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The only legal answer which constables and church-wardens may give to articles inquiring into any of His Majesties ecclesiastical or civil courts; or to any justices upon the statutes 1 Eliz.2. and 3 Jac.4. concerning the absence of persons from their parish-church. : In a letter to a private friend, inquiring on the behalf of his friend, the sense and import of those statutes in this case; and whether officers can be required by a particular oath, to give in answers to such articles, and how often