Injunctions exhibited by john by god's sufferance Bishop of Norwich in his first visitation beginning the second day of may in the third year of our sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland. defender of the faith. etc. unto all & singular the diocesans of the diocese of Norwich so far as they concern any of them.  
Imprinted ad London by john Day, dwelling over Aldersgate.  
cum GRATIA ET PRIVILEGIO REGIAE MAIESTATIS.   

Injunctions exhibited by john by God's sufferance Bishop of Norwich in his first visitation beginning the second day of may in the third year of our sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland. defender of the faith etc. unto all and singular the diocesans of the diocese of Norwich so far as they concern any of them.  
FIrst the every parson, vicar and Curate, do so order the common service within the city of Norwich & other like places where be divers parish churches in one town, that it may be done on the sondaie, by nine of the clock, before the beginning of the sermon, where any is appointed, the all the people after common prayers be done in their parish churches may resort thither to hear the sermon.  
2. Item that as many of them as be entered into orders, do say the morning and evening prayers daily in English or Latin, either openly or prinatelie, that they may be the more ready in the Scriptures.  
3 Item that they see unto their Clerks & Sextens, if they do ring at the burial of the dead, noon or curpheve, they ring but one peall, & that very short, omitting all other unnecessary rings as it is prescribed by order taken herein.  
4 Item that they neither suffer the lords table to be hanged and decked like an altar, neither use any gestures of the popish mass in the time of ministration of the communion, as shifting of the book, washing, breathing, crossing or such like.  
5 Item that they baptise not children on the wourking days, or when the congregation is not come together, except it be thought that evident jeopardy require the contrary.  
6 Item that they marry no young folks, except they examine them before, whether they can say, the articles of the Christian faith, the lords prayer and the ten commandments: and if they can not: then to stay them from going forwards, till they can say them. Likewise that they examine the godfathers and godmothers, when they come to baptise children in the same points: secretly, & modestly, bearing with the age of some parsons. For how can they be sureties for an other to be instructed in that faith, which they can not skill of themselves. thirdly that they suffer none to come to the holy communion, except they also know the same necessary points of Religion.  
7 Item that they marry none before dewetime, that is before six of the clock in the summer, and seven in the winter, at what time the broad day light doth appear.  
8 Item that they preach their sermons limited by the Q. Mayesties' Injunctions that is every month one or else at the least wise get them to be preached, so that they themselves preach four times in the year in their own parsons being habled thereto by their ordinary if they can not preach then to read some homely set out by the Queen's Majesty.  
9 Item that they with such diligent travail industry and conference do every week read & peruse two chapters of the new testament and study the same that they may be able to answer to all matters contained therein with the true understanding thereof to begin with Saint Mathewes gospel and after with saint john's, and so consequently till they begun over and so to the Epistles. This to begin in August next, & to make account to such as bithe said reverend father shallbe appointed the first twesdaie of every month following. And besides this they shall also cause every quarter one sermon at the least to be preached at their beneficesbi some learned preacher till they be able to preach them theirselves. To this task as touching the chapters the curates also be enjoined though they have no benefices.  
10 Item that they teach the Catechism every sunday and every holiday one hour at the least before evening prayer and to begin the same the first sunday in August next & so to continue every sunday and holydaie.  
11 Item that they warn the parents & masters to cause their children and youth to learn the Catechism, either in schools or else at home so as they may be examined by the minister every sunday and holydaie that they may make answer to the ministers standing in the pulpit demanding questions of them and this shallbe done inmediatlye after the last peal to evening prayer.  
12 Item that they require the young folks unmarried to resort to the hearing of the children examined and rendering of the Catechism to th'intent that they by hearing may learn the same, & thereby (besides discharge of their duty towards God) avoid worldly rebuke and shame which should hap unto them, if they should be rejected from marriage for ignorance of the christian faith, the lords Prayers, and the ten Commandments. Exhorting also th'elder married folks to be present both for the good example of the youth & also to learn themselves, by hearing if they by reason of evil education in time of ignorance, have not been sufficiently instructed in times past.  
13 Item that they see the places filled up in walls or else where, where imagies stood, so as if there had been none there. The stones foundations or other places, frames or Tabernacles devised to advance Imagery, holy waterstones also to be quite and clean taken away and the places where they were set, comely and decently to be made up with convenient expedition, or else to declare to the ordinary the lets & stays thereof as soon as may be.  
14 Item that every Parson, vicarre, Curate and reader, shall every quarter ones, read openly in the pulpit the queens majesties Injunctions, and also these present Injunctions with the confession hereunto annexed, and besides that, get him a copy of these Injunctions and set them up by the last of Septembre in some convenient place of their quire there to remain still to be seen of them that list to read them.  
15 Item that the master, priest, and other governors of all hospitals be vigilant and look diligently, as well to the well ordering and godly instructing of the sick & sore people within the same hospitals: as also to the virtuous and godly education of the children and other youth there, so as they may be taught to follow & favour the sincere verity of almighty God, as it is now manifestly set forth by the queens most excellent Majesty & that they themselves also be followers thereof.  

Interrogatories.  
WHether the parsons, vicar, curate, or reader doth read the common service with a loud, distinct, and treatable voice.  
2 Whether the lessons epistles and gospels be red or song so as they may be plainly bard of the people.  
3 Whether the parson or vicar preach or cause to be preached in his church every month one Sermon.  
4 Whether every parson or vicar preach in his own parson one sermon every quarter, if there be no sermon they read the homilies plainly and distinctly according to the Injunction.  
5 Whether to the uttermost of their wit power knowledge & learning they do with out colour or dissimulation, declare four times yearly in their several sermons or exhortations that the power of the Bishop of Rome and all other foreign power, are justly taken away.  
6 Whether they do exhort the people to remember the poor after the homely when they read the sentences exhorting the Almose.  
7 Whether they teach the youth of their parish the lords prayer, the articles of the faith, the ten commandments and the Catechism every sunday and holiday.  
8 Whether they and their church wardens have provided in their parish a Bible in the largest volume, and Erasmus paraphrasis upon the new Testament.  
9 Whether they declare to their parishes any thing to thextoling or setting fourth of vain and superstitious religion.  
10 Whether the parson or vicar being absent hath left upon his benefice an honest learned & expert Curate.  
11 Whether any minister or priest in the time of trouble have divorced himself from his wife and whether his wife hath been married to any other man sithen, or that he himself hath married any other woman without judgement of the Church.  
12 Whether the Priests, and deacons say daily the morning and evening service, openly or privately.  
13 Whether any that took orders in king Edward's days not contented with that, were ordered again in Queen Mary's days.  
14 Whether the parson or vicar, or any for him hath bought his benefice or hath come by it by simony fraud or deceit.  
15 Whether the parson or vicar have more benefices than one.  
16 Whether any of your benefices be vacant, & how long they have so been & who is the patron.  
17 Whether there be any lay or temporal men not being within orders or children that hath or enjoyeth any benefice or spiritual promotion.  
18 Whether there be any patron that suffereth any benefice to be vacant and taketh the tithes and other duties to himself.  
19 Whether any parson, vicar or Curate give any evil example of life, whether they be incontinent parsons, drunkards, haunters of taverns, alehouses or suspect places: dicers, tablers, carders, swearers or vehemently suspected thereof.  
20 Whether they have received any parson to the holy communion openly known to be out of charity or defamed with some notorious crime before he hath made sufficient recompense for his wrong or evil doing.  
21 Whether they have a fit and decent table to minister the communion on.  
22 Whether the parson or vicar being not resident upon his benefice giveth the forty part thereof, to the poor of the parish.  
23 Whether any parson or vicar findeth but a reader under him where he should find Minister.  
24 Whether the chancel, the body of that parish church or chapel, the parsonage and vikerage house, and other belonging to the same: be in good reparations, and whether the better coverings of any of them have been pulled of and worse set in the place and by whom.  
25 Whether they celebrate the communion with less number than four or three comunicantes at the least in such parishes where there be xx. parsons of discretion & in greater parishes with out a greater number.  
26 Whether if there be more Priests in any church than one: they do all communicate with the minister when the communion is celebrate.  
27 Whether that any reader being admitted but to read: taketh upon him to baptise, to marry; to celebrate the Lords supper or to distribute the Lords cup.  
28 Whether they baptise children in any other days than the sundays and holidays except it be thought need that they should be baptised at home.  
29 Whether they have married any without banes ask, or if the parties married be of divers parishes, whether they have married them without certificate from the parson or parsons where they where asked: or have married any that be out of their own parishes not licensed thereunto, or hath not openly denounced their certificate or licence accordingly at the time of marriage or hath married any parson not in due place or convenient tyme.  
30 Whether they have exhorted young folk to abstain from privy contracts and not to marry without the consent of such their parents and friends as have authority over them.  
31. Whether they have admitted to the holy table, any of an other parish except they be strangers without the licence of the ministre from whence they came.  
32 Whether that there be any that preacheth out of their own parishes not licensed thereunto, or else taketh upon them to preach being not ordained nor licensed thereunto.  
33 Whether the master and governors of the hospital within Norwich and other hospitals with in the diocese of Norwich do look diligently to the well ordering and godly instructing of the sick & sore people within the same hospitals.  
34 Whether the youth within the same hospitals be taught to favour and follow the sincere verity of almighty God as it is now set forth by the Queen's most excellent Majesty.   

For the duty of church wardens.  
WHether they have provided a comely and honest pulpit to be set in a comeli place of the church.  
2 Whether all altars, images, holiwater stones, pictures, paintings, as of Thassumption of the blessed virgin, of the descending of Christ into the virgin in the form of a little boy at Thanunciation of the Angel, and all other superstitious and dangerous monuments especially paintings & Imagies in wall, book, cope, Banner or else where, of the blessed trinity or of the father (of whom there can be no Image made) be defaced and removed out of the church and other places and are destroyed & the places where such impiety was: so made up, as if there had been no such thing there.  
3 Whether that any Imagies, beads, books of service, or vestments not allowed by law be reserved of any man or in any place, by whom and where they be reserved.  
4 Whether they know any man that refuseth to contribute to the Alms of the poor as a thing not rightly appointed and discourageth other from such charitable Alms.  
5 Whether the Churchwardeynes have provided a strong chest, for the poor men's box and have fastened it in a fit place.  
6 Whether the church money coming of movable stocks money given to find torches, tapers, lamp light not paid out of any lands, be employed to the poor men's box or no?  
7 Whether the Churchewardeynes of every parish do duly levy and gather of the goods and lands of every such parson that cometh not to his own parish church upon the sundays and holy days and there hear the devin service and God's word red and preached xii. d. for every such offence, and whether they have distributed the same money to the poor.  
8 Whether there be a register had and kept faithfully of Christenings and Burials.   

¶ For Schoolmasters and their office.  
WHether any Schoolmaster take upon him to teach not allowed by the ordinary.  
2 Whether they move and teach their children duly to reverence & love the true religion that is now set fourth.  
3 Whether they teach their children such sentences out of the scripture as may frame them to Godliness.  
4 Whether they teach any other grammar than such as is appointed by the queens majesties Injunctions annexed to the same.   

¶ For Clerks and their duty.  
whether that the song in the Church be modest and distinct so devised and used that the ditte may plainly be understand.  
2 Whether they use to sing any number of psalms, dirige like, at the burial of the dead or do any other thing otherwise than it is appointed by the common order of the service book.  
3 Whether they use to ring oft or long peals at the burial of the dead or use much jangling in festival days in ringing none or curphew.   

¶ For the people and their duty.  
whether there be any man that mocketh or jesteth at the divine service, or at the ministers thereof or speaketh any thing by jest or earnest to the despising, derogation or letting thereof.  
2 Whether any man hath burned or caused the holy Bible to be burned, torn or defaced or hath conveyed it out of the Church that it should not be red of the people.  
3 Whether any parishoner denieth to receive the sacraments and other rites ecclesiastical according to the book authorized by common authority.  
4 Whether any man is known to have said, or heard mass sithence it was abrogate by law, whether any man maketh any singing cakes to say mass with all, reserveth vestments, superaltaries, mass books or other instruments of this superstition.  
5 Whether any do defer their children to be baptised be yond the next sunday or holiday after their birth and upon what causes they do so.  
6 Whether any be so hasty to baptise their children that having no need they will not tarry till the next holiday that the child may be partaker of the prayers of the whole church, then present.  
7 Whether any have married with in the degrees of consanguinity prohibited by the laws of God, either whether any married without those degrees, have unlawfully forsaken their wife's or husbands or married others.  
8 Whether any man keepeth in his house any abused Images namely such as be removed out of the church, or S. john's head. S. Catheryn, S. Nicolas or such like.  
9 Whether any body useth beads latin primers or any other prayer books then that be allowed by public authority to be used.  
10 Whether there be any that maintaineth any heresy or false opinion contrary to God's word.  
11 Whether there be any that exerciseth sorcery, sooth saying, whytchcraft or such like cuxyous arts.  
12 Whether there be any incontinent parsons druncardes, swearers, blasphemers of the name of God, railers at religion or faulty in any other enormous crime or vehemently suspected of the sam.  
13 Whether there be any that neglecteth to resort commonly to his parish church and there abideth orderly and soberly during the time of services.  
14 Whether there be any that useth buying, selling, dressing, carrying to and fro of cloth, followeth his occupation, giveth himself or causeth his to labour bodily or to attend their occupation on the Sabbath day, hindering both themselves and theirs, thereby to learn ghostly things.  
15 Whether therebe any that walketh or talketh in the Church at service time or goeth out with out urgent need.  
16 Whether therebe any body otherwise occupied at service time then to here & mark the same or else suffer their children to disturb the divine service.  
17 Whether any parson of discretion hath not communicate thrice in the year and in especially at easter last past who they be and what be their names.  
18 Whether any hath married the banes not being lawfully asked before except he had a dispensation of the ordinary.  
19 Whether fathers, mothers, masters, and dames sendeth out their children and servants to be instructed in the Catechism on sundays and holidays.  
20 Whether vintners or they th●● keep victualing houses do sell meat or drink in time of service 〈◊〉 sermons.