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B07647	Articles, to be enquired of vvithin the dioces of London, in the third generall visitation of the reuerend Father in God, Richard, Bishop of London. Holden in the yeere of our Lord God 1604. In the second yeere of the raigne of our most gratious Soueraigne Lord Iames, by the grace of God of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, king, defender of the fayth; and of Scotland the thirtie eight, &c..	Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1597-1604 : Bancroft); Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610.	1604 (1604)	STC 10255; ESTC S92374	12,178	17

ARTICLES To be enquired of vvithin the Dioces of London in the third generall Visitation of the reuerend Father in God Richard Bishop of London HOLDEN In the yeere of our Lord God 1604. In the second yeere of the raigne of our most gratious Soueraigne Lord IAMES by the grace of God of England Fraunce and Ireland King defender of the fayth and of Scotland the thirtie eight c. Imprinted at London for Clement Knight 1604. A Branch of the Statute made in the first yeere of the raigne of our late Soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth intituled An Act for the vniformitie of Common Prayer and seruice in the Church THat from and after the feast of the Natiuitie of St. Iohn Baptist next comming all and euery person persons inhabiting within this Realme or any other the Queenes maiesties dominions shall diligently and faythfully hauing no lawfull or reasonable excuse to be absent indeuour themselues to resort to their parish Church or Chappell accustomed or vppon reasonable let thereof to some vsuall place where common prayer and such like seruice of God shall be vsed in such time of let vpon euery Sunday and other dayes ordayned and vsed to be kept as Holy dayes and then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of common prayer preaching or other seruice of God there to be vsed and ministred vpon paine of punishment by the Censures of the Church And also vpon paine that euery person so offending shall forfeite for euery such offence twelue pence to be leuied by the Church-wardens of the parish where such offence shall be done to the vse of the poore of the same parish of the goodes landes and tenementes of such offender by way of distresse And for due execution heereof the Queenes most excellent Maiestie the Lordes temparall and all the commons in this present Parliament assembled doth in Gods name earnestly require and charge all the Archbishops Bishops and other Ordinaries that they shall indeuour themselues to the vttirmost of their knowledge that the true and due execution hereof may be had throughout their Diocesse and charges as they will answere before God for such euils and plagues wherewith almightie God may iustly punish his people for neglecting this good and holsome Lawe The tenour of the Othe ministred to the Churchwardens and Swornemen YOu wall sweare that all affection fauour hatred hope of rewarde and gaine or feare of displeasure or mallice set aside you shall vpon due consideration of the Articles giuen you in charge present all and euery such person of or within your parish as hath committed any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected or otherwise defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shall deale vprightly and according to trueth neither of malice presenting any contrary to trueth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and so conceale the trueth hauing in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine trueth and to suppresse vice So helpe you God and the contentes of this Booke The Charge of the Churchwardens and Swornemen set downe for the better performance of their dueties and discharge of their Othes THey are straightly charged to heare all these Articles read ouer to them and diligently to consider and inquire thereof and for that the time is so short in this Visitation that they shall not be able to make a perfect answere vnto all them and that notwithstanding there are many notorious faultes presently worthy of presentment and reformation they are charged after their returne home that together with their Minister they do read ouer all these Articles distinctly and leasurely to the end they may consider of euery perticuler Article and of the offences in them conteined as of such persons in their parish as shal be noted to offende in any of them and after that to assemble themselues in some conuenient time together and to make their Bill answering euery Article by it selfe before the feast of St. Martin next ensuing being the 10 day of Nouember which Bill shall be signed with the hand of the Minister and of all the Church-wardens and Side-men and shall for their better ease be brought by one of the Church-wardens vpon the _____ day of Nouember next vnto the Church of _____ where for the sauing of their trauell and charges vp to London the Iudge and the Register will be readie to receiue them Articles to be enqired of vvithin the Dioces of London in this Visitation holden in the yeere of our Lord God 1604. Articles concerning the Clergie 1 WHether is Common prayer read by your Minister in your Church or Chappel distinctly and reuerently vppon all Sundayes and Holy dayes and in such order as is set foorth by the Lawes of this Realme in the booke of Common prayer without any kind of alteration omitting or adding any thing and at due and conuenient houres 2 Whether doth your Minister vpon Wednesdayes Frydayes not being Holy dayes read in your Church or Chappell publikely the Letanie and other prayers appoynted in the said booke for those dayes and whether doth he read the Commination against sinners in such order and forme as it is there also prescribed 3 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate in the administration of the Lordes Supper or of Baptisme when he solemnizeth Matrimonie burieth the dead churcheth women c. vse the formes and prayers prescribed in the Communion booke without omitting or altering any part of them and without any of his owne additions 4 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate read publike prayer administer the Sacramentes ordinarily himselfe vsing such rites and ceremonies as are prescribed in the booke of Common prayer as namely whether doth he kneele at the receiuing of the holy Communion and administer the same to none but to such as do kneele at the receiuing therof make the signe of the Crosse vpon the childes forehead in the administration of Baptisme Baptise any without Godfathers and Godmothers vse the Ring in marriage and generally whether doth he in the discharging of al these dueties and when he readeth Common prayer eyther vpon Sundayes Holy dayes Wednesdayes and Frydayes weare a Surplice 5 Whether doth your Minister vpon Sundayes at morning prayer declare vnto the parishioners what Holydayes and Fasting dayes are appoynted to be kept the weeke following whereby they may be put in minde to prepare themselues and to repaire to the Church to publike prayer according to the lawes of the Realme 6 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate or either of them reiect at any time those women being married which do come to church to giue God thankes after their childbirth or refuse or neglect to visit the sicke or to burie the dead according to their duties prescribed in the booke of common prayer 7 Whether doth your minister in the Rogation dayes of procession vse the

perambulation of the circuite of your parish appoynted by Law and whether doth he in the sayd perambulation moone the people to giue thankes to God in the beholding of his benefites for the increase and aboundance of his fruites vpon the face of the earth and sing or say the two Psalmes beginning Prayse the Lord O my soule c. with the Letanie suffrages therevnto belonging and at certaine conuenient places reade the Homily of thanksgiuing to God alreadie deuised and diuided into foure partes without addition of any superstitious ceremonie heretofore vsed 8 Whether doth any man being neither Minister nor Deacon read common prayer openly in your Church or Chappel or administer the sacrament of baptisme or solemnize matrimony or take vpon him to practise any other ministeriall dutie in the church that is prescribed to be executed particularly by such as are either ministers or Deacons what is his name that so doth 9 Whether is your Parson or Vicar a Preacher licensed to preach by lawfull authoritie according to Law if he be how many Sermons doth he preach yeerely if he be not how many doth he procure to be preached by others who hath preached them and whether were they Preachers lycensed as is before expressed 10 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate euery Sunday Holy day when there is no Sermon read distinctly and plainely some part of the Homilies prescribed and set foorth by Law 11 Whether doth the Parson Vicar or Farmour of the Benefice in your parish cause or suffer any Curate or Minister either to read seruice c. or to preach before he the said Curate being no preacher be examined admitted by the Ordinarie in writing and before he the said Curate being a preacher be thereunto admitted according to Law and before they shew their sayd seuerall licences vnto the Churchwardens 12 Whether doth your Preacher in his prayer which he maketh at the entraunce into his Sermon vse at all times the prayer for his Maiestie for our geacious Queene the Prince and all the rest of the royall progenie with his whole title as King of England Scotland Fraunce and Ireland defender of the fayth c. and of all causes and ouer all persons within his highnesse dominions as well ecclesiasticall as temporall next and immediatly vnder God supreme gouernor And whether doth he in like manner then pray for the Archbishops and Bishops as by law is also appoynted 13 Whether your Minister doth serue two Cures in one day 14 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate euery Sunday and Holy day openly in the Church earnestly call for heare and instruct all the Children Apprentises and Seruants 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 instruct one houre at the least before or after euening prayer in the ten Commandements the Articles of the beliefe and the Lords prayer and diligently examine teach them the Catechisme as it is now allowed and set foorth in the booke of Common prayer 15 Whether is there any man in your parish being neither your Parson Vicar nor Curate that taketh vpon him to preach or read Lectures eyther in priuate houses or publikely in your church or chappell who is not licensed to preach or read there or who doth not once a yeere at the least administer the Sacraments in your sayd Church or Chappell where he so preacheth or readeth according to the booke 16 Whether your Minister hath or doth receiue to the holy Communion any persons which be not of his owne parish without testimonie from the Minister of the place where they dwell what they be that it may appeare that they be not persons excommunicate or otherwise infamous 17 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate reiect any from the holy Communion who is not by publique fame or by presentment of the Church-wardens detected for a notorious Fornicator Adulterer or other wicked lyuer or disturber of his neighbours by whom publique offence is giuen and whether he receiue any such person so infamed or presented to the holy Communion before publique penaunce inioyned by his Ordinarie be by him first performed to the satisfaction of the Congregation according to the Law in that case prouided 18 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate or any other Minister or Preacher baptise in your Parish-church or Chappell any Infants not in the Font according to the antient custome but in a Bason and vrge the parentes of the sayd Infant to be present in place of Godfathers for their children 19 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate once euery quarter of the yeere read his Maiesties Iniunctions openly and deliberately before his parishioners at one time or at two seuerall times in one day according as in the sayd Iniunctions it is prescribed 20 Whether hath your Parson Vicar or Curate or any other Minister publiquely or priuately preached declared or spoken any thing in your parish in derogation of the booke of Common-prayer which is set foorth by the lawes of this Realme dispraysing or deprauing the same or any thing therein contayned or against the present estate of the Ecclesiasticall gouernement established by the same authoritie or agaynst any office function or part thereof affirming the same to be vnlawfull 21 Whether hath your Parson or Vicar more Benefices then one yf he hath not whether is he resident vpon that one yf he be not resident where doth he remayne and whether doth he leaue a sufficient Minister and Preacher to supply his absence allowyng something yeerely towardes the reliefe of the poore and what doth he so allow 22 Whether is your Parson or Vicar who hath two Benefices within this Dioces or one Benefice in this Dioces an other foorth of the same resident one halfe of the yeere on one of them and the other halfe yeere or the greater part thereof vpon his other Benefice and whether doth he leaue the Benefice in your parysh prouided of a sufficient Preacher to serue it and hath an especial care of some conuenient hospitality to be kept in his absence according to his ability and the proportion of that lyuing 23 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate keepe a iust and perfect note of all such as do communicate in your parish and do not rather regarding their priuate gayne receiue their offeringes at Easter delyuer them Tokens enter them into their booke and so certifie as communicantes those who neuer receiued 24 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate keepe any man or woman in their houses that are suspected to be eyther of euill religion or of bad life or whether be they or any of them incontinent persons themselues or giuen to drunkennes or to be haunters of tauerns alehouses or suspected places common Dicers Carders Tableplayers Swearers Dauncers or otherwise suspected persons of any notorious crime or light and vnseemely

behauiour or giue euill example of lyfe or vse disordered or vnseemely apparrell eyther in cullours guardes or light fashion 25 Whether there be any Ministers or Priestes within your parish which liue idlely without any care neyther seruing in any place nor hauing any place of reading or preaching and so become offensiue to their calling and what be their names who so lyue and how long haue they been with you Articles concerning the Church 1 WHether haue you in your parish Churches and Chappels all things necessarie and requisite for Common prayer and administration of the Sacramentes especially the booke of Common prayer with the new Kalender two Psalters all set foorth by his Maiesties especiall commaundement and Proclamation onely to be vsed printed by his Highnesse Printer the which you were by your Archdeacons commaunded from mee to haue bought before Whitsontide last the English Bible in the largest volume of the edition set foorth by the Bishops and lately imprinted by the Kinges Printer the Table of the ten Commaundements a conuenient Pulpit well placed a comely and decent Table standing vpon a frame for the holy Communion with a faire Linnen cloth to lay vpon the same and some couering of Silke Buckram or other such like for the cleane keeping thereof a faire and comely communion Cuppe of Siluer and a couer of Siluer for the same which may serue also for the ministration of the communion Bread a decent large Surples with fleeues and a strong Chest or Boxe for the almes of the poore with three lockes and keyes to the same and all other thinges necessarie in and to the premisses 2 Whether there haue growne in your Church since the last Visitation in the yeere 1601. any contention betwixt any of the parishioners touching the placing or displacing of any in any seate or pew in the Church and whether there hath been any Pew buylded since the foresayd yeere 1601. in any your Churches without the expresse leaue and consent first had of the Ordinarie of the Dioces and by whom haue any such been built 3 Whether is your Church or Chappell and the Chauncell well and sufficiently repaired and kept without abuse of any thing whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate or the Proprietarie or Farmer of your Parsonage or Vicarage in your parish keepe the Parsonage or Vicarage house with all other the edifices thereunto appertaining in good and sufficient reparations and whether is your Church-yard well fenced and cleanly kept without any lapstall or other annoyances 4 Whether your Church be a Parsonage or a Vicarage presentatiue or bonatiue or otherwise serued by a Curate whether did they euer heeretofore heare or know that it was a Parsonage or Vicarage and how came it to be decayed from being presentatiue to be in the state it now is and when was it first decayed from being a benefice presentatiue as you remember 5 Whether your Foules or Baptisteries be remooued from the place where they were wont to stand towardes the lower end of the Church or whether any persons leauing the vse of them do christen or baptise in Basons or other vessels not accustomably vsed in the Church before time or do vse any kind of Lauor with a remooueable Bason or haue taken downe the old and vsuall Font heretofore vsed in your perish 6 Whether is there in your Parish a sufficient Register booke of Parchment of marriages christnings and burials prouided at the charge of the Parish whether are all the names of those that haue been either christened married or buried since the beginning of her lace Maiesties raigne newly written into the sayd Parchment booke Whether doth the Minister euery Sunday read the names publikely of those that were either christned married or buried the weeke before Whether haue you a publike Chest with three lockes for the Minister and the two Church-wardens to keepe the sayd Booke in and whether haue you brought a transcript of all the names of such as haue been christned marryed and buried this last yeere into M. Blackwell my Register his office as you are bound to do euery yeere hereafter within a month after the Feast of Easter by the Constitutions Articles concerning Ecclesiasticall Officers 1 WHether the Chancelor Archdeacon Commissarie Officiall or any other vsing Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction in this Dioces their Registers or Actuaries Apparators or Summoners haue at any time winked at and suffered any adulterers fornicators incests or other faultes or offences presented vnto them to passe and remaine vnpunished and vncorrected for mony rewardes bribes pleasure friendship or any other partiall respect 2 Whether doth the Chancellor Commissaries Archdeacons or any other Officials heare any matters of office or correction priuately in their chambers without the presence of the sworne Register or his deputie or do discharge any mans penance for money without the consent of the L. Bishop according to the constitutions or doe sende any writing vnder their owne hands to your Church without the Registers presence at the doing of it eyther for marryage of any couples or for ending or ordering of any matter or penance 3 Whether the Chauncelor Officiall or Commissarie haue caused for or caused the Church-wardens to make bring or to pay for any more Billes of presentment then once in euery yeere or do call for their quarter Billes or make the Church-wardens pay for them Articles concerning Schoolemaisters 1 WWhether the Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters within your parish openly or priuately in any Noble or Gentlemans house or in any other place be of good and sinceere religion life and conuersation and be diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth and whether they haue been examined allowed and licensed for Schoolemaisters by the Ordinarie in that behalfe 2 Whether your Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters do themselues receiue the holy Communion as often as they ought to do and whether do all their Schollers which be of age sufficient and of copacitie by instruction to receiue the Lords Supper come to the Communion either in your Church or where their Parents dwell once euery yeere and be diligent to heare Common prayer 3 Whether your Schoolemaster or Schoolemasters do orderly on Sundayes with their Schollers come to the Church of their parish where they teach and there see their Schollers placed in some conuenient place so as they do not disquiet the minister or parish in time of diuine seruice but may exercise themselues godly in reading and hearing the Seruice Sermons and in answering with the congregation in reading of publike prayer 4 Whether the Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters either priuate or publike do teach their Schollers the Catechisme authorized by publike authoritie at the least once euery weeke and do instruct and examine them in the same or do teach any other Catechisme and what Catechisme it is that they so do teach 5 Whether your Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters or any of them be knowne or suspected to read vnto their Schollers priuately any vnlawfull Bookes or priuately

or other disorder in their time done in your parish and haue not presented the same to the Bishop Chauncelor Archdeacon Commissarie or such other as had authoritie to reforme the same and whether they or any of them at any such time as they should haue been at diuine seruice on Sundayes and Holy dayes and should there haue obserued others that were absent haue beene away themselues at home or in some Tauerne or Alehouse or else about some worldly businesse or at bowles cardes tables dice or other gaming without regard of their office and duetie in that behalfe 16 Whether your Minister and you the Church-wardens or any other in your parish haue in your regestries made any orders or do vse to call any parties before you for any cause to be ordered by the Ecclesiasticall lawes and so do vse a kind of Presbiterie or censuring ouer your neighboures vnder pretence of your vestrie meetings 17 Whether any of your parish being of conuenient age haue not receiued the holy Communion thrice this last yeere at the least and namely at Easter last or thereaboutes for once and what their names are or which at their receiuing haue not signified the same before to your Parson Vicar or Curate that he might conueniently examine them and who haue refused to come to him to be examined 18 Whether there be any in your parish that doth administer the goodes of those that be dead without lawfull authoritie or any that suppresse the last will of the dead or any Executors that haue not fulfilled their testators last will in paying of legacies giuen to the Church or to other good and godly vses as to the reliefe of pouerty to Orphanes poore Schollers poore Maydens marriages High-wayes and such like and by whom are they so deteyned 19 Whether there be any in your parish that since the fourth of August 1601. hath or doth offend contrary to the Statute made in the seauen and thirtieth yeere of the raigne of King Henrie the eight for the reformation of Vsurie and reuiued by an Act made in the thirteenth yeere of the raigne of our late Queene Elizabeth taking aboue the rate of ten poundes for the lending of an hundred poundes by the yeere and what be the names of such offenders 20 Whether hath your Minister or any of the parish without the consent or priuitie of the Ordinarie caused any to do penance or be punished eyther openly or otherwise for any crime punishable by the Ecclesiasticall lawes onely and what be the names of the parties that haue been so punished and in what manner 21 Whether there be any amongst you that do vse Sorcerie or Witchcraft punishable by the Ecclesiasticall lawes or that be suspected of the same and whether any vse any Charmes or vnlawfull Prayers and whether any do resort to any such for helpe and councell and what be the names both of such as vse it and of such as resort to them for helpe 22 Whether any couples that be marryed in priuate houses within these three yeeres last past haue been knowne or suspected to haue been marryed by any popish Priest or otherwise after any other order then is appoynted by the Church of England 23 Whether there be among you any blasphemers of the name of God great or often swearers adulterers fornicators harlots or whoremasters incestuous persons bawdes or receiuers of naughtie and incontinent persons or harborers of women with child which be vnmarryed conueying or suffering them to go away before they do any penance or any that be vehemently suspected of any such faultes or that be not of good name and fame touching such crimes and faultes of drunkards or ribawdes or any that be malitious contentious or vncharitable persons raylers scoulders or sowers of discord betweene nighbours and especially raylers against ministers and against their marryage and what be all their seuerall names 24 Whether there be any in these partes that haue been marryed within the degrees of affinitie or consanguinitie by the lawes of God forbidden or any that being diuorced or seperated for the same do yet notwithstanding cohabite and keepe company still together or any that being marryed without those degrees haue vnlawfully forsaken their wiues or husbandes and marryed others Any that being diuorced or separated a sunder haue marryed againe any that haue marryed without Banes three seuerall Sundayes or Holy dayes solemnely asked without lawfull license thereunto or any couples married that liue not together but slaunderously liue apart 25 Whether there be any in your parish who will come to heare the Sermon but will not come to the publike prayer appoynted by the booke of Common prayer making a schisme or diuision as it were betweene the vse of publike prayer and preaching And whether there be any who being present at publike prayer do not deuoutly and humbly kneele vpon their knees at such times as by the Booke of common prayer they are appoynted to wit when they make a generall confession of their sinnes when all prayers and Collects are read in the time of the Lettenie when the tenne Commaundements are read and at their receiuing of the holy Communion c. and what are their names that haue at any time shewed themselues vnduetifull and vnreuerent in this behalfe 26 Whether the Minister and Church-wardens haue suffered any Lord of Mis-rule or Summer lord or ladyes or any disguised persons any players or May-games or any Moris-dauncers at any time to come vnreuerently into the Church or Church yard and there to daunce or play or shew them selues disguised in the time of Common prayer and what they be that commit such disorder or that accompanied or maintayned them or any Playes to be played in the Church 27 Whether there be any marryed women or others within your Parish which after chyldbirth refuse or contemne to come to the Church to giue God thankes for their deliuery and to haue the prayers publikely appoynted in that behalfe by the booke of common prayer 28 Whether any within your Parish do resort vnto Barnes Fieldes Woodes priuate Houses or to any extraordinay exposition of Scriptures or conferences together or that be drawers or perswaders of others to any such scismaticall conuenticles 29 Whether any do keepe their chyldren vnbaptized longer then is conueuient vnlesse it be for sicknesse of the child or other vrgent occasion And whether any doe carry their children from the Parish they are borne in to other Parishes to be bapitzed and so refuse their owne Parish or do bring strange ministers into their owne houses to baptize their children priuatly according to their owne fantasies 30 Whether any notorious Recusant who obstinately refuseth to be partaker with the Church of England in publike prayer and hearing of the word of God preached who is for his disobedience and contempt excommunicated and dyeth excommunicate be buryed in Christian buriall not hauing before his death sought to be absolued and testified the same his submission to some honest and discreete man who shall vpon his oath signifie to the Bishop of the Dioces whereby his Lordship may giue order to the Ordinarie before whom he was excommunicate for his absolution AT the deliuerie of your Bill of presentment at the time and place aboue set downe you are likewise in the sayd Bill to set downe the names of all such as haue been buried at any time since the seuenth of August 1604. being men maydes or widdowes and likewise the names of such as haue been married by any License since that time and out of what Court they haue been graunted since the sayd seuenth of August FINIS

to instruct them in their young yeeres either in poperie superstition or disobedience or contempt to his Maiestie and his lawes Ecclesiasticall by publike authoritie allowed 6 Whether your Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters or any of them vnder pretence of Catechising their Schollers which is a most godly order carefully by them to be obserued do keepe lectures readinges or exposition in diuinitie in their houses hauing repaire vnto them of people not being of their owne family and househould 7 Whether the Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters within your parish do teach his or their Schollers any other Grammer then that which is commonly called the Kinges Grammer set foorth by the authoritie of King Henrie the eight Articles concerning the Parishioners and others of the Laitie 1 WHether all Householders in your parish cause their children seruants and apprentises both mankind womankind being aboue seuen yeeres of age and vnder twentie which haue not learned the Catechisme to come to the Church on Sundayes and Holy dayes at the time appoynted for Cetechising and there diligently and obediently to heare and what be the names of those that do not cause their children seruants and apprentises so to come to the Church to be instructed and examined 2 Whether the Churchwardens do delyuer to the Archdeacon at his Visitation a note of all those who do not sende their children and seruantes to be catechized 3 Whether any do worke or keepe any shoppe open vpon Saboth dayes or vpon any Holy dayes appoynted by the lawes of this Realme to be kepe Holy day or vse any worke or labour or open shew of their wares in any of those dayes 4 Whether you your selues or the Churchwardens in the yeeres before you haue suffered any vnmarryed women being begotten with child to goe out of your parish before she hath by you or them been presented to your Ordinarie or any man defamed of whoredome to depart vnpunished vpon direction appoynted by the Ordinarie And foorth of whose houses haue they gone away with child vnpunished and what be the names of such vnmarryed women which haue been deliuered within your parish this three yeeres last past haue gone away without doing of penance 5 Whether the parish Clarke be appoynted according to the law by the Parson or Vicar of the parish with the allowance of the Ordinarie and whether he be not obedient to the Parson Vicar or Curate and whether he be able to read and whether he keepe the Bookes and Ornaments of the Church faire and cleane and cause the Church and Quire the Communion Table and the Font to be kept cleane and decent against the Seruice time the Communion Sermon and Baptisme 6 Whether there be any person or persons ecclesiasticall or temporall within your parish or else whese within this Dioces that haue retayned and kept in their custody or that read sell vtter disperse carry or deliuer to others any English Bookes or Libels set forth either on this side or beyond the Seas by Papistes or Sectaries against the Kings supremacie in causes ecclesiasticall or against true Religon and Catholike doctrine now publiquely professed in this Church or the gouernment or discipline of the Church of England now within this Realme receiued and established by common authoritie and what their names and surnames are 7 Whether there be any in your parish who are noted knowne or suspected to conceale or keepe hidden in their houses any Masse bookes portesses breuiaries or other bookes of popery and superstition or any Challices Copes Vestments Albs or other ornaments of superstition vncancelled or vndefaced which it is to be coniectured they do keep for a day as they cal it 8 Whether there be in your parish any popish or sectary recusant or recusants which for any cause whatsoeuer forbeare to come to Church to common prayer or to heare Gods word preached pretending it vnlawfull to come to our assemblies as the Church of England now standeth established by his Maiesties authoritie and what their seuerall name or names are and how long they haue been recusants 9 Whether any do refuse to receiue the holy Communion at their owne Ministers handes either because he is not a Preacher or because he duly obserueth the order of ministration appoynted by the booke and who they be that do go from their owne parish to receiue at any other ministers hands 10 Whether any of your parishioners hauing a Preacher to their Parson Vicar or Curate do absent themselues from his Sermons and resort to any other place to heare other preachers 11 Whether all the people of your parish aboue 16. yeeres of age and especially householders hauing no lawfull excuse to be absent doe resort with their seruantes and children to their parish Church or Chappell on the Holy dayes and on the Sundayes to morning and euening prayer and who they be that either negligently or wilfully absent themselues or do vnreuerently behaue themselues in the Church or vse any gaming or pastime abroade or in any house or sitte in the streete or Church-yard or in any tauerne or alehouse vpon the Sunday or Holyday in the time of Common prayer Sermon or reading of the Homilies or any of them either before or after noone 12 Whether the forfeyture of xii pence for euery time of absence from the Church vpon euery Sunday and Holyday appoynted by a Statute made in the first yeere of the late Queene Elizabeths raigne to be leuied and taken according to the same Statute the tenor whereof is sette downe in the beginning of this Booke by the Churchwardens of euery person that offendeth and by them be put to the vse of the poore of the parish if it be not so le●●ed by whose fault it is 13 Whether there be any Inkeepers Alewiues Victuallers or Tiplers that suffer or do admitte any person or persons in their houses to eate drinke or play at Dice Cardes Tables Bowles or such like games in the time of Common prayer or Sermon on the Sundayes or Holydayes or any Butchers or other that commonly vse to sell meate or other thinges in the time of common prayer preaching or reading of Homilies and whether in any Faires or common Markets fallyng vpon the Sundayes there be shewing of any wares before morning prayer be done and whether any markets and selling of wares be vsed or suffered in any Church-yards on the Sabboth day by common Packmen or Pedlers going about or any Butchers 14 Whether the Church-wardens of the last yeere hath giuen to the Parson or Vicar and the parish a iust account of the Church goodes that were committed to their charge according to the custome that hath been afore time vsed and what Church goodes they or any other haue sold and to whom and whether to the profite of your Church or no and what hath been done with the mony thereof comming 15 Whether the Church-wardens and Swornmen since the fourth day of August 1601. haue of any priuate corrupt affection concealed any crime