Receipt for a legacy or fhare of an inteftate's perfonal Legacy. eftate must be stamped and pay duty according to the value of the legacy and the proximity of the legatee or next of kin to the teftator or inteftate, for which fee Wills, VII, III. Licence for, or certificate of marriage (except the certi ficate of the marriage of a feaman's widow), 5 5. Commiffion iffuing out of any ecclefiaftical court, not Commiffion. otherwife particularly charged, 5 s.

Matriculation in the univerfities, 4 s.

Licence for

marriage.

Matriculation.

Citation or monition, in any, ecclefiaftical court, Citation. 2s. 6d.

Libel, allegation, depofition, or inventory, 2s. 6d. Libel. copies of them, 2 s.

Affidavit (except for burying in woollen), anfwer, Affidavit. fentence, or final decree, in any ecclefiaftical court; or any copy thereof to be filed in any court, 25.

Copy of a will, 3 s.

Copy of will.

Stipendiary pziefs.

THE ftipendiary priests were for trentals, anniversaries,

obits, and fuch like; grounded on the doctrine of purgatory and mafles fatisfactory. And for these, chantries were founded and endowed, to pray for the fouls of the founder and his friends: Which chantries were diffolved by the ftatute of the 1 Ed. 6. c. 14.

Striking in the Church or Church-yard. See
Church.

Subdeacon.

SUBDEACON is one of the five inferior orders in the Romish church; whole office it is to wait upon the deacon in the administration of the facrament of the

Lord's fupper. Gibf. 99.

Suffragan. See Bishops,

Suicide.

BY the rubrick before the burial office; perfous who have laid violent hands upon themfelves, fhall not have that office used at their interment.

And the reason thereof given by the canon law, is, because they die in the commiffion of a mortal fin, (Lind. 164); and therefore this extendeth not to idiots, lunaticks, or perfons otherwife of infane mind, as children under the age of difcretion, or the like; fo alfo not to thofe who do it involuntarily, as where a man kills himfelf by accident: for in fuch cafe it is not their crime, but their very great misfortune.

Sunday. See Lord's day.

Superinftitution. See Benefice.
Suppofititious births. See Bastards.

cy by the common law.

Supremacy.

King's fuprema- 1. LORD chief juftice Hale fays: The fupremacy of the crown of England in matters ecclefiaftical is a moft indubitable right of the crown, as appeareth by records of unquestionable truth and authority.

H. 75.

Lord chief juftice Coke faith; By the ancient laws of this realm, this kingdom of England is an abfolute empire and monarchy, confifting of one head, which is the king; and of a body confifting of feveral members, which the law divideth into two parts, the clergy and laity, both of them next and immediately under God fubject and obedient to the head. 5 Co. 8. 40. Caudrey's cafe.

By the parliament of England in the 16 R. 2. c. 5. it is afferted, that the crown of England hath been so free at all times that it hath been in no earthly fubjection, but immediately subject to God in all things touching the regality of the fame crown, and to none other.

And

And in the 24 H. 8. c. 12. it is thus recited; By fundry and authentic hiftories and chronicles it is manifeftly declared and exprefled, that this realm of England is an empire, and fo hath been accepted in the world, governed by one, fupreme head and king, having dignity and royal estate of the imperial crown of the fame: unto. whom a body politick, compact of all forts and degrees of people, divided in terms and by names of fpiritualty and temporalty, been bounden and owen to bear next unto God, a natural and humble obedience; he being alfo furnished by the goodne's and fufferance of Almighty God, with plenary whole and intire power, pre-eminence, authority, prerogative, and jurifdiction, to render and yield juftice and final determination to all manner of perfons refiants within this realm, in all cafes matters debates and contentions, without reftraint or provocation to any foreign princes or potentates of the world; in caufes fpiritual by judges of the fpiritualty, and caufes temporal by tem-` poral judges.

Again, 25 H. 8. c. 21. The realm of England, recognizing no fuperior under God, but only the king, hath been and is free from fubjection to any man's laws, but only to fuch as have been devifed made and obtained within this realm for the wealth of the fame, or to fuch other as by fufferance of the king, the people of this realm have taken at their free liberty by their own confent to be used amongst them, and have bound themselves by long ufe and cuftom to the obfervance of the same, not as to the obfervance of the laws of any foreign prince potentate or prelate, but as to the customed and ancient laws of this realm, originally eftablifhed as laws of the fame by the faid fufferance contents and custom, and none otherwife.

2. Can. 1. As our duty to the king's most excellent By the canons of majefty requireth, we firft decree and ordain, that the the church. archbishop from time to time, all bifhops, deans, archdeacons, parfons, vicars, and all other ecclefiaftical perfons, fhall faithfully keep and obferve, and as much as in them lieth fhall cause to be obferved and kept of others, all and fingular laws and ftatutes made for reftoring to the crown of this kingdom, the ancient jurifdiction over the ftate ecclefiaftical, and abolishing of all foreign power repugnant to the fame. Furthermore, all ecclefiaftical perfons having cure of fouls, and all other preachers, and readers of divinity lectures, fhall to the uttermoft of their wit knowledge and learning, purely and fincerely

(without

By be thirtynine articles.

(without any colour of diffimulation) teach manifeft open and declare, four times every year at the leaft, in theit fermons and other collation and lectures, that all ufurped and foreign power (forafmuch as the fame hath no esta→ blishment nor ground by the law of God) is for most just causes taken away and abolished, and that therefore no manner of obedience or fubjection within his majesty's realms and dominions is due unto any fuch foreign power; but that the king's power, within his realms of England Scotland and Ireland and all other his dominions and countries, is the higheft power under God, to whom all men, as well inhabitants as born within the fame, do by God's laws owe moft loyalty and obedience, afore and above all other powers and potentates in the earth.

Can. 2. Whoever shall affirm, that the king's majesty hath not the fame authority in caufes ecclefiaftical, that the godly kings had amongst the jews and chriftian emperors of the primitive church, or impeach any part of his regal fupremacy in the faid caufes reftored to the crown, and by the laws of this realm therein established; let him be excommunicated ipfo facto, and not restored but only by the archbishop, after his repentance and publick revocation of those his wicked errors.

Can. 26. No perfon fhall be received into the miniftry, nor admitted to any ecclefiaftical function, except he shall first fubfcribe (amongst others) to this article following: that the king's majefty under God is the only fupreme governor of this realm, and of all other his highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclefiaftical things or caufes, as temporal; and that no foreign prince, perfon, prelate, ftate, or potentate hath or ought to have any jurifdiction, power, fuperiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclefiaftical or fpiritual, within his majesty's faid realms dominions and countries.

3. Art. 37. The queen's majefty hath the chief power in this realm of England, and other her dominions; unto whom the chief government of all eftates of this realm, whether they be ecclefiaftical or civil, in all caufes doth appertain; and is not, nor ought to be fubject, to any foreign jurifdiction. But when we attribute to the queen's majefty the chief government, we give not thereby to our princes the miniftring either of God's word, or of the facraments; but that only prerogative which we fee to have been given always to all godly princes in holy scripture by God himself, that is, that they fhould rule all eftates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they

they be ecclefiaftical or temporal, and reftrain with the civil fword the ftubborn and evil doers. The bishop of Rome hath no jurifdiction in this realm of England.

4. Albeit the king's majefty juftly and rightfully is and Braft of parliag ought to be the fupreme head of the church of England, ment. and fo is recognised by the clergy of this realm in their convocations, yet nevertheless, for corroboration and confirmation thereof, and for the increase of virtue in Christ's religion, and to reprefs all errors, herefies, and other enormities and abufes; it is enacted, That the king our fovereign lord, his heirs and fucceffors, kings of this realm, fhall be taken, accepted, and reputed the only fupreme head in earth of the church of England; and fhall have and enjoy, annexed to the imperial crown of this realm, as well the ftyle and title thereof, as all honours, dignities, preheminencies, jurifdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities, profits, and commodities, to the faid dignity of fupreme head of the fame church belonging and appertaining; and fhall have power from time to time to vifit, reprefs, redrefs, reform, order, correct, restrain, and amend all fuch errors, herefies, abuses, of fences, contempts, and enormities whatfoever they be, which by any manner of fpiritual authority or jurifdiction may lawfully be reformed, repreffed, ordered, redreffed, corrected, reftrained, or amended moft to the pleasure of Almighty God, the increafe of virtue in Chrift's religion, and for the confervation of the peace unity and tranquillity of this realm; any usage, cuftom, foreign laws, foreign authority, prefcription, or any other thing to the contrary notwithstanding. 26 H. 8. c. 1.

Recognised by the clergy of this realm in their convocations] Which recognition, after deliberation and debate in both houses of convocation, was at length agreed upon in these words ecclefice et cleri anglicani, cujus fingularem protectorem unicum, et fupremum dominum, et quantum per Christi legem licet, etiam fupremum caput ipfius majeftatem recognofcimus. Gibf. 23.

5. Whereas the king hath heretofore been and is The king's flyle justly and lawfully and notoriously known named published and title. and declared, to be king of England France and Ireland, defender of the faith, and of the church of England and also of Ireland, in earth fupreme head and hath justly and lawfully uled the title and name thereof; it is enacted, that all his majefty's fubjects fhall from henceforth accept and take the fame his majesty's ftyle, as it is declared and fet forth in manner and form following, viz, Henry the