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administration of the Sacraments , and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England * under
the penalty , for a second offence , of suffering imprisonment during life . " It may be said , that noone is compelled to be a clergyman , and whoever undertakes the
office , should previously Weigh well the wages with the work assigned . The act however proceeds to ordain , u that if any person or persons whatsoever shall , in any interludes , plays , songs , rhymes , or by other open wordsy declare or speak any thing in the derogation , depraving or despising of the same book , or of any thing therein contained , or any part thereof , —being thereof lawfully convicted , he shall forfeit to the queen for the first offence 100 marks , or be imprisoned six months ; for the
second 400 marks , or be imprisoned twelvemonths ; and if convicted a third time , he shall forfeit to the jqueen all his goods and chattels , and shall suffer imprisonment during his life . " It is further
ordained , that " all and every person or persons , inhabiting within this realm or any other the Queen ' s Majesty ' dominions , shall diligently and faithfully , having no lawful or reasonable excuse to be
absent , endeavour themselves to resort to their parish church or chapel accustomed , or upon reasonable let thereof , to some usual place- where common prayer and
uuch service of God shall be used in such time of let upon every
Sunday and holyday , —upon pam of punishment by the censures of the church , and also upon pain
that every person so onending shall forfeit , for every such offence , twelve pence , to be levied by the
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church wardens of the parish , where such offence shall be done , for the use of the poor of the same parish . ' *
To enforce this system of rob * bery for a burnt offering s Ci the archbishops , bishops , and other ordinaries are required ** to endeavour themselves , to the
utmost of their knowledge , —• as they will answer before God for such evils and plagues , with which Almighty God may justly punish his people , for neglecting this good and wholesome law . "
In conformity to these statutes among Queen Elizabeth ' s injunctions , 1559 9 are the following , ( WilkinCon . Mag . Brit . IV . l $ 7 . ) " 31 . That no man shall wilfully and obstinately defend * or
maintain any errors , heresies , x > r false doctrines , contrary to the faith of Christ and his Holy Spirit . " 33 . That no person shall , neglecting their own parish church ,
resortto any otherchiifch , in time of common prayer ^ of preaching , except it be by the occasion of some extraordinary sermon ^ in some parish of the same town . *'
Persecution , unto death , does not appear openly denounced in the acts and ordinances which I have quoted ^ Yet what has been observed of deposed princes , has been too often verified in the
experience of those , whom priests and princes have agreed to persecute , that there is but a short distance between the prison and the grave . Besides , that the claims of royal ecclesiastical supremacy 9 and the authoritative definitions
of heresy , became a fruitful source of capital delinquency . So false and even shameless was the com * pliment paid by Hollinshed to the government of Elizabeth , ibaj
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312 Sketch of English Protestant persecution . —Letter VII .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/28/
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