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Language: Latin
Date: 1409
We
will and command, ordain and decree that no manner of person, secular
or regular, being authorized to preach by the laws now prescribed or licensed
by special privilege, shall take upon him the office of preaching the word of
God or by any means preach unto the clergy or laity, whether within the
church or without,
in English, except he first present himself and be examined
by the ordinary of the place where he preacheth and, so being found a fit
person as well in manners as knowledge, he shall be sent by the said ordinary
to some one church or more, as shall be thought expedient by the said
ordinary, according to the quality of the person. Nor any person aforesaid
shall presume to preach except first he give faithful signification in due form
of
his sending and authority, that is, that he that is authorized do come in
form appointed him in that behalf and that those that affirm they come by
special privilege do show their privilege unto the parson or vicar of the place
where they preach. And those that pretend themselves to be sent by the
ordinary of the place shall likewise show the ordinary’s letters made unto
him for that purpose under his great seal. Let us always understand, the
curate (having the perpetuity) to be sent of right unto the people of his
own cure, but if any person aforesaid shall be forbidden by the ordinary of
the place or any other superior to preach by reason
of his errors or heresies
which before, peradventure, he hath preached and taught, that then and
from thenceforth he abstain from preaching within our province until he
have purged himself and be lawfully admitted again to preach by the just
arbitrement of him that suspended and forbade him and shall always, after
that, carry with him to all places wheresoever he shall preach the letters
testimonial of him that restored him.
Moreover, the parish priests or vicars temporal, not having perpetuities
nor
being sent in form aforesaid, shall simply preach in the churches where
they have charge only those things which are expressly contained in the
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provincial constitution set forth by John, our predecessor,
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of good mem-
ory, to help the ignorance of the priests, which beginneth, “
Ignorantia
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