ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF IN THE ARCHDEACONRY of Salop, within the Diocese of Hereford, in the year 163● At the Visitation of Morgan Godwyn Doctor of Laws,  of Salop.  
LONDON, Printed by JOHN NORTON 163●   

The Tenor of the Oath, to be Ministered to the Churchwardens, and Sidemen.  
YOu shall swear that you, and every of you, shall duly consider and diligently inquire of all and every these Articles given you in charge; and that all affection, favour, hatred, malice, hope of reward and gain, or fear of displeasure set aside; you shall present all and every such person or persons, that now is, or are, or of late hath or have bee● within your Parish, as hath or have committed any offence, or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles; or which are vehemently suspected or defamed of any such offence or default: wherein you shall deal uprightly and fully; neither presenting, nor sparing to present any, contrary to truth: having in this action God before your eyes, with an earnest zeal to maintain truth, and to suppress vice: So help you God, and the holy contents of this Book.   

First concerning the Church, the Furniture and Ornaments thereof, and the Church Possessions.  
INprimis, Whether have you in your several Churches and Chappells, the whole Bible of the largest Volume and the last Translation, the Book of Common Prayer, the two Books of Homilies, Bishop Jewel his apology and the form of Prayer for the 5. of November set forth by authority, all well and fairly bound? as also the Book of Canons or Constitutions Ecclesiastical, as is commanded?  
2 Whether have you in your Church or Chapel a Font of stone whole and clean with a cover set up in the ancient usual place: a convenient and decent communion Table, with a Carpet of Silk or some other decent stuff continually laid upon the same at the time of Divine Service, and a fair linen cloth thereon at the time of the receiving of the holy Communion. And whether is the same Table placed in such convenient sort, as that the Minister may be best heard in his Prayer and Administration: and that the greatest number may Communicate. And whether is it so used out of time of Divine Service, as is not agreeable to the holy use of it; as by sitting on it, throwing Hats on it, writing on it; or is it abused to other profane uses: And are the Ten Commandments set up at the East end of your Church or Chapel where the people may best see and read them, and other sentences of holy Scripture written on the walls likewise for that purpose?  
3 Whether are the afternoon's Sermons in the several Parishes turned into Catechising by Question and Answer, according to the form prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer? and whether doth every Lecturer read Divine Service according to the liturgy Printed by authority, in his Surplice and Hood, before the Lecture? And whether are his Majesty's instructions in all things duly observed?  
4 Whether have you in your said Church or Chapel, 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 with a cover agreeable, a Flagon of Silver, Tyn, or Pewter to put the Wine in, whereby it may be put or set on the Communion Table at the time of the consecrating or blessing thereof, with all other things and Ornaments necessary for the celebration of Divine Service, and the Administration of the Sacraments? And whether have you a strong Chest for the ●…s for the poor, with three Locks and Keys; and another Chest for keeping the ●ookes and Ornaments of the Church, and the register Book? And whether have you a register Book in parchment for Christen, Weddings, and Burials, and the same kept in all points according to the Canon in that behalf provided? And is the Mother's Christian name therein registered as well as the Fathers, and a transcript thereof brought in yearly, within one month after the 25. of March in to the Lord Bishops principal Register? And whether have you in your said Church or Chancel a Table set of the degrees, wherein by Law are prohibited to marry?  
5. Whether is your Church or Chapel with the Chancel thereof, and your Parsonage or Vicarage house, your Parish Almshouse and Church-house in good reparation: are they employed to godly and their right holy uses? Is your Church, Chancel, and Chapel decently and comely kept as well within as without, well tiled, well glazed, well paved, and the seats well maintained according to the 85. Canon in that behalf provided? Or have any Patrons or others decayed the Parsonage Houses, and kept a stipendiary Priest or Curate in place where an Incumbent should be possessed? Whether is your Churchyard well fenced with Walls, Rails, or Pales, and by whom: and if not, in whose default the same is, and what the defect or fault is? And whether any person have encroached on the ground of the Churchyard, or whether any person or persons have used any thing or place consecrated to holy use, profanely or wickedly? Is your Churchyard well and orderly kept without abuse? And is the whole consecrated ground kept as becometh the place so dedicated free from soil and all other nastiness, as pissing against the Church, and defiling the Churchyard with their excrements and the like? And are the Bones of the dead decently interred or laid up in some fit place as beseemeth Christians.  
6. Whether have any ancient Monuments or glass windows been defaced, or any brass Inscriptions, Led, Stones, Bells or any thing else belonging to your Church or Chapel been at any time purloined, and by whom?  
7. What Legacies have been given to the use and benefit of your Church, and how have they been bestowed? Who hath received and detaineth them without due employment? and whether doth any withhold the stock of the Church, or any goods or things given to good and charitable uses.  
8 It there any in the Parish, that hath or doth refuse to contribute towards the reparation of your Church, and toward the provision of such things as belong thereunto?  
9 Whether doth any private man or men of his or their own authority erect any pews or built any seats in your Church, and what pews or seats have been so built, by whose procurement, and by whose authority?  
10 Whether hath any Popish Recusant being lawfully excommunicate, or any other excommunicated person, been interred or buried in your Church, or Churchyard, before absolution from that censure and excommunication obtained? if yea, then by whom and when?  
11 Whether have you a true Terrier of all that Glebe-lands, Meadows, Gardens, Orchards, Houses, Stocks, Implements, Tenements, and Portions of Tithes, whether within your Parish or without belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage taken by the view of honest men in the said Parish? and whether is it safely kept and preserved and in whose hands? and whether hath there a true Copy thereof, under the hands of the Minister and Churchwardens, been transmitted and laid up in the Bishop's Registry, there to continue for a perpetual memory thereof? And if you have no such Terrier yet made, you the Churchwardens and Sidemen together with your Parson or Vicar, or in his absence, your Curate, are to make diligent enquiry of the Premises, and to make, subscribe, and sign the said Terrier, and to bring in a true copy of it into the Bishops Restistry, as is afore said.   

Second Concerning the Clergy.  
1. Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate distinctly and reverently say Divine Service upon Sundays and Holidays and other days appointed to be observed by the Book of Common Prayer, as the Conversion of S. Paul. S. Barnabas day, Wednesdays and fridays, & the Eves of every Sunday and Holiday, at fit and usual times? And doth he duly observe the Orders, rits and ceremonies prescribed in the said Book of Common Prayer, as will in rea, ding public Prayers and the Litanie, as also in administering the Sacraments-Solemnization of Matrimony, visiting the sick, burying the dead, Churching of weemen, and other the like Rits, and Offices of the Church, in such manner and form as in the said Book of Common Prayer he is enjoined, without any omission or addition? And doth he read the Book of the last Canons yearly, and wear a Surplice according to the said Canons? And if he be a graduate, whether doth he also wear upon his Surplice such a hood as by the order of the University is suitable to his degree?  
2 whether have you any Lecture in your Parish? If yea, whether doth he twice at the lest every year read himself Divine Service, both Morning and Evening two several Sundays, publicly in his Surplice with an Hood thereon answerable to his degree of school; and also twice in the year administer both Sacraments. with such Rites and Ceremonies as are prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer? Also, whether doth he read Divine Service according to the Liturgy Printed by authority, in his Surplice and Hood before his Lecture, according to his Majesties' late directions? whether doth he at any time preach in his Cloak, and not in his Gown? whether doth your Preacher or Lecturer behave himself in his Sermons and Lectures as he ought to do, teaching obedience, and edifying his auditory in matters of Faith and good life, without intermeddling with matters of State or other discourse not fit for the Pulpit?  
3 Whether have you any Lecture of Combination set up in your Parish? if yea, whether is it read by a company of grave and Orthodox Divines near adjoining, and in the same Diocese? and whether do they preach in Gowns and not in Cloaks?  
4 Doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate bid Holidays and fasting-dais as by the Book of Common prayer is apppointed? And doth he give wa●…gs before hand to he Parishioners for the receiving the Holy Communion, as the 22 Canon requireth? And whether doth he administer the Holy Communion as often, and at such times as that every Parishioner may receive the same at the least thrice in every year, whereof once at Easter? And whether doth your Minister receive the same himself on every day, that he Administers it to others, and use the words of institution according to the Book at every time the Bread and Wine is renewed, according to the Proviso of the 21. Canon? And doth he deliver the Bread and Wine to every Communicant severally, and kneeling.  
5 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate before the several times of the Administration of the Lord's Supper, admonish and exhort his Parishioners, if any of them have their consciences troubled and disquieted, to resort to him, or to some other learned Minister, and open their grief, that they may receive such Ghostly counsel and comfort, as their conscience may be relieved, and by the Minister they may have the benefit of absolution, to the quiet of their conscience and avoidance of Scruple? And if any man confess his secret or hidden sins being sick or whole, to the Minister, for the unbarthening of his conscience and receiving of spiritual consolation of mind from him, doth he the said Priest or Minister, or hath he at any time revealed and made known to any person whatsoever, any crime or offence so committed to his trust and secrecy, contrary to the 113. Canon.  
6 Whether hath your Minister admitted to the holy Communion any notorious offender or Schismatic, contrary to the 26. and 27. Canon? or hath he received any to the Communion being not of his own cure? or hath he put any from the Communion, who are not publicly infamous for any notorious crime? doth he always use and never omit the sign of the Cross in Baptism▪ or doth he Baptism in any Basin, or other Vessel, and not in the usual Font, or admit any Father to be Godfather, or Mother to be Godmother to their own children, or such to be Godfathers and Godmothers who have not received the holy Communion; or Baptism any children that were not borne in the Parish, or wilfully refuse to Baptism any Infant in his Parish, being in danger, having been informed of the weakness of the said child: and whether the child dieth without Baptism through his default?  
7 Doth he refuse to inter any which ought to be interred in Christian burial, or defer the same longer than he should; or bury any in Christian burial, which by the Constitutions of the Church of England, or Law of the Land, ought not to be so interred?  
8 Whether hath your Minister Married any without a King, or without Banes published three several Sundays or holy-days in time of Divine Service, in the several Churches or Chappells of their several above, according to the Book of Common Prayer▪ or in times prohibited albeit the Banes were thrice published, without a Licence or dispensation from the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishop of Herford, or his Chancellor, first obtained in that behalf? Or not between the hours of 8. and 12. in the Forenoon, or have Married any in private houses; or if the parties or either of them be under the age of 21. years, before their Parents or Governors have signified their consent unto him?  
9 Is your Minister a Preacher allowed? If yea, then by whom? If not, whether doth he procure some who are lawfully licenced, to preach monthly amongst you at the least?  
10. Doth your Minister (being licenced) preach usually according to the Canons, either in his own Cure, or in some other Church or Chapel near adjoining, where no other Preacher is, and how often hath he been negligent in that behalf, & doth he preach standing and with his hat off. Or whether doth he or his Curate upon every Sunday when there is no Sermon, read an Homily or some part thereof according as he ought to do? or in case he be not licenced to preach, doth he take upon him to preach or expound the Scriptures in his own Cure, or elsewhere? If so, than you are to present the same, the time and place, when and where he did it.  
11 Doth your Minister use to pray for the King's Majesty King Charles, and for the Queen's Majesty, for Prince Charles his Highness, & all the Royal Progeny, with addition of such style and titles as are due to his Majesty, and exhort the people to obedience to his Majesty, and to all Magistrates in authority under him? And doth he also pray for all Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ecclesiastical persons?  
12 Doth your Minister, Preacher or Lecturer observe the form of Prayer (and no other) before his or their Sermons, that is prescribed by the 55 Canon, therein moving the people as they are there directed, to join with him in Prayer for Christ's holy Catholic Church, and for the Kings most excellent Majesty, the Queen, the Prince, and the rest of the Royal Progeny, Clergy and Council, as in the Canon is required, always concluding with the Lords Prayer?  
13 Is your Minister continually resident upon his benefice, or how long time hath he been absent? And in case he be licenced to be absent, whether doth he cause his Cure to be sufficiently supplied according to the Canon? or in case he hath another benefice, Whether doth he supply his absence by a Curate sufficiently licenced to preach in that Cure, where he himself is not resident? or otherwise, in case the smallness of the living cannot find a preaching Minister, doth he preach at both his Benefices usually.  
14 Doth your Minister or Curate serve any more Cures than one? If yea, then what other Cure doth he serve: and how far are they distant?  
15 Doth your Minister or Curate every Sunday and Holiday, before Evening prayer, for half an hour or more, examine and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of his parish, in the ten Commandments, Articles of the Creed, and in the Lord's prayer, and the Sacraments according as is prescribed in the Catechism set forth in the Book of Common prayer only? And if he do not, where is the fault, either in the Parents and Masters of the Children, or in the Curate neglecting his duty? And is he careful to tender all such youth of his parish as have been well instructed in their Catechism, to be confirmed by the Bishop in his Visitation, or any other time, as is apppointed by the Book aforesaid?  
16 Doth your Minister in the Rogation days go in perambulation of the Circuit of the Parish, saying and using the prayers, Suffrages, and Thanksgiving to GOD, apppointed by Law according foe his duty, thanking GOD for his blessings, if there be plenty on the earth: or otherwise to pray for his Grace and favour, if there be a fear of Scarcity?  
17 Hath your Minister admitted any Woman, begotten with child in Adultery or Fornication, to be churched without Licence of the Ordinary?  
18 Hath your Minister or any other Preacher, baptised children, Churched any woman, or ministered the holy Communion in any private house, otherwise than by Law is allowed?  
19 Whether have there been any Children baptised in private houses, by any person, or Midwife, or Popish Priest? and have such Children thus privately baptised, and surviving, been afterwards brought to your Church, to the intent the Congregation and the Minister of the Parish (in case they were not baptised by him) may be certified whether they, or any of them were lawfully baptised or no?  
20 Whether have the children that have been borne to any popish Recusant or Recusants in your Parish, been publicly baptised in your parish-Church, by your Parson, Vicar, or Curate? or by whom else were they baptised, or where to your knowledge?  
21 Doth your Minister endeavour and labour diligently to reclaim the Popish Recusants in his parish from their errors (if there be any such abiding in your Parish?) Or whether is your Parson, Vicar, or Curate over-conversant with, or a favourer of Recusants, whereby he is suspected not to be sincere in Religion?  
22 Hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint any public or private Fasts, Prophecies or Exercises not approved by Law, or public Authority; or hath used to meet in any private house or place with any person or persons, there to consult how to impeach or deprave the Book of Common Prayer, or the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England? If yea, than you shall present them all.  
23 Doth your Minister or Lecturer either in time of public allowed Fasts, or at any other time, usually detain the Assembly or Congregation with Sermons longer than a full hour? If yea, than you shall present the time and place.  
24 Whether hath your Minister been present at any private conventicle, to consult there of any course to be taken by them, or by another upon their motion, which may any way tend to the impeachment or depraving of the Doctrine of the Church of England, or of the book of Common Prayer, or of any part of the Government and Discipline now established in the Church of England?  
25 Whether doth your Minister publish in his Sermons any Doctrine which is new and strange, and disagreeing from the Word of God, and from the Articles of Christian Faith and Religion, agreed on and published Anno Dom. 1562. And whether doth he teach any thing which he would the people religiously to observe and believe, but that which is agreeable to the Scriptures, and that which the Catholic Fathers and ancient Bishops have gathered out of that Doctrine according to the Canon?  
26 Whether doth your Minister in his Sermons enter into and handle any points of controversy, contrary to his Majesty's directions? whether doth he, or any other Preacher in your pulpit particularly impugn and confute any Doctrine delivered by any other Preacher in the same Church, or in any Church near adjoining, before he hath acquainted the Bishop of the Diocese therewith, and received order from him what to do in that case?  
27 Hath your Minister stayed the publication of any excommunications or suspensions, or doth he every half year denounce in his parish Church, all such of his Parish as are excommunicated, and persevere therein without seeking to be absolved, or doth he wittingly and willingly keep company with such as are excommunicate? and hath he admitted into your Church any person excommunicated, without a certificate of his absolution from the Ordinary or other competent judge?  
28 Doth your Minister carefully look to the relief of the poor, and from time to time call upon his Parishioners to give somewhat as they can spare, to godly and charitable uses, especially when they make their Testaments?  
29 Doth your Minister or Curate resort unto such as be dangerously sick in your Parish, to instruct and comfort them in their distresses, according to the order of the book of Common Prayer: not omitting, then especially, to move them earnestly to liberality toward the poor?  
30 Whether doth your Minister, or any, having taken holy Orders, being now silenced or suspended, or any other person of your knowledge, or as you have heard, hold any conventicles, or doth preach in any place, or doth use any other form of Divine Service than is appointed in the Book of Common Prayer? If yea, than you are to present their names, and with whom?  
31 Whether is your Curate licenced to serve by the Bishop of this Diocese, or by any other, and by whom?  
32 Whether is there any in your Parish, who having been admitted into holy Orders, either Deacon or Minister, doth voluntarily relinquish and forsake his calling, and liveth in the course of his life as a mere Layman?  
33 Whether is your Minister studious in holy Scripture, and abstaineth from mechanical trades or labour not befitting his function, and from apparel unseemly for his calling, using that decency and gravity therein, as is prescribed in the 47. Canon?  
34 Is your Minister noted or defamed to have obtained his Benefice or his Orders by simony, or any other way defamed to be a simoniacal person, or any way noted to be a schismatic or schismatically affected, or reputed to be an incontinent person, or doth table or lodge any such in his house: or is be a frequenter of Taverns, Inns, or Alehouses, or any place suspected for ill rule: Or is he a common Drunkard, a common Gamester, or player at Dice, a Swearer, or one that applieth himself not at his studies, or is otherwise offensive and scandalous to his Function or Ministry?   

Third, Concerning Schoolmasters, Physicians, Chirurgeons, Midwives and Parish-clerks.  
1 DOth any in your Parish openly or privately take upon him to teach School, without Licence of the Ordinary, and is he conformable to the Religion now established? and doth he bring his Scholars to the Church, to hear Divine Service and Sermons? and doth he instruct his scholars in the grounds of the Religion now established in the Church of England, and is he careful and diligent to benefit his scholars in learning?  
2 Doth your Schoolmaster tea●h and instruct his youth in the Catechism allowed by authority, or in some other Catechism? if in some other, what is that Catechism that he so teacheth?  
3 Is any Living or Means given towards the erection or maintenance of any School withheld back, or otherwise employed and by whom?  
4 Doth any keep School in the Chancel or Church, by which means that holy place and the Communion Table are many ways profaned, and the windows broken?  
5 How many Physicians, Chirurgeons, or Midwives have you in your Parish? how long have they used their several sciences or Offices, and by what Authority? and how have they demeaned themselves therein? and of what skill are they accounted to be in their professions?  
6 Have you a fit Parish-Clerke, aged twenty years at least, of honest life, able to read and write? are his and the Sexton's wages duly paid without fraud or diminution, according to the ancient custom of your Parish? what is his wages? by whom is he chosen? whether is he approved by the Ordinary? Is he diligent in his Office, and serviceable to the Minister? doth he keep the Church clean and doors locked? Is there any thing lost or spoilt through his default? and doth he execute his Office duly?   

Fourth, Concerning the Parishioners.  
1 Whether any of your Parishioners, being sixteen years of age or upwards, or others lodging or commonly resorting to any house within your Parish, do wilfully absent themselves from your Parish Church, upon Sundays or Holidays, at morning and evening prayers? or who come late to Church, and departed from Church before Service be done upon the said days? or who do not reverently behave themselves during the time b● Divine Service, devoutly kneeling when the general Confession of sins, the Litany, the ten Commandments, and all prayers and Collects are read, and using due and lowly reverence when the blessed Name of the Lord jesus Christ is mentioned, and standing up at each Creed, at the Gospel, at each Glory be to the Father. etc. and at the Te Deum, according to the practice of his Majesty's Chapel Royal, and of the Cathedral Church of Hereford; or who do cover their heads in the Church during the time of Divine Service, unless it be in case of necessity, in which case they may wear a nightcap or Coyf? or who do give themselves to babbling, talking or walking, and are not attentive to hear the Word preached or read? whether any of your Parish being of 16. years of age or upwards, do not receive the holy Communion thrice every year, whereof once at Easter, and whether they do not devoutly kneel at the receiving thereof? And whether any having diverse houses of remove, do shift from place to place, of purpose to defeat the performance of their Christian duties in that behalf?  
2 Whether any of your Parishioners being admonished thereof, do not send their children servants, and apprentices, to the Minister, to be catechised upon such Sundays and Holidays as are appointed? or whether any of them do refuse to come; or if they come, refuse to learn those instructions set forth in the Book of Common Prayer?  
3 Whether do any of your Parish entertain within their house, any sojourner, common guests or other persons, who refuse to frequent Divine Service, or receive the holy Communion as aforesaid? present their names, qualities, or conditions.  
4 Whether doth any in your Parish under the degree of a Nobleman, or not thereto allowed by the Law, keep in his house any Chaplain? present their names.  
5 What Recusant Papists have ye in your Parish, or other Sectaries? present their names, qualities or condition: whether they keep any Schoolmaster in their house, which cometh not to Church to hear Divine Service, and receive the holy Communion? what is his name, and how long hath he taught there or elsewhere?  
6 Whether any of the said Popish Recusants, or other schismatics, do labour to seduce and withdraw others from the Religion now established? or instruct their families or children in Popish Religion; or resuse to entertain any, especially in place of greatest service or trust but such as concur with them in their opinions?  
7 How long have the said Popish Recusants abstained from Divine Service, or from the Communion?  
8 Is there any in your Parish, that retain, sell, utter or disperse any Popish books, or writings, or other books, Libraries, or writings of any Sectaries, touching the Religion, State, or Government Ecclesiastical of this Kingdom of England, or keep any Manuments of superstition, uncancelled or undefaced?  
9 Whether have you any in your Parish, which heretofore being Popish Recusants or Sectaries, have since reform themselves, and come to Church to hear Divine Service, and receive the Sacraments? If yea, then who are they? and how long since have they so reform themselves? and whether they still remain in their conformity?  
10 Are there any in your Parish that refuse to have their children baptised, or themselves to receive the Communion at the hands of your Minister, taking exception against him, and what causes or exceptions do they allege; or have any married Wives refused to come to Church, according to the Book of Common Prayer, to give God thankes after their Childbirth, for their safe deliverance? And whether do any of or in your Parish, refuse to have their children baptised in your Parish Church, according to the form prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer?  
11 Do an● of your Parish usually go to other Parish Churches to hear Div●ne Service or Sermons? Or do they communicate, or baptise their children in any other Parish?  
12 Whether be there any in your Parish, who will come to hear the Sermon, but will not come to public Prayers appointed in the Book of Common Prayer, making a schism or division (as it were) between the use of public Prayer and Preaching?  
13 What persons within your Parish for any offence, contumacy or crime of Ecclesiastical cognisance do stand excommunicate? present their names, and for what cause they do stand excommunicated, and how long they have so stood, and what person or persons do wittingly and usually keep them company.  
14 Whether any, not being in Orders, do execute any Priestly or Ministerial Office in your Church, chapel, or Churchyard, and what be their names?  
15 Hath any person in your Parish quarrelled, or stricken, or used any violence to your Minister, or hath stricken or quarrelled with any other person within your Church or Church-yard, or demeaned himself disorderly in the Church, by filthy or profane talk, or any base or immodest behaviour? Or hath disturbed the Minister in time of Divine Service or Sermon, or hath libelled, or spoken slanderous words against your Minister, to the scandal of his vocation, or defamed any of his neighbours touching any crime of Ecclesiastical cognisance?  
16 Whether any of, or in your parish, without consent of the Ordinary, or other lawful authority, have caused any to do penance, or to be censured or punished for any matter of Ecclesiastical cognisance, by any Vestry-meetings, or otherwise by their own authority? or have taken any money or commutation for the same? present their names that have done it, and who have been so punished, in what manner, and upon what cause.  
17 Whether any person in your Parish do exercise any trade or labour, buy or sell, or keep open Shops or Warehouses upon any Sunday or Holiday, by themselves, their servants, or Apprentices, or have otherwise profaned the said days, contrary to the Orders of the Church of England? And whether there be any Inkéepers, Ale-house-kéepers, Victuallers or other Persons, that permit any Persons in their Houses, to eat, drink, or play, during the time of Divine Service or Sermon, or reading the Homilies in the forenoon or afternoon, upon those days?  
18 Whether is the 5 day of November kept Holy, and thanksgiving made to God, for his Majesty and this States happy deliverance, according to the Ordinance in that behalf?  
19 Whether any of your Parish hold or frequent any Conventicles or private Congregations, or make or maintain any Constitutions agreed upon in such assemblies? Or any that do write, or publicly or privately speak against the Book of Common Prayer, or any thing therein contained, or against any of the Articles of Religion agreed upon in Anno 1562. Or against the King's Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastic or against the Oath of Supremacy, or of allegiance, as pretending the same to be unlawful, and not warrantable by God's word? or against any of the Rites or Ceremonies of the Church of England, now established? Or against the Government of the Church of England under the Kings most excellent Majesty, by Archbishops, Bishops, Arch-deacons, Deans, and other Officers of the same; affirming the same to be repugnant to the word of God, and that the said Ecclesiastical Officers are not lawfully ordained? Or whether there be any Authors, Favourers, or maintainers of Heresy or Schism, or that be suspected to be Anabaptists, Libertines, Brownists, of the Family of Love, or of any other Heresy or Schism? present their names.  
20 Whether have any in your Parish Married within the degrees by Law prohibited, and where, and by whom? And whether any couple in your Parish being Lawfully Married, live apart one from the other, without due separation by the Law; or any that have been Divorced, which keep company with any other at Bed or at Board?  
21 Whether your Hospitals and Almshouses, and other such Houses and Corporations, founded to good and charitable uses, and the Lands, Possessions and Goods of the same, be ordered and disposed of, as they should be? And do the Masters, Governors, Fellows, and others of the said Houses and Corporations, behave and demean themselves according to the holy Ordinances and Statutes of their several Foundations?  
22 Whether have you any in your Parish to your knowledge, or by common fame or report, which have committed adultery, fornication or incest: or any which have impudently bragged or boasted, that he or they have lived incontinently with any Person or Persons whatsoever: or any that have attempted the chastity of any woman, or solicited any woman to have the carnal knowledge of her body: or which are commonly reputed to be common Drunkards, Blasphemers of Gods holy Name, common swearers, common slanderers of their Nighbours, and sowers of discord, filthy and lascivious Talkers, Usurers, simoniacal persons, Bawds, or Harbourers of Women with child which be unmarried, or conveying or suffering them to go away before they have made satisfaction to the Church, or any that having been heretofore presented, or suspected os any of the aforesaid crimes, have for that cause departed your parish, and are now returned again? Or any which have used any enchantments, Sorceries, Charms, or witchcrafts, which are not made Felony by the Statutes of this Realm: Or any that have committed any perjury in any Ecclesiastical Court in an Ecclesiastical Cause, or which have committed any forgery punishable by the Ecclesiastical Laws; or any procurers or abettors of the said offences: Ye shall truly present the names of all and singular the said offenders, and with whom they have committed the said offences, in case they have not been publicly punished to your knowledge for the said crimes.   

Fiftly Touching the Churchwardens and Sidemen.  
1. Whether you, and the Churchwardens, Quest-men, or Sidemen from time to time do, and have done their diligence, in not suffering any idle person to abide either in the Churchyard, or Church-porch, in Service or Sermon time, but causing them either to come into the Church to hear Divine Service, or to departed, and not to disturb such as be hearers there? And whether they have, and you do diligently see the Parishioners duly resort to the Church every Sunday and Holiday, and there to remain during Divine Service and Sermen? And whether you or your predecessors, Churchwardens there, suffer any Plays, Feasts, Drink, or any other profane usages to be kept in your Church, chapel, or Churchyards, or have suffered any person or persons, without restraining them to your and their uttermost power to be tippling or drinking in any Inn or victualling house, in your Parish, during the time of Divine Service and Sermons on Sundays and Holidays?  
2 Whether and how often have you admitted any to Preach within your Church or Chapel, who was not sufficiently licenced? And whether you together with your Minister, have not taken diligent head and care, that every Parishioner being of 16 years of age or upwards, have received thrice every year as aforesaid: and also that no stranger have usually come to your Church, from their own Parish-Church?  
3 Whether have there been provided against every Communion, a sufficient quantity of fine white Bread, and good and wholesome Wine for the Communicants that shall receive? And whether that Wine be brought in a clean and sweet standing Pot of Pewter, or some other purer metal?  
4 Whether were you chosen by the consent of the Minister and the parishioners? And have the late Churchwardens given up a just account for their time, and delivered to their successors by bill indented the money and other things belonging to the Church, which was in their hands? And are the Alms of the Church faithfully distributed to the use of the poor?  
5 Whether do you see the names of all Preachers, which are strangers, and do preach in your Parish-Churches, to be noted in a Book for that purpose, and whether ev●ry Preacher do subscribe his name, and of whom he had his Licence?  
6 Whether any man do trouble or molest you for doing your duties?  
7 Whether be there any Legacy given to the Church or poor people, or to ●…e mending of highways, or otherwise by the Testators, with holden? ●…n whose hands is it, by whom was it given, and by whom is it withheld?  
8 Do you know of any other default or crime of Ecclesiastical Cognisance? ●…f yea, you are to present the same by virtue of your Oaths.  
THe Minister of every Parish may and aught to join in presentment with the Churchwardens and Sidemen; and if they will not present, the Minister may and ought himself to present the defaults and crimes aforesaid: And there must be several presentments made to every several Article: and the Minister, Churchwardens and Sworne-men are to meet and confer about the said presentments, and answering of every the aforesaid Articles.  
FINIS.