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holgate's injunctions. 321
as all
the reformers, both at home and abroad, might
join in.
A catechism was published at the end of the
articles, which is attributed to Poynet. It rested
only upon the royal authority.
Simultaneously with the drawing up of the articles
another work was carried on by certain commissioners,
who were entrusted with the task of revising the canon
law, bringing it into an organised form, and adapting
it to the then existing requirements and constitution
of the Church of England. The code which they
drew up bears the name of Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticaruin.
It was completed before the death of
Edward, but in consequence of that event it never
was authorised by the legislature.
We do not find that Archbishop Holgate took any
prominent part in the work carried on by Cranmer
and the other leaders of the reforming party, but
there is evidence that he was thoroughly in harmony
with them. The injunctions which he issued to the
capitular body at York on the 15th August, 1552,
when the second book of Common Prayer was on
the eve of publication, show this plainly enough.
Provision was to be made by the Chapter for the
delivery of divinity lectures, at which the attendance
of the vicars choral, deacons, and other inferior
ministers of the church of York was enforced, and
they were to be examined once a month, either by
some of the canons or by the divinity reader himself,
to ascertain the amount of knowledge they had gained
therefrom. Preaching was much insisted upon, and
a cycle of preachers was arranged for the several
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