Moreover, they shall see that the pews and seats be well fitted for the conveniency of the minister and parishioners, and that with the advice and counsel of their minister; all this, out of the rents and revenues of the treasury of the church.

34. The said church-wardens shall be obliged to keep in a book, a good and faithful account of their disbursements and receipts, and of the use they shall make of the money of the treasury; which shall be published from time to time, according to custom, and that in the name of the said churchwardens, and procurators of the parish, who shall employ the said treasury in things necessary and convenient for the church, or the public good, governing themselves by the advice of the minister and chief of the parish in all things extraordinary which concern the said parish; and in case of public business, the assembly of the states hall prescribe to thein what shall be found expedient for the common advantage; and before they quit their charge, they shall give notice to the parishioners that they may audit their accounts in Easter week, which accounts shall be signed by the minister and chief of the parish; and if any of the said parishioners, or others, refuse to pay the rents they owe to the said treasury, the said procurators and church wardens, or any of them, shall proscute them by the ordinary ways of justice: but in case of any controversy about the said accounts, or of any abuse to be reformed, the dean and minister of the parish where the said controversy or abuse shall be, shall join with the bailly and jurats to determine the same as shall be found convenient.

35. The said church wardens during divine service on the Sunday shall search places suspected of gaming, and riotous practices; and having the constable to assist them, shall also search taverns, and tipling houses.

36. They shall be careful that there be no withholding or concealing of things appertaining to the church; they may also seize into their hands, or sue for the delivery of all donations and legacies mobiliary made to the church and poor, according to the laws of the country.

37. There shall be two collectors of the alms for the poor in each parish, who shall also discharge the place of sidesmen, and shall be chosen as the church wardens; and shall be sworn in court to behave themselves well in their office: and shall give an account of their administration twice a year before the minister and parishioners: viz. at Easter and at Michael.

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38. The clerks or sextons of the parishes shall be chosen by the minister and chief of the parish, of the age of 20 years at the least, of good life and conversation, able to read fairly,

distinctly, and intelligibly, and to write also, and somewhat qualified for the singing of the psalms, if it may be.

39. Their business is by ringing of the bell to call the people to divine service, and hearing of the word of God, at a proper and convenient hour, according to custom; to keep the church shut and clean, as also the pews and pulpit; to preserve the books, and other things belonging to the church whereof they shall have the custody; to provide water for baptism, and to make such proclamations and denunciations as shall be enjoined to them by the court, or by the minister, and shall receive their wages and salaries by contribution of the parishioners, whether in corn or money, according to the custom of the country.

40. There shall be a schoolmaster in every parish chosen by the minister, churchwardens, and principal persons thereof, and after that presented to the dean to be licensed thereunto.; and it shall not be lawful for any to exercise this charge, not being in this manner called unto it, and the ministers shall take care to visit them, and exhort them to do their duty.

41. They shall use all painful diligence to teach the children to read and write, say their prayers, answer to the catechisın; they shall form them to good manners, shall bring them to sermon, common prayers, seeing that they behave themselves there as becometh.

42. The court shall be kept once a week on the Monday, and shall observe the same terms and vacations as the court civil. 43. At every session, in the beginning thereof, the names of the assessors shall be enrolled, the day, and the month, and the sentences read.

44. After judgment and sentence given in the principal matter, the costs of the parties, and the fees of the officers of the court shall be awarded by the ecclesiastical censures.

45. There shall be two advocates, or proctors, duly sworn to the court, to the end that the people may proceed formally and juridically, without confession or surprise. And the greffier, or register being also sworn, shail faithfully record the sentence which shall be pronounced, and shall give copy of the acts to such as shall require it.

46. The king's procurator, and in his absence, the advocate, may be present from time to time in the court, and there prosecute the censure and punishment of all causes of crime and scandal.

47. For executing or serving the citations and summons, the dean shall swear the clerks of the parishes, and an apparitor, who shall give a faithful report of their proceedings, giving also copies of the original citations and mandates to such as shall require them or in the absence of them to their domestics;

and the causes of the appearance ahall be expressed in the said citations and mandates.

48. If the party be not found, as either concealing himself, or using some other collusion, the citation shall be affixed, in case he has no settled habitation, on the door of his parish church and that upon a Lord's day.

49. If it comes to the knowledge of the dean, by the report of honest men, that any one liveth notoriously in some scandal, he may advertise the minister and church wardens of the parish, to the end that informing themselves thereof, they may present such persons as deserve to be punished or censured.

50. Upon good proof of a fault committed by any minister, the dean, after repeated admonitions, shall proceed to the reformation of him by the advice and consent of two ministers, even unto suspension and sequestration: and in case the said minister continues refractory, the dean by the consent of the greater part of the ministers present in the island, shall proceed even to deprivation.

51. No commutation shall be made for penance but with great circumspection, having regard to the quality of the persons and circumstances of the crime; and the commutation shall be enrolled in the acts of the court, in order to be laid out upon the poor, and, in pious uses, and whereof account shall be given according to the said register.

52. After the first default, the non appearance of such as shall be cited again by mandate, shall be reputed contumacy; and if being afterwards peremptorily cited they do not appear, they may be proceeded against by excommunication. If before the next Court day the party does not endeavour to obtain absolution, the Court shall proceed to the publication of the sentence and minor excommunication, which shall be delivered to the minister of the parish, to be read upon some solemn day, and in the hearing of the greater part of the parishioners assembled, and the party persisting in his obstinacy, the Court shall proceed to the major excommunication, which excludes the sinner à sacris et societate fidelium. If this censure cannot induce him to obedience and submission within the space of forty days, then the dean, by his authentic certificate, shall give notice to the bailly and jurats of the said contumacy, and shall require them, in support of his jurisdiction, to cause nim to be seized by the civil officers, and constituted prisoner, under bodily detention, till such time as he has submitted, and obliged himself to obtemperate to the ordinance of the church; and before he be absolved, he shall be bound to pay the costs and charges of the prosecution of the suit.

53. In cases of incontinency, upon presentment of the churchwardens, together with probabilities, common fame, scandal and presumptions in this case requisite, the party shall be subject to undergo purgation upon oath, or otherwise shall be held for convicted.

54. In case of adultery at the instance of either of the parties, the proceedings shall go on maturely, by good proofs and informations, in order to have evidence of the fact objected; and the subject and proof of the fact requiring it, the Court may proceed to separation a Thoro et Mensa.

55. Upon proof of calumny or defamation, the party guilty shall make acknowledgment of the injury according to the exigency of the case: provided the suit be prosecuted before lapse of time, or that a year be expired: and provided that the matter of the suit be of crimes ecclesiastical before specified.

56. Appeals in causes ecclesiastical shall be heard and determined by the reverend father in God the bishop of Winchester in person; or in the vacancy of that see, by the most reverend father in God the archbishop of Canterbury in person.

57. Every appeal shall be entered within fifteen days after notice of the sentence, and the party shall be obliged to take out and exhibit the whole process, and acts of the register or rolls of the court; which acts shall be delivered to him in form and time convenient, authenticated under the seal of the office; and the appellant shall be bound to prosecute his appeal within a year and a day, aut sententiæ late stare compellitur.

58. It shall not be lawful to appeal but after sentence definitive of the cause, unless in these two cases; either when the interlocutory is such as puts an end to the cause, or when the said interlocutory, being obeyed, brings such irreparable damage to the party, that he cannot be relieved by appeal from the sentence definitive.

Table of the Dean's fees, and those of his officers, in all ecclesiastical causes -For proving wills where the goods of the deceased shall not exceed the value of 50 livres tournois de claro, to the Dean, 0; to the Greffier, for writing and regis. tering, 5 sols. For proving wills above the value of 50 livres tournois, to the Dean, 20 sols, to the Greffier, 10 sols.-For letters of administration, where the goods of the deceased shall not exceed the value of 50 livres tournois, de claro, to the Dean. 0; to the Grellier, for writing the said letters, 5 sols. For letters of administration above the said sum, to the Dean 30 sols, to the Gretiier. 10 sols.-For registering inventories of the property of wards, where the said inventory shall not amount to 50 livres tournois, to the Dean, 0; to the Greffier, for the said registering, 3 suis. For registering the said inven

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tories, exceeding the sum of 50 livres tournois, to the Dean, 20 sols to the Greffier, 10 sols. For an authentic copy of the said wills, letters of administration, or inventories, to the Dean, for his seal, 5 sols; to the Greffier, 5 sols. For the compulsoire, to the Dean and Apparitor, 10 sols.-For publishing the banns of marriage, to the Dean, 30 sols.-For sequestering the profits of any benefice, to the Dean, 60 sols. For the induction of ministers, to the Dean, 30 sols.-For mandates and citations, to the Dean, 2 sols; to the Greffier for writing them, 1 sol; to the Apparitor for executing the citations, or mandates, 2 sols 6 deniers; to the Clerk, for the citations which be shall deliver in his parish, 1 sol.-To the Dean for absolution of excommunication the lesser, 10 sols; to the Greffier, 2 sols; to the Apparitor, 2 sols 6 denies. To the Dean for absolution of excommunication the greater, 20 sols; to the Greffier, 5 sols; to the Apparitor, 5 sols. In law-suits, the losing party shall pay the salaries and fees of the officers, and 3 sols for each act to the party, and to every witness produced in Court, 3 sols.-To the Advocates of the Court, for every cause they plead, 5 sols; to the Greffier for every act of the Court, 1 sol. For every first non-appearance in Court, 1 sol. For contumacy, 3 sols.According to the above, it is ordered that the Dean and his successors, or any officers who are now,and may be hereafter, shall neither directly nor indirectly levy, exact, or receive from the inhabitants of the said island other fees and salaries than those which are specified in the above table. Furthermore, it is ordained that whatever has been formerly practised or put in execution in the said island-in whatsoever cause it may have been-in consequence of any ecclesiastical jurisdiction, shall be annulled, that the said Dean or any of his successors may not be able to draw precedents in time to come contrary to, or beyond the tenor of, the said Canons now expressed and ordered; but that every thing may he referred and limited to the contents of the said Ecclesiastical Canons and Constitutions. Likewise there shall be no impediment given by the civil magistrate of the said island to the Dean and his successors, in the pe ceable execution of the said jurisdiction, the contents of these Canons not being prejudicial to the privil eges, laws or customs of the said island, which they are not intended to injure.--Given under the great seal, etc., etc.