Act for well governing and regulating corporations This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B08252 of text R172072 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A446C). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B08252 Wing A446C ESTC R172072 64550755 ocm 64550755 184289 2240883951

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B08252) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 184289) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2857:10) Act for well governing and regulating corporations England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1680?] Caption title. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Harvard University. Library. eng Church of England -- Government -- Early works to 1800. Church and state -- England -- Early works to 1800. Last Supper -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Act for well governing and regulating corporations. [no entry] 1680 1 284 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2012-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2012-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2012-08 Sampled and proofread 2012-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2013-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
ACT for well Governing and Regulating Corporations . Paragraph XII . PRovided also , and be it Enacted , by the Authority aforesaid , That from and after the expiration of the said Commissions , no Person or Persons shall for ever hereafter be Placed , Elected , or Chosen , in or to any of the Offices and Places aforesaid that shall not have within one Year next before such Election or Choice , taken the Sacrament of the LORDS SUPPER , according to the Rites of the Church of England , &c. ( and in Default thereof such Election to be void , &c. )

Be this Paragraph understood as variously as mens minds can mould it , Yet is it very important for those shall choose men into Offices and Places , in the Act mentioned , To consider , WHether any Persons , confessed and declared unqualified , by not having taken the Sacrament of the LORDS SUPPER , according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England , and their Election thereby becoming void , Ought in Reason and good Conscience , to be Elected into any Office or Place again , because they seem to become Qualified by having Since taken the Sacrament of the LORDS SUPPER , according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England , which is in effect , but a prostitution of that Holy Ordinance to the corrupt Designs , perhaps of mens Interests and Passions . And if the Parties hoping to be Elected , should be disappointed , the only Searcher of hearts can tell , if they may not Repent of having done that Duty .