Adulterers, if any; Alms Houses, if abused; Ale Houses, and in Divine Service; Answering, according to Rubrick; Baptism, neglected by Parents; Blasphemers; Church, resorting to it; Dead, if brought to be buried; Drunkards, if any; Fornicators, if any; Legacies, if any given to pious Uses; Marrying within prohibited Degrees; Marrying without Banns, Licence, or at unlawful hours; Sacraments received 3 times in a year of all above 16, whereof Easter to be one time; School, if abused; Seats, if Parishioners are placed in them without contention; Standing up; _Sundays_, working therein; Swearers, if any; Women, if come to be Churched.” “A Warrant against one for not coming to Church. “To the Constable, etc.: “Sussex, ss. Whereas Oath hath been made before me That J. O. of, etc., did not upon the Lord’s Day last past resort to any Church, Chapel, or other usual Place appointed by Common Prayers, and there hear Divine Service according to the Form of the Statute in that case made and provided. “These are therefore to require you, etc., to bring the said J. O. before me to answer the Premises. Given, etc.” “Any Man may build a Church or Chappel, but the Law takes no Notice of it as such till it is consecrated, and therefore, whether Church or Chappel, it must be tried by the Certificate of the Bishop.” CLERGY AND BENEFIT OF CLERGY.—“Before the 20 _Ed. I._, the Clergy paid no Tenths to the King for their Ecclesiastical Livings, but to the Pope; but in that King’s reign, their Livings were valued all over England, and the Tenths paid to the King; and by the Statute 26 _Hen. VIII. cap._ 3, they were annexed to the Crown forever.” Many of their privileges were “confirmed by _Magna Carta_, viz., _Quod Ecclesia sit libera_.” “As to the Benefit of Clergy, it was introduced by the Canon Law, Exempting their persons from any Temporal Jurisdiction. ‘Tis a Privilege on purpose to save the Life of a Criminal in certain cases, if he was a man of learning, as accounted in those Days, for as such he might be useful to the Publick.—At first it was extended to any person who could read, he declaring that he had vowed or was resolved to enter into Orders, and the Reading was to show he was qualified.—But afterwards the reading without a Vow to enter into Orders was held good, and now ‘tis become a legal conveyance of Mercy to both Clergy and Laity.” “But tho’ the Ordinary usually tenders the Book, the Court are the proper Judges of the Criminal’s Reading: Therefore, where the Ordinary answer _Quod legit_, the Court judged otherwise, fined the Ordinary, and hanged the Person.” “Now, if a Man cannot read where Clergy is allowable, and ‘tis recorded by the Court _Quod non legit_: if the Offender be reprieved, the Book may be tendered to him again because ‘tis _in favorem vitæ_, for which Reason he may have it under the Gallows.” _Dyer_, 205 _b_.