f Holy Communion. But this rubric does
not justify any wilful or habitual neglect of receiving the
Sacrament itself.

265. When the sick person is visited, and receiveth the holy
Communion all at one time, then the Priest, for more expedition,
shall cut off the form of the Visitation at the Psalm [_In thee,
O Lord, have I put my trust_, &c.] and go straight to the Communion.

266. In the time of the Plague, Sweat, or such other like contagious
times of sickness or diseases, when none of the Parish or neighbours
can be gotten to communicate with the sick in their houses, for
fear of the infection, upon special request of the diseased, the
Minister may only communicate with him.

THE ORDER FOR

THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD.

267. Here is to be noted, that the Office ensuing is not to be used
for any that die unbaptized, or excommunicate, or have laid violent
hands upon themselves.

This order was adapted for a state of society in which the Parish
Priest was intimately acquainted with the circumstances of every
deceased person who was brought to be buried. Under the altered
conditions of the present day, the officiating Priest being often
in ignorance of the lives and deaths of those over whom he has to
perform the office of the Church, has no power of inquiry given
him, nor any authority to delay a burial for the purpose of making
such inquiry. He is, therefore, not obliged to seek for these
exceptions, nor to infer their existence, from his own previous
knowledge of the matter, unless that knowledge be very clear, and
founded upon certain evidence.

The exception of the unbaptized does not apply to those who have
received Lay or Schismatical Baptism, provided the proper matter
and form had been used.

The word 'excommunicate' means under formal sentence of
excommunication passed by a competent Spiritual Court. It is
equivalent to the words 'denounced excommunicated' in Canon 68.
Even those who are 'ipso facto excommunicated,' by virtue of
Canons 2 to 9, are not technically 'excommunicate,' until after
trial and sentence, the words 'ipso facto' having in English Canon
Law a special technical meaning, viz. that the offence cannot be
punished by a sentence of less severity.

268. The Priest and Clerks meeting the Corpse at the entrance of
the Churchyard, and going before it, either into the Church, or
towards the Grave, shall say, or sing, I am the Resurrection, &c.

The alternative of saying the sentences goin