Ministers and Curates .

6 Is your Minister a licented Preacher , doeth he diligently preach sound Doctrine , reuerently administer the holy Sacraments , and for matters of gouernement , seriously teach and maintaine the Kings Supremacie vnder God within His Maiesties Dominions , ouer all persons , and in causes as well Ecclesiasticall as Ciuill , and the aholishing of all forraine Power :

7 Hath your Minister more Benefices then one ; if two , or more , doth he reside vpon one of them himselfe , and maintaine a licensed Preacher on the other : If he hath but one , is hee resident , and dwelling therevpon , is hee painefull in his vocation , of sober and good conuersation , and giuen to hospitalitie :

8 Doth your Minister vse decencie of Apparel , a wel in the Church as else where : And in time of diuine prayer and administration of the Sacraments , doeth he vse to weare the Surplesse ; and if he be a Graduate , such a Hood as is agreeable to his calling :

9 Is your Minister a peacemaker , and no sower of discord , or is he suspected , famed , or noted of any notorious crime ; or giueth hee any ill example : or do any Ministers with you forsake their callings :

10 Doth any preach in your Parish , that refuseth to conforme himself to the lawes , ordinances , and rites of the Church of England :

11 Hath your Minister a Curate , and how is hee licensed ; doth hee serue two Cures , and doth hee bid the Fasting dayes , and Holy dayes , commanded and allowed :

12 If your Minister be not a Preacher allowed , doth hee procure monthly Sermones ; and when there is no Sermon , doth he read an Homily ; doth he take vpon him to expound any text of Scripture :

13 What Preachers haue come from any other place and preached in your Parish ; haue you their names written in a booke kept for that purpose ; hath such Preacher subscribed his name thereto , and set downe the day when he preached , and by whom Licensed ;

14 Hath your Minister obtained his Benefice by any Sinooncall compace eyther directly or indirectly :

15 Hath any of your Parish , or of any other Parish , vnteuerently vsed your Minister , layed violent hands on him , or disgraced his office , and function , by word or deed :

Diuine Seruice .

16 Is diuine Seruice in due time on Sundayes , Holydayes , and at other times appoynted , reuerently sayd or sung in your Church or Chappell , with the Letany , on Wednesdayes , and Frydayes ; and all other rites and ceremonies , according to the prescript forme of Common prayer in the Communion Booke :

17 Whetherdoth any not being licensed ( or any not orvered at least for a Deacon ) say Common prayer openly in your Church or Chappel :

18 Doe any Men ( young or old ) vse to were their Hattes in the Church or Chappell , in time of diuine Seruice ; or are there any that behaue themselues disorderly in the Church , Ceappell , or Churchyard , or any disturbers of diuine Seruice or Sermons ?

19 Whether doe any Victualers ( or others in your Parish ) suffer any drinking , or gaming in their houses on Sundayes or Holydayes , especially in time of diuine Seruice , or Sermons ?

20 Whether any in your Parish vpon the Saboth dayes , or Holydayes , doe vse their Trade , or doe any other worke or labour , as Brewing , Baking , Washing , or such like , or doe open their Shoppes for sale of wares vpon those dayes , or doe hedge , ditch , carry , or drawe burdens by themselues , their Seruants , Horses , or other Cattell whatsoeuer on such dayes ?

The holy Communion .

21 Haue you a decent Communion Table on a frame , with a seemly Carpet , and a cloth of Linnen , a Communion cuppe and couer of Siluer , a faire Flaggon of Pewter or purer mettall for the wine , a Plate for the Bread , and a Towell to lay ouer it ?

22 Whether is there any in your Parish , which being full sixteene yeeres of age and vpwards , hath not receiued the holy Communion three seuerall times in the yeere past at the least , in his or her Parish Church , whereof Easter to be one of the three times ?

23 Doth your Minister instruct and examine his Parishoners couceruing the Sacraments at conuenient times , before hee administer the Communion : And doth he admit any thereto that cannot say at least the Lords Prayer , the Articles of the Christian fayth , and the tenne Commandements ?

24 Is your Communion ministred with Bread and Wine , consecrated in such order as in the booke of Common prayer is appoynted ? And doth your Minister deliuer both kindes to euery seuerall Communicant , with the blessing prescribed in the booke of Common prayer ?

25 Doth any in your Parish receiue the holy Communion eyther sitting , standing , or otherwise then kneeling , as is prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer ; or doe any refuse to receiue the same kneeling ; and doth your Minister admitte any to receiue the Communion otherwise then kneeling ?

26 Doth your Minister admitte any notorious offendoures , or any Schismatickes to the holy Communion before due penance enioyned by the Ordinarie , be ducly performed by them : or doth hee admitte any notorously knowen to be out of charitie ; or any that hath done any open wrong to his Neighbour before reconciliation made to the partie wronged ?

27 Whether doth your Minister appoynt and obserue so many Communions in one yeere , as that the parishioners may conueniently receiue all of them there three seuerall times in the yeere : And doth hee vse to giue publique notice thereof in the Church , the Sabboth day next going before euery such Communions , that the Parishioners may prepare themselues to be pertakers thereof ?

Baptisme .

28 Haue you in your Church a conuenient Font of Stone , well kept , and couered , standing in the auncient place ; doth your Minister Baptise therein , or in any Bason , or other thing , or with any other ceremonies then such as are allowed in the Booke of common prayer ; or doth he omit , neglect , or not vse all the ceremonies therein prescribed ; and doth he vse the signe of the crosse in Baptisme ?

29 Doth your Minister refuse to Baptise any Children of christian parentes , that are brought to the Church ?

30 Are Parents vrged to be present at the Baptising of their Children ; or be any admitted to be God-fathers or God-mothers that haue not receiued the holy Communion ; or doe any parents refuse to haue their Children signed with the signe of the Crosse in their baptisme ?

31 Haue any children that were borne in your parish been carried out of the parish to be Baptised else where ; or haue any not been baptised at all , or in places and by parties vnknowne ?

32 Whether hath your Minister refused , deferred , or delayed to come vnto , and to christen any Child being in weaknesse or in danger of death , being thereunto required , by reason whereof such Childe hath ( through his negligence , or by his fault ) dyed vnbaptized ?

Catechisme .

33 Doth your Minister , or his Curate , duely Catechise according to the late Canon euery Sunday , such children and seruantes of both sexes , as are of conuenient age , or at least so many of them by course , as the time will serue ?

34 Doe Parentes and Householders bring or send their Children and Seruants , to the Church euery Sunday duely to be catechises , accordingly as the late Canons require , and who are negligent therein :

Matrimonie .

35 Whether is Matrimonie solemnized in your Church or Chappell , according to the Booke of Common prayer ?

36 Haue you in your Church a Table of Degrees of Mariage ; are any maried within the degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity therein forbidden ; or do any Children vnder the age of twenty one yeares , contract themselues , or marry without consent of their Parents or Gardians ?

37 Haue any bin Married without Banes thrise asked in the Church three seuerall Sundayes or Holy-dayes ( vnlesse by License of the Ordinary graunted vnder Seale ) or at any time of the day , then betwixt the houres of eight and twelue in the forenoone ; or at any times prohibited , that is to say , from Aduent sunday , to the Octaues of the Epiphany from Septuagesima Sunday , to the Octaues of Easter : from Rogation sunday , to Trinitie sunday ?

38 Haue any that dwell in your Parish , been married in any other Parish , or any of an other Parish been maried in your Parish ; or haue any been married priuatly out of the Church or face of the Congregation , when , where , by whom , and who were present at such Mariages ?

39 Hath any Woman not well knowen to be married , beene deliuered of any Child in your Parish , and in whose house : or hath any Woman in pour Parish beene carnally knowen , or begotten with Child before Marriage , and by whom ?

40 Haue any forsaken their Wiues or Husbandes , and maried others ; haue any maried againe after they haue beene Diuorced : Or doe any which haue beene Diuorced , keepe company still together ?

41 Doe any Maried couples liue a sunder and not togeather , and doe either of them keepe in their house , or secretly resort to any other , to the raysing of suspition or fame of incontinencie ?

42 Hath any in your Parish for mony or reward , Married any Woman that committed Fornication or Adultery with an other man ? Or hath any vnmaried Woman begotten with child , goue out of your Parish before she hath done Pennaunce enioyned her by the Ordinarie ; where was she , or is she receiued or harboured , at whose charge , and who conueyed her away ;

Visitation of the sicke .

43 Doth your Minister or Curate visit the Sicke , doth he admonish them to repentance , comfort the Penitent , and exhort them to Charitable and almes deedes ?

Buriall of the Dead .

44 Are your Dead buried according to the forme of Buriall set downe in the booke of Common prayer ; or haue any been buried secretly or in the night , who , and by whom , and who were present thereat ?

45 Doe the Executors or Administrators , or other friends of them that are buried in Church or Chancell , repayre againe the Pauements , and giue any thing to the Church ?

Churching of Women .

46 Doe any Women refuse to giue God thankes openly in the Church , or ( as wee terme it ) to be Churched at conuenient times after Childbirth ; or doth any Minister refuse to Church them , or Church them any other wise then is prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer ?

47 Hath any Woman vnlawfully begotten with Child , been admitted to publique Thanks-giuing in the Church , before she hath performed such Penaunce as was enioyned her by the Ordinary , or at least beene Churched in a White sheete , and confessed her fault penitently before sufficient witnesses , and vndertaken to stand to the censurt of her Ordinary for her sayd offence ?

Parish Clarkes .

48 Haue you a Parish Clarke chosen by the Minister , is he of honest conuersation , hath hee competent skill in reading , writing , and singing : And doth any withhold or detaine his Wages or duties from him ?

Schoole-Masters .

49 Haue you any Schoole-house , and how is it repayred : And haue you any Schoole-maister in your Parish that teacheth publiquely or priuatly , is he lawfully licensed ; doth hee come duely to the Church and receiue the holy Communion : Doth hee instruct his Schollers in the Catechisme allowed , causeth he them to repaire to diuine Prayers in the Church , and to heare and note Sermons : Teacheth he any other Grammer then that which is allowed ?

50 Is any Schoole-maister knowen or suspected publiquely or priuatly to read to their Scollers , or suffer them to read any Booke that may confirme them in popery , superstition , or disobedience to the Kings Maiestie , or to his lawes ecclesiasticall or ciuill ?

Schismatickes and Recusants of all sorts .

51 Doe you know any that teach or maintaine any doctrine contrary to the Articles agreed vpon in the Conuocation . Anno Dom . 1562.

52 Doth any Preach , minister the Communion , baptise Children , or church Women , in priuate Houses , or other where then in the Church , except it be in cases of necessitie ?

53 Know you any that absent themselues from the Church negligently or wilfully , how long haue they so done : And of them that are absent without a sufficient and lawful cause , is the forfayture of xii . d . taken euery Sunday , and conuerted to the vse of the poore , according to the Statute . Eliza . 1 ?

54 In your Parish where there is a Preacher , doe any vse to absent themselues from his Sermon , and resort to any other ?

55 Know you any that forbeare to participate with the Church of England in Prayer or Sacraments , either denying the Church to be Apostolicall , or condemning the Ceremonies thereof as superstitious ?

56 Haue you in your Parish any popish Recusants , any halfe Papistes that come t● the Church and receiue not the Communion , any Church Papists that come and receiue themselues , but either perswade others , or maintaine their wiues , children , familie , or friends not to come ?

57 Doeth any Seminary Priest or Iesuite resort to any place within this Dioces , or suspect you any such : Or doe you know any that resort to any Popish Priest or Iesuite ?

58 Know you any that by writing , talke , or argument , impugne the Kings Supremacie , or any that haue kept in their custody , that sell , disperse , carie , or deliuer vnto others , any vnlawfull bookes against the Religion and Gouernement established , or in defence of any forreigne power or domesticall consistory ?

Excommunicated persons .

59 Are all Excommunicate persons kept out of the Church from Diuine prayers , and receiuing of the holy Communion vntill they bee lawfully absolued ? And are there any in your Parish which haue stood excommunicate fourtie dayes and vpward ; are such persons as stand excommunicated , once in eurey sixe moneths denounced in your Church in time of Diuine Seruice vpon some Sunday ?

60 Hath any Excommunicated person not absolued , ( at least in his extreamitie ) nor giuing any testimony of his repentance before his departure , beene buried in christian burials , who buried him , her , or them ; where , and when , and who were present at such burials ?

61 Doe any retaine or ke●pe in their house or seruice any person denounced excommunicate , or doe any way encourage them therein , or conuerse with them in buying , felling , eating , drinking , or otherwise ?

Willes , Testaments , and Administrations .

62 Doe any in your parish administer the Goods of the dead , or any way entermeddle therewith , without lawfull authoritie committed vnto them vnder the Ordinaries Seale ?

63 Knowe you any in your parish that suppresse the last Will of the Dead ; or any that forge or altar any Willes ; or any Executors that fulfill not the Testators will ; or any that detaine Legacies giuen to any charitable vses ?

Seuerall Articles .

64 Doe any in your parish prophane the Sabath dayes , or not duely obserue the Holy dayes appointed : Are the Ember-fastes orderly obserued at the foure times of the yeere appointed ?

65 Are the dayes and orders of Perambulation duely obserued in the Rogation weeke : if not in whose default ?

66 Are the Canons , Constitutions , and Orders , made and agreed vpon in the Conuocation house Anno Dom . 1603. reade ouer once euery yeere in your Church vpon Sundayes or Holy-dayes , according to his Maiesties commandement in that behalfe ?

67 Doth your Minister yeerely present , and giue vp in writing to the Ordinarie the names of all Recusants , and halfe Recusants , men and women , as well soiourners as parishioners , and common guestes in your parish aboue the age of thirteene yeeres , according to the 114. Canon , or not ?

68 Doe any in your parish take vpon them to practise Phisicke or Chirurgerie , not being lawfully licensed ?

69 Are any in your parish ( or which were of your parish & are now departed ) knowen , suspected , famed , or reported , to haue offended in Fornication , Adultery , Incest , Witchcraft , Sorcerie , Charming , Vsurie , Swearing , Drunkennesse , common Slandering , Sowing of discord , Brawling , Scoulding , or any other vncleannesse of life , or bad manners ?

70 Haue any Apparators , or others , taken any reward to compound or conceale any offence presentable or punishable in the Ecclesiasticall Court ?

Churchwardens and Sidemen .

71 Are your Churchwardens and Sidemen chosen yeerely in the Easter weeke according to the Canons : And doe the Churchwardens yeerely , truely make and deliuer vp in writing their account of all their receipts and disbursements whatsoeuer , by them receiued and layde out for the Parish : and of all the Church goods , Bookes , and other things , as the Canons require ?

72 Doe your Churchwardens themselues come duely to the Church to diuine Prayers and Sermons ; and doe they their beast endeauours , especially on Sundayes and Holydayes , to cause all Parishoners to doe the like ?

73 Whether is there a transcript or coppie of the Register booke of the Church of Christnings , Weddings , and Burials , yeerely exhibited and deliuered vp into the Regestrie of the Ordinarie , or not ?

74 Haue the late Churchwardens concealed any crime , Offence , or Disorder in their times , and not presented the same : what be the matters so concealed : Or Doeth any trouble , molest , or vexe the Minister , Churchwardens or Sidemen , for being presented by them ; and who be they that so doe ?

75 Haue you aduisedly and diligently perused , read , or heard others reade and peruse this Booke of Articles , and euery particuler Article and branch thereof ; and haue you framed your Answeres and Presentments to the same accordingly ?

76 Generally , whether doe you know any of the Canons ( lately set foorth and approoued by his Maiestie ) broken , or any other Ecclesiasticall matter worthy to bee presented , or not ; and if you doe , you shall truely present the same by the Oath you haue taken ?

FINIS . God saue the King .