partner, or shareholder in any benefit society, or fire or life assurance society, and may sell minerals from mines on his own lands, and also (provided he do not do so in person at a market or other public sale) may buy and resell for profit cattle, corn, and other things required for the occupation, cultivation, and improvement of glebe or other lands lawfully held by him. The penalties for unlawfully trading are, for the first offence, suspension for not exceeding one year, for the second offence suspension for a longer period, and for the third offence deprivation _ab officio et beneficio_.[27] 17. Both clergymen and other ministers of religion are specially protected in the performance of religious rites, including rites of burial, in a church or other place of worship, or a churchyard or burial-place. It is a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment with or without hard labour, to offer violence to them or arrest them upon any civil process while engaged in or going to or returning from the performance of these rites, or to obstruct or endeavour to obstruct them in the performance.[28] The maintenance of order in a church or other place of worship, whether Divine service is being performed or not, and in a churchyard or burial-place, is also provided for by the Act against brawling passed in 1860.[29] 18. A clergyman cannot divest himself of his orders;[30] and Canon 76 prohibited him from forsaking his calling or conducting himself as a layman under pain of excommunication. But now, by statute, after resigning all preferments held by him, he can surrender all clerical rights and powers, and free himself from all clerical disabilities, if he executes a deed of relinquishment in the prescribed form, and causes it to be enrolled in the Central Office of the Supreme Court of Judicature, and delivers an office copy of the enrolment to the bishop of the diocese in which he last held preferment, or (if he has never held preferment) in which he resides, and gives notice of having done so to the archbishop of the province in which the diocese is situate. And a clergyman who takes this course is relieved from all censures or other proceedings for so doing, but is rendered incapable of afterwards officiating or acting as a minister of the Church of England or taking or holding any preferment therein.[31] Footnotes [1] 1 Bl. Comm. 14, 79-83, and n. (11) by J. T. Coleridge (afterwards Judge) in 16th ed. (1825); (1533) 25 Hen. 8, c. 19, ss. 1-3; c. 21 (preamble); (1535) 27 Hen. 8, c. 15; (1543) 35 Hen. 8, c. 16.