ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF, WITHIN THE ARCHdeaconty of Gloucester, in the gerall Visitation of the Right Wor: M. Samuel Burton, Archdeacon of the Diocese of Gloucester. Holden in the year of our Lord God, 1618. In the 16. year of the Reign or our most gracious Sovereign Lord James, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France & Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc. LONDON, Printed for Nathaniel Butter. 1618. The tenor of the Oath to be ministered to the Churchwardens and Sworne-men. YOu shall Swear, that upon due consideration of the Articles given you in charge to present unto; You shall particularly present all the Wants & Defects; and also all offences and offenders therein required of: wherein you shall deal truly and faithfully: So help you God. LEVIT. 19.12. Ye shall not swear by my Name falsely; neither shalt thou profane the Name of thy God. ARTICLES TO be ENQVIRED OF WITHIN THE Archdeaconry of the Diocese of Gloucester, in the Visitation to be holden in the year of our Lord God, 1618. ¶ Articles concerning the Clergy. whether hath your Minister read the Constitutions set forth by his Majesty, once every year, upon some Sundays or Holidays, in the afternoon, before divine service; according as by the Canons he is bound? 2 Whether doth your Minister use to pray for the King's Majesty, King james, & for the queens Majesty, the Prince, and all their royal Progeny, giving unto him such style and title of Supreme Governor, in all causes, and over all persons, as well Ecclesiastical Temporal, as by law are due unto him, exhorting their Parishioners to yield him obedience, according to the same: and also in their said Sermons, do pray for all Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ecclesiastical persons, according to the fifty five Canon? 3 Whether is the prescript form of divine Service used by your minister upon Sundays, Holidays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, according to the Book of Common Prayer? And whether doth your minister duly observe all the orders, rites and ceremonies prescribed in the said book of common prayer, as well in reading public prayers, the Litany, as also in administering the Sacraments in such manner & form wearing the Surples, as in the Book of common prayer by law now established, is enjoined. 4 Whether doth your Minister administer the holy Communion so often, and at such time, as that every Parishioner may receive the same at the least thrice in every year: whereof once at Easter, as by the book of Common Prayer is appointed? And whether doth your Minister receive the same himself on every day that he administereth it to others, kneeling at the same, & administereth it to none but such as do kneel at the receiving thereof, and use the words of the Institution according to that book at every time that the bread and wine is received, in such manner & form as by the promise of the 21. Canon is directed, or wherein is he faulty, and whether is warning given by him before hand for the Communion, as the 22. Canon requireth? 5 Whether hath your minister admitted any notorious Offenders, or Schismatics to the Communion, contrary to the 26 and 27 constitutions, without satisfaction, by due course of Law before enjoined them; or rejected any from the Communion, who were not by public presentment or other open scandal infamous and detected of some notorious crime, by common fame published in the Parish? 6 Whether the Minister, together with the Churchwardens and questmen, do take diligent heed and care, that not only all, and every of your Parishioners do receive thrice in every year, as aforesaid: but also that no strangers of any other Parish do forsake their own Minister and parish to receive with you, contrary to the 28 Canon? 7 Whether doth your Minister use to sign the children with the sign of the cross when they are baptised, according to the Book of Common Prayer, and the thirtieth canon? and whether he hath deferred, or wilfully refused to baptise any infant in his parish being in danger, having been duly informed of the weakness thereof: and whether the child hath died in his default without baptism, contrary to the 68 and 69 canons? 8 Whether is your minister continually resident with you upon his Benefice, or for how long time hath he been absent: and where is he resident for the most part, and what other Benefice hath he. 9 Whether doth your minister, being a Preacher, preach usually, according to the constitutions, either in his own cure with you, or else in some other church or chapel near adjoining, where no Preacher is: according to the 45 Canon: or how oft hath he been negligent in that behalf. 10 Whether is your minister a Preacher allowed: if yea, then by whom: if not, whether doth he procure Sermons to be preached among you once in every month at the least, by such as are lawfully licenced, according to the 46 canon, or doth contribute toward a licensed Preacher, if his living will bear it? 11 Whether hath your minister another Benefice, and whether doth he supply his absence by a Curate that is sufficiently licenced to preach in in that cure of his, whereon he himself is not resident: or otherwise, in case he doth not find a Preaching minister there, by reason of the smallness thereof, whether doth he preach at both of his Benefices usually himself, according to the 47 canon? 12 Whether is your Curate licensed to serve by the Bishop of this Diocese, or by any other, and by whom? whether doth your minister or Curate serve more cures than one, contrary to the 48 canon: if yea, then what other Cure doth he also serve? 13 If your minister be not licensed to preach as aforesaid, whether doth he read homilies, or rather take upon him to expound the Scriptures either in his own cure or elsewhere, contrary to the 49 canon. If yea, than you are to present him, & specify the place where he hath so preached. 14 Whether hath any person been admitted to preach within your church or chapel, but such as you have well known to be sufficiently licenced: whom have you so admitted, you shall present their names, and how oft have any such been admitted to preach, and by whose procurement; and whether have you caused every strange Preacher, licenced or not licenced, to subscribe his name, together with the day when he preached, according to the 50 and 51 canons: and if he were licensed, then by whom he was licenced: And whether have they, or any other preached in your church, not being soberly & decently appareled, according to the 74 canon? 15 Whether doth your Lecturer and Preacher, read divine service, and administer the Sacraments in his own person, twice every year, observing all the ceremonies in the Book of common Prayer established, according to the 56 canon. 16 Whether doth your Minister wear the Surplice whilst he is saying the public prayers, and administering the Sacraments: and if he be any Graduate, whether then doth he also wear upon his Surplice, during the times aforesaid, such a hood as by the order of his University is agreeable to his degree, according to the 58 canon. 17 Whether doth your Minister on every Sunday and Holiday before Evening prayer, for half an hour or more, examine & instruct the youth and ignorant persons of his parish, in the ten Commandments, the Articles of Belief, & the Lords Prayer, as also the Catechism, last set forth in the Book of Common Prayer, whereby the children of the Parish may be prepared for confirmation according to the 90 canon? 18 Whether hath your minister without licence from the Archbishop, the Bishop of the Diocese, or his Chancellor, solemnized marriage betwixt any parties, the Banes not being three several Sandayes or Holidays, first published, in time of Divine service, in the several churches or chapels of several abode, according to the book of Common prayer, and the 62 canon: and that also betwixt the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon, contrary unto the 102 canon? 19 Whether hath your minister, since the last canons published, solemnized any marriage betwixt any persons, being under the age of 21 years, although the Banes be thrice asked, before such time as the Parents have made known unto him their consent thereunto, contrary to the 99 and 100 canons: and whether hath he married any of another Diocese: and who are they: and by what authority, and when? 20 Whether doth your Minister upon Sundays at morning prayer, declare unto the Parishioners, what Holidays and fasting days are appointed to be kept the week following, according to the 64. Canon, whereby they may be put in mind to prepare themselves accordingly, and to repair to Church to public prayer, as by law they are bound. 21 Whether doth any Minister in the Rogation days, use the perambulation of the circuit of the Parish appointed by law, and in the same perambulation, move the people to give thanks to God for his benefits, using such Psalms, Prayers, Homilies, as are to that end set forth. 22 Whether doth any man (being neither minister nor Deacon) read Common prayer openly in your Church or Chapel, or administer the Sacrament of Baptism, or solemnize matrimony, or take upon him to practise any other ministerial duty in the Church, that is prescribed to be executed particularly by such, as are either ministers, or Deacons: and what is his name that so doth. 23 Whether doth your minister every six months denounce in his Parish, all such of his Parish, as do persevere in the sentence of excommunication, not seeking to be absolved: and whether hath he admitted any person excommunicate, into the Church, without a certificate of his absolution from the Ordinary or other competent judge, under his seal, according to the Canons. 24 Whether doth your Minister, being a Preacher, endeavour & labour diligently with mildness and temperance to confer with, & thereby to reclaim the popish recusants in his Parish from their errors, if there be any such there being: and whether is he painful in visiting the sick, according to the Book of common prayer, & the canons in that case provided. 25 Whether is your Parson, Vicar, Lecturer, or Curate, too much frequent, or over conversant with, or a favourer of Recusants, whereby he may be suspected not to be sincere in Religion. 26 Whether hath your minister, or any other taken upon him the place of a minister, preached, baptised children (unless in case of necessity) solemnized marriage, churched any woman, or ministered the holy communion in any private house or houses: If yea, then where: whom, and how often hath he so offended in any of the Premises. 27 Whether hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint any public or private fasts, or prophesies not approved and established by law, or public authority, or hath he attempted upon any pretence either of possession, by fasting & prayer to cast out devils, contrary unto the 72. canon. 28 Whether hath your Minister, or any other person or persons within your Parish, used to meet in any private house or other place, and to hold private conventicles, contrary to the 73. Canon; if yea, than you shall present them all and every one of them. 29 Whether doth your Minister use such decency and comeliness in his apparel, as by the 74. Constitution is enjoined, as be all at home, as when he goeth abroad. 30 Whether do you know in your parish, any that having heretofore taken upon him or them the order of priesthood, or of a Deacon, hath since relinquished the same, and betaken himself in the course of his life, as a lay man, neglecting his vocation: if yea, than you shall present his name, and the place of his abode. 31 Whether is your Minister noted or defamed to have obtained his benefice by simony, or reputed to be an incontinent person, or doth keep any man or woman in his house, that are suspected either to be of evil Religion or bad life; himself to be a common drunkard, or to be a common hunter of Taverns, Ale houses or other suspected places; a common gamester, or player at dice, or other unlawful games; a common Swearer, or notorious person, or faulty in any other crime punishable by the Ecclesiastical censures, whereby he is offensive and scandalous to his function or ministry. 32 Whether doth your Minister use the form of Thanksgiving to to women after childbirth: and whether hath he admitted any thereunto that was begotten with child in adultery, or fornication, without licence of his Ordinary? And whether have any married wives refused to come to Church according to the Book of Common Prayer, to give God thanks after childbirth, if any be faulty herein, you shall present their names. 33 Whether doth your Minister baptise any children in any Basin or other vessel then in the ordinary Font, being placed in the Church, according to the 81. canon, or doth use to put any Basin into it. Articles concerning the Church. whether have you in your several churches and chapels the book of constitutions, or canons Ecclesiastical, ready to be read by your minister, according to his majesties pleasure, published by his highness authority under the great seal of England. 2 Whether is there in your church or chapel one parchment Register Book provided for christenings, Marriages, and Burials: and whether is the same duly and exactly kept according to the Constitutions in that behalf provided? and a transcript thereof brought in yearly, within one month after Easter, into my Lord Bishops principal Registers Office? And whether doth your minister upon every Sunday read the names of all such as have been married, christened, or buried in the week before. 3 Whether have you provided a fair great Bible of the last Translation, the book of Common prayer, lately commanded by his majesties authority only to be used: and the Book of Homilies, and two Psalters: and whether have you in your Church or Chapel a Font of stone set up in the ancient usual place, a convenient & decent Communion Table, standing upon a frame, with a carpet of silk, or some other decent stuff, and a fair Linen cloth to lay thereon at the Communion time: and whether i● the same then placed in such convenient sort within the Chancel or Church, as that the minister may be best heard in his prayer and Administration, and that the greater number may communicate: And whether are the Ten Commandments set upon the Cast end of your Church or Chapel, where the people may best see and read them, and other sentences of holy Scriptures written on the walls likewise, for the same purpose? 4 Whether have you a convenient seat for your Minister to read service in, together with a comely Pulpit set up in a convenient place, with a decent cloth or cushion for the same: a comely large Surplice, a fair Communion Cup of silver, and a cover agreeable for the same, with all other things and ornaments necessary for the celebration of Divine Service, and administration of the Sacraments; and a strong chest for the Alms of the poor, with three locks and keys, and another chest for the keeping of the Ornaments of the church and Register book. 5 How many Bells are there at this present hanging in the Bell-frée of your Parish church? And how many have there been heretofore? whether any of your said Bells have been taken down and sold, or made away, and what other church goods are now wanting in your said church? 6 Whether are your Churches or Chapels, with the chancels thereof, & your Parsonage, or Vicarage house, and all other housing thereto belonging, in good reparations, and decent and comely kept, as well within as without, the seats well maintained, your church yards well fenced, and kept without abuse, according to the 85 canon: If not, then through whose default, and what defects are? All these things in these Articles, to be prepared, according to the canons under the Title appertaining to churches. 7 Whether have you since the last Metropolitical Visitation of the most Reverend Father, the now (Lord Arch bishop of Canterbury) taken a true Terriar of all the Glebe land, Houses, Tenements, Orchyards, Gardens, and portions of Tithes (whether within your Parish or without) belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage, and delivered the same into the office of the Register of this Diocese? Articles concerning Schoolmasters. WHether the Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters within your parish, openly or privately, in any Noble or Gentleman's house, or in any other place, be of good and sincere religion, life, and conversation, and be diligent in teaching and bringing up of youth, and whether they have been examined, allowed, and licensed for Schoolmasters, by the Ordinary in that behalf: and how many several Schoolmasters have you, and what be their names? 2 Whether your Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters, do themselves receive the holy Communion as often as they ought to do: and whether do all your Scholars, which be of age sufficient, and of capacity by instruction, to receive the Lords Supper, come to the Communion, either in your Church, or where their Parents dwell, once every year, and be diligent to hear common prayer? 3 Whether the Schoolmaster, or Schoolmasters, either private or public, do teach their Scholars the Catechism authorized by public Authority, at the least once every week, and do instruct and examine them in the same, and do teach any other catechism, and what catechism is it that they do so teach? 4 Whether your Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters, or any of them, be known or suspected to read unto their Scholars privately, any unlawful books, or privately to instruct them in their young years, either in popery, superstition, or disobedience, or contempt to his Majesty, and his Laws Ecclesiastical by public authority allowed? 5 What Recusant Papists are there in your Parish: and whether do they, or any of them keep any Schoolmaster in their house, which cometh not to Church, to hear Divine Service, and receive the Communion: what is his name: and how long hath he taught? 6 Whether the Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters within your Parish, do teach his or their Scholars any other Grammar then that which is called the King's Grammar; set forth by the authority of King Henry the eight, teaching the prescript form thereof, whereby the Scholars may perfectly understand their Grammar rules and constructions. Articles concerning Parishioners, and ●●hers of the laity. whether is there any within your Parish, that hath or do●● impugn the King's majesties Supremacy and authority in causes Ecclesiastical, or do any way, or in any part impeach the same, being restored to the Crown by the Laws of this Realm established in that behalf? 2 Whether is there any in your Parish that denieth the Church of England, by Law established under the Kings most excellent Majesty, to be a true and Apostolical Church, teaching and maintaining the doctrine of the Apostles. 3 Whether is there any in your Parish that do impugn any of the Articles of Religion, agreed upon in Anno 1562. and established in the Church of England? 4 Whether is there any in your Parish, that doth impugn or speak against the Rites and Ceremonies established in the Church of England, or the lawful use of them? you shall present their names. 5 Whether are there any in your Parish that do impugn the government of the Church of England, under the Kings most excellent Majesty, by Archbishops, Bishops, Archdeacon's, & the rest that bear office in the same; affirming that the same is Antichristian, or repugnant to the word of God. 6 Whether is there any in your Parish, that impugn the form of consecrating & ordaining of Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, or Deacons: affirming that the same is repugnant to the word of God, or that they, who are so ordered in that same form, are not lawfully made. 7 Whether is there any in your parish, that doth hold or frequent any conventicles or private meetings, and there do confer, to agree upon any private orders, other than such as are by the canons set forth by public authority, to be by them, or any others in Church government observed? 8 Whether any persons have lurked or tippled in Taverns or Alehouses on Sundays or other Holidays, or used his or their manual craft or trade, to keep their shops open upon the said days, or any of them, and especially in the time of divine Service. 9 Whether are there any in your Parish that do or have profaned (since his majesties last general pardon) the Lord's day, called Sunday, or other Holidays, contrary to the orders of the Church of England prescribed in that behalf. 10 Whether hath any person in your parish quarreled, stricken, or used any violence unto, or with your Minister, or any other in the Church, or Churchyard, or used himself disorderly in the Church by filthy and profane talk, or any other rude and immodest behaviour. 11 Whether is that due reverence & humble submission used in your Church or Chapel in the time of divine Service, as by the ●8 Constitution is prescribed: and whether each one in the Church or Chapel do apply & order himself there, in time of divine Service, as by the latter part of the same Constitution is commendably enjoined? 12 Whether the Churchwardens and Questmen, from time to time, do their diligence in not suffering any idlepeople or Loiterers to abide either in the Churchyard or Church-porch in Service or Sermon time, but causing them either to come into Church to hear Divine Service, or to departed, and not to disturb such as are hearers there. 13 Whether the Churchwardens do provide against every communion with the advice of the minister, a sufficient quantity of fine white bread, and of good and wholesome wine for the number of the Communicants that shall receive, and that to be brought in a clean and sweet standing pot of Pewter, or other pure metal? 14 Whether have any in your Parish been Godfathers or Godmothers to their own children? or whether your Minister, or any Godfathers or Godmothers have used, or do use any other form, answer, or speech in Baptism, then is in the book of common prayer appointed? Or whether any which have not communicated, be admitted to be Godmothers, contrary to the 29 canon. 15 Whether is there any in your Parish that do refuse to have their children baptised, or themselves to receive the communion at the hands of your Minister, because he is no Preacher? you shall present their names. And if your Minister, sithence the publishing of the said Book of Canons, have received any such persons (being not of his own cure) to the communion, or baptised any of their children, you shall likewise present him. 16 Whether do all Fathers, Mothers, Masters, and Mistresses, cause their children, servants, and apprentices, to come to the catechism upon the Sundays and Holidays before Evening prayer, to hear, and to be instructed and taught therein: and those that do not their duties herein, you shall present their names. 17 Whether have you or your predecessors Churchwardens there suffered since the last pardon, any plays, banquets, feasts, church-ales, drink, or any other profane usages, to be kept in your church, chapel, or churchyards, or bells to be rung superstitiously upon Holidays, or eves, abrogated by the book of common prayer, contrary to the 68 canon. 18 How many inhabitants within your parish, men or women, above the age of xvi. years, do refuse to frequent divine Service established by public authority of this Realm, or to receive the holy Communion, or are negligent therein: what be their names, and of what degree, state or trade of life are they? you are to present them all of both sorts. 19 Whether do any of the inhabitants of your said parish entertain within their house any sojourners, lodgers, or any common resorters and guests, who refuse to frequent divine Service, or receive the holy Communion, as aforesaid, what be their names, of what quality or condition are they? 20 Whether are any of the said popish Recusants of insolent behaviour not without public offence, or do boldly busy themselves in seducing and withdrawing others, either abroad or in their own families, by instructing their children in popish religion, or by refusing to entertain any, especially in place of greatest service or trust, but such as concur with them in opinion of Relgion, and what be their names that so do? 21 How long the said Popish Recusants have obstinately abstained either from divine Service, or from the Communion, as is aforesaid: whether of any long time, or only since his majesties reign, and how long? 22 What persons aforesaid within your Parish, either for the offence aforesaid, or for any other contumacy or crime, do remain excommunicated, what be their names, and for what cause, and how long have they stood excommunicate? 23 Whether were you the Churchwardens & Quest men chosen by the consent of the Minister and Parishioners in Easter week, according unto the 89 and 90 Canons, and whether have the Churchwardens before you, given up a just account for their time, and delivered to you their successors whatsoever money, or other things of right belonging to the Church, that was in their hands: according to the 89 canon? 24 Whether do all persons above the age of sixteen years, usually resort to hear divine Service upon Sundays and Holidays approved, and whether hath each one of your Parishioners (being above the age of sixteen years, as aforesaid) received the holy Communion thrice this last year, chief once at Easter in your parish Church kneeling? if no, than you shall present their names which have not so done. 25 Whether have you a fit parish Clark, aged twenty years at least, of honest conversation, and sufficient for reading and writing, and whether he be paid his wages without fraud, according to the most ancient custom of your parish; if not then by whom is he so defrauded and denied, and whether he be chosen by the Parson, or Vicar, or by whom, according to the 91 canon? is the Parish Clarke approved by the Ordinary, and doth he keep the church clean, and the doors locked, is he diligent and serviceable to the minister? 26 Whether have any in your parish been married within the prohibited degrees, forbidden by the Law, and expressed in a certain Table, published by authority in the year 1563. if yea, than you shall present their names: and whether have you the said Table publicly set in your Church, and fastened to some convenient place there? 27 Whether doth any heretofore divorced, keep company with any other at bed and at board, as man and wife, what be their names, when and where they were married, and how long they so continued? 29 Whether have you any in your Parish to your knowledge, or by common fame and report, which have committed adultery, fornication, or incest, or any Bawds, harbourers, or receivers of such persons, or publicly suspected thereof, which have not been publicly punished to your knowledge: if yea, then with whom: And whether are there any which are by common fame & report reputed & taken to be common drunkards, blasphemers of Gods most holy name, common & usual swearers, filthy speakers, railers, sowers of discord among their neighbours; or speakers against Ministers marriages, Usurers, contrary to the statute made in the 37. year of Henry the eight, simoniacal persons, fighters, brawlers, or quarreliers in Church or Church yard? you shall not fail to present their names. 29 Whether have any in your parish received or harboured any woman begotten with child out of wedlock, and suffered them again to departed without penance first inflicted upon them by the Ordinary: You shall truly present as well the party harbouring, as harboured, and who is suspected to have committed Incontinency with her. 30 Whether any person or persons suspected or detected heretofore of incontinency, and therefore departing out of your Parish for a season, is now returned again, or in what place else is he or she now abiding to your knowledge, or as you have heard: you shall not fail to present the whole truth in that behalf. 31 Whether there be any person or persons, Ecclesiastical or Temporal, within your Parish or elsewhere within this Diocese, that have retained or kept in their custody, or that read, sell, utter disperse, carry or deliver to others, any English books or libels, set forth either on this side, or beyond the Seas, by Papists or Sectaries, against the King's supremacy, in causes Ecclesiastical, or against true Religion and Catholic doctrine now publicly professed in this Church, or the Government or Discipline of the Church of England, now within this Realm received and established by common Authority, and what their Names and Syrnames are? 32 Whether there be any in your Parish, who are noted, known, or suspected to conceal, or keep hidden in their houses any mass-books, Portesses, Breviaries or other books of Popery or superstition, or any Chalices, Copes, Vestments, Albes, or other Ornaments of superstition, uncancelled or undefaced, which is to be conjectured, they do keep for a day; as they call it? 33 Whether any of your Parishioners, having a Preacher to their Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or do absent themselves from his Sermons, and resort to any other place to hear other Preachers. 34 Whether there be any innkeepers, Alewives Victuallers, or tipplers, that suffer or do admit any person or persons in their Houses, to Eat, Drink, or play at Dice, Cards, Tables, Bowls, or such like Games, in the time of common Prayer, or Sermon, on Sundays or Holidays; or any Butchers or others that commonly use to sell meat, or other things in the time of common prayer, preaching, or reading of Homilies? And whether in any Fairs or common markets falling upon Sundays, there be showing of any wares before morning prayer be done? And whether any Markets and selling of wares, be used or suffered in any Church yards, on the Saboth day, by common Pack men and peddlers, going about, or any Butchers? 35 Whether hath your Minister or any of your Parish, without the consent or privity of the Ordinary, caused any to do penance, or be punished, either openly or otherwise, for any crime, punishable by Ecclesiastical Laws only: and what be the Names of the parties that have been so punished, and in what manner? 36 Whether there be any in your Parish, who will come to hear the Sermon, but will not come to the public prayer, appointed by the book of common prayer, making a Schism or division (as it were) between the use of public Prayer and Preaching. And whether there be any who being present at public prayer, do not devoutly and humbly kneel upon their knees at such times as by the book of common prayer they are appointed; to wit, when they make a general confession of their sins: when all Prayers and Collects are read? and at the receiving of the Holy Communion, etc. And what are their Names, that have at any time showed themselves undutiful and unreverend in that behalf. 37 Whether there be any married women or others within your parish, which after child birth, refuse or contemn to come to the Church, to give God thanks for their safe delivery, and to have their prayers publicly appointed in that behalf, by the book of Common Prayer. 38 Whether any within your Parish, do resort into Barnes, Fields, Woods, private houses, or to any extraordinary exposition of Scriptures, or conferences together: or that be drawers, or persuaders of others, to any such schismatical conventicle. 39 Whether any do keep their children unbaptized longer than is convenient: unless that it be for sickness of the child, or other urgent occasion? And whether any do carry their children from the Parish they are borne in, to other parishes to be baptised, and so refuse their own parish: or do bring strange Ministers into their own houses, to baptise their children privately, according to their own Fantasies? 40 Whether you have known or heard any Fiddlers or Minstrels, or any other persons, which go under the name of musicans and Waits, which either at Weddings, Church, or any other Feasts, or meetings, have sung, or use to sing any Songs, Ballads, or Rhymes, tending to the disgrace of Religion, or the Ministers thereof: or tending to Profaneness, or the corruption of good manners? You shall truly present the names of such, if you know them, or can learn them: As also the names of the Housholder, or Householders, in whose house or houses they have sung such songs, as also the particular names of them before whom they have sung them. 41 Whether do the Churchwardens of your parish, look diligently to the mending of the Church ways: and whether the said ways be at the time of the year so sufficiently mended, that the Parishioners may conveniently come to Church, from all places of the parish in winter time. 42 Whether do you know of any other matter, of Ecclesiastical cognizance, worthy the presentment in your judgement, above not expressed, which you hold fit to be reform. And if you do, you shall likewise present the same, by virtue of your Oaths. AT the delivery of your bill of Presentment, you are likewise in the said bill to set down the names of all such as have been buried at any time, since the last Visitation, being Men, Maids, or Widows. And likewise the Minister, Churchwardens, and Sidemen of every parish, must in the said bill of Presentment, set down besides their presenting, which they make of all Recusants and Non-communicants, this Note following. Recusants' Men— Recusants Women— Non-communicants of both Sex Communicants of both Sex— in the whole Parish. So set down the number of every one, The Minister, Churchwardens, and Sidemen, must put their hands to this note. And the old Churchwardens are to be chosen Sidemen.