Chap. V. The HISTORY of the PURIrANS. 575 The confecration of this furniture was after this manner ; the archbi- K. Charles I. fhop in his cope, attended by two chaplains in their furplices, having 1653. bowed feveral times towards the altar, read a portion of feripture ; then Confecration the veffels to be confecrated were delivered into the hands of the archbi- of thefurni fhop, who after he had placed them upon the altar, read a form of Lure. prayer, defiring God to blefs and accept of thefe veffels, which he feveral- ly touched and elevated offering them up to God, after which they were not to be put to common ufe. We have feen already the manner of his grace's confecrating the facramental elements at Creed Church; there was a little more ceremony in cathedrals, where the wafers and wine being find placed with great folemnity on the credentia or fide table, were to be removed from thence by one of the archbifhop's chaplains, who as foon as he turns his face about to the altar with the elements in his hands, bows three times, and again when hecornes to the foot of it, where he prefents them upon his knees, and lays them upon the altar for confecration. How far the bringing thefe inventions of men into the worfhip of God, is . chargeable with fuperfiition, and with a departing from the fimplicity of the chriftian inflitution, I leave with the reader ; but furely the impofing them upon others under fevere penalties, without the fanftion of convo- cation, parliament, or royal mandate, was not to be juflified. The leflurers or afternoon preachers, giving his grace Tome diflurbance Injuu ias notwithfianding the attemptsalready made to fupprefs them, the king Pent againfr la the following injun&ions to the hilltops of his province; " a. That they R,.(hw " ordain no clergyman without a prefentation to fome living. Or 2. Part zd " Without a certificate that he is provided of fome void church. Or 3. p. 21.1. " Without Tome place in a cathedral or collegiate church. Or 4. Unlefs " he be a fellow of Come college. Or 5. A matter of arts of five years " ftanding, living at his own charge. Or 6. Without the intention of " the bifhop to provide for him." By virtue of thefe injunftions no chaplainfhip to a nobleman's family, or any invitation to a lefture, could . qualify a perfon for ordination without a living. In the annual account the archbifhop gave the king of the fiate of his Laud's ac- province this year, we may obferve how much the fupprefling of thefe count of the popular preachers lay upon his mind. " The bifhop ofBath and ÍlTellsfiare of his " (lays his grace) has taken a great deal of pains in his late vifitation, to province. " have all the king's inflruftions obferved, and particularly he has put " down feveral lefturers in market-towns who were beneficed in other " diocefes, becaufe he found when they had preached faftious fermons;, " they retired without the reach of his jurifdifion.. " And whereas his majefly's infiruftions require, that letherers fhould': " two their afternoon fermons into catechifings, forte parfons or vicars `° objeft againft their being included, becaufe lecturers are onlymention- " ed
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