Exhibit 510 ยท Statute
Elizabethan Act of Uniformity, 1 Elizabeth c. 2
shall lose and forfeit to the queen's highness, her heirs and successors, for his first offence, the profit of all his spiritual benefices or promotions coming or arising in one whole year next after his conviction
Requires all ministers to use the Book of Common Prayer; a convicted minister who refuses forfeits a year's profit of his benefices and is imprisoned six months, with life imprisonment on a third offence; requires every person to attend the parish church on Sundays and holy days on pain of censure and a twelve-pence forfeit levied by the churchwardens for the poor; bishops and justices share enforcement.
- Source
- Parliament of England (Elizabeth I)
- Date
- 1559
- Quoted from
- Gee and Hardy no. LXXX, p. 460 (from Statutes of the Realm IV pt 1, p. 355); attendance clause p. 463
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://archive.org/details/documentsillustr00geehuoft
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit