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CHAP. Secondly, That no licence should pass for any maid, (rich 

 or poor,) but that the clause in English subscribed be set 

 unto it. For that every Minister was not to understand 

 Latin. 



Thirdly, That none that came for licence should be al 

 lowed to it by the Register : but that he should bring him 

 to the Judge, to examine the cause and the necessity of the 

 licence before it pass. And so the Register to receive his 

 instructions at the Judge s hands, in presence of the party 

 that sued for the licence. 



Fourthly, That no bond under two hundred pounds 

 should be taken for any licence of the meanest. And so 

 according to the quality of the person, the sum of the bond 

 to be raised. 



Fifthly, That one clause in every bond to be taken be, 

 that the parties be of that quality, and no other than they 

 are named in the licence; as either by the name of his 

 occupation, trade, gentry, or upward. 



Sixthly, That no licence pass for any maid, but that the 

 quality of the parents be set down truly : and that likewise 

 to be a clause in the bond. 



Seventhly, That where the party himself to be married 

 did not come to sue about the licence, the solicitor, or who 

 soever else did follow it, should put in known security that 

 the parties were of that quality, and of no other than he did 

 avouch them to be. 



These were the Civilian s restraints devised for marriage 

 licences, recommended by him to the Bishop : to which he 

 in his wisdom might add more. But in behalf of defence 

 and maintenance of the Bishop s court and jurisdiction, and 

 for the care he had that they might not be noted above all 

 others to be restrained from that which was the liberty of 

 others ; he humbly required of the Bishop, that these, or 

 what other orders soever were thought necessary, might be 

 by the Queen s honourable Council given generally to all 

 courts, and all limited to one manner of bounds. 

 Heischarg- Another time an accusation was brought to the Queen 

 tn against our Bishop by some of his back-friends, and that 



Essex. 



