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Injunctions to be confessed and
subscribed by them that shall be admitted Readers.
in primis.. I shall not preache
or interprete, but only read that which is appointed by public authoritie.
I shall, read the service
appointed playnlie, distinctlie, and audiblie, that all the people may heare
and understand.
I shall not minister the
sacraments nor other public rits of the Church, but burie the dead and
purifie women after their childbirthe.
I shall keep the register book
according to the injunctions.
I shall use sobrietie in
apparel, and especially in the church at common prayers.
I shall move men to quiet and
concord, and not give them cause of offence.
I shall bring in to my ordinary
testimonie of my behaviour from the honest of the parishe, where I dwell,
within one half-yere next following.
I shall give place upon
convenient warning, so thought by the Ordinarie, if any learned minister
shall be placed there, at the sute of the patron of the parishe.
I shall claim no more of the
fructs sequestred of such, that I shall serve, but as it shall be thought
mete to the wisdom of the Ordinarie.
I shall daylie at the least
reade one chapter of the Old Testament, and one other of the Newe, with good
advisement to the increase of my knowledge.
I shall not appoint in my room
by reason of my absence, or sickness, any other man, but shall leave it to
the sute of the parishe to the Ordin-arie, for assignynge some other able
man.
I shall not read, but in poorer
parishes desti-tute of incumbents, excepte in time of sickness, or for other
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