2 - Directory for orders to be observed

Summary

1. First his grace to repair to Paul's Wharf or the Blackfriars or to some other place at his pleasure, where the company of the doctors and proctors of the arches and other officers of his grace's court to meet him and so to attend upon him to the great south door of Paul's.

2. Item, at the said south door of Paul's the dean and residentiaries with all other the ministers of the said church to wait for his grace within the said door, and so to attend upon him to the vestry of the said church.

3. Item, in the vestry my lord's grace and other the bishops there present to put on their convocation robes and so to go into the choir by the west door of the same choir, where my lord's grace to be placed in the dean's stall and the rest of the bishops in the stalls of the prebendaries.

4. Item, my lord's grace and the other bishops being so placed the ministers of the church to sing first the Litany and afterward the hymn Veni creator in English.

5. Item, the litany and hymn being so sung, the preacher to enter into the pulpit and to preach in Latin.

[287v] 6. Item, the sermon being done, the ministers of the church eftsones to sing the said hymn Veni creator in English. Which hymn being done, my lord's grace to repair to the chapter house, the rest of the bishops and the whole clergy of the lower house to attend upon him.

7. Item, his grace and the bishops being set in the chapter house, the bishop of London must return his certificate and the same to be openly read by my lord's grace's chancellor.

8. Item, the certificate being so read, and all the bishops in the same openly called, and their appearances noted by my lord's grace's registrar, his grace to make a short oration to the bishops and the clergy.

9. Item, the oration being ended, his grace to command the clergy of the lower house to repair to the place of their accustomed assembly and there to choose some one grave, wise and learned man of their company to be their prolocutor and to present him to his grace and the rest of the bishops, at a certain other day by his grace to be appointed.