Diocese of Norwich, SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS

The subscription books are numbered as far as possible in accordance with the numbering in E. H. Carter's 'The Norwich Subscription Books'.

Usually the subscriptions are intermingled but where they can be distinguished a note has been made.

DN/SUB13/11 51. missing

DN/SUB14/3 Book 63. missing

<p>Some are calendared in the Hammond of Westacre collection: see HMN7/330</p>

Consecration papers transferred to the Suffolk Record Office.

The original deeds only from the following bundles of consecration papers have been transferred.

DN/CSP1/7, 1/8, 1/12, 1/17, 2/7, 2/15, 3/5, 3/10, 6/3, 6/12, 6/16, 7/11, 7/12, 7/23, 8/9, 8/26, 9/17, 13/14, 14/16, 18/12, 18/21.

From 1558 all clerks were required to swear an oath of allegiance to the crown and in 1571 (formalised in 1604) all clerks before their ordination or institution to a new benefice were to declare their assent to the three Articles of Religion: recognition of royal supremacy; use of the Book of Common Prayer and adhesion to the 39 Articles of 1562. To these requirements was added an oath against simony and other oaths before institution.

Schoolmasters, physicians, surgeons, and midwives were required to subscribe to the 39 Articles and royal supremacy before being granted a licence.