[...] ble dede, as mendyng of hygh wayes, or such lyke: Her Maiestie enioyneth and strayghtly char­geth the gouernours and companies of euery such Churche, to employe such parcelles of the sayd sommes of money (as any wyse may be spared,) vpon the spedy repayre or reedification of any such monumentes so defaced or spoyled, as agreable to thoriginall, as the same conueniently may be.

And where the couetousnes of certayne persons is suche, that as Patrones of Churches, or owners of the personnages impropriated, or by some other colour or pretence, they doo perswade with the person and paryshioners to take or throwe downe the belles of Churches and Chappels, and the Lead of the same, conuerting the same to theyr priuate gayne, and to the spoyle of the said places, and make such lyke alteracions, as thereby they seke a sclaunderous desolation of the pla­ces of prayer: Her Maiestie (to whom in the ryght of the Crowne by thordinaunce of Almyghtye God, and by the lawes of this Realme, the defence and protection of the Churche of this Realme belongeth) doth expressely forbydde any maner of person, to take away any Belles or Lead of anye Church or Chappel now vsed, or that ought to be vsed with publique and diuine seruice, or other­wyse deface any suche Churche or Chappell, vnder payne of imprisonment duryng her Maiesties pleasure, and such further fine for the contempt, as shalbe thought meete.

And her Maiestie chargeth all Byshops and Ordinaries to enquire of all such contemptes done from the begynnyng of her Maiesties raigne, and to enioyne the persons offendyng, to repayre the same within a conuenient tyme. And of theyr doynges in this behalfe, to certifie her Maiesties priuie Counsayle, or the Counsayl in the Starre chamber at Westminster, that order may be taken herein.

Yeuen at Windsor the .xix. of September, the second yeare of her Maiesties raigne.

God saue the Quene.