Articles to be answered of the Sworn men in the Archdeacon of London his visitation, holden the year. 1584. the 15. and 19 of januarie.  
INprimis, who is your Parson, or Vicar, and how long he hath continued with you, and whether you have any other, which do ordinarily preach, read, catechise or exercise any other function Ecclesiastical amongst you, what be their names and where they dwell.  
2. Whether your Parson or Vicar can preach, and Whether he have preached his quarterly Sermons in your Church in his own person: or if any can not preach, or be not licensed themselves, whether they have procured their quarter Sermons to be preached there. Item, whether beside these, they have preached or procured their monthly Sermons or no. And whether you have suffered any to preach, whom you have not known to have been sufficiently licenced thereunto, or hindered or forbidden any that were licenced.  
3. Whether your person, vicar, or curate, hath observed in doing divine service and ministering of Sacraments, the order set forth by act of Parliament, without putting in any thing of their own or taking away, or hath omitted the Litany on such days as it ought to be read, or else hath omitted the wearing of the Surplice in the time of their ministration, or no.  
4. Item whether your Parsons or Vicars be resident upon their benefice, and whether such as are not resident, give the fortieth part of their benefice, being above twenty pound a year, to the relief of the poor, or no.  
5. Whether any do read, preach, or catechize with you, who do not four times in the year, at the least, say divine service, and minister the sacraments according to the book of common prayer, and what be their names.  
6. Whether your preachers and others who be in ecclesiastical orders, do at all times wear and use such kind of apparel as is prescribed unto them by the book of Aduertissements, and her majesties Injunctions. Anno primo.  
7. Item whether your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, have given notice, and warning in due time in their church for the due keeping of all such fish days, as are to be kept through the year, by the Laws of this Realm, exhorting the people to due keeping of them, not upon any opinion of relgion or holiness, but upon their dutiful obedience to Princes, which by God's law is due to them, procuring the welfare of the Realms and countries committed to their charge. And also whether they have the first sondy of every month, given warning openly in the Church to such as be of their Parishes, of what estate soever they be, to repair to their parish Church in such sort as by the Laws of this Realm is appointed, upon pain to be presented for the same or no.  
8. Whether your Curate do serve in your Church not licenced and allowed by the Bishop, or other ordinary, under his seal, or hand at the least, or being beneficed else where, do serve with you as a Curate, or no.  
9 Whether any Farmer of any benefice, take upon him to admit or reject any minister, to serve or not serve where he is Farmer, without the authority of the Ordinary, or no.  
10. Item, whether since the last visitation, your parish Clerk, or any other, not being minister, or Deacon, or not being licenced by the Ordinary, have taken: upon them to begin or say service, or minister any Sacraments, or distribute the Lords cup, or read the Homely in your Parish & what be their names.  
11. Item what persons you have in your parish, that do teach & instruct children, and what be the said schoolmasters names, whether they teach publicly or privately in any man's house, & whether such Schoolmasters as do teach the Latin tongue in your parish, do read unto their Scholars twice every week at the least, an ordinary Lecture out of the Latin Catechism, lately set forth, and allowed by public authority: And whether such as teach youth to read English, do bring up their children in reading this Catechism in English, and of other Books agreeable to the queens proceedings. And whether they behave themselves honestly, and both repair to Church orderly themselves and so much as lieth in them, procure that their scholars also frequent the same.  
12. Item whether you do know, believe, or have heard say, that your Parson, Vicar or Curate, doth sue any of his parishioners, or any other person before any lay judge, contrary to the Ecclesiastical Laws of his Realm, and the Statute made 2. Edw. 6. for any cause of thithes, or other Ecclesiastical duties.  
13. Item whether such ground as in your Chansel or Church is broken up for burials, or otherwise, be decently made up again, and if it be not, by whose fault it lieth unmade up.  
14. Whether your Churchwardens do duly account once in the years before the Parson, Vicar or Curate, and the Parishioners, for all such Church goods and stokes of money thereunto belonging, as hath cone to their hands in the time of their office, or no.  
15. Item, whether you have a comely Communion table, with furniture there unto belonging, that is to know, a comely joined Table, a comely Carpet thereto, being no hearse cloth or pall for burials, a comfy table cloth, with two handsome Communion Cups, and a de●…t patent of silver, to minister the Lords bread upon, and also two comely pots of Pewter to fetch wine to serve for the lords Table, reserved & kept clean to that use only, being no Tavern pots, or no.  
16 Whether there be any in your Parish, that doth openly, courtely, or guilefully, by any sleight or colour, detain any tithe or duty due to your Parson, Vicar, Clerk, or any other Ecclesiastical officer, or no.  
17 Item whether the bread and wine for the communions all the year be provided by the Curate and Church 〈…〉 the charges of the parish according to the book of common prayer and whether the same be truly collected of the parishioners and be bestowed according to the same use of bread and wine only, or no.  
18. Item whither any parishioners taxed or rated to pay towards the said bread or wine at the said Communions do at any time refuge to pay their portions once a year unto the Churchwardens or their deputies when it is demanded, or no.  
19 Whether your Churchwardens do collect and gather at every Communion, the offering of the communicants and after the Communion do put the same in the poor men's chest as it is appointed by the book of common prayer. and whether the said collection, or any part thereof, be employed to any other use, then to the relief of the poor, and what the same use is.  
20. Whether there be any that do let or disturb the Minister, in the time of reading the divine service, or the preacher while he is in the pulpit, or no.  
21. Whether there be any in your Parish that either obstinately refuge or by negligence do not frequent in holy days & Sundays your parish Church, to hear divine service, or hath not, being of lawful age & having no other lawful impediment received the Holy Communion thrice this year, and what be their names.  
22. Item you shall present so near as you can learn how the children of such as refuse to come to Church, are brought up, under what School master or Tutor, where and in what school. And also you shall diligently inquire of all recusant or not recusant, as have any of their children beyond the seas, and present who they be, and where their said children remain as far as you know, believe or have heard say.  
23. And whether any persons being excommunicated, and not reconciled, or young folk that can not say the Catechism, or elderly folk that cannot say the lords prayer, the belief, and the ten commandments in the English tongue, or being stained with any notorious vice, have presumed to receive the holy Communion, and have been admitted thereunto, or no.  
24. Item, whether there hath or doth any stranger sojourn at any Inn, or other house in your Parish, at or about Easter, and hath continued there any long season at other times of the year, & hath not resorted to your church, & communicated there, who they be and what be their names.  
25. Whether any of your Parish hath detained their child or children from Baptism in their own Parish church, or have carried the same to be baptised in any other place, who they be, and what be their names.  
26. Whether there be any banquets or common drinkings, interludes, or plays kept in your Church or chapel or no.  
27. Whether any Artificer hath or doth follow their work or science, or handicraft on the sunday, as Goldsmith, tailor, Clothworker or such like And whether they or any other Artificer do so occupy themselves, their servants or apprentices, on that day or no.  
28. Item whether there be any man or woman in your Parish, that suppresseth & fulfilleth not the last will and testament of the dead, or defeateth the children or other of their legacies or portions: or if any executor or executrix, administrator or administrators, do unjustly withhold any gift, or be quest made to any poor or impotent persons to hospitals and poor prisoners, either of this City or else where, to poor scholars, maidens marriages, the mending of the high ways and bridges, or to any good and godly use and purpose or no.  
29. Item whether there be any in your Parish infected with any notorious vice, as whoredom open or secret maintainers thereof, or any that doth hanntany suspected houses, any persons married within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity forbidden, or any person being lawfully married that lives slanderously a sunder or any that were married without banes three times orderly asked, having no lawful dipensation therefore, or hath married again, their old wives or husbands being yet alive showing both the names of them that so were married, and the minister that so married them: any adulterers, swearers, drunkards, slanderers of their neighbours, or any other like vice, or no.  
30. Item, whether any do use any conventicles or meetings, handling or expounding of scriptures in any private house or place, other then in the common Church, who they be, where and when they own.  
31. Item, whether you do know, that within your parish there is (or are) any person or persons notoriously known or suspected by probable tokens or common fame, to be an usurer, or doth offend by any colour or means directly or indirectly in the same, if any such he, that you and every of you, by virtue of your oath present the name or names of such offender or offenders.  
32. Item whether your Bible or service books to do you common service on be whole, not torn rent, nor blind, and whether the same be of that translation which is authorised by consent of the Bishops of this Realm or no.  
33. Item, whether you have afitte book of paper, to write in all christenings, burials, and weddings, done in your Parish: whether your parson Vicar, or Curate, do diligently note in that Book once in the week, the said christenings, burials, and weddings, in the presence of the Churchwardens or of one of them: and whether the said book be safely kept under locks and keys: whether the Parson, Vicar, or Curate hath one, and the Churchwardens another or no.  
34. Item whether any householder in your parish do suffer any plays or games in his house or yard or let any people in, to the end to see any such plays or games, on any sunday or holy day before evening prayer be clean done in that Parish, who they be and what be their names.  
35. Ithem whether you know any matter Ecclesiastical worthy of redress in your Parish beside these that are set down before, or no.  
You are to bring your answer to all these Articles into Master God's office on the 12. February 1584. also the 15. of March next, the 15. of june, and the 15. of September following because reformation may be bad of such offences as shallbe by you presented for many escape unpresented, because you present but once a year.   

Imprinted at London by I, W. for Nicholas Ling.