church or State, and that the same was in itself an unlawful oath. Which said Declaration and Acknowledgement shall be subscribed by every of the said Masters and other Heads, Fellows, Chaplains, and Tutors, of or in any College, Hall, or House of Learning, which are or shall be within this Kingdom, and by every public Professor and Reader in any University, College or Colleges within this Kingdom, before the Vice-Chancellor, or Visitor or Visitors of the said College Hall, or his or their Deputies; and the said Declaration or Acknowledgement shall be subscribed before the respective Archbishop, Bishop, or Ordinary of the Diocese, by every other Person hereby enjoined to subscribe the same; upon pain that all and every the Persons aforesaid, failing in or refusing such subscriptions, shall lose and forfeit such his respective Deanry, Dignity, Canonry, Prebend, Wardenship, Mastership, Headship, Fellowship, Professor's place, Reader's place, Parsonage, Vicarage, Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion, Curate's place, Lecture and School, and shall be utterly disabled, and (ipso facto) deprived of the same: and that every such respective Deanry, Canonry, Prebend, Mastership, Headship, Fellowship, Professor's place, Reader's place, Parsonage, Vicarage, Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion, Curate's place, Lecture, and School, shall be void, as if such Person, so failing or refusing, were naturally dead. And if any Schoolmaster, or other Person instruct 1. 10. Queen's Printers'. College or Hall. 1, 27. "And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every School-master, or other Person instructing or teaching Youth in ing or teaching Youth in any private House or Family as a Tutor or Schoolmaster, shall instruct or teach any Youth as a Tutor or Schoolmaster, before licence obtained from his respective Archbishop, Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocese, according to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom, for which he shall pay twelve pence only, and before such Subscription and Acknowledgement made as aforesaid, then every such Schoolmaster, and other instructing and teaching as aforesaid, shall, for the first offence, suffer three months' imprisonment, without bail or mainprize; and for every second and other such offence, shall suffer three months' imprisonment without bail or mainprize, and also forfeit to His Majesty the sum of five pounds: And after such Subscription made, every such Parson, Vicar, Curate, and Lecturer, shall procure a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the respective Archbishop, Bishop, or Ordinary of the Diocese, (who are hereby enjoined and required upon demand, to make and deliver the same, and shall publicly and openly read the same; together with the Declaration or Acknowledgment as aforesaid, upon some Lord's Day within three months then next following, in his Parish Church where he is to officiate, in the presence of the Congregation there assembled, in the time of Divine Service; upon pain that Queen's Printers'. any private House or Family as a Tutor or School-master, be required 1. 8. "and before such taking of the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy every Person, failing therein, shall lose such Parsonage, Vicarage, or Benefice, Curate's place, or Lecturer's place respectively, and shall be utterly disabled, and (ipso facto) deprived of the same; and that the said Parsonage, Vicarage, or Benefice, Curate's place, or Lecturer's place, shall be void, as if he naturally dead. Provided always, That from and after the twenty-fifth day of March, which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred eighty-two, there shall be omitted in the said Declaration or Acknowledgement, so to be subscribed and read, these words following, (scil.) And I do declare, That I do hold, that there lies no obligation on me, or any other Person, from the oath commonly called, The Solemn League and Covenant, to endeavour any change or alteration of Government, either in Church or State, and that the same was in itself an unlawful oath. So as none of the Persons aforesaid, shall from thenceforth be at all obliged to subscribe or read that part of the said Declaration or Acknowledgement. Provided always, and be it enacted, That from and after the Feast of the Purification of the blessed Virgin Mary, which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and four, no Person, who now is Incumbent and in possession of any Parsonage, Vicarage, or Benefice, and who is not already in Holy Orders by Episcopal Ordination, Queen's Printers'. 1. 6. as if he were naturally dead. 1. 9. eighty and two. 1. 11. scilicet. 11. 20, 21. twenty-ninth day of September. or shall not before the said Feast day of the purification of the blessed Virgin Mary be ordained Priest or Deacon, according to Form of the Episcopal Ordination, shall have, hold, or enjoy, the said Parsonage, Vicarage, Benefice with Cure, or other Ecclesiastical Promotion within this Kingdom of Ireland, but shall be utterly disabled, and (ipso facto) deprived of the same, and all his Ecclesiastical Promotions shall be void, as if he were naturally dead. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Person whatsoever shall thenceforth be capable to be admitted to any Parsonage, Vicarage, Benefice, or other Ecclesiastical Promotion or Dignity whatsoever; nor shall presume to consecrate and administer the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, before such times as he shall be ordained Priest, according to the Form and Manner in and by the said Book prescribed, unless he have formerly been made Priest by Episcopal Ordination; upon pain to forfeit, for every offence, the sum of One hundred pounds; one moiety thereof to the King's Majesty; the other moiety thereof to be equally divided between the poor of the Parish where the offence shall be committed, and such Person or Persons as shall sue for the same by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record, wherein no Essoign, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be allowed, and to be disabled from taking or being admitted into the Order of Priest, Queen's Printers'. 11. 1, 2. twenty-ninth day of September. m |