Note 400 — Chapter XIII
Reading edition
Rushworth, v. 476.
Instructions were given for the taking of the Covenant throughout the kingdom, "the manner of the taking it to be thus:—The minister to read the whole Covenant distinctly and audibly in the pulpit, and during the time of the reading thereof the whole congregation to be uncovered; and at the end of his reading thereof, all to take it standing, lifting up their right hands bare, and then afterwards to subscribe it severally by writing their names (or their marks, to which their names are to be added) in a parchment roll or a book, whereinto the Covenant is to be inserted, purposely provided for that end, and kept as a record in the parish."—Husband's Collection, 421.