210 COM.
whereof the feast of Easter to be one; according as they are appointed by the Book of Common Prayer. And the churchwardens or questmen, and their assistants, shall mark, (as well as the minister,) whether all and every of the parishioners come so often every year to the Holy Communion, as the laws and constitution do require. Can. 28. And shall yearly within forty days after Easter exhibit to the Bishop or his chancellor, the names and surnames of all the parishioners, as well men as women, which being of the age of sixteen years received not the Communion at Easter before. Can. 112.
By Can. 24. All deans, wardens, masters or heads of cathedral and collegiate churches, prebendaries, canons, vicars, petty canons, singing men, and all others of the foundation, shall receive the Communion four times yearly, at the least. And by Can. 23. In all colleges and halls within both the Universities, the masters and fellows, such especially as have any pupils, shall be careful that all their said pupils, and the rest that remain among them, do diligently frequent public service and sermons, and receive the Holy Communion, which we ordain to be administered in all such colleges and halls, the first and second Sunday of every month; requiring all the said masters, fellows, and scholars, and all the rest of the students, officers, and all other the servants there, so to be ordered, that every one of them shall communicate four times in the year at the least, kneeling reverently and decently upon their knees, according to the order of the Communion Book prescribed in that behalf.
By the 1 Edward VI. c. 1. Whosoever shall deprave, despise, or contemn the most blessed Sacrament of the body and blood of our SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, commonly called the Sacrament of the Altar, and in Scripture the Supper and Table of the LORD, the Communion and partaking of the body and blood of CHRIST, in contempt thereof by any contemptuous words, or by any words of depraving, despising or reviling, or whosoever shall advisedly in any other wise contemn, despise, or revile the said most blessed Sacrament, contrary to the effects and declaration abovesaid; shall suffer imprisonment of his body, and make fine and ransom at the King's will.