Injunctions to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, 15502
Injunctions given by me Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, to the dean, prebendaries, preachers, and other ministers and officers of the metropolitan and cathedral church of Canterbury, the 29th day of October, in the fourth year of the reign of our sovereign lord Edward the VIth, by the grace of God king of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, and 4n earth next under Christ of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, the supreme head. First, They and every of them shall inviolably observe, fulfil, and keep all and singular the king’s majesty’s Injunctions, devised as well for the said church as for other metropolitical and cathedral churches of this realm. Jtem, That they keep mine injunctions given within my diocese of Canterbury and peculiars, inasmuch as they shall concern the clergy of the same, except such as can in no wise be executed within the said church. Jtem, ‘That the prebendaries and other ministers of the said church, shall sit in the chapter-house at the sermons made there, and no where else.
[[᾿ See the preceding Articles, No. 26, and Letter own. Articles of Inquiry at his Visitation, 1548,]
[to Crumwell, 29 Nov. 1539. Jenkyns.] are printed by Sparrow and Wilkins, and will be]
[[? See note 2, p. 159.] found above, p. 154; but neither of these collectors]
[[? It is clear from hence, that besides Edw. makes any mention of his Injunctions.” Jen-]
[VIs Injunctions Cranmer had issued some of his kyns.]]
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Item, That every prebendary of the said church shall preach, or cause to be preached, two sermons at the least yearly in the parish churches appropriated to the said church, being within my said diocese of Canterbury.
Item, That every preacher of the said church, not being beneficed within my said diocese, and resident upon the same, shall be resident yearly in the said church by the space of six months at the least: and that always there be three of the said preachers within my said diocese of Canterbury.
Item, That no inhabiter within my said diocese of Canterbury shall be admitted to the communion within the said church, without the expressed consent of the parson, vicar, or curate, where he or she dwelleth, first obtained and had; except wayfaring persons, or necessity doth otherwise require.
Item, That hereafter there be no selling nor changing of prebendaries houses, but that every one shall be contented with that house, which immediately before was his predecessor’s.
Item, That the schoolmaster of the grammar-school do daily hear the scholars of the higher form to repeat their ordinary lessons. And the usher of the same to hear daily the scholars of the lower form to parse their ordinary lessons.
Item, That no women do accustomably lie within the precinct of the said church, but such as have their husbands with them, or that be servants.
Item, That all back doors into the city out of any prebendary’s house or others shall be clearly shut up.
Item, That every petty canon and vicar of this church do personally receive the communion in his own course, except sickness or other necessity do let.
Item, That no sale be hereafter made of any goods belonging to the said church without the consent of the dean and chapter.
! See third Article of Visitation above, p. 159.
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