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ma was originally fet, and that afterwards 'twas either drawn by the Ball, or dropt out of Chace. I think the Workmanship difcovers as much. In the fecond Inftance (which is on the Backfide of C3) and alfo in the third (which is on the Backfide of D 1) the Faults had manifeftly been corrected, after the Sheets of St. John's College Copy were wrought off. This needs no Proof. Wherefore the Copy in St. John's College Library, which I have fince diligently compared, is prior to that which I used: when I made my Collation. This I thought my felf obliged to fignify; because in all other Particulars I exprefs the Copies in that Library, as many as it could furnish me with.

But then, the two Copies I have used (and I prefume, the whole Impreffion) differ from the Editions of 1571 in the following Inftances.

First, In the Title Page, of which fee the Col. lation.

Secondly, In the Titles and Bodies of diverfe Articles, as appears by the following Table.

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And 'tis to be noted, that the Editions of 1630 and 1642, do agree with that of 1628, in all the foregoing Inftances, except that in Art. 33. of the fecond, that of Numb. 24. of the third, and that of Numb. 27. of the fourth Sort.

I must add, that in Art. 6. Numb. 111. the genuin Copies of 1571 read Song; whereas the fpurious ones of that Year read the Song; and the Impreffion of 1628 agrees with the latter.

Now I am perfuaded, that whoever confiders the foregoing Inftances (except the first Sort, viz. those in the Title Page, of which I fhall foon take particular Notice) provided he is in any measure acquainted with Printing, will need no Argument to convince him, that every one of thefe Particutars (feveral of which are only Tranfpofitions of Words,

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Words, which may be indifferently placed either Way; others are manifeft-Blunders, and all the reft are fuch as happen every day in all forts of Books, without any previous Intention to create them) might eafily happen by mere Chance. Or, if any one of them was defigned, the Variation was probably made by the Corrector of the Prefs, who without regarding any authentic Copy, made the English run as his Fanfy judged it ought, or as he thought the Senfe required. And when Miftakes were once introduced, no wonder that the King's Printers continued them by copying their own last Impreffions.

However, we have not the leaft Ground to think, that any fort of Authority ever interpos'd in this Matter, and occafioned the aforefaid Variations. And confequently 'tis notorious, that notwithstanding the feveral Inftances before recited, no fubftantial Alteration of, Addition to, or Subftraction from, the Articles of 1562, as they stood revised by Authority in 1571, has ever been made fince the Year laft named. For the Variations in the Impreffion of 1628, and others of a later Date, are arrant Trifles, and fuch as do not make any fubftantial Difference, even to the fmalleft Word. So that the admirable Bishop Pearfon had the jufteft Reason to use thefe (a) Expreffions, I do abfolutely deny, that there is any fubftantial Alteration of, or Addition to, thofe Articles mentioned in the Act of the Thirteenth of Eliz. and do affert, that the Articles to which the late King's Declaration was affixed, are the fame with them in Number, Nature, Subftance, and Words (viz. in all things fubftantial) as I am affured, having my felf diligently collated them with an Edition of the Articles printe

(a) No Neceff. &c. p. 383.

Chap. XXVIII. by Richard Jugge and John Cawood, Printers to the Queens Majesty in Anno Domini 1571. And (a) again, I can aver as I have done before, that the Articles now in force are the fame with the Articles comprized in a Book imprinted when the Act was made, without any the leaft (that is, as the Bishop had beforehand explained himself,without any the leaft fubftantial) Alteration.

As for the Title Page, 'tis manifeftly agreeable to that in 1571, as it was fet in the firft Copies; and therefore I prefume it was taken from one of thofe Copies, before 'twas altered to what it ap pears in D, G, H, I, K (fee Chap. 23. p. 323, &c.) and other Editions in after times. And indeed, were it poffible, or worth my while, to fearch all the intermediate Editions between 1571 and 1628, I am apt to think, I might trace out a good Number of the foregoing Variations in the Text, Ratification, and Table.

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Whether the Clergy were required to fubfcribe the Articles of 1562, before the Year 1571; with Reflections on fome grofs Falfhoods invented and published by Dr. Calamy in the Second Part of his Defenfe of moderate Nonconformity.

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E have now feen, how the Text of the Articles was finally fetled both in Latin and English; and may therefore proceed to inquire, whether the Clergy were obliged to fubfcribe them before the famous Act of the Thirteenth of Elizabeth, Chap. 12. was paffed.

(4) Ibid. p. 385.

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It may not be amifs to premife, that in the Reign of King Edward VI. after the Articles of 1552 were published, the Cambridge Vifitors required all Do&tors and Batchelors of Divinity, and Mafters of Arts, to fwear to, and fubfcribe, the faid Articles, before their Creation. This appears by their Letter of June 1. 1553, now extant in Bennet College Library. There was alfo an Order of Council, bearing Date 11th June, 70 Regni, which required the Bishops and Clergy to fubfcribe them. A Copy of this Order is now extant in the Registry of Norwich, with feveral Subfcriptions made in purfuance of it. Thefe Papers are printed at large in the Third Volume of the Bishop of Sarum's Hiftory of the Reformation.

After Queen Elizabeth afcended the Throne, tho' no Subscription appears to have been made to King Edward's Articles, yet a Declaration of certain Articles of Doctrine was printed, which all Parfons, Vicars and Curates were injoined to read at their Entry upon their Cures. Afterwards the Articles of 1562 were agreed on and published ; and tho' there was at prefent no Law or Canon that exprefly required Subfcription to them; yet it must be remembred, that in 1 Eliz. Ch. 1. which reftores all ancient Jurifdiction to the Crown, we have this Claufe

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