ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF VVITHIN THE Dioces of LONDON IN THE SECOND TRIENNIALL Visitation of the Right Honorable and Right Reuerend Father in God WILLIAM Lord Bishop of London HOLDEN In the yeere of our Lord God 1631. Printed at LONDON M. DC XXXI The Oath to bee ministred to the Church-wardens and Sworne-men YOu shall sweare that you and euery of you shall diligently enquire of the Articles giuen you in charge and without any affection fauour hatred hope of reward gaine or feare of displeasure or malice of any person you shall present all and euery such person and persons that now is or of late was within your Parish as hath committed any incest adultery fornication or symony and any misdemeanour or disturbances committed or made in any Church or Chappell in time of Common Prayer Preaching or diuine Seruice there vsed to the disturbance thereof and also that haue committed or done any other offence fault or default presentable in the Ecclesiasticall Court according to the Articles now deliuered to you Wherein you shall deale vprightly and according to truth neither of malice presenting any contrary to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and so conceale the truth hauing in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine the truth and suppresse vice So helpe you God and the Contents of this Booke The charge of the Church-wardens and Sworne-men set downe for the better performance of their duties and discharge of their Oathes THey are not to bring in any Bills vnto the Arch-deacons Courts vpon the Articles to be enquired of in their Visitation by reason of my Lords Visitation but onely now during the said Visitation to make their presentments vpon these Articles They are therefore charged that after their Oath taken and their returne home they doe require their Minister to reade ouer both the booke of Canons or Constitutions set forth by his Maiesty in the Conuocation holden in the yeere of our Lord God 1604. and also these Articles vnto them and to consider of euery particular Article and of the offences by them to be presented as also of such persons in their Parish as shall be noted to offend in the same and so the Churchwardens and Sidemen assembling themselues together within some conuenient time are to make their Bill answering euery Article by it selfe before the time hereafter appointed them which Bill shall be signed with the hands of all the Churchwardens and Sidemen with conference had with their Minister vpon the said Bill of presentment who according to the 26. Canon is to see that the said Churchwardens doe their duties in presenting vpon the penalty in the 26. Canon prescribed These Bills for their better ease and sauing of trauell and charges shall bee brought by one of the Churchwardens vpon the _____ day _____ next _____ Articles to be enquired of within the Dioces of London in the Visitation to bee holden in the yeere of our Lord 1631. Concerning the Clergie INprimis Whether doth your Minister before or after his Sermons vse to pray for the Kings Maiesty King Charles Quéene Mary Fredericke the Prince Elector Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth his wife and all their Princely Progenie giuing vnto the King such stile and title of supreme Gouernor in all causes and ouer all persons as well Ecclesiasticall as Temporall as by Law are due vnto him And also for all Archbishops Bishops and other Ecclesiasticall persons 2 Whether is the prescript forme of Diuine Seruice vsed by your Minister vpon Sundayes Holidayes and other dayes appointed by the Booke of Common Prayer at fit and vsuall houres And whether doth your Minister duely obserue all the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the said Booke of Common Prayer without omission or addition as well in reading publike prayers and the Letany as also in administring the Sacraments in such manner and forme as by the Law now established is inioyned 3 Whether doth your Minister administer the holy Communion so often and at such times as that euery Parishioner may receiue the same at least thrice in euery yéere whereof once at Easter 4 Whether doth your Minister receiue the same himselfe on euery day that he administreth it to others knéeling at the same and administreth it to none but such as do knéele at the receiuing thereof and vse the words of the institution according to the Booke at euery time that the Bread or Wine is receiued in such manner and forme as by Law is appointed and causeth sufficient warning thereof to be giuen before And doth he deliuer the Bread and Wine to euery Communicant seuerally 5 Whether doth your Minister vse the administration of the Lords Supper Baptisme Instruction of children Solemnization of Matrimony Visitation of the sicke Buriall of the dead the Commination and Churching of women vnder such words rites and ceremonies as are set forth prescribed by the said booke of Common prayer and no other 6 Whether hath your Minister reiected any from the Communion who were not by publike presentment or other open scandall infamous and detected of some notorious crime by common fame or vehement suspition knowne in the Parish 7 Whether hath your Minister receiued people of other Parishes to his Church to the Communion and diuine seruice And whether his Parishioners haue gone to other Churches and places to heare Seruice or receiue the Sacrament If yea then you shall present euery offender herein 8 Whether hath your Minister Churchwardens and Sidemen presented vnto my Lord Bishop or his Chancellor within forty dayes after Easter the names of all the Parishioners as well men as women which being aboue sixtéene yéeres of age receiued not the Communion at or about Easter before according to the 112. Canon If not you shall present whether that presentment should haue béene brought in by your selues or your predecessors and specifie the names of euery one that should haue made such presentment for Easter last past 9 Whether doth your Minister vse to signe the children with the signe of the Crosse vpon the childrens foreheads when they are baptized according to the booke of Common prayer And whether he hath deferred or wilfully refused to baptize any Infant in his Parish being in danger hauing beene duely informed of the weakenesse thereof And whether the child hath dyed by his default without baptisme And hath he baptized any children that were not borne in the Parish 10 Whether is your Minister continually resident with you vpon his Benefice or for how long time hath he béene absent And where is he resident for the most part and what other Benefice hath he And doth he in his absence make allowance for the poore 11 Whether doth your Minister being a Preacher preach vsually in his owne Cure with you once euery Sunday or how hath hée béene negligent in that behalfe 12 Whether is your Minister a Preacher allowed If yea then by whom if no whether doth he procure
in the time of Common Prayer or Sermon on the Sabbath day or Holy dayes or any that did not receiue the Communion yéerely at the feast of Easter or within some conuenient time after 3 Whether the Churchwardens doe prouide against euery Communion with the aduice of the Minister a sufficient quantitie of fine white bread and of good and wholesome wine for the number of the Communicants that shall receiue and that to be brought in a cleane and swéet standing pot of Pewter or other pure metall 4 Haue you admitted any to preach within your Church or Chappell which was not sufficiently licensed and how often And haue you with your Minister taken diligent care that no strangers doe vsually come to your Church from their owne parish 5 Whether haue you or your predecessors Churchwardens there suffered since the last Visitation of the Lord Bishop of London any Playes Feasts Banquets Church-ales Drinkings Musters and shewing of Armes or any other prophane vsages to be kept in your Church Chappell or Churchyard Were you chosen by the consent of the Minister and Parishioners 6 Whether hath your Minister Churchwardens and Parish Clerke or Clerkes taken care that all excommunicated persons be duely published in the Church as the lawe requires And likewise had care that no excommunicated persons be admitted to the Communion nor suffered to be present at Diuine seruice and publike prayers in your Church you shall truly present euery one that hath neglected this duty or béene stacke therein 7 Whether the Churchwardens at the end of their yéere giue vp in writing a iust account before the Minister and Parishioners of their receipts and disbursements and deliuer the residue by Bill indented to the next Churchwardens And whether at any time heretofore the Churchwardens or the Ministers or the Parishioners or any of them to your knowledge or as you haue heard haue with-held or detained in their custody or haue sold wasted spent or otherwise alienated any Lead Bells or Bell-metall or other of the Church goods or stocke of money and let them specifie their names and the value and quantitie of such things as were so sold made away or detained and how long since Concerning Parishioners and others of the Laitie WHether any in your Parish or elsewhere néere about the same to your knowledge or as you haue heard hath affirmed that the King hath not the same Authoritie in all causes Ecclesiasticall which the Kings Christian Emperors had in the Primitiue Church or that haue impeached or gain-said his Royall Supremacie 2 Whether doe you know or haue credibly heard of any within your Parish that depraue the Christian Religion and namely as it is established by publike authority and professed within the Church of England And whether hath any person as you haue heard affirmed that the Church of England is not a true Catholike and orthodoxe Church and doth not teach and maintaine the Catholike Faith and doctrine of the Apostles 3 Whether any haue said or affirmed that any thing in the Booke of Common Prayer or in the Booke of Articles set forth by the Conuocation Anno Domini 1562. Or any of the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England in or by the same appointed are corrupt wicked Antichristian superstitious vnlawfull or repugnant to the Scriptures or that any of the said Articles may not with a good conscience be subscribed vnto or any of the said ceremonies may not with a good conscience be approued vsed or subscribed vnto 4 Are there any that doe not reuerently behaue themselues during the time of Diuine Seruice deuoutly knéeling when the generall Confession of sins the Letany the ten Commandements and all prayers and Collects are read and vsing all due and lowly reuerence when the blessed name of the Lord Iesus Christ is mentioned and standing vp when the Articles of the Beliefe are read or which doe couer their heads in the Church during the time of Diuine Seruice vnlesse it be in case of necessitie in which case they may vse a nightcap 5 Whether haue any affirmed preached or taught that the forme of making and consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons or any thing therein contained is repugnant or not agréeable to the Word of God Or that the Bishops Priests and Deacons so made are not to be accounted for Bishops Priests or Deacons or ought to bée ordained in any other forme Or that the gouernment of the Church by Archbishops Bishops or others that beare any Office therin is Antichristian or not agréeable to the Word of God 6 Whether any person haue lurked or tippled in Tauerns or Ale-houses on Sundaies or other Holi-dayes or vsed his or their manuall Craft Trade or Mysterie or any bodily labour or kept their shops open vpon the said dayes or any of them especially in the time of Diuine Seruice or suffered his or their seruants to sell any wares or victuals in that time or to offend in any of the promises 7 Whether are there any in your Parish that since the Lord Bishop of London his last Visitation haue or doe prophane the Lords Day called Sunday or other Holy-day contrary to the orders of the Church of England in that behalfe prescribed which hath not heretofore béene openly punished for the same and what be their names 8 Whether hath any person in your Parish brawled quarrelled or striken or vsed any violence vnto or with your Minister or any other person in the Church or Church-yard or vsed himselfe disorderly in the Church by filthy and prophane talke or any other rude and immodest behauiour 9 Whether haue any in your Parish bin Godfathers or Godmothers to their owne children Or whether your Minister or any Godfathers or Godmothers haue vsed or doe vse any other forme answer or spéech in Baptisme then is in the Booke of Common Prayer appointed Or doe giue the children baptized any name absurd or inconuenient for so holy an action Or whether any which haue not communicated be admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers contrary to the Law 10 Whether is there any in your Parish that doe refuse to haue their children baptized or themselues to receiue the Communion at the hands of your Minister because he is no Preacher you shall present their names 11 Whether doe all Fathers Mothers Masters and Mistresses cause their Children Seruants and Apprentices to come to the Catechisme vpon the Sundayes and holi-dayes before Euening prayer to heare and to be instructed and taught therein And those that doe not their duties herein you shall present their names 12 How many Inhabitants within your Parish Men or Women aboue the age of sixtéene yéeres doe refuse to frequent Diuine Seruice established by publike authoritie of this Realme or to receiue the holy Communion or are negligent therein or comming to Church doe depart before the end of diuine Seruice or Sermon what be their names and of what degrée state or trade of life are they you are to present
Sermons to be preached among you once in euery moneth at the least by such as are lawfully licenced or doth contribute towards a licenced Preacher 13 Whether hath your Minister any other Benefice and whether doth hée supply his absence by a Curate that is sufficiently licenced to preach in that Cure whereon he himselfe is not resident or otherwise in case he doth not find a preaching minister there by reason of the smalnes thereof whether doth he preach at both his benefices vsually himselfe 14 Whether is your Curate licenced to serue by the Bishop of this Dioces or his Chancellor and whether doth your Minister or Curate serue any more Cures then one If yea then what other Cure doth he also serue 15 If your Minister be not licenced to preach as aforesaid whether doth he read Homilies or rather take vpon him to expound the Scriptures either in his owne Cure or elsewhere contrary to the 49. Canon And doth he or his Curate read an Homily euery Sunday or some part thereof when there is no Sermon 16 Whether hath any person béene admitted to preach within your Church or Chappell but such as you haue well knowne to be licenced whom haue you so admitted You shall present their names and how often haue any such beene admitted to preach and by whose procurement 17 Whether haue you caused euery strange Preacher licenced or not licenced to subscribe his name according to the 50. and 52. Canons And if he were licenced then by whom was he licenced 18 Whether doth your Lecturer and Preacher read diuine Seruice and minister the Sacraments in his owne person twice euery yéere obseruing all the Ceremonies in the Booke of Common Prayer established And doth any man read a Lecture in your Church that is beneficed out of the Dioces or if he be beneficed in the Dioces is he by that Lecture kept from his Cure or hath he no benefice at all 19 Whether doth your Minister weare the Surples whilst he is saying the publike Prayers and administring the Sacraments and a hood according to his degrée of the Vniuersitie 20 Whether doth your Minister euery Sunday and Holy-day before Euening prayer for halfe an houre or more examine and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of your Parish in the ten Commandements the Articles of Beliefe and in the Lords Prayer 21 Whether hath your Minister without licence from the Bishop of the Dioces or his Chancellor solemnized Marriage betwixt any parties of the Banes not being thrée seuerall Sundayes or Holi-dayes first published in time of diuine Seruice in the seuerall Churches or Chappels of their seuerall aboades according to the book of Common prayer or without licence in time prohibited albeit the Banes were so published Or at any time except betwixt the houres of eight and twelue in the forenoone And if any haue béene otherwise marryed or licenced to be marryed by any authority other then aforesaid especially since the last triennall Visitation by any of our Commissaries Archdeacons or their Officials you shall present the Minister so marrying the parties so married and the Authoritie whereby this was done and you shall present whether you know or haue heard of any Licence of marriage granted by any Archdeacon or his Officiall since the last trienniall Visitation and to whom such Licence was granted 22 Whether doth your Minister vpon Sundaies at Morning praier declare vnto the Parishioners what Holi-dayes and fasting dayes are appointed to be kept the wéeke following 23 Whether doth your Minister in the Rogation daies vse the perambulation of the Circuit of the Parish appointed by law And in the same perambulation moue the people to giue thankes to God for his benefits vsing such Psalmes Prayers and Homilies as are to that end set forth 24 Whether doth any man being neither Minister nor Deacon reade Common Prayer openly in your Church or Chappell or vse any other ministeriall duty in the Church that belongeth to a minister or Deacon and what is his name that so doth or hath so done 25 Whether doth your Minister euery sixe moneths denounce in his parish all such of his Parish as doe perseuere in the sentence of Excommunication And whether hath he admitted any person Excommunicate into the Church without a Certificate of his absolution from the Ordinary And hath he stayed or forborne to denounce any Excommunication or suspension that hath béene sent vnto him 26 Whether doth your Minister being a Preacher endeauour and labour diligently with mildenesse and temperance to conferre with and thereby to reclaime the Popish Recusants in his Parish from their errors And whether they or any of them doe refuse such conference with your Minister 27 Whether is your Parson Vicar Lecturer or Curate too much frequent or ouermuch conuersant with or a fauourer of Recusants whereby he may be suspected not to be sincere in his Religion 28 Whether hath your Minister or any other taking vpon him the place of a Minister Preached Baptized children vnlesse in case of necessity solemnized Marriage Churched any women or ministred the holy Communion in any house or houses If yea then where when and how often hath he so offended in any of the premises 29 Whether when any person hath béene dangerously sicke in your Parish your Minister hauing knowledge thereof hath not resorted to euery of them to instruct and comfort them in their distresse according to the manner and forme appointed in the Booke of Common Prayer And whether when any Parishioner hath béene passing out of this life your Minister hath slacked to doe his last duty in that behalfe 30 Whether your Minister hath at any time refused or delayed to bury any corps that hath béene brought to the Church or Church-yard conuenient warning hauing béene giuen to him thereof before in such manner and forme as is prescribed in the booke of Common Prayer And hath he buried any in Christian buriall which ought not to bee so interred 31 Whether hath your Minister taken vpon him to appoint any publique or priuate Fasts Preaching or Lecturing not approued and established by law or publike authoritie Or hath hee attempted vpon any pretence either of possession or obsession by fasting and praier to cast out Deuils 32 Whether your Minister vseth buying and selling or trading or to hedge ditch or goe to plough or hath solicited other mens suites for gaine or imployed himselfe about other such businesse not beséeming or fitting his calling 33 Whether doe you know in your Parish any that hauing heretofore taken vpon him or them the order of Priesthood or of a Deacon hath since relinquished the same and betaken himselfe in the course of his life as a Lay-man or neglecting his vocation liueth idlely and serueth no Cure nor preacheth as a Lecturer authorized in any one certaine place If yea then you shall present his name and the place of his aboad 34 Whether is your Minister reputed to be an incontinent person or to kéepe in
his house or frequent the company of any man or woman that are suspected either to be of euill religion or bad life Or whether is he a common haunter of Tauernes Alehouses or any suspected place Or whether doth he boord or lodge in any of them Or is a common Gamester or player at Dice Cards Tables or other vnlawfull games A common swearer a drunkard or one that applyeth not himselfe in his Studie or faulty in any other crime punishable by Ecclesiasticall censures whereby hée is offensiue and scandalous to his Function or Ministrie 35 Whether doth your Minister vse the forme of thankesgiuing to women after their Childbirth Or hath hee admitted any woman begotten with child in Adultery to be churched either publikely or priuately without licence from the Lord Bishop of London or his Chancellor 36 Whether doth your Minister baptize any children in any Bason or other vessell then in the Ordinary Font being placed in the Church or doth put any Bason into it 37 Whether your Minister or any other that hath taken holy Orders now licenced or suspended or other person or persons either of the Ministry or Laity within or néere your Parish of your knowledge or as you haue heard hath béene at or vse to méete in any Barnes Fields Woods priuate house or houses and held priuate conuenticles or méetings either in your Parish or in any other Parish And whether hath your Minister or any other publikely or priuately preached or spoken in eregation of the booke of Common Prayer or in any thing depraued the same or against the present estate of the Ecclesiasticall gouernment established by authoritie affirming the same to be vnlawfull Popish or Antichristian 38 Whether at any such méeting doe they or any of them preach conferre or agrée vpon any priuate orders for diuine Seruice Prayers Preaching or expounding the Scriptures or vse any other Prayers Preaching or forme of Diuine Seruice then such as is in the Booke of Common Prayer and by the Lawes established appointed or be drawers or perswaders of others to any such Schismaticall conuenticles If yea you shall present them all and euery one of them specifying their names surnames and quality or addition and places of abode 39 Whether his Maiesties Instructions lately sent to your Parish concerning Lecturers celebration of diuine Seruice catechizing and Sermons be duly obserued if not you shall present by whom and when any of the said Instructions haue béene transgressed 40 Item you shall carefully and héedefully obserue and inquire whether your Ministers in their Sermons preached by them in your publike Churches and Congregations doe raise and deliuer out of the texts chosen by them such pertinent notes as tend to teach obedience and to edifie the vnderstanding of their auditorie in matters of faith and religion without intermeddling with any State-matters not fit to be handled in the Pulpit but to be discussed by the wisedome of his Maiestie and his Councellors of State And if you finde any faulty herein you shall present him Concerning the Church WHether haue you in your seuerall Churches and Chappels the Booke of Constitutions or Canons Ecclesiasticall 2 Whether is there in your Church or Chappell one parchment Register Booke prouided for Christnings Marriages and Burials And whether is the same duely and exactly kept according to the Constitutions in that behalfe prouided And is the mothers christen name therin registred as well as the Fathers and a transcript thereof brought in yéerely within one moneth after the 25. day of March into the Lord Bishops principall Registry 3 Whether haue you prouided the Booke of Common Prayer lately commanded by his Maiesties authority onely to be vsed and the Booke of Homilies two seruice Books a large Bible of the last edition 4 Whether haue you in your Church or Chappell a Font of stone set vp in the ancient vsuall place a conuenient and decent Communion Table standing vpon a frame with a Carpet of silke or some other decent stuffe and a faire Linnen cloth to lay thereon at the Communion time And whether is the same then placed in such conuenient sort within the Chancell or Church as that the Minister may be best heard in his prayer and Administration and that the greater number may Communicate And is the same Table so vsed out of diuine seruice or in it as it is not agréeable to the holy vse of it by sitting throwing hats on it writing on it or is it abused to other prophane vses 5 Whether are the ten Commandements set vpon the East end of your Church or Chappell where the people may best sée and reade them and other sentences of holy Scripture written vpon the walls likewise for the same purpose 6 Whether haue you a conuenient seate for your Minister to reade Seruice in together with a comely Pulpit set vp in a conuenient place with a decent Cloth or Cushion for the same a comely large Surplesse a faire Communion Cup of Siluer and a couer agréeable for the same with all other things and ornaments necessary for the celebration of diuine Seruice and the administration of the Sacraments and a strong Chest for the Almes of the poore with thrée lockes and keyes whereof the Minister to kéepe one key and another Chest for the kéeping of the ornaments of the Church and Register Booke 7 Haue you a faire paper-booke wherein euery Preacher which is a stranger shall write his name the day he preached and by whose authority he is licensed 8 Whether are your Church or Chappels with the Chancels thereof and your Parsonage or Vicarage house and all other houses thereto belonging in good reparations and decently and comely kept as well within as without and the seates well maintained as in the Canons is appointed If not then through whose default and what defects are 9 Whether your Church-yard be well and sufficiently repaired fenced and maintained with walls railes or pales and by whom And if part be to be maintained by any particular persons then you shall present how much and what part euery such person hath or is to maintaine and repaire 10 Whether any person hath incroached vpon the ground of the Church-yard If any hath then you shall present him and specifie what quantity of ground hée hath so incroached and how the old and former fences stood and how they nowstand and are fenced and with what matter or stuffe 11 Whether haue you in your Church any ancient or true note or terrier of all the gleabe lands meddowes gardens orchards houses stocks implements tenements and portions of tythes lying within or without your Parish which belongs to your Personage or Vicarage If there be any whether it is well kept and preserued for the good of the succéeding Incumbents and in what particular place it is kept And whether a true copy thereof vnder the hands of the Ministers and Church-wardens hath béene transmitted into the Lord Bishops principall Registry and when if you
Seruice and receiue the Sacrament If yea then who they are and how long sithence haue they so conformed themselues And whether doe they still abide in that conformity 31 Whether are there in your Parish any Wils not yet proued or goods of the dead dying intestate left vnadministred by the authority of the Ordinary in that behalfe And whether any possesse the goods of any person deceased without authority from the Ordinary You shall not faile to present the Executors and all others faulty culpable therein 32 What person or persons doe you know that haue dyed in your parish since the Lord Bishops last Visitation that had goods or debts in other parts of the Dioces of London out of the iurisdiction in which the party dyed or that dyed in any other Archdeaconrie or Iurisdiction of this Dioces and had goods in your Parish and whether the Executor to such person or any other meddled with such deceased goods by authoritie of the Commissary or Archdeacons Officiall and not by the authority of the Lord Bishop of London or his Chancellor 33 Is there any Legacy giuen to the Church or to other good and godly vses as reliefe of the Poore Orphans Poore Schollers Poore Maydens marriages Schollers High-wayes and such like which is not yet performed If there be any such you shall present what you know or can learne thereof and by whose default the same is not performed 34 Whether any of your Parishioners hauing a Preacher to their Parson Vicar or Curate doe absent themselues from his Sermons and resort to any other place to heare other Preachers or refuse to receiue the holy Communion at his hands for the same respect And whether any other Minister hath receiued to the Communion any of your Parish and specifie the names both of the Minister and Parishioner And whether doe any in your Parish refuse to haue children baptized in your Parish Church according to the forme prescribed in the booke of Common Prayer 35 Whether there be any Inne-kéepers Ale-wiues Victuallers or Tiplers that suffer or doe admit any person or persons into their houses to eate drinke or play at Dice Cards Tables Bowles or such like games in the time of Common Prayer or Sermons on Sundayes or Holy dayes 36 Whether haue you any Butchers or other that commonly vse to sell meat or other things in the time of Common Prayer Preaching or reading of Homilies 37 Whether any Markets or selling of wares be vsed or suffered in any Church-yards on the Sabbath day by common Packmen and Pedlers going about or any Butchers or others 38 Whether there be any in your Parish who will come to heare the Sermon but will not come to the publike prayer appointed by the Booke of Common prayer making a schisme or diuision as it were betwéene the vse of publike Prayer and Preaching 39 Whether there be any who being present at publike prayer doe not deuoutly and humbly knéele vpon their knées at such times as by the Booke of Common prayer they are appointed to wit when they make a generall Confession of their sins when all prayers Collects are read in the time of the Letany when the tenne Commandements are read and at the receiuing of the holy Communion c. And what be their names 40 Whether there be any married women or others within your parish which after childbirth refuse contemne or neglect to come to the Church to giue God thanks for their safe deliuery and to haue the prayers publikely appointed on that behalfe by the Booke of Common prayer to be vsed 41 Whether any doe kéepe their Children vnbaptized longer then is conuenient vnlesse that it be for the sicknesse of the Childe or other vrgent occasion 42 Whether any do carrie their Child or Children from the parish they are borne into other parishes to be baptized and so refuse their owne parish And to what other parish and who baptized any child or children so carried from your parish and whose child was it 43 Whether any doe bring strange Ministers into their owne houses to baptize their children priuately according to their owne fantasies or receiue any child or children borne elsewhere to be baptized in your parish If you know any such then who receiued any such whose childe or children were so baptized and what was the name of the child who baptized it And whether you know of your owne knowledge that the Parents were married together and where when and by whom 44 Whether doe you know or haue heard of any Patron or Aduensoner in your Parish that haue made a gaine by any colour deceit or symoniacall pact in bestowing his Benefice for gaine for or receiuing money or promise of the Lease of the whole part or by reseruing his owne tithes or any pension to himselfe or any other 45 What Almes-houses Hospitals or Spittles for poore people haue you in your Parish that are not of the foundation or patronage of the King and who was the founder or Patron thereof And whether the said Almes-houses Hospitals or Spittles in your Parish being vnder our rule and gouernance be well and godly vsed according to the foundations and ancient ordinances of the same and whether there be any other placed in them then poore impotent and néedy persons that haue not wherewith or whereby to liue 46 How many Midwiues haue you in your Parish which doe exercise that office how long they haue so done and by what authority and what be their names Of what skill they are accounted to be of in their office and vocation 47 How many haue you in your Parish that doe practise as Physicians or Chyrurgions and are so reputed How long they haue so done by what authority of what skill are they accounted to be of in their profession 48 Haue you any in your Parish which haue vsed any Inchantments Sorceries Witchcrafts or Incantations which are not made Felony by the Statutes of this Realme or any Charmes or which doe resort to any such for helpe or Counsell 49 Whether doe you know of any other matter of Ecclesiasticall cognisance worthy the presentment in your iudgement heretofore in these Articles not expressed and which is fit to be reformed in Ecclesiasticall censure If you doe you shall likewise present the same by vertue of your oathes Admonition FIrst for that in great Parishes where diuers doe come in great multitudes to receiue the Communion whereof some doe stand excommunicate To auoid this inconuenience in euery parish the Minister and Churchwardens shall keepe a Booke of all excommunications brought vnto them and from what Court and of the day moneth and yéere it was receiued and of the parties names so excommunicated and for what cause and of the day moneth and yéere of the Denunciation and likewise of the Absolution to the end that all persons may be drawne to conformity and none admitted to be partakers of Common Prayer and the Sacraments who doe stand Excommunicate when they offer themselues ready to receiue the same That in the time of Diuine Seruice and Sermons all persons behaue themselues reuerently and attentiuely and that all men doe sit and continue vncouered with their Hats off the whole time of Diuine Seruice and Prayers That from time to time diligent inquirie be made what children are borne in euery Parish and where when and by whom euery child is baptized And if in case of necessity any childe or children be found to be baptized priuatly in any house that vpon due Certificate thereof the same shall be published in their owne parish Church where the Childe or Children were borne the next Sunday after notice thereof so taken that vpon such necessitie the said Child or Children were so baptized and that rightly that the Parish may take notice thereof And concerning your Transcript of the names of all persons Baptized Married or Buried you shall obserue the forme prescribed in the Booke of Articles ministred in the last Trienniall Visitation of the Lord Bishop of London viz. Anno 1628. AT the deliuery of your Bill of Presentment at the time and place aboue set downe you are likewise in the said Bill to set downe the names of all such as haue béene buryed at any time since the _____ day of Iuly last past _____ being Men Maids or Widdowes and likewise the Minister Churchwardens and Sidemen of euery parish must in the end of the said Bill of Presentment set downe beside their presenting which they make of all Recusants and non-Communicants this Note following Recusants men Recusants women Non-Communicants of both sex Communicants of both sex in the whole Parish So setting downe the number of euery one the Minister Church-wardens and Sidemen must put their hands to this Note
them all of each sort 13 Whether doe any of the inhabitants within your said Parish entertaine within their house any soiourners lodgers or any common resorters and guests who refuse to frequent diuine Seruice or receiue the holy Communion as aforesaid what be their names and of what qualitie or condition are they 14 Whether any of the said Popish Recusants be of insolent behauiour not without publike offence or doe boldly busie themselues in seducing or withdrawing others either abroad or in their owne families by instructing their Children in Popish Religion or by refusing to entertaine any especially in place of greatest seruice or trust but such as concurre with them in opinion of Religion and what be their names that so doe 15 How long the said Popish Recusants haue obstinately abstained either from diuine Seruice or from the Communion as is aforesaid whether any long time or onely since his Maiesties Reigne and how long 16 Whether there be any Popish Recusants married the child of any Recusant christned or any Recusant buried within your Parish by any other then the Minister of the Parish where when and by whom and what certificate you haue receiued thereof or whether the child of any Recusant remaine vnbaptized aboue one moneth or be not baptized in the Parish Church 17 You shall present how the children of such as refuse to come to Church are brought vp vnder what Schoolemaster or Tutor where and in what Schoole or place what those childrens names are how long their Parents haue béene married by whom when and in what place and by what authoritie were they married and what Certificate you haue receiued of their marriage 18 What persons aforesaid within your Parish either for the offence aforesaid or for any other contumacy or crime doe remaine excommunicated what be their names and for what cause and how long haue they so stood excommunicated And whether any doe familiarly vse the company of such as doe obstinately stand excommunicate knowing the same and what be their names 19 Whether doe all persons aboue the age of sixtéene yéeres vsually resort to heare diuine Seruice vpon Sundayes and Holi-dayes approued and whether hath each one of your parishioners being aboue the age of 16. yéeres as aforesaid receiued the holy Communion thrice this last yéere chiefly once at Easter in your Parish Church knéeling If no then you shall present their names which haue not so done 20 Whether haue any in your Parish béene married within the prohibited degrées forbidden by law and expressed in a certaine table published by authority in Anno 1563 If yea then you shall present their names And whether haue you the said Table publikely set vp in your Church and fastned to some conuenient place 21 Whether doth any heretofore diuorced or married and not diuorced kéepe company at bed and boord as man and wife with any other man or woman then with the person that he or she was married vnto and what be their names If the parties now so liuing together say that they be married when and where were they married and how long haue they so continued together 22 Whether haue you in your Parish to your knowledge or by common fame and report any which haue committed adultery fornication or incest or any bawdes harborces or receiuers of such persons or vehemently suspected thereof which haue not béene publikely punished to your knowledge If yea then specifie the names of them all 23 Whether haue you any in your Parish which are by common fame and report or vehement suspition reputed and taken to be common drunkards blasphemers of Gods holy name common and vsuall swearers filthy speakers raylers sowers of discord among their neighbours or speakers against Ministers marriages Vsurers contrary to the Statute made in the 37. yéere of King Henry the eight or Symoniacall persons you shall not faile to present their names 24 Whether haue any in your Parish receiued or harbored any woman with child that was not before a housholder in your Parish If yea whether you know that she was married and to whom where and when and specifie her name also and from whence she came 25 Whether haue any in your Parish receiued or harbored any woman gotten with child out of wedlocke and suffered them againe to depart without penance first inflicted vpon them by their Ordinarie You shall truly present as well the party harbouring as harboured and all that helped to conuey them or her away And who is suspected to haue committed adultery or fornication with her 26 Whether the parties offending in any of your Parishes in the sinne of fornication adultery or incest bawdry or kéeping of a bawdy house or vehemently suspected of these or any other Ecclesiasticall offences haue for them or any one of them béene presented since the Lord Bishop of London his last visitation to any Commissary Archdeacon or his Officiall their Surrogates or Deputies and whether for such their offences they haue done publike penance before the Congregation in their owne Parish Church in time of diuine Seruice And if any so presented haue not done such penance what be their names what the offence was and of what Parish they then were of and where they or any of them doe now remaine and dwell 27 Whether any person or persons suspected or detected heretofore of incontinency and therefore departing out of your Parish is now returned againe or in what place else is he or she now abiding as you know or haue heard And whether he or she hath done any penance and what penance or else escaped without penance and by what whose meanes You shall present the whole truth in that behalfe 28 Whether there be any person or persons Ecclesiasticall or Temporall within your Parish or else-where within this Diocesse that haue retained and kept in their custody or that reade sell vtter disperse carrie or deliuer to others any English or Latine Bookes or Libels set forth or printed either on this side or beyond the Seas by Papists or Sectaries against the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall or tending to Popery Puritanisme or any other Sect error or heresie against true Religion and Catholike doctrine now publikely professed in this Church or the gouernment or discipline of the Church of England now within this Realme receiued and established by common authoritie that you know or haue heard of what their names and surnames are 29 Whether there bée any in your Parish who are knowne or suspected to conceale or kéepe hid in their houses any Masse-bookes Portesses Breuiaries or other Bookes of Popery or superstition or any Chalices Copes Vestments Albes or other ornaments of superstition vncancelled or vndefaced which is to be coniectured they kéepe for a day as they call it 30 Whether haue you any in your Parish to your knowledge or as you haue heard which heretofore being Popish Recusants Sectaries haue since conformed themselues and come to Church to heare Diuine