one is read in ye other part of the church. The Litanie is scarcely ever heard on Sundayes in ye cathedrall churches; and Te Deum, Benedictus, ye Litanie, Magnificat, &c., are seldome said or sung in most of ye churches of ye Diocesses, but Psalmes sung in stead thereof. Yet while some men are bold to omitt parts of the prayers prescribed, they have intruded other prayers never appoynted or authorized to be added to ye publick service.
It does stand wth my pleasure, wherefore see that by the next yeare ye give me a good account thereof.[1]
If it shall stand wth your Majestie's approbacion, I will, by vertue of ye High Commission, take order yt the service of the cathedrall churches and ye service of ye parishes be so had that ye one shall not interrupt ye other, or be at the same time wth ye other.
9. In some places it was found yt ye Quarter Sessions, the Leet Courts, Court Baron, and other service of yt nature, wth ordinary meetings of justices & jurors, be kept in churches and chappells, and there doe their ordinarie businesses of making presentments and finding indictments by juries. And at the Communion Table all these things are done. And in one or two places, ye market being kept near to the chappell, if ye market day prove rayny, ye market folks also keepe market there. And to mend the matter, in one of these places ye commissaries' court Richmond. was sett up where ye Communion Table should stand. For ye future avoiding ye like prophanacion of consecrated places there is resolute and peremptorie order geven. Yet I have been lately informed that a steward of one of your Majestie's courts in Lancashire, at a place called Holcome in the parish of Bury, coming to keepe courts in ye chappell there, sett a fine of fourtie pounds upon ye church wardens for keeping ye chappell dore lockt and hindering him of keeping his courts there. I have commanded the Secretarie to take order on this abuse. In wch case I humbly beseech your Majestie not only to command the taking off of yt fine, being imposed by the Steward of your Majestie's courts there, but also to lay your commandment upon me and the rest of my Brethren, the Bishops, not to suffer such things to be done in churches or chappells.
10. At Banburie in Cheshire there is a grammar schoole founded by I have had the lyke complaint from Ar. B. of Cant., wherefor as I one Thomas Aldersey, late cittizen & Haberdasher of London, wth exhibition for a preacher & a curate, whom the Haberdashers of London pretend to have power to place & displace at their pleasure wthout any
- ↑ These marginal annotations in italics are in the autograph of King Charles I.
