Injunctions with certain Articles to be inquired of, in the Visitation of the Reverend Father in Christ, john, by God's providence, Bishop of Norwich, aswell to the Clergy, as to the Churchwardens and quest men of every several parish within the diocese of Norwich, & to be put in execution, by all the Archdeacon's Commissaries & other officers exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction, under the said Bishop in their Synods, Visitation, and Courts.  
¶ In the year of our Lord God. 1569.  
Imprinted at London by john Walley. Aprilis. 15.   

Injunctions. ¶ INJUNCTIONS WITH Certain Articles to be inquired of, in the Visitation of the Reverend father in Christ, john, by god's providence, Bishop of Norwich. etc.  

¶ For the Clergy.  
IN primis, you must endeavour so to order & frame yourselves in the setting forth of God's true Religion, due administration of the Sacraments, and the reverent and distinct saying or singing of the Common prayer, as hath been prescribed and set forth unto you before time, aswell by the book of Common prayer set forth to be used through the whole Realm, as by sundry Injunctions set forth for that purpose. And that you take great heed, that your lives and conversations be such every way, as no person have cause to be offended thereby, somuch as in you lieth.  
Item, ye shall not take upon you to Preach, or Expound the Scriptures by way of exhortation or otherwise, in your own Church or else where, unless you be admitted thereto by the most Reverend Father, the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the Bishop of the Diocese.  
Item, you shall not marry or suffer to be married within any of your cures, any person or persons, that come lately out of any other Diocese, unless such persons bring with them sufficient testimonial under the Seal of the Ordinary of the Diocese from whence he or they shall come, testifying such person or persons to be free and unmarried, and at their liberty to marry accordingly.  
Item, at such times as ye shall use the perambulation in the Rogation days for the bounds of your parish, you shall not use any surplice upon you, or stay at any cross, or suffer any banners, to be carried, or other superstition to be used, but only give GOD thanks, and use such good order of prayers and Homilies, as be appointed by the Queen's majesties authority in that behalf.  
Item none of you shall farm one cure or more within this Diocese, without special licence in writing under the Bishop's Seal.  
Finally, ye shall diligently observe and put in ure, all such Orders & Injunctions as have been appointed you before time, aswell by the Injunctions of the queen's majesty, as by the Archbishop of canterbury's grace, and the Bishop of the diocese.   

¶ For the Churchwardens, Questmen and others.  
Item, that no Parson Vicar, propriatorie, or fermer of any benefice, do admit any Minister or Curate to serve his said benefice, unless such person shall first show his letters of Orders, where he was made Minister, and have also sufficient testimonial under the Seal of the Ordinary, from whence he cometh, with licence from the Bishop to serve accordingly.  
Item, that in great Churches where all the people cannot conveniently hear their minister, the Church wardens & other, to whom that charge belongeth, shall provide and appoint, a decent and a convenient seat in the body of the church, where the said minister may sit or stand, and say the divine service, that all the congregation may hear and be edified therewith. And that in smaller churches, there be some convenient seat without the chancel door for that purpose.  
Item, that upon all saints day and other like times, there be no ringing of bells after Evening prayer, or any other superstitious ceremony used, to the maintenance of popery, or praying for the dead, & that if any such shallbe hence forth used, the same with the names of such as shall offend therein, to be presented to the Ordinary.  
Item, that no person or persons calling themselves lords of misrule in the Christmas time, or other unreverent persons at any other time, presume to come into the church unreverently playing their lewd parts, with scoffing, jesting, or rebaldry talk, & if any such have already offended herein, to present them and their names to the Ordinary.  
Item, for avoiding of unlawful marriages, you shall provide in every of your Churches, a certain table for the degrees of Marriage last set forth by the foresaid most Reverend Father in God Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury, to be set up in some convenient place of the said Church.  
Finally, you shall carefully and diligently provide, that all such good Orders & Injunctions, as have been prescribed & appointed before time, shallbe duly by you put in execution, so far forth, as they concern any of you.   

¶ Articles to be inquired of.  
IN primis, whether your Divine service be said or sung in due time and reverently, and the Sacraments duly and reverently ministered in such decent apparel, as is appointed by the laws, the Queen's majesties Injunctions, and other orders set forth by public authority in that behalf.  
Item, whether the Queen's majesties Injunctions, be quarterly read in your Churches, & a declaration read twice every year, which was set forth by both the Archbishops and the rest of the Bishops, concerning certain principal points of Religion, for the unity of Doctrine.  
Item, whether you have in your Church a Bible, of the largest volume, the Paraphrasis, of Erasmus in English, with the Homilies, & all other boks requisite, for the Administration of Divine service. And whether the Homilies be duly and distinctly read.  
Item, whether you have in your Church a decent Pulpit and Communion table furnished and placed as becometh, with a comely communion cup, with a cover, and a chest or poor man's box, and the collection and distribution, for the poor, made according to a statute in that behalf provided:  
Item, whether any person or persons have pulled down, any Church, chapel, or Chancel, alms house, or bells, or any part thereof, or have felled or spoiled any wood or timber in any Church yard, or have sold any church goods: to whom, what it was, and for what price.  
Item, whether your Church, Chancel, and your Parsonage and Vicarage house, be well & sufficiently repaired and maintained, & whether that your Church yard be well kept and fenced,  
Item, whether your Rodeloftes, Images, Tabernacles, and all other monuments of Idolatry be pulled down and defaced, and your Church and Chancel decently reform. And whether you know of any Popish and superstitious books, Images, vestments, or such like, remaining within your parish and in whose hands they be.  
Item, whether your Preachers & Ministers do earnestly and diligently teach their Auditory and parishiners, to live in faithful and humble obedience to almighty GOD, the Queen's majesty, and all and singular her officers, aswell spiritual as temporal, exhorting them from all kind of Idolatry, superstition, and other vices.  
Item whether your Minister be given to filthy lucre, whoredom, drunkenness, or other like notorious vices, or do haunt or frequent any suspicious house or company, or any vain pastimes as hawking, hunting, dicing, carding, and such like vanities, and give not himself to prayer, fasting, alms deeds, with such like. And whether he pray diligently for the prosperous estate of the Queen's majesty, as to duty belongeth.  
Item, whether your Minister do eudevour himself diligently to teach & instruct the youth of the parish, the Catechism, and do otherwise see them brought up in the fear of God, and in due obedience and reverence, to their parents, masters and elders.  
Item, whether your curate or Minister have admitted any to Preach within your parish church not being lawfully licensed thereunto, or have refused any such as are licenced, and whether you have your quarter sermons.  
Item, whether you know of any sectaries, the use to make any private conventicles in private men's houses, in contempt of the laws and good orders set forth by authority, and do preach, teach, or minister the Sacraments there, and by that means attempt to withdraw the people from due obedience, and to raise and maintain schisms & sects, who they are that so do, where they do it, and what be the articles and contents of their doctrine and opinions.  
Item, whether there be any Minister, Priest, or other person or persons whatsoever within your parish, that doth willingly, sinbburnely, or negligently, absent himself from the church and receiving of the Sacraments, and do refuse to contribute to the poor men's box, and that walk up and down jangling and talking in the time of Common prayer, or administration of the Sacraments, any that use any other book of prayers than is set forth by public authority, or that have not communicated thrice every year at the least, nor submit himself to the laws and orders set forth by common authority, and where such person or persons do remain, and who they are that do maintain them.  
Item whether your Vicar or Parson be resident and keepeth hospitality in and upon his benefice, & how many benefices he hath, expressing their names.  
Item, who is patrove of your benefice, whether that he withhold the glebe lands or tithes pertaining to the same, or any part thereof, or useth any simonical pacts in the bestowing of his said benefice, and whether he or any in his name, hath in the time of the vacation of the church, taken the fruits and profits thereof, and by what authority.  
Item, whether ye know any Parson or Vicar, that sell their benefice to mere lay men, absenting themselves from the same, to the defacing of their calling, decay of hospitality, contempt of the laws, neglecting of their duties, both towards God, and the Queen's majesty, and evil example of the church of God.  
Item, whether your church be vacant, & how long it hath been so, and what is the cause thereof.  
Item, whether you know, any maintainers of foreign power, letters or hinderers of Gods holy word, and slanderers of the Preachers or of the ministry or public prayer, or that defend or hold any opinions against them or any of them, who they are expressing their names, and what was their communication.  
Item, whether ye know any spiritual judge or his officers, that neglect truly with sincerity to minister justice, according to the laws ecclesiastical, indifferently to every party.  
Item, whether they be diligent, and vigilant to inquire of such as be noted and commonly famed & suspected of any notorious crime, as of Adultery, fornication, backbiting, drunkenness, & such like, and whether they be careful to correct such offenders, and circumspect with charity to reform smaller faults.  
Item, whether they use to permit for sums of money the penance of such as are notorious offenders, not caring for the evil example, & encouragement of others, to commit the like offences, & thereby suffer the sinners to sleep in their sins.  
Item, whether you know any Parents, masters, mistress, or dames, who do not see their children or youth taught the catechism, or that do not sand their said children or youth diligently to the church to be instructed therein, & who they are.  
Item, whether the Register book of christenings, marriages, and buryings, be well kept, and the names entered according to the Queen her majesties Injunctions.  
Item, whether there be any Inn keepers, Taverns, or Ale house keepers, that maintain eating and drinking in them upon any sunday or holiday in the time of preaching or common prayer, or if there be any fairs or common markets, falling on those days, whether they open or make any show of their wares before Morning prayer be ended.  
Item, whether ye know any Blasphemers of the name of God, abusers of his holy word or sacraments, adulterers, fornicators, bawds, & maintainers of them, any suspect of Incest, any drunkards, ribalds, or users of unsomely or filthy talk, common slanderers of their neighbours, or sowers of discord between party and party.  
Item, whether ye know any that minister any dead men's goods without authority, or any executors that have not fulfilled the testators will. And whether your Hospitals be used according to the foundation thereof. And whether they receive any other than the poor.  
Item, whether ye know any schoolmaster or instructor of youth that teach, not being lawfully licensed thereto, under the Bishop's Seal. Or any Physician or surgeon, that practise their arts, being not lawfully authorized.  
Item, whether your schoolmasters or instructors of youth, be of sound religion, and have taken the Oath to the Queen's majesty, and do bring up his said youth, in the fear of GOD, with humility, obedience and good manners, to reverence and give place to their elders and betters, and do teach them godly sentences of the Scripture.  
Item, whether ye know any that use any sorcery, enchantments, Magika, Necromancy, Incantations, or Witchcraft, or that be suspected of the same.  
Item, whether any of your parish have married within the degrees of Affinity, or Consanguinity, contrary to the laws, and a ceetayne Table for that purpose, last set forth by the most Reverend Father, Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury, or whether there be any that hath two wives, or woman that hath two Husbands, any married where a precontract was to an other, any divorced, or otherwise separated that married again, any that have made privy or secret contracts, or have married without ask the banes not being thereunto lawfully licensed.   
¶ FINIS.   

Imprinted at London by john Walley. Aprilis. 15.