Sacrament Act 1547

1547 CHAPTER 1 1 Edw 6

An Acte against suche as shall unreverentlie speake against the Sacrament of the bodie and bloude of Christe commonlie called the Sacrament of the Altar, and for the receiving therof in bothe Kyndes. X1 X2

Editorial Information

X1 The Titles in the Table at the Head of the Roll, are not repeated to the Inrollment of every Act: but it has been thought convenient to print them with each Chapter.

X2 Abbreviations or contractions in the original form of this Act have been expanded into modern lettering in the text set out below.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Short title given by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 5, Sch. 2

C2 Preamble omitted as not relevant to unrepealed provisions of the Act

[I]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1 E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 1 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), Sch. 1 and Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 (c. 52), Sch. Pt. II

II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2 E+W

Textual Amendments

F2 S. 2 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), Sch. 1 and Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), Sch. 3 Pt. I

III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3 E+W

Textual Amendments

F3 S. 3 repealed by Criminal Procedure (Attendance of Witnesses) Act 1965 (c. 69), Sch. 2 Pt. II

IV, V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4 E+W

Textual Amendments

F4 Ss. 4, 5 repealed by Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), Sch. 3 Pt. I

VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 E+W

Textual Amendments

F5 S. 6 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 (c. 52), Sch. Pt. II

VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6 E+W

Textual Amendments

F6 S. 7 repealed by Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), Sch. 3 Pt. I

F7 VIII Primitive Mode of receiving the Sacrament; The Sacrament shall be administered in both Kinds, Bread and Wine, to the People: After Exhortations of the Priest, the Sacrament shall not be denied. Not condemning the Usage of other Churches . X3 E+W

And forasmuche as it is more agreable bothe to the first Institucion of the saide Sacrament of the moste precious bodye and bloude of Savyour Jesus Christe, and also more conformable to the commen use and practise bothe of Thapostles and of the primative Churche by the space of Five hundred yeres and more after Christs assention that the saide blessed Sacrament shoulde be ministred to all Christen people under bothe the kyndes of Breade and Wyne, [X4 then] under the forme of breade onelie; And also it is more agreable to the first Institucion of Christe and to thusage of Thapostells and the primative churche that the people being present shoulde receive the same with the preist [X4 then] that the Priest should receive it alone; Therfore be it enacted by our saide Souvarigne Lorde the King with the consent of the Lordes spirituall and temporall and the Commons in this present parlament assembled and by thauctoritie of the same, that the saide moste blessed sacrament be hereafter commenlie delivered and ministred unto the people, within this Churche of Englande and Irelande and other the Kings Dominions, under bothe the Kyndes, that is to saie of breade and wyne, excepte necessitie otherwise require: And allso that the preist which shall ministre the same shall at the least one day before exhorte all persons which shalbe present likewise to resorte and prepare themselfs to receive the same, and when the daie prefixed comethe after a godlie exhortacion by the Minister made, wherin shalbe further expressed the benefitt and comforte promised to them which worthelie receive the saide hollie Sacrament, and daunger and indignacion of God threatened to them which shall presume to receive the same unworthelie, to thende that everie man maye trye and examynn his owne conscience before he shall receive the same, the saide minister shall not withowt laufull cawse denye the same to any parsone that wool devoutelie and humblie desire it, anny lawe statute ordenance or custome contrarie therunto in any wise notwithstanding; not condempninge hereby the usage of anny Churche owt of the Kings Majesties Dominions.

Editorial Information

X3 The Titles in the Table at the Head of the Roll, are not repeated to the Inrollment of every Act: but it has been thought convenient to print them with each Chapter.

X4 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: than O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

Textual Amendments

F7 S. 8 repealed (N.I.) by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2 c. 5), Sch. 1