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
notorious crimes and what penance haue they done for the same 14 What corporall punishment for any such or any other offence hath béen commuted and changed into a pecuniary mulct or summe of money by any Ecclesiasticall Iudge exercising iurisdiction within this Dioces what was the summe of money by any of them so receiued and taken and to what vses was the same imployed And vpon such Commutations was the vnfained repentance of the delinquent published in the Church And hath Commutation béen granted to one and the same party aboue once for any crime of the same kind 15 Do all Fathers Mothers Masters and Mistresses cause their children seruants and apprentises to come to the publike catechizing on Sundayes and Holydayes to be instructed and taught therein And those that do not their duties herein in not sending them to it or not duly comming or not learning and answering you shall present their names 16 Haue any in your Parish receiued or harboured any woman begotten with child out of wedlock and suffered her to depart without punishment first inflicted on her by the Ordinarye You shall truly present as well the party harbouring as harboured and who is suspected to be the father of the child 17 Is any person or persons suspected or detected héertofore of incontinency and therefore departing out of your parish for a season now returned againe Or in what place else is he or she now abiding to your knowledge or as you haue heard You shall not faile to present the whole truth in that behalfe as far as you know 18 Do all your parishioners of what sort soeuer receiue the blessed Sacrament thrice euery yéere at least and when they do receiue it doe they all according as the Church expresly them commandeth draw néere and with all Christian humility and reverence come before the Lords Table And not after the most contemptuous and vnholy usage of some if men did rightly consider sit still in their seates or pewes to haue the blessed Body and Blood of our Sauiour go up and down to séeke them all the Church ouer 19 Are there any deceased in your parish whose last Wills and Testaments haue not yet béene proued or did they dye intestate And if so who hath taken vpon him the administration of their goods and whether by lawfull authority from the Ordinary or without What be the names of such deceased and of their Executors and Administrators 20 What persons bée excommunicated in your parish and for what cause to your knowledge And how long haue they stood excommunicate And do any of them not being absolued presume to be present in the Church at diuine Seruice And do any familiarly use the company of such as do obsturately stand excommunicate knowing the same and what be their names Chap. 8. Concerning Schoole-masters Physitians Chirurgions Midwives Parish-clarks and Sextons HAue you any Schoole master in your Parish that teacheth publikely or in any private houses And if so what is his name and how long hath he béene there Is there any teaching of Schollers to read or write in the Chancell or in any part of the Church Doth any Papist kéep a Schoole-master in his house who commeth not to Church to heare diuine Seruice and to receiue the holy Communion What is his name and how long hath he taught there or elsewhere Doth your Schoole-master teach any Papists or Sectaries children that come not to Church Doth hée bring his schollers to Church and duly instruct them all to learne the Catechisme in the Book of Common Prayer at the least once euery wéeke or what other Catechisme doth hée teach Is he of honest and sincere life and religion and conversation Is he a Graduate and sufficient to teach and diligent in teaching and bringing up of youth 2 Is any thing withholden or otherwise imployed that hath béene giuen to the vse of a schoole in your parish What is it by whom is it imbezelled 3 What Physition or Chirurgion haue you in your parish who not being a Doctor of Physick or otherwise sufficiently licenced in either of the Vniuersities doth notwithstanding practise physick what other persons haue you among you either male or female who take upon them to professe or practise physick or chirurgery And who be Midwiues in your parish 4 Haue you a fit Parish-clark aged 20. yéeres at least and a Sexton Is your Clark or Sexton of honest life able to read and write Are his and the Sextons wages duly paid without fraud or diminution according to the ancient custome of your parish What are the said wages by the yeare By whom are the said Clark or Sexton chosen Are both or either of them diligent in his office and seruiceable to the Minister Doth he kéepe the Church cleane and the doores locked Is there any thing lost or spoyled through his default 5 Doth your Clark or Sexton take upon him to haue or suffer any superstitious or any unseasonable ringing of the Bels at any time or any ringing without good cause such as the Minister and Church-wardens haue not allowed When notice is given of any Christian passing out of this life within the parish doth he neglect to toll a passing-bell or to ring presently after the departure 6 Doth your parish Clark or Sexton or any other of your parish exact or require more then the ordinary and accustomed Fée for any seruice done by him or them in or â—at mariages christenings and burials or for any thing else concerning the same or haue they refused to do their duties therein untill they haue receiued what they demanded Chap. 9. Concerning Ecclesiasticall Officers WHat peculiar or exempt Iurisdictions know you of within the compasse of this parish 2 Are there any Ecclesiasticall Officers exercising Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction within this Dioces or any Ministers or Clarks under them who do take or exact any extraordinary fées for any cause that you know of or by way of gratuity for expedition 3 Haue any Church-wardens and Quest-men concealed and not presented any abuses or offences punishable in the Ecclesiasticall Court Or haue any such offences being by them presented to the Chancellor Arch-deacon Officiall or any other using Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction within this Dioces béene suppressed or left unpunished for bribe reward pleasure friend-ship feare or any other partiall respect 4 Are any assemblies called Vestry-méetings held in your Parish when and how often are they In what place and by whom Hath any thing that you haue heard of béene proposed treated or concluded therein touching the diuine Seruice or the doctrine and discipline of the Church Or any thing medled with for the gouerment of the Church or parish which belongs to the Ecclesiasticall cognition and Iurisdiction 5 Doth the Arch-deacon once in thrée yéeres visit and suruey your Church touching the repaires of the same and vpon any defect found hath he made certificate of it as far as you know or haue heard 6 Are there placed by the Registrar two
defaced or purloyned any Monuments or Ornaments in your Church or any Inscriptions of Brasse any Lead or Stones there or any part of the Glasse-windowes or the Organs When was it done and by whom 19 Hath any Popish Recusant being lawfully excommunicate or any other excommunicated person béen buried in your Church or Church-yard before absolution from that censure and excommunication obtained And if yea then by whom and when 20 Be the profits tithes or any commodities Ecclesiasticall belonging to the Parsonage or Vicarage of your Parish conuerted to the vse and benefit of the Patrons or of any other but the Incumbent and by them receiued and detained And how long haue they béene so And is there but a Curate or slipendary Priest kept in any place where you haue heard or do belieue an Incumbent should be possessed and what allowance hath be 21 Is there any other Cure annexed to your Parish or any Chappell of ease belonging to the same How are they serued by whom and vpon what allowance Is there any other kind of Chappell or Chappels within the precincts of your Parish To whom do they belong When were they erected and when consecrated Haue you in your Parish any house or houses whereof any roome is ordinarily vsed for Preaching or saying the diuine Seruice and administring the holy Communion How long hath it béene so and by what authority or licence 22 Haue you a true Terrier of all the Glebe-lands Meadowes Gardens Orchards Houses Stockes Implements Tenements and portions of Tithes within your Parish or without belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage taken by the view of honest men in your said Parish appointed by the Ordinary And is it safely kept and preserued and in whose hands And hath there a true copie thereof vnder the hands of the Minister and Church-wardens béene transmitted and laid vp in the Bishops Registry there to continue for a perpetuall memory thereof And if you haue no such Terrier yet made you the Church-wardens and Side-men together with your Parson or Vicar or in his absence your Curate are now appointed to make diligent inquiry of the premises and to make subscribe and signe the said Terrier and to bring in a true copie of it into the Bishops Registry within thrée moneths after the receit of this booke of Articles Chap. 4. Concerning the Ministers Preachers and Lecturers IS your Minister Parson Vicar or Curate reputed to be a Graduate in either of the Vniuersities yea or no And if he be a Graduate then of what degrée is he what is his Christian and Sire-name 2 Is your Minister a licensed Preacher yea or no And if he be licensed then by whom Doth he preach vsually in his owne Cure or in some other Church or Chappell neare adioyning where there is no Preacher once euery Sunday And how often hath he béene negligent in so doing Doth he also preach standing and in his Câ—… and Gowne not in a Cloak with his Surplice and Hood also if he be a Graduate and with his head vncouered And if hee be not a licenced Preacher doth he take vpon him in his owne Cure or elsewhere to expound any Scripture or matter of doctrine or doth he kéepe himselfe only to the reading of Homilies published by authority and besides procure Sermons to bee preached amongst you once euery moneth at least by such as are lawfully licenced And doth hee or his Curate vpon euery Sunday when there is no Sermon read some one of the Homilies prescribed by authority and before the said Homily vse that forme of exhorting to prayer onely which is prescribed in the fifty fifth Canon and no other prayer of his owne either before or after it 3 Is your Minister resident with you vpon his benefice or if absent how long time hath he béene so and where is he resident for the most part And doth he in his absence make allowance to the poore and what allowance doth he make Hath he any other Benefice and doth he supply his absence by a Curate setled and dwelling in your Parish that is licenced to preach and what allowance doth he make to his Curate and how often in the yéere comes he thither himselfe 4 Is your Curate licenced by the Bishop of the Dioces And doth your Minister or Curate serue any more Cures then one If yea then what other Cure doth he serue and how farre are his Cures distant one from the other 5 Hath any being no Priest or Deacon presumed at any time under pretence of being a graduate or a Scholler of the Vniuersity to read common prayers openly in your Church or Chappell or to serue the Cure of your Parish or to preach there Hath any Deacon not hauing receiued the full order of Priesthood taken vpon him alone to administer the Communion in your Church or Chappell You are to present the names of any that haue herein offended as farre as you know or belieue 6 Doth your Minister Preacher or Lecturer onely read the Communion Seruice commonly called the second Seruice at the Communion Table Doth he begin his Sermon at any time or part of the diuine Seruice but immediately after the Beliefe called the Nicéene-créed Doth hee before his Sermon vse any forme of Prayer which is of his priuate conceiuing or collecting and of his owne inuenting or choosing or doth he containe himselfe within that briefe forme onely which is prescribed by the Church in the 55. Canon thereby only to exhort and moue the people to ioyne with him in Prayer for Christs holy Catholike Church and for the Kings most excellent Maiesty naming him and his royall Titles for the Quéene the Prince and the royall Issue for the Arch-bishops also and the Bishops for the Councell the Nobility the Magistracy and commons of the land and to giue thanks to God for the faithfull departed out of this life And then this mouing to prayer being done as briefly as conuenientlly may be both he alwayes conclude it with the Lords Prayer 7 Doth your Preacher or Minister at the close of his Sermon wholly forbeare to vse any kind or forme of Prayer not being prescribed as also to pronounce the blessing out of the Pulpet wherewith the Church useth to dismisse the people But doth he there conclude only with Glory to God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost and then comming from the Pulpit if the Sermon were made within the Church or Chappell doth he or whosoeuer then officiates at the same place where he left before the Sermon proceed to reade the remainder of the divine Seruice and at the close of all to give the Blessing and not before 8 Doth euery Priest and Deacon in your Parish daily say the Morning and Euening prayer either priuately or openly vnlesse 〈◊〉 bée vpon lawfull cause hindered Doth your Curate say the same daily in your Church or Chappell with the tolling of a Bell before hée begin Especially doth your Minister or Curate do it on