❀ ARTICLES, TO BE ENQVIRED OF within the Diocese of London, in the visitation of the Reverend Father in God, John Bishop of London. 1589.  
In the xxxj. year of the reign of our most gracious sovereign Lady ELIZABETH by the grace of GOD Queen of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith. etc.  
Imprinted at London, 1589.   

The tenor of the oath ministered to the Churchwardens and sworne-men.  
ye shall swear that all affection, favour, hatred, hope of reward and gain, or fear of displeasure, or malice set a side, you shall upon due consideration of the Articles given you in charge, present all and every such person of or within your parish, as hath committed any offence or fault, or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles, or which are vehemently suspected, or otherwise defamed of any such offence, fault, or default: wherein you shall deal uprightly and according to equity, neither of malice presenting any contrary to truth, nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any, and so conceal the 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 his faithful promises contained in these his holy books.   

The charge of the Churchwardens and sworn-men set down for the better performance of their duties, and discharge of their oaths.  
THey are straightly charged to hear all these articles read over unto them, and diligently to consider and inquire thereof. And for that the time is so short in this the visitation, that they shall not be able to make a perfect answer unto all of them, and that notwithstanding there are many notorious faults presently worthy of presentment and reformation: they are charged to make their answer unto them presently, so far forth as their memory shall now serve them: And to present now such faults in their Parish, as at this time are worthy of presentment and reformation. And that after their coming home betwixt this and Michaelmas next, they shall again hear all the Articles read over unto them, and diligently consider and inquire thereof with the Minister of the Parish, who shall (if he know any thing in the Parish to be reform) together with them make a due presentment, and a true and full answer in writing, signed with their hands and marks, wherein they shall present aswell all such faults or offences, contrary to the Articles as they forgot or omitted to present at the time of the visitation, as also all such faults and offences contrary to the Articles as shall happen and chance betwixt this and then.   

¶ Articles to be inquired of within the Diocese of London in this Visitation, holden in the year of our Lord God. 1589.  

Articles concerning the Clergy.  
whether Common prayer be read by your Minister in your several Churches or Chapels distinctly and reverently, and in such order as it is set forth by the laws of this Realm, without any kind of alteration omitting or adding to any thing, and at due and convenient hours, the Minister wearing a Surples? And whether the holy Sacraments be likewise ministered reverently in such manner, as by the book of Common prayer is appointed. And whether upon Wednesdays and Fridays, not being holidays, the Litany and other prayers appointed for the day be said accordingly.  
2. Item, whether the form of Comination against sinners be by your Minister plainly and distinctly read in your Church or Chapel unto the people, according to the Book.  
3 Whether any Parson or Parsons, not being ordered at the least be a Deacon, do say Common prayer openly in your Church or Chapel, or do solemnize matrimony, or administer the Sacraments of Baptism, and what be their names that do so?  
4 Whether the Parson, Vicar, or Farmer of your Benefice do cause or suffer any Curate or Minister to serve your Church before he be examined and admitted by the Ordinary in writing, and do show his licence to the Churchwardens.  
5 Whether your Minister do serve two Cures in one day, whereby he must needs be driven to serve the one of them at inconvenient houses?  
6 Whether your Parson, Vicar or Curate do every Sunday when there is no Sermon, read distinctly and plainly some part of the Homilies prescribed and set forth by the queens authority to be read: and whether any Minister not admitted by the Ordinary, or by other lawful authority, do expound any scripture or matter of doctrine, by the way of exhortation or otherwise, and thereby omit and leave off the reading of the Homilies. Or be there any in your Parish that do deprave or speak against the Homilies and the use of them in the Church?  
7 Whether any Lectures, Conventicles, or private meetings be read or used within your Parishes, either public in the Church, or private in the house, by any not sufficiently licenced thereunto by the Ordinary: or whether any such Reader do teach any Doctrine of Innovation to withdraw the people from due obedience to the Ordinances of the Church set forth by public authority, or to cause them to forbear participating in prayer and Sacraments with our Church?  
8 How many Sermons doth your Parson or Vicar preach in his own Church yearly: and if he be no Preacher himself, how many doth he yearly procure to be preached there, and who have preached them: and whether be they that do preach them licenced or no, and by whom were they licenced?  
9 Whether your Minister have or do receive to the holy Communion any persons which be not of his own Parish, without testimony from the Minister of the place where they dwell: what they be, that it may appear that they be not persons excommunicate?  
10 Whether your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, do every Sunday and Holiday openly in the Church call for, hear, and instruct all the children, apprentices, and servants of both sexes, that be of convenient age within your Parish, or at the least so many of them by course as the time will serve, and as he may well hear or instruct for one hour at the least, before or after Evening prayer in the ten Commandments, the Articles of the belief, and the Lords prayer, and diligently examine and teach them the Catechism, as it is now allowed and set forth in the Book of Common prayer. And whether for that purpose he doth take the names of them all, and by course call certain of them every Sunday and Holiday to come to the teaching of this Catechism?  
11 Whether your Parson, Vicar, Curate, or other Minister in your Church or Chapel hath admitted to the holy Communion any open and notorious fornicator, adulterer or evil liver, by whom public offence is given without due penance first done, to the satisfaction of the Congregation enjoined him by his ordinary. Or any malicious person that is notoriously known and detected to be out of charity, or detected to have done any open wrong to his neighbour by word or deed, without due reconciliation first made to the party that is wronged?  
12 Whether in any of your Parishes your Minister be brought in by popular election, sent by some peculiar election of ministery, confirmed by the Parish, and so allowed privately of before the said Minister be presented to his ordinary?  
13 Whether your Parson or Vicar have any other benefice besides this: if he so have, where lieth it, how long in the year is he absent from this; how doth he see the cure of this served, and what hospitality keepeth he on this Benefice?  
14 Whether your Preachers or Minister be peacemakers, and exhort their parishioners to obedience towards their Prince, and all other that be in authority, and to charity and mutual love among themselves: whether they be diligent in visiting the sick, and in comforting them?  
15 Whether any do preach, declare or speak any thing in derogation of the book of Common prayer which is set forth by the laws of this Realm, dispraising or depraving the same or any thing therein contained, or against the preachers or ministers of the word and sacraments by law authorized?  
16 Whether your Parsons, Vicars, Curates and Ministers keep well their Registers of all weddings, burials, and christinings within your parish according to the Order of the queens Injunctions, and whether they read the Queeenes' majesties Injunctions every quarter of a year once or no?  
17 Whether they or any of them keep any suspected woman in their houses, or be incontinent persons given to drunkenness, idleness, or be haunters of taverns, alehouses, or suspected places, hunters, hawkers, dicers, carders, common table players, swearers, dancers, or otherwise suspected of any notorious crime, or light and unseemly behaviour, or give any evil example of life, or use disordered and unseemly apparel, either in colours, guards, or light fashion?  
18 Whether they or any of them do keep or suffer to be kept in their parsonage or vicarage houses, any alehouses, tippling houses, or taverns, or do selbale, beer, wine, or any other victual?  
19 Whether for the receiving of the perambulation of the circuit of your parish, the Parson, Vicar or Curate, Churchwardens, & ●●●taine of the substantial men of the parish in the days of the Rogations & days 〈◊〉 called Gang-days walk the accustomed Bounds of your parish.  
20 Whether any new Presbyteries or Eldership be lately among you erected, and by them any Ministers appointed without Orders taking of the Bishops, to baptize, minister the communion, or deal in any function ecclesiastical or contrary to law gather any private conventicle whereby the people be drawn from the Church.  
21 Whether there be any in your parish that readeth any private lectures in the same, or useth exposition of the scriptures in any private man's house whatsoever, contrary to the law. And whether any preacheth, and doth not at certain times in the year minister the sacraments in their own persons, and in such Church where he readeth his lecture.  
22 Whether there be any in your parish, Ministers, or Preachers, that use either private or other assemblies out of their Diocese, with other preachees, or other with them: and do in them use to set down any orders contrary to the orders observed in the Queen's Book, or any in your parish that do contribute to any such preachers, and what be the names as well of the contributors, as of them to whom they do contribute, and what several sums do they contribute?  
23 Whether any Minister do reject those women being married, which do come to the Church to give thanks after Childbirth, according to the order set down in the book of common prayer?  
24 Whether your Parson, Vicar or Curate have married any person not being three several Sundays or Festivali days lawfully asked in their parish Churches, or not being sufficiently licenced thereunto, and by whose licence the same persons were so dispensed withal to be married?  
25 Whether any contention have grown amongst the preachers in these parts for any matter of doctrine or ceremonies: and what & who was the cause thereof: and whether any strife hath grown about pews or seats in the Church, and between whom was it?  
26 Whether your Parsons, Vicars or Curates do keep a just and perfect nose of all such as do communicate in their several parishes, and do not rather regard their private gain, receiving their offerings at Easter, and delivering them tokens, and so enter them into their book, and certify as Communicants those who never received?  
27 Whether there be any Ministers or Priests within your parish which live idly without any Cure, neither serving in any place, nor having any place of reading or preaching?  
28 Whether any Minister do refuse to use, or neglect such godly exercises of prayer and preaching, as be by public authority appointed for preservation of her Majesty, the Country, and Church: or for thanksgiving for any victory gotten over God's enemies, and the States of the Realm.   

Articles concerning the Church.  
whether have you in your Parish Churches and Chapels all things necessary and requisite for Common prayer, and administration of the Sacraments, especially the Book of Common prayer with the new Calendar, two Psalters, the English Bible in the largest volume of the edition set forth by the Bishops, and lately imprinted by the queens Printer, the Table of the ten Commandments, a convenient Pulpit well placed, a comely and decent Table standing on a frame for the holy Communion, with a fair linen cloth to lay upon the same, and some covering of silk, buckram, or other such like for the clean keeping thereof, a fair and comely Communion cup of silver, and a cover of silver for the same, which may serve also for the ministration of the Communion bread, a decent large Surplice with sleeves, a sure coffer with two locks and keys for keeping of the Register book, and a strong chest or box for the alms of the poor, with three locks and keys to the same, and all other things necessary in and to the premises.  
2 Whether any do make any laystals, or use to lay any filthiness against the Church walls, to the annoyance of the Church or of the people, assembling themselves to hear God's word, and public exercise of prayer?  
3 Whether your Churches and Chapels with the Chancel be well and sufficiently repaired and kept without abuse of any thing, and whether your Churchyards be well fenced and cleanly kept, and if any part thereof be in decay, through whose default it is so?  
4 Whether the Church of your Parish be now vacant or destitute of an incumbent or no, and if it be, how long it hath been so, and who is the Patron, and whether he suffereth the Benefice to lie vacant, and occupieth the glebe land, and taketh the tithes and other fruit to himself during the time of the vacation, or who else occupieth and taketh the same, and by what authority?  
5 Whether your Church be a Parsonage or Vicarage, presentative, a donative, or otherwise served by a Cure? Whether did you ever heretofore hear or know that it was a Parsonage or Vicarage, and how came it to be decayed from being a presentative to be in the state it now is, and when was it first decayed from being a benefice presentative as you remember?  
6 Whether your Fonts or Baptisteries be removed from the place where they were wont to stand, or whether any persons leaving the use of them: do Christian or Baptize in Basins, or other profane vessels, not customably used in the Church before time, or whether any Christian without either Godfather and Godmothers, and the sign of the Cross appointed by the book of common prayer?   

Articles concerning Ecclesiastical officers.  
WHether the Chancellor, Archdeacon, Commissary, official, or any other, using Ecclesiastical jurisdiction in this Diocese, their Registers or Actuaries, Apparitors or Summoners, have at any time winked at and suffered any Adulterers, Fornicators, incests, or other faults or offences presented unto them, to pass and remain unpunished and uncorrected for Money, Rewards, Bribes, Pleasure, Friendship or any other partial or affectionate respect?  
2 Whether at the Archdeacon's visitations which have been sithence 1586. the Archdeacon of your Archdeaconry or his officers hath called to the Church wardens for a Certificate from the Parson, Vicar, or Curate of your Parish, thereby to understand whether the Injunctions of the said Bishop given in his visitation held in that year 1586. have been duly and precisely observed or not, according to the Tenor and effect of one of those Injunctions?  
3 Whether any have been lawfully presented to the Chancellor, Archdeacon, commissary, or Official, within these three years passed, for any crime punishable by the Ecclesiastical Courts: who neither have made their purgation, for the infamy of the same offence, nor have received penance, whereby the parish hath been satisfied.   

Articles concerning Schoolmasters.  
WHether the 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 licenced for Schoolmasters, by the ordinary or his officer in that behalf.  
2 Whether your Schoolmasters do themselves receive the holy Communion as often as they ought to do, & whether they bring with them so many of their Scholars as be of age sufficient, and of capacity by instructions to receive the lords Supper.  
3 Whether your Schoolmasters do orderly on Sundays with their Scholars come to the Church of their Parish where they teach, and there see their Scholars placed in some convenient place, so as they do not disquiet the Minister or parish in time of divine service: but may exercise themselves godly in reading and hearing the service and Sermons, and in answering with the Congregation in reading of public prayers.  
4 Whether the 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, or do teach any other Catechism: and what Catechism is it that they so teach?  
5 Whether any of your Schoolmasters be known or suspected to read unto their Scholars privately any books, or privately to instruct them in their young years either in Popery, Superstition, or disobedience, or contempt to her Majesty and her Laws Ecclesiastical, by public authority allowed?  
6 Whether any Schoolmasters under pretence of catechizing their Scholars (which is a most godly order carefully by them to be observed) do keep Lectures reading, or expositions in divinity, in their houses, having continual repair unto them of such people as seek after innovations, and refuse their own Parish Churches and their Minister?   

Articles concerning the Parishioners and others of the Laity.  
Whether all Householders in your Parish, cause their Children, Servants and Apprentices, both mankind and womankind, being above seven years of age and under twenty, which have not learned the Catechism, to come to the Church on Sundays and holidays at the times appointed for catechizing, & there diligently and obediently to hear. And what be the names of those that do not cause their Children, Servants and Apprentices so to come to the Church to be instructed and examined.  
2 Whether any do work, or keep any Shop, or any part of their shop open upon the Sabaoth days, or upon any holidays appointed by the Laws of the Realm to be kept holiday?  
3 Whether you yourselves or the Churchwardens in the years before you, have suffered any unmarried women being begotten with Child to go out of the Parish before she hath done penance, or any man defamed of whoredom to depart unpunished upon direction appointed by the ordinary, and forth of whose houses have they gone away with Child unpunished, and how many unmarried women which have been delivered within your parish these three years last passed have gone away without doing of penance?  
4 Whether there be any in your Parish, that do themselves forbear, or dehort others from coming to public prayer and hearing the word Preached, condemning all form of prayer which they call stinted prayer, calling our Churches the Temples of Idols, and our Preachers false teachers sent in the lords wrath: which lewd opinions, some Sectaries have lately broached?  
5 Whether any man keepeth or readeth any seditious and Schismatical books, or pamphlets written by any which enuaieth against the Religion now received, or the order and government of the Church now publicly established, or that stirreth up the hearers to innovation, or altering of the Church's government by Law now established?  
6 Whether the Parish Clarke be appointed according to the ancient custom of the Parish with the allowance of the ordinary, and whether he be not obedient to the Parson, Vicar, or Curate: and whether he be able to read, and whether he keep the books and ornaments of the Church fair and clean, and cause the Church and Quire, the Communion table and the font to be kept clean and decent against the service time, the Communion, Sermon, and Baptism.  
7 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 others, against the queens Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical, or against true Religion and Catholic doctrine, or the government and discipline of the Church of England now within this Realm, received and established by common authority, and what their names and surnames are?  
8 Whether there be any in your Parish which for any cause whatsoever forbear to come to Church to public prayer, or to hear God's word preached, pretending it unlawful to come to our assemblies as the Church of England now standeth?  
9 Whether any do refuse to receive the holy Communion at their own Ministers hands, either because he is not a Preacher, or because he duly observeth the order of ministration appointed by the Book, and who they be that do go from their own Parish to receive at any other Ministers hands?  
10 Whether any of your Parishioners having a Preacher to their Parson, Vicar, or Curate, do absent themselves from his Sermons, and resort to any other place to learn or follow after such innovations as are there taught.  
11 Whether the people of your Parish, especially householders having no lawful excuse to be absent, do resort with their children and servants to their Parish Church or Chapel on the Holidays and on the Sundays to morning and evening prayer. And who they be that either negligently or wilfully absent themselves, or come very late to the Church upon the Sundays especially, or that walk, talk, or otherwise unreverently behave themselves in the Church, or use any gaming or pastime abroad, or in any house, or sit in the street, or Churchyard, or in any Tavern or Alehouse upon the Sunday or other holiday in the time of Common prayer, or reading of the Homilies, either before or after noon?  
12 Whether the forfeiture of twelve pence for every time of absence from Church (appointed by a Statute made in the first year of the queens majesties reign) be levied and taken according to the same Statute by the Churchwardens of every person that offendeth, and by them be put to the use of the poor of the Parish: if it be not so levied, by whose default is it?  
13 Whether there be any Innkeepers, Alewives, Victuallers or tipplers, that suffer or do admit any person or persons in their houses to eat or drink, or play at Dice, Cards, Tables, Bowls, or such like games in the time of Common prayer or Sermon on the Sundays or Holidays: or any Butchers or other that commonly use to sell meat or other things in the time of Common prayer, Preachings, or reading of Homilies. And whether in any Fairs or common Markets, falling upon the Sunday, there be any showing of any wares before Morning prayer be done? And whether any markets or selling of wares be used or suffered in any Churchyards on the Sabbath day by common Packmen or peddlers going about?  
14 Whether the Churchwardens of the last year have given to the Parish a just account of the Church goods and rents that were committed to their charge, according unto the custom that hath been aforetime used, and what Church goods they or any other have sold, and to whom, and whether to the profit of your Church or no, and what hath been done with the money thereof coming?  
15 Whether the Churchwardens and Sworne-men since the visitation holden 1586. have of any private corrupt affection concealed any crime or other disorder in their time done in your Parish, and have not presented the same to the Bishop, Chancellor, Archdeacon, Commissarie, or such other as had authority to reform the same: and whether they, or any of them at any such time as they should have been at divine Service on Sundays or Holidays, and should there have observed others that were absent, have been away themselves at home, or in some Tavern or Alehouse, or else about some worldly business, or at Bowls, Cards, Tables, Dice, or other gaming, without regard of their office and duty in that behalf?  
16 Whether your Minister and you the Churchwardens, or any other of your Parish have on your revesterie made any orders, or do use to call any parties before you for any cause to be ordered by the Ecclesiastical laws, and so do use a kind of presbytery, or censuring over your neighbours?  
17 Whether any of your Parish being of convenient age, have not received the holy Communion thrice this last year at the least, and namely at Easter last, or thereabouts for once, and what their names are, or which at their receiving have not signified the same before to your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, that he might conveniently examine them, and who have refused to come to him to be examined?  
18 Whether there be any in your Parish that administer the goods of those that be dead without lawful authority, or any that suppress the last Will of the dead, or any Executors that have not fulfilled their Testators will, especially in paying of Legacies given to the Church, or to other good and godly uses, as to the relief of poverty, to Orphans, poor Scholars, poor maidens marriages, high ways, Schools, and such like, and by whom are they so detained?  
19 Whether there be any in your Parish that hath or doth offend contrary to the Statute made in the xxvii. year of the reign of King Henry the viii. for the reformation of Usury, and revived by an Act made in the xiii. year of the reign of the queens Majesty that now is, and what be the names of such offenders?  
20 Whether hath your Minister, or any of the Parish, not being justices of Peace, 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 the Ecclesiastical laws, and what be the names of the parties, who have been so punished, and in what manner?  
21 Whether the Injunction sent from my L. Grace of Canterbury, and the High Commissioners in November 1587. directed to your Minister and Churchwardens not to receive strange preachers not licenced, be observed: and whether the said Injunction remain in your Church, or no?  
22 Whether there be any among you that do use sorcery or witchcraft, or that be suspected of the same: and whether any use any charms, or unlawful prayers: and whether any do resort to any such for help and counsel: and what be the names both of such as use it, and of such as resort to them for help?  
23 Whether any couples that be married in private houses within these three years last, have been known or suspected to have been married after any other order, than is appointed by the Church of England, by reason that the one party or the other are noted to be such as refuse to come to the Church, or dislike of the orders of the Church of England?  
24 Whether there be among you any Blasphemers of the name of GOD, great or often Swearers, Adulterers, fornicators, incestuous persons, bawds or receivers of naughty and incontinent persons, or harbourers of women with child which be unmarried, conveying or suffering them to go away before they do any penance, or make satisfaction to the Congregation: or any that be vehemently suspected of any such faults, or that be not of good name & fame touching any such crime and fault: any drunkards or ribalds, or any that be malicious, contentious, or uncharitable persons, railers, scolders, or sowers of discord between neighbours, and specially railers against Ministers, and against their marriage?  
25 Whether there be any in these parts that have married within the degrees of affinity or consanguinity, by the Laws of God forbidden: or any that being divorced or separated for the same, do yet notwithstanding inhabit and keep company still together: or any that being married without those degrees, have unlawfully forsaken their wives or husbands, & married others. Any man that hath two wives, or any woman that hath two husbands: any that being divorced or separated asunder have married again: any that have married or contracted themselves without the consent of their parents, tutors, or governors: any that have married without Banes thrice solemnly asked: any couples married that live not together, but slanderously live apart.  
26 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 our public prayer, and preaching.  
27 Whether the Minister and Churchwardens have suffered any Lords of misrule, or Summer Lords or Ladies, or any disguised persons, or May games, or any morris dancers at any times to come unreverently into the Church or Churchyard, and there to dance or play, especially in the time of common prayer: and what they be that commit such disorder: or that accompanied or maintained them?  
28 Whether there be among you any notorious evil livers, or any suspected of any notorious sin, fault, or crime, to the offence of Christian people, or any that stubbornly refuse to conform themselves to unity and godly Religion now established by public authority: or any that beareth abroad rumours of the alteration of the same, or otherwise that disturbeth good orders, and the quietness of Christ's Church, and the Christian Congregation?  
29 Whether all such admonitions and Injunctions, as have come to your parishes from my Lord of London in and sithence the last visitation for the observing of any order for the Church, or putting down any disorder, have been duly kept ever since or no, & by whose default they have not been kept?  
30 Whether there be any married women or others within your parish, which after childbirth do refuse or contemn to come to the Church to give thanks for their delivery, & to have the prayers public, appointed in that behalf by the book of common prayer.  
31 Whether any carry out the Infants to be Christened in other parishes, as misliking the order of Christening in their own parish: whether any preach in any Noble man's or Gentleman's house, not being licenced of the Bishop?  
32 Whether any within your Parishes do resort unto barns, fields, woods, outhouses, or to any extraordinary Expositions of Scriptures, or conferences together: and so do (as it were) make a several Church or Sect unto themselves; or be drawers or persuaders of others to any such schismatical and damnable Sects.  
33 Item, whether your Parson, Vicar or Curate have wittingly married together any couples whereof the woman hath been got with child, or carnally known before marriage: or whether the man for money or reward hath married any woman that hath committed adultery with another man, without public acknowledgement of their offences, and reconciliation to the parish: & what are the names of all such that have been so married in any such case, and when, and by whom they were so married together?  
34 Whether any do keep their Children unbaptised longer than the Sunday after Birth, unless it be for sickness of the child, or other urgent occasion: & whether any do carry their children from the Parish they are borne in, to other Parishes to be baptized? And whether any do refuse and carry their children from their own Parish to be baptized in other places, or do bring strange Ministers into their own houses, to baptize their children privately according to their own fantasies?  
35 Whether the order of prayers on Wednesdays and Fridays, set forth lately by the most reverend Father the Archbishop of Canterbury, by him appointed to be observed through his whole Province, be observed as it is required, and who be they that under colour of it do bring in any new devised order, prayer, or fasts, leaving the prescribed order of that book?   
FINIS.   

The second bills which are to be delivered at Michaelmas next, are to be brought into Master Blackewels office in ivy Lane, Register to my Lord Bishop of London, betwixt Michaelmas and the eight day of October following, or else the Churchwardens and Sidemen making default herein, are at their perils to show cause the x. of October next in the Consistory in Paul's, why they should not according to law, be proceeded against for their contempt.