The Form of the Oath to be administered to the Churchwardens and Sworne-men.  
YOu shall swear, that all hope of gain, fear and affection set aside, you make true presentment of all such parties as have offended against these Articles, or are vehemently suspected, famed or reported so to have offended: So help you God, and the Contents of the holy Gospels.  
God save the KING.   

Concerning the Church of England.  
ARe there any in your Parish that being Popishly affected, do derogate from his Majesty's supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical? & who be they?  
2 Are there any in your Parish that out of factious and schismatical spirits do affirm that this Church of England by law established under the King's Majesty, is not a true and Apostolical Church, teaching and maintaining the doctrine of the Apostles?  
3 Are there any in your parish that affirm that the form of God's worship in the Church of England, established by the law, and contained in the book of Common prayer, & administration of Sacraments, is a corrupt, superstitious, or unlawful worship of God, or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures?  
4 Are there any in your Parish that affirm that any of the 39 Articles agreed upon by the Arch-Bishops, and Bishops of both provinces, and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London, Anno Dom. 1562. are in any part superstitious or erroneous or such as with good conscience they may not subscribe unto?  
5 Are there any in your Parish that affirm that the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, by Law established are wicked, Antichristian or superstitious, or such as being commanded by lawful authority, men that are zealously and godlily affected, may not with good conscience approve them, use them, or subscribe unto them?  
6 Are there any in your parish that affirm, that the government of the Church of England under his Majesty by Arch-Bishops, Bishops, Deans, Arch-deacons and the rest that bear office in the same is Antichristian or repugnant to the word of God?  
7 Are there any in your parish that impugn the form or manner of making and consecrating Bishops Priests or deacons, used in the Church of England?  
8 Are there in your Parish, any Schismatical Separatists, new combined brotherhoods, depravers of such as conform themselves to the doctrine, government, rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, or any secret maintainers and favourers of such separatists and new brotherhoods? Are there any Corner Conventicles, or any that maintain or favour or defend them? Are there any such factious people in your parish, that disliking the government of the Church of England, take upon themselves the name of Church, and make orders rules or other constitutions to be observed and kept by themselves.  

Concerning the Ministry, Service and Sacraments.  
1 WHether are the common Prayers said or sung by your Minister, both Morning and Evening distinctly, and reverently every sunday and holiday, and on their Eaveses, and at convenient and usual times of those days, and in most convenient place for the edifying of the people?  
2 Whether doth your Minister observe the orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the Book of common Prayer, in reading the Holy Scriptures prayers and administration of Sacraments, without diminishing, or adding any thing in the matter or form thereof?  
3 Whether doth your Minister on wednesdays and fridays not being holidays, at the accustomed hours of service resort to the Church and say the Litany: and other prayers prescribed? And doth your Clerk or Sexton give warning before by tolling of a Bell on those days, and doth one person of every house repair to the Church at those times usually, and there stay according to the Cannon?  
4 Whether doth your Minister leaving the use of the Font Christian or baptise in any Basin or other profane vessels? doth your Minister baptise or christian any out of the face of the Church and Congregation, or at any other time then upon sundays or holy-days without special cause, or without Godfathers and Godmothers? Are any persons admitted to answer as Godfathers or Godmothers at the Christening of any Child, except he or she have before received the Holy Communion? doth your Minister in Baptising of Children observe the orders, Rites and Ceremonies, appointed in the Book of Common prayer without addition omission or innovation?  
5 Do you know any Parents that defer the Christening of their Children, or any that have not had their Children Christened at their own Parish Church or Chapel? what is the cause that they keep them so long unchristned? do you know of any parents that have had their children privately Baptised, either by a Popish priest contrary to the Laws of the Church of England, or by an unconformable Minister omitting any part of the form of Baptising Children contained in the Book of common prayer?  
6 Doth your Minister give warning publicly in the Church at Morning prayer, the sunday before he administereth the Communion for the better preparation of the parishioners?  
7 Doth your Minister as oft as he administereth the Communion, first receive it himself? doth he use any bread or wine newly brought, before the words of institution be rehearsed and the bread and wine present on the Communion table? doth he not deliver the bread and wine to every Communicant severally?  
8 Hath your Minister admitted to the Communion any that be openly known to live in some notorious offence or Crime without repentance or satisfaction of the Congregation, or who hath openly and maliciously contended with his or her Neighbours, before he or she have openly and charitably reconciled themselves again and remitted all rancour and malice, whatsoever Controversy hath been between them?  
9 Doth your Minister administer the Communion to any but such as kneel, or do any refuse to kneel? hath he administered to any who refuse to be present at public prayer, or who hath depraved the Book of Common Prayer, administration of the Sacraments or the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed, or the Articles of Religion agreed upon, or the Book of Ordering Priests and Bishops, or against his Majesty's supremacy? have any been for these causes repelled, and have they repent in writing or otherwise and what be their names?  
10 Hath your Minister more benefices than one? if he hath how fare distant are they? and whether serves he two Cures or not? when he is absent, hath he an allowed Preacher for his Curate?  
11 Hath your Church or Chapel been destitute of a Curate, and how long, and by whose default? hath any Curate served or doth any Curate serve without licence of the Ordinary?  
12 Do you know any Popish Priests, Seminaries, jesuits, or Runagate persons that do preach, say Mass or minister any Popish Sacraments or Ceremonies, or else do resort secretly or openly unto your parish, and what be their names, and unto whose houses do they resort, and of whom are they harboured and relieved? set down their Names and Surnames?  
13 Is your Parson Vicar or Curate or any other parson in your parish a favourer of the Romish Church or Religion, or of any other sect or Schismatical opinion, or hath he or doth he maintain or teach any doctrine contrary or repugnant to any of the Articles agreed upon by the Clergy in the Convocation holden at London Anno Dom. 1562? have they taught publicly or secretly any doctrine tending to the discredit and dispraise either of the Book of Common prayer, or of the Preachers and Ministers of the word and Sacraments, or of the received order for government by Arch-Bishops, Bishops Deans, Arch-deacons and other Officers in the Church of England, or make any other innovation? Or have they permitted any man so teaching, or making innovation in such manner?  
14 Is your Minister an allowed Preacher, if he be not, doth he procure every month a Sermon to be Preached in his Cure by Preachers lawfully licenced? And on every Sunday when there is no Sermon, doth he or his Curate read some one of the homilies prescribed?  
15 Doth your Minister always in saying the public prayers and administering the Sacraments wear a decent Surplice with sleeves, and being a Graduate, doth he wear always therewith an Hood by the order of the Universities agreeable to his degree?  
16 Hath your Minister, or any other Preacher in your Church, Preached any thing to confute or impugn▪ any doctrine delivered by any other Preacher? and doth he always before the Sermon, Lecture, and homily pray for Christ's Catholic Church, The King's Majesty, and our Gracious Queen Mary, the Noble Prince Charles, the Lady Mary, the Lady Elizabeth, and Her Princely Issue, The Ministers of God's Holy word, as well Arch-Bishops and Bishops, as other Pastors and Curates, for the Kings most Honourable Council, the Nobility and Magistrates of this Realm and the Commons? And doth he always conclude his prayer with the Lords prayer, According to the Cannon 55?  
17 Hath or doth any strange Preacher preach in your Church which refuseth to conform himself to the Laws, rites and Ordinances established, or which hath not first showed a sufficient licence?  
18 Doth your Minister in his Sermons 4 times in the year at least, teach and declare the King's Majesty's power within his Realms to be the highest power under God, to whom all within the same own just loyalty & obedience, and that all foreign power is justly taken away?  
19 Doth your Minister every Sunday half an hour before evening prayer or more, examine and instruct the youth of the parish in the Catechism set forth in the Book of Common prayer? And do the Churchwardens assist the Minister herein? and who be they that refuse to be Catechised? and what Parents have not diligently sent their Children and servants to be Catechised?  
20 Hath your Minister Married any without licence in the times prohibited, and hath he married any without licence whose banes have not been openly published in the Church 3 several sundays or holidays? if any of the parties dwell out of the parish, hath he married them without Certificate under the Minister's hand of the other parish, that the banes of matrimony have been lawfully asked and published without contradiction? hath he married any at any other times of the day, then between the hours of 8 and 12 in the forenoon, or in any private house, or when there is no licence before the Parents and Governors (the parties being under the age of 21 years) have testified their consent?  
21 Hath your Minister declared every sunday to the people at the time appointed what holy-days and fasting days be the week following? doth he, being a Preacher, confer with all Recusants and persons Excommunicated and suspected, to reduce them to the unity of the Church?  
22 Doth your Minister keep a note of all Excommunicated persons within your Parish, and once every six months doth he denounce them which have not obtained their absolution on some sunday in service time, that others may be admonished to refrain their company?  
23 Is your Parson, Vicar, or Curate diligent in visiting the sick and comforting them? do they bury your dead in such Christian and comely manner, as is prescribed in the book of Common prayer? hath any layman, other than a lawful Minister taken upon him to bury the dead contrary to order?  
24 Hath your Minister refused to baptise any child brought to the Church, or to bury any Corpse brought to the Church, or Churchyard, or to Church any woman having had convenient warning thereof?  
25 Hath your Minister, being truly informed of the danger of death of any Child unbaptized, and being desired to go to the place where the Child is, to Baptise it, neglected to go, by means whereof the Child died unbaptized?  
26 Have you any Lecture in your Parish continued without lawful licence of the Bishop? doth your Lecturer observe all the rites specified in the 56 Canon?  
27 Doth your Minister at any time preach or administer the Communion in any private house, except when any are so impotent that they cannot go to Church, or are very dangerously sick?  
28 Do any Chaplains in your parish preach or administer the Communion in any Chapel not consecrated, or in any house having no Chapel allowed by law? do the Lords and Masters that have private Chapels of their own, resort often to the parish Church and there receive the Communion, at the least once every year?  
29 Doth your Minister reside upon his Parsonage or Vicarage house?  
30 Hath there been any secret Conventicles or meetings in your parish by any Priests, Ministers, or others, tending to the depravation of the form of prayer, doctrine, or government of this Church of England?   

Concerning the Church, Church-yard, Parsonage, and Vicarage house.  
1 WHether is your Church, chapel, and Chancel, well and sufficiently repaired in the walls and roof, the seats convenient, the floor paved, the windows glazed, and all these cleanly kept? Is the Mansion house of your Parson or Vicar with the buildings thereunto belonging, well and sufficiently repaired, and your Churchyard walls, Rails or pales kept in good repair?  
2 Hath your Church or Church-yard been abused & profaned by any fight, chiding, brawling, or quarrelling, any plays, lords of misrule, Summer lords, Morris-dancers, Pedlars, Bowlers, Bearwards, Butchers, Feasts, Schools, Temporal Courts or Léets, Lay juries, Musters, or other profane usage? Have any Bells been superstitiously rung on holy-days, or their Eaveses, or at any other times, without good cause allowed by the Minister and Churchwardens? have any trees been felled in the Churchyard and by whom?  
3 Are your Almshouses, Church-houses & schoole-houses or other houses and buildings set upon the soil of the Church or Church-yard sufficiently repaired maintained and to godly and right use employed?  
4 Have you in your Church or Chapel all things necessary for Common prayer and other Rites of the Church, as the Bible in the largest volume, the Book of Common Prayer lately authorized by his Majesty, the Books of homilies allowed, a convenient Pulpit for preaching, a decent seat for the Minister to read service in, conveniently placed, a strong Chest with three locks and three keys, one for the Minister, the other for the Churchwardens for the keeping of the Register Book of the Christen, marriages and Burials, and a poor man's box conveniently set near the Church door?  
5 Have you in your Church a Font of stone, for Baptism set in the ancient, usual place, a decent Table for the Communion, conveniently placed, covered with silk or other decent stuff in time of divine service, and with a fair linen cloth over that, at the administration of the Communion?  
6 Have you all such Bells, Ornaments and other Utensils as have anciently belonged to your Church, a Communion Cup of Silver with a Cover, a fair standing Pot of Pewter or purer metal for the wine upon the Communion table a comely Surplice with sleeves, and a Book of the names of all strange Preachers subscribed with their names, and the name of the Bishop or others where they had licence?  
7 Have you a book of parchment for a Register books, of Marriages, Christen and Burials? Are weekly the names and Sur-names of all persons married, christened, and buried, and of their parents with the day and year written fairly in the said parchment book? Is every leaf (being full) subscribed by you the Minister and Churchwardens?  
8 Have you in the East-end of the Church the ten Commandments fairly written and set up, and other chosen sentences of the holy Scripture written upon convenient places of the walls? Is there a table of the degrees of marriage set up? Have you seats enough in the Church for the parishioners to fit on, and are they in good repair?   

Concerning Ecclesiastical Courts.  
1 HAth the Official, or his surrogate, or any other exercising Ecclesiastical jurisdiction in this Archdeaconry, their Registers, or Actuaries, Apparitors, or Summoners, at any time winked at, and suffered any Adulteries, Fornications, Incests, or other faults or offences to pass and remain unpunished and uncorrected, or have they commuted any penance of such offenders?  
2 Hath your Register, his deputy, or substitute, set up two Tables of the rates of Fees; one in the usual place or Consistory where the Court is kept, and the other in his Registry; and both of them in such sort, as every man whom it concerneth may come to the view and perusal thereof? Or if such Tables have heretofore been set up, hath your Register removed the same, or suffered them to be removed, hidden, or any ways hindered from sight?  
3 Do you know any householder or other person whatsoever, within your Parish or Chappelrie, that is deceased, that have made their last wills and testaments, the same not being yet proved; or if without will, who have entered upon their goods without lawful administration taken from the Ordinary or other judge competent?   

Concerning Schoolmasters.  
1 Have you in your Parish any Schoolmasters, who teach either in public school or in private house? Is he reputed to be of sound faith and religion? Doth he give any evil example of life? Is he allowed by the Ordinary under his hand and seal? Or doth your Minister or Curate teach, and is he allowed in like manner?  
2 Doth your Minister or Schoolmaster who teacheth, teach the Catechism by authority set forth? Doth he when there is any Sermon, or divine Service bring his scholars to Church, and see them quietly and soberly ordered? Doth he examine them after their return what they have learned of the Sermon?   

Concerning the Parish clerk, and Sexton.  
1 Have you a parish-clerke appointed by the Minister, sufficient for his place, of the age of twenty years at least. Is he of honest conversation? Can he read, writ, and sing? Is he diligent in his office, and serviceable to the Minister in time of divine Service, and otherwise?  
2 Doth your Clerk meddle with any thing above his office, as churching of women, burying the dead, reading of prayers, or such like?  
3 Doth your Clerk or Sexton keep your Church clean, the doors safe locked? Is any thing by his default lost or spoiled in the Church, doth he suffer any unreasonable ringing, or any profane exercise in the Church.  
4 Doth any of your Parish refuse to pay unto the Parish-clerke or Sexton, such wages as are unto them due, and have been accustomably paid?   

Concerning parishioners.  
1 DOth any in your Parish profane, violate, or misspend the Sabbath or Holidays or any part of them, using any offensive conversation, or worldly labour in those days or any of them?  
2 Hath any in your Parish in time of divine Service covered his head, albeit he hath infirmity, in which case a Cap is allowed? Is there any who hath not reverently kneeled when the general Confession, Litany, and other prayers are read, and which have not stood up at the saying of the Belief?  
3 Hath any in your Parish disturbed divine Service, by walking, talking, or any other way; or departed out of the Church during the Service, or Sermon, without some urgent cause or loitered about the Church or Church-porch?  
4 Are there any in your Parish, either man or woman, being above sixteen years of age, that hath not received the holy Communion thrice at least every year, whereof once at Easter? Or have any received the Communion in any other Parish Church or Chapel than their own?  
5 Doth any parent answer as Godfather for his own child? Hath any Godfather or Godmother made any other answer or speech than is prescribed in the book?  
6 Do all fathers, mothers, masters, mistresses, come, and cause their children, servants, and Apprentices, to come duly to the Church, and according to the Ministers direction, to be instructed and catechised; or who be they that have not obeyed the Minister herein?  
7 Have any persons married together within the degrees prohibited, set forth in a table appointed to be in every Church?  
8 Have any persons once lawfully married together forsaken each other, or do live asunder without the authority of the Ordinary? Or do any being divorced or separated marry again, the former husband or wife yet living?  
9 Hath any in your Parish unreverently used your Minister, or have any laid violent hands upon him, or disgraced his office and calling by word or deed?  
10 Have you in your Parish any dweller or sojourner, a maintainer of Popish doctrine, or suspected to keep or disperse schismatic books, or to favour any heresy or error?  
11 Have any in time of divine Service opened their shops, exercised their trades, used any gaming, been in any Tavern or Alehouse or otherwise ill employed?  
12 Are there in your Parish any adulterers, fornicators, incestuous persons, bawds, receivers, or close favourers, conveiers away or sufferers of any incontinent persons to departed unpunished; or any which have their meetings in private places in the night time or other undecent times, and by reason thereof are commonly defamed or vehemently suspected of any of the said crimes?  
13 Is the fifth of November kept holy, and thanksgiving made to God for his Majesties and the States happy deliverance, according to the Ordinance in that behalf?  
14 Are there in your Parish any blasphemers, common swearers, ribaudes, and such as commonly use bawdy, immodest, uncivil, and filthy speeches, malicious slanderers, scolds, common drunkards, or any defamed of any of the said crimes?  
15 Do any in your Parish administer the goods of the dead without authority, or suppress their Will and Testament? Have any Executors neglected to perform the wills of the dead, especially in paying of Legacies given to the Church, to the poor, or to any other charitable or godly uses?  
16 Do any refuse to pay to the reparations, ornaments, and other things required in your Church, as they are cessed or taxed?  
17 Have any in your Parish been christened, churched, buried, or received the Communion; or been married out of your Parish, both parties dwelling in your Parish?  
18 Have all women in your Parish delivered of child, come at convenient time after to Church to give thankes? And have they been Churched according to the form of the book of Common Prayer?  
19 Hath the perambulation of the circuit of your Parish been observed once every year at the usual time? If not, by whose default?  
20 Have any in your Parish given to the Churchwardens or Sidemen or any of them evil words, for doing their Office according to their Oath, and conscience in making presentment for any default?  
21 Is there any man or woman in your Parish that useth witchcraft, sorcery charms, or unlawful prayer, or incantations in Latin, or English, or otherwise, upon any Christian body or beast, or any that resorteth to such persons for counsel or help?   

Concerning Churchwardens and Sworne-men.  
1 Do any in your Parish take upon them to be Churchwarden or Sides-man, which is not lawfully chosen by the Minister and Parishioners according to the Canon? Do any continue that office longer than one year, except they be chosen again; and are all such officers chosen yearly in Easter-wéek?  
2 Do your Churchwardens within one month at the most after their year ended, before the Minister and Parishioners, give up a just account of all such money, and other things as they have received and bestowed? Have they delivered all remaining in their hands, belonging to the Church or Parish, to the next Churchwardens?  
3 Have the Churchwardens with the advice of the Minister from time to time, provided a sufficient quantity of fine white bread and wholesome wine for the number of communicants? Have you at every Communion collected the devotion of the Communicants, and put it into the poore-mans-box?  
4 Do the Churchwardens and sworne-men before every visitation, and at other times when there is just occasion, meet and confer about their presentments, and who hath (after notice given him of the time and place) carelessly absented himself?  
5 Is the forfeiture of twelve pence for absence from the Church appointed by state for the use of the poor, taken and levied by the Churchwardens, and employed according to the said statute? Is the same forfeiture taken of all persons which stand wilfully suspended or excommunicated?  
6 Have any Churchwardens lost, sold, changed, or retained, any goods, ornaments or bells, rents, or implements of the Church, without special licence of the Ordinary?  
7 Do you the Churchwardens and Swornemen about the midst of Divine service usually walk out of the Church, and see who are abroad in any Alehouse or else where absent, or evil employed: and have you presented all such to the Ordinary?  
8 Do you know or have heard of any fame, or offence committed, or duty omitted, by any of your Parish before your time, and heretofore not presented by the former Churchwardens to the Ordinary, and as yet not reform, and have you presented the same?   
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