ARTICLES
TO
BE
INQVIRED
OF
IN
THE
ARCH-DEACONRIE
of
Salop
,
within
the
Diocesse
of
Hereford
,
in
the
yeare
163●
At
the
Visitation
of
Morgan
Godwyn
Doctor
of
Lawes
,
Arch-deacon
of
Salop.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
IOHN
NORTON
163●
The
Tenor
of
the
Oath
,
to
bee
Ministred
to
the
Church-wardens
,
and
Side-men
.
YOu
shall
sweare
that
you
,
and
every
of
you
,
shall
duly
consider
and
diligently
inquire
of
all
and
every
these
Articles
given
you
in
charge
;
and
that
all
affection
,
favor
,
hatred
,
malice
,
hope
of
reward
and
gaine
,
or
feare
of
displeasure
set
aside
;
you
shall
present
all
and
every
such
person
or
persons
,
that
now
is
,
or
are
,
or
of
late
hath
or
have
bee●
within
your
Parish
,
as
hath
or
have
committed
any
offence
,
or
made
any
default
mentioned
in
these
or
any
of
these
Articles
;
or
which
are
vehemently
suspected
or
defamed
of
any
such
offence
or
default
:
wherein
you
shall
deale
uprightly
and
fully
;
neyther
presenting
,
nor
sparing
to
present
any
,
contrary
to
truth
:
having
in
this
action
God
before
your
eyes
,
with
an
ernest
zeale
to
maintaine
truth
,
and
to
suppresse
vice
:
So
helpe
you
God
,
and
the
holy
contents
of
this
Booke
.
First
concerning
the
Church
,
the
Furniture
and
Ornaments
thereof
,
and
the
Church
Possessions
.
INprimis
,
Whether
have
you
in
your
severall
Churches
and
Chappells
,
the
whole
Bible
of
the
largest
Volume
and
the
last
Translation
,
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
the
two
Bookes
of
Homilies
,
Bishop
Jewell
his
apology
and
the
forme
of
Prayer
for
the
5.
of
November
set
forth
by
authority
,
all
well
and
fairely
bound
?
as
also
the
Booke
of
Canons
or
Constitutions
Ecclesiasticall
,
as
is
commanded
?
2
Whether
have
you
in
your
Church
or
Chappell
a
Font
of
stone
whole
and
cleane
with
a
cover
set
up
in
the
ancient
usuall
place
:
a
convenient
and
decent
communion
Table
,
with
a
Carpet
of
Silke
or
some
other
decent
stuffe
continually
layd
upon
the
same
at
the
time
of
Divine
Service
,
and
a
faire
linnen
cloth
thereon
at
the
time
of
the
receiving
of
the
holy
Communion
.
And
whether
is
the
same
Table
placed
in
such
convenient
sort
,
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
used
out
of
time
of
Divine
Service
,
as
is
not
agreeable
to
the
holy
use
of
it
;
as
by
sitting
on
it
,
throwing
Hats
on
it
,
writing
on
it
;
or
is
it
abused
to
other
prophane
uses
:
And
are
the
Ten
Commandements
set
up
at
the
East
end
of
your
Church
or
Chappell
where
the
people
may
best
see
and
read
them
,
and
other
sentences
of
holy
Scripture
written
on
the
walls
likewise
for
that
purpose
?
3
Whether
are
the
afternoones
Sermons
in
the
severall
Parishes
turned
into
Catechizing
by
Question
and
Answer
,
according
to
the
forme
prescribed
in
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
?
and
whether
doth
every
Lecturer
reade
Divine
Service
according
to
the
liturgy
Printed
by
authority
,
in
his
Surplice
and
Hood
,
before
the
Lecture
?
And
whether
are
his
Majesties
instructions
in
all
things
duly
observed
?
4
Whether
have
you
in
your
said
Church
or
Chappell
,
a
convenient
seate
for
your
Minister
to
reade
Service
in
,
together
with
a
comely
Pulpet
set
up
in
a
convenient
place
,
with
a
decent
Cloth
or
Cushion
for
the
same
,
a
comely
large
Surplice
,
a
faire
Communion
Cup
of
Silver
with
a
cover
agreeable
,
a
Flagon
of
Silver
,
Tyn
,
or
Pewter
to
put
the
Wine
in
,
whereby
it
may
be
put
or
set
on
the
Communion
Table
at
the
time
of
the
consecrating
or
blessing
thereof
,
with
all
other
things
and
Ornaments
necessary
for
the
celebration
of
Divine
Service
,
and
the
Administration
of
the
Sacraments
?
And
whether
have
you
a
strong
Chest
for
the
●…s
for
the
poore
,
with
three
Locks
and
Keyes
;
and
another
Chest
for
keeping
the
●ookes
and
Orn●ments
of
the
Church
,
and
the
register
Booke
?
And
whether
have
you
a
register
Booke
in
parchment
for
Christnings
,
Weddings
,
and
Burialls
,
and
the
same
kept
in
all
points
according
to
the
Canon
in
that
behalfe
provided
?
And
is
the
Mothers
Christian
name
therein
registred
as
well
as
the
Fathers
,
and
a
transcript
thereof
brought
in
yearely
,
within
one
moneth
after
the
25.
of
March
in
to
the
Lord
Bishops
principall
Register
?
And
whether
have
you
in
your
said
Church
or
Chancell
a
Table
set
of
the
degres
,
wherein
by
Law
are
prohibited
to
marry
?
5.
Whether
is
your
Church
or
Chappell
with
the
Chancell
thereof
,
and
your
Parsonage
or
Vicaridge
house
,
your
Parish
Almes-house
and
Church-house
in
good
reparation
:
are
they
imployed
to
godly
and
their
right
holy
uses
?
Is
your
Church
,
Chancell
,
and
Chappell
decently
and
comely
kept
as
well
within
as
without
,
well
tyled
,
well
glazed
,
well
paved
,
and
the
seates
well
mainteined
according
to
the
85.
Canon
in
that
behalfe
provided
?
Or
have
any
Patrons
or
others
decayed
the
Parsonage
Houses
,
and
kept
a
stipendiarie
Preist
or
Curate
in
place
where
an
Incumbent
should
bee
possessed
?
Whether
is
your
Church-yard
well
fenced
with
Walls
,
Rayles
,
or
Pales
,
and
by
whom
:
and
if
not
,
in
whose
default
the
same
is
,
and
what
the
defect
or
fault
is
?
And
whether
any
person
have
incroached
on
the
ground
of
the
Church-yard
,
or
whether
any
person
or
persons
have
used
any
thing
or
place
consecrated
to
holy
use
,
prophanely
or
wickedly
?
Is
your
Church-yard
well
and
orderly
kept
without
abuse
?
And
is
the
whole
consecrated
ground
kept
as
becommeth
the
place
so
dedicated
free
from
soile
and
all
other
nastines
,
as
pissing
against
the
Church
,
and
defiling
the
Church-yard
with
their
excrements
and
the
like
?
And
are
the
Bones
of
the
dead
decently
interred
or
layd
up
in
some
fit
place
as
beseemeth
Christians
.
6.
Whether
have
any
ancient
Monuments
or
glasse
windowes
béen
defaced
,
or
any
brasse
Inscriptions
,
Lead
,
Stones
,
Bells
or
any
thing
els
belonging
to
your
Church
or
Chappell
been
at
any
time
purloyned
,
and
by
whom
?
7.
What
Legacies
have
been
given
to
the
use
and
benefit
of
your
Church
,
and
how
have
they
been
bestowed
?
Who
hath
received
and
detaineth
them
without
due
imployment
?
and
whether
doth
any
with-hold
the
stocke
of
the
Church
,
or
any
goods
or
things
given
to
good
and
charitable
uses
.
8
It
there
any
in
the
Parish
,
that
hath
or
doth
refuse
to
contribute
towards
the
reparation
of
your
Church
,
and
toward
the
provision
of
such
things
as
belong
thereunto
?
9
Whether
doth
any
private
man
or
men
of
his
or
their
owne
authority
erect
any
Pewes
or
built
any
seates
in
your
Church
,
and
what
Pewes
or
seates
have
been
so
built
,
by
whose
procurement
,
and
by
whose
authority
?
10
Whether
hath
any
Popish
Recusant
being
lawfully
excommunicate
,
or
any
other
excommunicated
person
,
been
interred
or
buried
in
your
Church
,
or
Church-yard
,
before
absolution
from
that
censure
and
excommunication
obteined
?
if
yea
,
then
by
whom
and
when
?
11
Whether
have
you
a
true
Terrier
of
all
that
Glebe-lands
,
Medowes
,
Gardens
,
Orchards
,
Houses
,
Stockes
,
Implements
,
Tenements
,
and
Portions
of
Tythes
,
whether
within
your
Parish
or
without
belonging
to
your
Parsonage
or
Vicarage
taken
by
the
view
of
honest
men
in
the
said
Parish
?
and
whether
is
it
safely
kept
and
preserved
and
in
whose
hands
?
and
whether
hath
there
a
true
Copy
thereof
,
under
the
hands
of
the
Minister
and
Church-wardens
,
been
transmitted
and
layd
up
in
the
Bishops
Registry
,
there
to
continue
for
a
perpetuall
memory
thereof
?
And
if
you
have
no
such
Terrier
yet
made
,
you
the
Church-wardens
and
Side-men
together
with
your
Parson
or
Vicar
,
or
in
his
absence
,
your
Curate
,
are
to
make
diligent
enquiry
of
the
Premises
,
and
to
make
,
subscribe
,
and
signe
the
said
Terrier
,
and
to
bring
in
a
true
copy
of
it
into
the
Byshops
Restistry
,
as
is
afore
sayd
.
Second
Concerning
the
Clergy
.
1.
WHether
doth
your
Parson
,
Vicar
,
or
Curate
distinctly
and
reverently
say
Divine
Service
upon
Sundayes
and
Holy-dayes
and
other
days
appointed
to
be
observed
by
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
as
the
Conversion
of
S.
Paul
.
S.
Barnabas
day
,
Wednesdayes
and
Frydayes
,
&
the
Eves
of
every
Sunday
and
Holy-day
,
at
fit
and
usuall
times
?
And
doth
he
duly
observe
the
Orders
,
rits
and
ceremonies
prescribed
in
the
said
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
as
will
in
rea
,
ding
publique
Prayers
and
the
Litanie
,
as
also
in
administring
the
Sacraments-Solemnization
of
Matrimony
,
visiting
the
sicke
,
burying
the
dead
,
Churching
of
we●men
,
and
other
the
like
Rits
,
and
Offices
of
the
Church
,
in
such
manner
and
forme
as
in
the
said
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
he
is
injoyned
,
without
any
omission
or
addition
?
And
doth
he
read
the
Booke
of
the
last
Canons
yearely
,
and
weare
a
Surplice
according
to
the
sayd
Canons
?
And
if
he
be
a
graduate
,
whether
doth
he
also
weare
upon
his
Surplice
such
a
hood
as
by
the
order
of
the
Vniversity
is
sutable
to
his
degree
?
2
whether
have
you
any
Lecture
in
your
Parish
?
If
yea
,
whether
doth
he
twise
at
the
lest
every
yeere
read
himselfe
Divine
Service
,
both
Morning
and
Evening
two
severall
Sundayes
,
publiquely
in
his
Surplice
with
an
Hood
theron
answerable
to
his
degree
of
schoole
;
and
also
twise
in
the
yeere
administer
both
Sacraments
.
with
such
Rites
and
Ceremonies
as
are
prescribed
by
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
?
Also
,
whether
doth
he
read
Divine
Service
according
to
the
Liturgy
Printed
by
authority
,
in
his
Surplice
and
Hood
before
his
Lecture
,
according
to
his
Maiestyes
late
directions
?
whether
doth
he
at
any
time
preach
in
his
Cloke
,
and
not
in
his
Gowne
?
whether
doth
your
Preacher
or
Lecturer
behave
himselfe
in
his
Sermons
and
Lectures
as
he
ought
to
doe
,
teaching
obedience
,
and
edifiing
his
auditorie
in
matters
of
Faith
and
good
life
,
without
intermedling
with
matters
of
State
or
other
discourse
not
fit
for
the
Pulpit
?
3
Whether
have
you
any
Lecture
of
Combination
set
up
in
your
Parish
?
if
yea
,
whether
is
it
read
by
a
company
of
grave
and
Orthodox
Divines
neer
adioyning
,
and
in
the
same
Diocesse
?
and
whether
doe
they
preach
in
Gownes
and
not
in
Clokes
?
4
Doth
your
Parson
,
Vicar
,
or
Curate
bid
Holy-dayes
and
fasting-dayes
as
by
the
Booke
of
Common
prayer
is
appoynted
?
And
doth
he
give
wa●…gs
before
hand
to
he
Parishoners
for
the
receiving
the
Holy
Communion
,
as
the
22
Canon
requireth
?
And
whether
doth
he
administer
the
Holy
Communion
as
often
,
and
at
such
times
as
that
every
Parishioner
may
receive
the
same
at
the
least
thrice
in
every
yeare
,
whereof
once
at
Easter
?
And
whether
doth
your
Minister
receive
the
same
himselfe
on
every
day
,
that
he
Administers
it
to
others
,
and
use
the
words
of
institution
according
to
the
Booke
at
every
time
the
Bread
and
Wine
is
renued
,
according
to
the
Proviso
of
the
21.
Canon
?
And
doth
he
deliver
the
Bread
and
Wine
to
every
Communicant
severally
,
and
kneeling
.
5
Whether
doth
your
Parson
,
Vicar
,
or
Curate
before
the
severall
times
of
the
Administration
of
the
Lord's
Supper
,
admonish
and
exhort
his
Parishioners
,
if
any
of
them
have
their
consciences
troubled
and
disquieted
,
to
resort
to
him
,
or
to
some
other
learned
Minister
,
and
open
their
greife
,
that
they
may
receive
such
Ghostly
counsell
and
comfort
,
as
their
conscience
may
be
releived
,
and
by
the
Minister
they
may
have
the
benefit
of
absolution
,
to
the
quiet
of
their
conscience
and
avoidance
of
Scruple
?
And
if
any
man
confesse
his
secret
or
hidden
sinnes
being
sicke
or
whole
,
to
the
Minister
,
for
the
unbarthening
of
his
conscience
and
receiving
of
spirituall
consolation
of
minde
from
him
,
doth
he
the
said
Priest
or
Minister
,
or
hath
hee
at
any
time
revealed
and
made
knowne
to
any
person
whatsoever
,
any
crime
or
offence
so
committed
to
his
trust
and
secrecie
,
contrarie
to
the
113.
Canon
.
6
Whether
hath
your
Minister
admitted
to
the
holy
Communion
any
notorious
offender
or
Schismatick
,
contrary
to
the
26.
and
27.
Canon
?
or
hath
he
received
any
to
the
Communion
being
not
of
his
owne
cure
?
or
hath
he
put
any
from
the
Communion
,
who
are
not
publikely
infamous
for
any
notorious
crime
?
doth
he
alway
use
and
never
omit
the
signe
of
the
Crosse
in
Baptisme
▪
or
doth
he
Baptise
in
any
Bason
,
or
other
Vessell
,
and
not
in
the
usuall
Font
,
or
admit
any
Father
to
be
God-father
,
or
Mother
to
be
God-mother
to
their
owne
children
,
or
such
to
be
God-fathers
and
God-mothers
who
have
not
received
the
holy
Communion
;
or
Baptise
any
children
that
were
not
borne
in
the
Parish
,
or
wilfully
refuse
to
Baptise
any
Infant
in
his
Parish
,
being
in
danger
,
having
beene
informed
of
the
weaknes
of
the
said
child
:
and
whether
the
child
dieth
without
Baptisme
through
his
default
?
7
Doth
he
refuse
to
interre
any
which
ought
to
bee
interred
in
Christian
buriall
,
or
defer
the
same
longer
then
he
should
;
or
bury
any
in
Christian
buriall
,
which
by
the
Constitutions
of
the
Church
of
England
,
or
Law
of
the
Land
,
ought
not
to
be
so
interred
?
8
Whether
hath
your
Minister
Married
any
without
a
King
,
or
without
Banes
published
three
severall
Sundayes
or
holy-dayes
in
time
of
Divine
Service
,
in
the
severall
Churches
or
Chappells
of
their
severall
above
,
according
to
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
▪
or
in
times
prohibited
albeit
the
Banes
were
thrice
published
,
without
a
Licence
or
dispensation
from
the
Lord
Arch-Bishop
of
Canterbury
,
the
Lord
Bishop
of
Herford
,
or
his
Chancellor
,
first
obteined
in
that
behalfe
?
Or
not
betweene
the
houres
of
8.
and
12.
in
the
Fore-noone
,
or
have
Married
any
in
private
houses
;
or
if
the
parties
or
eyther
of
them
be
under
the
age
of
21.
yeeres
,
before
their
Parents
or
Governours
have
signified
their
consent
unto
him
?
9.
Is
your
Minister
a
Preacher
allowed
?
If
yea
,
then
by
whom
?
If
not
,
whether
doth
hee
procure
some
who
are
lawfully
licensed
,
to
preach
monthly
amongst
you
at
the
least
?
10.
Doth
your
Minister
(
being
licensed
)
preach
usually
according
to
the
Canons
,
either
in
his
own
Cure
,
or
in
some
other
Church
or
Chappel
neer
adjoyning
,
where
no
other
Preacher
is
,
and
how
often
hath
he
been
negligent
in
that
behalf
,
&
doth
he
preach
standing
and
with
his
hat
off
.
Or
whether
doth
he
or
his
Curate
upon
every
Sunday
when
there
is
no
Sermon
,
read
an
Homily
or
some
part
therof
according
as
he
ought
to
doe
?
or
in
case
he
be
not
licensed
to
preach
,
doth
hee
take
upon
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
he
did
it
.
11
Doth
your
Minister
use
to
pray
for
the
Kings
Majesty
King
Charles
,
and
for
the
Queenes
Majesty
,
for
Prince
Charles
his
Highnesse
,
&
all
the
Royall
Progeny
,
with
addition
of
such
stile
and
titles
as
are
due
to
his
Maiesty
,
and
exhort
the
people
to
obedience
to
his
Maiesty
,
and
to
al
Magistrates
in
authority
under
him
?
And
doth
he
also
pray
for
all
Arch-bishops
,
Bishops
,
and
other
Ecclesiasticall
persons
?
12
Doth
your
Minister
,
Preacher
or
Lecturer
observe
the
forme
of
Prayer
(
and
no
other
)
before
his
or
their
Sermons
,
that
is
prescribed
by
the
55
Canon
,
therein
moving
the
people
as
they
are
there
directed
,
to
joyne
with
him
in
Prayer
for
Christs
holy
Catholike
Church
,
and
for
the
Kings
most
excellent
Maiesty
,
the
Queene
,
the
Prince
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Royall
Progeny
,
Clergy
and
Councell
,
as
in
the
Canon
is
required
,
alway
concluding
with
the
Lords
Prayer
?
13
Is
your
Minister
continually
resident
upon
his
benifice
,
or
how
long
time
hath
he
been
absent
?
And
in
case
he
be
licensed
to
be
absent
,
whether
doth
he
cause
his
Cure
to
be
sufficiently
supplyed
according
to
the
Canon
?
or
in
case
he
hath
another
benifice
,
Whether
doth
he
supply
his
absence
by
a
Curate
sufficiently
licensed
to
preach
in
that
Cure
,
where
he
himselfe
is
not
resident
?
or
otherwise
,
in
case
the
smalnesse
of
the
living
cannot
finde
a
preaching
Minister
,
doth
he
preach
at
both
his
Benifices
usually
.
14
Doth
your
Minister
or
Curat
serve
any
more
Cures
then
one
?
If
yea
,
then
what
other
Cure
doth
he
serve
:
and
how
far
are
they
distant
?
15
Doth
your
Minister
or
Curate
every
Sunday
and
Holyday
,
before
Evening
prayer
,
for
halfe
an
hower
or
more
,
examine
and
instruct
the
youth
and
ignorant
persons
of
his
parish
,
in
the
tenn
Commandements
,
Articles
of
the
Creede
,
and
in
the
Lords
prayer
,
and
the
Sacraments
according
as
is
prescribed
in
the
Catechisme
set
forth
in
the
Booke
of
Common
prayer
only
?
And
if
he
do
not
,
where
is
the
fault
,
either
in
the
Parents
and
Masters
of
the
Children
,
or
in
the
Curat
neglecting
his
duty
?
And
is
he
carefull
to
tender
all
such
youth
of
his
parish
as
have
been
well
instructed
in
their
Catechisme
,
to
be
confirmed
by
the
Bishop
in
his
Visitation
,
or
any
other
time
,
as
is
appoynted
by
the
Booke
aforesaid
?
16
Doth
your
Minister
in
the
Rogation
dayes
goe
in
perambulation
of
the
Circuit
of
the
Parish
,
saying
and
using
the
prayers
,
Suffrages
,
and
Thankesgiving
to
GOD
,
appoynted
by
Law
according
to
his
duty
,
thanking
GOD
for
his
blessings
,
if
there
be
plenty
on
the
earth
:
or
otherwise
to
pray
for
his
Grace
and
favor
,
if
there
be
a
feare
of
Scarsity
?
17
Hath
your
Minister
admitted
any
Woman
,
begotten
with
child
in
Adultery
or
Fornication
,
to
bee
churched
without
Licence
of
the
Ordinarie
?
18
Hath
your
Minister
or
any
other
Preacher
,
baptized
children
,
Churched
any
woman
,
or
ministred
the
holy
Communion
in
any
private
house
,
otherwise
than
by
Law
is
allowed
?
19.
Whether
have
there
beene
any
Children
baptized
in
private
houses
,
by
any
person
,
or
Midwife
,
or
Popish
Priest
?
and
have
such
Children
thus
privately
baptized
,
and
surviving
,
been
afterwards
brought
to
your
Church
,
to
the
intent
the
Congregation
and
the
Minister
of
the
Parish
(
in
case
they
were
not
baptized
by
him
)
may
be
certified
whether
they
,
or
any
of
them
were
lawfully
bapt●zed
or
no
?
20
Whether
have
the
children
that
have
beene
borne
to
any
popish
Recusant
or
Recusants
in
your
Parish
,
beene
publiquely
baptized
in
your
parish-Church
,
by
your
Parson
,
Vicar
,
or
Curate
?
or
by
whom
else
were
they
baptized
,
or
where
to
your
knowledge
?
21
Doth
your
Minister
endeavour
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
over-conversant
with
,
or
a
favourer
of
Recusants
,
whereby
he
is
suspected
not
to
bee
sincere
in
Religion
?
22
Hath
your
Minister
taken
upon
him
to
appoint
any
publique
or
private
Fasts
,
Prophecies
or
Exercises
not
approved
by
Law
,
or
publique
Authority
;
or
hath
used
to
meet
in
any
private
house
or
place
with
any
person
or
persons
,
there
to
consult
how
to
impeach
or
deprave
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
or
the
Doctrine
or
Discipline
of
the
Church
of
England
?
If
yea
,
then
you
shall
present
them
all
.
23
Doth
your
Minister
or
Lecturer
either
in
time
of
publique
allowed
Fasts
,
or
at
any
other
time
,
usually
deteine
the
Assembly
or
Congregation
with
Sermons
longer
than
a
full
hower
?
If
yea
,
then
you
shall
present
the
time
and
place
.
24
Whether
hath
your
Minister
been
present
at
any
private
conventicle
,
to
consult
there
of
any
course
to
bee
taken
by
them
,
or
by
another
upon
their
motion
,
which
may
any
way
tend
to
the
impeachment
or
depraving
of
the
Doctrine
of
the
Church
of
England
,
or
of
the
booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
or
of
any
part
of
the
Governement
and
Discipline
now
established
in
the
Church
of
England
?
25
Whether
doth
your
Minister
publish
in
his
Sermons
any
Doctrine
which
is
new
and
strange
,
and
disagreeing
from
the
Word
of
God
,
and
from
the
Articles
of
Christian
Faith
and
Religion
,
agreed
on
and
published
Anno
Dom.
1562.
And
whether
doth
hee
teach
any
thing
which
hee
would
the
people
religiously
to
observe
and
beleeve
,
but
that
which
is
agreeable
to
the
Scriptures
,
and
that
which
the
Catholique
Fathers
and
ancient
Bishops
have
gathered
out
of
that
Doctrine
according
to
the
Canon
?
26
Whether
doth
your
Minister
in
his
Sermons
enter
into
and
handle
any
points
of
controversie
,
contrarie
to
his
Maiesties
directions
?
whether
doth
hee
,
or
any
other
Preacher
in
your
pulpit
particularly
impugne
and
confute
any
Doctrine
delivered
by
any
other
Preacher
in
the
same
Church
,
or
in
any
Church
neere
adioyning
,
before
hee
hath
acquainted
the
Bishop
of
the
Diocesse
therewith
,
and
received
order
from
him
what
to
doe
in
that
case
?
27
Hath
your
Minister
stayed
the
publication
of
any
excommunications
or
suspensions
,
or
doth
hee
every
halfe
yeare
denounce
in
his
parish
Church
,
all
such
of
his
Parish
as
are
excommunicated
,
and
persevere
therein
without
seeking
to
be
absolved
,
or
doth
hee
wittingly
and
willingly
keepe
companie
with
such
as
are
excommunicate
?
and
hath
he
admitted
into
your
Church
any
person
excommunicated
,
without
a
certificate
of
his
absolution
from
the
Ordinary
or
other
competent
Iudge
?
28
Doth
your
Minister
carefully
looke
to
the
reliefe
of
the
poore
,
and
from
time
to
time
call
upon
his
Parishioners
to
give
somewhat
as
they
can
spare
,
to
godly
and
charitable
uses
,
especially
when
they
make
their
Testaments
?
29
Doth
your
Minister
or
Curate
resort
unto
such
as
be
dangerously
sicke
in
your
Parish
,
to
instruct
and
comfort
them
in
their
distresses
,
according
to
the
order
of
the
booke
of
Common
Prayer
:
not
omitting
,
then
especially
,
to
move
them
earnestly
to
liberality
toward
the
poore
?
30
Whether
doth
your
Minister
,
or
any
,
having
taken
holy
Orders
,
being
now
silenced
or
suspended
,
or
any
other
person
of
your
knowledge
,
or
as
you
have
heard
,
hold
any
conventicles
,
or
doth
preach
in
any
place
,
or
doth
use
any
other
forme
of
Divine
Service
than
is
appointed
in
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
?
If
yea
,
then
you
are
to
present
their
names
,
and
with
whom
?
31
Whether
is
your
Curate
licenced
to
serve
by
the
Bishop
of
this
Dioces
,
or
by
any
other
,
and
by
whom
?
32
Whether
is
there
anie
in
your
Parish
,
who
having
beene
admitted
into
holie
Orders
,
either
Deacon
or
Minister
,
doth
voluntarily
relinquish
and
forsake
his
calling
,
and
liveth
in
the
course
of
his
life
as
a
meere
Lay-man
?
33
Whether
is
your
Minister
studious
in
holy
Scripture
,
and
abstaineth
from
mechanicall
trades
or
labour
not
befitting
his
function
,
and
from
apparrel
unseemely
for
his
calling
,
using
that
decencie
and
gravity
therein
,
as
is
prescribed
in
the
47.
Canon
?
34
Is
your
Minister
noted
or
defamed
to
have
obtained
his
Benefice
or
his
Orders
by
simony
,
or
any
other
way
defamed
to
be
a
simoniacall
person
,
or
any
way
noted
to
be
a
Schismatique
or
schismatically
affected
,
or
reputed
to
be
an
incontinent
person
,
or
doth
table
or
lodge
any
such
in
his
house
:
or
is
bee
a
frequenter
of
Tavernes
,
Innes
,
or
Ale-houses
,
or
any
place
suspected
for
ill
rule
:
Or
is
hee
a
common
Drunkard
,
a
common
Gamester
,
or
player
at
Dice
,
a
Swearer
,
or
one
that
applieth
himselfe
not
at
his
studies
,
or
is
otherwise
offensive
and
scandalous
to
his
Function
or
Ministerie
?
Third
,
Concerning
Schoole-Masters
,
Physicians
,
Chirurgians
,
Mid-wives
and
Parish-Clerkes
.
1
DOth
any
in
your
Parish
openly
or
privately
take
upon
him
to
teach
Schoole
,
without
Licence
of
the
Ordinarie
,
and
is
hee
conformable
to
the
Religion
now
established
?
and
doth
hee
bring
his
Schollars
to
the
Church
,
to
heare
Divine
Service
and
Sermons
?
and
doth
hee
instruct
his
schollars
in
the
grounds
of
the
Religion
now
established
in
the
Church
of
England
,
and
is
hee
carefull
and
diligent
to
benefit
his
schollers
in
learning
?
2
Doth
your
Schoole-master
tea●h
and
instruct
his
youth
in
the
Catechisme
allowed
by
authority
,
or
in
some
other
Catechisme
?
if
in
some
other
,
what
is
that
Catechisme
that
he
so
teacheth
?
3
Is
any
Living
or
Meanes
given
towards
the
erection
or
maintenance
of
any
Schoole
with-holden
backe
,
or
otherwise
imployed
and
by
whom
?
4
Doth
any
keepe
Schoole
in
the
Chancell
or
Church
,
by
which
meanes
that
holy
place
and
the
Communion
Table
are
many
waies
profaned
,
and
the
windowes
broken
?
5
How
many
Physitians
,
Chirurgians
,
or
Mid-wives
have
you
in
your
Parish
?
how
long
have
they
used
their
severall
sciences
or
Offices
,
and
by
what
Authority
?
and
how
have
they
demeaned
themselves
therein
?
and
of
what
skill
are
they
accounted
to
be
in
their
professions
?
6
Have
you
a
fit
Parish-Clerke
,
aged
twentie
yeares
at
least
,
of
honest
life
,
able
to
reade
and
write
?
are
his
and
the
Sextons
wages
duly
paied
without
fraud
or
diminution
,
according
to
the
ancient
custome
of
your
Parish
?
what
is
his
wages
?
by
whom
is
he
chosen
?
whether
is
he
approved
by
the
Ordinarie
?
Is
hee
diligent
in
his
Office
,
and
serviceable
to
the
Minister
?
doth
hee
keepe
the
Church
cleane
and
dores
locked
?
Is
there
any
thing
lost
or
spoyled
through
his
default
?
and
doth
hee
execute
his
Office
duly
?
Fourth
,
Concerning
the
Parishioners
.
1
WHether
any
of
your
Parishioners
,
being
sixteen
yeares
of
age
or
upwards
,
or
others
lodging
or
commonly
resorting
to
anie
house
within
your
Parish
,
doe
wilfullie
absent
themselves
from
your
Parish
Church
,
upon
Sundaies
or
Holi-daies
,
at
morning
and
evening
praiers
?
or
who
come
late
to
Church
,
and
depart
from
Church
before
Service
be
done
upon
the
said
daies
?
or
who
doe
not
reverently
behave
themselves
during
the
time
b●
Divine
Service
,
devoutly
kneeling
when
the
generall
Confession
of
sins
,
the
Letanie
,
the
tenne
Commandements
,
and
all
prayers
and
Collects
are
read
,
and
using
due
and
lowly
reverence
when
the
blessed
Name
of
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
is
mentioned
,
and
standing
up
at
each
Creed
,
at
the
Gospell
,
at
each
Glorie
be
to
the
Father
.
&c.
and
at
the
Te
Deum
,
according
to
the
practise
of
his
Maiesties
Chappell
Royall
,
and
of
the
Cathedrall
Church
of
Hereford
;
or
who
doe
cover
their
heads
in
the
Church
during
the
time
of
Divine
Service
,
unlesse
it
be
in
case
of
necessitie
,
in
which
case
they
may
weare
a
night-cap
or
Coyf
?
or
who
doe
give
themselves
to
babling
,
talking
or
walking
,
and
are
not
attentive
to
heare
the
Word
preached
or
read
?
whether
any
of
your
Parish
being
of
16.
yeares
of
age
or
upwards
,
doe
not
receive
the
holy
Communion
thrice
every
yeare
,
whereof
once
at
Easter
,
and
whether
they
doe
not
devoutly
kneele
at
the
receiving
thereof
?
And
whether
any
having
divers
houses
of
remove
,
doe
shift
from
place
to
place
,
of
purpose
to
defeate
the
performance
of
their
Christian
duties
in
that
behalfe
?
2
Whether
any
of
your
Parishioners
being
admonished
thereof
,
doe
not
send
their
children
servants
,
and
apprentises
,
to
the
Minister
,
to
be
catechised
upon
such
Sundayes
and
Holy-dayes
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
doe
any
of
your
Parish
entertaine
within
their
house
,
any
soiourner
,
common
guests
or
other
persons
,
who
refuse
to
frequent
Divine
Service
,
or
receave
the
holy
Communion
as
aforesaid
?
present
their
names
,
qualities
,
or
conditions
.
4
Whether
doth
any
in
your
Parish
under
the
degree
of
a
Nobleman
,
or
not
thereto
allowed
by
the
Law
,
keepe
in
his
house
any
Chaplaine
?
present
their
names
.
5
What
Recusant
Papists
have
yee
in
your
Parish
,
or
other
Sectaries
?
present
their
names
,
qualities
or
condition
:
whether
they
keepe
any
Schoole-master
in
their
house
,
which
commeth
not
to
Church
to
heare
Divine
Service
,
and
receive
the
holy
Communion
?
what
is
his
name
,
and
how
long
hath
hee
taught
there
or
elsewhere
?
6
Whether
any
of
the
said
Popish
Recusants
,
or
other
schismatiques
,
doe
labour
to
seduce
and
with-draw
others
from
the
Religion
now
established
?
or
instruct
their
families
or
children
in
Popish
Religion
;
or
resuse
to
entertaine
any
,
especially
in
place
of
greatest
service
or
trust
but
such
as
concurre
with
them
in
their
opinions
?
7
How
long
have
the
said
Popish
Recusants
abstained
from
Divine
Service
,
or
from
the
Communion
?
8
Is
there
any
in
your
Parish
,
that
reteine
,
sell
,
utter
or
disperse
any
Popish
bookes
,
or
writings
,
or
other
bookes
,
Libraries
,
or
writings
of
any
Sectaries
,
touching
the
Religion
,
State
,
or
Governement
Ecclesiasticall
of
this
Kingdome
of
England
,
or
keepe
any
Manuments
of
superstition
,
uncancelled
or
undefaced
?
9
Whether
have
you
any
in
your
Parish
,
which
heretofore
being
Popish
Recusants
or
Sectaries
,
have
since
reformed
themselves
,
and
come
to
Church
to
heare
Divine
Service
,
and
receive
the
Sacraments
?
If
yea
,
then
who
are
they
?
and
how
long
since
have
they
so
reformed
themselves
?
and
whether
they
still
remaine
in
their
conformity
?
10
Are
there
any
in
your
Parish
that
refuse
to
have
their
children
baptized
,
or
themselves
to
receive
the
Communion
at
the
hands
of
your
Minister
,
taking
exception
against
him
,
and
what
causes
or
exceptions
doo
they
alledge
;
or
have
any
married
Wives
refused
to
come
to
Church
,
according
to
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
to
give
God
thankes
after
their
Childbirth
,
for
their
safe
deliverance
?
And
whether
doe
any
of
or
in
your
Parish
,
refuse
to
have
their
children
baptized
in
your
Parish
Church
,
according
to
the
forme
prescribed
in
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
?
11
Do
an●
of
your
Parish
usually
goe
to
other
Parish
Churches
to
heare
Div●ne
Service
or
Sermons
?
Or
doe
they
communicate
,
or
baptize
their
children
in
any
other
Parish
?
12
Whether
be
there
any
in
your
Parish
,
who
will
come
to
heare
the
Sermon
,
but
will
not
come
to
publique
Prayers
appointed
in
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
making
a
schisme
or
division
(
as
it
were
)
betweene
the
use
of
publique
Prayer
and
Preaching
?
13
What
persons
within
your
Parish
for
any
offence
,
contumacie
or
crime
of
Ecclesiasticall
cognisance
doe
stand
excommunicate
?
present
their
names
,
and
for
what
cause
they
doe
stand
excommunicated
,
and
how
long
they
have
so
stood
,
and
what
person
or
persons
doe
wittingly
and
usually
keepe
them
company
.
14
Whether
any
,
not
being
in
Orders
,
doe
execute
any
Priestly
or
Ministeriall
Office
in
your
Church
,
Chappell
,
or
Church-yard
,
and
what
bee
their
names
?
15
Hath
any
person
in
your
Parish
quarrelled
,
or
stricken
,
or
used
any
violence
to
your
Minister
,
or
hath
stricken
or
quarrelled
with
any
other
person
within
your
Church
or
Church-yard
,
or
demeaned
himselfe
disorderly
in
the
Church
,
by
filthy
or
prophane
talke
,
or
any
base
or
immodest
behaviour
?
Or
hath
disturbed
the
Minister
in
time
of
Divine
Service
or
Sermon
,
or
hath
libelled
,
or
spoken
slanderous
words
against
your
Minister
,
to
the
scandall
of
his
vocation
,
or
defamed
any
of
his
neighbours
touching
any
crime
of
Ecclesiasticall
cognisance
?
16
Whether
any
of
,
or
in
your
parish
,
without
consent
of
the
Ordinarie
,
or
other
lawfull
authority
,
have
caused
any
to
doe
penance
,
or
to
be
censured
or
punished
for
any
matter
of
Ecclesiasticall
cognisance
,
by
any
Vestry-meetings
,
or
otherwise
by
their
owne
authority
?
or
have
taken
any
mony
or
commutation
for
the
same
?
present
their
names
that
have
done
it
,
and
who
have
beene
so
punished
,
in
what
manner
,
and
upon
what
cause
.
17
Whether
any
person
in
your
Parish
do
exercise
any
trade
or
labour
,
buy
or
sell
,
or
keepe
open
Shops
or
Ware-houses
upon
any
Sundaie
or
Holy-day
,
by
themselves
,
their
servants
,
or
Apprentises
,
or
have
otherwise
prophaned
the
said
dayes
,
contrary
to
the
Orders
of
the
Church
of
England
?
And
whether
there
be
any
In-Kéepers
,
Ale-house-kéepers
,
Victuallers
or
other
Persons
,
that
permit
any
Persons
in
their
Houses
,
to
eate
,
drinke
,
or
play
,
during
the
time
of
Divine
Service
or
Sermon
,
or
reading
the
Homilies
in
the
forenoone
or
afternoone
,
upon
those
dayes
?
18
Whether
is
the
5
day
of
November
kept
Holy
,
and
thankesgiving
made
to
God
,
for
his
Maiesty
and
this
States
happy
deliverance
,
according
to
the
Ordinance
in
that
behalfe
?
19
Whether
any
of
your
Parish
hold
or
frequent
any
Conventicles
or
private
Congregations
,
or
make
or
maintaine
any
Constitutions
agreed
upon
in
such
assemblies
?
Or
any
that
doe
write
,
or
publiquely
or
privatly
speake
against
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
or
any
thing
therein
conteined
,
or
against
any
of
the
Articles
of
Religion
agreed
upon
in
Anno
1562.
Or
against
the
Kings
Supremacy
in
causes
Ecclesiastique
or
against
the
Oath
of
Supremacy
,
or
of
allegeance
,
as
pretending
the
same
to
bee
unlawfull
,
and
not
warrantable
by
Gods
word
?
or
against
any
of
the
Rites
or
Ceremonies
of
the
Church
of
England
,
now
established
?
Or
against
the
Governement
of
the
Church
of
England
under
the
Kings
most
excellent
Majesty
,
by
Arch-bishops
,
Bishops
,
Arch-deacons
,
Deanes
,
and
other
Officers
of
the
same
;
affirming
the
same
to
be
repugnant
to
the
word
of
God
,
and
that
the
said
Ecclesiasticall
Officers
are
not
lawfully
ordeined
?
Or
whether
there
be
any
Authors
,
Favorers
,
or
maintainers
of
Heresie
or
Schisme
,
or
that
be
suspected
to
be
Anabaptists
,
Libertines
,
Brownists
,
of
the
Family
of
Love
,
or
of
any
other
Heresie
or
Schisme
?
present
their
names
.
20
Whether
have
any
in
your
Parish
Married
within
the
degrees
by
Law
prohibited
,
and
where
,
and
by
whom
?
And
whether
any
couple
in
your
Parish
being
Lawfully
Married
,
live
apart
one
from
the
other
,
without
due
separation
by
the
Law
;
or
any
that
have
beene
Divorced
,
which
keepe
company
with
any
other
at
Bed
or
at
Board
?
21
Whether
your
Hospitalls
and
Almes-Houses
,
and
other
such
Houses
and
Corporations
,
founded
to
good
and
charitable
uses
,
and
the
Lands
,
Possessions
and
Goods
of
the
same
,
bee
ordered
and
disposed
of
,
as
they
should
be
?
And
do
the
Masters
,
Governors
,
Fellowes
,
and
others
of
the
said
Houses
and
Corporations
,
behave
and
demeane
themselves
according
to
the
holy
Ordinances
and
Statutes
of
their
severall
Foundations
?
22
Whether
have
you
any
in
your
Parish
to
your
knowledge
,
or
by
common
fame
or
report
,
which
have
committed
adultery
,
fornication
or
incest
:
or
any
which
have
impudently
bragged
or
boasted
,
that
he
or
they
have
lived
incontinently
with
any
Person
or
Persons
whatsoever
:
or
any
that
have
attempted
the
chastitie
of
any
woman
,
or
solicited
any
woman
to
have
the
carnall
knowledge
of
her
bodie
:
or
which
are
commonlie
reputed
to
be
common
Drunkards
,
Blasphemers
of
Gods
holy
Name
,
common
swearers
,
common
slanderers
of
their
Nighbours
,
and
sowers
of
discord
,
filthie
and
lascivious
Talkers
,
Vsurers
,
simoniacall
persons
,
Baudes
,
or
Harborers
of
Women
with
child
which
be
unmarried
,
or
conveying
or
suffering
them
to
go
away
before
they
have
made
satisfaction
to
the
Church
,
or
anie
that
having
been
heretofore
presented
,
or
suspected
os
any
of
the
aforesaid
crimes
,
have
for
that
cause
departed
your
parish
,
and
are
now
returned
againe
?
Or
any
which
have
used
any
inchantments
,
Sorceries
,
Charmes
,
or
witchcrafts
,
which
are
not
made
Felony
by
the
Statutes
of
this
Realme
:
Or
any
that
have
committed
any
perjury
in
any
Ecclesiasticall
Court
in
an
Ecclesiasticall
Cause
,
or
which
have
committed
any
forgery
punishable
by
the
Ecclesiasticall
Laws
;
or
any
procurers
or
abettors
of
the
said
offenses
:
Ye
shall
truly
present
the
names
of
all
and
singular
the
said
offenders
,
and
with
whom
they
have
committed
the
said
offenses
,
in
case
they
have
not
been
publiquely
punished
to
your
knowledge
for
the
said
crimes
.
Fiftly
Touching
the
Church-wardens
and
Side-men
.
1.
WHether
you
,
and
the
Church-wardens
,
Quest-men
,
or
Side-men
from
time
to
time
do
,
and
have
done
their
diligence
,
in
not
suffering
any
idle
person
to
abide
either
in
the
Church-yard
,
or
Church-porch
,
in
Service
or
Sermon
time
,
but
causing
them
either
to
come
into
the
Church
to
heare
Divine
Service
,
or
to
depart
,
and
not
to
disturbe
such
as
be
hearers
there
?
And
whether
they
have
,
and
you
do
diligently
see
the
Parishioners
duly
resort
to
the
Church
every
Sunday
and
Holy-day
,
and
there
to
remaine
during
Divine
Service
and
Sermen
?
And
whether
you
or
your
predecessors
,
Church-wardens
there
,
suffer
any
Playes
,
Feasts
,
Drinkings
,
or
any
other
prophaine
usages
to
bee
kept
in
your
Church
,
Chappell
,
or
Church-yards
,
or
have
suffered
any
person
or
persons
,
without
restreining
them
to
your
and
their
uttermost
power
to
be
tipling
or
drinking
in
any
Inne
or
victualling
house
,
in
your
Parish
,
during
the
time
of
Divine
Service
and
Sermons
on
Sundays
and
Holi-dayes
?
2
Whether
and
how
often
have
you
admitted
any
to
Preach
within
your
Church
or
Chappell
,
who
was
not
sufficiently
licensed
?
And
whether
you
together
with
your
Minister
,
have
not
taken
diligent
head
and
care
,
that
every
Parishioner
being
of
16
yeares
of
age
or
upwards
,
have
received
thrice
every
yeare
as
aforesaid
:
and
also
that
no
stranger
have
usually
come
to
your
Church
,
from
their
owne
Parish-Church
?
3
Whether
have
there
been
provided
against
every
Communion
,
a
sufficient
quantity
of
fine
white
Bread
,
and
good
and
wholesome
Wine
for
the
Communicants
that
shall
receive
?
And
whether
that
Wine
be
brought
in
a
cleane
and
sweet
standing
Pot
of
Pewter
,
or
some
other
purer
metall
?
4
Whether
were
you
chosen
by
the
consent
of
the
Minister
and
the
parishioners
?
And
have
the
late
Church-wardens
given
up
a
just
accompt
for
their
time
,
and
delivered
to
their
successors
by
bill
indented
the
money
and
other
things
b●longing
to
the
Church
,
which
was
in
their
hands
?
And
are
the
Almes
of
the
Church
faithfully
distributed
to
the
use
of
the
poore
?
5
Whether
do
you
see
the
names
of
all
Preachers
,
which
are
strangers
,
and
do
preach
in
your
Parish-Churches
,
to
be
noted
in
a
Booke
for
that
purpose
,
and
whether
ev●ry
Preacher
do
subscribe
his
name
,
and
of
whom
he
had
his
Licence
?
6
Whether
any
man
do
trouble
or
molest
you
for
doing
your
duties
?
7
Whether
be
there
any
Legacie
given
to
the
Church
or
poore
people
,
or
to
●…e
mending
of
high-wayes
,
or
otherwise
by
the
Testators
,
with
holden
?
●…n
whose
hands
is
it
,
by
whom
was
it
given
,
and
by
whom
is
it
with●olden
?
8
Do
you
know
of
any
other
default
or
crime
of
Ecclesiasticall
Cognisance
?
●…f
yea
,
you
are
to
present
the
same
by
vertue
of
your
Oathes
.
THe
Minister
of
every
Parish
may
and
ought
to
joyne
in
presentment
with
the
Church-wardens
and
Sidemen
;
and
if
they
will
not
present
,
the
Minister
may
and
ought
himselfe
to
present
the
defaults
and
crimes
aforesaid
:
And
there
must
bee
severall
presentments
made
to
every
severall
Article
:
and
the
Minister
,
Church-wardens
and
Sworne-men
are
to
meete
and
confer
about
the
said
presentments
,
and
answering
of
every
the
aforesaid
Articles
.
FINIS
.