
Whereas by an Act of this present Parliament (entituled An Act for Uniformitie of Publique Prayer and
Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Forme of
makeing ordaining and consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England) it was enacted That
every Deane Canon and Prebendary of every Cathedrall or Collegiate Church and all Masters and Fellowes of any
Colledge, Hall, House of Learning or Hospitall and every Parson Vicar Curate and every other person in Holy
Orders who upon the First day of May which should be in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand six hundred
sixtie and two or at any time thereafter should be Incumbent or have possession of any Deanary Canonry Prebend
Mastership Fellowship Parsonage Vicaridge or any other Ecclesiasticall Dignitie or Promotion should before the
Feast day of Saint Bartholimew which should be in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixtie and
two subscribe the Declaration or Acknowledgement in the said Act mentioned and expressed before their respective
Archbishops Bishops Ordinaries or Vice Chauncellors of the respective Universities upon paine that all and every
of the persons aforesaid faileing in such Subscription should loose and forfeite such respective Deanry Canonry
Prebend Mastership Fellowship Parsonage Vicaradge Ecclesiasticall Dignitie or Promotion and should be utterly
disabled and ipso facto deprived of the same, And that every such respective Deanry Canonry Prebend Mastership
Fellowship Parsonage Vicaridge Ecclesiasticall Dignity or Promotion should be void as if such person soe faileing
were naturally dead, And that after such Subscription made every such Parson Vicar Curate and Lecturer should
procure a Certificate under the Hand and Seale of the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocesse
and should publiquely and openly reade the same together with the Declaration or Acknowledgement aforesaid upon
some Lords day within three moneths then next following in his Parish Church where he was to officiate in the
presence of the Congregation there assembled in the time of Divine Service upon paine that every person failing
therein should lose such Parsonage Vicaridge or Benefice respectively and should be utterly disabled and ipso
facto deprived of the same, And that the said Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice should be void as if he were
naturally dead.
II. 
And may hold their Benefices.
And whereas diverse persons of eminent Loyaltie to His Majestie and of knowne affection to the Liturgie of the
Church of England who by the said Act were required to subscribe the said Declaration or Acknowledgement at
the time of the passeing of the said Act were out of this Realme in Ireland or other parts beyond the Seas upon
lawfull and justifyable Occasions and had noe knowledge or notice thereof untill their returne into England being
after the said Feast of Saint Bartholomew, And diverse other of the said Loyall and well affected persons by reason
of sicknes imprisonment disabilitie of body or otherwise could not, or did not resorte unto their respective Archbishops
Bishops or Ordinaries or Vice Chauncellours of the respective Universities before whom such Subscription was
appointed by the said Act to be made All which said persons are by force of the said Act utterly disabled and
ipso facto deprived of their respective Deanries Canonries Prebendryes Mastershipps Fellowshipps Parsonages
Vicarages or other Ecclesiasticall Benefices or Promotions by reason of such their ommission, For remedy whereof
and for the releife of such persons Be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the Advice
and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by
Authoritie of the same That all Deanes Canons Prebendaries Masters and Fellowes of any Colledges Halls or other
Houses of Learning and all Parsons Vicars and other Ecclesiasticall persons aforesaid who at the time of the passeing
of the said Act being in Ireland or any the parts beyond the Seas did not returne into this Kingdome before the said
Feast of Saint Bartholimew One thousand six hundred sixtie and two, or who being in England by Imprisonment
Sicknes Disabilitie of Body or otherwise did not resorte unto their respective Archbishop Bishop Ordinary or Vice
Chauncellour of the said respective Universities to subscribe the said Declaration and Acknowledgement before the
said Feast in the yeare of our Lord aforesaid shall be and are hereby declared to be restored unto and preserved in
their respective Deanryes Canonryes Prebends Masterships Fellowships Parsonages Vicarages and other Ecclesiasticall
Benefices and Promotions whereunto noe other person or persons before the first day of August in the yeare of our
Lord One thousand six hundred sixtie and three were or shall be lawfully instituted inducted collated or placed,
And shall and may hold and enjoy the same according to his and their former right, The aforesaid Act or any thing
therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
III. 
and procure a Certificate; and publicly read the same, together with the said Declaration, within the time herein mentioned.
Provided That every such Deane Canon Prebendary Master and Fellow of any Colledge, Hall or House of
Learning and all Parsons Vicars and Curates and other Ecclesiasticall persons who are, or shall by vertue of this
Act be restored to, or preserved in their said severall and respective Promotions shall before the Feast of the
Nativitie of our Lord next ensueing if he be in England or if beyond the Seas within Forty dayes after his returne
into England subscribe the said Declaration or Acknowledgement before the respective Archbishop Bishop or
Ordinary of the Diocesse, or Vice Chauncellour aforesaid respectively, And that every such Parson Vicar Curate
or Lecturer shall procure a Certificate under the Hand and Seale of the respective Arch-bishop Bishop or Ordinary
of the Diocesse (who are hereby required and enjoyned upon demand to make and deliver such Certificate) And
shall publiquely and openly reade the same together with the Declaration or Acknowledgement aforesaid upon
some Lords day within three monethes then next following such Subscription in his Parish Church where he is
to officiate in the presence of the Congregation then assembled in the time of Divine Service.
IV. 
And be it further enacted and declared by the Authoritie aforesaid That every Subscription already made or
hereafter to be made before any Vicar Generall or Chauncellour to any Archbishop or Bishop or Commissary to
the Archbishop of Canterbury or any other Bishop is and shall be as effectuall and beneficiall in Law to all intents
and purposes to every person and persons which have or shall make such Subscription as aforesaid as if the same
had beene made before the Archbishop or Bishop of the Province or Diocese respectively, Any thing in the aforesaid
Act to the contrary notwithstanding.
V. 
Provided alsoe That every person who shall have benefit by this Act shall make such Allowance for serveing
the Cure since the fower and twentyeth day of August One thousand six hundred sixtie two as shall be judged
fitt by the Ordinary of the place and shall pay and discharge all Tenthes Pensions and other Charges wherewith
the Benefice to which he is by this Act restored hath beene or might be legally charged since the day aforesaid,
VI. 
And whereas some Doubt hath arisen whether persons prohibited to preach by the said Act are in the same
plight as to punishment with persons disabled by the said Act to preach Be it declared and enacted by the Authoritie
aforesaid that the Penalties by the said Act to be inflicted upon any person disabled by the said Act to preach
for any offence against the said Act, shall in like manner be inflicted upon every person soe offending that is prohibited
by the said Act to preach, Any thing doubt or ambiguity in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding.