ARTICLES to be inquired of, within the Diocese of Sarisbury, in the first visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, MARTIN by the providence of GOD, Lord Bishop of Sarum. HOLDEN In the year of our Lord God, 1619. AT LONDON Printed by john Beale, 1619. Articles concerning the Clergy. whether hath your Minister read the constitutions set forth by his Majesty, once every year upon some sunday 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] the Prince and all their royal progeny, giving unto him such style and title of supreme Governor in 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 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 & fridays according to the book of common prayer? and whether doth your Minister duly observe all the orders, rites & ceremonies prescribed in the said book of common prayer, aswell in reading public prayers, the Litany, as also in administering the sacraments in such manner & form, wearing the surplice as by the book of common prayer by law now established is enjoined? 4 Whether doth your Minister administer the holy Communion so often, & at such times as that every Parishioner, may receive the same at least thrice in 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, & administereth it to none but such as do kneel at the receiving thereof, and use the words of the institution according to the book at every time that the bread or 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 Communion, 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 & Quest●…en, do take diligent heed and care, not only that all and every of your own Parishioners, do re●…ue thri●… in every y●…re, as aforesaid: but also that ●…o 〈◊〉 of any other Parish do forsake their own Minister and Parish to receive with you contrary to the 28 Canon? 7 Whether hath your Minister, Churchwardens, and Sidemen presented unto th●… Lord Bishop or his Chancellor within forty days after Easter the names of all the Parishioners, as well men as women, which being above ●…6. years of age, received not the Communion, at, or about Easter before, according to the 112. Canon. 8 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 thirtieth Canon? and whether he hath deferred, or wilfully refused to baptise any infant in his Parish being in danger, having been duly informed of the weakness thereof? and whether the child hath died in his default without baptism, contrary to the 68 and 69 Canons? 9 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 benefice hath he? 10 Whether doth your Minister, being a Preacher, preach usually according to the constitutions, either in his own Cure with you 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? 11 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 licensed, according to the 46. Canon? or doth he contribute towards a licensed Preacher, if his living will bear it? 12 Whether hath your Minister another benefice? and whether doth he supply his absence by a Curate, that is sufficiently licensed to preach in that cure of his whereon he himself is not resident? or otherwise in case he doth not find a preaching Minister there, by reason of the smallness thereof, whether doth he preach at both his benefices ●…sually himself, according to the 47. Canon. 13 Whether is your Curate licensed to serve by the L. Bishop of this Diocese, or by any other, and by whom? Whether doth your Minister or Curate serve any more cures than one, contrary to the 48. Canon: If yea, then what other cure doth he also serve? 14 If your minister be not licensed to preach as aforesaid, whether do●…h he read Homilies, or rather take upon him to e●…pound the s●…riptures, either in his own cure or else where, contrary to the 49. canon: if you them you are to present him, & speri●…e the place where he so h●…th preached? 15 Whether hath any person been admitted to preach within your Church or Chappel, but such as you have well known to be sufficiently licensed? whom have you so admitted? you shall present their names: and how often have any such been admitted to preach, & by whose procurement? And whether have you caused every strange Preacher, licensed or not licensed, to subscribe his name together with the day when he preached according to the 50. and 51. Canons? And if he were l●…cenced, then by whom was he licensed? And whether have they, or any other, preached in your Church not being soberly and decently appareled, according to the 74. Canon? 16 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? 17 Whether doth your Minister wear the Surplice, whilst he is saying public prayers, and administering the Sacraments? And if he be any Graduate, whether then doth he wear also upon his Surplice, during the times afore said, such a h●…d as by the o●…ers of his University is agreeable to his degree, according to the 58. Canon? 18 Whether doth your Minister, every Sunday, & 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 Relief and in the Lord's prayer, as also in the Catechism last set forth in the book of common-praier, whereby the children of the parish may be prepared for confirmation, according to the 60 Canon. 19 Whether hath your Minister without licence from the Archbishop, the Bishop of the Diocese, or his Chancellor, solemnized marriage betwixt any parties, the Banes not being three several Sundays, or Holidays first publis●…ed, in time of Divine Service, in the several churche●… or Chapels of several abode, according to the book of common-praier and the 62. Canon? and that also betwixt the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon, contrary to the 102. Canon. 20 Whether hath your Minister since the last Canons published, solemn nized any marriage betwixt any persons, being under the age of 21. years, although the Ba●…●…e thrice asked, before such time as the Parents hath made known unto him their consents thereunto, contrary t●… the 99 and 100 Canons? I whether hath he married any of another Diocese? who are they? and by what authority and when? 21 Whether doth your Minister upon Sundays at morning prayer declare unto the Parishioners what holidays & fasting days are appointed to be kept, the week following, according to the 64. Canon, whereby the●… 〈◊〉 ●…e put in mind to prepare themselves accordingly, and to repair to Church to public prayer as by law they are bound. 22 Whether doth your Minister in the Rogation days use the Perambulation, move the people to give thanks to God for his benefits, using such Psalms, Prayers, Homilies as are to that end set forth. 23 Whether doth any man( being neither Minister nor Deacon) read common Prayer openly in your Church or Chappel, 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 by such as are either Ministers or Deacons? And what is his name that so doth? 24 Whether doth your Minister every six Months denounce in his Church all such of his parish as do persevere in the sentence of excommunication not seeking to be absolved? And whether hath he admitted any person excommunicated into the Church without a certificate of his Absolution, from the Ordinary or other competent judge under seal. 25 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 visiting the sick according to the book of common prayer and the Canons in that case provided? 26 Whether is your Parson, vicar, Lecturer, or Curate too much frequent or over conversant with, or a favourer of Recusants, whereby he may be suspected not to be sincere in Religion? 27 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 when? And how often hath he so offended in any of the premises? 28 Whether hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint any public or private fasts or prophecies not approved and established by law or public authority? Or hath he attempted, upon any pretence either of possession or obsession, by fasting and prayer to cast out devils contrary unto the 72. Canon? 29 Whether hath your Minister or any 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. 30 Whether doth your Minister use such decency and comeliness in his apparel as by the constitution is enjoined as well at home as when he goeth abroad? 31 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 in the course of his life as a Lay-man, neglecting his vocation? If yea, than you shall present his name and the place of his abode. 32 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 of bad life, or himself to be a common drunkard, or to be a common haunter of Taverns, Alehouses, 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 ministery. 33 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 ●…ames. 34 Whether doth your Minister baptise any children in any Fason or other vessel then in the ordinary Font being placed in the Church according to the 81. Canon, or doth use to put any basin into it? 35 Item whether is the prescript form of divine service used by your Minister, upon the éeves of Sundays and Holidays according to the book of common-praier? and doth he read the Litany upon every wednesday and friday as is required by the 15 canon? and whether doth every house-houlder of your parish dwelling within half a mile of the Church come or send thither accordingly. 36 Item whether hath your Minister married any without a ring? hath he admitted any to be Godfather, or Godmother, to any child that hath not received the Communion? doth he refuse to bury any which ought to be interred in christian burial, or defer the same longer than he should, or bury any in christian burial, which by the constitutions of the church of England ought not so to be interred. 37 Item whether hath your Minister used the prescript form of thanksgiving for his majesties deliverance upon the fifth of August and the fifth of November according to the ordinance in that behalf. 38 Item whether doth your Minister and such others that preach in your church or chapel, or read any Lecture or Homily, before and at the beginning of every such Sermon, Lecture or Homily, move the people to join with him in prayer, in such manner, & form, and to such effect as in the 55. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 herein you shall present his 〈◊〉. 39 Item whether hath there been any ●…que ●…tion be●…t preacher and preacher, in your Church or Chappel, touching any Sermons of doctrine, or otherwise form●…ly preached by any other preacher either in your parish church, or in any 〈◊〉 chapel ●…re ●…ing: for the au●…ing of offence and 〈◊〉 that may gr●…w thereby. you are diligently to observe the directions of the 53. 〈◊〉, and so to present it. 40 Item whether hath your Minister taken especial care to prepare the children and youth of his p●…sh( not being as yet confirmed) to be made ●…itte for confirmation against this next visitation, or in wh●…m is the fault. Articles concerning the Church. 1 whether have you in your several Churches & Chapels the book of constitutions or Canons ecclesiastical ready to be read by y●…ur Minister according to his majesties pleasure, published by his highness authoriti●… under the great seal of England? 2 Whether is there in your Church or Chapel one parchment Register book provided for christ●…ings; marriages; and burials? And whether is the same duly and exactly kept according to the constitutions in that behalf provided, and a transcript thereof brought in y●…rely within one month after Easter into my Lord Bishop's Registers office? And whether doth your Minister upon every Sunday read the ●…ames 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, together with a Bible of the largest volume, and last translation; the two books of thanks giving for his majesties deliverance upon the 5. of August and fift of November; and the book of Homilies, and two Psalters: and whether have you in your Church or Chappel 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 ●…ke or some other decent stuff, and a ●…aire 〈◊〉 ●…ath to lay thereon at the Communion time? And whether is the same table 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 Scripture written on the walls likewise for the same purpose? 4 Whether have you a convenient seat for your Minister to read Service 〈◊〉, together with a comely Pulpit set up in a convenient place with a decent cloth or cushion for the same, a comely large Surplice, a fair Communion Cup of ●…uer, and aco●…er agreeable for the same, a standing 〈◊〉 of pewter or purer metal to put the wine in, whereby it may be set upon the Communion table at the time of the blessing thereof, 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 Whether are your Church or Chapels with the Chancels thereof, and your Parsonage or Uicaredge 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 & what defects are? All these things in these Articles, to be prepared, according to the Canons under the title appertaining to Churches. 6 Item whether have you a terrier of the gléebe-lands, and other rights, duties and possessions belonging to your Parsonage and Uicaradge? if no, then to inquire thereof upon the view and knowledge of honest substantial men, within your parish, together with the advice of your Person and vicar, and the same so made to certify and bring unto us, that it may be safely kept in our registry ad perpetuam rei memoriam, at this our first episcopal visitation. Articles concerning Ecclesiastical Officers. 1 whether do you know or have heard of any payment, composition, or agreement, to, or with any exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction within this Diocese, or any their Registers or officers Ecclesiastical, for suppressing or concealing of excommunication, or other Ecclesiastical censure, of, or against any Recusant? what sum of money or other consideration hath been received, or promised by, or to any of them for concealing of them? by whom, and with whom? 2 Whether any using Ecclesiastical jurisdiction in this Diocese, their Registers, Actuaries, Apparitors, or Summoners, have at any time winked at, and suffered any adulterers, fornicators, ince●…s, or other faults or offences presented unto them, to pass and remain unpunished and uncorrected, for money, rewards, bribes, pleasure, friendship, or any other partial respect? 3 Whether hath any exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction within this Diocese, or any Register, Apparitor, or Minister belonging to the Ecclesiastical courts, exacted extraordinary or greater fees than heretofore of late have been accustomed? and whether is there a Table of the rates of all fees set up in several courts and offices, or whether they or any of them have taken upon them the office of Informers or Promoters to the courts, or any other way abused themselves in their offices contrary to the law and canons in that case provided? 4 Item, are your Ecclesiastical judges and their substitutes masters of Arts, or Bachelors of the Law at the least, learned and practised in the civil and ecclesiastical Laws, men of good ●…ife and fame, zealously affected in Religion? and just and upright in executing their offices? have they heard any matter of office privately in their chambers, without their sworn Registers, or their Deputies presence? do you know, or have you heard of any sums of money to be taken by them, or any of their officers, of any dying intestate, upon pretence to bestow the same in pios usus, and how hath the same been bestowed? 5 Item, what number of Apparitors hath every several judge Ecclesiastical, and wherein, and in what manner is the country overburdened with them? and whether have they caused, or summoned any to appear in the said courts without a presentment or a citation first had, or whether have they threatened any to prosecute them in the said courts, if they would not give them some rewards? and what bribe's in that behalf have they taken? 6 Whether hath there been within your several Parishes since the day of last past any wills proved or administrations granted by the Archdeacon and his Official? or any known incontinent persons? or any suspected of that vice, or any other offenders whatsoever( having not before the said day of last passed been duly presented by their Churchwardens) for the same been called or cited by the Archdeacon or his Official? If yea, than you must present their names, and their offences, now at this visitation, for that since the said day of last the Archdeacon's authority was restrained and suspended by inhibition, and all jurisdiction Ecclesiastical ever since hath been in the Lord Bishop, Articles concerning Schoolmasters. 1 whether the Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters withinyour parish openly or privately in any Noble or Gentleman's house, or in any other place, be of good & sincere religion, life, and conversation, and be diligent in teaching and bringing up of youth, & whether they have been examined, allowed, and licencedfor 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 of 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 hear common-praier? 3 Whether the Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters 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 so 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, or disobedience, or contempt to his Majesty, and his laws Ecclesiastical by public authority allowed? 5 Whether your Schoolmaster, or Schoolmasters, or any of them under pretence of catechizing their scholars, which is a most godly order carefully by them to be observed, do keep Lectures, readings or exposition in divinity in their houses, having repair unto them of people not being of their own family and household? 6 What Reccusant Papists are there in your parish? and whether do they, or any of them keep any Schoolmaster in their house, which cometh not to Church to hear Divine Service, & receive the Communion? what is his name? and how long hath he taught? 7 Whether the Schoolmasters within your parish do teach his or their scholars any other Grammar thenthat which is commonly called the King's Grammar, set forth by the authority of K. Henry the eight, teaching the prescript form thereof, whereby their scholars may perfectly understand their Grammar rules and constructions? Articles concerning the Parishioners, and other of the Laity. 1 whether is there any in 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 in that behalf? 2 Whether is there any in your parish, that de●…ieth the Church of England by law established under the Kings most excellent Majesty, to be a true and Apostolical church, teaching and 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 Anno 1562. and established in the Church of England? 4 Whether is there any in your parish, that doth 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 the same is Antichristian or repugnant to the word of God? 6 Whether is there any in your parish, that do impugn the form of consecrating & 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 that form, are not lawfully made? 7 Whether is there any in your parish, that doth hold or frequent any conu●…nticles 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 others in Church government observed? 8 Whether any person have lurked and tippled in Taverns, or Alehouses, on Sundays or other holidays, or used his or their manual craft or trade, or keep their shops open upon the said days, or any of them, and espectally in the time of Divine service? 9 Whether are there any in your Parish, that do or have profaned the Lords day called Sunday, or other Holidays, contrary to the orders of the church of England, prescribed in that behalf? 10 Whether hath any person in your Parish quarreled, or stricken or used any violence unto, or with your Minister, or any other in the Church or Churchyard, or used himself disorderly in the Church, by ●…lthy and profane talk, or any other rude and immodest behaviour? 11 Whether is that due reverence, and humble submission used within your chur●… chapel in the time of Divine service, as by the 18. constitution is prescribed? and whether each one in the Church or chapel do apply and order himself there in time of Divine 〈◊〉, as by the letter part of the same constitution is most commendably enjoined? 12 Whether the Churchwardens and Questmen from time to time do their diligence in not suffering any idle persons or loiterers, to abide either in the Churchyard or Church porch in service or Sermon time, but causing them either to come into the Church to hear divine service, or to depart, and not to disturb●… such as are hearers there? 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 and wholesome wine, for the number of the communicants, that shall receive, and 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 Godfathers 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 twenty ninth Canon? 15 Whether is there any in your parish, that doth 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 since 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 the Fathers, Mothers, Masters, & 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 ●…e not their duties herein, you present their names. 17 Whether have you or your Predecessors, Churchwardens suffered any plays, feasts, banquets, church-ales, drink or any other profane usages, to be kept in your church, chapels, or churchyard, or ●…els to ●…rung superstitio●…e upon holidays or eves abrogated by the book of common-prayer, contrary to the 88 canon? 12 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 ●…hey? you are to present them all ●…f both forts. 19 Whether have you or your Predecessors brought unto my Lord Bishop or his Chancellor, within forty days next after Easter, the names of all such as have not communicated that Easter before, contrary to the 11. 2. Canon? 20 Whether do any of the Inhabitants of your said parish entertain within their house any soiurners, lodgers, or any common resorters and guests, who refuse to frequent Divine service, or receive the holic Communion as aforesaid? what be their names? of what quality or condition are they? 21 Whether are any of the said Popish Recusants of insolent behaviour not without public offence, or do boldly busy themselves in seducing and withdrawing others either abroad or in their own families, by instructing their children in Popish Religion, or by refusing ●…o 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? 22 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? 23 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 excommunicate? 24 Whether were you the Churchwardens and Questmen chosen by the consent of the Minister and parishioners in Easter●…ke, according unto the 89. and 90. canons? 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 things of right belonging to the church, which was in their hands, according to the 89. Canon? 25 Whether do all persons above the age of sixteen years usually reso●…t to hears 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 names, which have not so done? 26 Whether have you a fit Parish Clerk, aged 20. y●…res at least, of honest conversation & sufficient for reading and writing? and whether he be paid his wages without fraud●… according to the most ancient customs 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. 27 Whether have any in your Parish been married within the prohibit degrees, forbidden by the Law, and expressed in a certain Table published by authority in Anno 1563? If yea, than your shall present their names, and whether have you the said Table publicly set up in your Church, and fastened to some convenient place? 28 Whether doth any heretofore divorced keep company with any other at bed and at board as man & wife? what be their names? when and where they married? and how long have they so continued? 29 Whether have you any in your Parish, which heretofore being popish Recusants or Sectaries, have since conformed themselves & come to Church to hear Divine, service and receive the Sacraments? If yea, than who they are? And how long since have they so conformed themselves? and whether do they still remain and abide in that conformity? 30 Whether have you any in your parish to your knowledge or by common fame and report, 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 & taken to be common drunkards, blasphemers of Gods holy name, common and usual swearers, filthic speakers, railers, sowers of discord amongst their neighbours, or speakers against Ministers marriages, Usurers contrary to the statute made in the 37. year of K. Henry the eight, simonical persons, fighters, brawlers or quarrelers in Church or Churchyard? you shall not fail to present their names. 31 Whether have any in your parish received or harboured any woman gotten with child out of wedlock, and suffered them again to depart without penance first inflicted upon them by their ordinary? You shall truly present aswell the party harbouring as harboured, and who is suspected to have committed incontinency with her. 32 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. 33 Whether are there in your parish any wills not yet proved, or goods of the dead dying intestate, left unadministred by the authority of the Ordinary in that behalf? you shall not fail to present the Executors and all others faulty and culpable therein. 34 Whether 〈◊〉 any of or within your parish affirm, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the sacred Synod of this nation assembled by the 〈◊〉 authority is not the true Church of England by representati●… or hath or doth any of your parish affirm, th●… no persons either of the Clergy or Laity, that were not personally present in the said la●… Synod, are 〈◊〉 to the decrees thereof in causes Ecclesiastical made and ratified by the King's supreme authority, because they gave not up their voices unto them? you shall present their names. 35 Whether is there any among you, that ha●… or do●… 〈◊〉 the aforesaid late Synod, saying or affirming, that the same was a company o●… such persons as did conspire together against godly and religious Professors of the Gospel, and that therefore both they and their proceedings in that behalf are and aught to be despised and contemned, or words to the like effect? you shall not fail to present their names. 36 Whether there be any person or persons Ecclesiastical or temporal within your Parish or else where within this Diocese, that have retained and kept in their custody, or that read, sell, utter, disperse, carry or deliver to others any English books, or Libels set forth either on this side or beyond the seas, by Papists or Sectaries, against the ●…ings supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical, or 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, and what their names and surnames are? 35 Whether there be any in your parish who are noted, known or suspected to conceal or keep hidden in their houses any Mass books, portesses, br●…iaries, or other books of Popery and super●…ition, or any Chalices, Copes, Uestments, Albes, or other ornaments of superstition, uncancelled or undefaced, which it is to be conjectured, they do keep for a day, as they call it? 38 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? 39 Whether there be any innkeepers, Alewives, Uictualers, or ●…iplers, 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 the 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 Fairs or common Markets falling upon Holidays, there be showing of any wares before morning prayer be 〈◊〉 and whether any Markets and selling of wares be used or su●… in any Churchyards on the Sabbath day by common packmen and peddlers going about, or any Butchers? 40 Whether hath your Minister or any of the parish without the consent or privity of the Ordinary, caused any to do penance or be punished either openly or otherwise, 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? 41 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-praier, making a schism or division( as it were) between the use of public prayer, & 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: and at the receiving of the holy communion? and what are their names, that have at any time showed themselves undutiful and unreverent in that behalf? 42 Whether there be any married woman or others within your Parish, which after childbirth, refuse or contemn to come to the Church to give God thanks for their diliverie, and to have the prayers publicly appointed on that behalf by the book of common prayer? 43 Whether any within your parish do resort unto Farnes, fields, woods, private houses, or to any extraordinary exposition of scriptures or conferences together? or that be drawers or persuaders of others to any such schismatical conventicles? 44 Whether any do keep their children unbaptized longer than is convenient, unless that it be for sickness of the child, or other urgent occasion? And whether any do carry their children from the Parish they are borne in, to other Parishes to be baptised, and so refuse their own Parish: or do bring strange Ministers into their own houses to baptise their children privately according to their own fantasies? 45 Item, whether have you any Conjurers, Charmers, ●…lcours, Witches, or Fortune-tellers within your Parish? who are they, and who do resort to them for counsel? 46 Item, have you the Church wardens exhibited into the bishops registry a true copy of the names of all such as have been christened, married, or buried within your parish this last year, according to the 70. Canon? 47 Item, whether hath the fifth of August, and the fifth of November been kept holy, and thanksgivings made to God, for his Majesties, and the States happy del●…rance, according to the Ordinance in that behalf? 48 Item, whether have you, or your Predecessors Churchwardens,( according to the branch of a Statute mentioned in the latter end of this book) levied twelve pence for every Sundays absence to the use of the poor of your parish, of the lands, goods, and tenemen●…s of every one that hath without lawful execuse absented himself from his parish church? if not, you are to present it yourselves by virtue of your oaths? If yea, then hath the money been employed to that use, and distributed accordingly. 49 Whether do you know of any other matter of Ecclesiastical cognizance, worthy the presentment in your judgement, above not expressed, which you hold fit to be reform? and if you do, you shall likewise present the same by virtue of your Oaths. FINIS.