- I' custom of praying for the dead to be
"holy and who esome;" and ordains that upon the death of any bishop of the province of Canterbury his surviving brethren shall pet rot m a solemn office for the dead, both singly in their chapels, nnd together, when called to ae- rie death ol'the said
bishop : orders, I . say one mas- for
the Bonl of I n. mid entreats all exempt
religious priests and Beculars to do likewise.
9. Relates to the preaching of indulgences, and orders caution in so doing, " lest the keys oi the Church be de- spised."
10. Forbids to set free, or admit to purgation, on slight grounds, clerks who. having been put in prison for their crimes, are delivered to the I aun h as convicts.
11. Enjoins that care be taken to preserve tin
of friars and nuns; forbids them to sojourn loug iu the it their parents and friet
12. Forbids parishioners to dispose of the grass, trees,
or root- growing in consecrated ground; leaves BUCh
produce at the disposal of the rectors; forbids the latter, h itbout sufficient cause, to spoil or grab up sm h
are an ornament to the churchyards and places there- abouts.
Then follows (in some copies) an injunction that the clergy of each diocese should si nd at least two deputies
to the next congregation, to treat with the bishops for the common interests of the Church of England. This injunction, however, is by Borne persons said to be not genuine. In this same council a deed protecting tlie liberties of the scholars at Oxford was drawn up, in which the archbishop declared that, "moved by their devout prayers, he received under his protection their person- and property, and confirmed to them and their successors the liberties and immunities granted to them by bi-hops. kings, and others ol the faithful;" it is also provided thai sentence- ol suspension ami excommuni- cation passed by the chancellor, or bis deputies, etc., upon men on account of offences committed by them in the university shall be put into execution throughout the province of Canterbury; further, it is ordered that the benefices of clerks found in arms by day or night, to the disturbance of the peace of the university, shall be sequestered for three years; and if the clerk- so offend- ing be unbeneficed, they shall be incapable of holding any benefice for live years, unless they .shall make com- petent satisfaction in the interim.
Thirteen prelates attended this council, viz. the arch- bishop, and the bishops of Lincoln, Salisbury, Winches- ter, Exeter, Chichester, Worcester, Bath, Llandaff, Here- ford. Norwich. Bangor, and Rochester.— Johnson, Eccles. Canons; Labbe", Condi, xi, 10G2; Wilkin-. ( 'on il. ii, 33.
Reading-desk, the desk or pew from which t lie minister reads the morning and evening prayer. In tin early part of the reign of Edward VI it was the cus- tom of the minister to perform divine service at the upper end ol'the choir, near the communion-table; to- wards which, whether standing or kneeling, he always turned bis face in the prayers. This being objected to. a new rubric was introduced tin the fifth year of king Edward), directing the minister to turn so that the peo- ple might best hear. In some churches, however, the too great distance of the chancel from the body ol'the church hindered the minister from being distinctly heard by the people; therefore the bi-hops. at the so- licitation of the clergy, allowed them in several places to supersede their former practice, and to have desks or reading-pews in the body of the church : which dispen- sation, begun at Iirst by some i'rw ordinaries, grew by degrees to be more general, till at last it came to 1" a universal practice; insomuch that the Convocation, in the beginning of the reign of James I. ordered that in
every church there should he a "convenient -eat made for the minister to read service in." It is remarkable thai the reading-desk is only once recognised in the Prayer-book, viz. in the rubric prefixed to the Comroi- iiation; and also that the rubric prefixed to the Com- munion office supposes the continuance of the old prac- tice of reading the service in the choir or chancel. See A.mbo; l.i en us. Reading-in, a form required of each incumbent on
taking possession of bis caire in the ( 'hurch of England,
Idie minute of the procedure is .as follows :
•• Memorandum, Thai on Sunday, the -day of ,
in the year of our Lord ■ , the reverend A 1'., clerk,
rector, or vicar of , in the comity of and dio- cese of , did read in this ChUICh of aforesaid
the articles of religion commonly called the Thirty-nine Article-, agreed npon iu ( m voc itiou in the year of our Lord 1562, and did declare his unfeigned assent and cou-
READING
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HEAL PRESENCE
sent thereto ; also, that he did publicly and openly, on the day and year aforesaid, in the time of divine service, read a declaration in the following words, viz. 'I, A B, declare that I will conform to the liturgy of the United Church of England and Ireland as it is how by law established.' Together with a certificate under the right hand of the
reverend , by divine permission lord bishop of ,