His Majesties letter to the Lord Bishop of London to be communicated to the two provinces of Canterbury and York. William III, King of England, 1650-1702. 1689 Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2003-11 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A66149 Wing W2355 ESTC R26369 09440485 ocm 09440485 43116

This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal. The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A66149) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 43116) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1320:17) His Majesties letter to the Lord Bishop of London to be communicated to the two provinces of Canterbury and York. William III, King of England, 1650-1702. Compton, Henry, 1632-1713. 4 p. Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, London : 1689. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.

Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford.

EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in EEBO.

EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).

The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source.

Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data.

Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.

Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.

The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.

Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).

Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site.

 eng Church of England. 2003-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2003-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-08 Sampled and proofread 2003-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-10 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

His Majesties LETTER TO THE Lord Bishop OF LONDON, To be Communicated to the TWO PROVINCES OF Canterbury and York.

DIEV·ET MON·DROIT royal blazon or coat of arms

LONDON, Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties. MDCLXXXIX.
His MAIESTIES Letter to the Right Reverend Father in GOD Henry Lord Bishop of London, to be Communicated to the Two Provinces of Canterbury and York. WILLIAM R.

RIght Reverend Father in God, We Greet you well. Whereas the Advancement of the Honour and Service of Almighty God, and of the Protestant Religion, which by his wonderful Providence hath been Preserved and Established in these Kingdoms, ought to be the Chief Part of Our Royal Care: In Order to this, as We have oftentimes Declared, That We would take the Church of England by Law Established, into Our particular Protection and Favour; So We take this Occasion to Renew these Assurances, being Resolved to do all We can for the Support and Strengthning of it; Preserving withal the Liberty of Conscience to all Our other Protestant Subjects which by Our Laws they now Enjoy.

And because the Welfare, Peace and Honour of this Church depends so much upon all Persons faithfully doing their Duties in their several Places and Functions, We therefore First of all Charge and Require you the Bishops of this Our Church, to apply your selves with all Diligence and Zeal to the Duties of your Episcopal Function, according to the Word of God, the Orders of this Church, and the Laws of this Our Realm.

More especially as to Ordination of Ministers, We Require you to use all possible Care and Strictness, in Examining and Enquiring into the Lives and Learning of such Persons as desire to be Admitted into Holy Orders, and herein constantly to observe theCan. 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36. Canons relating thereunto, the Neglect whereof We shall strictly Enquire into, and take Care that it be Punished according to Law.

We also Charge and Require you to keep a strict Watch over all the Clergy in your respective Diocesses, to see that they be duly Resident upon their Livings according to the Laws in that Case Provided; and that there they be Constant and Diligent in their Duties, performing the Publick Offices of Worship Gravely and Devoutly, Preaching the Word of God Plainly and Practically, without running into needless Controversies, and Administring the Holy Sacraments Frequently, with that Reverence which is due to the Institutions of Christ; Also Catechizing the Youth, Visiting the Sick and Distressed, and doing all such Things in their Stations as may tend to promote the Honour of God and True Religion, together with Peace and Charity among all their Neighbours; Themselves giving a good Example to their Flock, by walking before them in all holy Conversation and Godliness.

And the more effectually to prevent the Scandals that may arise by any Disorders in the Lives of those who ought to be Examples to others, you shall Admonish them Religiously to observe theCan. 75. Canon Entitled, Sober Conversation required in Ministers. And you shall Severely and Impartially proceed by Ecclesiastical Censures, against all such of your Clergy as shall be found guilty of any Notorious Violation of this or any other Law or Canon relating to their Duty.

And for the better Encouragement of Deserving Men, as We intend to make it a Rule to Our Self, so We also Require it of you, in Disposing of Church Preferments, to have a Special Regard to such Persons as by their Piety, Learning, Diligence and Peaceableness, do most promote the Honour of God, and the Edification of his Church.

And because, as Our Duty requires, We most earnestly desire and shall endeavour a General Reformation of the Lives and Manners of all Our Subjects, as being that which must Establish Our Throne, and Secure to Our People their Religion, Happiness and Peace; all which seem to be in great Danger at this time, by reason of that overflowing of Vice, which is too notorious in this as well as other Neighbouring Nations. We therefore require you to Order all the Clergy to Preach frequently against those particular Sins and Vices which are most prevailing in this Realm; And that on every of those Lords Days on which any such Sermon is to be Preach'd, they do also Read to their People such Statute-Law or Laws as are provided against that Vice or Sin, which is their Subject on that Day; as namely, against21 Iac. Cap. 20. Blasphemy, Swearing and Cursing; Against5 Eliz. Cap. 9. Perjury; Against4 Iac. Cap. 5. 21 Iac. Cap. 7. Drunkenness; and against29 Car. 2. Cap. 7. Prophanation of the Lords Day: All which Statutes We have Ordered to be Printed together with these Our Letters, that so they may be Transmitted by you to every Parish within this Our Realm.

And whereas there is as yet no sufficient Provision by any Statute-Law for the Punishing of Adultery and Fornication, You shall therefore require all Church-Wardens in your Diocesses to Present impartially all those that are guilty of any such Crimes in their several Parishes; And upon such Presentments; We require you to proceed without delay, and upon sufficient proof to inflict those Censures which are appointed by Our Ecclesiastical Laws against such Offenders: In doing whereof, according to your Duty, you shall not want Our effectual Assistance and Support.

And for the better Carrying on of so good a Work, We do in the last place, Charge and Require you to Preach frequently your selves, to Confer often with your Clergy, and to Enquire by all proper means into all Abuses and Corruptions in your Diocesses, in order to a full and speedy Reformation. And all this, not only as you shall Answer it to Us, but also as considering the great Charge that God hath Committed to you, and the Account that you must give him for it at the Great Day. And so We bid you heartily Farewel.

Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 13th day of February, 1689/90. In the Second year of Our Reign. By His Majesties Command Shrewsbury.