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Excerpt from The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, D.D., Sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Vol. 5: Part II. Accounts of Province, &C VI. That the bishops do countenance and encourage the grave and orthodox divines of their clergy, and that they use means by some of their clergy, that they may have know ledge, how both lecturers and preachers behave themselves in their sermons within their diocese. That so they may take order for any abuse accordingly. VII. That the bishops suffer none but noblemen, and men qualified by learning, to have any private chaplain in his house. VIII. That they take Special care that divine service be duly frequented, as well for prayers and catechizing, as for sermons: and take particular note of all such as absent themselves as recusants, or otherwise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.