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from 2 - Supplementary texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2018
1. Where by a statute made in the thirteenth [year] of her majesty's reign it was enacted that none should be made minister, unless he be able to answer and render to the ordinary, an account of his faith in Latin, according to certain articles set forth in a synod holden in the year 1562, and mentioned in the said statute; or have special gift and ability to be a preacher: it may please their honourable lordships to consider whether it were meet to be ordered that so many as have been taken into the ministry, since the making of that statute, and be not qualified according to the true meaning and intent of the same, be within a competent time suspended from the ministry, and execution of any function thereto appertaining, until they shall be found of that ability which the statute requireth.
The displacing of them which are already ordered, though not qualified according to statute (not being otherwise criminous in life) would breed many inconveniences and troubles in the state and call many things into needless questions, as marriages, christenings, etc. and bring a great infamy to this whole church. Nevertheless, it is by article already provided that the statute hereafter be observed, and such bishops duly punished as shall break the same. And yet the statute doth give liberty to the bishop to admit such into the ministry as cannot speak Latin. For these are the words of the statute, viz.: ‘That none shall be admitted into the ministry unless he be able to answer and render to the ordinary an account of his faith in Latin, according to the said articles. Or have special gift and ability to be a preacher.’ Which or, being a disjunctive, giveth too large a scope to the admittance of lack-Latin ministers, and therefore in the articles already exhibited to her majesty we have left it out.
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