a note of such wilfull and negligent persons as ye shall finde faultie in this behalfe and so presente the same and the Churchwardens and Sworne men also to the Ordinarie if they shall refuse so to assiste you 9 Item ye shall not marry any persons or aske the Banes of Matrimonie betwene any persons which before were single vnlesse they can saie the Catechisme by harte and will recite the same vnto you before the asking of the Banes. And ye shall not marry any persons without the Banes be thrise on thrée seuerall Sundaies or Holydayes first openly asked without any impediment or forbidding Neither shall ye marry any persons within the degrées of affinitie or consanguinitie by the Lawes of God forbidden so set out for an admonition in a table lately appointed to be affixed in your parishe Churche For the better knowledge of which degrées ye shall reade vnto your Parishioners the saide Table euery yéere twise at the least 10 Item ye shall not admitte to aunswere as Godfathers or Godmothers at the Christening of any Childe any person or persons except he shée and they haue before receiued the holy Communion and can saie by hearte the articles of the Christian Faith in Englishe and will recite the same before you at the time of Ministration of Baptisme or before the Minister if he she or they be therevnto required And being yong folkes except he shée and they can say by hart the whole Catechisme and will recite the same before you as is aforesaide 11 Item ye shall not Church any vnmaried woman which hath bene gotten with childe out of lawfull Matrimonie except it be vpon some Sunday or Holy daie and except shée either before her childebirth haue done dewe penaunce for hir faulte to the satisfaction of the congregation or at hir comming to be Churched shée doe openly acknowledge hir faulte before the congregation accordingly and shewe hir selfe to be very penitent for the same Leauing it frée for the Ordinary to punishe hir further at his discretion 12 Item ye shall euery Sunday when there is no Sermon in your Church or Chappell distinctly and plainely reade in the pulpit some one of the Homelies set forth by the Quéenes Maiesties authoritie or one parte thereof at the least in such sorte as the same are deuided and appointed to be read by the two bookes of the Homelies And euery Holy day when there is no Sermon ye shall immediatly after the Gospell plainely and distinctly recite to your Parishioners the Lordes praier the Articles of the faith and the tenne Commaundementes in Englishe and being not admitted by the Ordinary or other lawful auctoritie ye shall not expounde any Scripture or matter of doctrine by the waie of exhortation or otherwise and thereby omitte and leaue of the reading of the Homelies 13 Item you shall plainely distinctly reade in your Church or Chappel vnto the people betwene the Letanie and the Communion the forme of commination againste sinners with certaine praiers following the same set forth in the later ende of the booke of common Praier thrée times at the least in the yéere that is to saie for orders sake yéerely vpon one of the twoo Sundaies next before Gaster for the first time vpon one of the twoo Sundaies next before the feaste of Pentecoste for the seconde time and for the thirde time vpon one of the twoo Sundaies next before the feaste of the birthe of our Lorde ouer and besides the accustomed reading thereof vpon the firste day of Lente 14 Item you shall reade openly in your Church in these of diuine seruice twise euery yéere vpon some of the Sundaies within one Moneth next after the feastes of Easter and sainte Michaell the Archangel plainely without addition or chainge a declaration of certaine principall Articles of Religion sette foorth by both the Archebishoppes and the reste of the Bishops of this Realme for the vnitie of Doctrine 15 Item ye shall not proclaime bid or obserue nor willingly suffer your Parishioners to obserue any Holy daies or casting daies heretofore abrogated or not appointed by the newe Kalender of the Booke of common Praier to be vsed or kept as Holy daies or Fasting daies nor giue the people any knowledge thereof by any indirect meanes 16 Item ye shall kéepe well the Registers of al Weddings Burials and Christeninges within your Parishe according to thorder prescribed in the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions ▪ and shall present a coppie of them euery yéere once by Indenture to the Ordinarie or his Officers 17 Item you shall Preach or by suche as are lawfully licenced shall cause to be Preached in the Churches where you are Persons or Uicars one Sermon euery quarter of the yeare at the least 18 Item no Minister or Priest shal serue twoo cures at one time nor say common seruice in any priuate mans house without special license vnder the Ordinaries seale Nor any Curate shall serue any one cure within this Prouince without letters testimonial of the Ordinary of the place from whence he came testifiyng the cause of his departinge from thence and of his behauiour there nor onles he shall first obteine and haue speciall license in writing vnder the seale of the Ordinarie of the place whereunto he commeth for his admission to such a cure and shall shewe the same to the Churchwardens before he enter to serue any such cure 19 Item ye shall reade openly in your Churches Chappels in time of diuine seruice the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions euery quarter of a yéere once And these our Iniunctions concerning aswell the Clergie as the Laytie euery halfe yéere once 20 Item for the putting of the Churchwardens and sworne men better in remembrance of their dewtie in obseruing and noting all such persons of your parishe as doe offende in not coming to Diuine seruice ye shall openly euery Sunday after ye haue read the second Lesson at Morning and Euening praier monishe and warne the Churchwardens and Sworne men of your Parishe to looke to their Othes and charge in this behalf and to obserue who contrary to the Lawe doe that day offende either in absenting them selues negligently or wilfully from their parishe Church or Chappell or vnreuerently vse them selues in the time of Diuine seruice and so note the same to the intent they may either present such offenders to the Ordinary when they shal be required therevnto or leuye and take by way of distresse to the vse of the Poore suche forfeitures as are appointed by a Statute made in the first yéere of the Quéenes Maiesties Reigne in that behalfe and if the Churchwardens and Sworne men be negligent or shall refuse to doe their dutie that way ye shall present to the Ordinarie both them and all such others of your Parishe as shall offende either in absenting themselfes from the Church or by vnreuerent behauiour in the Church contrary to the same Statute 21 Item ye shall from time to time diligently call vpon exhort your
whether he be able and readie to read the first Lesson the Epistle and the Psalmes with aunswere to the suffrages as is vsed and whether he kéepe not the bookes and ornaments of the Church fayre and cleane and cause the Church and Quéere the Communion Table the Pulpet and the Font to be made decent and cleane agaynst seruice time the communion sermon and baptisme 40 Whether there be any man or woman in your Parish that resorteth to any Popish priest for shrift or auricular confession or any that within thrée yeares now last past hath béene reconciled vnto the Pope or to the church of Rome or any that is reputed or suspected so to be and whether there be any that refuse to come to the Church to heare diuine seruice or to communicate according to the order now established by publicke authoritie and what be their names 41 Whether there be anye person or persons ecclesiasticall or temporall within your Parish or else where within this Dioces that of late haue retayned or kept in theyr custodie or that read sell vtter disperse cary or deliuer to others anye Englishe bookes set forth of late yeares at Louain or in any other place beyonde the seas by Harding Dorman Allen Saunders Stapleton Marshall or any of them or by any other Englishe Papist eyther agaynst the Quéenes Maiesties Supremacie in matters ecclesiasticall or agaynst true religion and catholicke Doctrine now receyued and established by common authoritie within thys Realme and what their names and surnames are 42 Whether there be any in your Parishe that vseth to pray in English or in Latine vpon Beades or other such like thing or vpon any superstitious popishe Primer or other like booke and what be their names 43 Whether the people of your parish especially housholders hauing no lawfull excuse to be absent doe faythfullye and diligently endeuour themselues to resort with their Children and Seruauntes to their parish Church or Chappell on the holye dayes and chiefly vpon the Sundayes to Morning and Euening prayer vpon reasonable let thereof to some vsuall place where common prayer is vsed and then and there abyde orderly and soberly during the time of common prayer Homelyes Sermons and other seruice of God there vsed reuerentlye and deuoutly giuing themselues to the hearing thereof and occupying themselues at times conuenient in priuate prayer who they be that eyther negligently or wilfully absent themselues or come very late to the Church vpon the Sundayes especially or that walke talke or otherwise vnreuerently behaue themselues in the Church or vse any gaming abrode or in any house or sit in the Stretes or Churchyarde or in any Tauerne or Alehouse vpon the Sundaye or other holy day in the time of common prayer Sermons or reading of the Homelies eyther before noone or after noone 44 Whether the forfeyture of twelue pence for euerye such offence appoynted by a statute made in the first yere of the Quéenes Maiesties raigne be leuied and taken according to the same Statute by the Churchwardens of euerye person that so offendeth and by them be put to the vse of the poore of the parish and if it be not by whose default it is not leuied And what perticuler sommes of money haue béene forfaited that way and by whome since the feast of Easter in the yere of our Lorde 1570. vntill the day of giuing vp the presentment concerning these Articles And so from time to time as the said Churchwardens and swornemen shall be appoynted to present in this behalfe and how much of such forfeitures haue bene deliuered to the vse of the poore of the parish and to whome the same hath béene deliuered 45 Whether ye knowe any that in the time of the reding of the Letanie or of any other part of the common prayer or in the time of the Sermon or of reding the Homelies or anye part of the Scriptures to the parishioners any person haue departed out of the Church without iust and necessarie cause or that disturbeth the Minister or preacher any maner of wayes in the time of diuine seruice or Sermon And whether any in contempt of their parish Church or Minister doe resort to any other church or no 46 Whether there be any Inkéepers Alewiues Uitailors or Tipplers that suffer or doe admit any person or persons in their houses to eate drinke or play at Cardes Tables or such lyke games in the time of common prayer or Sermon on the Sundaies or holy daies And whether there be anye Shoppes set open on Sundayes or Holy dayes or any Butchers or others that commonly vse to sell meate or other things in the time of common prayer preaching or reding of the Homelies And whether in any Faires or common Marketes falling vpon the Sunday there be any shewing of any wares before the diuine seruice be done And whether any Markets or selling of any wares be vsed or suffred in any Church yardes 47 Whether for the putting of the Churchwardens and Swornemen the better in remembraunce of their duetie in obseruing and noting such as offend in not comming to diuine seruice your Minister or reader doe openly euery Sunday after he haue red the seconde Lesson at morning and euening prayer monish and warne the Churchwardens and swornemen to looke to their charge in this behalfe and to obserue who contrarie to the sayde Statute offende in absenting themselues negligently or wilfully from their parish Church or Chappell or vnreuerently as is aforesaide vse themselues in the time of diuine seruice 48 Whether the Churchwardens of the last yeare haue giuen to the parish a iust accompt of the church goodes and rentes that were committed to their charge according vnto the custome that hath béene afore time vsed and what church goodes they or any other haue solde and to whome and whether to the profite of your church or no And what hath béene done with the money thereof comming 49 Whether the churchwardens and swornemen of the last yere haue of any priuat corrupt affection concealed any crime or other disorder in their time done in your parishe and haue not presented the same to the Bishop Chauncelor Archedeacon Commissarie or such other as had authoritie to reforme the same and whether they or any of them at any such time as they shoulde haue béene at diuine seruice on Sundaies or Holy dayes and shoulde there haue obserued others that were absent haue béene away themselues at home or in some Tauerne or Alehouse or else about some worldly businesse or at Bowles Cardes Tables or other gaming without regarde of their office and duetie in that behalfe 50 Whether any man hath pulled downe or discouered any church chauncell or chappell or any part of anye of them any church porche Uestrie or Stéeple almose house or such like or haue plucked downe the Belles or haue felled or spoyled anye wood or timber in any church yarde 51 Whether your Hospitals Spittles and almose houses be well and godly
Iniunctions Giuen by the most reuerende father in Christ Edmonde by the prouidence of God Archbishop of Yorke primate of England and Metropolitane in his Metropoliticall visitation of the Prouince of Yorke aswell to the Clergie as to the Laytie of the same Prouince Anno do 1571. Imprinted at London by William Seres Cum priuilegio Iniunctions giuen by the most Reuerende Father in Christ Edmonde by the prouidence of God Archebishop of Yorke c. ⧠For the Clergie INPRIMIS you must trauel diligently and painefully to set forth Gods true religion and adourne the same with example of godly life being circumspect that you offende no man eyther by light behauiour or by light apparell 2 Item vpon euery Sunday and Holyday yee shall in your Churche or Chappell at conuenient howers reuerently and distinctly say or sing the Common prayer appointed by the lawes of this Realme both in the forenoone and afternoone standing in a pulpit or seate appointed for that purpose and so turnyng your face towards the people as they may best heare the same and vpon euery Wednesday and Friday in the forenoone not beyng holy day ye shall in like manner saie the Letanie and other Praiers appointed for the daie and likewise the euenyng Praier euery Saterday holy Euen and shall also at all times requisite and conuenient duely and reuerently minister the two holy Sacraments that is to say Baptisme and the Lordes Supper commonly called the holy Communion accordyng to such order as is set forth in the booke of Common prayer and administration of the Sacramentes 3 Item ye shall minister the holy Communion euery moneth ones at the least in euery of your Churches Chappels where ministration of the Sacramentes is permitted And to the intent that the people may better vnderstande theyr dueties and come the better prepared to the holy Communion ye shall monethly exhort your Parishioners to come to the same and alwaies giue them warnyng therof the next Sunday before yée ministre the same declaring vnto them that by the lawes of this Realme euery person of conuenient age is bound to receiue the holy Communion at the least thrée times in the yéere and namely at Easter for ones 4 Item that at all times when yée minister the holy Sacramentes and vpon Sundaies and other holy daies when ye say the Common prayer and other diuine seruice in your Parishe Churches and Chappelles and likewise at all Mariages Burials ye shal when ye minister weare a cleane and decent surples with large sléeues and shall Minister the Holy communion in no challice nor any prophane cup or glasse but in a Communion cup of Siluer and with a couer of Siluer appointed also for the ministration of the Communion bread ye shall not deliuer the Communion bread vnto the people into their mouthes but into their handes nor shall vse at the Ministration of the communion any gestures rites or Ceremonies not appointed by the booke of Common prayer as crossinge or breathing ouer the Sacramentall ▪ bread and Wine nor any shewing or liftinge vp of the same to the people to be by them worshipped and adored nor any such like nor shall vse any Oile or Chrisme Tapers Spattle or any other Popishe ceremony in the ministration of the Sacrament of Baptisme 5 Item ye shall euery Sunday and Holy day openly in your Church or chappell call for heare and instructe the children and seruantes both menkinde and womenkinde that be of conuenient age within your Parishe at the least so many of them at once by course as the time will serue and as you may well heare and instruct for an hower at the least before Euening praier in the ten commaundementes the articles of the Beliefe and the Lordes prayer in Englishe and diligently examine and teache them the Catechisme set forth in the booke of Common prayer And to thintent this thinge may be more effectually executed ye shall take the names of all the children yong men maydens and seruantes in your Parishe that be aboue six yeres of age and vnder twentie which can not say the Cathechisme shall call by course certaine of them by name eeuery Sunday and euery Holy day to come to the Catechisme whereby you may easily note and obserue what Parentes or Maisters be negligent in sending their children and seruantes to be instructed and take occasion thereof both priuately and openly to exhorte them to sende their youth as they are appointed and shall present the refusers to the ordinarie 6 Item you shall not admitte to the receiuing of the holy Communion any of your Parish which be openly knowen to liue in any notorious sinne as Incest Adulterie Fornication Drunkennes much Swearing Bawderie Usurie or suche like without dewe penaunce firste donne to the satisfaction of the congregation nor any malicious person that is out of Charitie or that hath done open wrong to his neighbour by woorde or déede without dewe reconciliation firste made to the partie that is wronged or maliced 7 Item you shall not admitte to the holy Communion any of your Parishe men or women being aboue fower and twentie yéeres of age that can not say by heart at the least the tenne Commaundementes the articles of the Faith and the Lordes praier in English nor any being fouretene yéeres and aboue and vnder fower and twentie yéeres of age that can not say by harte the Catechisme that is set forth in the saide booke of common Praier 8 Item for that purpose ye shal before Easter and al other times of the yeare when the holy Communion is to be by you ministred giue warning before vnto your Parishioners to come vnto you either in the afternoone of some Sunday or holy daie or the daie before they purpose to receiue or at some other times before as necessitie shall cause you to appointe if there be any multitude or if the numbre be but small in the morning at the farthest before they shall receiue so that it be before the beginning of Morning prayer so many of them as intende to receiue not onely to signifie vnto you their names to the intent ye may kéepe a Register or note of all suche persons as from time to time shall communicate but also to be by you examined whether they can saie by heart the tenne commaundementes the Articles of the Faith the Lordes prayer and the Catechisme according as after the diuersitie of their ages is aboue required and such of them as either can not or will not recite the same by harte vnto you ye shall repell and put backe from the holy Communion vntill they shall be able willing to learne and can by harte recite the same vnto you for your better assistance wherin ye shall call vpon and require the Churchwardens and Sworne men of your Parishe to be present one of them at the least at euery such examination to thintent they may helpe to put this good order in practise and ye shall take
Parishioners to contribute and giue towardes the reliefe of the Poore as they may well spare and specially when ye visite them that be sicke and make their Testamentes and for your owne partes also ye shall charitably relieue the Poore to your habilitie 22 Item ye shall daily reade at the least one chapter of the Old Testament and an other of the Newe with good aduisement and such of you as be vnder the degrée of a maister of Arte shall prouide and haue of your owne according to the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions at the least the New Testament both in Latine and English conferring the one with the other euery daie one Chapter thereof at the least so that vpon the examination of the Archedeacon Commissary or their Officers in Synodes and Uisitations or at other appointed times it may appeare how ye profite in the studie of holy Scripture 23 Item ye shall not kéepe or suffer to be kept in your personage or Uicaridge houses any Alehouses Tipling Houses or Tauerns nor shal sell Ale Béere or Wine nor any of you shal kéepe any suspected woman in your house or be an incontinent liuer giuen to Drunkennesse or Idlenesse nor any of you beyng vnmaried shall kéepe in your house any woman vnder the age of thréescore yéeres excepte shée be your Daughter by former Mariage or be your Mother Aunte Sister or Niece and such an one as ye shall kéepe shal be of good name and fame nor any of you shal be a haunter of Tauernes Alehouses or suspected places or a Hunter Hawker Dicer Carder Tabler Swearer or otherwise giue any euill example of life but contrarywise at all times when ye shall haue leysure ye shal heare or reade some parte of holy Scripture or some other good Authours or shall occupie your selues with some other honest studie or exercise oftentimes giue your selues to earnest praier and shal be diligent in visiting the sicke comforting of them 24 Item you shall exhorte your Parishioners to obedience towardes their Prince and all other that be in authoritie and to charitie and mutuall loue amongst themselues helping to reconcile thē which shall happen to be at variance at any time and if ye can not Preache ye shall teache children to reade to write to know their dueties towards God their Prince Parentes and all others and by all meanes ye can ye shall endeuour your selues to profite the Common Wealth hauing alwaies in minde that ye ought to excell all other in puritie of life and should be examples to the people to liue well and Christianly not giuing any way iuste cause of offence 25 Item all Proprietaries Parsons Uicars and Clerkes hauing Churches or Chappels within this prouince shall cause the Chauncels or Quéeres of their Churches or Chappels to be from time to time accordinge to the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions in that behalfe sufficiently repaired and mainteined in good estate and all Parsons Uicars and other Clerkes hauing Mansion houses belonging to their promocions shall likewise repaire and kéepe the same in good estate and vpon the same Chauncels or Quéeres and Mansion houses with buildinges therevnto belonging being in decaye shall yéerely bestowe according to the same Iniunctions the fift parte of that their benefice till they be fully repayred and being repaired shall mainteine the same in good estate and order ▪ ¶ For the Laytie FIrst wée doe enioyne and straitly commaunde that from hencefoorth no parish Clerke nor any other parson not being ordered at the least for a Deacon shall presume to solemnize Matrimonie or to Minister the Sacrament of Baptisme or to deliuer to the Communicantes the Lordes Cuppe at the celebration of the holy Communion And that no person not being a Minister Deacon or at the least tollerated by the Ordinarie in writing doe attempt to supplie thoffice of the Minister in saying of Diuine seruice openly in any Church or Chappell 2 Item to thintent that the people may the better heare the Morninge and Eueninge Prayer when the same by the Minister is saide be the more edified thereby we doe enioyne that the Churchwardens of euery parishe in places aswell exempt as not exempt at the charges of the Parishe shall procure a decent low Pulpit to be erected and made in the body of the Church out of hande wherein the Minister shall stande with his face towardes the people when he readeth Morninge and Euening prayer Prouided alwaies that where the Churches are very small it shall suffise that the Minister stande in his accustomed stall in the Quéere So that a conuenient deske or lecterne with a rowme to turne his face towardes the people be there prouided by the saide Churchwardens at the charges of the parishe The iudgement and order whereof and also the forme and order of the Pulpit or seate aforesaide in greater Churches wée doe referre vnto the Archdeacon of the place or to his Officiall Prouided also that the prayers and other seruice appointed for the Ministration of the holy Communion be saide and done at the Commūion table except the Epistle and Gospell which shal be read in the saide pulpit or stall and also the tenne commaundementes when there is no Communion 3 Item that the Churchwardens according to the custome of euery parishe shal be chosen by the consent aswell of the Parson Uicare or Curate as of the Parishioners otherwise they shall not be Churchwardens neyther shall they continue anye lenger than one yeare in that office except perhappes they shal be chosen againe They shall not sell or alienate any Belles or other church goodes without consent of the Ordinarie in writing first had nor shal put the money that shall come of any such sale to any other vse than to the reparations of their Churches or Chappelles or for prouiding of necessaries for the same Churches or Chappels And all Churchwardens at the ende of euery yeare shall give vp to the Parson Uicare or Curate and their Parishioners a iuste accompte written in a booke to be prouided at the charges of the Parishe for that purpose of al suche money ornamentes stocke rentes or other Churche goodes as they haue receiued during the time they were in office and also shall particulerly shewe what coste they haue bestowed in reparations other thinges for the vse of the Church And going out of their offices they shall truely deliuer vp in the sight of the Parishioners to the next Churchwardens and note in the saide Churche booke whatsoeuer money ornamentes stocke or other Church goodes shall remaine and be in their handes at the time of giuing vp of their accomptes 4 Item that the Churchwardens in euery Parishe shall at the costes and charges of the Parishe prouide if the same be not already prouided all thinges necessary requisite for common Prayer and Administration of the holy Sacramentes on this side the .xx. day of next ensuyng specially the booke of Common prayer with the newe Kalender and a Psalter to the
same the English Bible in the largest volume the two Tomes of the Homelies with the Homelies lately written against Rebellion the table of the tenne Commaundementes a conuenient Pulpitte well placed a comely and decent table standing on a framefor the holy Communion with a faire linnen clothe to lay vpon the same and some couering of Silke Buckram or other such like for the cleane kéeping thereof a fayre and comely Communion cuppe of siluer and a couer of siluer for the same which may serue also for the ministration of the Communion bread a decent large Surplesse with sléeues a sure Coffer with two lockes and keyes for kéeping of the Register booke and a strong chest or Boxe for the almose of the paire with thrée lockes and keyes to the same and all other things necessarie in and to the premisses And shall also prouide before the sayde day the Paraphrases of Erasmus in English vpon the Gospels and the same set vp in some conuenient place within their church or chappell the charges whereof the person or proprietarie and Parishioners shall by equall portions beare according to the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions all which bookes must be whole and not torne or vnperfit in any wise And the Churchwardens also shal from time to time at the charges of the Parish prouide bread and wine for the Communion And for that purpose shal take some order among the Parishioners that euery one may pay such a reasonable summe towards the same as may suffice for the finding of breade and wine for the Communion throughout the whole yeare so as no Communion at any tyme be disappoynted for want of bread and wine 5 Item that the Churchwardens shall sée that in theyr churches and chappels all Aultars be vtterly taken downe and cléere remooued euen vnto the foundation and the place where they stoode paued and the wall wherevnto they ioyned whited ouer and made vniforme with the reast so as no breach or rupture appeare And that the Aulterstones be broken defaced and bestewed to some common vse And that the Roode loftes be taken downe and altered so that the vpper bordes and timber thereof both behinde and aboue where the Rood lately did hang and also the soller or loft be quite taken downe vnto the crosse beame wherevnto the particion betwéene the Quéere and the bodie of the church is fastened and that the sayde beame haue some conuenient creast put vpon the same And that all the bordes beames and other stuffe of the Roode loftes be solde by the churchwardens to the vse of the church so as no part thereof be kept and reserued 6 Item that the churchwardens shall from time to time sée that their churches and chappels and the stéeples thereof be diligently and well repayred with leade tyle slate or shingle lyme stone tymber glasse and all other necessaries and that their churches and chappels be kept cleane and decently that they be not lothsome to any eyther by dust sande grauell or anye filth and that there bée no feastes dinners or common drinkings kept in the church and that the churchyardes be well fenced and clenly kept and that no folkes be suffered to daunce in the same 7 Item that the Churchwardens and Minister shall sée that Antiphoners Masse bookes Grayles Portesses Processionals Manualles Legendaries and all other bookes of late belonging to their church or chappell which serued for the supersticious latine seruice be vtterly defaced rent abolished And that all Uestments Albes Tunicles Stoles Phanons Pixes Paxes Handbelles Sacringbelles Senscers Crismatories Crosses Candlestickes Holy water stocks or Fattes Images and all other reliques and monuments of superstition ydolatrie be vtterly defaced broken destroyed if they cannot come by any of the same they shall present to the Ordinary what they cannot come by and in whose custodie the same is to the intent further order may bée taken for the defacing therof 8 Item when anye man or woman dwelling néere to the church in any Citie Borough or great towne is in passing out of this life the Parishe clarke or Sextan shall knoll the bell to mooue the people to pray for the sicke person And after the time of the departing of any christian bodie out of this life the churchwardens shall sée that neyther there be any more ringing but one short peale before the buriall and another short peale after the buriall without ringing of any handbels or other superfluous or supersticious ringing eyther before or at the time of the buriall or at any time after the same nor any other forme of seruicesayde or song or other ceremonies vsed at any buriall than are appointed by the booke of common prayer And also that neyther on all Saints day after Euening prayer nor the day next after of late called all Soules day there be any ringing at all other then to common prayer when the same shall happen to fall vpon the Sunday And that no Moneth myndes or yearely commemorations of the dead nor any other supersticious ceremonies be obserued or vsed which tende to the maintenaunce eyther of prayer for the deade or of the Popishe Purgatorie 9 Item that the Churchwardens shall not suffer any ringing or tolling of Belles to be on Sundayes or holydayes vsed betwéene the morning prayer Letanie and Communion nor in any other tyme of common prayer reading of the Homelies or of preaching except it be one Bell in conuenient time to bée rong or knolled before a Sermon nor shall suffer any other ringing to be vsed vpon Saintes euens or festiuall dayes sauing to common prayer and that moderately and without excesse nor the Minister shall pawse or stay betweene the morning prayer Letanie and Communion but shall continue and saye the morning prayer Letanie and communion or the seruice appoynted to be sayde when there is no Communion togither without any intermission to the intent the people may continue togither in prayer and hearing the worde of God and not depart out of the church during all the time of the whole diuine seruice 10 Item that all fathers mothers maysters and other gouerners of youth shall in euery parish cause their children and seruaunts both menkinde and womenkinde being aboue seuen yeares of age and vnder twentie yeares which haue not learned the Catechisme or at the least such and so many of them as the Minister shall appoynt diligently to come to the church euery Sunday and euery holy day at the time appoynted and there diligently obediently to heare learne and be ordered by the Minister vntill such time as they haue learned all the sayde Catechisme by heart and shall giue to the Minister the names of all their children and seruauntes both men kinde and women kinde being aboue seuen yeares and vnder twentie yeares of age to the intent he may call for them to be examined and instructed in the sayde Cathechisme And if any of the sayde fathers mothers maysters or other gouernours of youth shall refuse or
neglect so to sende their children or seruauntes vnto the Minister to be examined and instructed at the tymes appoynted or to giue theyr names as is aforesayd or if any of the sayd yong folkes shall refuse to be examined and instructed that then the Minister and Churchwardens shall present such negligent persons and refusers to the Ordinarie to be by him punished accordingly 11 Item that all men and women of fourtene yeares of age and vpwardes shall as by the lawes of this realme they are bounde receyue in their owne parishe Churches or Chappels the holy communion thrise at the least euery yeare and namely at Easter or there aboutes for once and yearely before Easter at conuenient times and namely on Sundaies in Lent at after noone or in some of the workedayes next before Easter as the person vicare or curate shall appoynt they shall before they receyue come to the Minister and recite to him such of them as be of fouretene yeares or aboue and vnder .xxiiij. yeares of age the whole Catechisme by heart and such of them as be of .xxiiij. yeares of age and vpwardes the Catechisme or at the least the Lordes prayer the articles of the fayth and the tenne commaundements likewise by heart in Englishe and whosoeuer eyther cannot or wilfully and stubburnely shall refuse to recite and say the same by heart before their Minister shall be repelled and put back from the Communion Table And the churchwardens and Minister shall present all such refusers and all others that shall not receyue thrise a yeare the holy Communion vnto the Ordinarie yearely at the next visitation after Easter 12 Item the Churchwardens shall not suffer any Pedler or others whatsoeuer to set out any wares so sale eyther in the Porches of Churches or in the Churchyardes nor any where else on holy dayes or Sundayes whiles any part of diuine seruice is in doyng or whiles any sermon is in preaching 13 Item that no Inkéeper Alehousekéeper Uictualer or Typler shall admit or suffer any person or persons in his house or backeside to eate drinke or play at cardes Tables Bowles or other games in tyme of common prayer preachings or reading of Homelyes on the Sundayes or holy dayes and that there be no shoppes set open on Sundayes or holydayes nor any Butchers or others suffered to sell meate or other thinges vppon the Sundayes or holy dayes in lyke time of common prayer preaching or reading of the Homelyes And that in any fayres or common Markets falling vpon the Sunday there be no shewing of any wares before all the Morning seruice and the Sermon if there be any be done And if any shall offend in this behalfe the Churchwardens and sworne men after once warning giuen vnto them shall present them by name vnto the Ordinarie 14 Item that the laye people of euery Parish as they bée bounde by the lawes of this Realme and especially housholders hauing no lawfull excuse to be absent shall faythfully and diligently endeuour themselues to resort with their children and seruaunts to their parishe Church or Chappell on the holye dayes chiefly vpon the Sundayes both to Morning and Euening prayer and other diuine seruice and vpon reasonable let therof to some other vsuall place where common praier is vsed and then and there abide orderly and soberly during all the time of common prayer Homelies Sermons and other seruice of God there vsed reuerently and deuoutly giuing themselues to prayer and hearing of the worde of god And that the churchwardens and sworne men aboue all others shall be diligent in frequenting and resorting to their parishe churches or chappels vpon Sundayes and holy dayes to the intent they maye note and marke all such persons as vpon any such dayes shall absent themselues from the Church and vppon such absence shall exami ne them of the cause thereof 15 Item that the churchwardens and sworne men shall not suffer any persons to walke talke or otherwise vnreuerently to behaue themselues in any church or chappell nor to vse any gaming or to sitt abrode in the stréetes or churchyardes or in any Tauerne or Alehouse vpon the Sundayes or other holy dayes in the time of diuine seruice or of any Sermon whether it bée before noone or after noone but after warning once giuen shall punishe both them and all others that negligently or wilfully shall absent themselues from diuine seruice or come very late to the church vpon Sundayes or holy dayes hauing no lawfull let or hinderaunce and those also that without any iust cause shall depart out of the Church before the diuine seruice or sermon be done according to a statute made in the first yeare of the Quéenes Maiesties reigne printed and set forth in the beginning of the booke of common prayer that is to saye the Churchwardens shall leuie and take of euery one that wilfully or negligently so shall offend the forteyfure of xij ▪ pence for euerie such offence and shall also present them to the Ordinarie which forfeytures they shall leuie according to the same statute by distrayning the goodes landes and tenements of such offenders and shall as by the same statute they are appoynted deliuer the money that commeth thereof to the Collectors for the vse of the poore people of the same parishe 16 Item that no person or persons whatsoeuer shall weare Beades or pray eyther in Latine or in English vpon Beades or knottes or any other like supersticious thing nor shall pray vpon any popish Latine or English Primer or other like booke nor shall burne any candels in the church superstitiously vpon the feast of the purification of the virgin Marie commonly called Candlemasse day nor shall resort to anye popishe priest for shrift or auriculer confession in Lent or at any other time nor shal worship any crosse or any Image or picture vpon the same nor giue any reuerence therevnto nor supersticiously shal make vpon themselues the signe of the crosse when they first enter into any church to pray nor shall say De profundis for the dead or rest at any crosse in carying any corps to burying nor shall leaue any little crosses of wood there 17 Item that yearely at Midsommer the person vicar or curate and churchwardens shall choose two Collectors or more for the reliefe of the poore of euery Parishe according to a statute made in that behalfe in the fift yeare of the Quéenes Maiesties reigne intituled an art for the reliefe of the poore and renewed in the last Parliament which collectors shall wéekely gather the charitable almose of the Parishioners and destribute the same to the poore where most néede shall be without fraude or partialitie and shall quarterly make vnto the person vicar or curate and churchwardens a iust account thereof in writing And if any person of habilitie shall obstinately or frowardly refuse to giue reasonably towardes the reliefe of the poore or shall wilfully discourage others from so charitable a déede or shall withdrawe his
raigne of our most gracious soueraigne Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of God Quéene of England Fraunce and Irelande defender of the fayth c. ¶ Imprinted at London by William Seres Anno. 1571. Articles to be enquired of within the prouince of Yorke in the Metropoliticall visitation of the most reuerent father in God Edmond Archebishop of Yorke Primate and Metropolitane of England WHether common prayer be song or sayde by your person Uicar or Curate in your seuerall Churches or Chappels distinctly and reuerently in such order as it is set forth by the lawes of this Realme without any kinde of alteration and at due and conuenient houres And whether your Minister so turne himselfe and stande in such place of your Church or Chauncell as the people may best here the same And whether the holye Sacraments be likewyse ministred reuerently in such maner as by the lawes of this realme is appoynted And whether vpon Wednesdayes and Fridayes not béeing holydayes the Letanie and other prayers appoynted for the day be sayde accordingly 2 Whether you haue in your parish Churches and Chappels all things necessary and requisite for common prayer ▪ and administration of the Sacraments specially the Booke of common prayer with the newe kalender a Psalter the Englishe Bible in the largiest volume the two Tomes of the Homelyes the Paraphrases of Erasmus translated into Englishe the table of the ten cōmaundements a conuenient Pulpit well placed a comely and decent table standing on a frame for the holy Communion with a fayre lynnen cloth to lay vpon the same and some couering of silke Buckram or other such like for the cleane kéeping thereof a fayre and comely Communion cup of siluer and a couer of siluer for the same which may serue also for the ministration of the communion bread a decent large surplesse with sléeues a sure Coffer with two locks keies for the kéeping of the Register booke and a strong chest or boxe for the almose of the poore with thrée locks and keyes to the same and all other things necessary in and to the premisses 3 Whether the forme of commination agaynst sinners with certaine prayers following the same set forth in the latter ende of the booke of common prayer to be vsed at diuers tymes in the yeare be by your Minister plainely and distinctly red in your Church or Chappel vnto the people betwéene the Letany and the cōmemoration or ministration of the holy cōmunion thrée times at the least in the yeare that is to say for order sake yearely vpon one of the thrée Sundayes next before Easter for the first tyme vpon one of the two Sundayes next before the feast of Pentecost for the seconde tyme And for the thirde tyme vpon one of the two Sundayes next before the feast of the birth of our Lord ouer and besides the accustomed reading therof vpon the first day of Lent 4 Whether in your churches and chappels all Aulters be vtterly taken downe and cleane remooued euen vnto the foundation and the place where they stoode paued and the wall wherevnto they ioyned whited ouer and made vniforme with the reast so as no breach or rupture appeare And whether your Roodlofts be taken downe and altered so that the vpper partes thereof with the soller or loft be quite taken downe vnto the crosse beame and that the sayde beame haue some conuenient creast put vpon the same 5 Whether your Churches and Chappels with the chauncels thereof be well and sufficiently repayred and kept without abuse of any thing And whether your churchyardes be well fensed and clenly kept And if any part thereof be in decay through whose default it is so 6 Whether all and euery Antiphonars Masse bookes Grailes Portesses Processionals Manualles Legendaryes and all other bookes of late belonging to your Church or Chappell which serued for the supersticious Latine seruice be vtterly defaced rent and abholished and if they be not through whose default that is and in whose kéeping they remaine And whether all Uestments Albes Tunicles Stoles Phanons Pixes Paxes Handbelles Sacringbelles Senseres Crismatories Crosses Candlestickes Holy water stocks Images and such other reliques and monuments of superstition and Idolatrie be vtterly defaced broken and destroied And if not where in whose custodie they remaine 7 Whether your person vicar curate or minister doe weare any cope in your Parish church or chappell or minister the holy Communion in any Chalice heretofore vsed at Masse or in anye prophane cuppe or glasse or vse at the ministration thereof anye gestures rites or ceremonies not appoynted by the booke of common prayer as crossing or breathing ouer the sacramentall bread and wine or shewing the same to the people to be worshipped and adored or any such lyke of vse any Oyle and Chrisme Tapers spattle or any other Popish ceremonie in the ministration of the Sacrament of Baptisme 8 Whether any holy dayes or fasting dayes heretofore abrogated or not appoynted to be vsed as holy daies or fasting daies by the newe Kalender of the booke of common prayer be eyther proclaymed and bidden by your Person Uicar or Curate or be superstitiously obserued by any of your parish and what be their names that so doe obserue the same and whether there be anye ringing or tolling of Belles to call the people togither vsed in any of those dayes more or otherwise then commonly is vsed vpon other dayes that be kept as workedayes 9 Whether when anye man or woman is in passing out of this lyfe the Bell be tolled to mooue the people to pray for the sicke person especially in all places where the sicke person dwelleth néere vnto the Church and whether after the time of his or hir passing out of this worlde there be any more ringing but one short peale before the buriall and another short peale after the buriall without any other superfluous or supersticious ringing And whether on all Saintes daye after Euening praier there be any ringing at all or any other supersticious ceremonie vsed tending to the maintenaunce of Popishe purgatorie or of prayer for the deade and who they be that vse the same And whether there be any ringing or knolling of belles on sundayes or holy dayes betwene morning prayer and the Letanie or in any time of the common prayer reading of the Homelies or of preaching except one Bell in conuenient time to be rong or tolled before the Sermon or any other ringing vsed vpon Saintes éeues or festiuall dayes sauing to common prayer and that without excesse and who doth ring or knolle otherwise 10 Whether your Person or Uicar haue preached or cause to be duely preached in your Church his quarterly or monethly Sermons as by the Quéenes Iniunctions he is bounde and what be the names of such as haue preached for him and whether he hath admitted any man to preach not hauing sufficient licence or hath inhibited or letted anye from preaching hauing sufficient licence 11 Whether any Person or Persons not
being ordred at the least for a Deacon or licenced by the Ordinarie do say common prayer openly in your Church or Chappell or anye not being at the least a Deacon doe solemnise Matrimonie or administer the Sacrament of Baptisme or deliuer vnto the Communicants the Lordes Cup at the celebracion of the holye Communion and what he or they be that so doe And whether the Person Uicar or Fermer of your benefice do cause or suffer any Curat or Minister to serue your Church before he be examined and admitted by the ordinarie or his deputie in writing and doe shewe his licence to the Churchwardens and whether any Curat doe serue two Cures at one time without the speciall licence of the Ordinarie or his deputie in that behalfe in writing first had 12 Whether your Person Uicar or Curat doe euerie Sunday when there is no Sermon reade distinctly and playnly some parte of the Homilies prescribed and set forth by the Quéenes authoritie to be read and euery holy day when there is no Sermon immediatly after the Gospell openly plainely and distinctly recyte to his Parishioners the Lordes prayer the Articles of the fayth and the tenne Commaundements in english and whether anye Minister not admitted by the Ordinarie or by other lawfull authoritie doe erpounde any scripture or matter of doctrine by the way of exhortation or otherwyse and thereby omit and leaue of the reading of the Homelies 13 Whether your Person Uicar or Curat doe euery Sunday and holy day openly in the Church call for here and instruct all the Children Apprentises and seruaunts of both sexes that be of conuenient age within your Parish or at the least so many of them by course as the time will serue and as he may well heare and instruct for halfe an houre at the least before or at the euening prayer in the tenne Commaundementes the Articles of the beliefe and the Lords prayer and diligentlye examine and teach them the Catechisme set forth in the booke of common prayer And whether for that purpose he doth take the names of them all and by course call certaine of them by name euery sunday holy day to come to the teaching of the same Catechisme 14 Whether all fathers and mothers maysters and dames of your Parishe cause their children seruauntes and apprentises both mankinde and womankind being aboue seuen yeres of age and vnder twentie which haue not learned the Catechisme to come to the Church on Sundayes and holydayes at the tymes appointed or at the least such and so manye of them as your minister shall appoynt and there diligently and obediently to heare and to be ordered by the minister vntill such tyme as they haue learned the same Catechisme and what be the names of those that doe not cause their children seruaunts and apprentises so to come to the church to be instructed and examined and howe many of the sayde children sruaunts and apprentises be in your Parish which being aboue seuen yeares olde and vnder twentie yeares of age can not saye by heart the sayde Catechisme and what be their names and age and with whom they dwell 15 Whether your Person Uicar Curate or other Minister in your Church or Chappell hath admitted to the receyuing of the holy Communion any open and notorious sinner or euill liuer by whom the congregation is offended without due penance first done to the satisfaction of the congregation or any malicious person that is out of charitie or that hath done any open wrong to his neighbour by worde or déede without due reconciliation first made to the partie that is wronged 16 Whether your person vicar curate or minister hath admitted to the holy Communion any of his Parishe being aboue twentie yeares of age eyther mankind or womankind that cannot say by heart the ten Commaundements the Articles of the fayth and the Lordes prayer in English and what be the names of such as cannot say the same or being aboue fourtéene yeares and vnder twenty yeares of age that can not say the Catechisme set forth in the sayde booke of common prayer And whether he marry any persons which were single before that cannot say the Catechisme And whether he vseth to examine his Parishioners at conuenient tymes before he administer vnto them and namely before Easter yearely to the intent he maye knowe whether they can say by heart the same which is required in this behalfe or no 17 Whether your Priestes and Ministers be peacemakers and no brawlers or sowers of discorde and exhort their Parishioners to obedience towardes their Prince and all other that be in authoritie and to charitie and mutuall loue among themselues whether they be diligent in visiting the sick and comforting them and doe mooue them earnestly especially when they make theyr Testaments to consider the necessitie of the poore and to giue to their boxe or chest their charitable deuotion and almose 18 Whether they neglect the studie of the holye Scriptures and of the worde of God and whether such of them as be vnder the degrée of a mayster of Arte haue of their owne at the least the newe Testament both in English and Latine and whether they doe euery day with good aduisement conferre one Chapter of the Latine and English togither at the least And whether they haue giuen due accompt thereof and to whome 19 Whether anye of your persons vicars curates or ministers be fauourers of the Romishe or forreyne power letters of true religion preachers of corrupt and Popishe doctrine or mainteyners of sectaryes or doe set forth and extoll vaine and supersticious religion or be mainteyners of the vnlearned people in ignoraunce and errour encouraging or moouing them rather to pray in an vnknowne tongue than in Englishe or to put their trust in a certain number of prayers as in saying ouer a number of beades Ladie Psalters or other like 20 Whether any doe preach declare or speake any thing in derogation of the booke of common prayer which is set forth by the lawes of this Realme dispraysing the same or any thing therin contained 21 Whether your persons vicars curates haue twise in the yere vpon some Sundaye within one Moneth next after Easter and Michaelmasse read openly in the church after the gospell be said plainly without addition or chaunge a declaratiō of certaine principall articles of religion set forth by both the Archbishops and the reast of the Bishops of this realme for vnity of doctrine 22 Whether your person vicare curate minister or reader doe church any vnmaried woman which hath bene gotten wyth childe out of lawfull mariage say for hir the forme of thankesgiuing of women after childbirth except such an vnmaried woman haue either before hir childbirth done due penaunce for hir fault to the satisfaction of the congregation or at hir comming to giue hankes doe openly acknowledge hir fault before the congregaion at the appoyntment of the Minister according to order prescribed to the sayde
Minister by the Ordinarie or his Deputie the same churching to be had alwayes on some Sunday or holye day and vpon none other day 23 Whether any of your Persons Uicars Curates or Ministers or any other Priest or any lay man or woman doe wilfully maintayne or defende any heresies false opinions or popish errours contrarie to the lawes of almightie God and true doctrine by publique authoritie in this realme nowe set forth and what be their names And whether any kéepe any secret conuenticles preachings lectures or redings contrarie to the law And what be their names 24 Whether there be any in your Parish that openly or priuatly say Masse or heare Masse or any other kinde of seruice or prayer than is set fourth by the lawes of this Realme 25 Whether any popish Priestes or runnagat persons mislikers or deprauers of true religion that doe not minister or frequent common prayer now vsed nor communicate at tymes appoynted by the law doe resort secretly or openly into your Parish and to whome and of whome be they receyued harbored and releeued and what be their names and surnames or by what names are they called 26 Whether your Persons and Uicars be resident and dwell continually vpon their Benefites doing their dueties in preaching reading and ministring the Sacramentes and whether they kéepe hospitalitie according as their lyuinges will extende And whether their houses and Chauncelles be well repayred and vpholden 27 Whether they or any of them haue mo Benefices than one how many and in what countries they be and what be the names thereof 28 Whether they when they be absent from their Benefices doe leaue their cures to a rude and vnlearned Person and not to an honest and well learned expert Curate which can and will teach the people wholsome doctrine and whether in their absence they doe procure learned men to Preach in their Churches and Cures at least one Sermon euery quarter of a yere 29 Whether such Persons and Uicars as be not resident neither kéepe hospitalitie doe reléeue their poore Parishioners and what giue they yerely to them and if they be not resident and may dispende yerely twentie poundes or aboue eyther in this diocesse or else where whether doe they distribute euerie yeare among their poore parishoners at the least the fortieth part of the fruites of their benefices where they be not resident 30 Whether your Persons Uicars Curates and Ministers kéepe well their Registers of all Weddinges Buryinges and Christnings within your Parishe and doe present a coppie of them once euery yere by Indenture to the ordinarie or his officers And whether they rede the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions euery quarter of a yere once or no 31 Whether they or any of them kéepe any suspected women in their houses or be incontinent persons giuen to Dronkennesse Idlenesse or be haunters of Tauernes Alehouses or suspected places or be hunters haukers dicers carders Tablers Swerers or otherwise suspected of any notorious crime or giue any euill example of lyfe and whether they as they ought to doe occupie themselues in the reading or hearing of some part of the holy scripture or other good Author or in some other godly or laudable exercyse méete for their vocation 32 Whether they or any of them doe kéepe or suffer to be kept in their Personage or Uicarege houses any Alehouses Tippling houses or Tauernes or doe sell Ale Bere or Wine 33 Whether your Persons or Uicars haue bought their Benefices or come to them by Simonie fraude or deceit or by any colourable pact or other vnlawfull meane whatsoeuer or be vehemently suspected or diffamed thereof And whether they kéepe in their owne handes or haue dimised and let to ferme their Personages and Uicareges or their Glebe lande or Tithes or any part thereof and whether any such lease be made for the perfourmaunce of any Simoniacall pact made directly or indirectly betwéene the Incumbent and the patrone or betwéene the Incumbent and anye other person for the presenting of the same Incumbent to that Benefice 34 Whether any patrone of any Benefice or other Person or Persons hauing Thaduousion or gift of any Benefice within this Dioces haue couenaunted practised with any priest or Minister presented by him to any benefice to haue of him or his friende any somme of readie money for presenting him to the same or haue exacted by promyse or bonde any lease eyther of the whole benifice limitting the rent farre vnder the iust value or of the Mansion house Glebe landes or any portion of the Tithes and fruites of the same Benefice paying lytle or nothing therefore or hauing reserued their owne Tythes within the Benefice frée vnto themselues or else haue extorted some yerely pension or other yerely commoditie to him his childe seruaunt or friend for preferring any to the same Benefice or otherwise haue made againe by any colour deceit or Simoniacall pact in bestowing the saide Benefice and whether any such patrone or other Person be vehemently suspected or defamed of any such Simonie or Simoniacall pact 35 Whether the Church of your Parishe be now vacant and destitute of an incumbent or no and if it be howe long it hath béene vacant and who is the Patrone and whether he suffereth the benefice to lye vacant and occupieth the glebe lande and taketh the tythes and other fruites to himselfe during the time of the vacation or who else occupieth and taketh the same 36 Whether there bée any lay or temporall man not béeing within orders or any childe that hath or enioyeth any benefice or spirituall promotion 37 Whether any Priest or Minister be come into this Dioces out of any other Dioces to serue any cure here without letters testimoniall of the Ordinary from whence he came to testifie the cause of his departing from thence and of his behauiour there 38 Whether for the reteyning of the perambulation of the circuite of your Parishe the person vicar or curate churchwardens and certaine of the substanciall men of the Parish in the dayes of the Rogations commonly called the gang dayes walke the accustomed bounds of your Parish and whether in the same perambulation and going about the curate doe vse any other rite or ceremonie then to say or sing in English the two Psalmes beginning Benedic anima mea domino that is to say the Ciij psalme and the Ciiij Psalme and such sentences of Scripture as be appointed by the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions with the Letany and Suffrages following the same and reading one Homilie alreadie deuised and set foorth for that purpose without wearing any Surplesses carying of Banners or Handbelles or staying at Crosses or other such like Popish ceremonies 39 Whether anye Parishe Clarke be appoynted agaynst the good will or without the consent of the person vicar or curate whether he be not obedient to the person vicar or curate especially in the time of celebration of diuine seruice or of the Sacraments or in any preparation therevnto And