ARTICLES ❧ To be inquired of, within the Archdeaconry of Midlesex, by the Churchwardens & Sworne-men in every Parish. And presentment to be made thereof to the archdeacon.  
With particular Answers unto every Article  
LONDON Printed by EDW: ALLDE. 1615.   

The tenor of the Oath ministered to the Churchwardens and Sworne-men.  
YE shall swear, that all affections, favour, hatred, hope of reward, or 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 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 in Christ jesus.   

¶ Articles to be inquired of within the Archdeaconarie of Midlesex, for this present year of our Lord God. 1615.  

Articles concerning the Church.  
whether have you in your several Churches and chapels the Book of Constitutions or Canons Ecclesiastical, ready to be read by your Minister, according to his majesties pleasure, published by his highness authority under the great Seal of England.  
2 Whether is there in your Church or Chapel, one parchment register Book, provided for christenings, Marriages, and Burials: and whether is the same duly and exactly kept, according to the Constitutions in that case provided, and a transcript thereof brought in yearly within one month after Easter, into my Lord Bishops principal Registers office? and whether doth your Minister upon every Sunday read the names of all such as have been married, christened, or buried the week before?  
3 Whether have you provided the Book of Common Prayer lately commanded by his majesties authority only to be used, and the Book of Homilies, and two Psalters: and whether have you in your Church or Chapel a Font of stone, set up in the ancient usual place: a convenient and decent Communion table standing upon a frame, with a Carpet of silk, or some other decent stuff: and a fair Linen cloth to lay thereon at the Communion time: and whether is the same then placed in such convenient sort within the Chancel or Church, as that the Minister may be best heard in his Prayer and administration, and that the greater number may communicate: and whether are the ten Commandments set up on the East end of your Church or Chapel, where the people may best see and read them, and other sentences of holy Scriptures written on the walls likewise for the same purpose?  
4 Whether have you a convenient seat for the 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 Surples, a 〈◊〉 Communion Cup of Silver, and a cover agreeable for the same, with all other things and ornaments necessary for the celebration of divine Service, and administration of the Sacraments, and a strong chest for the alms of the poor, with three locks and keys, and another chest for the keeping of the ornaments of the Church, and Register Book.  
5 How many Bells are there at this present, hanging in the Belfrée of your parish Church, and how many have there been heretofore: whether any of your said Bells have been taken down and sold, or made away: and what other Church goods are now wanting in your Church.  
6 Whether are your Church or chapels with the chancels thereof, and your Parsonage or Vicarage house, and all other housing thereto belonging, in good reparations, and decently and comely kept, aswell within as without: the seats well maintained, your Churchyards well fenced, and kept without abuse, according to the 85. Canon: if not, then through whose default, and what defects are? All these things in these Articles to be prepared, according to the Canons under the title appertaining to Churches.   

Articles concerning the Clergy.  
whether hath your Minister read the Constitutions set forth by his Majesty, once every year, upon some Sundays or Holidays, in the afternoon, before divine service: according as by the Canons he is bound?  
2 Whether doth your Minister use to pray for the King's Majesty, King james, and for the queens Majesty, Prince Charles, Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhine, with the Lady Elizabeth his Wife, giving unto his highness such style and title of Supreme Governor of all causes, and over all persons, as well Ecclesiastical as temporal, as by law are due unto him, exhorting their Parishioners to yield him obedience according to the same, and also in their said Sermons, do pray for all Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ecclesiastical persons, according to the 55. Canon.  
3 Whether is the prescript form of divine service used by your Minister upon Sundays, Holidays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, according to the book of Common prayer. And whether doth your Minister duly observe all the orders, rites, and ceremonies prescribed in the said book of Common Prayer: as well in reading public prayers, the Litany, as also in administering the Sacraments in such manner and form, wearing the Surples, as by the book of Common Prayer by law now established is enjoyed.  
4 Whether doth your Minister administer the holy Communion so often, and at such times as that every Parishioner may receive the same, at the least thrice every year, whereof one at Easter, as by the book of Common Prayer is appointed. And whether doth your Minister receive the same himself on every day that he administereth it to others, kneeling at the same, and administereth it to none but to such as do knéels at the receiving thereof, and use the words of the Institution according to the Book, at every time that the bread and wine is received, in such manner and form as by the proviso of the 21. Canon is directed, or wherein is he faulty, and whether is warning given by him before hand for the Commuion, as the 22. Canon requireth.  
5 Whether hath your Minister admitted any notorious offenders, or schismatics to the Communion: contrary to the 26. and 27. Constitutions, without satisfaction by due course of law before enjoined them; or rejected any from the Communion, who were not by public presentment, or other open scandal, infamous, and detected of some notorious crime by common fame published in the Parish.  
6 Whether the Minister, together with the Churchwardens and Questmen, do take diligent heed and care, that not only all and every of your own Parishioners do receive thrice in every year, as aforesaid: but also that no strangers of any other Parish do forsake their own Minister and Parish, to receive with you, contrary to the 28. Canon.  
7 Whether doth your Minister use to sign the Children with the sign of the Cross when they are baptised, according to the book of Common Prayer, and the 30. Canon: and whether he hath deferred, or wilfully refoled to baptise any infant in his Parish being in danger, having been only infor●● the weakness thereof, and whether the child hath died by him default without baptism, contrary to the 68 and 69. Canons.  
8 Whether is your Minister continually resident with you upon his benefice: or for how long time hath he been absent, and where is he resident for the most part, and what other be 〈…〉.  
9 Whether doth ydl●● Minister being a Preacher; preach usually according to the constitutions, either in his own thee with your once every sunday or else in some other Church or Chapel near adjoining, where no Preacher is, according to the 45. Canon, or how hath he been negligent in that behalf.  
10 Whether is your Minister a Preacher allowed if yea, then by whom: if no, whether doth he procure Sermons to be preached among you once in every month at the least, by such as are lawfully licenced, according to the 46. Canon, or doth contribute toward a licenced Preacher, if his living will bear it.  
11 Whether hath your Minister another benefice: and whether doth he supply his absence by a Curate, that is sufficiently licenced to preach in that cure of his, whereon he himself is not resident: or otherwise in case he do not find a preaching Minister there, by reason of the smallness thereof, whether doth he preach at both his benefices usually himself, according to the 47. Canon?  
12 Whether is your Preacher or Curate licenced to preach or serve the Cure, by the Bishop of this Diocese, or by any other, and by whom: whether doth your Minister or Curate serve more cures than one, contrary to the 48. Canon. If yea, then what other cure doth he also serve?  
13 If your Minister be not licenced to preach as aforesaid, whether doth he read Homilies, or rather take upon him to expound the Scriptures either in his own cure or else where contrary to the 49. Canon: If yea, than you are to present him; and spot me the place where he so hath preached.  
14 Whether hath any person been admitted to preach within your Church or Chapel, but such as you have well known to be sufficiently licenced: whom have you so admitted? you shall present their names, and how often have any such been admitted to preach, and by whose procurement: and whether have you caused every strange Preacher, licenced or not licenced, to subscribe his name, together with the day when he preached, according to the 50. and 51. Canons: and if he were licenced, then by whom he was licenced: And whether have they or any other preached in your Church not being soberly and decently appareled according to the 47. Canon.  
15 Whether doth your Lecturer and Preacher read divine Service, and administer the Sacraments in his own person twice every year, observing all the Ceremonies in the book of Common Prayer established according to the 56. Canon.  
16 Whether doth your Minister wear the Surples whilst he is saying the public prayers, and administering the Sacraments: And if he be any Graduate, whether then doth 〈◊〉 we are upon his Surples, during the times aforesaid, such a hood, as by the ●●ders of his University is agreeable to his degree, according to than 58. Canon.  
17 Whether doth your Minister 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 the Articles of belief, and the Lords Prayer, as also in the Catechism last set forth in the book of Common prayer, whereby the childs of the Parish may be prepared for confirmation, according to the 90. Canon.  
18 Whether hath your Minister without licence from the Archbishop, the Bishop of the Diocese, or his Chancellor, or without Licence under the seal of office of the Archdeacon or his Official, solemnized marriage betwixt any parties, the Banes not being three several Sundays or Holly-dayes first published in time of divine service, in the several Churches or Chapels of their several abode, according to the book of common Prayer, And the 62. Canon: and that also betwixt the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon, contrary to the 102. Canon. And whether hath your minister in the times prohibited married, any without such Licence, notwithstanding the banes have been asked, as you do know, believe, or have heard say.  
19 Whether hath your Minister, since the last Canons published, solemnized any marriage betwixt any persons, being under the age of 21. years, although the Banes be thrice asked, before such time as the parents have made known unto him their consent thereunto, contrary to the 99 and 100 Canons: and whether hath he married any of another Diocosse, and who are they, and by what authority, and when.  
20 Whether doth your Minister upon Sundays at morning prayer, declare unto the Parishioners what holy days and fasting days are appointed to be kept the week following, according to the 64. Canon, whereby they may be put in mind to prepare themselves accordingly, and to repair to the Church to public prayer, as by law they are bound.  
21 Whether doth your Minister in the Rogation days, use the perambulation of the circuit of the parish appointed by law, and in the same perambulation, move the people to give thanks to God for his benefits using such Psalms, Prayers, Homilies, as are to that end set forth.  
22 Whether doth any man (being neither Minister nor Deacon) read Common-prayer openly in your Church or Chapel, or administer the Sacrament of Baptism, or solemnize Matrimony, or take upon him to practise any other ministerial duty in the Church, that is prescribed to be executed particularly by such, as are either Ministers, or Deacons, and what is his name that so doth.  
23 Whether doth your Minister every six months denounce in his parish, all such of his parish, as do persever in the sentence of excommunication, not seeking to be absolved: and whether hath he admitted any person excommunicate, into the Church, without a Certificate of his absolution from the Ordinary or other competent judge, under his seal, according to the Canons.  
24 Whether doth your Minister being a Preacher, endeavour and labour diligently with mildness and temperance to confer with, and thereby to reclaim the Popish Recusants in his parish from their errors, if there be any such there being: and whether is he painful in visitation of the sick, according to the book of Common-prayer, and the Canons in that case provided.  
25 Whether is your Parson, Vicar, Lecturer, or Curate too much frequent or over conversant with, or a favourer or Recusants, whereby he may be suspected not to be sincere in Religion.  
26 Whether hath your Minister, or any other, taking upon him the place of a Minister, preached, baptised children (unless in case of necessity) solemnized marriage, churched any woman, or ministered the holy Communion in any private house or houses: if yea, then where, whom, and how often hath he so offended in any of the premises.  
27 Whether hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint any public or private fasts or prophesses, not approved and established by law or public authority: or hath he attempted upon any pretence either of possession, by fasting and prayer to cast out devils, contrary unto the 72. Canon.  
28 Whether hath your Minister, or any other person or persons within your Parish used to meet in any private house or other place, and to hold private conventicles, contrary to the 73. Canon: if yea, than you shall present them all and every one of them.  
29 Whether doth your Minister use such decency and comeliness in his apparel, as by the 74. constitution is enjoined him, as well at home as when he goeth abroad.  
30 Whether do you know in your Parish, any that having heretofore taken upon him or them, the order of Priesthood or of a Deacon, hath since relinquished the same, and betaken himself to the course of his life, a Lay-man, neglecting his vocation: if yea, than you shall present his name and the place of his abode.  
31 Whether is your Minister noted or defamed to have obtained his Benefice by Simony, or reputed to be an incontinent person, or doth keep any man or woman in his house, that are suspected either to be of evil religion, or bad life, himself to be a common drunkard, or to be a common hunter of Taverns, Alchouses, or other suspected places, a common gamester or player at dice, or other unlawful games, a common swearer, or notorious person, or faulty in any other crime punishable by Ecclesiastical censures, whereby he is offensive and scandalous to his function or ministry.  
32 Whether doth your Minister use the form of thanksgiving to women after their childbirth, and whether hath he admitted any thereunto that was begotten with child in adultery or fornication, without licence of his Ordinary, and whether have any married wives refused to come to Church, according to the book of Common Prayer, to give God thanks after childbirth: if any be faulty herein, you shall present their names.  
33 Whether doth your Minister baptise any children in any Basin, or other vessels, then in the ordinary Font being placed in the Church, according to the 81. Canon or doth use to put any basin into it.  
34 Whether in the time of divine Service, and of ever part thereof, all due reverence is used: no man then covering his head, all manner of persons kneeling when Prayers are read, and standing up at the saying of the Belief, according to the order prescribed.   

Articles concerning Schoolmasters.  
whether the Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters within your Parish, openly or privately, in any Noble or Gentleman's house, or in any other place, be of good and sincere Religion life and conversation, & be diligent in the teaching and bringing up of youth: and whether they have been examined, allowed and licenced for Schoolmasters, by the Ordinary in that behalf: and how many several Schoolmasters have you, and what be their names.  
2 Whether your Schoolmaster, or Schoolmasters do themselves receive the holy Communion as often as they ought to do: and whether do all their Scholars, which be of age sufficient, and or capacity, by instruction, to receive the Lords Supper, come to the Communion either in your Church, or where their Parents dwell, once every year, and be diligent to fear Common Prayer.  
3 Whether the Schoolmaster, or School masters, either private or public, do teach their Scholars the Catechism authorized by public authority, at the least once every week, and do instruct & examine them in the same, or do teach any other Catechism, and what Catechism it is that they do teach.  
4 Whether your Schoolmaster, or Schoolmasters, or any of them be known or suspected to read unto their Scholars privately, any unlawful Books, or privately to instruct them in their young years, either in Popery, superstition, disobedience, or contempt to his Majesty, and his Laws Ecclesiastical by public authority allowed.  
5 What recusant Papists are there in your Parish, and whether do they, or any of them keep any School master in their house, which cometh not to Church to hear Divine Service, and receive the Communion: what is his name, and how long hath he taught.  
6 Whether the Schoolmaster, or Schoolmasters within your Parish, do teach his or their Srhollers any other Grammar, then that which is called the King's Grammar, set forth by the authority of King Henry the eight, teaching the prescript form thereof, whereby the Scholars may perfectly understand their Grammar rules and constructions.   

Articles concerning Parishioners, Ecclesiastical Officers and others of the laity.  
1 whether is there any within your Parish, that hath, or doth impugn the King's majesties supremacy and authority in causes Ecclesiastical, or do any way, or in any part impeach the same, being restored to the Crown by the laws of this Realm established on that behalf.  
2 Whether is there any in your parish that denieth the Church of England by law established under the Kings most excellent Majesty to be a true & Apostolical Church, teaching & maintaining the doctrine of the Apostles.  
3 Whether is there any in your Parish, that doth impugn any of the Articles of Religion agreed upon in An. 1562. & established in the Church of England.  
4 Whether is there any in your Parish that do impugn or speak against the rites and ceremonies established in the Church of England, or the lawful use of them: you shall present their names.  
5 Whether are there any in your Parish that do impugn the government of the Church of England, under the Kings most excellent Majesty, by Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Archdeacon's, and the rest that bear office in the same, affirming that he same is Antichristian, or repugnant to the word of God.  
6 Whether is there any in your parish that impugn the form of consecration and ordaining of Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, or Deacons, affirming that the same is repugnant to the word of God, or that they, who are so ordered in the same form, are not lawfully made.  
7 Whether is there any in your parish that doth hold or frequent any conventicles, or private meetings, and there do confer or agree upon any private orders, other than such as are by the Canons set forth by public authority, to be by them or any other in Church government observed.  
8 Whether any persons have lurked or tippled in Taverns or Ale houses on Sundays, or other Holy days, or used his, or their manual craft, trade, or mystery, or any bodily labour, or kept their shops open upon the said days, or any of them, especially in the time of divine service?  
9 Whether are there any in your parish that do, or have profaned (since his majesties last general pardon) the Lord's day, called Sunday, or other Holiday, contrary to the orders of the Church of England, prescribed in that behalf?  
10 Whether hath any person in your parish quarreled, stricken, or used any violence unto, or with your Minister, or any other in the Church or Church yard, or used himself disorderly in the Church, by filthy and profane talk, or any other rude and immodest behaviour?  
11 Whether is that due reverence and humble submission, used within your Church or Chapel in the time of divine Service, as by the eighteenth Constitution is prescribed? and whether each one in the Church or Chapel, do apply and order himself there in the time of divine Service, as by the latter part of the same Constitution is most commendably enjoined?  
12 Whether the Churchwardens and questmen do every Sunday and Holiday diligently search who absenteth himself, or herself from Church? and whether do they suffer any to abide in the Church-porch, or Churchyard, in the time of Common prayer or Sermon?  
13 Whether the Churchwardens do provide against every Communion, with the advice of the Minister, a sufficient quantity of fine white bread, and of good & wholesome wine, for the number of the Communicants that shall receive, & that to be brought in a clean and sweet standing Pot of Pewter, or other pure metal?  
14 Whether have any in your parish been God fathers or Godmothers to their own children? Or whether your Minister, or any Godfathers or Godmothers have used, or do use any other form, answer, or speech in Baptism, then is in the Book of Common prayer appointed? Or whether any which have not Communicated, be admitted to be Godfathers, or Godmothers, contrary to the 29. Canone.  
15 Whether is there any in your parish that do refuse to have their children baptised, or themselves to receive the Communion at the hands of your Minister, because he is no Preacher? you shall present their names. And if your Minister, sithence the publishing of the said Book of Canons, have received any such persons (being not of his own Cure) to the Communion, or baptised any of their children, you shall likewise present him.  
16 Whether do all Fathers, Mothers, Masters, and Mistresses, cause their Children, Servants, and Apprentices, to come to the Catechism upon the Sundays and Holidays before evening prayer, to hear and to be instructed and taught therein? and those that do not their duties herein, you shall present their names.  
17 Whether have you, or your Predecessors Churchwardens there suffered, since the last pardon, any Plays, Feasts, Banquets, Church-ales, Drink, or any other profane usages to be kept in your Church, Chapels, or Church, yard, or Bells to be rung superstitiously upon Holidays, or eves, abrogated by the Book of Common Prayer, contrary to the 68 Canon?  
18 How many Inhabitants within your Parish, Men, or Women, above the age of sixteen years, do refuse to frequent divine service, established by public authority of this Realm, or to receive the holy Communion, or are negligent therein? what be their names, and of what degree, state, or trade of life are they? you are to present them all of each sort.  
19 Whether do any of the Inhabitants within your said Parish entertain within their house any sojourners, ledgers, or any common resorters and guests, who refuse to frequent divine Service, or receive the holy Communion, as aforesaid? what be their names, and of what quality or condition are they?  
20 whether any of the said Popish Recusants be of insolent behaviour, not without public offence, or do boldly busy themselves in seducing, or withdrawing others, either abroad or in their own families, by instructing their children in Popish religion, or by refusing to entertain any, especially in place of greatest service or trust, but such as concur with them in opinion of Religion: and what be their names that so do?  
21 How long the said Popish Recusants have obstinately abstained either from divine Service, or from the Communion, as is aforesaid, whether of any long time, or only since his majesties reign, and how long?  
22 What persons aforesaid within your Parish, either for the offence aforesaid, or for any other contumacy or crime, do remain excommunicated? what be their names? and for what cause? and how long have they so stood excommunicated?  
23 Whether were you the Church wardens and questmen chosen by the consent of the Minister and Parishioners, in Easter week, according unto the 89. and 90. Canon. And whether have the Churchwardens before you given up a just account for their time, and delivered to you their successors, whatsoever money or other thing of right belonging to the Church, which was in their hands: according to the 89. Canon.  
24 Whether do all persons above the age of sixteen yoores, usually resort to hear divine Service upon Sundays and Holidays approved? and whether hath each one of your Parishioners (being above the age of sixteen years, as aforesaid) received the holy Communion thrice this last year, chiefly once at Easter, in your Parish Church kneeling? If no, than you shall present their name which have not so done.  
25 Whether have you a fit Parish Clarke, aged twenty years at the least, of honest conversation, and sufficient for reading and writing? and whether he be paid his wages without fraud, according to the most ancient custom of your Parish? if not, then by whom is he so defrauded and denied? and whether he be chosen by the Parson or Vicar, or by whom, according to the 91. Canon?  
26 Whether have any in your Parish been married within the prohibited degrees forbidden by the law, and expressed in a certain Table published by authority in Anno. 1563. If yea, than you shall present their names? and whether have you the said Table publicly set up in your Church, and fastened to some convenient place?  
27 Whether doth any heretofore divorced, or married and not divorced, keep company at bed and board as man and wife, with any other man or woman, then with the person that he or she was married unto? and what be their names? If the parties now so living together, say that they be married, when and where were they married? and how long have they so continued together?  
28 Whether have you in your Parish to your knowledge, or by common fame and report, any which have committed Adultery, Fornication, or Incest, or any Bawds, harbourers, or receivers of such persons, or publicly suspected thereof, which have not been publicly punished to your knowledge? if yea, then with whom? And whether are there any which are by common fame and report reputed and taken to be common Drunkards, Blasphemers of Gods holy Name, common and usual swearers, filthy speakers, railers, sowers of discord among their Neighbours, or speakers against Ministers marriages: Usurers, contrary to the Statute made in the seven and thirtieth year of King Henry the eight, simonical persons, fighters, brawlers, or quarrelers in Church or Church-yard? you shall not fail to present their names.  
29 Whether have any in your Parish received or harboured any woman gotten with child out of wedlock, and suffered them again to departed without penance first inflicted upon them by their Ordinary? you shall truly present as well the party harbouring as harboured, and who is sufpected to have committed incontinency with her.  
30 Whether any person or persons suspected or detected heretofore of incontinency, and therefore departing out of your Parish for a season, is now returned again? or in what place else is he or she now abiding to your knowledge, or as you have heard? you shall not fail to present the whole truth in that behalf.  
31 Whether there be any person or persons Ecclesiastical or Temporal within your Parish, or elsewhere within the Diocese, that have retained and kept in their custody, or that read, sell, utter, disperse, carry, or deliver to others any English or Latin Books, or Libels, set forth or printed, either on this side or beyond the Seas, by Papists or Sectaries against the King's Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical; or tending to Popery, Puritanisme, or any other Sect, Error, or Heresy, against true Religion, and Catholic doctrine, now publicly professed in this Church, or the government or discipline of the Church of England, now within this Realm received and established by common authority, that you know or have heard of, what their names and sir names are?  
32 Whether there be any in your Parish who are known or suspected to conceal, or keep hidden in their houses any Mass Books, Portesses, Breviaries, or other Books of Popery or superstition: or any Chalices, Copes, Vestments, Albes, or other ornaments of superstition, uncancelled, or undefaced, which is to be conjectured that they do keep for a day, as they call it.  
33 Whether any of your Parishioners, having a Preacher to their Parson, Vicar, or Curate, do absent themselves from his Sermons, and resort to any other place to hear other Preachers.  
34 Whether there be any Inne-kéepers, Alewives, Victuallers, or tipplers, that suffer or do admit any person, or persons in their houses, to eat, drink, or play at Dice, Cards, Tables, Bowls, or such like games, in the time of Common prayer or Sermon, on Sundays or Holidays: Or any Butchers, or 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 Sundays, there be 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 pack-men and peddlers going about, or any Butchers?  
35 Whether hath your Minister, or any of the parish, without the consent or privity of the Ordinary, caused any to do penance, or to be punished either openly or otherwise, by any Vestry meetings, or taken money 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?  
36 Whether there be any in your parish who will come to hear the Sermon, but will not come to the public prayer, appointed by the Book of common prayer, making a schism or division (as it were) between the use of public prayer and preaching? and whether there be any who being present at public prayer, do not devoutly and humbly kneel upon their knees, at such times as by the Book of common prayer they are appointed: to wit, when they make a general confession of their sins: when all Prayers and Collects are read: in the time of the Litany: when the ten Commandments are read: & at the receiving of the holy Communion, etc. And what be their names that have at any time showed themselves undutiful and unreverent in that behalf?  
37 Whether there be any married women, or others within your parish, which after childbirth refuse, contemn, or neglect, to come to the Church to give God thanks for their safe delivery, & to have the prayers publicly appointed in that behalf by the Book of common prayer?  
38 Whether any within your parish do resort into Barnes, Fields, Woods, private houses, to any extraordinary exposition of Scriptures, or conferences together, or that be drawers or persuaders of others to any such schismatical conventicle.  
39 Whether any do keep their children unbaptized longer than is convenient, unless that it be for the sickness of the child, or other urgent occasion? And whether any do carry their child or children from the parish they are borne in, to other parishes to be baptised, and so refuse their own parish, and to what other parish? or do bring strange Ministers into their own houses to baptise their children privately, according to their own fantasies?  
40 Item, (Setting down the full sum of the Communicants within your Parish) you shall present every one who hath been defective at this feast of Easter last passed, in receiving the holy Communion upon neglect, contempt, or any other pretence and excuse.  
41 Whether do you know of any other matter of Ecclesiastical cognizance worthy the presentment, in your judgement, heretofore in these Articles not expressed, and which is fit to be reform in Ecclesiastical censure? If you do, you shall likewise present the same by virtue of your oaths.  
42 Whether hath your Minister kept any Excommunication in his custody unpublished against any of his Parishioners, above the space of xx. days next after the receipt thereof, without some lawful certificate of the absolution of any such excommunicate person, or of some lawful warrant for the stay of the same Excommunication.  
43 Whether hath your Minister admitted any excommunicate person to the holy Communion before he hath received a certificate of the absolution of the same party: And whether have you permitted any excommunicate person either of your own parish or of any other parish, to hear divine Service in your parish Church, since the time you look upon you the office of Church wardens within your said parish? If yea, set down the names of the same parties.  
44 Whether hath your Minister absolved any excommunicate person or persons of your parish, or of any other parish within the Archdeaconey of Essex, within the space of a year last passed, without a special warrant in writing under the hands of the judge and Register of this Court, or of one of them? If yea, what are the names of such person or persons which he hath so absolved.  
45 Whether hath your Minister, yourselves, or your predecessors Churchwardens of your parish for the year last passed, presented any person or persons of your said parish to the Chancellor of the reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of London (saving in the Visitation of the said Lord Bishop,) And whether hath your Minister, yourselves, or your predecessors Churchwardens of your said parish, for the year last passed, presented any person or persons to the Commissary of the said reverend Father in God? If yea, what are the names of such person or persons which you or they have so presented, and for what cause did you or they present any such person or persons.   

Articles to be inquired of, by the Minister, Churchwardens, & Sworne-men of every Parish within the Archdeaconry of Midlesex, according to the special direction of certain letters heretofore sent to the Lord Bishop of London, from the right Honourable the Lords of the Privy Counsel.  
IN primis, Whether there be any in your Parish, either Parishioners, Sojourners, or such as be late come out of other Countries into your Parish, which do refuse to come to divine Service to the Parish Church, or elsewhere: and what be their names, and surnames, and how long they have refused so to do.  
2 Item, How many of their wives and children above the age of sixteen years, servants and other sojourners, abiding in their houses, do likewise refuse so to do: and what be their names and surnames, and how long they have refused so to do?  
3 Item, Whether there be any in your Parish, which be suspected to have been reconciled to the Popish Religion, or to have been absolved, or any that procured or counseled any thereunto: and what be their names and surnames.  
4 Item, Whether there be any in your Parish which be suspected to be Massing Priests, Reconcilers, jesuits, Seminaries, or other persons, which have received any orders or authority from the Romish Church, to use the like: and what be their names and surnames.  
5 Item, Whether there be any Schoolmasters within your Parish, which do not bring up their youth in the Religion now professed, or be not themselves diligent in repairing to divine Service, or bringing their Scholars to it?   

Articles concerning Parishioners.  
IN every Parish where any manner of person dwelleth or sojourneth, which refuseth to go to some Church to hear divine Service: the Minister and Churchwardens of that Parish are commanded every month from henceforth, to go to every such person with two or three honest witnesses, and before those witnesses, to require every such person to repair to the Church to hear Divine Service. And the said Minister and Churchwardens are commanded to send a Certificate in writing signed with the hands, marks, and seals of the said Minister, Churchwardens, and witnesses, to their Archdeacon, always on the tenth day before Midsummer day: on the tenth day before Michaelmas day: on the tenth day before Christmas day: and on the tenth day before our Lady day in Lent. So as return of such certificate may be made in time to the Custos rotulorum at every Sessions next ensuing those Feasts, testifying as well the manner and time of their admonishments of such Recusants whatsoever they be, as their answers. And when and whither they went to Church every month, after such admonition given to them, as aforesaid. Or whether any such person hath wilfully withdrawn himself from taking or understanding such admonition: and also declaring the names, surnames, and abiding places of every one that shall offend in any part or clause of the above written Articles. This every Minister and Churchwarden is straitly charged to show his diligence in, and effectually to do, as they and every of them shall and will answer to the contrary, at their perils.  
You shall bring your Presentment into the registry of the Arcdeaconrie of Midlesex, ten days before every quarter, specifying the proper & surname, title, and addition of every person presented, and how many months they have refused to come to divine Service to their Parish Church, or elsewhere, before the day of making your Presentment. And at the delivery of your said Presentment you shall likewise set down, in the latter end thereof, the names of such as have been buried within your said Parish for the space of a quarter of a year last passed before the date of your said Bill, being Men, Maids, or Widows.   
FINIS.