And be it further Enacted, by y^e authority aforesaid, that noe Minister or Ecclesiastical person shall oblige any person to find Godfathers or Godmothers for any child to be baptized, soe as the parents or parent or other friend of such Child shall present the same to be Baptized, and shall answer for such child in like manner as the Godfathers and Godmothers are now required to doe. And be it further Enacted, by y^e authority aforesaid, that noe Minister that shall officiate in the administracon of the Sacram^t of the Lord’s Supper shall deny or refuse to any person that desires to be admitted to the same, in a pew or seate in the Church, altho’ such person shall not receive it kneeling. And whereas the Liturgie of y^e Church of England is capable of seve^{ll} alteracons and additions, which may free it from exception, and may conduce to y^e Glory of God and y^e better Edefication of the people, And whereas the Book of Canons is fitt to be reviewed and made suitable to the present state of the Church, And whereas there are divers abuses and defects in y^e Ecclesiastical Courts and Jurisdiction, and particularly for reformacon or removeing of scandalous Ministers, And whereas it is very fitt and profitable that Confirmacon be administred with such due preparacon and solemnity as is directed in the late King Charles the Second’s Declaration concerning Ecclesiastical affairs, issued in the yeare of our Lord 1660, And a strict care be used in the Examinacon of such persons as desire to be admitted into Holy Orders, both as to their learning and manners: Wee, your Ma^{ties} most dutifull and Loyall Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliam^t assembled, doe most humbly beseech your Majesties to issue out a Comission under yo^r Great Seale, directed to the Arch Bishops, and such Bishops, and such others of the Clergy of the Church of England, not exceeding the number of thirty in y^e whole, impowering and requiring them, or any twelve of them, to meet from time to time, and as often as shall be needfull, and to make such alteracons in the Liturgie and reformacon of the Canons and Ecclesiastical Courts as may conduce to the Establishm^t of the Church in peace and Tranquility, and to present such alteracons and reformacons to the Convocation and to the Parliam^t that the same may be approved and established in due forme of Law. ALTERATIONS MADE IN COMMITTEE. COMPREHENSION. 1 sh. 6 l.--For (of) Reade (in). „ 14 l.--Instead of (as containing) reade (w^{ch} I doe acknowledge to containe), and before (promise) add (solemnely). „ 18 l.--Before (Oathes) insert (two), and leave out (of fidelity). „ 21 l.--After (Symony) Add (And the Oath of Residence).