.92 The "HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. XL K. Charles I. the loth of the fame month it pawed the lords. The noble hiflorian r 4 ^ fays, that marvellous art and induftry was ufed to obtain it ; that the ma- jority of the commons were really againfl it, and that it was very hardly Part Chron. fubmitted to by the houle of peers. But the writer of the parliamen- t/ üo tary chronicle, who was then at London, fays the bill palled nullo con- tradicente, not a .negative vote being heard among them all ; and that there were ,bonfires and ringing of bells for joy all over the city. I Bill to aho- The bill was entitled, din alfor the utter abolifhing and taking away 1z./h epÌroPa- of all archbifhops, bops, their chancellors andcommylaries, &c. `J " It ordains, that after the 5th of November 1643. there (hall be no `" archbifhop, bifhop, chancellor or cornmifary of any archbifhop or bifhop, " nor any dean, fub-dean, dean and chapter, archdeacon, nor any chancel.. " "lor, chaunter, treafurer, fub-treafurer, fuccentor or facri/1 ofany cathe- '" drat or collegiate church, nor any prebendary, canon, canon refidentiary, '" petty canon, vicar, choral, chorifler, old vicars or new vicars, ofor with- " in any cathedral or collegiate churches in England or Wales That "° their names, titles, jurifdiétions, offices, and funâions, and the hay- " ing or ufing any jurifdidion or power, by reafon or colour of any " fuch names and titles, thall ceafe, determine, and become abfolutely "° void. " That all the manors, lordfhips, cailles, mef('uages, lands, tenements, rents, and all other poffeffions and hereditaments whatfoever, belong- ing to any archbithoprick or bifhoprick, (hall be in the real and a&ual " poffeffion and feifin of the king's majefly, his heirs and fucceffors, to "6 hold and enjoy in as ample a manner as they were held by any archbi- " (hop or bifhop within two years laft pall, except impropriations, parfo- nages, appropriate tithes, oblations, obventions, penfions, portions of " tithes, parfonages, vicarages, churches, chapels, advowfons, nomi- nations, collations, rights of patronage and prefentation. " That all impropriations, parfonages, tithes, &c. and all other here- " ditaments and poffeflions whatfoever belonging to any dean, fub-dean " and chapter, archdeacon, or any of theirofficers, be put into the hands " of truftees, to pay to all and every archbi(hop, bishop, dean, fubdean, archdeacon, andall other officers belonging to collegiate and cathedral " churches, fuch yearly flipends and penfions as shall be appointed by parliament. And they (hall difpofe of all theaforefaid manors, lands, " tithes, appropriations, advowfons, &c. for a competent maintenance for the fupport of fuch a number of preaching tpiniflers in every cathe- " dral and collegiate church as (hall be appointed by parliament; and for " thentaintenance of preaching miniflers in other places of the country " where
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