Session 1. Tuesday 25 October 1597

Session 2. Friday 4 November 1597

Session 3. Friday 11 November 1597

[fos. 173-9] Proceedings of course, as formerly.

Session 4. Friday 18 November 1597

[fo. 179] The archbishop present sends for the prolocutor and the lower house, lays before them many disorders in the church:

• 1. Ministers’ excessive apparel.

• 2. Prebendaries’ neglects in cathedrals.

• 3. Disorderly marriages.

• 4. Divorces slightly passed.

• 5. Multitude of sumners.

• 6. Calling in of men by information of sumners, without presentment by churchwardens and sidemen.

• 7. Sumners farming their places.

• 8. To enquire the number of sumners heretofore, and how many should be in each diocese.

Session 5. Wednesday 23 November 1597

[fo. 180] A subsidy agreed to.

Sessions 6-7. Dates unknown

Nothing of moment.

Session 8. Wednesday 30 November 1597

[fos. 181 -90] Grant engrossed, brought in for three subsidies of four shillings in the pound in three years half yearly two shillings. The first payment 19 February 1597 [1598], the last payment 2 October 1600.

Sessions 9-22. Dates unknown

[fos. 190-5] Contain little of moment save several acts of substitution (not by commission under seal, but by word of mouth) by the archbishop to preside in his absence, proceedings against contumacious and adjournments from time to time.

Session 23. Wednesday 25 January 1598

[fos. 195-203] The archbishop present produces the queen's letters patents of license, containing ecclesiastical constitutions made by him and the bishops and the clergy in this convocation, ratified and approved by the queen. The license and constitutions are registered at large.

The canons

Capitula sive constitutiones ecclesiasticaeper archiepiscopum episcopos et reliquum clerum Cantuariensis provinciae in synodo inchoata Londini 25. die mensis Octobris anno Domini MDXCVII, regnique serenissimae in Christo principis, dominae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae et Hiberniaereginae, fidei defensoris, etc. XXXIX, congregatos tracatae, ac postea per ipsam regiam maiestatem approbatae et confirmatae et utrique provinciae tarn Cantuariensi quam Eboracensi ut diligentius observentur, eadem regia auctoritate sub magno sigillo Angliae promulgatae.