❧
For
the
Clergie
.
IN
primis
,
you
must
trauaile
diligently
&
painfully
to
set
foorth
gods
true
religion
,
and
to
adourne
the
same
with
example
of
godly
lyfe
,
being
circumspect
that
you
offende
no
man
eyther
by
lyght
behauiour
or
vncomely
apparell
.
Item
,
you
shall
euery
seconde
Sunday
&
euery
Holyday
,
openly
in
the
Churche
heare
and
instruct
all
the
chyldren
and
seruantes
of
both
sexes
within
your
parishe
,
or
at
the
least
so
many
of
them
at
once
by
course
,
as
the
tyme
wyll
serue
,
and
as
you
may
well
heare
and
instructe
,
for
halfe
an
houre
at
the
least
before
euenyng
prayer
,
in
the
ten
commaundementes
,
the
articles
of
the
beliefe
,
and
the
Lordes
prayer
,
and
diligently
examine
and
teache
them
in
the
Cathechisme
set
foorth
in
the
booke
of
common
prayer
Item
,
to
thintent
this
thing
may
be
more
effectually
executed
,
ye
shall
take
the
names
of
all
the
chyldren
and
seruauntes
of
both
sexes
in
your
parishe
,
that
be
of
conuenient
age
and
cannot
say
the
Cathechisme
,
and
shall
call
by
course
certeyne
of
them
by
name
,
euery
seconde
Sunday
and
euery
Holy
day
,
to
come
to
the
Cathechisme
,
whereby
you
may
easyly
note
&
perceaue
what
parentes
or
maisters
and
dames
be
negligent
in
sendyng
their
chyldren
and
seruauntes
to
be
instructed
,
and
take
occasion
thereof
both
priuyly
and
openly
to
exhort
them
to
sende
their
youth
as
they
are
appoynted
.
Item
,
you
shall
not
admit
to
the
receauyng
of
the
holy
communion
,
any
of
your
parishe
which
be
openlye
knowen
to
lyue
in
any
notorious
sinne
without
repentaunce
,
or
any
malicious
person
that
is
out
of
charitie
,
vnlesse
the
same
do
first
charitablie
and
openly
reconcile
hym
or
her selfe
agayne
,
to
the
satisfaction
of
the
congregation
.
Item
,
you
shall
not
admit
to
the
holy
communion
any
of
your
parishe
,
men
,
or
women
,
being
aboue
twentie
yeres
of
age
,
that
can
not
saye
by
heart
the
ten
commaundementes
,
the
articles
of
the
fayth
,
and
the
Lordes
prayer
:
nor
any
being
aboue
twelue
yeres
,
and
vnder
twentie
yeres
of
age
,
that
can
not
say
by
heart
the
Cathechisme
that
is
set
foorth
in
the
booke
of
common
prayer
.
And
you
shall
vse
to
examine
your
parishioners
at
conuenient
times
,
to
thintent
you
may
know
whether
they
can
say
the
same
whiche
is
aboue
required
.
Item
,
you
shall
reade
openly
in
your
Churche
in
tyme
of
diuine
seruice
,
twise
euery
yere
,
vpon
some
of
the
Sundayes
within
one
moneth
next
after
the
feastes
of
Easter
and
saint
Michael
the
archangel
,
a
declaration
of
certayne
principall
articles
of
Religion
,
set
foorth
by
both
the
Archbishoppes
and
the
rest
of
the
Bishoppes
of
this
Realme
for
vnitie
of
doctrine
.
Item
,
you
shall
preache
or
cause
to
be
preached
in
the
Churches
where
you
are
Parsons
or
Vicars
,
one
sermon
euery
quarter
of
the
yere
at
the
least
.
Item
,
none
of
you
shall
serue
two
cures
at
one
tyme
,
without
speciall
licence
vnder
your
Ordinaries
seale
.
Item
,
no
Curate
shall
serue
any
Cure
within
this
Dioces
,
without
speciall
licence
vnder
your
Ordinaries
seale
.
Item
,
that
euery
Parson
,
Vicar
,
and
Curate
,
shall
vse
in
the
tyme
of
the
celebration
of
diuine
seruice
,
to
weare
a
surplesse
,
prescribed
by
the
Queenes
maiesties
Iniunctions
and
the
booke
of
Common
prayer
,
and
shall
kepe
and
obserue
all
other
rightes
and
orders
prescribed
in
the
same
booke
of
Common
prayer
&
Iniunctions
,
aswell
about
the
celebration
of
the
sacramentes
,
as
also
in
their
comely
and
priestlyke
apparell
,
to
be
worne
accordyng
to
the
precept
set
foorth
in
the
booke
called
Aduertisementes
.
¶
For
the
Churchwardens
and
Inquirers
.
IN
primis
,
that
all
Churchwardens
within
the
dioces
of
Elie
,
shal
vpon
their
othes
duely
and
truely
certifie
in
the
ende
of
euery
quarter
of
the
yere
,
from
tyme
to
tyme
,
all
such
matters
as
hereafter
ensue
,
to
the
Chauncelour
or
his
deputie
vpon
some
court
day
,
and
in
the
Consistorie
the
tyme
of
his
sitting
.
Item
,
whether
the
Queenes
maiesties
Iniunctions
be
quarterly
read
by
the
Parson
,
Vicar
,
or
Curate
.
Item
,
whether
one
sermon
at
the
least
be
quarterly
preached
in
your
parishe
Churche
,
accordyng
to
the
saide
Iniunctions
,
and
by
whom
the
same
sermon
is
preached
.
Item
,
whether
your
Parson
,
Vicar
,
or
Curate
,
do
reade
once
vpon
some
Sunday
within
one
moneth
next
after
Easter
,
and
once
vpon
some
Sunday
within
one
moneth
next
after
Michaelmas
yerely
,
a
declaration
of
certayne
principall
articles
of
religion
,
set
foorth
by
the
Archebishops
and
Bishoppes
of
this
Realme
for
vnitie
of
doctrine
.
Item
,
whether
your
Parson
,
Vicar
,
or
Curate
do
reade
vpon
the
Sundayes
and
holydayes
the
Homilees
set
foorth
by
publique
aucthoritie
,
where
there
is
no
sermon
,
and
in
suche
sort
as
they
are
appoynted
to
reade
the
same
in
the
booke
of
the
Homilees
.
Item
,
whether
your
Parson
,
Vicar
,
or
Curate
,
do
teache
the
youth
of
your
parishe
vpon
euery
holyday
,
and
euery
seconde
Sunday
in
the
yere
,
the
Cathechisme
set
foorth
in
the
booke
of
publique
prayer
.
Item
,
to
certifie
and
present
whether
all
fathers
,
mothers
,
maisters
,
and
dames
of
your
parishe
,
cause
their
chyldren
and
seruauntes
both
mankinde
and
womankinde
,
beyng
of
sixe
yeres
of
age
,
and
vnder
twentie
,
whiche
haue
not
learned
the
Cathechisme
,
to
come
to
the
Churche
euery
seconde
Sunday
,
and
euery
holyday
at
the
tyme
appoynted
,
and
obediently
to
heare
and
be
ordered
by
your
minister
,
vntill
suche
tyme
as
thei
haue
learned
the
said
Cathechisme
by
heart
,
&
what
be
the
names
of
those
that
do
not
cause
their
chyldren
and
seruauntes
so
to
come
to
the
Churche
to
be
instructed
and
examined
.
Item
,
to
certifie
and
present
,
whether
the
lay
people
of
your
parishe
,
especially
housholders
hauing
no
lawfull
excuse
to
be
absent
,
do
faythfullye
and
diligently
endeuour
them selues
to
resort
to
their
parishe
Churche
or
Chappell
on
the
holydayes
,
and
chiefely
on
the
Sundayes
to
mornyng
and
euening
prayer
,
and
vpon
reasonable
let
therof
,
to
some
vsuall
place
where
Common
prayer
is
vsed
,
and
then
and
there
abide
orderly
and
soberly
during
the
time
of
Common
prayer
,
Homilees
,
preachyng
,
and
other
seruice
of
God
there
vsed
,
and
what
be
the
names
of
those
that
negligently
or
wylfully
absent
them selues
,
or
come
very
late
to
the
Churche
vpon
the
Sundayes
and
holydayes
,
and
especially
vpon
the
Sundayes
.
Item
,
to
certifie
and
present
the
names
of
such
of
your
parishioners
as
walke
,
talke
,
or
otherwyse
vnreuerently
behaue
them selues
in
the
Churche
,
or
vse
any
gamyng
abrode
,
or
in
any
house
,
or
sit
in
the
streates
or
Churchyarde
,
or
in
any
tauerne
or
alehouse
vpon
the
Sunday
,
or
any
other
holyday
,
in
the
time
of
Common
prayer
,
sermon
,
or
reading
of
any
of
the
Homilees
.
Item
,
to
certifie
and
present
,
whether
the
Churchwardens
and
sworne
men
haue
leuied
and
gathered
of
euery
that
wylfully
or
negligently
absenteth
hym
or
her selfe
from
their
parishe
Church
,
or
vnreuerently
behaue
him
or
her selfe
in
the
Churche
,
in
the
tyme
of
diuine
seruice
vpon
the
Sundayes
or
other
holydayes
,
the
forfayture
of
.xii.
d
.
for
euerye
suche
offence
,
accordyng
to
a
statute
made
in
the
first
yere
of
the
Queenes
Maiesties
raigne
that
now
is
,
and
haue
put
the
same
forfaytures
to
the
vse
of
the
poore
of
that
parishe
,
&
what
particuler
summes
of
money
are
quarterly
forfayted
that
way
,
and
by
whom
and
howe
muche
therof
is
leuied
and
deliuered
to
the
collectours
of
the
poore
:
and
if
any
such
forfaytures
be
not
leuied
in
case
of
such
offence
,
by
whose
fault
it
happeneth
that
the
same
are
not
leuied
,
and
what
be
the
names
of
such
as
offende
that
way
,
and
do
not
pay
the
said
forfayture
.
Item
,
to
certifie
and
present
whether
there
be
any
Inkepers
,
Alewyues
,
Victuellers
,
or
Tiplers
within
your
parishe
,
that
admit
or
suffer
any
person
or
persons
in
their
houses
,
to
eate
and
drynke
,
to
play
at
tables
,
cardes
,
or
other
games
,
in
tyme
of
common
prayer
,
preachyng
,
or
reading
of
the
Homilees
on
the
sundayes
or
holy
dayes
,
or
any
Butchers
,
or
other
,
that
vse
to
sell
meate
or
other
thynges
vpon
the
sundayes
or
holydayes
in
lyke
tyme
of
common
prayer
,
preachyng
,
or
readyng
of
the
Homilees
,
and
what
be
the
names
of
the
persons
that
so
offende
.
Item
,
to
certifie
and
present
whether
you
haue
collectours
for
the
poore
of
your
parishe
,
whether
they
do
their
duetie
in
gatheryng
weekely
,
and
distributyng
the
almes
of
the
poore
,
accordyng
to
a
statute
made
in
the
first
yere
of
the
Queenes
maiesties
raigne
,
and
make
a
iust
accompt
therof
quarterly
.
Item
,
to
certifie
and
present
quarterly
all
such
persons
as
be
of
habilitie
,
and
do
obstinately
or
frowardly
refuse
to
geue
reasonablie
towardes
the
reliefe
of
the
poore
,
or
do
wylfully
discourage
others
from
so
charitable
a
deede
,
and
what
their
names
be
.
Item
,
to
certifie
at
the
least
quarterlye
all
swearers
&
blasphemers
of
Gods
holy
name
,
all
drunkardes
,
adulterers
,
fornicatours
,
ribauldes
,
incestuous
persons
,
baudes
,
or
receauers
of
such
incontinent
persons
,
or
of
straunge
women
with
chylde
,
whose
husbandes
are
vnknowen
,
or
any
persons
that
are
vehemently
suspected
of
such
faultes
,
or
that
be
not
of
good
name
and
fame
touchyng
such
crymes
and
faultes
,
and
all
sowers
of
discordes
betweene
neyghbour
and
neyghbour
,
within
your
parishe
.
Item
,
to
certifie
whether
any
Curate
presume
to
serue
in
any
parishe
without
licence
from
the
Ordinarie
in
writyng
and
vnder
seale
,
or
serue
two
Cures
without
speciall
licence
therfore
:
and
whether
any
licenced
to
serue
any
Cure
,
do
not
weare
at
the
celebration
of
the
diuine
seruice
and
sacramentes
a
comely
surplesse
,
&
obserueth
all
other
rightes
&
orders
prescribed
in
the
booke
of
Common
prayer
,
and
the
Queenes
maiesties
Iniunctions
,
&
in
the
booke
of
Aduertisementes
.
Item
,
to
certifie
whether
the
parishe
haue
a
Bible
of
their
owne
,
the
booke
of
Common
prayer
,
a
Psalter
,
the
two
bookes
of
Homylees
,
the
booke
called
the
Paraphrases
of
Erasmus
,
or
rather
the
common
places
of
Musculus
,
and
other
bookes
requisite
,
as
Iniunction
,
the
Declaration
,
and
Aduertisementes
.
Item
,
to
certifie
lykewyse
whether
the
quier
be
comely
and
orderly
kept
,
whether
they
haue
a
fayre
&
comely
table
for
the
holy
Communion
,
with
a
fayre
lynnen
cloth
to
laye
vpon
the
same
,
and
some
coueryng
of
silke
,
buckeram
,
or
suche
lyke
,
for
the
cleane
kepyng
therof
.
Item
,
whether
the
east
wall
of
the
quier
be
hanged
with
a
fayre
cloth
,
and
the
paper
of
the
ten
commaundementes
fastened
in
the
myddest
therof
.
Item
,
whether
the
table
touchyng
the
degrees
of
matrimonie
,
last
set
foorth
by
the
Reuerende
father
in
God
Matthew
Archbishop
of
Canturburie
,
be
fastened
in
some
conuenient
place
in
the
Churche
.
Item
,
to
certifie
whether
there
be
any
within
this
Dioces
that
haue
maryed
within
degrees
of
affinitie
or
consanguinitie
,
by
the
lawes
of
God
forbidden
,
and
set
foorth
in
a
table
for
an
admonition
:
Any
man
that
hath
two
wyues
,
or
any
woman
that
hath
two
husbandes
,
any
that
beyng
diuorced
or
seperated
asyde
,
hath
maryed
agayne
,
any
maryed
that
haue
made
precontractes
,
any
that
haue
made
priuie
or
secrete
contractes
,
any
that
haue
maryed
without
banes
thrise
solemnely
asked
,
any
couples
maryed
that
lyues
not
together
,
but
slaunderouslye
lyue
a
part
,
any
that
haue
maryed
out
of
the
parishe
where
they
ought
to
haue
the
same
solemnized
.
Item
,
to
certifie
whether
your
ministers
kepe
their
Registers
of
maryages
,
buryalles
,
and
christtenynges
well
and
orderly
,
and
to
present
the
copie
of
them
once
a
yere
by
indenture
,
to
the
Ordinarie
or
his
officers
.
Item
,
to
certifie
whether
there
be
any
in
your
parishe
which
minister
the
goodes
of
those
that
be
dead
without
aucthoritie
,
any
executours
that
haue
not
fulfylled
their
testators
wyl
,
specially
in
paying
of
legacies
geuen
to
good
&
godly
vses
,
as
to
reliefe
of
the
pouertie
,
to
poore
schollers
,
orphans
,
hygh
wayes
,
maryage
of
poore
maydens
,
and
such
lyke
.
Item
,
whether
there
be
any
persons
that
intrude
them selues
and
presume
to
exercise
any
kynde
of
ministerie
in
the
Churche
of
God
,
without
imposition
of
handes
and
ordinarie
aucthoritie
:
Or
any
beyng
once
priest
or
minister
,
that
doth
not
minister
,
nor
resort
to
the
common
prayer
nowe
vsed
,
and
at
tymes
appoynted
communicate
:
and
whether
any
such
do
go
and
vse
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