Iniunctions Giuen by the most reuerende father in Christ Edmonde by the prouidence of God Archbishop of Yorke primate of England and Metropolitane in his Metropoliticall visitation of the Prouince of Yorke aswell to the Clergie as to the Laytie of the same Prouince Anno do 1571. Imprinted at London by William Seres Cum priuilegio Iniunctions giuen by the most Reuerende Father in Christ Edmonde by the prouidence of God Archebishop of Yorke c. ⧠For the Clergie INPRIMIS you must trauel diligently and painefully to set forth Gods true religion and adourne the same with example of godly life being circumspect that you offende no man eyther by light behauiour or by light apparell 2 Item vpon euery Sunday and Holyday yee shall in your Churche or Chappell at conuenient howers reuerently and distinctly say or sing the Common prayer appointed by the lawes of this Realme both in the forenoone and afternoone standing in a pulpit or seate appointed for that purpose and so turnyng your face towards the people as they may best heare the same and vpon euery Wednesday and Friday in the forenoone not beyng holy day ye shall in like manner saie the Letanie and other Praiers appointed for the daie and likewise the euenyng Praier euery Saterday holy Euen and shall also at all times requisite and conuenient duely and reuerently minister the two holy Sacraments that is to say Baptisme and the Lordes Supper commonly called the holy Communion accordyng to such order as is set forth in the booke of Common prayer and administration of the Sacramentes 3 Item ye shall minister the holy Communion euery moneth ones at the least in euery of your Churches Chappels where ministration of the Sacramentes is permitted And to the intent that the people may better vnderstande theyr dueties and come the better prepared to the holy Communion ye shall monethly exhort your Parishioners to come to the same and alwaies giue them warnyng therof the next Sunday before yée ministre the same declaring vnto them that by the lawes of this Realme euery person of conuenient age is bound to receiue the holy Communion at the least thrée times in the yéere and namely at Easter for ones 4 Item that at all times when yée minister the holy Sacramentes and vpon Sundaies and other holy daies when ye say the Common prayer and other diuine seruice in your Parishe Churches and Chappelles and likewise at all Mariages Burials ye shal when ye minister weare a cleane and decent surples with large sléeues and shall Minister the Holy communion in no challice nor any prophane cup or glasse but in a Communion cup of Siluer and with a couer of Siluer appointed also for the ministration of the Communion bread ye shall not deliuer the Communion bread vnto the people into their mouthes but into their handes nor shall vse at the Ministration of the communion any gestures rites or Ceremonies not appointed by the booke of Common prayer as crossinge or breathing ouer the Sacramentall ▪ bread and Wine nor any shewing or liftinge vp of the same to the people to be by them worshipped and adored nor any such like nor shall vse any Oile or Chrisme Tapers Spattle or any other Popishe ceremony in the ministration of the Sacrament of Baptisme 5 Item ye shall euery Sunday and Holy day openly in your Church or chappell call for heare and instructe the children and seruantes both menkinde and womenkinde that be of conuenient age within your Parishe at the least so many of them at once by course as the time will serue and as you may well heare and instruct for an hower at the least before Euening praier in the ten commaundementes the articles of the Beliefe and the Lordes prayer in Englishe and diligently examine and teache them the Catechisme set forth in the booke of Common prayer And to thintent this thinge may be more effectually executed ye shall take the names of all the children yong men maydens and seruantes in your Parishe that be aboue six yeres of age and vnder twentie which can not say the Cathechisme shall call by course certaine of them by name eeuery Sunday and euery Holy day to come to the Catechisme whereby you may easily note and obserue what Parentes or Maisters be negligent in sending their children and seruantes to be instructed and take occasion thereof both priuately and openly to exhorte them to sende their youth as they are appointed and shall present the refusers to the ordinarie 6 Item you shall not admitte to the receiuing of the holy Communion any of your Parish which be openly knowen to liue in any notorious sinne as Incest Adulterie Fornication Drunkennes much Swearing Bawderie Usurie or suche like without dewe penaunce firste donne to the satisfaction of the congregation nor any malicious person that is out of Charitie or that hath done open wrong to his neighbour by woorde or déede without dewe reconciliation firste made to the partie that is wronged or maliced 7 Item you shall not admitte to the holy Communion any of your Parishe men or women being aboue fower and twentie yéeres of age that can not say by heart at the least the tenne Commaundementes the articles of the Faith and the Lordes praier in English nor any being fouretene yéeres and aboue and vnder fower and twentie yéeres of age that can not say by harte the Catechisme that is set forth in the saide booke of common Praier 8 Item for that purpose ye shal before Easter and al other times of the yeare when the holy Communion is to be by you ministred giue warning before vnto your Parishioners to come vnto you either in the afternoone of some Sunday or holy daie or the daie before they purpose to receiue or at some other times before as necessitie shall cause you to appointe if there be any multitude or if the numbre be but small in the morning at the farthest before they shall receiue so that it be before the beginning of Morning prayer so many of them as intende to receiue not onely to signifie vnto you their names to the intent ye may kéepe a Register or note of all suche persons as from time to time shall communicate but also to be by you examined whether they can saie by heart the tenne commaundementes the Articles of the Faith the Lordes prayer and the Catechisme according as after the diuersitie of their ages is aboue required and such of them as either can not or will not recite the same by harte vnto you ye shall repell and put backe from the holy Communion vntill they shall be able willing to learne and can by harte recite the same vnto you for your better assistance wherin ye shall call vpon and require the Churchwardens and Sworne men of your Parishe to be present one of them at the least at euery such examination to thintent they may helpe to put this good order in practise and ye shall take
a note of such wilfull and negligent persons as ye shall finde faultie in this behalfe and so presente the same and the Churchwardens and Sworne men also to the Ordinarie if they shall refuse so to assiste you 9 Item ye shall not marry any persons or aske the Banes of Matrimonie betwene any persons which before were single vnlesse they can saie the Catechisme by harte and will recite the same vnto you before the asking of the Banes. And ye shall not marry any persons without the Banes be thrise on thrée seuerall Sundaies or Holydayes first openly asked without any impediment or forbidding Neither shall ye marry any persons within the degrées of affinitie or consanguinitie by the Lawes of God forbidden so set out for an admonition in a table lately appointed to be affixed in your parishe Churche For the better knowledge of which degrées ye shall reade vnto your Parishioners the saide Table euery yéere twise at the least 10 Item ye shall not admitte to aunswere as Godfathers or Godmothers at the Christening of any Childe any person or persons except he shée and they haue before receiued the holy Communion and can saie by hearte the articles of the Christian Faith in Englishe and will recite the same before you at the time of Ministration of Baptisme or before the Minister if he she or they be therevnto required And being yong folkes except he shée and they can say by hart the whole Catechisme and will recite the same before you as is aforesaide 11 Item ye shall not Church any vnmaried woman which hath bene gotten with childe out of lawfull Matrimonie except it be vpon some Sunday or Holy daie and except shée either before her childebirth haue done dewe penaunce for hir faulte to the satisfaction of the congregation or at hir comming to be Churched shée doe openly acknowledge hir faulte before the congregation accordingly and shewe hir selfe to be very penitent for the same Leauing it frée for the Ordinary to punishe hir further at his discretion 12 Item ye shall euery Sunday when there is no Sermon in your Church or Chappell distinctly and plainely reade in the pulpit some one of the Homelies set forth by the Quéenes Maiesties authoritie or one parte thereof at the least in such sorte as the same are deuided and appointed to be read by the two bookes of the Homelies And euery Holy day when there is no Sermon ye shall immediatly after the Gospell plainely and distinctly recite to your Parishioners the Lordes praier the Articles of the faith and the tenne Commaundementes in Englishe and being not admitted by the Ordinary or other lawful auctoritie ye shall not expounde any Scripture or matter of doctrine by the waie of exhortation or otherwise and thereby omitte and leaue of the reading of the Homelies 13 Item you shall plainely distinctly reade in your Church or Chappel vnto the people betwene the Letanie and the Communion the forme of commination againste sinners with certaine praiers following the same set forth in the later ende of the booke of common Praier thrée times at the least in the yéere that is to saie for orders sake yéerely vpon one of the twoo Sundaies next before Gaster for the first time vpon one of the twoo Sundaies next before the feaste of Pentecoste for the seconde time and for the thirde time vpon one of the twoo Sundaies next before the feaste of the birthe of our Lorde ouer and besides the accustomed reading thereof vpon the firste day of Lente 14 Item you shall reade openly in your Church in these of diuine seruice twise euery yéere vpon some of the Sundaies within one Moneth next after the feastes of Easter and sainte Michaell the Archangel plainely without addition or chainge a declaration of certaine principall Articles of Religion sette foorth by both the Archebishoppes and the reste of the Bishops of this Realme for the vnitie of Doctrine 15 Item ye shall not proclaime bid or obserue nor willingly suffer your Parishioners to obserue any Holy daies or casting daies heretofore abrogated or not appointed by the newe Kalender of the Booke of common Praier to be vsed or kept as Holy daies or Fasting daies nor giue the people any knowledge thereof by any indirect meanes 16 Item ye shall kéepe well the Registers of al Weddings Burials and Christeninges within your Parishe according to thorder prescribed in the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions ▪ and shall present a coppie of them euery yéere once by Indenture to the Ordinarie or his Officers 17 Item you shall Preach or by suche as are lawfully licenced shall cause to be Preached in the Churches where you are Persons or Uicars one Sermon euery quarter of the yeare at the least 18 Item no Minister or Priest shal serue twoo cures at one time nor say common seruice in any priuate mans house without special license vnder the Ordinaries seale Nor any Curate shall serue any one cure within this Prouince without letters testimonial of the Ordinary of the place from whence he came testifiyng the cause of his departinge from thence and of his behauiour there nor onles he shall first obteine and haue speciall license in writing vnder the seale of the Ordinarie of the place whereunto he commeth for his admission to such a cure and shall shewe the same to the Churchwardens before he enter to serue any such cure 19 Item ye shall reade openly in your Churches Chappels in time of diuine seruice the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions euery quarter of a yéere once And these our Iniunctions concerning aswell the Clergie as the Laytie euery halfe yéere once 20 Item for the putting of the Churchwardens and sworne men better in remembrance of their dewtie in obseruing and noting all such persons of your parishe as doe offende in not coming to Diuine seruice ye shall openly euery Sunday after ye haue read the second Lesson at Morning and Euening praier monishe and warne the Churchwardens and Sworne men of your Parishe to looke to their Othes and charge in this behalf and to obserue who contrary to the Lawe doe that day offende either in absenting them selues negligently or wilfully from their parishe Church or Chappell or vnreuerently vse them selues in the time of Diuine seruice and so note the same to the intent they may either present such offenders to the Ordinary when they shal be required therevnto or leuye and take by way of distresse to the vse of the Poore suche forfeitures as are appointed by a Statute made in the first yéere of the Quéenes Maiesties Reigne in that behalfe and if the Churchwardens and Sworne men be negligent or shall refuse to doe their dutie that way ye shall present to the Ordinarie both them and all such others of your Parishe as shall offende either in absenting themselfes from the Church or by vnreuerent behauiour in the Church contrary to the same Statute 21 Item ye shall from time to time diligently call vpon exhort your
raigne of our most gracious soueraigne Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of God Quéene of England Fraunce and Irelande defender of the fayth c. ¶ Imprinted at London by William Seres Anno. 1571. Articles to be enquired of within the prouince of Yorke in the Metropoliticall visitation of the most reuerent father in God Edmond Archebishop of Yorke Primate and Metropolitane of England WHether common prayer be song or sayde by your person Uicar or Curate in your seuerall Churches or Chappels distinctly and reuerently in such order as it is set forth by the lawes of this Realme without any kinde of alteration and at due and conuenient houres And whether your Minister so turne himselfe and stande in such place of your Church or Chauncell as the people may best here the same And whether the holye Sacraments be likewyse ministred reuerently in such maner as by the lawes of this realme is appoynted And whether vpon Wednesdayes and Fridayes not béeing holydayes the Letanie and other prayers appoynted for the day be sayde accordingly 2 Whether you haue in your parish Churches and Chappels all things necessary and requisite for common prayer ▪ and administration of the Sacraments specially the Booke of common prayer with the newe kalender a Psalter the Englishe Bible in the largiest volume the two Tomes of the Homelyes the Paraphrases of Erasmus translated into Englishe the table of the ten cōmaundements a conuenient Pulpit well placed a comely and decent table standing on a frame for the holy Communion with a fayre lynnen cloth to lay vpon the same and some couering of silke Buckram or other such like for the cleane kéeping thereof a fayre and comely Communion cup of siluer and a couer of siluer for the same which may serue also for the ministration of the communion bread a decent large surplesse with sléeues a sure Coffer with two locks keies for the kéeping of the Register booke and a strong chest or boxe for the almose of the poore with thrée locks and keyes to the same and all other things necessary in and to the premisses 3 Whether the forme of commination agaynst sinners with certaine prayers following the same set forth in the latter ende of the booke of common prayer to be vsed at diuers tymes in the yeare be by your Minister plainely and distinctly red in your Church or Chappel vnto the people betwéene the Letany and the cōmemoration or ministration of the holy cōmunion thrée times at the least in the yeare that is to say for order sake yearely vpon one of the thrée Sundayes next before Easter for the first tyme vpon one of the two Sundayes next before the feast of Pentecost for the seconde tyme And for the thirde tyme vpon one of the two Sundayes next before the feast of the birth of our Lord ouer and besides the accustomed reading therof vpon the first day of Lent 4 Whether in your churches and chappels all Aulters be vtterly taken downe and cleane remooued euen vnto the foundation and the place where they stoode paued and the wall wherevnto they ioyned whited ouer and made vniforme with the reast so as no breach or rupture appeare And whether your Roodlofts be taken downe and altered so that the vpper partes thereof with the soller or loft be quite taken downe vnto the crosse beame and that the sayde beame haue some conuenient creast put vpon the same 5 Whether your Churches and Chappels with the chauncels thereof be well and sufficiently repayred and kept without abuse of any thing And whether your churchyardes be well fensed and clenly kept And if any part thereof be in decay through whose default it is so 6 Whether all and euery Antiphonars Masse bookes Grailes Portesses Processionals Manualles Legendaryes and all other bookes of late belonging to your Church or Chappell which serued for the supersticious Latine seruice be vtterly defaced rent and abholished and if they be not through whose default that is and in whose kéeping they remaine And whether all Uestments Albes Tunicles Stoles Phanons Pixes Paxes Handbelles Sacringbelles Senseres Crismatories Crosses Candlestickes Holy water stocks Images and such other reliques and monuments of superstition and Idolatrie be vtterly defaced broken and destroied And if not where in whose custodie they remaine 7 Whether your person vicar curate or minister doe weare any cope in your Parish church or chappell or minister the holy Communion in any Chalice heretofore vsed at Masse or in anye prophane cuppe or glasse or vse at the ministration thereof anye gestures rites or ceremonies not appoynted by the booke of common prayer as crossing or breathing ouer the sacramentall bread and wine or shewing the same to the people to be worshipped and adored or any such lyke of vse any Oyle and Chrisme Tapers spattle or any other Popish ceremonie in the ministration of the Sacrament of Baptisme 8 Whether any holy dayes or fasting dayes heretofore abrogated or not appoynted to be vsed as holy daies or fasting daies by the newe Kalender of the booke of common prayer be eyther proclaymed and bidden by your Person Uicar or Curate or be superstitiously obserued by any of your parish and what be their names that so doe obserue the same and whether there be anye ringing or tolling of Belles to call the people togither vsed in any of those dayes more or otherwise then commonly is vsed vpon other dayes that be kept as workedayes 9 Whether when anye man or woman is in passing out of this lyfe the Bell be tolled to mooue the people to pray for the sicke person especially in all places where the sicke person dwelleth néere vnto the Church and whether after the time of his or hir passing out of this worlde there be any more ringing but one short peale before the buriall and another short peale after the buriall without any other superfluous or supersticious ringing And whether on all Saintes daye after Euening praier there be any ringing at all or any other supersticious ceremonie vsed tending to the maintenaunce of Popishe purgatorie or of prayer for the deade and who they be that vse the same And whether there be any ringing or knolling of belles on sundayes or holy dayes betwene morning prayer and the Letanie or in any time of the common prayer reading of the Homelies or of preaching except one Bell in conuenient time to be rong or tolled before the Sermon or any other ringing vsed vpon Saintes éeues or festiuall dayes sauing to common prayer and that without excesse and who doth ring or knolle otherwise 10 Whether your Person or Uicar haue preached or cause to be duely preached in your Church his quarterly or monethly Sermons as by the Quéenes Iniunctions he is bounde and what be the names of such as haue preached for him and whether he hath admitted any man to preach not hauing sufficient licence or hath inhibited or letted anye from preaching hauing sufficient licence 11 Whether any Person or Persons not
being ordred at the least for a Deacon or licenced by the Ordinarie do say common prayer openly in your Church or Chappell or anye not being at the least a Deacon doe solemnise Matrimonie or administer the Sacrament of Baptisme or deliuer vnto the Communicants the Lordes Cup at the celebracion of the holye Communion and what he or they be that so doe And whether the Person Uicar or Fermer of your benefice do cause or suffer any Curat or Minister to serue your Church before he be examined and admitted by the ordinarie or his deputie in writing and doe shewe his licence to the Churchwardens and whether any Curat doe serue two Cures at one time without the speciall licence of the Ordinarie or his deputie in that behalfe in writing first had 12 Whether your Person Uicar or Curat doe euerie Sunday when there is no Sermon reade distinctly and playnly some parte of the Homilies prescribed and set forth by the Quéenes authoritie to be read and euery holy day when there is no Sermon immediatly after the Gospell openly plainely and distinctly recyte to his Parishioners the Lordes prayer the Articles of the fayth and the tenne Commaundements in english and whether anye Minister not admitted by the Ordinarie or by other lawfull authoritie doe erpounde any scripture or matter of doctrine by the way of exhortation or otherwyse and thereby omit and leaue of the reading of the Homelies 13 Whether your Person Uicar or Curat doe euery Sunday and holy day openly in the Church call for here and instruct all the Children Apprentises and seruaunts of both sexes that be of conuenient age within your Parish or at the least so many of them by course as the time will serue and as he may well heare and instruct for halfe an houre at the least before or at the euening prayer in the tenne Commaundementes the Articles of the beliefe and the Lords prayer and diligentlye examine and teach them the Catechisme set forth in the booke of common prayer And whether for that purpose he doth take the names of them all and by course call certaine of them by name euery sunday holy day to come to the teaching of the same Catechisme 14 Whether all fathers and mothers maysters and dames of your Parishe cause their children seruauntes and apprentises both mankinde and womankind being aboue seuen yeres of age and vnder twentie which haue not learned the Catechisme to come to the Church on Sundayes and holydayes at the tymes appointed or at the least such and so manye of them as your minister shall appoynt and there diligently and obediently to heare and to be ordered by the minister vntill such tyme as they haue learned the same Catechisme and what be the names of those that doe not cause their children seruaunts and apprentises so to come to the church to be instructed and examined and howe many of the sayde children sruaunts and apprentises be in your Parish which being aboue seuen yeares olde and vnder twentie yeares of age can not saye by heart the sayde Catechisme and what be their names and age and with whom they dwell 15 Whether your Person Uicar Curate or other Minister in your Church or Chappell hath admitted to the receyuing of the holy Communion any open and notorious sinner or euill liuer by whom the congregation is offended without due penance first done to the satisfaction of the congregation or any malicious person that is out of charitie or that hath done any open wrong to his neighbour by worde or déede without due reconciliation first made to the partie that is wronged 16 Whether your person vicar curate or minister hath admitted to the holy Communion any of his Parishe being aboue twentie yeares of age eyther mankind or womankind that cannot say by heart the ten Commaundements the Articles of the fayth and the Lordes prayer in English and what be the names of such as cannot say the same or being aboue fourtéene yeares and vnder twenty yeares of age that can not say the Catechisme set forth in the sayde booke of common prayer And whether he marry any persons which were single before that cannot say the Catechisme And whether he vseth to examine his Parishioners at conuenient tymes before he administer vnto them and namely before Easter yearely to the intent he maye knowe whether they can say by heart the same which is required in this behalfe or no 17 Whether your Priestes and Ministers be peacemakers and no brawlers or sowers of discorde and exhort their Parishioners to obedience towardes their Prince and all other that be in authoritie and to charitie and mutuall loue among themselues whether they be diligent in visiting the sick and comforting them and doe mooue them earnestly especially when they make theyr Testaments to consider the necessitie of the poore and to giue to their boxe or chest their charitable deuotion and almose 18 Whether they neglect the studie of the holye Scriptures and of the worde of God and whether such of them as be vnder the degrée of a mayster of Arte haue of their owne at the least the newe Testament both in English and Latine and whether they doe euery day with good aduisement conferre one Chapter of the Latine and English togither at the least And whether they haue giuen due accompt thereof and to whome 19 Whether anye of your persons vicars curates or ministers be fauourers of the Romishe or forreyne power letters of true religion preachers of corrupt and Popishe doctrine or mainteyners of sectaryes or doe set forth and extoll vaine and supersticious religion or be mainteyners of the vnlearned people in ignoraunce and errour encouraging or moouing them rather to pray in an vnknowne tongue than in Englishe or to put their trust in a certain number of prayers as in saying ouer a number of beades Ladie Psalters or other like 20 Whether any doe preach declare or speake any thing in derogation of the booke of common prayer which is set forth by the lawes of this Realme dispraysing the same or any thing therin contained 21 Whether your persons vicars curates haue twise in the yere vpon some Sundaye within one Moneth next after Easter and Michaelmasse read openly in the church after the gospell be said plainly without addition or chaunge a declaratiō of certaine principall articles of religion set forth by both the Archbishops and the reast of the Bishops of this realme for vnity of doctrine 22 Whether your person vicare curate minister or reader doe church any vnmaried woman which hath bene gotten wyth childe out of lawfull mariage say for hir the forme of thankesgiuing of women after childbirth except such an vnmaried woman haue either before hir childbirth done due penaunce for hir fault to the satisfaction of the congregation or at hir comming to giue hankes doe openly acknowledge hir fault before the congregaion at the appoyntment of the Minister according to order prescribed to the sayde
whether he be able and readie to read the first Lesson the Epistle and the Psalmes with aunswere to the suffrages as is vsed and whether he kéepe not the bookes and ornaments of the Church fayre and cleane and cause the Church and Quéere the Communion Table the Pulpet and the Font to be made decent and cleane agaynst seruice time the communion sermon and baptisme 40 Whether there be any man or woman in your Parish that resorteth to any Popish priest for shrift or auricular confession or any that within thrée yeares now last past hath béene reconciled vnto the Pope or to the church of Rome or any that is reputed or suspected so to be and whether there be any that refuse to come to the Church to heare diuine seruice or to communicate according to the order now established by publicke authoritie and what be their names 41 Whether there be anye person or persons ecclesiasticall or temporall within your Parish or else where within this Dioces that of late haue retayned or kept in theyr custodie or that read sell vtter disperse cary or deliuer to others anye Englishe bookes set forth of late yeares at Louain or in any other place beyonde the seas by Harding Dorman Allen Saunders Stapleton Marshall or any of them or by any other Englishe Papist eyther agaynst the Quéenes Maiesties Supremacie in matters ecclesiasticall or agaynst true religion and catholicke Doctrine now receyued and established by common authoritie within thys Realme and what their names and surnames are 42 Whether there be any in your Parishe that vseth to pray in English or in Latine vpon Beades or other such like thing or vpon any superstitious popishe Primer or other like booke and what be their names 43 Whether the people of your parish especially housholders hauing no lawfull excuse to be absent doe faythfullye and diligently endeuour themselues to resort with their Children and Seruauntes to their parish Church or Chappell on the holye dayes and chiefly vpon the Sundayes to Morning and Euening prayer vpon reasonable let thereof to some vsuall place where common prayer is vsed and then and there abyde orderly and soberly during the time of common prayer Homelyes Sermons and other seruice of God there vsed reuerentlye and deuoutly giuing themselues to the hearing thereof and occupying themselues at times conuenient in priuate prayer who they be that eyther negligently or wilfully absent themselues or come very late to the Church vpon the Sundayes especially or that walke talke or otherwise vnreuerently behaue themselues in the Church or vse any gaming abrode or in any house or sit in the Stretes or Churchyarde or in any Tauerne or Alehouse vpon the Sundaye or other holy day in the time of common prayer Sermons or reading of the Homelies eyther before noone or after noone 44 Whether the forfeyture of twelue pence for euerye such offence appoynted by a statute made in the first yere of the Quéenes Maiesties raigne be leuied and taken according to the same Statute by the Churchwardens of euerye person that so offendeth and by them be put to the vse of the poore of the parish and if it be not by whose default it is not leuied And what perticuler sommes of money haue béene forfaited that way and by whome since the feast of Easter in the yere of our Lorde 1570. vntill the day of giuing vp the presentment concerning these Articles And so from time to time as the said Churchwardens and swornemen shall be appoynted to present in this behalfe and how much of such forfeitures haue bene deliuered to the vse of the poore of the parish and to whome the same hath béene deliuered 45 Whether ye knowe any that in the time of the reding of the Letanie or of any other part of the common prayer or in the time of the Sermon or of reding the Homelies or anye part of the Scriptures to the parishioners any person haue departed out of the Church without iust and necessarie cause or that disturbeth the Minister or preacher any maner of wayes in the time of diuine seruice or Sermon And whether any in contempt of their parish Church or Minister doe resort to any other church or no 46 Whether there be any Inkéepers Alewiues Uitailors or Tipplers that suffer or doe admit any person or persons in their houses to eate drinke or play at Cardes Tables or such lyke games in the time of common prayer or Sermon on the Sundaies or holy daies And whether there be anye Shoppes set open on Sundayes or Holy dayes or any Butchers or others that commonly vse to sell meate or other things in the time of common prayer preaching or reding of the Homelies And whether in any Faires or common Marketes falling vpon the Sunday there be any shewing of any wares before the diuine seruice be done And whether any Markets or selling of any wares be vsed or suffred in any Church yardes 47 Whether for the putting of the Churchwardens and Swornemen the better in remembraunce of their duetie in obseruing and noting such as offend in not comming to diuine seruice your Minister or reader doe openly euery Sunday after he haue red the seconde Lesson at morning and euening prayer monish and warne the Churchwardens and swornemen to looke to their charge in this behalfe and to obserue who contrarie to the sayde Statute offende in absenting themselues negligently or wilfully from their parish Church or Chappell or vnreuerently as is aforesaide vse themselues in the time of diuine seruice 48 Whether the Churchwardens of the last yeare haue giuen to the parish a iust accompt of the church goodes and rentes that were committed to their charge according vnto the custome that hath béene afore time vsed and what church goodes they or any other haue solde and to whome and whether to the profite of your church or no And what hath béene done with the money thereof comming 49 Whether the churchwardens and swornemen of the last yere haue of any priuat corrupt affection concealed any crime or other disorder in their time done in your parishe and haue not presented the same to the Bishop Chauncelor Archedeacon Commissarie or such other as had authoritie to reforme the same and whether they or any of them at any such time as they shoulde haue béene at diuine seruice on Sundaies or Holy dayes and shoulde there haue obserued others that were absent haue béene away themselues at home or in some Tauerne or Alehouse or else about some worldly businesse or at Bowles Cardes Tables or other gaming without regarde of their office and duetie in that behalfe 50 Whether any man hath pulled downe or discouered any church chauncell or chappell or any part of anye of them any church porche Uestrie or Stéeple almose house or such like or haue plucked downe the Belles or haue felled or spoyled anye wood or timber in any church yarde 51 Whether your Hospitals Spittles and almose houses be well and godly