Articles
to
be
enquired
of
in
the
Dioces
of
Norwich
,
at
the
Visitation
,
holden
in
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
,
1636.
Chap.
1.
Concerning
Religion
and
Doctrine
.
ARE
there
any
abiding
in
your
Parish
,
or
resorting
to
it
,
who
haue
wilfully
maintained
any
heresies
,
errours
,
or
false
opinions
,
contrary
to
the
faith
of
Christ
and
holy
Scripture
?
Or
that
do
impugne
any
of
the
39.
Articles
of
Religion
,
agréed
vpon
in
Anno.
1562.
and
stablished
in
the
Church
of
England
?
And
is
the
declaration
,
which
the
Kings
Maiesty
prefixed
before
those
39.
Articles
,
concerning
the
setling
of
the
questions
late
in
difference
,
duly
obserued
by
all
within
your
Parish
,
according
to
his
Maiesties
commandement
▪
2
Be
there
any
in
your
Parish
that
haue
denied
,
or
perswaded
any
other
to
deny
,
withstand
,
or
impugne
,
the
Kings
Maiesties
authority
,
and
supremacy
,
in
causes
Ecclesiasticall
within
this
Realme
?
3
Is
there
in
your
Parish
any
that
hath
béene
,
or
is
vehemently
suspected
to
haue
béene
present
at
any
vnlawfull
assemblies
,
conuenticles
,
or
méetings
,
vnder
colour
or
pretence
of
any
exercise
of
Religion
?
Or
do
any
affirme
and
maintaine
such
meetings
to
be
lawfull
?
4
Be
there
any
abiding
in
,
or
resorting
to
your
Parish
,
that
are
commonly
reputed
to
be
ill
affected
in
matter
of
the
religion
professed
in
our
Church
,
or
taken
to
be
Recusant
Papists
,
or
factious
separatists
,
refusing
to
repaire
vnto
the
Church
,
to
heare
diuine
Seruice
,
and
to
receiue
the
holy
Communion
?
Or
that
haue
or
do
publish
,
sell
or
disperse
any
superstitious
,
seditious
,
or
schismaticall
Bookes
,
Libels
,
or
Writings
,
touching
the
Religion
,
State
,
or
Ecclesiasticall
gouernment
of
this
Kingdome
of
England
?
Present
their
names
,
qualities
,
and
conditions
,
if
you
know
or
haue
heard
of
any
.
Chap.
2.
Concerning
publike
Prayer
and
administration
of
the
holy
Sacraments
,
&c.
1
HAue
any
in
your
Parish
spoken
,
or
declared
any
thing
in
derogation
or
deprauation
of
the
forme
of
Gods
worship
,
establ●shed
in
the
Church
of
England
,
and
the
administration
of
the
Sacraments
,
Rites
,
and
Ceremonies
,
set
forth
and
prescribed
in
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
?
Or
do
any
preach
,
speak
,
or
declare
,
that
the
Book
of
Common
Prayer
containeth
any
thing
that
is
repugnant
to
the
holy
Scripture
,
or
not
méet
to
be
vsed
?
Or
do
vse
any
scornefull
words
against
those
godly
Sermons
,
called
,
The
Homilies
of
the
Church
?
2
Hath
any
in
your
Parish
,
caused
,
procured
,
or
maintained
any
Minister
,
to
say
any
common
or
publike
prayer
,
or
to
administer
the
Sacrament
of
Baptisme
,
or
of
the
Lords
Supper
,
otherwise
,
or
in
any
other
manner
,
than
is
mentioned
in
the
said
Book
of
Common
Praier
?
Or
hath
any
interrupted
,
hindered
,
let
,
or
disturbed
the
Minister
in
reading
of
diuine
Seruice
,
or
administring
the
Sacraments
in
such
manner
,
as
is
mentioned
in
the
said
Book
?
Or
hath
any
interrupted
him
in
his
preaching
,
or
reading
the
Homilies
?
3
Is
the
Sacrament
of
Baptisme
rightly
and
duly
administred
according
to
the
forme
prescribed
in
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
;
with
due
obseruation
of
all
Rites
and
Ceremonies
prescribed
to
be
vsed
in
the
same
,
without
adding
or
altering
of
any
part
of
any
prayers
,
or
interrogatories
?
Is
the
signe
of
the
Crosse
euery
time
vsed
,
and
the
Surplice
neuer
but
worne
in
the
administring
of
it
?
4
Hath
the
administration
of
the
Sacrament
of
Baptisme
beene
at
any
time
deferred
longer
than
till
the
next
Sunday
or
Holiday
,
immediately
following
the
birth
of
the
childe
?
5
Hath
the
Sacrament
of
Baptisme
béene
refused
to
be
administred
to
any
children
,
borne
in
,
or
out
of
wedlock
,
their
birth
being
made
knowne
to
the
Minister
of
the
Parish
,
and
they
offered
vnto
him
to
be
baptized
?
Or
haue
any
such
children
died
vnbaptized
?
6
Haue
the
Parents
of
the
childe
baptized
,
beene
at
any
time
admitted
to
be
Godfathers
or
Godmothers
to
the
same
?
Or
haue
any
been
admitted
to
be
Godfathers
or
Godmothers
to
any
child
,
before
they
haue
receiued
the
holy
Communion
?
Or
haue
any
Godfathers
or
Godmothers
vsed
any
other
answers
or
speech
in
Baptisme
,
then
is
by
the
Book
of
Common
Prayer
appointed
?
Or
haue
they
giuen
to
the
children
baptized
any
name
that
is
absurd
,
or
inconuenient
for
so
holy
an
action
?
7
Haue
any
children
been
baptized
in
priuate
houses
,
or
by
any
Lay-person
,
or
Midwife
,
or
popish
Priest
;
or
by
any
other
than
your
owne
Minister
?
And
haue
all
children
priuately
baptized
,
if
they
liued
,
beene
afterwards
brought
to
your
Church
,
that
the
Congregation
and
the
Minister
of
the
Parish
(
in
case
they
were
not
baptized
by
him
)
might
be
certified
,
whether
they
,
or
any
of
them
were
lawfully
baptized
or
no
?
8
Haue
the
children
that
haue
béene
borne
to
any
popish
Recusant
in
your
Parish
,
beene
publikely
baptized
in
your
Parish
Church
,
by
your
owne
Parson
,
Uicar
,
or
Curate
?
Or
by
whom
else
were
they
baptized
,
or
where
,
to
your
knowledge
,
or
as
you
haue
heard
?
9
Hath
the
blessed
Sacrament
of
the
Lords
Supper
béene
duely
and
reuerently
administred
in
your
Church
or
Chappell
,
so
often
and
at
such
conuenient
times
,
that
,
at
least
thrice
euery
yeere
(
whereof
once
at
Easter
)
euery
parishioner
within
your
Parish
,
being
of
the
age
of
16.
yeeres
,
or
vpwards
,
might
receiue
the
same
?
10
Hath
the
said
blessed
Sacrament
been
deliuered
vnto
any
,
or
receiued
by
any
the
Communicants
within
your
Parish
,
that
did
vnreuerently
either
sit
,
stand
,
or
leane
;
or
that
did
not
deuoutly
and
humbly
kneele
vpon
their
knees
,
in
plaine
and
open
view
,
without
collusion
or
hypocrisie
?
11
Haue
any
of
your
Parish
,
which
are
openly
knowne
to
liue
in
notorious
sin
without
repentance
;
or
any
excommunicate
persons
or
schismaticks
,
common
and
notorious
deprauers
of
the
Religion
and
Gouernment
of
this
Realme
(
without
vnfained
sorrow
shewed
by
them
for
their
impiety
and
wickednesse
)
been
admitted
to
be
partakers
of
the
holy
Communion
?
12
Hath
any
of
your
Parish
beene
debarred
from
the
said
holy
Communion
,
without
iust
cause
,
or
without
intimation
presently
giuen
to
the
Ordinary
or
Bishop
of
the
Diocesse
?
Chap.
3.
Concerning
the
Church
,
the
furniture
,
and
possessions
thereof
.
HAue
you
in
your
Church
or
Chappell
,
the
whole
Bible
in
the
largest
Uolume
,
of
the
last
translation
,
the
Book
of
Common
Prayer
,
the
two
bookes
of
Homilies
,
and
Bshop
-
Iewels
Apologie
,
all
well
and
fairely
bound
?
And
haue
you
also
in
your
Church
,
the
forme
of
the
Diuine
Seruice
,
for
the
5
th
day
of
Nouember
,
and
for
the
27
th
day
of
March
,
and
the
Book
of
Constitutions
or
Canons
Ecclesiasticall
?
2
Haue
you
in
your
Church
or
Chappell
,
a
Font
of
stone
set
in
the
ancient
vsuall
place
,
whole
,
and
cleane
,
and
fit
to
hold
water
?
A
conueniet
and
decent
Communion
Table
,
with
a
Carpet
of
silke
,
or
some
other
decent
stuffe
continually
laid
vpon
the
Table
,
at
the
time
of
diuine
Seruice
;
and
a
faire
linnen
cloth
thereon
laid
,
at
the
time
of
administring
the
Communion
?
And
is
the
same
Table
placed
conueniently
,
so
as
the
Minister
may
best
be
heard
in
his
administration
,
and
the
greatest
number
may
reuerently
communicate
?
To
that
end
doth
it
ordinarily
stand
vp
at
the
East
end
of
the
Chancell
,
where
the
Altar
in
former
times
stood
,
the
ends
thereof
being
placed
North
and
South
?
Is
it
at
any
time
vsed
vnreuerently
,
by
leaning
or
sitting
on
it
,
throwing
Hats
or
any
thing
else
vpon
it
,
or
writing
on
it
;
or
is
it
abused
to
any
other
prophane
or
common
vse
?
And
are
the
ten
Commandemens
set
vp
in
your
Church
or
Chappell
,
where
the
people
may
see
and
reade
them
,
and
other
chosen
sentences
also
written
vpon
the
walls
of
your
said
Church
or
Chappell
,
in
places
conuenient
for
the
same
purpose
?
3
Haue
you
in
your
said
Church
or
Chappell
a
conuenient
seat
for
your
Minister
to
reade
diuine
Seruice
in
?
Where
doth
it
stand
?
how
farre
from
the
Chancell
?
and
which
way
doth
the
standing
thereof
cause
the
Minister
to
turne
his
face
,
when
he
knéeleth
therein
at
prayer
?
Haue
you
also
a
comely
Pulpit
set
vp
in
a
conuenient
place
,
with
a
decent
Cloth
,
or
Cushion
for
the
same
;
a
comely
large
Surplice
;
a
faire
Communion
Cup
of
siluer
,
and
a
couer
agréeable
to
the
same
;
a
Flagon
of
Siluer
or
Pewter
,
with
all
other
things
,
and
Ornaments
necessary
for
the
celebration
of
diuine
Seruice
,
and
administration
of
the
Sacraments
?
And
haue
you
a
Chest
wherein
to
put
the
almes
for
the
poore
,
with
thrée
locks
and
keyes
vnto
it
,
and
another
Chest
for
the
kéeping
of
the
Bookes
,
and
the
Communion
Uessels
,
and
Ornaments
of
the
Church
?
Or
where
are
they
kept
?
4
In
the
said
Chest
,
haue
you
a
Register-booke
in
Parchment
,
wherin
to
register
the
Christnings
,
Weddings
,
and
Burials
?
And
is
the
same
booke
written
and
kept
in
all
points
according
to
the
Canon
?
And
is
the
Christian
name
of
the
mother
,
as
well
as
of
the
father
,
therein
duly
registred
?
And
is
there
a
transcript
thereof
transmitted
euery
yéere
into
the
Bishops
principall
Registry
?
Haue
you
also
a
faire
Paper-booke
,
wherein
euery
Preacher
which
is
a
stranger
,
is
to
subscribe
his
name
,
the
day
he
preached
,
and
by
whose
authority
he
is
licensed
?
And
haue
you
also
a
Table
set
vp
in
your
Church
,
of
the
Degrées
,
wherein
by
Law
men
are
prohibited
to
marry
?
5
Is
your
Church
or
Chappell
,
with
the
Chancell
thereof
,
and
your
Parsonage
house
or
Uicarage-house
,
and
all
other
houses
thereto
belonging
,
your
parish
Almes-house
and
Church-house
,
in
good
reparations
?
and
are
they
imployed
to
godly
and
their
right
holy
vses
?
And
if
any
of
them
be
ruinated
and
wasted
,
in
whom
is
the
default
?
And
is
your
Church
,
Chancell
,
and
Chappell
,
decently
and
comely
kept
,
as
well
within
as
without
?
and
are
the
seats
in
them
well
maintained
,
the
Stéeple
and
Bels
preserued
,
the
windowes
in
no
part
stopt
vp
,
but
well
glazed
,
the
roofe
and
wals
cleane
,
the
whole
floore
kept
paued
,
plaine
,
and
euen
,
and
all
things
there
in
orderly
and
decent
sort
,
without
dust
,
straw
,
or
litter
,
or
any
thing
that
may
be
either
noisome
or
vnséemely
for
the
house
of
God
?
6
Is
there
any
in
your
Parish
,
that
hath
or
doth
refuse
to
contribute
towards
the
reparation
of
your
Church
,
or
towards
the
prouision
of
such
things
as
belong
thereunto
?
7
Is
your
Church-yard
,
or
Chappell-yard
well
fenced
,
and
kept
without
abuse
?
and
if
not
,
whose
is
the
default
?
Hath
any
person
within
your
memory
,
or
that
you
haue
credibly
heard
of
,
incroached
vpon
the
Church-yard
,
by
setting
vp
any
kinde
of
building
or
fence
vpon
it
,
or
by
opening
any
doore
,
gate
or
stile
into
it
?
Hath
any
vsed
that
place
(
consecrated
to
an
holy
vse
)
prophanely
or
wickedly
?
Hath
any
quarrelled
or
stricken
one
another
,
either
in
the
Church
or
Church-yard
?
Hath
any
person
behaued
himselfe
rudely
and
disorderly
in
either
;
or
vsed
any
filthy
or
prophane
talke
,
or
any
other
rude
&
immodest
behauiour
in
them
?
Haue
any
Playes
,
Feasts
,
Banquets
,
Suppers
,
Church-ales
,
Drinkings
,
Temporall-Courts
or
Léets
,
Lay-iuries
,
Musters
,
exercise
of
dancing
,
Stoole-ball
,
Foot-ball
,
or
the
like
,
or
any
other
prophane
vsage
béene
suffered
to
be
kept
in
your
Church
,
Chappell
,
or
Church-yard
?
Haue
any
annoied
your
Church-yard
or
the
fences
thereof
,
by
putting
in
of
Cattell
,
by
hanging
vp
of
cloathes
,
or
by
laying
any
dust
,
dung
,
or
any
other
filthinesse
there
?
When
Graues
are
digged
,
are
the
bones
of
the
dead
piously
vsed
,
and
decently
interred
againe
,
or
laide
vp
in
some
fit
place
as
beséemeth
Christians
?
And
is
the
whole
consecrate
ground
kept
frée
from
swine
,
and
all
other
nastinesse
?
8
Are
your
Church-wardens
carefull
to
take
speciall
order
,
that
no
Dogs
be
at
any
time
suffered
to
come
into
the
Church
,
to
the
disturbance
of
the
diuine
Seruice
,
and
the
polluting
of
that
holy
place
of
the
Christian
Congregation
?
And
do
any
of
the
Inhabitants
(
of
what
condition
soeuer
)
or
of
their
company
,
bring
their
Hawkes
into
the
Church
,
or
vsually
suffer
their
Dogs
of
any
kinde
to
come
with
them
thither
,
to
the
prophanation
of
the
house
of
God
,
and
his
holy
worship
?
9
What
Legacies
haue
beene
giuen
to
the
vse
and
benefit
of
your
Church
,
and
how
haue
they
béen
bestowed
?
Who
hath
receiued
and
detained
them
without
due
imployment
?
Doth
any
detaine
or
imbezell
,
or
hath
sold
and
made
away
any
of
the
Church-goods
,
or
vsed
or
imployed
them
otherwise
,
then
by
law
they
ought
to
doe
?
10
Is
your
Church
full
,
or
vacant
of
an
incumbent
?
And
if
vacant
,
who
receiueth
the
fruits
thereof
,
and
who
serueth
the
Cure
,
and
by
what
authority
?
And
is
it
a
Parsonage
,
Uicarage
,
or
Donatiue
?
11
Is
there
in
your
parish
(
or
any
where
about
you
,
that
you
know
or
haue
heard
of
)
any
Church
,
Chappell
,
or
Oratory
,
now
demolished
,
or
likely
to
be
ruined
,
or
that
is
conuerted
to
any
priuate
or
secular
vse
?
12
Hath
any
private
man
,
or
men
,
of
his
or
their
owne
authority
(
for
ought
you
know
)
erected
any
Pewes
,
or
builded
any
new
Seats
in
your
Church
?
And
what
Pewes
or
Seats
haue
been
of
late
yéeres
new
built
,
by
whose
procurement
,
and
by
whose
authority
?
And
are
all
the
Pewes
and
Seats
in
the
Church
,
so
ordered
,
that
they
which
are
in
them
,
may
all
conueniently
knéele
downe
in
the
time
of
prayer
,
and
haue
their
faces
vp
East-ward
,
toward
the
holy
Table
?
Is
the
middle
Alley
of
the
Church
,
or
any
of
the
other
Alleyes
or
Iles
,
or
the
body
of
the
Chancell
,
built
vpon
(
in
any
part
thereof
)
for
the
setting
vp
of
Pewes
or
Seats
,
or
for
the
inlarging
of
any
there
adioyning
?
Are
there
also
any
kind
of
Seats
at
the
East
end
of
the
Chancell
,
aboue
the
Communion
Table
,
or
on
either
side
vp
euen
with
it
?
13
Are
there
any
priuie
Closets
,
or
close
Pewes
in
your
Church
?
Are
any
Pewes
so
loftily
made
,
that
they
doe
any
way
hinder
the
prospect
of
the
Church
or
Chancell
,
or
that
they
which
are
in
them
be
hidden
from
the
face
of
the
Congregation
?
What
Galleries
also
haue
you
in
your
Church
?
How
are
they
placed
,
and
in
what
part
of
the
Church
?
When
were
they
built
,
and
by
what
authority
?
Is
not
the
Church
large
enough
without
them
to
receiue
all
your
owne
parishioners
?
Is
any
part
of
the
Church
hidden
or
darkned
thereby
,
or
any
of
the
Parish
anoyed
or
offended
by
them
?
14
Hath
any
in
your
parish
defaced
,
or
caused
to
be
defaced
,
or
purloined
any
Monuments
or
Ornaments
in
your
Church
,
or
any
inscriptions
of
Brasse
,
any
Lead
,
or
Stones
there
,
or
the
Glasse-windowes
?
When
was
it
done
,
and
by
whom
?
15
Hath
any
popish
Recusant
being
lawfully
excommunicate
,
or
any
other
excommunicated
person
béene
buried
in
your
Church
or
Church-yard
,
before
absolution
from
that
censure
and
excommunication
obtained
?
And
if
yea
,
then
by
whom
,
and
when
?
16
Be
the
profits
,
tithes
,
or
any
commodities
Ecclesiasticall
,
belonging
to
the
Parsonage
or
Uicarage
of
your
Parish
,
conuerted
to
the
vse
and
benefit
of
the
Patrons
or
of
any
other
,
and
by
them
receiued
and
detained
?
And
how
long
haue
they
beene
so
?
And
is
there
but
a
Curate
or
stipendary
Priest
kept
in
any
place
,
where
you
haue
heard
or
do
beleeue
,
an
Incumbent
should
be
possessed
,
and
what
allowance
hath
be
?
17
Is
there
any
other
Cure
annexed
to
your
Parish
,
or
any
Chappell
of
ease
belonging
to
the
same
?
How
are
they
serued
,
by
whom
,
and
vpon
what
allowance
?
Or
haue
you
in
your
Parish
any
dwelling-house
with
a
Chappell
therein
;
or
in
which
any
roome
is
ordinarily
vsed
for
preaching
,
or
saying
the
diuine
Seruice
,
and
administring
the
holy
Sacraments
?
18
Haue
you
a
true
Terrier
of
all
the
Glebe-lands
,
Meadows
,
Gardens
,
Orchards
,
Houses
,
Stocks
,
Implements
,
Tenements
,
and
portions
of
Tithes
,
within
your
Parish
,
or
without
,
belonging
to
your
Parsonage
or
Uicarage
,
taken
by
the
view
of
honest
men
in
your
said
Parish
,
appointed
by
the
Ordinary
?
And
is
it
safely
kept
and
preserued
,
and
in
whose
hands
?
And
hath
there
a
true
copie
thereof
,
vnder
the
hands
of
the
Minister
and
Church-wardens
,
béene
transmitted
and
laid
vp
in
the
Bishops
Regestry
,
there
to
continue
for
a
perpetuall
memory
thereof
?
And
if
you
haue
no
such
Terrier
yet
made
,
you
the
Church-wardens
and
Side-men
,
together
with
your
Parson
or
Uicar
,
or
in
his
absence
,
your
Curate
,
are
now
appointed
to
make
diligent
inquiry
of
the
premises
,
and
to
make
,
subscribe
,
and
assigne
the
said
Terrier
,
and
to
bring
in
a
true
copie
of
it
into
the
Bishops
Regestry
,
as
is
aforesaid
.
Chap.
4.
Concerning
the
Ministers
,
Preachers
,
and
Lecturers
.
IS
your
Minister
,
Parson
,
Uicar
,
or
Curate
,
a
Graduate
in
either
of
the
Uniuersities
,
yea
,
or
no
?
And
if
he
be
a
Graduate
,
then
of
what
degrée
is
hee
?
and
what
kinde
of
Hood
doth
he
vse
to
weare
in
the
Church
?
2
Is
your
Minister
a
licensed
Preacher
,
yea
or
no
?
And
if
he
be
licensed
,
then
by
whom
?
Doth
he
preach
vsually
in
his
owne
Cure
,
or
in
some
other
Church
or
Chappell
neere
adioyning
,
where
there
is
no
Preacher
,
once
euery
Sunday
?
And
how
often
hath
he
béene
negligent
in
so
doing
?
Doth
he
also
preach
standing
,
and
in
his
Cassock
and
Gowne
(
not
in
a
Cloake
)
with
his
Surplice
and
Hood
also
,
if
he
be
a
Graduate
,
and
with
his
head
vncouered
?
And
if
he
be
not
a
licensed
Preacher
,
doth
he
take
vpon
him
in
his
owne
Cure
,
or
elsewhere
,
to
expound
any
Scripture
or
matter
of
Doctrine
,
or
doth
he
kéepe
himselfe
only
to
the
reading
of
Homilies
published
by
authority
;
and
besides
,
procure
Sermons
to
be
preached
amongst
you
,
once
euery
Moneth
at
least
,
by
such
as
are
lawfully
licensed
?
And
doth
he
or
his
Curate
vpon
euery
Sunday
when
there
is
no
Sermon
,
reade
some
one
of
the
Homilies
prescribed
by
authority
,
and
before
the
said
Homily
,
vse
that
forme
of
prayer
(
only
)
which
is
prescribed
in
the
fifty
fifth
Canon
?
3
Is
your
Minister
resident
with
you
vpon
his
benefice
?
or
if
absent
,
how
long
time
hath
he
béene
so
?
and
where
is
he
resident
for
the
most
part
?
And
doth
he
in
his
absence
make
allowance
to
the
poore
,
and
what
allowance
doth
he
make
?
Hath
he
any
other
Benefice
,
and
doth
he
supply
his
absence
by
a
Curate
that
is
licensed
to
preach
,
and
what
allowance
doth
he
make
to
his
Curate
?
4
Is
your
Curate
licensed
by
the
Bishop
of
the
Dioces
?
And
doth
your
Minister
or
Curate
serue
any
more
Cures
than
one
?
If
yea
,
then
what
other
Cure
doth
he
serue
,
and
how
far
are
his
Cures
distant
one
from
the
other
?
5
Hath
any
being
no
Minister
,
or
Deacon
,
presumed
at
any
time
to
read
common
prayers
openly
in
your
Church
or
Chappell
;
or
to
serue
the
Cure
of
your
Parish
?
Or
hath
any
Deacon
not
hauing
receiued
the
full
order
of
Priesthood
,
taken
vpon
him
alone
to
administer
the
Communion
in
your
Church
or
Chappell
?
You
are
to
present
the
names
of
any
,
that
haue
herein
offended
.
6
Doth
your
Minister
,
Preacher
,
or
Lecturer
,
begin
his
Sermon
at
any
time
,
or
part
of
the
diuine
Seruice
,
but
immediately
after
the
Beliefe
called
the
Nicene-créed
?
Doth
he
before
his
Sermon
(
or
Homilie
,
if
he
reade
one
)
vse
any
forme
of
prayer
which
is
of
his
priuate
conceiuing
or
collecting
,
and
of
his
owne
inuenting
or
choosing
,
or
doth
hee
containe
himselfe
within
that
briefe
forme
only
,
which
is
prescribed
by
the
Church
(
in
the
55.
Canon
)
thereby
to
moue
the
people
to
ioyne
with
him
in
prayer
for
Christs
holy
Catholike
Church
,
and
for
the
Kings
most
excellent
Maiestie
(
naming
him
and
his
Royall
Titles
)
for
the
Quéene
,
the
Prince
,
and
the
Royall
Issue
;
for
the
Archbishops
also
and
the
Bishops
;
for
the
Councell
,
the
Nobility
,
the
Magistracy
and
Commons
of
the
Land
,
and
to
giue
thanks
to
God
for
the
faithfull
departed
out
of
this
life
?
And
doth
he
alwayes
conclude
it
with
the
Lords
Prayer
?
Doth
the
Preacher
or
Minister
also
after
his
Sermon
,
wholly
forbeare
to
vse
any
kinde
or
forme
of
prayer
(
not
being
prescribed
,
)
as
also
to
pronounce
the
Blessing
(
out
of
the
Pulpit
)
wherewith
the
Church
vseth
to
dismisse
the
people
?
But
doth
he
there
conclude
,
only
with
,
Glory
to
God
the
Father
,
the
Sonne
,
and
the
holy
Ghost
:
and
then
comming
from
the
Pulpit
(
if
the
Sermon
were
made
within
the
Church
or
Chappell
)
doth
he
,
or
whosoeuer
then
officiates
,
at
the
same
place
,
where
he
left
before
the
Sermon
,
procéed
to
reade
the
remainder
of
the
diuine
Seruice
,
and
at
the
close
of
all
,
to
giue
the
Blessing
?
7
Doth
euery
Priest
and
Seacon
in
your
Parish
daily
say
the
Morning
and
Euening
prayer
,
either
priuately
or
openly
,
vnlesse
he
be
vpon
lawfull
cause
hindered
?
Doth
your
Curate
say
the
same
daily
in
your
Church
or
Chappell
,
with
the
tolling
of
a
Bell
before
he
begin
?
Especially
doth
your
Minister
or
Curate
do
it
on
euery
Sunday
and
Holiday
,
and
their
Eues
,
and
on
the
day
of
the
conuersion
of
S.
Paul
,
S.
Barnabies
day
,
and
euery
day
of
the
holy
wéeke
next
before
Easter
;
as
also
on
all
Wednesdayes
and
Fridayes
,
at
fit
and
vsuall
times
,
according
to
the
forme
prescribed
in
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
in
a
reuerent
manner
euer
,
and
as
audibly
and
distinctly
as
he
vseth
to
preach
?
Doth
he
also
reade
all
those
Psalmes
and
Lessons
,
and
no
other
,
with
the
Collect
,
Epistle
,
and
Gospell
,
which
are
appointed
for
the
day
?
At
the
end
of
euery
Psalme
,
doe
they
stand
and
say
,
Glory
be
to
the
Father
,
&c.
and
doth
he
leaue
out
the
Contents
of
the
Chapters
?
After
the
Lessons
,
doth
he
vse
any
other
Psalme
,
or
Hymne
,
but
those
which
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
hath
appointed
?
Doth
he
reade
the
Créed
of
S.
Athanasius
(
called
the
Quicunque
vult
)
on
all
those
dayes
for
which
it
is
appointed
,
and
the
Commination
on
Ashwednesday
,
and
the
Letany
on
euery
Wednesday
and
Friday
?
8
Doth
your
Minister
and
Curate
,
at
all
times
,
as
well
in
preaching
or
reading
the
Homilies
,
as
in
reading
the
Prayers
and
the
Letany
,
in
administring
the
holy
Sacraments
,
solemnization
of
Mariage
,
burying
of
the
dead
,
churching
of
women
,
and
all
other
Offices
of
the
Church
,
duly
obserue
the
Orders
and
Rites
prescribed
,
without
omission
,
alteration
,
or
addition
of
any
thing
?
And
doth
he
,
in
performing
all
and
euery
of
these
,
weare
the
Surplice
duly
,
and
neuer
omit
the
wearing
of
the
same
,
nor
of
his
Hood
,
if
he
be
a
Graduate
?
9
Doth
your
Parson
or
Uicar
hauing
a
Curate
vnder
him
,
notwithstanding
read
diuine
Seruice
himselfe
vpon
two
seuerall
Sundayes
in
the
yéere
,
publikely
at
the
vsuall
times
,
both
in
the
forenoone
and
afternoone
,
in
the
Church
which
he
possesseth
?
and
doth
he
also
administer
both
Sacraments
,
as
often
in
euery
yéere
in
such
manner
,
and
with
the
obseruation
of
all
such
Rites
and
Ceremonies
,
as
are
prescribed
in
the
booke
of
Common
Prayer
in
that
behalfe
?
10
Doth
your
Minister
,
Preacher
and
Lecturer
,
euery
yéere
,
of
purpose
and
expresly
,
(
yet
not
by
way
of
disputation
,
but
by
plaine
conclusion
and
determination
)
teach
and
declare
the
lawfull
authority
which
the
King
hath
ouer
the
State
,
both
Ecclesiasticall
and
Ciuill
;
and
the
iust
abolishing
of
all
forraigne
power
or
iurisdiction
ouer
the
same
?
11
Doth
your
Minister
publish
in
his
Sermons
any
doctrine
,
which
is
new
and
strange
,
and
disagréeing
from
the
Word
of
God
,
and
from
the
Articles
of
Christian
Faith
and
Religion
,
agréed
on
and
published
Anno
Domini
1562.
And
doth
he
teach
any
thing
,
which
he
would
haue
the
people
religiously
obserue
and
beleeue
,
but
that
which
is
agréeable
to
the
Scriptures
and
that
which
the
Catholike
Fathers
and
ancient
Bishops
haue
gathered
out
of
that
Doctrine
,
according
to
the
Canon
?
12
Doth
your
Minister
go
to
the
administration
of
holy
Baptisme
,
euer
immediately
after
the
second
Lesson
?
Doth
he
alwayes
(
at
first
)
aske
,
whether
for
childe
be
baptized
or
no
?
Afterward
,
doth
he
euer
vse
and
neuer
omit
,
both
to
take
the
childe
in
his
hands
,
and
also
to
make
the
signe
of
the
Crosse
,
so
as
to
touch
the
childs
forehead
in
making
the
same
?
Doth
he
at
any
time
baptize
but
in
the
Font
,
or
with
any
Bason
or
Paile
,
or
other
Uessell
set
into
the
Font
?
Hath
he
euer
deferred
or
willingly
neglected
or
refused
to
baptize
any
infant
within
the
Parish
,
being
in
danger
of
death
,
notice
thereof
hauing
beene
giuen
to
him
?
And
hath
any
childe
died
without
baptisme
,
by
his
default
?
13
Doth
your
Minister
or
Curate
often
admonish
the
people
,
that
they
defer
not
the
baptisme
of
their
infants
any
longer
,
after
they
are
borne
,
than
is
prescribed
,
vnlesse
vpon
a
great
and
reasonable
cause
,
declared
to
the
Minister
or
Curate
and
approued
by
him
;
nor
that
they
procure
them
to
be
baptized
at
home
without
great
necessity
?
14
Hath
your
Minister
admitted
any
person
to
answer
as
Godfather
or
Godmother
,
at
the
christning
of
a
childe
,
that
hath
not
before
receiued
the
holy
Communion
,
and
is
not
able
to
recite
the
Lords
Prayer
,
the
ten
Commandements
,
and
the
Articles
of
Beliefe
,
and
to
answer
to
the
same
,
being
required
?
And
doth
he
,
at
the
Font
,
as
soone
as
he
hath
baptized
any
child
,
admonish
them
to
bring
the
child
to
the
Bishop
to
be
confirmed
,
as
soone
as
he
hath
learned
the
Catechisme
?
15
Doth
your
Minister
,
euery
Sunday
and
holyday
before
euening
prayer
,
where
no
Sermon
was
wont
to
be
,
halfe
an
houre
,
or
more
,
catechize
and
instruct
the
youth
and
ignorant
persons
of
your
parish
,
in
the
ten
Commandements
,
the
Articles
of
Beliefe
,
and
the
Lords
Prayer
?
And
doth
be
vse
for
that
purpose
,
the
Catechisme
set
forth
in
the
booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
and
diligently
heare
,
instruct
,
and
teach
them
in
the
said
Catechisme
?
Or
what
other
Catechisme
doth
he
vse
either
in
publike
or
priuate
?
And
bee
the
youth
and
ignorant
persons
of
your
parish
,
sent
in
due
time
vnto
your
Church
,
by
them
that
ought
to
send
them
,
to
be
catechized
and
instructed
by
the
Minister
?
And
if
not
,
you
are
to
present
the
names
of
those
that
make
default
in
sending
them
,
and
of
all
those
that
vse
not
to
come
.
16
Are
your
after-noone
Sermons
(
if
there
were
wont
to
be
any
)
turned
into
catechizing
by
question
and
answer
,
where
and
whensoeuer
,
there
is
〈◊〉
great
cause
apparent
to
the
contrary
?
And
is
this
truly
and
sincerely
performed
,
without
mockery
,
or
in
shew
only
?
17
Doth
your
Minister
vse
to
administer
the
holy
Communion
,
at
least
thrice
in
the
yéere
(
whereof
once
at
Easter
)
to
euery
parishioner
in
your
Parish
,
that
is
sixtéene
yeeres
of
age
and
vpwards
;
and
first
to
receiue
the
same
himselfe
,
knéeling
,
on
euery
day
that
he
administreth
it
to
others
;
and
to
administer
it
to
none
but
to
such
as
doe
knéele
at
the
receiuing
thereof
?
And
doth
he
alwayes
vse
the
words
of
Institution
,
according
to
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
without
alteration
,
at
euery
time
,
that
the
Bread
and
Wine
is
renewed
?
Doth
hee
also
vse
to
deliuer
the
Bread
and
Wine
to
euery
Communicant
seuerally
,
and
with
his
owne
hand
,
repeating
to
euery
one
,
all
the
words
appointed
to
be
said
at
the
distribution
of
the
holy
Body
and
Bloud
of
our
Lord
IESUS
,
and
vpon
no
pretence
omitting
any
part
of
the
words
,
or
saying
them
all
but
now
and
then
to
many
at
once
?
And
is
there
warning
giuen
by
him
,
to
the
parishioners
,
publikely
in
the
Church
,
at
morning
prayer
the
Sunday
before
euery
time
of
his
administring
of
the
holy
Communion
,
for
their
better
preparation
thereunto
?
18
Hath
your
Minister
admitted
vnto
the
holy
Communion
any
of
his
cure
or
flock
,
which
bee
openly
knowne
to
liue
in
sinne
notorious
without
repentance
,
or
any
that
haue
maliciously
and
openly
contended
with
their
neighbours
,
before
they
be
reconciled
;
or
any
Church-wardens
or
Side-men
,
who
hauing
taken
their
oathes
,
to
present
to
their
Ordinarie
all
such
publike
offences
,
as
they
are
particularly
charged
to
inquire
of
in
the
Parish
,
haue
and
doe
notwithstanding
,
wittingly
and
irreligiously
incurre
the
horrible
crime
of
periury
,
either
in
neglecting
or
refusing
to
present
such
publike
offences
,
as
they
themselues
know
or
haue
heard
to
be
committed
within
your
Parish
?
19
Hath
your
Minister
at
any
time
admitted
vnto
the
Communion
any
that
refuse
to
bee
present
at
publike
prayers
,
or
who
are
notorious
deprauers
of
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
and
administration
of
the
Sacraments
,
or
of
the
Orders
,
Rites
,
or
Ceremonies
therein
prescribed
;
or
of
any
thing
contained
in
the
thirty
nine
Articles
,
or
in
the
Booke
of
ordaining
Priests
and
Bishops
?
or
who
haue
spoken
against
,
or
depraued
his
Maiesties
Soueraigne
Authority
in
causes
Ecclesiasticall
,
vnlesse
they
and
euery
of
them
do
first
acknowledge
their
repentance
for
their
sin
,
and
promise
to
do
so
no
more
?
20
Doth
your
Minister
or
Curate
admit
any
to
the
Communion
,
before
they
can
say
their
Catechisme
,
and
be
confirmed
?
21
Doth
your
Minister
together
with
the
Churchwardens
and
Quest-men
,
take
diligent
héed
and
care
,
not
onely
that
all
and
euery
one
of
your
owne
Parishioners
doe
receiue
thrice
euery
yéere
;
but
also
that
no
strangers
of
any
other
Parish
,
doe
come
often
and
commonly
to
your
Church
from
their
owne
Parish
Church
,
or
doe
there
receiue
the
Holy
Communion
?
22
Doth
your
Minister
,
before
the
seuerall
times
of
the
administration
of
the
Lords
Supper
,
admonish
and
exhort
his
Parishioners
,
if
any
of
them
haue
their
conscience
troubled
and
disquieted
,
to
resort
vnto
him
,
or
to
some
other
learned
Minister
,
and
open
their
griefe
,
that
they
may
receiue
such
ghostly
counsell
and
comfort
,
as
their
conscience
may
be
relieued
,
and
by
the
Minister
they
may
receiue
the
benefit
of
Absolution
,
to
the
quiet
of
their
conscience
and
auoiding
of
all
scruple
?
And
if
any
man
confesse
his
secret
and
hidden
sinnes
,
being
sicke
or
whole
,
to
the
Minister
,
for
the
vnburthening
of
his
conscience
and
receiuing
of
spirituall
consolation
or
ease
of
minde
from
him
,
doth
he
the
said
Minister
(
or
hath
hee
at
any
time
)
by
word
,
writing
,
or
signe
,
openly
or
couertly
,
directly
or
indirectly
,
reueale
and
make
knowne
to
any
person
whatsoeuer
,
any
crime
or
offence
,
so
committed
to
his
trust
and
secresie
?
23
Hath
your
Minister
solemnized
the
mariage
of
any
person
vnder
the
age
of
twenty
one
yéeres
,
without
the
consent
of
their
Parents
or
Gouernours
;
or
hath
he
maried
any
,
which
doe
not
audibly
say
and
answer
in
all
things
appointed
by
the
Liturgie
;
or
any
without
a
King
,
or
in
times
prohibited
,
or
without
the
Banes
first
published
thrée
seuerall
Sundayes
or
Holydayes
,
in
time
of
diuine
Seruice
,
in
the
seuerall
Churches
or
Chappels
of
their
seuerall
abodes
,
without
a
speciall
license
from
the
Arch-bishop
,
or
Bishop
of
the
Diocesse
,
or
his
Chancellor
,
or
the
Commissary
,
first
had
and
obtained
?
And
doth
hee
begin
in
the
body
of
the
Church
,
and
then
goe
vp
to
the
Table
,
as
is
appointed
?
Also
doth
your
Minister
,
so
oft
as
there
is
any
mariage
,
appoint
to
haue
a
Communion
?
After
the
Gospell
,
doth
he
say
a
Sermon
(
if
hee
bee
licensed
to
preach
)
wherein
to
declare
the
office
of
man
and
wife
,
according
to
holy
Scripture
;
or
else
doth
hee
reade
that
which
the
Church
hath
appointed
to
bee
read
at
matrimony
?
24
Doth
your
Minister
vse
the
forme
of
thanksgiuing
for
women
after
childe-birth
immediately
before
the
Communion
Seruice
?
Or
hath
he
admitted
thereunto
any
women
begotten
with-childe
in
adultery
or
fornication
,
without
license
of
his
Ordinary
?
25
Doth
your
Minister
carefully
looke
to
the
reliefe
of
the
poore
,
and
from
time
to
time
call
vpon
his
Parishioners
to
giue
somewhat
according
to
their
abilities
,
to
godly
and
charitable
vses
;
especially
doth
hée
in
force
it
vpon
them
with
earnest
exhortation
(
as
is
prescribed
)
at
the
time
of
the
oblation
or
offering
before
the
Communion
,
and
vpon
their
sick
beds
,
or
when
they
make
their
wils
?
26
Doth
your
Minister
or
Curate
resort
vnto
such
as
bee
dangerously
sicke
in
your
Parish
(
if
he
be
sent
for
,
or
notice
thereof
be
giuen
to
him
)
to
instruct
or
comfort
them
in
their
distresses
,
according
to
the
order
of
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
;
not
omitting
then
especially
,
to
mooue
them
earnestly
to
liberality
towards
the
poore
?
27
If
any
being
sick
doe
desire
the
prayers
of
the
Congregation
,
is
it
done
according
to
the
forme
in
the
Liturgie
,
at
the
time
of
diuine
Seruice
;
or
is
it
done
onely
by
giuing
their
names
to
the
preacher
,
and
mentioning
of
them
in
the
Pulpit
,
before
or
after
Sermon
?
28
Hath
your
Minister
euer
refused
to
bury
any
which
ought
to
be
interred
with
Christian
buriall
?
Or
hath
hee
deferred
the
same
longer
than
hee
should
?
Doth
hee
goe
before
the
Corps
to
the
graue
,
and
there
say
the
whole
seruice
appointed
,
not
omitting
the
Lesson
or
any
other
part
?
Doth
he
deuoutly
kneele
,
when
hee
saith
the
prayers
and
the
Collect
at
buriall
?
or
hath
he
admitted
any
to
Christian
buriall
,
which
by
the
Lawes
of
the
holy
Church
,
or
of
this
Realme
,
ought
not
to
bee
so
interred
?
29
Doth
your
Minister
being
a
Preacher
and
hauing
any
popish
Recusant
or
Recusants
in
your
Parish
,
labour
diligently
with
them
from
time
to
time
,
to
reclaime
them
from
their
errours
?
Or
otherwise
is
he
ouer-conuersant
with
them
,
or
suspected
to
fauour
them
?
30
Hath
ydur
Minister
,
(
or
any
other
taking
vpon
him
the
calling
of
a
Minister
)
preached
,
baptized
children
(
except
in
case
of
necessity
)
solemnized
mariage
,
churched
any
women
,
or
ministred
the
holy
Communion
in
any
priuate
house
or
houses
?
If
yea
,
then
where
,
when
,
and
how
often
hath
he
done
it
?
31
Doe
you
know
,
or
haue
heard
of
any
which
are
reputed
to
be
Ministers
(
or
of
any
other
of
the
Laity
,
either
Male
or
Female
)
that
presume
to
make
matters
of
Diuinity
their
ordinary
Table-talke
?
Or
that
vnder
pretence
of
holinesse
and
edification
,
take
the
liberty
at
their
Trencher-meetings
,
or
where
seuerall
company
(
not
being
all
of
the
same
family
)
are
assembled
,
rashly
and
prophanely
to
discourse
of
holy
Scripture
?
Or
amidst
their
cups
,
to
dispute
or
determine
any
Articles
of
Faith
and
Religion
,
or
touching
any
point
of
doctrine
or
Ecclesiasticall
discipline
,
at
their
owne
pleasure
,
and
to
their
owne
phansie
?
You
shall
name
the
persons
,
times
,
and
places
,
as
far
as
you
know
,
or
haue
heard
,
and
can
remember
?
32
Doth
your
Minister
,
euery
six
moneths
,
in
your
Parish
Church
,
openly
in
the
time
of
diuine
seruice
,
vpon
some
Sunday
,
denounce
and
declare
,
excommunicate
by
name
,
such
as
doe
perseuere
in
the
sentence
of
excommunication
,
not
séeking
to
bée
absolued
?
And
hath
he
said
diuine
Seruice
,
whiles
any
excommunicate
person
hath
beene
present
in
the
Church
?
Or
hath
he
admitted
any
person
,
that
hath
beene
excommunicate
,
into
the
Church
,
without
a
Certificate
of
his
absolution
from
his
Ordinary
?
Or
hath
be
staied
or
forborne
to
denounce
any
excommunication
,
or
suspension
or
absolution
that
hath
beene
sent
him
from
his
Ordinary
?
33
Hath
your
Minister
béene
at
any
priuate
mé
etings
or
conuenticles
,
to
consult
there
,
about
the
impeachment
or
deprauing
of
the
Doctrine
of
the
Church
of
England
,
or
of
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
or
of
any
part
of
the
gouernement
and
discipline
of
the
Church
;
or
to
practise
any
forme
of
their
owne
,
either
for
worship
or
discipline
?
34
Doth
your
Minister
,
vpon
Sundayes
at
Morning
Prayer
,
declare
vnto
the
parishioners
what
Fasting-dayes
and
Holy-dayes
are
to
be
kept
,
the
wéeke
following
?
35
Doth
your
Minister
in
the
Rogation-dayes
,
go
the
perambulation
of
the
circuit
of
your
Parish
,
saying
and
vsing
the
Prayers
,
Suffrages
,
and
Thanksgiuing
vnto
God
,
appointed
by
Law
,
according
to
his
dutie
;
thanking
God
,
for
his
blessings
,
and
praying
for
his
grace
and
fauour
?
36
Doth
your
Parson
or
Uicar
maintaine
and
kéepe
in
due
reparation
,
the
Mansion-house
,
and
all
other
edifices
belonging
to
his
Parsonage
or
Uicarage
,
without
suffering
them
to
grow
into
ruine
or
decay
?
37
Hath
your
Minister
taken
vpon
him
,
to
appoint
,
or
to
hold
or
continue
any
priuate
or
publike
Fasts
,
or
meetings
,
for
preaching
or
lecturing
on
any
working-day
,
in
his
owne
Parish
or
elsewhere
,
or
prophesies
or
exercises
,
or
any
other
such
thing
,
not
approued
by
his
Ordinary
for
the
time
being
?
38
Is
your
Minister
studious
in
holy
Scripture
,
and
abstaineth
from
mechanicall
trades
,
bodily
labour
,
soliciting
of
causes
in
Law
,
common
buying
and
selling
of
Horses
or
other
Cattell
,
and
all
other
imployments
not
befitting
his
calling
and
holy
Function
?
Doth
he
vsually
weare
a
Gowne
with
a
standing
collar
,
and
sléeues
strait
at
the
hands
,
and
a
square
Cap
▪
Doth
he
in
iourneying
vse
a
cloake
with
sléeues
,
commonly
called
a
Priests-clerke
,
without
guards
,
buttons
or
cuts
?
Doth
he
at
any
time
in
publike
weare
any
coife
or
wrought
night-cap
,
but
only
a
plaine
cap
of
black
silk
,
satten
,
or
vel●et
:
Doth
he
at
any
time
goe
abroad
in
his
doublet
and
hose
without
a
coat
or
cassock
,
or
weare
any
light
coloured
stockings
?
Or
is
he
any
way
excessie
in
apparell
,
either
himselfe
or
his
wife
?
39
Is
your
Minister
suspected
,
or
knowne
to
haue
obtained
his
Benefice
by
any
Simonai●●ll
compact
,
directly
or
indirectly
?
Or
is
he
reputed
to
be
an
incontinent
person
,
a
frequenter
of
Tauernes
,
Innes
,
or
Ale-houses
,
a
common
gamester
or
player
at
dice
or
cards
,
a
common
swearer
or
drunkard
,
or
otherwise
faulty
in
any
o●her
kinde
that
is
scandalous
to
his
function
?
40
Hath
your
Minister
publikly
in
your
Parish
Church
or
Chappell
,
once
euery
yeere
read
ouer
the
Constitutions
and
Canons
Ecclesiasticall
agreed
vpon
by
the
Clergie
of
both
Prouinces
,
An●o
Dom
1603.
in
such
manner
as
the
same
is
commanded
to
bée
done
?
41
Is
there
any
in
your
Parish
or
resorting
thereunto
,
who
hauing
taken
holy
Orders
of
Priest
or
Deacon
,
doth
voluntarily
relinquish
and
forsake●h
h●s
calling
,
and
liues
in
the
course
of
his
life
as
a
Lay-man
?
Or
any
that
hauing
beene
sil●nced
,
or
suspended
by
authority
,
so
remaineth
without
conforming
himselfe
in
due
obedience
to
the
Church
?
And
how
doth
he
imploy
his
time
;
and
where
or
whence
hath
he
his
maintenance
,
as
you
know
or
haue
heard
?
42
Are
any
admitted
to
preach
in
your
Church
,
who
doe
not
before
the
Churchwardens
subscribe
their
na●●s
in
your
book
prouided
for
that
purpose
,
and
the
day
when
he
or
they
preached
,
and
the
name
of
the
Bishop
or
Bishops
of
whom
they
had
license
to
preach
?
43
Doth
any
Preacher
particularly
impugne
and
confute
any
doctrine
deliuered
by
any
o●her
Preacher
in
the
same
Church
,
or
in
any
Church
neere
adioyning
,
before
he
hath
acquainted
the
Bishop
of
the
Dioces
therewith
,
and
receiued
order
from
him
,
what
to
do
in
that
ease
?
44
Haue
you
any
Lecturer
in
your
Parish
,
and
on
what
day
is
your
Lecture
?
If
any
such
be
,
doth
he
,
twice
at
the
least
euery
yéere
,
reade
diuine
Seruice
both
morning
and
euening
,
two
seuerall
Sundayes
,
publikely
in
his
Surplice
and
Hood
?
And
also
twice
in
the
yéere
administer
both
Sacraments
,
with
such
Rites
and
Ceremonies
as
are
prescribed
by
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
?
45
Doth
the
Lecturer
(
whosoeuer
he
be
)
reade
the
diuine
Seruice
according
to
the
Liturgie
printed
by
authority
,
in
his
Surplice
and
Hood
before
euery
Lecture
?
46
Doth
your
Preacher
or
Lecturer
behaue
himselfe
in
his
Lectures
and
Sermons
,
as
he
ought
to
doe
,
teaching
obedience
,
and
edifying
his
auditory
in
matters
of
faith
and
good
life
,
without
intermedling
with
matters
of
State
,
or
newes
,
or
other
discourses
not
fit
for
the
Pulpit
;
and
also
without
fauouring
or
abetting
Schismaticks
or
Separatists
(
that
are
at
home
,
or
are
gone
abroad
)
either
by
speciall
prayer
for
them
,
or
by
any
other
approbation
of
them
?
47
Haue
you
any
Lecture
of
Combination
set
up
in
your
Parish
?
And
if
so
,
is
it
read
by
a
companie
of
graue
and
orthodox
Diuines
,
néere
adioyning
,
and
in
the
same
Dioces
?
And
doth
euery
one
of
them
preach
in
a
Gowne
and
not
in
a
Cloake
?
And
when
and
by
whom
were
they
appointed
?
And
what
be
their
names
?
48
Is
any
single
Lecturer
(
maintained
by
your
Towne
or
otherwise
)
suffered
to
preach
,
he
not
first
pro●essing
his
willingnesse
to
take
vpon
him
the
cure
of
soules
,
nor
actually
taking
a
Benefice
or
Cure
,
so
soone
as
it
may
be
fairely
procured
for
him
?
What
is
his
name
,
and
what
license
hath
he
?
And
hath
he
a
setled
contribution
affixed
to
the
Lecturers
place
;
or
is
it
arbitrary
,
and
for
this
Lecturer
only
?
What
sum
doth
it
amount
to
ordinarily
?
By
whom
is
it
vsually
paid
or
collected
,
or
of
late
yéeres
hath
béene
?
49
If
any
Psalmes
be
vsed
to
be
sung
in
your
Church
,
before
or
after
the
morning
and
euening
prayer
,
or
before
or
after
the
Sermons
(
vpon
which
occasions
only
,
they
are
allowed
to
bee
sung
in
Churches
)
is
it
done
according
to
that
graue
maner
(
which
first
was
in
vse
)
that
such
doe
sing
as
can
reade
the
Psalmes
,
or
haue
learned
them
by
heart
;
and
not
after
that
vncough
and
vndecent
custome
of
late
taken
vp
,
to
haue
euery
line
first
read
,
and
then
sung
by
the
people
?
Chap.
5.
Concerning
Matrimony
.
BE
there
any
in
your
Parish
,
that
haue
maried
within
the
degrées
of
affinity
or
consanguinity
,
by
the
Law
of
God
forbidden
,
as
is
expressed
in
a
certaine
Table
published
by
authority
in
Anno
1563.
And
if
any
haue
so
maried
,
what
be
their
names
,
and
where
were
they
maried
,
and
by
whom
?
2
Hath
any
béene
maried
secretly
in
priuate
houses
,
or
without
their
Parents
or
Gouernours
consent
signified
,
being
vnder
the
age
of
21.
yéeres
?
3
Haue
any
persons
beene
maried
in
your
Parish
,
the
Banes
hauing
not
been
thrice
published
,
three
seuerall
Sundayes
or
Holydayes
,
in
time
of
diuine
Seruice
?
Who
were
the
parties
,
and
who
were
present
at
such
mariages
;
and
what
Minister
maried
them
?
4
Haue
any
persons
by
license
or
without
,
beene
maried
in
your
Parish
Church
,
neither
of
them
at
that
time
dwelling
in
your
towne
?
Or
hath
any
mariage
(
that
you
know
or
haue
heard
of
)
been
made
at
any
time
,
by
license
or
without
,
but
betweene
the
houres
of
eight
and
twelue
in
the
morning
?
Or
was
not
the
diuine
Seruice
then
openly
and
duly
said
,
the
Assembly
being
called
together
by
the
tolling
or
ringing
of
the
Bels
,
as
is
at
other
times
vsed
?
Or
hath
the
Minister
solemnized
any
mariage
(
without
Banes
published
)
by
vertue
of
any
License
granted
by
the
Arch-deacon
or
his
Officiall
,
or
by
any
other
license
then
of
the
Arch-bishop
or
Bishop
of
this
Dioces
,
or
their
Chancellours
,
Commissaries
,
or
Uicars
generall
,
or
the
Commissary
for
faculties
.
And
hath
any
License
beene
granted
by
any
to
such
persons
as
were
not
of
good
state
and
quality
?
Name
the
persons
and
all
particulars
,
as
far
as
you
know
,
or
can
remember
?
5
What
popish
Recusants
,
or
their
children
haue
béene
maried
in
your
parish
?
In
what
sort
was
the
matrimony
solemnized
?
when
?
and
by
whom
?
6
Doe
any
persons
being
lawfully
maried
,
liue
asunder
?
and
in
whom
is
the
default
?
7
Doe
any
(
heretofore
diuorced
or
not
)
keepe
company
at
bed
and
board
,
with
any
other
man
or
woman
,
then
with
the
person
that
he
and
she
were
maried
to
?
what
bee
their
names
?
when
and
where
were
they
maried
,
and
how
long
haue
they
continued
so
together
?
8
Haue
you
any
in
your
Parish
,
which
liue
together
as
man
and
wife
,
and
yet
not
knowne
,
by
whom
,
where
,
or
when
they
were
maried
?
9
Haue
all
new-maried
persons
(
the
same
day
of
their
mariage
)
duly
receiued
the
holy
Communion
?
If
not
,
by
whose
default
was
it
,
as
you
conceiue
?
Chap.
6.
Concerning
the
Church-wardens
and
Side-men
.
BE
the
Church-wardens
chosen
by
the
Minister
and
Parishioners
yéerely
in
Easter-wéeke
,
according
to
the
89.
Canon
?
And
hath
any
taken
vpon
him
to
be
Church-warden
,
not
being
so
chosen
?
Or
hath
any
continued
aboue
one
yeere
in
his
office
,
without
a
new
choise
?
2
Haue
any
of
the
Church-wardens
retained
any
of
the
Church-goods
in
their
hands
,
and
not
made
a
iust
account
at
their
going
out
of
their
office
,
of
what
they
haue
receiued
and
expended
;
or
not
deliuered
to
their
successors
,
by
Bill
indented
betwéene
them
,
whatsoeuer
money
or
other
things
belonging
to
the
Church
,
that
remained
in
their
hands
?
3
Are
there
in
your
Parish
yéerely
,
two
,
thrée
,
or
more
discréet
persons
,
either
chosen
by
the
Ministers
and
Parishioners
in
Easter-wéeke
;
or
if
they
cannot
agrée
,
appointed
by
the
Ordinary
to
be
Side-men
,
or
Assistants
in
ioynt
office
with
the
Church-wardens
?
4
What
rates
or
leuies
(
as
you
know
or
haue
heard
)
are
yéerely
or
commonly
made
in
your
parish
for
Church-uses
?
What
is
the
yeerely
summe
thereof
ordinarily
?
and
what
are
the
particular
vses
,
or
where
are
they
written
downe
,
to
which
the
same
are
for
the
most
part
imployed
?
5
Doe
the
Church-wardens
and
Sides-men
or
Assistants
,
diligently
see
,
that
all
the
Parishioners
doe
duly
resort
to
the
Church
,
vpon
all
Sundayes
and
Holydayes
,
and
there
continue
the
whole
time
of
diuine
Seruice
and
Sermon
;
suffering
no
idle
persons
to
walke
,
or
talke
,
or
stand
idle
,
either
in
the
Church
,
Church-yard
,
or
Church-porch
,
during
the
time
of
diuine
Seruice
or
Sermon
;
but
causing
them
either
to
come
into
the
Church
,
or
else
to
depart
?
And
haue
they
the
said
Church-wardens
and
Side-men
forborne
,
either
for
reward
,
fauour
,
or
affection
,
to
present
them
,
that
haue
beene
,
or
are
negligent
in
comming
to
Church
,
or
that
vse
to
walke
or
talk
therein
,
or
that
haue
been
found
by
them
standing
idle
,
or
talking
abroad
,
either
in
the
Church-yard
or
streets
in
the
time
of
diuine
Seruice
or
Sermon
,
on
Sundayes
or
Holydayes
;
or
that
haue
not
receiued
the
Communion
yeerely
,
at
the
Feast
of
Easter
,
or
within
one
moneth
after
?
6
Doe
you
know
of
any
Church-wardens
,
which
within
forty
dayes
after
Easter
,
in
their
yeere
,
did
not
exhibit
to
the
Bishop
or
his
Chancellor
,
the
namer
&
sirnames
of
all
the
parishioners
,
as
well
men
as
women
,
which
(
being
of
the
age
of
16.
yeeres
and
vpward
)
receiued
not
the
Communion
the
Easter
before
?
And
haue
you
,
this
last
yeere
exhibited
a
bill
of
them
?
or
are
you
ready
now
so
to
doe
?
7
Doe
the
Church-wardens
against
euery
Communion
,
aduise
with
the
Minister
,
about
the
prouiding
of
a
sufficient
quantity
of
fine
white-bread
,
and
of
good
and
wholesome
wine
,
for
the
number
of
Communicants
that
are
to
receiue
?
And
is
the
wine
brought
in
a
cleane
&
swéet
standing
Pot
of
Pewter
,
or
of
other
finer
metall
?
Upon
the
Communion
daies
,
doe
your
Churchwardens
(
immediately
after
the
Sermon
or
Homilie
,
and
the
Ministers
exhortation
to
remember
the
poore
)
gather
the
deuotion
of
the
people
in
a
faire
and
solemne
manner
,
and
put
the
same
into
the
poore
mans
bore
?
8
Haue
the
Churchwardens
suffered
the
Church
,
Church-yard
,
or
Chappell
,
to
be
prophaned
by
Playes
,
games
,
feasts
,
banquets
,
suppers
,
church-ales
,
drinkings
,
temporall
Courts
,
or
Léets
,
Lay-iuries
,
musters
,
&c.
at
any
time
acted
,
kept
,
or
held
in
them
?
9
Hath
any
man
,
that
you
know
or
haue
heard
of
,
by
spéech
or
writing
,
or
vpon
the
assertion
of
any
other
man
affirmed
;
That
men
ought
not
to
take
the
office
,
or
the
Oath
of
a
Churchwarden
,
or
of
presenting
at
the
Bishops
visitation
?
Or
that
the
said
Oath
is
vnlawfully
giuen
them
;
Or
that
being
taken
,
it
is
but
of
course
,
and
binds
them
not
,
nor
néede
to
be
regarded
;
Or
that
(
the
said
Oath
notwithstanding
)
it
is
frée
for
them
,
neither
to
make
enquirie
,
nor
to
answere
;
but
to
doe
what
they
list
,
and
to
leaue
out
and
passe
by
whom
they
will
,
and
what
they
will
,
in
their
presentments
?
Chap.
7.
Concerning
the
Parishioners
.
1
DOe
any
in
your
Parish
prophane
any
Sunday
or
Holiday
,
by
any
vnlawfull
gaming
,
drinking
or
tipling
in
Tauernes
,
Innes
,
or
Ale-houses
,
in
the
time
of
Common-Prayer
or
Sermon
;
or
by
working
,
or
doing
the
worke
of
their
Trades
and
Occupations
?
Doe
any
in
your
Parish
buy
or
sell
,
or
keepe
open
their
Shops
,
or
set
out
any
wares
to
be
sold
on
Sundaies
,
or
Holidayes
,
by
themselues
,
their
seruants
or
apprentices
;
or
haue
they
any
otherwaies
prophaned
the
said
daies
?
And
hath
the
Kings
Declaration
concerning
the
lawfull
sports
and
recreations
béene
published
among
you
,
yea
or
no
?
If
so
,
when
was
it
done
,
in
what
manner
,
and
by
whom
?
2
Is
the
fifth
day
of
Nouember
obserued
and
kept
in
your
Parish
,
with
Prayer
and
Thanksgiuing
vnto
God
,
in
such
Forme
,
as
is
by
Publike
Authoritie
appointed
for
that
Day
?
3
Is
there
any
in
your
Parish
that
hath
béen
heard
to
impugne
or
speake
against
the
Rites
and
Ceremonies
of
the
Church
of
England
,
or
the
lawfull
vse
of
them
;
or
to
affirme
by
word
or
writing
,
that
the
form
of
Making
and
Consecrating
Bishops
,
Priests
and
Deacons
,
or
any
thing
therein
contained
,
is
repugnant
to
the
word
of
God
;
or
that
the
Gouer●ment
of
this
Church
vnder
his
Maiestie
by
Archbishops
,
Bishops
and
other
Ecclesiasticall
Officers
,
is
Antichristian
?
Or
hath
spoken
reproachfully
,
or
disgracefully
of
the
Kings
Maiesties
Courts
Ecclesiasticall
,
or
of
the
procéedings
thereof
?
4
Haue
you
any
in
your
Parish
,
that
doe
come
to
the
Sermon
onely
,
and
not
to
Diuine
Seruice
;
or
which
vse
to
come
late
to
Church
,
and
to
depart
from
Church
before
the
Blessing
be
giuen
,
wherewith
they
are
to
be
dismissed
at
the
end
of
Seruice
?
Or
that
do
not
reuerently
behaue
themselues
,
entring
into
the
Church
,
and
during
the
time
of
Diuine
Seruice
?
Doe
all
(
both
men
and
women
)
deuoutly
knéele
,
when
the
Generall
confession
of
sinnes
,
the
Letanie
,
the
Ten
Commandements
,
and
all
Prayers
and
Collects
are
read
,
as
well
at
Baptismes
,
Mariages
and
Burials
,
as
at
other
parts
of
the
Diuine
Seruice
?
Doe
all
vse
due
and
lowlie
reuerence
,
when
the
blessed
Name
of
the
Lord
IESUS
is
mentioned
:
and
stand
vp
when
the
Articles
of
the
Creed
are
read
?
Doe
any
men
couer
their
heads
in
the
Church
,
(
vnlesse
it
be
for
infirmity
,
in
which
case
,
they
may
only
were
a
coife
or
night-cap
,
)
or
then
and
there
giue
themselues
to
babling
,
talking
or
walking
,
and
are
not
attentiue
to
the
Prayers
and
Hymns
,
and
to
heare
Gods
word
read
and
preached
?
Doe
all
say
Amen
audibly
,
and
make
such
other
answers
both
in
the
Letanie
,
and
all
other
parts
of
diuine
Seruice
,
as
by
the
Rule
of
the
Common
Prayer
booke
,
are
to
be
made
by
the
people
?
5
Doth
any
within
your
Parish
,
men
or
women
,
being
sixteene
yeeres
of
age
and
vpwards
,
or
any
other
,
lodging
or
commonly
resorting
to
any
house
in
your
Parish
,
wilfully
absent
themselues
,
from
your
Parish
Church
or
Chappell
,
vpon
Sundayes
and
Holydayes
and
other
dayes
appointed
,
at
morning
and
euening
prayers
,
or
refuse
to
receiue
the
Communion
,
or
perswade
others
from
comming
to
Church
,
or
receiuing
the
holy
Communion
?
6
Haue
you
any
popish
or
puritanicall
Recusants
in
your
Parish
,
that
be
of
insolent
behauiour
,
not
without
publike
offence
;
or
that
do
boldly
busie
themselues
in
seducing
or
withdrawing
others
,
either
abroad
,
or
in
their
owne
Families
,
from
the
Religion
established
in
the
Church
of
England
?
And
how
long
haue
the
said
popish
or
puritanicall
Recusants
obstinately
abstained
,
either
from
diuine
Seruice
,
or
from
the
Communion
?
Whether
of
any
long
time
,
or
of
late
only
?
7
Are
there
any
in
your
Parish
,
who
do
absent
themselues
at
any
time
from
your
own
Church
,
and
doe
resort
to
any
other
Parish
or
place
to
heare
other
preachers
?
Or
are
there
any
in
your
Parish
,
that
doe
communicate
,
or
that
do
baptise
their
children
in
any
other
Parish
?
8
Is
there
within
your
Parish
in
any
house
or
familie
,
any
one
that
is
called
or
reputed
a
Chaplaine
,
or
that
is
knowne
or
supposed
to
haue
entred
into
holy
Orders
?
Or
any
that
liueth
there
in
imployment
as
a
scholler
?
Present
their
names
if
there
be
any
such
,
and
how
long
they
haue
béene
there
?
9
Is
there
any
in
your
Parish
,
who
do
refuse
to
haue
their
children
baptized
,
or
themselues
to
receiue
the
Communion
,
at
the
hand
of
your
Minister
,
because
hee
is
no
Preacher
,
or
doth
not
edifie
in
their
phansie
?
10
Doth
any
maried
woman
within
your
Parish
,
after
childe-birth
neglect
to
come
to
Church
according
to
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
to
giue
thankes
to
God
for
her
safe
deliuerance
,
vailed
in
a
decent
manner
,
as
hath
beene
anciently
accustomed
?
And
doth
she
then
knéele
in
some
conuenient
place
nigh
to
the
Communion
Table
,
w●ile
the
Priest
(
standing
by
her
)
giueth
thankes
for
her
?
And
if
there
be
a
Communion
,
doth
she
then
offer
her
accustomed
offerings
and
receiue
the
holy
Communion
?
11
Are
there
within
your
Parish
or
thereunto
resorting
,
any
players
on
Stage
,
or
with
Puppets
,
or
any
Musitians
,
Fidlers
,
Rimers
,
or
Iesters
,
which
do
vse
any
prophane
or
filthy
passages
,
in
their
songs
,
speeches
,
or
gestures
,
to
the
dishonour
of
God
,
abuse
of
Scripture
,
or
the
corrupting
of
good
manners
;
or
which
do
publish
any
thing
scandalous
to
the
State
,
or
reproachfull
to
the
Holy
Clergy
?
12
Haue
you
any
in
your
Parish
that
are
commonly
knowne
,
or
reputed
to
bee
blasphemers
of
Gods
holie
Name
,
common
and
vsuall
swearers
,
drunkards
,
vsurers
,
filthy
speakers
,
adulterers
,
fornicators
,
incestuous
persons
,
bawds
,
concealers
of
fornicators
or
adulterers
?
Haue
any
in
your
Parish
beene
detected
of
such
notorious
crimes
,
and
what
penance
haue
they
done
for
the
same
?
13
What
corporall
punishment
for
any
such
offence
,
hath
beene
commuted
and
changed
into
a
pecuniary
mulct
or
summe
of
money
,
by
any
Ecclesiasticall
Iudge
exercising
iurisdiction
within
this
Dioces
,
by
vertue
of
any
Graunt
or
Commission
?
What
was
the
sum
of
money
by
any
of
them
so
receiued
and
taken
,
and
to
what
vses
was
the
same
imployed
?
And
vpon
such
Commutations
,
was
the
vnfained
repentance
of
the
delinquent
published
in
the
Church
?
14
Doe
all
Fathers
,
Mothers
,
Masters
,
&
Mistrisses
,
cause
their
children
,
seruants
and
apprentises
to
come
to
the
publike
catechizing
on
Sundayes
and
Holydayes
,
to
be
instructed
and
taught
therein
?
And
those
that
do
not
their
duties
herein
,
in
not
sending
them
to
it
,
or
not
comming
,
or
not
learning
and
answering
,
you
shall
present
their
names
?
15
Haue
any
in
your
Parish
receiued
or
harboured
any
women
gotten
with-childe
out
of
wedlock
,
and
suffered
her
to
depart
without
punishment
first
inflicted
on
her
by
the
Ordinary
?
You
shall
truly
present
as
well
the
party
harbouring
,
as
harboured
;
and
who
is
suspected
to
be
the
father
of
the
childe
?
16
Is
any
person
or
persons
suspected
or
detected
heretofore
of
incontinency
and
therfore
departing
out
of
your
Parish
for
a
season
,
now
returned
againe
?
Or
in
what
place
else
is
he
or
she
now
abiding
to
your
knowledge
,
or
as
you
haue
heard
?
You
shall
not
faile
to
present
the
whole
truth
in
that
behalfe
?
17
Doe
all
your
Parishioners
,
of
what
sort
soeuer
,
according
as
the
Church
expresly
them
commandeth
,
draw
néere
,
and
with
all
Christian
humility
and
reuerence
come
to
the
Lords
Table
,
when
they
are
to
receiue
the
holy
Communion
?
And
not
(
after
the
most
contemptuous
and
vnholy
vsage
of
some
,
if
men
did
rightly
consider
)
sit
still
in
their
Seats
or
Pewes
,
to
haue
the
blessed
Body
and
Bloud
of
our
Sauiour
go
vp
and
downe
,
to
séek
them
all
the
Church
ouer
?
18
Are
there
any
lately
deceased
in
your
Parish
,
whose
last
Wils
and
Testaments
haue
not
yet
béene
proued
?
or
did
they
dye
intestate
?
And
if
so
,
who
hath
taken
vpon
him
the
administration
of
their
goods
,
and
whether
by
lawfull
authority
from
the
Ordinary
,
or
without
?
What
be
the
names
of
such
deceased
,
and
of
their
executors
and
administrators
?
19
What
persons
be
excommunicated
in
your
Parish
,
and
for
what
cause
to
your
knowledge
?
and
how
long
haue
they
stood
excommunicate
?
And
doe
any
of
them
,
not
being
absolued
,
presume
to
be
present
in
the
Church
at
diuine
Seruice
?
And
doe
any
familiarly
vse
the
company
of
such
as
do
obstinately
stand
excommunicate
,
knowing
the
same
;
and
what
be
their
names
?
20
Doe
you
know
of
any
that
haue
abused
the
Church-wardens
,
or
other
sworne
men
of
your
Parish
,
or
giuen
them
euill
words
for
executing
their
office
,
or
to
disharten
and
deter
them
from
executing
it
,
as
by
oath
and
duty
they
are
bound
?
Chap.
8.
Concerning
Schoole-masters
,
Physitians
,
Chyrurgions
,
Midwives
,
and
Parish-Clarkes
.
HAue
you
any
Schoole-master
in
your
Parish
,
that
teacheth
publikely
or
in
priuate
houses
?
Is
there
any
teaching
of
Schollars
to
reade
or
write
in
the
Chancell
,
or
in
any
part
of
the
Church
?
Doth
any
Papist
kéepe
a
Schoolemaster
in
his
house
,
who
commeth
not
to
Church
to
heare
diuine
Seruice
and
to
receiue
the
holy
Communion
?
What
is
his
name
,
and
how
long
hath
he
taught
there
or
elsewhere
?
Doth
your
Schoolemaster
teach
any
Papists
or
Sectaries
children
,
that
come
not
to
Church
?
Doth
he
bring
his
schollars
to
church
,
and
duely
instruct
them
all
to
learne
the
Catechisme
in
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
at
the
least
once
euery
wéeke
;
or
what
other
Catechisme
doth
he
teach
?
Is
he
of
honest
and
sincere
life
,
and
religion
,
and
conuersation
?
Is
he
a
Graduate
and
sufficient
to
teach
,
and
diligent
in
teaching
and
bringing
vp
of
youth
?
2
Is
any
thing
with-holden
and
otherwise
imployed
,
that
hath
béene
giuen
to
the
vse
of
a
Schoole
in
your
Parish
?
What
is
it
?
By
whom
is
it
imbezelled
?
3
What
Physitian
or
Chyrurgion
haue
you
in
your
Parish
,
who
not
being
a
Doctor
of
Physick
or
otherwise
sufficiently
licensed
in
either
of
the
Uniuersities
,
doth
notwithstanding
practise
physick
?
What
other
persons
haue
you
among
you
,
either
male
or
female
,
who
take
vpon
them
to
professe
physick
or
chyrurgery
?
And
who
be
Midwiues
in
your
parish
?
4
Haue
you
a
fit
Parish-Clark
(
aged
20.
yéeres
at
least
)
of
honest
life
,
able
to
reade
and
write
?
Are
his
and
the
Sextons
wages
duly
paid
without
fraud
or
diminution
,
according
to
the
ancient
custome
of
your
Parish
?
By
whom
is
he
chosen
?
Is
he
diligent
in
his
office
,
and
seruiceable
to
the
Minister
?
Doth
hee
keepe
the
Church
cleane
and
the
doores
locked
?
Is
there
any
thing
lost
or
spoyled
,
by
his
default
?
5
Doth
your
Clarke
or
Sexton
take
vpon
him
to
haue
,
or
suffer
any
superstitious
or
any
vnseasonable
ringing
of
the
bels
at
any
time
,
or
any
ringing
without
good
cause
,
such
as
the
Minister
and
Church-wardens
haue
not
allowed
?
When
notice
is
giuen
of
any
Christian
passing
out
of
this
life
,
within
the
Parish
,
doth
he
neglect
to
toll
a
passing
bell
,
or
to
ring
after
the
departure
?
Chap.
9.
Concerning
Ecclesiasticall
Officers
.
WHat
peculiar
or
exempt
iurisdictions
know
you
of
,
within
the
compasse
of
this
parish
?
2
Are
there
any
Ecclesiasticall
Officers
exercising
Ecclesiasticall
Iurisdiction
within
this
Diocesse
,
or
any
Ministers
or
Clarkes
vnder
them
,
who
do
take
or
exact
any
extraordinary
fées
,
for
any
cause
that
you
know
of
?
3
Haue
any
Church-wardens
and
Quest-men
,
concealed
and
not
presented
any
abuses
or
offences
punishable
in
the
Ecclesiasticall
Court
?
Or
haue
any
such
offences
,
being
by
them
presented
to
the
Chancellor
,
Archdeacon
,
Commissary
,
Officiall
,
or
any
other
vsing
Ecclesiasticall
iurisdiction
within
this
Diocesse
,
beene
suppressed
,
or
left
vnpunished
,
for
bribe
,
reward
,
pleasure
,
friendship
,
feare
,
or
any
other
partiall
respect
?
4
Are
any
Assemblies
called
Uestry-méetings
,
held
in
your
Parish
?
when
,
and
how
often
are
they
?
In
what
place
,
and
by
whom
?
Hath
any
thing
(
that
you
haue
heard
of
)
been
proposed
,
treated
,
or
concluded
therein
,
touching
the
diuine
Seruice
,
or
the
doctrine
and
discipline
of
the
Church
?
Or
any
thing
medled
with
,
for
the
gouernment
of
the
Church
or
Parish
,
which
belongs
to
the
Ecclesiasticall
cognition
and
Iurisdiction
?
5
Doth
the
Arch-deacon
once
in
thrée
yéeres
,
visit
and
suruey
your
Church
,
touching
the
repaires
of
the
same
,
and
vpon
any
defect
found
,
hath
he
made
certificate
of
it
,
as
far
as
you
know
or
haue
heard
?
6
Are
there
placed
by
the
Registrar
,
two
Tables
containing
the
seuerall
rates
and
summes
of
all
fées
due
to
the
Iudge
,
and
other
officers
of
your
Courts
;
one
in
the
vsuall
place
or
consistory
,
where
the
Court
is
kept
;
the
other
in
the
Registry
;
in
such
sort
as
euery
man
may
come
to
view
the
same
without
difficulty
?
And
doth
the
Chancellor
,
Arch-deacon
,
Commissary
,
or
Officiall
,
or
any
other
Minister
of
the
Court
,
exact
or
extort
any
other
greater
fées
or
sums
of
money
,
than
in
the
said
Tables
are
contained
?
7
Doth
any
Arch-deacon
,
Officiall
,
or
Surrogate
vnder
him
,
make
commutation
of
any
penance
;
or
doth
the
Chancellor
or
any
Commissary
,
or
any
Surrogate
vnder
any
,
commute
or
change
any
penance
or
corporall
punishment
,
for
any
money
,
without
the
consent
of
the
Bishop
?
And
what
money
haue
they
or
any
of
them
receiued
for
such
commutation
,
and
of
whom
?
when
,
and
what
was
the
offence
,
for
which
any
such
sum
of
money
was
receiued
,
or
appointed
to
be
paid
?
8
Doth
the
Chancellor
,
Arch-deacon
,
Commissary
,
or
Officiall
,
or
any
other
person
vsing
Ecclesiasticall
iurisdiction
,
speed
any
act
in
any
cause
,
priuately
of
themselues
,
and
not
in
the
presence
of
some
publike
Notary
or
Actuary
?
9
Is
the
number
of
Apparitors
increased
in
this
Diocesse
?
And
wherein
,
and
in
what
manner
is
the
Countrey
ouer-burthened
or
grieued
by
them
?
Hath
any
of
them
vnder
pretence
of
authority
,
cited
or
summoned
any
person
vnlawfully
;
or
hath
any
of
them
taken
any
reward
for
the
concealing
of
any
offence
or
sin
,
or
that
the
offenders
might
escape
punishment
?
Who
be
they
that
haue
so
done
?
Or
doe
any
of
them
take
any
fées
that
are
not
vsuall
?
Haue
they
threatned
any
to
prosecute
them
,
if
they
had
no
reward
giuen
them
?
Or
do
any
of
them
cause
any
party
to
appeare
in
any
Ecclesiasticall
Court
within
this
Diocesse
,
without
a
citation
first
obtained
from
the
Iudge
of
the
Court
?
10
Hath
any
Ecclesiasticall
Iudge
or
Officer
whatsoeuer
,
Aduocate
,
Registrer
,
Procter
,
Clerke
,
or
other
such
Ministers
,
any
way
abused
themselues
in
their
Offices
,
contrary
to
the
Lawes
and
Canons
in
that
behalfe
prouided
?
11
Were
there
any
particular
or
speciall
iniunctions
giuen
(
as
you
know
,
or
haue
heard
)
by
the
Uicar
generall
or
any
other
Commissioner
,
at
the
last
Metropoliticall
Uisitation
of
the
most
Reuerend
the
Lord
Arch-bishop
of
Canterbury
his
Grace
?
And
how
haue
the
same
béene
performed
or
obserued
by
the
Minister
or
any
other
of
the
Parish
,
whom
they
concerne
?
12
Lastly
,
haue
you
and
euery
of
you
,
by
your selues
,
read
,
or
haue
caused
to
be
read
to
you
,
all
these
Articles
?
Haue
you
well
examined
and
inquired
into
euery
particular
therein
intended
?
Haue
you
sincerely
,
vprightly
,
&
without
any
partiall
affection
or
concealement
,
presented
and
made
knowne
all
and
euery
of
the
offenders
in
any
of
the
particulars
,
either
as
they
are
taken
in
truth
to
be
,
or
by
common
fame
reported
?
If
you
know
any
other
matter
of
Ecclesiasticall
cognisance
,
worthy
the
presentment
in
your
iudgement
and
fit
to
be
reformed
by
Ecclesiasticall
censure
,
though
it
be
not
expressed
in
these
Articles
,
yet
you
shall
likewise
present
the
same
by
vertue
of
your
oaths
.
The
Minister
also
of
euery
Parish
may
and
ought
to
ioyne
with
the
Church-wardens
,
or
other
Sworne-men
,
for
the
presenting
of
offences
;
and
if
they
be
so
irreligious
as
not
to
do
it
,
the
Minister
of
himselfe
may
&
ought
to
present
the
offences
,
or
the
Church-wardens
and
Quest-men
,
for
not
presenting
,
and
is
required
in
his
Canonicall
obedience
so
to
doe
.
There
must
be
distinct
answer
made
to
euery
Article
,
and
to
euery
branch
thereof
,
as
far
as
they
know
,
or
haue
heard
of
any
offence
.
And
if
(
their
Oath
and
all
this
aduertisement
notwithstanding
)
any
Church-wardens
or
other
Sworne-men
,
shall
follow
the
customary
manner
,
and
be
carelesse
in
inquiring
and
presenting
as
they
ought
,
then
shall
they
not
be
able
hereafter
to
say
,
that
they
had
not
faire
warning
to
the
contrary
giuen
them
in
the
spirit
of
meeknesse
;
or
to
complaine
that
they
are
hardly
dealt
with
,
if
(
vpon
information
and
proofe
otherwise
had
)
they
be
called
to
answer
their
willfull
periury
,
in
some
other
course
of
iustice
,
for
neglecting
to
inquire
and
present
to
all
the
particulars
herein
proposed
?
And
to
the
intent
that
all
things
aboue
mentioned
may
(
by
the
helpe
of
God
)
as
well
be
kept
,
as
set
in
good
order
,
the
Chancellor
of
the
Diocesse
,
and
all
the
Commissaries
are
hereby
required
,
that
so
far
as
to
them
in
their
seuerall
places
it
shall
appertaine
,
when
the
Synods
and
Generals
are
holden
respectiuely
,
they
do
faithfuly
inquire
after
all
these
things
,
&
in
all
places
of
their
Iurisdictions
exact
a
due
obseruance
of
the
same
.
The
Parson
,
Uicar
or
Curate
of
this
Parish
is
required
to
receiue
this
Booke
,
and
vpon
the
Sunday
next
after
the
receipt
hereof
,
immediatly
after
the
Morning
Seruice
,
to
publish
the
contents
of
the
Process
which
is
sent
forth
.
That
all
Preachers
and
Lecturers
(
if
there
be
any
in
the
Parish
)
together
with
the
Church-wardens
both
of
this
present
yeere
and
of
the
last
yeere
,
and
two
or
three
of
the
chiefest
parishioners
beside
,
as
also
all
Physitians
,
Schoole-masters
,
Chyrurgions
,
Midwiues
,
and
Sequestrators
,
may
take
notice
of
the
day
&
place
specified
in
the
said
Processe
,
for
appearance
at
the
Lord
Bishops
Uisitation
:
and
after
publication
so
made
,
this
book
of
Articles
is
to
be
presently
deliuered
to
some
of
the
said
Church-wardens
,
for
the
vse
of
themselues
and
the
rest
that
are
to
make
Presentments
.
Ma.
Norvicen
.
FINIS
.