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from 2 - Supplementary texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2018
endorsed with Bishop Laud's hand, 1640.
1. Sundry canons seem to be made quite on purpose to displace and keep out such painful [i.e. painstaking] and godly ministers as make scruple of the ceremonies, reviving and pressing such ceremonies as by disuse were almost buried, and for which her late majesty promised in the fourteenth [year] of her reign [1572] that no minister should be molested. Canons 18, 24, 25, 28, 30, 58, 74.
2. Some of them are very dangerous, to cause a separation from our churches of so many as do not approve of all things in our discipline or ceremonies, excommunicating ipso facto such as affirm anything in the ecclesiastical government or ceremonies to be unlawful, or shall not receive the sacrament kneeling and of their curate, how bad soever, whereas it was allowed by statute that a man might receive the sacrament of any lawful minister in the land. Canons 4,5,
27, 57.
3. Many of them tend to the diminishing of preaching and preachers, pressing a subscription beside statute, making void ministers licences, suppressing of lectures, putting down sermons in market towns, discharging ignorant ministers by reading the service and homilies, admitting plurality of benefices, tying the minister at all times to read the whole service, omitting nothing of it for a sermon or other respects. Canons 36, 54, 56, 72,49,41, 14. 4. Some will open a door to any such corrupt doctrines as the bishops of several dioceses shall be pleased to allow, forbidding under pain of suspension the ministers, how sufficient soever, to confute any false doctrine taught in or near his charge, till the bishop have been first informed of it and given his direction. Canon 53.
5. Some of them are injurious to the laws of the land and the liberties of the king's subjects, denying appeals to ministers, tying the churchwardens to take certain books of articles at the officials’ hands, which they might have at the stationer's for a third part of that money, and (contrary to the free custom of many places), giving the minister alone the power of choosing the churchwarden, though he be the servant of the parish;
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