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Reading-in. The title of a person instituted or licensed to any benefice with cure of souls or perpetual curacy will be divested unless be publicly read in the church of the benefice, on the first Lord's-day on which he officiates, the Thirty-nine Articles, with a declaration of his assent thereto, and to the Book of Common Prayer, Clerical Subscription Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 122), s. 7.. The title of a person instituted or licensed to any benefice with cure of souls or perpetual curacy will be divested unless be publicly read in the church of the benefice, on the first Lord's-day on which he officiates, the Thirty-nine Articles, with a declaration of his assent thereto, and to the Book of Common Prayer, Clerical Subscription Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 122), s. 7.