Hoc vespondeo, salvo semper eruditiorum et ecclesie orthodoxee judicio. [! Burnet says this paper was written with Cran- Hac respondeo, &c.) with the archbishop’s mer’s hand. Hist. of Reformat. Vol. I. Pt. 11. p. hand: the rest above is the hand of his
[479 Strype, however, states, This is writ (i.e. Eccl. Mem. Vol. I. Pt. 11. pp. 349, 50.]]
Injunctions Given by to the Parsons, Vicars, and Other Curates, in his Visitation Kept (sede Vacante?) Within the Diocese of Hereford, Anno Domini 1538
First; That ye and every one of you shall, with all your diligence and faithful: aa LAE) obedience, observe, and cause to be observed, all and singular the king’s highness” injunc-
tions, by his graces commissaries given in such places as they in times past have visited. ue
n 55,6. ΤΙ. Item; That ye and every one of you shall have, by the first day of August next coming, as well a whole bible in Latin and English, or at the least a new testament of both the same languages, as the copies of the king’s highness’ injunctions.
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Item; That ye shall every day study one chapter of the said bible, or new testament, conferring the Latin and English together, and to begin at the first part of the book, and so to continue until the end of the same.
Jtem; ‘That ye, nor none of you, shall discourage any layman from the reading of the bible in Latin or English, but encourage them to it, admonishing them that they so read it, for reformation of their own life and knowledge of their duty; and that they be not bold or presumptuous in judging of matters afore they have perfect knowledge.
Jtem; That ye, both in your preaching and secret confession, and all other works and doings, shall excite and move your parishioners unto such works as are commanded expressly of God, for the which God shall demand of them a strait reckoning; and all other works which men do of their own will or devotion, to teach your parishioners, that they are not to be so highly esteemed as the other; and that for the not doing of them God will not ask any account.
[[? Fox, bishop of Hereford, died May 8,1538. elected, Oct. 24, 1539. On his death, in 1552, the]
[Boner was elected to succeed him Nov. 27 of the custody of the spiritualities was again committed to]
[same year. In the interval Cranmer deputed Hugh Hugh Coren, then dean, in conjunction with Richard]
[Coren, prebendary of Hereford, to visit the diocese, Cheney, archdeacon. Strype, Mem. of Abp. Cran-]
[and promulgate these Injunctions. Boner wastrans- mer, Vol. I. pp. 70, 268. Ed. Oxford, 1840. Nicolas,]
[lated to London before consecration, and the see of Synopsis of the Peerage.” Jenkyns’ Remains of]
[Hereford was not permanently filled till Skyp was Abp. Cranmer, Vol. 11. p. 19.]]
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Jtem; That ye, nor none of you, suffer no friar or religious man to have any cure or service within your churches or cures, except they be lawfully dispensed withal, or licensed by the ordinary.
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Jtem; That ye and every one of you do not admit any young man or woman to receive the sacrament of the altar, which never received it before, until that he or she openly in the church, after mass, or evening song, upon the holy-day, do recite in the vulgar tongue the Pater Noster, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments.
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