ARTICLES To be inquired of within the Diocese of London, in the Visitation of the Reverend Father in God, Richard Bishop of London, in his general Visitation,  
Holden In the fortieth 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.  
AT LONDON Printed by Valentine Simmes. 1598.   

¶ A Branch of the Statute made in the first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth, entitled, An Act for the uniformity of Common prayer and service in the Church.  
THat from and after the feast of the Nativity of Saint john Baptist next coming, all and every person and persons inhabiting within this Realm, or any other the Queen's majesties dominions, shall diligently and faithfully (having no lawful or reasonable excuse to be absent) endeavour themselves to resort to their Parish Church or Chapel accustomed, or upon reasonable let thereof to some usual place where common prayer and such like service of God shall be used in such time of let, upon every Sunday and other days, ordained and used to be kept as holidays: and then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of common prayer, preaching or other service of God there to be used and ministered, upon pain of punishment by the Censures of the Church. And also upon pain that every person so offending shall forfeit for every such offence twelve pence, to be levied by the Churchwardens of the Parish where such offence shallbe done, to the use of the poor of the same parish, of the goods, lands, and tenements of such offender by way of distress. And for due execution hereof, the Queen's most excellent Majesty, the Lords temporal, and all the commons in this present Parliament assembled, doth in God's name earnestly require and charge all the Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries, that they shall endeavour themselves to the uttermost of their knowledge, that the true and due execution hereof may be had throughout their Diocese and Charges, as they will answer before God for such evils and plagues, wherewith almighty God may justly punish his people for neglecting this good and wholesome Law.   

❧ The Tenor of the Oath ministered to the Churchwardens and sworn-men.  
YOu shall swear, that all affection, favour, hatred, hope of reward and gain, or fear of displeasure, or malice set aside, 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 truth, 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 the contents of this Book.   

¶ 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 to them, & diligently to consider and inquire thereof. And for that the time is so short in this 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 answers 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 or reformation, and that after their coming home betwixt this and Saint Martin's day next they shall again hear all the Articles read over unto them, and diligently consider and inquire thereof, requiring the Minister to assist them for the better performance of their duty, to make 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 Diocs of London in this visitation holden in the year of our Lord God. 1598. Articles concerning the Clergy.  
1 whether is common prayer read by your minister in your Church or Chapel distinctly and reverently upon all Sundays and holy days, and in such order as is set forth by the laws of this Realm in the book of Common prayer, without any kind of alteration, omitting or adding any thing, and at due and convenient hours.  
2 Whether doth your minister upon Wednesdays and Fridays, not being holy days, read in your church or chapel, publicly the Litany and other prayers appointed in the said book for those days, and whether doth he read the comination against sinners in such order and form as it is there also prescribed.  
3 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate in the administration of the Lords Supper, or of baptism, when he solemnizeth matrimony, burieth the dead, churcheth women &c. use the forms and prayers prescribed in the Communion book, without omitting or altering any part of them, and without any of his own additions.  
4 Whether doth your parson or Vicar read public prayer and administer the Sacraments ordinarily himself, using such rites and ceremonies as are prescribed in the book of common prayer: as namely whether doth he kneel at the receiving of the holy communion: make the sign of the Cross upon the child's forehead in the administration of baptism: baptize any without Godfathers and Godmothers: use the ring in marriage: and generally whether doth he in the discharging of all these duties, and when he readeth common prayer, either upon Sundays holidays, Wednesdays and Fridays wear a surplice, or if you be served with a curate, whether doth he the said curate observe all the said particular rites and ceremonies mentioned in this article.  
5 Whether doth your minister upon Sundays at morning prayer declare unto the parishioners what holyedays and fasting days are appointed to be kept the week following: whereby they may be put in mind to prepare themselves, and to repair to the church to public prayer according to the laws of the Realm.  
6 Whether doth your parson, vicar, or curate, or either of them reject at any time those women being married which do come to church to give God thanks after their childbirth, or refuse to visit the sick, or to bury the dead, according to their duties prescribed in the book of common prayer.  
7 Whether doth your minister in the Rogation days of procession use the perambulation of the circuit of your parish, appointed by her majesties Injunctions: and whether doth he in the said perambulation move the people to give thanks to God in the beholding of his benefits, for the increase and abundance of his fruits upon the face of the earth: and sing or say the two Psalms beginning: Praise the Lord O my soul, etc. with the Litany and suffrages thereunto belonging: and at certain convenient places read the homily of thanksgiving to God, already devised, and divided into four parts, without addition of any superstitions ceremony heretofore used.  
8 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.  
9 Whether is your parson or vicar apreacher, licenced to preach by lawful authority according to her majesties Injunctions: if he be, how many sermons doth he preach yearly, if he be not, how many doth he procure to be preached by others: who hath preached them, and whether were they preachers licenced, as is before expressed.  
10 Whether doth your parson, vicar or curate every sunday when there is no sermon, read distinctly & plainly some part of the Homilies prescribed and set forth by her majesties authority.  
11 Whether doth the parson, vicar or farmer of the benefice in your parish cause or suffer any curate or minister, either to read service, etc. or to preach, before he the said curate being no preacher be examined & admitted by the ordinary in writing: and before he the said curate being a preacher be thereunto admitted according to her majesties Injunctions, and before they show their said several licences unto the churchwardens.  
12 Whether doth your Preacher in his prayer which he maketh at the entrance into his sermon, use at all times the prayer for her majesty, with her whole title prescribed in her highness Injunctions: as, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. and of all causes, and over all persons within her highness dominions, as well ecclesiastical as temporal, next and immediately under God, supreme governor: and whether doth he in like manner then pray for the Archbishops and Bishops, as by the said Injunctions it is also appointed.  
13 Whether your minister doth serve two cures in one day.  
14 Whether doth your parson, vicar or curate every Sunday and holiday openly in the Church earnestly 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 and instruct 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.  
15 Whether is there any man in your parish, being neither your parson, vicar, nor curate, that taketh upon him to preach or read lectures either in private houses, or publicly in your church or chapel, who is not licenced so to preach or read according to her majesties Injunctions, or who doth not once a year at the least administer the sacraments in your said church or chapel, where he so preacheth or readeth.  
16 Whether your minister hath or doth receive to the holy communion any persons which he not of his own parish, without testimony from the minister of the place where they dwell, what they be, that it may appears that they be not persons excommunicate or otherwise infamous.  
17 Whether doth your parson, vicar or curate administer the holy communion unto any communicants which do not receive the same devoutly and humbly kneeling upon their knees, or whether doth he administer it confusedly to some kneeling, and to some, either sitting or standing, or walking.  
18 Whether hath your parson, vicar, or curate, or other minister in your church or chapel, contrary to the order set down in the communion book, and contrary to her majesties Injunctions in that behalf, admitted to the holy communion any open or notorious fornicator or adulterer, or other wicked liver, by whom public offence is given, without due penance enjoined by his Ordinary first done, to the satisfaction of the congregation, and without such further submission, as in the said book and Injunction is required.  
19 Whether doth your parson, vicar or curate, or any other minister or preacher, baptize in your parish church or chapel, any Infants, not in the font according to the ancient custom, but in a basin, and urge the parents of the said infant to be present, and in place of Godfathers for their children.  
20 Whether doth your parson vicar, or curate once every quarter of the year read her majesties Injunctions openly and deliberately before his parishioners at one time or at two several times in one day, according as in the said Injunctions it is prescribed.  
21 Whether hath your parson vicar, or curate, or any other minister preached, declared, or spoken any thing 〈◊〉 your parish 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 present estate of the ecclesiastical government, established by the same authority, or against any office, function, or part thereof, affirming the same to be unlawful.  
22 Whether hath your parson or vicar more benefices than one, if he hath not, whether is he resident upon that one: if he be not resident, where doth he remain, and by what authority is he absent, and whether doth he leave a sufficient minister and preacher to supply his absence, allowing something yearly towards the relief of the poor: and what doth he so allow.  
23 Whether is your person or vicar who hath two benefices within this Diocese: or one benefice in this Diocese, and another forth of the same, resident one half of the year 〈◊〉 one of them, and the other half year or the greater part thereof upon his other benefice, and whether doth he leave the benefice in your parish provided of a sufficient preacher to serve it: and hath an especial care of some convenient hospitality to be kept in his absence according to his ability, and the proportion of that living.  
24 Whether doth your parson, vicar, or curate keep a just and perfect note of all such as do communicate in your parish, and do not rather, regarding their private gain, receive their offerings at Easter, deliver them tokens enter them into their book, and so certify as communicants those who never received.  
25 Whether doth your parson, vicar, or curate keep any man or woman in their houses, that are suspected to be, either of evil religion, or of bad life, or whether be they or any of them incontinent persons themselves, or given to drunkenness or idleness, or be haunters of Taverns, alehouses, or suspected places, hunter's, hawkers, dicers, carders, common table-players, swearers, dancers, or otherwise suspected persons of any notorious crime, or light and unseemly behaviour, or give evil example of life, or use disordered or unseemly apparel, either in colours, guards or light fashion.  
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, and so become offensive to their calling.   

Articles concerning the Church.  
1 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 Quénes' Printer, the Table of the ten commandments, a convenient pulpit well placed, a comely and decent Table standing upon a frame, for the holy Cmmunion, 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, 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 there have grown in your Church since the last visitation in the year 1595. any contention betwixt any of the parishioners, touching the placing or displacing of any in any seat or pew in the church, and whether there have been any pew builded since the foresaid year 1595. in any your churches, without the express leave and consent first had of the Ordinary of the Diocese, and by whom have any such been built.  
3 Whether is your Church or Chapel, and the Chancel well and sufficiently repaired and kept without abuse of any thing: whether doth your Parson, vicar, or curate, or the proprietary or farmer of your parsonage or vicarage in your parish keep the parsonage or vicarage house with all other the edefices thereunto appertaining in good & sufficient reparations: and whether is your churchyard well fenced and cleanly kept without any laystall or other annoyances.  
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, & whether during the vacancy of the benefice, he occupieth the globe land, and taketh the tithes and other fruits to himself during the time of vacation, or who else occupieth & taketh the same, and by what authority.  
5 Whether your church be a parsonage or a vicarage presentative or donative, or otherwise served by a curate: whether did they ever heretofore hear or know that it was a parsonage or vicarage, and how came it to be decayed from being 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 baptise in basins, or other vessels, not accustomably used in the church before time, or do use any kind of lavor with a removable basin, or have taken down the old & usual font heretofore used in your parish.  
7 Whether is there in your parish a sufficient Register book of parchment, of marriages, christenings, and burials, provided at the charge of the parish: whether are all the names of those that have been, either christened, married, or buried since the beginning of her majesties reign newly written into the said parchment book: whether doth the Minister every sunday read the names publicly of those, that were either christened married, or buried the week before: whether have you a public chest with 3. locks for the minister, and the two churchwardens to keep the said book in: and whether have you brought a transcript of all the names of such as have been christened, married, and buried this last year into M. Blackwel my Register his office, as you are bound to do every year hereafter within a month after the feast of Easter by the constitutions last authorized by her Majesty.   

Articles concerning Ecclesiastical Officers.  
1 Whether the Chancellor Archdeacon, Commissarie Official, or any other using Ecclesiastical jurisdiction in this diocese, their Registers or Actuaries, Apparators, 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 respect.  
2 Whether doth the Chancellor, Commissaries, Archdeacon's or any other officials hear any matters of office, or correction privately in their chambers without the presence of the sworn Register or his deputy, or do discharge any man's penance for money, without the consent of the ●. Bishop, according to the last constitutions by her Majesty confirmed, or do send any writing under their own hands to your church, without the Registers presence at the doing of it, either for marriage of any couples, or for ending or ordering of any matter of office, correction, or penance.   

Articles concerning Schoolmasters.  
1 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 licenced for schoolmasters by the Ordinary or his officers in that behalf.  
2 Whether your Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters do themselves receive the holy communion as often as they ought to do, and whether they bring with them so many of their scholars as be of age sufficient, and of capacity by instruction to receive the Lords supper, or else be able to give testimony in what church their scholars do receive and hear public prayer.  
3 Whether your Schoolmaster or 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 prayer.  
4 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, or do teach any other catechism, and what catechism it is that they so do teach.  
5 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 her Majesty and her laws ecclesiastical by public authority allowed.  
6 Whether your schoolmaster or schoolmasters or any of them under presence of catechizing their scholars, which is a most godly order, carefully by them to be observed, do keep lectures, readings, or exposition in divinity in their houses, having continual repair unto them of people not being of their own family and household.  
7 Whether the schoolmaster or schoolmasters within your parish do teach his or their scholars any other grammar then that which is commonly called the king's grammar, set forth by the authority of King Henry the eight.   

Articles concerning parishioners and others of the Laity.  
1 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, and 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 the church wardens do quarterly deliver to the Archdeacon a note of all those who do not send their children & servants to be catechized  
3 Whether any do work or keep any shop open upon Saboth days, or upon any holidays appointed by the laws of this realm to be kept holiday, or use any work or labour, or open show of their wares in any of those days.  
4 Whether you yourselves or the Churchwardens in the years before you have suffered any unmarried women being begotten with child, to go out of your parish before she hath done penance, or any man defamed of whoredom to departed 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.  
5 Whether the parish Clarke be appointed according to the law, by the parson or vicar 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 choir, the communion table and the 〈◊〉 to be kept clean and decent against the service time, the communion, sermon, and baptism.  
6 Whether there be any person or persons ecclesiastical or temporal within your parish or elsewhere within this Diocese, that have retained and 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 or discipline of the church of England, now within this realm revived and established by common authority, and what their names and surnames are.  
7 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 & superstition or any Chalices, copes, vestments albs, or other ornaments of superstition, uncancelled or undefaced, which it is to be conjectured they do keep for a day, as they call it.  
8 Whether there be in your parish any popish or sectary recusant or recusants, which for any cause whatsoever forbear or dissuade and dehort others to come to Church to common prayer or to hear God's word preached, pretending it unlawful to come to our assemblies, as the church of England now standeth, established by her majesties authority, and what their several name or names are, and how long they have been recusants.  
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 hear other preachers.  
11 Whether all the people of your parish above 16. years of age, and especially householders, having no lawful excuse to be absent, do resort with their servants and children to their parish Church or Chapel on the holy days, 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 or holidays, 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 holiday in the time of common prayer, sermon, or reading of the homilies, or any of them either before or after noon.  
12 Whether the forfeiture of xii. pence for every time of absence from the church upon every sunday and holiday appointed by a statute made in the first year of the Queen's majesties reign to be levied and taken according to the same statute (the tenor whereof is set down in the beginning of this book) 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 fault it is?  
13 Whether there be in your parish who do receive into their houses, keep, harbour, or relieve, or which do resort to any popish priest, or which be noted or suspected to be seducers, and persuaders of others by their example or doctrine to popery or superstition, thereby to alienate the queens subjects from their due obedience and christian religion, now by law established in England.  
14 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 the sundays or holidays, or any Butchers or other 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 the Sundays, there be showing of any wares before morning prayer be done: and whether any markets & selling of wares be used or suffered in any churchyards on the Sabbath day by common packmen or peddlers going about, or any Butchers.  
15 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 to 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?  
16 Whether the churchwardens and sworn men, since the fourth day of August, 1597. 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 and 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.  
17 Whether your minister and you the churchwardens, or any other in your parish have in your revestries 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, under pretence of your vestry meetings.  
18 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.  
19 Whether there be any in your parish that doth 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 last 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, hiewayes, scholars, and such like, and by whom are they so detained. And whether any such legacies or goods, of what kind soever paid or delivered to any godly or public uses since the beginning of her majesties reign, be otherwise employed, and not in such sort, and to that end for the which they were given.  
20 Whether there be any in your parish, that since the fourth of August 1597. hath or doth offend contrary to the statute made in the seven and thirtieth year of the reign of King Henry the eight, for the reformation of usury, and revived by an Act made in the thirteenth year of the reign of the queens Majesty that now is, taking above the rate of ten pounds for the lending of an hundred pounds by the year, and what be the names of such offenders.  
21 Whether hath your minister or any of the 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 the Ecclesiastical laws only, and what be the names of the parties that have been so punished, and in what manner.  
22 Whether the Injunctions sent from my Lord's 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.  
23 whether there be any amongst you that do use sorcery or witchcraft punishable by the ecclesiastical laws, 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 council, and what be the names, both of such as use it, and of such as resort to them for help.  
24 Whether any couples that be married in private houses within these three years last passed have been known or suspected to have been married by any popish priest or otherwise, after any other order than is appointed by the church of England.  
25 whether there be among you any blasphemers of the name of God, great or often swearers, adulterers, fornicators, harlots or whoremasters 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 and fame touching such crimes and faults of drunkards, or ribawds, or any that be malicious, contentious, or uncharitable persons, railers, scolders, or sowers of discord between neighbours, and especially railers against ministers, and against their marriage.  
26 whether there be any in these parts that have been 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 cohabit and keep company still together, or any that being married without those degrees have unlawfully forsaken their wives or husbands, and married others, any man that hath two wives, or any woman that hath 2. husbands, any that being divorced or separated asunder, have married again, any that have married and 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.  
27 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: in the time of the Litany: when the ten Commandments are read, etc. And what are their names that have at any time showed themselves undutiful and unreverent in this behalf.  
28 Whether the minister and churchwardens have suffered any lord of misrule, or summer lord or ladies, or any disguised persons, any players, or maie-games, or any moris dancers, at any time to come unreverently into the church or churchyard, and there to dance or play, or show themselves disguised in the time of common prayer, and what they be that commit such disorder, or that accompanied or maintained them, or any plays to be played in the church.  
29 Whether there be any married women or others within your parish, which after childbirth refuse or contemn to come to the church to give God thanks for their delivery, and to have the prayers publicly appointed in that behalf by the book of common prayer.  
30 Whether any within your parish do resort unto barns, fields, woods, private houses, or to any extraordinary expositions of scriptures, or conferences together, and do (as it were) make a several church or sect unto themselves, and be drawers or persuaders of others to any such schismatical or damnable sects, and in whose houses, or what places have you heard of any such meeting.  
31 Whether any do keep their children unbaptized longer than is convenient, unless 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.  
32 Whether any notorious recusant who obstinately refuseth to be partaker with the church of England in public prayer, and hearing of the word of God preached, who is for his disobedience and contempt excommunicated, and so dieth excommunicate, be buried in christian burial, not having before his death sought to be absolved, and testified the same his submission to some honest and discreet man, who shall upon his oath signify to the Bishop of the Diocese, whereby his Lordship may give order to the Ordinary, before whom he was excommunicate for his absolution.  
The second bills, and in them the names are to be set down of all such as have been buried at any time since the seventh day of August 1598., and likewise of such as have been married by any licence, with the names of those who granted the licence ever since the said seventh of August, they are to be brought into Master blackwell's office in ivy lane, being the principal Register to the Lord Bishop of London betwixt the 26. of November next, and the 4. of December then following, if there be not any other place appointed at his Lordship's sitting in Visitation to bring them unto.