ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF VVITHIN THE DIOCES OF ELY In the first Visitation of the R. Reverend Father in God MATTHEVV LORD BISHOP OF ELY Printed at London by Richard Badger 1638. The Tenour of the Oath to be ministred to the Church-wardens and any other of every Parish that shall be sworne to make Presentments YOu shall sweare that you and every one of you shall and will truly consider and diligently enquire of every one of these Articles here given you in charge and of all the branches thereof and make true answer to all particulars therein demanded and that all affection or favour or hatred or hope of reward or gaine or feare of displeasure or malice of any person and all other pretences set aside you shall and will present every such person of your Parish or within it as hath committed any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in any of these Articles or which is vehemently suspected or otherwise defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shall deale uprightly and fully according to the truth neither presenting nor sparing to present any contrary to the truth Having in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine truth and vertue and to suppresse vice and to discharge your owne consciences So help you God and the Holy Contents of this Booke GOD SAVE THE KING Articles to be inquired of in the Dioces of Ely at the Visitation holden in the yeare of our LORD 1638. Chap. 1. Concerning Religion Doctrine and Church-government ARE there any abiding in your Parish or resorting to it who as farre as you know or haue credibly heard from persons of déeper iudgment do at any time preach teach deliuer publish or maintaine any heresie or any erroneous false opinion contrary to the faith of CHRIST or any sentence matter or cause which hath heretofore béene determined ordered or adiudged to be heresie by the authority of the Canonicall Scriptures or by the first foure generall Councels or any of them or by any other generall Councell determining the same to be heresie by the expresse words of holy Scripture Or are there any which do deny or impugne any of the 39 Articles of Religion agréed vpon in Anno 1562. and established in the Church of England And is the Declaration which the Kings Maiesty prefixed before those 39 Articles concerning the selling of the questions late in difference duly obserued by all within your Parish according to His Maiesties commandement 2 Be there any in your Parish that haue denied or perswaded any other to deny withstand or impugne the Kings Maiesties authority and supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall within this Realme 3 Be there any in your Parish that haue affirmed that the Forme of consecrating Bishops and making Priests and Deacons as it is vsed in the Church of England is not holy right true and lawfull Or that the Gouernment of this Church vnder the Kings Maiestie by Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and other Ecclesiasticall Officers is vnlawfull or antichristian 4 Is there in your Parish any that hath béene or is vehemently suspected to have béene present at any vnlawfull assemblies conuenticles or méetings vnder colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion or do any affirme and maintaine such méetings to be lawfull 5 Be there any abiding in or resorting to your Parish that are commonly reputed to be ill affected in matter of the religion professed in our Church or taken to be Recusant Papists or factious separatists refusing to repaire vnto the Church to heare diuine Seruice and to receiue the holy Communion Or that haue or do publish sell or disperse or conueigh to others any superstitious seditious or schismaticall Bookes Libels or Writings touching the Religion State or Ecclesiasticall gouernment of this Kingdome of England Present their names qualities and conditions if you know or haue heard of any 6 Haue any in your Parish spoken or declared anything in derogation or deprauation of the forme of Gods worship and the set forme of common prayer prescribed and established in the Church of England or in dislike of the administration of the Sacraments or of the other Rites and Ceremonies set forth and prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer and the Canons Ecclesiasticall Or do any preach speak and declare that the Booke of Common Prayer containeth any thing that is repugnant to the holy Scripture or not meet to be vsed Or do vse any scomfull words against those godly Sermons called the Homilies of the Church Chap. 2. Concerning Publike Prayer and the Administration of the Holy Sacraments c. 1 HAth any in your Parish caused procured or maintained any Minister to say any common or publike prayer or to administer the Sacrament of Baptisme or of the Lords Supper otherwise or in any other maner than is mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer Or hath any interrupted hindered let or disturbed the Minister in reading of diuine Seruice or administring the Sacraments in such manner as is mentioned in the said booke Or hath any interrupted him in his preaching or reading the Homilies 2 Is the Sacrament of Baptisme rightly and duly administred according to the forme prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer with due obseruation of all Rites and Ceremonies prescribed to be vsed in the same without adding or altering of any part of any prayers or interrogatories Is the signe of the Crosse euery time vsed and the Surplice neuer but worne in the administring of it 3 Hath the administration of the Sacrament of Baptisme béene at any time deferred longer than till the next Sunday or Holiday immediately following the birth of the childe And do they all come to Church when a child is to be baptized at or about the beginning of diuine Seruice And is the baptizing performed immediately after the second Lesson 4 Hath the Sacrament of Baptisme béen refused to be administred to any children borne in or out of wedlock their birth being made known to the Minister of the Parish and they offered vnto him to be baptized Or haue any such children died vnbaptized 5 Haue the parents of the childe baptised béene at any time admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers to the same Or haue any béene admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers to any childe before they haue receiued the holy Communion Or haue there béene admitted more or lesse than two Godfathers and one Godmother for a male child and two Godmothers and one Godfather for a female Or haue any Godfathers or Godmothers vsed any other answers or spéech in Baptisme than is by the Book of Common Prayer appointed Or haue they giuen to the children baptised any name that is absurd or inconuenient for so holy an action 6 Haue any children béene baptised in priuate houses except vpon great necessity and if so what was the same or by any Lay-person or Midwife or Popish Priest or by any other than your owne Minister And haue all
without Repentance or any that haue maliciously and openly contended with their neighbours before they bée reconciled or any Church-wardens or Side-mâ—…n who hauing taken their oathes to present to their Ordinary all such publike offences as they are particularly charged to enquire of in the Parish have and doe notwithstanding wittingly and irreligiously incurre the horrible crime of periury either in neglecting or refusing to present such publike offences as they themselues know or haue heard to bée committed within your Parish 20 Hath your Minister at any time admitted vnto the Communion any that refuse to be present at publike prayers or who are notorious deprauers of the Booke of Common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments or of the Orders Rites or Ceremonies therein prescribed or of any thing contained in the thirty nine Articles or in the Book of ordaining Priests and Bishops Or who haue spoken against or depraued his Maiesties Soueraigne Authority in causes Ecclesiasticall vnlesse they and euery of them doe first acknowledge their repentance for their sin and promise to do so no more 21 Doth your Minister or Curate admit any to the Communion before they can say their Catechisme and be confirmed 22 Doth your Minister together with the Church-wardens and Quest-men take diligent héed and care not only that all and euery one of your owne Parishioners do receiue thrice euery yéere but also that no strangers of any other Parish doe come often and commonly to your Church from their owne Parish Church or do there receiue the holy Communion 23 Doth your Minister before the seuerall times of administration of the Lords Supper admonish and exhort his Parishioners if any of them haue their Conscience troubled and disquieted to resort vnto him or to some other learned Minister and open their griefe that they may receiue such ghostly counsell and comfort as their conscience may be relieued and by the Minister they may receiue the benefit of Absolution to the quiet of their Conscience and auoiding of all scruple And if any man confesse his secret and hidden sinnes being sicke or whole to the Minister for the vnburthening of his conscience and receiuing of spirituall consolation or ease of minde from him Doth he the said Minister or hath he at any time by word writing or signe openly or couertly directly or indirectly reueale and make knowne to any person whatsoeuer any Crime or Offence so committed to his trust and secrecie 24 Hath your Minister solemnized the Mariage of any person under the age of twenty one yéeres without the consent of their Parents or Gouernours or hath hée maried any which doe not audibly say and answer in all things appointed by the Liturgie or any without a King or in times prohibited or without the Banes first published thrée seuerall Sundaies or Holidaies in time of diuine Seruice in the seuerall Churches or Chappels of their seuerall abodes except they brought him a speciall licence from the Arch-bishop or Bishop of the Dioces or his Chancellor so to doe And both hée begin in the body of the Church and then goe up to the Table as to appointed Also doth your Minister so oft as there is any mariage appoint to haue a Communion After the Gospell doth hee say a Sermon if hée bée licenced to preach wherein to declare the office of man and wife according to holy Scripture Or else doth hee read that which the Church hath appointed to bée read at Matrimony 25 Doth your Minister vse the forme of thanksgiuing for women after childe-birth immediately before the Communion Seruice Or hath hée admitted thereunto any women begotten with child in Adultery or Fornication without licence of his Ordinary 26 Doth your Minister carefully looke to the reliefe of the poore and from time to time call vpon his Parishioners to giue somewhat according to their abilities to godly and charitable vses especially doth be enforce it vpon them with earnest exhortation as is prescribed at the time of the oblation or offering before the Communion and vpon their sick beds or when they make their wils 27 Doth your Minister or Curate resort vnto such as bée dangerously sicke in your Parish if he be sent for or notice of their sicknesse being given vnto him to instruct or comfort them in their distresses according to the order of the Book of Common Prayer not omitting then especially to moue them earnestly to liberality towards the â—…oore 28. If any being sicke doe desire the prayers of the Congregation is it done at the time of diuine Seruice after the thrée Collects and according to the forme in the Liturgie for the Visitation of the sick and not onely by giuing their names to the Preacher and mentioning of them in the Pulpit before or after a Sermon 29 Hath your Minister euer refused to bury any which ought to bee interred with Christian buriall Or hath hee deferred the same longer than hee should Doth hee goe before the Corps to the Graue and there say the whole seruice appointed not omitting the Lesson or any other part Doth be deuoutly kneele when hee saith the prayers and the Collects at buriall or hath hee admitted any to Christian buriall which by the Lawes of the holy Church of this Realme ought not to bee so interred 30 Doth your Minister being a Preacher well studied indiuinity and hauing any Popish Recusant or Recusants in your Parish labour diligently with them from time to time to reclame them from their errors Or otherwise is he ouer conuersant with them or suspected to fauour them 31 Hath your Minister or any other taking upon him the calling of a Minister preached baptized children except in case of necessity solemnized mariage churched any women or ministred the holy Communion in any private house or houses If yea then where when and how often hath he done it 32 Doe you know or haue heard of any which are reputed to bee Ministers or of any other of the Laity either Male or Female that presume to make matters of Diuinity their ordinary Table-talk Or that under pretence of holynesse and edification take the liberty at their Trencher-meetings or where seuerall company not being all of the same family are assembled rashly and prophanely to discourse of holy Scripture Or amidst their cups to dispute or determine any Articles of Faith and Religion or touching any point of doctrine or Ecclesiasticall discipline at their owne pleasure did to their owne phansie you shall name the persons times and places as far as you know or haue heard and can remember 33 Doth your Minister euery six moneths in your Parish Church openly in the time of diuine Seruice vpon some Sunday denounce and declare excommunicate by name such as doe perseuere in the sentence of excommunication not seeking to be absolued And hath hee said diuine Seruice whiles any excommunicate person hath béene present in the Church Or hath admitted any person that hath beene excommunicate into the Church without a
children which were priuately baptized if they liued béene afterwards brought to your Church that the Congregation and the Minister of the Parish in case they were not baptised by him might be certified whether they were lawfully baptised or no 7 Haue the children that haue béene borne to any Popish Recusant in your Parish béene publikely baptised in your Parish Church by your owne Parson Vicar or Curate Or by whom else were they baptised or where to your knowledge or as you haue heard you are to giue all the notice you can both of them and of their Parents 8 Hath the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper béene duly and reuerently administred in your Church or Chappell so often and at such conuenient times that at least thrice euery yéere whereof once at Easter euery Parishioner within your Parish being of the age of 16 yéeres or vpwards might receiue the same 9 Hath the said blessed Sacrament béen deliuered vnto any or receiued by any the Communicants within your Parish that did vnrcuerently either sit stand or leane or that did not deuoutly and humbly knéele vpon their knées in plaine and open view without collusion or hypocrisie 10 Haue any of your Parish which are openly knowne to liue in notorious sinne without repentance or any excommunicate persons or schismaticks common and notorious deprauers of the Religion and Gouernment of this Realme without vnfained sorrow shewed by them for their impiety and wickednesse béene admitted to be partakers of the holy Communion 11 Hath any of your Parish béen debarred from the said holy Communion without iust cause or without intimation presently giuen to the Ordinarie or Bishop of the Dioces Name euery such person and the person that debarred him or them Chap. 3. Concerning the Church the furniture and possessions thereof 1 HAue you a Parish Church and Chancell now standing and in vse or is the same prophaned or demolished in part or in whole 2 Haue you in your Church or Chappell the whole Bible in the largest Volume of the last translation the Booke of Common Prayer the two Bookes of Homilies and Bishop Iewels Works all well and fairely bound And haue you also in your Church the forme of the Diuine Seruice for the 5th day of Nouember and for the 27th day of March and the Book of Constitutions or Canons Ecclesiasticall 3 Haue you in your Church or Chappell a Font of stone set and fastened in the ancient vsuall place whole and cleane and fit to hold water A conuenient 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 what did either of them cost what be they now worth in value 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 Are there any steps or ascents in your Chancell vp to the Communion Table Haue you also a decent raile of wood or some other comely inclosure couered with cloth or silk placed handsomely aboue those steps before the Holy Table néere one yard high and reaching crosse from the North wall to the South except by the order of the Diocesan it be made with the ends returning vnto the East wall with two conuenient doores to open before the Table And if it be a Raile are the Pillars or Ballisters thereof so close that doggs may not any where get in Also are the ten Commandements set vp in your Church or Chappell where the people may see and read them and other chosen sentences written vpon the wals of your said Church or Chappell in places conuenient for the same purpose 4 Haue you in your said Church or Chappell a conuenient seat for your Minister to read diuine Seruice in Where and in what part of the Church 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 Haue you a comely large Surplice what cost it by the yard and how long haue you had the same Haue you also 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 lockes and keyes vnto it and another Chest for the kéeping of the Bookes and the Communion Vessels and Ornaments of the Church Or where are they kept ordinarily 5 In the said Chest haue you a Register booke in Parchment wherein to register the Christenings 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 tranâ—mitted euery yéere into the Bishops principall Registry Haue you also a faire Paxer-booke wherein euery Preacher which is a stranger is to subscribe his name the day when 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 marrie 6 Is your Church or Chappell with the Chancell thereof as also the Vestrey and the Church Porch if you haue any and your Parsonage house or Vtcarage-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 and the bottomes of them either boarded or paued 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 rubbish straw or litter or any thing that may he either noysome or vnséemly for the house of God The Parishioners vsing none but Pesses and fast matts in their seats as néed shall require 7 Are there any armes and furniture for souldiers or other munition ladders buckets timber or any other implements for publike or priuate vse stored and kept in
euery Sunday and Holiday and their Eues and on the day of the conuersion of Saint Paul Saint Barnabies day and euery day of the holy Wéek next before Easter as also on all Wednesdaies and Fridayes at fit and vsuall times according to the forme prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer in a reuerent manner ouer and as audibly and distinctly as he vseth to Preach Doth he also read 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 due they stand and say Glory be to the Father c. and doth hée leaue out and not read the Contents of the Chapters After the Lessons doth he use no other Psalme or Hymne but those which the Booke of Common Prayer hath appointed Doth hée read the Créed of S. Athanassâ—… called the Quicunque vult on all those dayes for which it is appointed and the Commination on Ash wednesday adding the Letany on euery Wednesday and Friday 9 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 10 Doth your Parson or Vicar hauing a Curate vnder him notwithstanding read diuine Seruice himselfe frequently and publikely at the vsuall times both in the forenoone and after noone in the Church which hée possesseth and doth hée also administer both Sacraments 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 and how oft in the yéere hath he done it 11 Doth your Minister Preacher and Lecturer euery yéere of purpose and expresly yet not by way of disputation but by plain conclusion determination only teach and declare the lawfull authority which the King hath ouer the State both Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill and the iust abolishing of all Popery and forraigne power or iurisdiction over the same 12 Hath your Minister or any Preacher among you published 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. Or hath he taught any thing which he would haue the people religiously obserue and belieue 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 as you conceiued or haue béene informed by others of better iudgement 13 Doth your Minister goe to the administration of holy Baptisme euer immediately after the second Lesson Doth he alwayes at first aske whether the child bée baptized or no Afterward doth he euer vse and neuer omit both to take the child in his hands and also to make the signe of the Crosse to as to touch the childs forehead in making the same Doth he at any time publikely baptize but in the Font or with any Bason Bucket or Paile or other vessell 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 béene giuen to him And hath any child dyed without baptisme by his default 14 Doth your Minister or Curâ—…ten admonish the people that they deferre not the baptisme of their infants any â—…ger after they are borne than is prescribed vnlesse vpon a great and reasonable â—ainâ— declared withe Minister or Curate and approued by him nor that they procure them to bée baptized at home without great necessity 15 Hath your Minister admitted any person to answer as Godfather or Godmother at the christening of a child 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 hée 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 it hath learned the Catechisme 16 Doth your Minister euery Sunday and Holiday before euening prayer halfe an houre or more catechise and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of your Parish both male and female in the ten Commandements the Articles of Beliefe and the Lords Prayer And doth he vse for that purpose the Catechisme set forth in the Book 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 private And be 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 or care not to learne 17 Are your afternoone-sermons if there were wont to be any turned into catechizing by question and answer where and whensoeuer there is no great cause apparent to the contrary And is this truly and sincerely performed without mockery or in shew only and so without any long or large discourse Sermon-wise vpon the said Questions and Answers but only to explaine the same in few and briefe passages easie to be remembred 18 Doth your Minister vse to administer the holy Communion at least thrice in the yéere whereof once at Gaster to euery parishioner in your Parish that is sixtéene yéeres of age and upwards and first to receive 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 Book of Common Prayer without alteration at euery time that the Bread and Wine is renewed Doth hée 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 blood of our Lord IESUS and upon no pretence till the Church appoint otherwise omitting any part of the words or saying them all but now and then to many at once And is there warning giuen by him to the Parishioners publikely in the Church at morning prayer the Sunday before euery time of his administring of the Holy Communion for their better preparation thereunto 19 Hath your Minister admitted vnto the holy Communion any of his cure or flocke which he openly known to liue in sinne notorious
nor to answer but to do what they list and to leaue out and passe by whom they will and what they will in their Presentments Or do you know of any that haue abused the Church-wardens or other Sworn-men in your Parish or giuen them euill words for executing of their office or to dishearten or deferr them from executing it as by hath and duly they are bound Chap. 7. Concerning the Parishioners DO any in your Parish prophane any Sunday or Holyday by any unlawful gaming drinking or tipling in Tauernes Innes Tobacco-shops or Alehouses in the time of Common Prayer or Sermon or by working or doing the work of their trades and Occupations Do any in your Parish buy or sell or kéep open their Shops or set out any wares to be sold on Sundayes or Holydayes by themselues their seruants or apprentises or haue they any other wayes prophaned the said dayes And hath the Kings Declaration concerning the lawfull sports and recreations béene published among you yea or no. If so when was it done in what manner and by whom 2 Is the fifth day of November obserued and kept in your Parish with Prayer and Thanksgiuing unto God in such forme as is by publike Authority appointed for the day Is the 27. day of March also well and duely obserued are the Bels usually rung in ioy of those dayes Do any in your parish take vpon them in such publike manner to obserue any other dayes in the yéere but these two 3 Is there any in your Parish that hath béene heard to impugne or speake against the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England or the lawfull use of them or to affirme by word or writing that the forme of making and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons or any thing therin contained is repugnant to the word of God or that the Government of this Church under his Maiesty by Arch-bishops Bishops and other Ecclesiasticall Officers is Antichristian Or hath spoken reproachfully or disgracefully of the Kings Maiesties Courts Ecclesiasticall or of the procéedings thereof 4 Haue yon any in your Parish that doe come to the Sermon only and not to diuine Service or which use to come late to Church and to depart from Church before the Blessing be given wherewith they are to be dismissed at the end of Seruice Or that doe not reuerently behaue themselues entring into the Church and during the time of diuine Seruice Do all both men and women deuoutly knéele when the Generall confession of sinnes the Letany the ten Commandements and all Prayers and Collects are read as well as Baptismes Mariages and Burialls as at other parts of the diuine Seruice Do all vse due and lowly reuerence when the blessed name of the Lord IESUS is mentioned and stand vp when the Articles of the Créed are read Doe anymen couer their heads in the Church vnlesse it be for infirmity in which case they may only weare coifes or night-caps or then and there giue themselues to babling talking or walking and are not attentiue to the Prayers and Hymnes and to heare Gods word read and preached Doe all say Amen audibly and make such other answers both in the Letany and all other parts of diuine Seruice as by the rule of the Common Prayer booke are to bée made by the people 5 Do any within your Parish men or women being sixtéene yéeres of age and upwards or any other lodging or commonly resorting to any house in your Parish wilfully absent themselues from your Parish Church or Chappell vpon Sundaies and Holydayes and other dayes appointed at morning and euening Prayers or refuse to receive 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 bée of insolent behauiour not without publike offence or that do boldly bâ—esse themselues in perswading seducing or withdrawing others either abroad or in their owne families from the Religion established in the Church of England And how long haue the said popish or puritanicall Recusants obstinately abstained either from diuine Seruice or from the Communion Whether of any long time or of late only 7 Are there any in your Parish who do absent themselves at any time from your owne Church and do resort to any other Parish or place to heare other Preachers Or are there any in your Parish that do communicate or that doe baptize their children in any other Parish Or doe the Parishioners of any other Parish resort vnto your Church how long haue they done so and vpon what occasion or licence 8 Is there within your Parish or in any Parish néere you that you know of in any house or family any one that is called or reputed a Chaplaine or that is known or supposed to haue entred into holy orders Or any that liue there in imployment as a Scholler Present there names if there bée any such and how long they haue béene there and his name in whose house they kéepe 9 Is there any in your Parish who do refuse to haue their children baptised or themselves to receive the Communion at the hand of your Minister because he is no Preacher or doth not edifie in their phansie 10 Doth any maried woman within your Parish after child-birth neglect to come to Church according to the booke of Common Prayer to giue thanks to God for her safe deliuerance valled in a decent manner as hath béen anciently accustomed doth she also come to Church at or néere the beginning of diuine Seruice that day and when the thanksgiuing for her is to bée said doth she goe and knéele in some conuenient place nigh to the Table but without the inclosure while the Priest standing within by her giueth thanks for her And doth she then offer her accustomed offerings and receiue the holy Communion if there be one 11 Are there within your Parish or thereunto resorting any players on Stage or with Puppits or any Musitians Fidlers Rimers or Iesters which do vse any prophane or filthy passages in their songs spéeches or gestures to the dishonour of God abuse of Scripture or the corrupting of good manners or which doe publish any thing scandalous to the Church or reproachfull to the holy Clergie 12 Do you know of any man or woman that hath abused their Parson Vicar or Curate or any other that is in holy Orders with contumelious words or unciuill gestures or déeds or behaued themselues rudely towards them Or that haue reproached either the mariage or the single life of Priests or haue said or done any thing else that did redound to the 〈◊〉 or dishonour of their persons or of their holy function and calling 13 Haue you any in your parish that are commonly known or reputed to bée blasphemers of Gods holy name common and vsuall swearers drunkards vsurers filthy speakers adulterers fornicators incestuous persons bawdes concealers of fornicators or adulterers Haue any in your parish béene detected of such