[1.] Deacons not to be admitted before 23, nor priests before 24.U.K.

From and after the passing of this Act no person shall be admitted a deacon before he shall have attained the age of three and twenty years compleat, and no person shall be admitted a priest before he shall have attained the age of four and twenty years compleat: And in case any person shall, from and after the passing of this Act, be admitted a deacon before he shall have attained the age of three and twenty years compleat, or be admitted a priest before he shall have attained the age of four and twenty years compleat [F2unless being over the age of twenty-three years he hath a faculty from the Archbishop of Canterbury], that then and in every such case the admission of every such person as deacon or priest respectively shall be merely void in law as if such admission had not been made, and the person so admitted shall be wholly incapable of having, holding, or enjoying, or being admitted to any parsonage, vicarage, benefice, or other ecclesiastical promotion or dignity whatsoever, in virtue of such his admission as deacon or priest respectively, or of any qualification derived or supposed to be derived therefrom: . . . F3

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