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
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 y e people But doth he there conclude only with Glory to God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost and
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 y e 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 wâ—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