Possible Clues:

• 'My duty then, shall pay me for my pains: / I will no more - mine office on you' (All's Well That Ends Well)
• Apply law
• Leaderless chaps supporting Anglicanism apply
• Compel adherence to (a law)
• Insist reebok is not included in reference book
• Lean on ref once, injured
• Compel observance of law
• Apply in French on behalf of church ...
• Compel (compliance)
• Impose (compliance)