Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2018
1639. Orders given by the right reverend father in God John Lord Bishop of Peterborrough, for and concerning the sermon weekley on Wedensday in St James chappell Brackley, September the foureteenth.
It is ordered that the fifteene divines whose names are here under written, shall be appointed to their severall dayes by Dr Heath chancellor of the said dyoces, or by his permission, by Doctor Sybthorpe one of his surrogates, in a catalogue, to be assign'd by him and annexed to these orders.
That noe other divine shalbe admitted to preach there upon any Wedensday, but one of these fifteene (except the curate of that place) upon any pretence whatsoever; and if any one of these shall dye, or depart, or refuse to preach, none other shalbe substituted, but by expresse allowance of the bishop;
That the bell shall begin to toll a quarter of an hower bef[o]re nyne of the clocke in the morning, and shall continue soe toleing, till nyne.
That immediately upon ceaseing of the bell, the divine service of the Church of England for morning prayer shall begin, and shalbe said, together with the letanie, either by the preacher for that day, or els (in case of necessity) only by the minister of the place or his assistant in his surplice and hood, according to his degree in school[e]s;
The preacher for that day shall be ready at the communion table in his surplice and hood (while a psalme is in singing after the morning prayer and the letanie) to begin the communion service (comonly called the second service) and that there be noe hiatus or stopp at all, after the ende of the psalme. If he be not there, he who did reade the morning prayer that day, shall presently goe thither, and proceede to the second service, and noe sermon shalb[e] had that day,
The preacher, assoone as he hath repeated the Nicen creede shall goe up into the pulpet, in his surplice and hood.
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