Constitutiones sive canones ecclesiastici, praesidem synodi pro Cantuariensi provincia, ас reliquos episcopos, et clerum eiusdem provinciae ex regia auctoritate tractati, et conclusi in ipsorum synodo inchoata Londini anno salutis millesimo sexcentesimo tertio, regnique serenissimi principis, clementissimi domini nostri Iacobi, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, et Hiberniae regis primo, et Scotiae tricesimo septimo; ab eadem regia maiestate deinceps approbati, ratihabiti, ac confirmati,

eiusdemque auctoritate sub magno sigillo Angliae promulgati, per utramque provinciam, tam Cantuariensem quam Eboracensem diligenter observand

Constitutions and canons ecclesiastical, treated upon by the bishop of London,7 president of the convocation for the province of Canterbury, and the rest of the bishops and clergy of the said province; and agreed upon with the king's majesty's licence, in their synod begun at London, anno Domini 1603, and in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord James, by the grace of God, King of England, France and Ireland, the first, and of Scotland the thirty-seventh: and now published for the due observation of them, by his majesty's authority, under the great seal of England.

James, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc., to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas our bishops, deans of our cathedral churches, archdeacons, chapters, and colleges, and the other clergy of every diocese within the province of Canterbury, being summoned and called by virtue of our writ directed to the most reverend father in God, John, the late archbishop of Canterbury, and bearing date the one and thirtieth day of January, in the first year of our reign of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the thirty-seventh [31 January 1604], to have appeared before him in our cathedral church of St Paul in London, the twentieth day of March then next ensuing [20 March 1604], or elsewhere, as he should have thought it most convenient, to treat, consent, and conclude upon certain difficult and urgent affairs mentioned in the said writ;