¶ Concerning the Church , the Ornaments thereof , and the Churches possessions .

1 IMprimis , whether haue you in your seuerall Churches and Chappels , the whole Bible of the largest volume , and the Booke of Common Prayer , lately set forth by his Maiesties authoritie , both fairely and substantiallie bound : a Font of Stone , set vp in the auncient vsuall place : a conuenient and decent Communion Table , with a Carpet of Silke , or some other decent stuffe , continuallie laide vpon the Table at time of Diuine seruice , and a faire Linnen cloath vpon the same , at the time of the receiuing of the holy Communion . And whether is the same table placed in such conuenient sort within the chancell or church , as that the Minister may be best heard in his Prayer and administration , and that the greatest number may communicate : And whether is it so vsed out of time of Diuine seruice , as is not agréeable to the holy vse of it ; and by sitting on it , throwing Hats on it , writing on it , or is it abused to other prophaner vses : and are the Ten Commaundements set vpon the East-end of your church or chappell where the people may best sée and reade them , and other sentences of holy Scripture , written on the walles likewise for that purpose ?

2 Item , whether haue you in your said church or chappell , a conuenient seat for your Minister to read seruice in , together , with a comely pulpet set vp in a conuenient place , with a decent cloath or cushion for tho same , a comely large Surplice , a faire Communion cup , with a couer of Siluer , a Flaggon of Siluer , Tinne , or Pewter to put the Wine in , whereby it may be set vpon the Communion Table , at the time of the blessing thereof , with all other things and ornaments necessarie for the celebration of Diuine Seruice , and administration of the Sacraments ? And whether haue you a strong Chest for Almes for the poore , with thrée Lockes and Keies , and another chest for kéeping the Bookes , and Ornaments of the Church , and the Register Booke . And whether haue you a Register Booke in Parchment , for Christnings , Weddings , and Burials , and whether the same be kept in all pointes , according to the Cannons in that behalfe prouided ? And whether haue you in your saide Church or Chancell , a Table set , of the degrees wherein by Law Men are prohibited to marry ?

3 Whether are your Church and Chappels , with the Chancels thereof , and your parsonage or vicarage house , your Parish Almes-house and Church-house , in good reparations : and are they imployed to godly , and their right holy vses ? Is your Church , Chancell , and Chappell decently and comely kept , as well within as without , and the seats well maintained , according to the 85. Cannon , in that behalfe prouided ? Whether your Church-yard be well fenced , and kept without abuse : and if not , in whose default the same is , and what the defect or fault is ? And whether any person haue incroached vpon the ground of the Church-yard , or whether any person or persons , haue vsed any thing or place consecated to holy vse , prophanely or wickedly ?

4 Whether haue you the Terrier of all the Gleabe Lands , Medowes , Gardens , Orchards , Houses , Stockes , Implements , Tenements , and portions of Tiths ( whether within your Parish or without ) belonging vnto your parsonage or vicarage , taken by the view of honest men in your said Parish ? And whether the same Terrier be laid vp in the Bishops Registery , and in whose hands any of them are now . And if you haue no Terrier already made in Parchment , you the Church-wardens & Side-men , together with your Parson or Vicar , or in his absence , with your Minister , are to make diligent inquiry and presentment of the premises , and make , subscribe , and signe , the said Terrier , as aforesaid ?

Concerning the Ministers .

1 WHether doth your Minister , distinctly and reuerently say Diuine seruice vpon Sundaies and Holidaies , and other daies appointed to be obserued by the booke of Common Prayer ; as Wednesdaies , and Fridaies , and the eeues of euery Sunday and Holiday , at fit and vsuall times ? And doth your Minister duely obserue the Orders , Rites , and Ceremonies , prescribed in the said Booke of common Prayer , as well in reading publike prayers and the Letany , as also in administring the Sacraments , solemnization of Matrimony , visiting the sick , burying the dead , Churching of Women , and all other like Rites and Offices of the Church , in such manner and forme , as in the said Booke of Common prayer hee is inioyned , without any omission or addition . And doth hee reade the Booke of the last Cannons once yearely , and weare a Surplice according to the said Cannons ?

2 Doth your Minister bid Holidaies and Fasting-daies , as by the Booke of Common Prayer is appointed ? And doth hee giue warning before hand to the Parishioners , for the receiuing of the holy Communion , as the two and twentith Canon requireth : and whether hee doth administer the holy Communion so often , and at such times , as that euery Parishioner may receyue the same , at the least thrice in euery yeare : whereof once at Easter , as by the Booke of Common Prayer is appointed ? And doth your Minister receyue the same himselfe , on euery day that hee administreth it to others , and vse the words of Institution according to the Booke , at euery time that the Bread and Wine is renewed , accordingly as by the prouiso of the 21. Canon , is directed : And doth he deliuer the Bread and Wine to euery Communicant seuerally , Whether hee hath admitted to the holy Communion , any Offender or Schismaticke , contrary to the 26. and 27. constitutions , or receyued any to the communion being not of his owne Cure , or put any from the communion , who are not publickly infamous for any notorious crime ? Doth he vse the sign of the crosse in Baptisme , or baptize in any Bazon , or other vessell , and not in the vsuall font , Or admit any Father to be God-father to his owne childe , or such which haue not receyued the holy Communion , or baptize any Children that were not borne in the parish , or wilfully refuse to Baptize anie Infant in his parish , being in danger , hauing béene enformed of the weaknesse of the saide childe : and whether the childe dyed through his defaulte without Baptisme ?

3 Whether hath your Minister married any without a King , or without Banes published thrée seuerall Sundayes or Holydayes in time of diuine seruice , in the seuerall Churches or Chappels of theyr seuerall abode , according to the Booke of common Prayer , or in times prohibited , albeit the Banes were thrice published , without a License or dispensation from the Archbishop , the Byshop of the Diocesse , or his Chancellor , first obtained in that behalfe ? Or not betwixt the houres of eight and twelue in the forenoone , or haue maried any in any priuate house , or if the parties be vnder the age of 21. yeares , before their parents or gouernors haue signifyed their consent vnto him ?

4 Doth he refuse to bury any , which ought to be interred in Christian buriall , or defer the same longer then hee should , or burie any in Christian buriall , which by the constitutions of the Church of England , ought not to be so interred ?

5 Is your Minister a preacher allowed ? If yea , then by whom . If not Whether doth he procure some who are lawfully licensed , to preach monthly amongst you at the least ?

6 Doth your Minister ( being licenced , ) preach vsually according to the Cannons , either in his owne Cure , or in some other Church or Chappell neare adioyning , where no Preacher is , and how often he hath béene negligent in that behalfe , and doth he Preach standing , and with his Hat off ? Or whether doth he or his Curate vpon euery Sunday , when there is no Sermon , reade an homilie , or some part thereof , according as hee ought to doe : or in case hee be not licensed to Preach , doeth hee take vppon him to preach or expound the Scriptures in his owne Cure , or elsewhere : If so , then you are to present the same , the time and place , when , and where hee did it .

7 Doth your Minister vse to pray for the Kings Maiesty , King Iames , and for the Quéenes Maiesty , the Prince , and all their Royall Progeny , with addition of such stile and Titles as are due to his Highnesse , and exhort the people to obedience to his Maiestie , and all Magistrates in authoritie vnder him ?

8 Is your Minister continualy resident vpon his Benfice , and how longtime hath he béen absent , & in case he be licensed to be absent : whether doth he cause his Cure to be sufficiently supplied , according to the Cannons : or in case he hath another Benefice , whether doth he supply his absence by a Curate sufficiently licenced to preach in that Cure where he himselfe is not resident . Or otherwise , in case the smalnesse of the Liuing cannot finde a Preaching Minster , doth he Preach at both his Benefices vsually ?

9 Doeth your Minister or Curate , serue any more Cures then one : If yea , then what other Cure doeth hee serue , and howe farre are they distant ?

10 Doeth your Minister euery Sunday and Holliday , before Euening Prayer , for halfe an houre or more , examine and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of his Parish , in the Tenne Commandements , Articles of the Beliefe , and in the Lordes Prayer , and the Sacrament , according as it is prescribed in the Catechisme , set foorth in the Booke of Common Prayer ?

11 Doth your Minister in the Rogation dayes , goe in perambulation of the circuit of the Parish , saying and vsing the Prayers , Suffrages , and Thanksgiuing to God , appoynted by Lawe , according to his duty , thanking God for his blessings , if there be plenty on the earth : Or otherwise , to pray for his grace and fauour , if there be a feare of scarsity ?

12 Hath your Minister admitted any Woman , begotten with child in adultry or Fornication , to be Churched without license of the ordinary ?

13 Hath your Minister or any other Preacher , baptized children , churched any woman , or ministred the holy Communion in any priuate house , otherwise then by Law is allowed ?

14 Doth your Minister , being a Preacher , endeuour and labour diligently to reclaime the Popish Recusants in his parish from their errors , ( if there be any such abiding in your parish . ) Or whether is your Parson , Vicar , or Curate , ouer conuersant with , or a fauourer of Recusants , whereby he is suspected not to be sincere in Religion ?

15 Hath your Minister taken vpon him , to appoint any publique or priuate Feasts , Prophecies , or exercises , not approued by Law , or publike authority , or hath vsed to méete in any priuate house or place , with any person or persons , there to consult howe to impeach or depraue the Booke of common prayer , or the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England : If yea , then you shall present them all ?

16 Hath your Minister stayed the publication of any excommunications or suspitions , or doeth hee euery halfe yeare denounce in his Parish church , all such of his parish as are excommunicated , and perseuer therein without séeking to be absolued or doth he wittingly and willingly keepe companie with such as are excommunicate : And hath hee admitted into your church any person excommunicate , without a certificate of his absolution from the Ordinary , or other competent Iudge ?

17 Doth your Minister carefully looke to the reléefe of the poore , and from time to time call vpon his Parishioners to giue somewhat , as they can spare to godly and charitable vses , especially when they make their Testaments ?

18 Whether your Minister or any hauing taken holy Orders , being now silenced or suspended , or any other person of your knowledge , or as you haue heard , hold any conuenticles , or doth preach in any place , or vse any other forme of Diuine seruice then is appointed in the Booke of Common prayer : If yea , then you are to present their names , and with whome ?

19 Whether is your Curate licensed to serue , by the Bishop of this Diocesse , or by any other , and by whome ?

20 Doth your Minister vse such decencie and comelinesse in his apparrell , as by the 47. Cannon is enioyned : and is he of sober behauiour , and one that doth not vse such bodily labour , as is not séemely for his sunction and calling ?

21 Is your Minister noted or defamed , to haue obtained his Benefice or his orders , by Symony , or anie other way defamed , to be Symoniacall person , or any way noted to bee a Schismaticke , or scismaticallie affected , or reputed to be an incontinent person , or doth table or lodge any such in his house : or is he a frequenter of Tauernes , Innes , or Ale houses , or any place suspected for ill rule : Or is hee a common Drunkard , a common Gamster , or player at Dice , a Swearer , or one that applieth him selfe not at his study , or is otherwise offensiue and scandalous to his function or Ministry ?

22 Doth your Preacher or Lecturer read Diuine seruice , and Minister the Sacraments twice a yeare at least in his owne person , according to the Cannons ?

Schoole-Maisters .

23 DOth any in your Parish take vppon him to teach Schoole , without License of the Ordinary , and is he conformable to the Religion now established ? And doeth hee bring his Schollers to the Church , to heare Diuine seruice , and Sermons ? And doth he instruct his Schollers in the groundes of the Religion nowe established in this Church of England , and is he carefull and diligent to benefit his Schollers in learning ?

Parish Clearkes and Sextons .

24 HAue you a fit Parish Clearke , aged twenty yeares at least , of honest conuersation , able to read and write ? Whether are his and the Sextons wages paid without fraud , according to the ancient custome of your Parish : if not , then by whome are they so defrauded or denyed ? By whome are they chosen ? and whether the said Clearke bee approued by the Ordinarie ? and hath he taken an Oath , as in such cases is fit and required : and is he diligent in his Office , and seruiceable to the Minister , and doth he take vpon him to meddle with any thing aboue his Office : as Churching of women , burying the dead , or such like ?

25 Doth your Clarke or Sexton kéepe the Church cleane , the doores locked ? Is any thing lost or spoyled in the Church , through his default ? doth he suffer any vnseasonable ringing , or any prophane exercise in your Church ? Or doth he ( when any is passing out of this life ) neglect to tole a Bell , hauing notice thereof .

Concerning the Parishoners .

1 WHether any of your Parishioners , béeing sixetéene yeares of age or vpwards , or others lodging or commonly resorting to any House within your Parish , do wilfully absent themselues from your Parish-church , vpon Sondayes or Holidaies , at Morning and Euening Prayers ? Or who come late to Church , and depart from Church , before seruice be done vpon the said daies ? Or who doe not reuerently behaue themselues during the time of Diuine seruice , deuoutly kneeling , when the generall confession of sins , the Letany , the ten Commandements , and al Prayers and Collects are read , and vsing al due and lowly reuerence when the blessed Name of the Lord Iesus Christ is mentioned , & standing vp when the Articles of the Beleefe are read ; or who doe couer their head , in the Church during the time of Diuine seruice , vnlesse it be in case of necessity , in which case they may weare a Night-cap or coyfe ? Or who do giue themselues to babling , talking , or walking , and are not attentiue to heare the word preached , or read : or reading , or praying , during the time afore-said ? Whether any of your parish being of sixteen yeares of age or vpwards , doe not receiue the holy communion in your Church thrice euery yeare : whereof once of Easter , and whether they do not deuoutly kneele at the receiuing thereof ?

2 Whether any of your Parishioners , being admonished thereof , do not send their Children , Seruants , and Apprentizes , to the Minister , to be Catechized vpon such Sundaies and Holidaies as are appointed ? Or whether any of them doe refuse to come ; or if they come , refuse to learne those instructions set forth in the Booke of common prayer .

3 Whether any of your parish doe entertaine within their house , any soiourner , common guests , or other persons , who refuse to frequent Diuine seruice , or receiue the holy communion , as afore-said ? Present their names , their qualities , or conditions .

4 What Recusant Papists are there in your parish ? present their names , qualities , or conditions ? whether keepe they any Schoolemaister in their house , which commeth not to church to heare Diuine seruice and receiue the Communion ? What is his Name , and how long hath hee taught there , or else where ?

5 Whether any of the saide Popish Recusants , do labour to seduce and with-draw others from the Religion now established ? Or instruct their Families or children in popish Religion : or refuse to entertain any especially in place of greatest seruice , or trust , but such as concurre with them in their papistry ?

6 Now long haue the said Popish Recusants abstained from diuine seruice , or from the communion , as aforesaid ?

7 Is there any in your parish that retaine vndefaced , or sell , vtter , or disperse , any popish Bookes or Writings , or other Bookes , Libels , or writings of any Sectuaries , touching the Religion , State , or Gouernment Ecclesiasticall of this Kingdome of England , or keepe any Ornaments of superstition vncancelled or defaced ?

8 Whether haue you any in your Parish , which héeretofore being Popish Recusants or Sectuaries , haue since reformed themselues , and come to Church to heart Diuine Seruice , and receiue the Sacraments : If yea , then who they are ? And how long since haue they so reformed themselues ? And whether they still remaine and abide in that conformitie ?

9 Is there any in your Parish that refuse to haue their Children Baptized , or themselues to receiue the Communion at the hands of your Minister , taking exception against him , and what causes or exceptions doe they alledge ; or haue any married Wines refused to come to church , according to the Booke of common Prayer , to giue God thankes after their Child-birth , for their safe deliuerance ? And whether doe any of , or in your Parish , refuse to haue their children Baptized in your parish-church , according to the forme prescribed in the Booke of common Prayer ?

10 Whether any of your Parish hauing a Preacher to their parson , Vicar , or Cudite , doe absent themselues from his Sermons , and resort to other places to heare other Preachers ? Or whether any of your parish doe communicate or baptize their Children in any other parish ?

11 What persons within your parish , for any offence , contumacy , or crime , of Ecclesiasticall Conusance do stand excommunicate ? present their names , and for what cause they are excommunicated , and how long they haue so stood , and what parson or persons doe writingly and vsuallie kéepe them company ?

12 Whether any , not being in orders , doe execute any priestlie or ministeriall office , in your Church , Chappell , or Church-yard , and what be their names ?

13 Whether any in your parish that hauing héeretofore taken vpon him the order of Priest-hoode or Deacon , hath since relinquished the same , and liues a Lay-man , neglecting his vocation ?

14 Haue any person in your Parish , quarrelled , or stricken , or vsed any violence to your Minister , or haue strucken or quarrelled with any other person within your Church or Church-yard , or demeaned himselfe disorderedly in the Church , by filthy or prophane talke , or any other lend or immodest behauiour ? Or haue disturbed the Minister in time of Diuine seruice or Sermon , or haue libelled or spoken slanderous wordes against your Minister , to the scandall of his vocation , or diffamed any of his Neighbours , touching any crime of Ecclesiasticall conusance ?

15 Whether any of , or in your Parish , without consent of the Ordinary , or other lawfull authority , haue caused any to doe pennance , or to be censured or punished for any matter of Ecclesiasticall conusance , by any Vestry méetings , or otherwise by their owne authoritie ? Or haue taken any money or commutation for the same ? Present their names that haue done it ? And who haue been so punished ? In what manner , and vpon what cause ?

16 Whether any person in your Parish , doe exercise any Trade or labor , buy or sell , or keepe open Shoppes or Ware-houses vppon anie Sunday or Hollidaie by themselues , their Seruants , or Apprentices , or haue otherwise prophaned the saide daies , contrarie to the orders of the Church of England ? And whether there bee any Inne-kéepers , Ale-house-kéepers , Victualers , or other persons , that permitte any persons in their Houses , to eate , drinke , or play , during the time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon , or reading the Homilies in the forenoone or afternoone , vpon those daies ?

17 Whether the fift daie of August , and the fift daie of Nouember , be kept holie , and thanks-giuing made to God , for his Maiesties and this States happie deliueraunce , according to the Ordinance in that behalfe ?

18 Whether anie of your Parish hold or frequent anie conuenticles or priuate Congregations , or make or maintaine anie constitutions , agreed vppon in anie such assemblies ? Or anie that doe write , or publiquelie or priuatelie speake against the Booke of Common prayer , or any thing therein contained , or against anie of the articles of Religion agréed vppon , in Anno 1562. or against the Kinges Supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall , or against the Oath of Supremacie , or of Allegiance , as pretending the same to bee vnlawfull , and not warrantable by the worde of GOD ? Or against anie of the Rites or Ceremonies of the Church of England now established ? Or against the gouernment of the Church of England , vnder the Kings most excellent Maiestie , by Arch-Bishops , Bishoppes , Deanes , Arch-Deanes and other Officers of the same : affirming , that the same is repugnant to the Worde of GOD , and that the saide Ecclesiasticall Officers , are not lawfully ordained ? Or whether there bee anie Authours , Maintainers , or Fauourers of Heresie or Scisme , or that be suspected to be Annabaptists , Libertines , Brownistes , of the Familie of Loue , or of anie other Heresie or Scisme ? present their names ?

19 Whether any in your parish haue ●arried within the de●rées by Law prohibited , or any couple in your parish being lawfully married , liue apart one from the other , without our separation of the Law , or any that haue beene diuorced , which kéepe company with any other at B●ode or at Boord , and when and where were they married ?

Phisitions , Surgeons , and Mid-wiues .

20 HOw many Phisitions , Chirurgions , or Mid-wiues haue you in your parish ? How long haue they vsed their seuerall Sciences or Offices , and by what authority ? And how haue they demeaned themselues therein , and of what skill are they accounted to be in theyr profession ?

21 Whether do any persons administer the goods of the dead without lawfull authority , or suppresse the last will of the dead ? Or are there in your parish , any wils not yet prooued , or goods of the dead dying intestate ) left vnadministred ? By authority in that behalfe , you shall not faile to present ; the Executors , and all others faulty therein : and also how many persons being possessed of any Goods and chattels , haue died within your parish since the xvii . day of Aprill . 1613.

22 Whether any with-hold the stocke of the church , or any goods , or other things , giuen to good and charitable vses .

23 Whether your Hospitals and Almes-houses , and other such houses and corporations , founded to good and charitable vses : and the lands possessions , and goods of the same , be ordered & disposed of as they should be ? And do the Maisters , Gouernours , Fellowes , and others of the saide Houses and corporations , behaue and demeane themselues , according to the godly Ordinances and Statutes of their seuerall Foundations ?

24 Whether haue you any in your parish to your knowledge , or by common fame or report , which haue committed Adultery , Fornication , or Incest ; or any which haue impudently bragged or boasted , that he or she haue liued incontinently with any person or persons whatsoeuer : or any that hath attempted the chastitie of anie woman , or solicited anie woman to haue the carnall knowledge of her bodie , or which are commonly reputed to be common Drunkards , Blasphemers of Gods holie Name ; common Sweaters , common Slanderers of their Neighbours , and sowers of discord , filthy and lasciuious Talkers , Vsurers , fr●monicall persons , Bawdes , or Harborers of women with childe , which bée vnmarried , or conueying or suffering them to goe awaie before they haue made satisfaction to the congregation , or any that hauing héeretofore béene presented , or suspected of any the foresaid crimes , haue for that cause departed your Parish , and are now returned againe ? Or any which haue vsed any inchantments , sorceries , incan●ation● or witchcrafts , which are not made fellony by the statutes of this Realme , or am which haue committed any periuty in any Ecclesiasticall Court , in an Ecclesiasticall cause , or which haue committed any forgery , punnishable by the Ecclesiasticall Lawes , and the procurors and abeitors of the said offences : You shall truely present the names of all , and singuler the said Offendors , and with whome they haue committed the laide offences , in case they haue not béene publikely punnished to your knowledge for the same cr●mes ?

Touching the Church-wardens , and Side-men .

1 WHether you and the Church-wardens , Quest-men , or Side-men from time to time , doe , and haue done their diligences , in not suffering any idle person to abide eyther in the Church yard , or Church-porch , in Seruice or Sermon time , but causing them eyther to come into the church to heare diuine Seruice , or to depart , and not disturbe such as be hearers there ? And whether haue they , and do you diligently see the parishioners duely resort to the Church euery Sunday and Holliday and there to remaine during Diuine Seruice and Sermon ? And whether you or your predecessors , Church-wardens there , suffer any Plaies , Feasts , Drinkings or any other prophane vsages , to be kept in your church , chappell or church-yards , or haue suffered to your and their vttermost power and endeuour , any person or persons to be tipling or drinking in any Inne or Victuling House in your parish , during the time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon , on Sundaies and Hollidaies ?

2 Whether , and how often haue you admitted any to preach within your church or chappell , which was not sufficiently licensed ? And whether you , together with your Minister , haue not taken diligent héed and care , that euery of your parishioners béeing of sixtéene yeares of age o●vowards , haue receiued thrice euery yeare , as aforesaid : and also th●t no stranger haue vsually come to your church , from their owne parish church ?

3 Whether haue there béene prouided against euery communion , a sufficient quantity of fiue white bread , and of good and wholesom wine forthe communicants that shall receiue ? And whether that wine bée brought in a cleane and swéete standing pot of pewter , or of other purer Mettall ?

4 Whether were you chosen by the consent of the Minister and the parishioners ? And haue the late Churchwardens giuen vp a iust account for their time , and deliuered to their Successors the Money , and other things belonging to the Church , which was in their hands ? And are the Almes of the Church faithfully distributed to the vse of the poore ?

Concerning Ecclesiasticall Magistrates and Officers .

1 WHether doe you know or haue heard of any payment , composition , or agréement , to , or with any Ecclesiastical M●gi●trate Iudge , or Officer , for winking at , or sparing to punish any person for any offence of Ecclesiasticall Conusance , or for suppressing or concealing of any excommunication , or any other Ecclesiasticall Censure , of , or against any Recusant , or any other offender in the cases aforesaid ? what summe of Money , or other consideration hath beene receiued or promised , by , or to any of them , in that respect , by whom , and with whom ?

2 Hath any person within your parish , paide or promised any sum of Money or other reward , for comutation of pennance for any crime of Ecclesiasticall Conusance ? If so , then with whom ? When , and for what , and how hath the same beene imployed ?

3 Are your Ecclesiasticall Iudges and their substitutes Maisters of Artes , or Batchellors of the Lawes at the least , learned and practised in the Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall Lawes : Men of good Life and Fame , zealously affected in Religion , & iust and vpright in executing their offices ? Haue they heard any matter of office priuately in their Chambers , without their sworne Registers , or their Deputies presence ?

4 Doe you know , or haue you heard , that any Ecclesiasticall Iudge , Officer , or Minister , hath receiued or taken any extraordinary Fées , 〈◊〉 other rewards or promises , by any wayes or meanes , directly or indirectly , of any person or persons whatsoeuer , either for the graunting of the administration of the Goods and Chattelles of those that haue died intestate , to one before another , or for allotting of larger portions of the goods and chattels of those that haue dyed intestate , to one more then to another : or for allowing large and vnreasonable accounts , made by Executors or Administrators : or for giuing them Quietus est , or discharges , without Inuentory or account , to defraude Creditors , Legataries , or those who are to haue portions . And what summes of Money doe you know , or haue you heard , that any Ecclesiasticall Iudge or Officer hath taken out of the state of any dying intestate , vpon pretence to bestow the same , in pios vsus : and how haue the same béene bestowed ?

5 Hath any Ecclesiasticall Magistrate , Iudge , Officer , or any other , exercising