1 IT is to be noted, that those persons which be in the di­rect line, ascendent & descendent, cannot marry toge­ther, although they be never so far asunder in degree.

2 It is also to be noted, that consanguinity & affinity (letting and dissolving Matrimony) is contracted as well in them & by them, which is of kinred by the one side, as in & by them, which be of kinred by both sides.

3 Item, that by the Laws, consanguinity and af­finity (letting and dissolving Matrimony) is contracted as well by unlaw­full company of man and woman as by unlawful marriage.

4 Item, in contracting betwixt persons doubtfull, which be not expressed in this Table, it is most sure, first to consult with men learned in the lawes, to understand what is lawfull, what is honest and expedient, before the fini­shing of their contracts.

5 Item, that no Parson, Vicar or Curate, shall solemnize Matrimony out of his or their Cure or parish Church or Chappel, and shall not solemnize the same in private houses, nor lawlesse or exempt Churches, under the pains of the law, forbidding the same. And that the Curate have the Certificates, when the parties dwell in divers places.

6 Item, the bands of matrimony ought to be openly denounced in the Church by the Minister, three severall Sundaies or Festivall daies, to the end that who will and can alledge any impediment, may be heard, and that stay may be made till further triall, if any exception be made there against it upon sufficient caution.

7 Item, who shall maliciously object a frivolous impediment against a law­full matrimony, to disturb the same, is subject to the paines of the Law.

8 Item, who shall presume to contract in the degrees prohibited (though he do it ignorantly) besides that the fruit of such copulation may be judged unlawfull, is also punishable at the ordinaries discretion.

9 Item, if any minister shall conjoyne any such, or shall be present at such contracts making, he ought to be suspended from his ministerie for three years: and otherwise to be punished according to lawes.

10 Item, it is further ordained, that noe Parson, Vicar, or Curate, do Preach, treat, or expound of his own voluntary invention, any matter of controversie in the Scriptures, if he be under the degree of master of Art, except he be licensed by his Ordinary thereunto, but onely for the instruction of the people: read the Homilies, allready set forth, and such other form of do­ctrine as shall be hereafter by authority published: and shall not innovate, or alter any thing in the Church, or use any old Rite, or Cerimony, which be not set forth by publick authority.