Injunctions Given by the most reverend father in Christ, Edmonde by the providence of God, Archbishop of York, primate of England, and Metropolitan, in his Metropolitical visitation of the Province of York, aswell to the Clergy, as to the laity of the same Province. Anno do. 1571.  
Imprinted at London, by William Seres.  
Cum privilegio.   

Injunctions given by the most Reverend Father in Christ, Edmonde by the providence of God, archbishop of York, etc.  

❧ For the Clergy.  
INPRIMIS, you must travel diligently and painfully to set forth God's true religion, and adorn the same with example of godly life, being circumspect, that you offend no man either by light behaviour, or by light apparel.  
2 Item, upon every Sunday and Holiday, ye shall in your Church or Chapel, at convenient hours, reverently and distinctly say, or sing the Common prayer, appointed by the laws of this Realm, both in the forenoon and afternoon, standing in a pulpit, or seat appointed for that purpose, and so turning your face towards the people, as they may best hear the same, and upon every Wednesday and Friday in the forenoon (not being holy day) ye shall in like manner say the Litany, and other Prayers appointed for the day, and likewise the evening, Prayer every Saturday & holy Even, and shall also at all times requisite and convenient, duly and reverently minister the two holy Sacraments, that is to say, Baptism and the lords Supper, commonly called the holy Communion, according to such order, as is set forth in the book of Common prayer, and administration of the Sacraments.  
3 Item, ye shall minister the holy Communion every month once at the lest in every of your Churches, & Chapels, where ministration of the Sacraments is permitted: And to the intent that the people may better understand their duties, and come the better prepared to the holy Communion, ye shall monthly exhort your Parishioners to come to the same, and always give them warning thereof, the next Sunday before ye ministre the same, declaring unto them, that by the laws of this Realm, every person of convenient age is bound to receive the holy Communion, at the lest three times in the year, and namely at Easter for ones.  
4 Item, that at all times when ye minister the holy Sacraments, and upon Sundays and other holy days, when ye say the Common prayer and other divine service in your Parish Churches and chapels (and likewise at all Marriages & Burials, ye shall (when ye minister) wear a clean and decent surples with large sleeves) and shall Minister the Holy communion in no chalice, nor any profane cup or glass, but in a Communion cup of Silver, and with a cover of Silver, appointed also for the ministration of the Communion bread: ye shall not deliver the Communion bread unto the people into their mouths, but into their hands, nor shall use at the Ministration of the communion any gestures, rites or Ceremonies, not appointed by the book of Common prayer, as crossing or breathing over the Sacramental▪ bread and Wine, nor any showing or lifting up of the same to the people, to be by them worshipped and adored, nor any such like, nor shall use any Oil or Chrism, Tapers, Spittle, or any other Popish ceremony in the ministration of the Sacrament of Baptism.  
5 Item, ye shall every Sunday and Holy day openly in your Church or chapel, call for, hear, and instruct the children and servants, both menkind and womenkinde, that be of convenient age within your Parish (at the lest so many of them at once by course, as the time will serve, and as you may well hear and instruct for an hour at the lest) before Evening prayer in the ten commandments, the articles of the Belief, and the lords prayer in English, and diligently examine and teach them the Catechism set forth in the book of Common prayer. And to th'intent this thing may be more effectually executed, ye shall take the names of all the children, young men, maidens and servants in your Parish, that be above six years of age and under twenty, which can not say the catechism, & shall call by course certain of them by name, every Sunday and every Holy day, to come to the Catechism, whereby you may easily note and observe what Parents or Masters be negligent in sending their children, and servants to be instructed and take occasion thereof, both privately and openly to exhort them to send their youth, as they are appointed, and shall present the refusers to the ordinary.  
6 Item, you shall not admit to the receiving of the holy Communion any of your Parish, which be openly known to live in any notorious sin, as Incest, Adultery, Fornication, Drunkenness, much Swearing, Bawdry, Usury, or such like, without dew penance first done to the satisfaction of the congregation, nor any malicious person that is out of Charity, or that hath done open wrong to his neighbour by word or deed, without dew reconciliation first made to the party that is wronged or maliced.  
7 Item, you shall not admit to the holy Communion any of your Parish, men or women being above four and twenty years of age, that can not say by heart, at the lest the ten Commandments, the articles of the Faith, and the lords prayer in English, nor any being fourteen years and above, and under four and twenty years of age that can not say by heart the Catechism, that is set forth in the said book of common Prayer.  
8 Item, for that purpose ye shall before Easter and all other times of the year, when the holy Communion is to be by you ministered, give warning before unto your Parishioners to come unto you, either in the afternoon of some Sunday or holy day, or the day before they purpose to receive, or at some other times before, as necessity shall 'cause you to appoint, if there be any multitude, or (if the numbered be but small) in the morning at the farthest, before they shall receive, so that it be before the beginning of Morning prayer, so many of them, as intend to receive, & not only to signify unto you their names, to the intent ye may keep a Register or note of all such persons as from time to time shall communicate, but also to be by you examined, whether they can say by heart the ten commandments, the Articles of the Faith, the lords prayer, and the Catechism, according as after the diversity of their ages is above required, and such of them as either can not, or will not recite the same by heart unto you, ye shall repel and put back from the holy Communion, until they shall be able & willing to learn, and can by heart recite the same unto you: for your better assistance wherein, ye shall call upon and require the Churchwardens and Sworn men of your Parish to be present (one of them at the lest) at every such examination, to th'intent they may help to put this good order in practice, and ye shall take a note of such wilful and negligent persons, as ye shall find faulty in this behalf, and so present the same, and the Churchwardens, and Sworn men also, to the Ordinary if they shall refuse so to assist you.  
9 Item ye shall not marry any persons, or ask the Banes of Matrimony between any persons which before were single, unless they can say the Catechism by heart, and will recite the same unto you before the ask of the Banes. And ye shall not marry any persons without the Banes be thrice on three several Sundays or Holidays first openly asked, without any impediment or forbidding. Neither shall ye marry any persons within the degrees of affinity or consanguinity by the Laws of God forbidden, so set out for an admonition in a table lately appointed to be affixed in your parish Church. For the better knowledge of which degrees ye shall read unto your Parishioners the said Table every year twice at the lest.  
10 Item, ye shall not admit to answer as Godfathers or Godmothers at the Christening of any Child, any person or persons, except he, she, and they, have before received the holy Communion, and can say by heart the articles of the Christian Faith in English, and will recite the same before you at the time of Ministration of Baptism, or before the Minister, if he, she, or they be thereunto required: And being young folks, except he, she, and they can say by heart the whole Catechism, and will recite the same before you, as is aforesaid.  
11 Item, ye shall not Church any unmarried woman which hath been gotten with child out of lawful Matrimony, except it be upon some Sunday or Holy day, and except she either before her childbirth have done dew penance for her fault, to the satisfaction of the congregation, or at her coming to be Churched, she do openly acknowledge her fault before the congregation accordingly, and show herself to be very penitent for the same: Leaving it free for the Ordinary to punish her further at his discretion.  
12 Item, ye shall every Sunday when there is no Sermon in your Church or Chapel, distinctly and plainly read in the pulpit, some one of the Homilies set forth by the queens majesties authority, or one part thereof at the lest, in such sort as the same are divided and appointed to be read, by the two books of the Homilies. And every Holy day when there is no Sermon, ye shall immediately after the Gospel, plainly and distinctly recite to your Parishioners the lords prayer, the Articles of the faith, and the ten Commandments in English, and being not admitted by the Ordinary or other lawful authority, ye shall not expound any Scripture or matter of doctrine, by the way of exhortation or otherwise, and thereby omit and leave of the reading of the Homilies.  
13 Item, you shall plainly & distinctly read in your Church or Chapel unto the people between the Litany and the Communion, the form of commination against sinners, with certain prayers following the same, set forth in the later end of the book of common Prayer, three times at the lest in the year, that is to say for order's sake, yearly upon one of the two Sundays next before Gaster, for the first time, upon one of the two Sundays next before the feast of Pentecost for the second time: and for the third time upon one of the two Sundays next before the feast of the birth of our Lord, over and beside the accustomed reading thereof upon the first day of Lente.  
14 Item, you shall read openly in your Church in these of divine service, twice every year upon some of the Sundays within one month, next after the feasts of Easter and saint Michael the Archangel, plainly, without addition or change: a declaration of certain principal Articles of Religion set forth by both the archbishops, and the rest of the Bishops of this Realm for the unity of Doctrine.  
15 Item, ye shall not proclaim, bid or observe, nor willingly suffer your Parishioners to observe any Holy days or casting days heretofore abrogated, or not appointed by the new Calendar of the Book of common Prayer, to be used or kept as Holy days or Fasting days, nor give the people any knowledge thereof by any indirect means.  
16 Item, ye shall keep well the Registers of all Weddings, Burials and Christeninges within your Parish, according to th'order prescribed in the queens majesties Injunctions▪ and shall present a copy of them every year once, by Indenture to the Ordinary or his Officers.  
17 Item, you shall Preach or by such as are lawfully licensed, shall 'cause to be Preached in the Churches where you are Persons or vicars, one Sermon every quarter of the year at the lest.  
18 Item, no Minister or Priest shall serve two cures at one time, nor say common service in any private man's house, without special licence under the Ordinaries seal. Nor any Curate shall serve any one cure within this Province, without letters testimonial of the Ordinary of the place, from whence he came, testifying the cause of his departing from thence, and of his behaviour there, nor unless he shall first obtain and have special licence in writing under the seal of the Ordinary of the place whereunto he cometh, for his admission to such a cure, and shall show the same to the Churchwardens: before he enter to serve any such cure.  
19 Item, ye shall read openly in your Churches & Chapels, in time of divine service the queens majesties Injunctions every quarter of a year once: And these our Injunctions concerning aswell the Clergy as the laity, every half year once.  
20 Item, for the putting of the Churchwardens and sworn men, better in remembrance of their duty, in observing and noting all such persons of your parish, as do offend in not coming to Divine service, ye shall openly every Sunday after ye have read the second Lesson, at Morning and Evening prayer, monish and warn the Churchwardens and Sworn men of your Parish, to look to their Oaths and charge in this behalf, and to observe who contrary to the Law do that day offend, either in absenting themselves negligently or wilfully from their parish Church or Chapel, or unreverently use themselves in the time of Divine service, and so note the same to the intent they may either present such offenders to the Ordinary, when they shallbe required thereunto, or levy and take by way of distress to the use of the Poor, such forfeitures as are appointed by a Statute, made in the first year of the queens majesties Reign in that behalf, and if the Churchwardens and Sworn men be negligent, or shall refuse to do their duty that way, ye shall present to the Ordinary both them, and all such others of your Parish as shall offend either in absenting themselves from the Church, or by unreverent behaviour in the Church contrary to the same Statute.  
21 Item, ye shall from time to time diligently call upon & exhort your Parishioners to contribute and give towards the relief of the Poor, as they may well spare, and specially when ye visit them that be sick, and make their Testaments, and for your own parts also, ye shall charitably relieve the Poor to your ability.  
22 Item, ye shall daily read at the lest one chapter of the Old Testament, and an other of the New, with good advisement, and such of you as be under the degree of a master of Art shall provide and have of your own, according to the queens majesties Injunctions, at the lest the New Testament both in Latin and English, conferring the one with the other, every day one Chapter thereof at the lest, so that upon the examination of the archdeacon, Commissary or their Officers, in Synods and Uisitations, or at other appointed times it may appear, how ye profit in the study of holy Scripture.  
23 Item, ye shall not keep or suffer to be kept in your parsonage or Uicaridge houses, any Alehouses, Tippling Houses, or Taverns, nor shall cell Ale, Beer or Wine, nor any of you shall keep any suspected woman in your house, or be an incontinent liver, given to Drunkenness or Idleness, nor any of you being unmarried, shall keep in your house any woman under the age of threescore years, except she be your Daughter by former Marriage, or be your Mother, Aunt, Sister, or Niece, and such an one as ye shall keep, shallbe of good name and fame, nor any of you shallbe a haunter of Taverns, Alehouses, or suspected places, or a Hunter, Hawker, Dicer, Carder, Tabler, Swearer, or otherwise give any evil example of life, but contrariwise at all times when ye shall have leisure, ye shall hear or read some part of holy Scripture, or some other good Authors, or shall occupy yourselves with some other honest study or exercise, & oftentimes give yourselves to earnest prayer, and shallbe diligent in visiting the sick & comforting of them.  
24 Item, you shall exhort your Parishioners to obedience towards their Prince, and all other that be in authority, and to charity and mutual love amongst themselves, helping to reconcile them which shall happen to be at variance at any time, and if ye can not Preach, ye shall teach children to read, to writ, & to know their duties towards God, their Prince, Parents, and all others: and by all means ye can, ye shall endeavour yourselves to profit the Common Wealth, having always in mind that ye aught to excel all other in purity of life, and should be examples to the people to live well and Christianly, not giving any way just cause of offence.  
25 Item, all Proprietaries' Parsons, vicars, and Clerks, having Churches or Chapels within this province, shall 'cause the Chancels or Quéeres of their Churches or Chapels to be from time to time, according to the queens majesties Injunctions in that behalf, sufficiently repaired and maintained in good estate, and all Parsons, vicars and other Clerks, having Mansion houses belonging to their promotions, shall likewise repair and keep the same in good estate, and upon the same Chancels or Quéeres, and Mansion houses with buildings thereunto belonging, being in decay, shall yearly bestow according to the same Injunctions the fift part of that their benefice, till they be fully repaired, and being repaired, shall maintain the same in good estate and order▪   

¶ For the laity.  
FIrst we do enjoin and straightly command, that from henceforth no parish Clerk nor any other parson, not being ordered at the lest for a Deacon, shall presume to solemnize Matrimony, or to Minister the Sacrament of Baptism, or to deliver to the Communicantes the Lords Cup at the celebration of the holy Communion. And that no person not being a Minister, Deacon, or at the lest tolerated by the Ordinary in writing, do attempt to supply th'office of the Minister in saying of Divine service openly in any Church or Chapel.  
2 Item, to th'intent that the people may the better hear the Morning and evening Prayer, when the same by the Minister is said, & be the more edified thereby, we do enjoin that the Churchwardens of every parish, in places aswell exempt as not exempt at the charges of the Parish, shall procure a decent low Pulpit to be erected and made in the body of the Church out of hand, wherein the Minister shall stand with his face towards the people, when he readeth Morning and Evening prayer. Provided always that where the Churches are very small, it shall suffice that the Minister stand in his accustomed stall in the queer: So that a convenient desk or lecterne with a room to turn his face towards the people be there provided by the said Churchwardens at the charges of the parish. The judgement and order whereof and also the form and order of the Pulpit or seat aforesaid in greater Churches, we do refer unto the Archdeacon of the place or to his Official. Provided also that the prayers and other service appointed for the Ministration of the holy Communion, be said and done at the Communion table, except the Epistle and Gospel, which shallbe read in the said pulpit or stall, and also the ten commandments when there is no Communion.  
3 Item, that the Churchwardens according to the custom of every parish shallbe chosen by the consent aswell of the Parson, Uicare, or Curate, as of the Parishioners, otherwise they shall not be Churchwardens, neither shall they continued any longer, than one year in that office, except perhaps they shall be chosen again: They shall not cell or alienate any Bells or other church goods, without consent of the Ordinary, in writing first had, nor shall put the money that shall come of any such sale, to any other use than to the reparations of their Churches or chapels, or for providing of necessaries for the same Churches or Chapels. And all Churchwardens at the end of every year shall give up to the Parson, Uicare, or Curate, and their Parishioners a just account written in a book to be provided at the charges of the Parish for that purpose, of all such money, ornaments, stock, rents, or other Church goods, as they have received, during the time they were in office, and also shall particularly show, what cost they have bestowed in reparations & other things for the use of the Church. And going out of their offices they shall truly deliver up in the sight of the Parishioners to the next Churchwardens, and note in the said Church book, whatsoever money, ornaments, stock, or other Church goods shall remain and be in their hands at the time of giving up of their accounts.  
4 Item, that the Churchwardens in every Parish shall at the costs and charges of the Parish provide (if the same be not already provided) all things necessary & requisite for common Prayer and Administration of the holy Sacraments, on this side the twenty day of next ensuing, specially the book of Common prayer, with the new Calendar and a Psalter to the same, the English Bible in the largest volume, the two Tomes of the Homilies, with the Homilies lately written against Rebellion, the table of the ten Commandments, a convenient pulpit well placed, a comely and decent table, standing on a framefor the holy Communion, with a fair linen cloth to lay upon the same, and some covering of Silk, Buckram, or other such like, for the clean keeping thereof, a fair and comely Communion cup of silver, and a cover of silver for the same, which may serve also for the ministration of the Communion bread, a decent large Surplice with sleeves, a sure Coffer with two locks and keys, for keeping of the Register book, and a strong chest or Box for the almose of the pair, with three locks and keys to the same, and all other things necessary in and to the premises. And shall also provide before the said day, the Paraphrases of Erasmus in English upon the Gospels, and the same set up in some convenient place within their church or chapel, the charges whereof, the person or proprietary and Parishioners shall by equal portions bear according to the queens majesties Injunctions, all which books must be whole and not torn or unperfit in any wise. And the Churchwardens also shall from time to time, at the charges of the Parish, provide bread and wine for the Communion. And for that purpose shall take some order among the Parishioners, that every one may pay such a reasonable sum towards the same, as may suffice for the finding of bread and wine for the Communion throughout the whole year, so as no Communion at any time be disappointed for want of bread and wine.  
5 Item, that the Churchwardens shall see that in their churches and chapels, all Altars be utterly taken down and clear removed even unto the foundation, and the place where they stood paved, and the wall whereunto they joined, whited over, and made uniform with the rest, so as no breach or rapture appear. And that the Aulterstones be broken, defaced, and bestowed to some common use. And that the Rood lofts be taken down, and altered so, that the upper boards and timber thereof both behind and above, where the Rood lately did hung, and also the cellar or fit be quite taken down unto the cross beam, whereunto the partition between the queer and the body of the church is fastened, and that the said beam have some convenient crest put upon the same. And that all the boards, beams, and other stuff of the Rood lofts, be sold by the churchwardens to the use of the church, so as no part thereof be kept and reserved.  
6 Item that the churchwardens shall from time to time, see that their churches and chapels, and the steeples thereof be diligently and well repaired, with lead, tile, slate, or shingle, lime, stone, timber, glass, and all other necessaries, and that their churches and chapels be kept clean and decently, that they be not loathsome to any, either by dust, sand, gravel, or any filth, and that there be no feasts, dinners, or common drinkings kept in the church, and that the churchyards be well fenced and cleanly kept, and that no folks be suffered to dance in the same.  
7 Item, that the Churchwardens and Minister shall see, that Antiphoners, Mass books, Grails, Portesses, Processionals, Manualles, Legendaries, and all other books of late belonging to their church or chapel, which served for the superstitious latin service, be utterly defaced, rend, & abolished. And that all Uestments, Albes, Tunicles, Stoles, Phanons, Pixes, Paxes, Handbelles, Sacringbelles, Senscers, Crismatories, Crosses, Candlesticks, Holy water stocks or Fats, Images, and all other relics and monuments of superstition & idolatry be utterly defaced, broken & destroyed, & if they cannot come by any of the same, they shall present to the Ordinary what they cannot come by, and in whose custody the same is, to the intent further order may be taken for the defacing thereof.  
8 Item, when any man or woman dwelling near to the church in any City, Borough, or great town, is in passing out of this life, the Parish clerk or Sextan shall knoll the bell to move the people to pray for the sick person. And after the time of the departing of any christian body out of this life, the churchwardens shall see, that neither there be any more ringing, but one short peal before the burial, and another short peal after the burial without ringing of any handbels or other superfluous or superstitious ringing, either before or at the time of the burial or at any time after the same, nor any other form of seruicesayde or sung, or other ceremonies used at any burial, than are appointed by the book of common prayer. And also that neither on all Saint's day after Evening prayer, nor the day next after, of late called all Souls day, there be any ringing at all other then to common prayer, when the same shall happen to fall upon the Sunday. And that no month minds or yearly commemorations of the dead, nor any other superstitious ceremonies be observed or used which tend to the maintenance either of prayer for the dead, or of the Popish Purgatory.  
9 Item, that the Churchwardens shall not suffer any ringing or tolling of Bells to be on Sundays or holidays used, between the morning prayer, Litany, and Communion, nor in any other time of common prayer, reading of the Homilies, or of preaching, except it be one Bell in convenient time to be rung, or knolled before a Sermon, nor shall suffer any other ringing to be used upon Saintes evens or festival days, saving to common prayer, and that moderately and without excess, nor the Minister shall pause or stay between the morning prayer, Litany and Communion, but shall continued and say the morning prayer, Litany, and communion, or the service appointed to be said, when there is no Communion, together without any intermission, to the intent the people may continued together in prayer, and hearing the word of God, and not departed out of the church, during all the time of the whole divine service.  
10 Item that all fathers, mothers, masters and other governors of youth, shall in every parish, cause their children and servants both menkind and womenkinde, being above seven years of age, and under twenty years, which have not learned the Catechism, or at the lest such and so many of them as the Minister shall appoint, diligently to come to the church, every Sunday, and every holy day at the time appointed, and there diligently & obediently to hear, learn, and be ordered by the Minister, until such time as they have learned all the said Catechism by heart, and shall give to the Minister the names of all their children and servants both men kind and women kind, being above seven years, and under twenty years of age, to the intent he may call for them to be examined and instructed in the said catechism. And if any of the said fathers, mothers, masters, or other governors of youth shall refuse or neglect so to send their children or servants unto the Minister to be examined, and instructed at the times appointed, or to give their names, as is aforesaid, or if any of the said young folks shall refuse to be examined and instructed, that then the Minister and Churchwardens shall present such negligent persons, and refusers, to the Ordinary, to be by him punished accordingly.  
11 Item, that all men and women of fourteen years of age, and upwards, shall (as by the laws of this realm they are bound) receive in their own parish Churches or Chapels, the holy communion thrice at the lest every year, and namely at Easter, or there abouts for once, and yearly before Easter at convenient times (and namely on Sundays in Lent at after noon, or in some of the workedayes next before Easter) as the person, vicar, or curate, shall appoint, they shall, before they receive, come to the Minister, and recite to him, such of them as be of fourteen years or above, and under xxiiij years of age, the whole Catechism by heart, and such of them as be of xxiiij years of age and upwards, the Catechism, or at the lest, the lords prayer, the articles of the faith, and the ten commandments, likewise by heart in English, and whosoever either cannot, or wilfully and stubbornly shall refuse to recite and say the same by heart before their Minister, shall be repelled and put back from the Communion Table. And the churchwardens and Minister shall present all such refusers, and all others that shall not receive thrice a year the holy Communion, unto the Ordinary yearly at the next visitation after Easter.  
12 Item, the Churchwardens shall not suffer any peddler or others whatsoever, to set out any wares so sale, either in the Porches of Churches, or in the Churchyards, nor any where else on holy days or Sundays, whiles any part of divine service is in doing, or whiles any sermon is in preaching.  
13 Item, that no Innkeeper, alehousekeeper, Uictualer, or Typler shall admit or suffer any person or persons in his house or backside, to eat, drink, or play at cards, Tables, Bowls, or other games in time of common prayer, preachings, or reading of homilies on the Sundays, or holy days, and that there be no shops set open on Sundays or holidays, nor any Butchers or others suffered to cell meat or other things upon the Sundays or holy days in like time of common prayer, preaching, or reading of the homilies. And that in any fairs or common Markets, falling upon the Sunday, there be no showing of any wares before all the Morning service and the Sermon (if there be any) be done. And if any shall offend in this behalf, the Churchwardens and sworn men, after once warning given unto them, shall present them by name unto the Ordinary.  
14 Item, that the lay people of every Parish (as they be bound by the laws of this Realm) and especially householders having no lawful excuse to be absent, shall faithfully and diligently endeavour themselves, to resort with their children and servants to their parish Church or Chapel on the holy days, & chief upon the Sundays, both to Morning and Evening prayer, and other divine service, and upon reasonable let thereof, to some other usual place where common prayer is used, and then and there abide orderly and soberly during all the time of common prayer, Homilies, Sermons, and other service of God there used, reverently and devoutly giving themselves to prayer, and hearing of the word of God. And that the churchwardens and sworn men, above all others, shall be diligent in frequenting and resorting to their parish churches or chapels upon Sundays and holy days, to the intent they may note and mark all such persons as upon any such days shall absent themselves from the Church, and upon such absence shall exami ne them of the cause thereof.  
15 Item, that the churchwardens and sworn men shall not suffer any persons to walk, talk or otherwise unreverently to behave themselves in any church or chapel, nor to use any gaming, or to sit abroad in the streets or churchyards, or in any Tavern or Alehouse, upon the Sundays or other holy days, in the time of divine service, or of any Sermon, whether it be before noon or after noon, but after warning once given, shall punish both them and all others that negligently, or wilfully shall absent themselves from divine service, or come very late to the church upon Sundays or holy days, having no lawful let or hindrance, and those also that without any just cause shall departed out of the Church before the divine service or sermon be done: according to a statute made in the first year of the queens majesties reign, printed and set forth in the beginning of the book of common prayer: that is to say, the Churchwardens shall levy and take of every one that wilfully or negligently so shall offend, the forteyfure of xii▪ penny for every such offence, and shall also present them to the Ordinary: which forfeitures they shall levy, according to the same statute by distraining the goods, lands and tenements of such offenders, and shall (as by the same statute they are appointed) deliver the money that cometh thereof to the Collectors, for the use of the poor people of the same parish.  
16 Item, that no person or persons whatsoever, shall wear Beads, or pray either in Latin or in English upon Beads or knots, or any other like superstitious thing, nor shall pray upon any popish Latin or English Primer, or other like book, nor shall burn any candles in the church superstitiously upon the feast of the purification of the virgin Marie, commonly called Candlemas day, nor shall resort to any popish priest for shrift or auricular confession in Lent, or at any other time, nor shall worship any cross, or any Image or picture upon the same, nor give any reverence thereunto, nor superstitiously shall make upon themselves the sign of the cross, when they first enter into any church to pray, nor shall say De profundis for the dead, or rest at any cross in carrying any corpse to burying, nor shall leave any little crosses of wood there.  
17 Item that yearly at Midsummer, the person, vicar, or curate, and churchwardens, shall choose two Collectors or more for the relief of the poor of every Parish, according to a statute made in that behalf, in the fift year of the queens majesties reign, entitled an art for the relief of the poor, and renewed in the last Parliament, which collectors shall weekly gather the charitable almose of the Parishioners, and distribute the same to the poor where most need shall be, without fraud or partiality, and shall quarterly make unto the person, vicar, or curate, and churchwardens, a just account thereof in writing. And if any person of ability shall obstinately or frowardly refuse to give reasonably towards the relief of the poor, or shall wilfully discourage others from so charitable a deed, or shall withdraw his accustomed almose without just cause, the churchwardens and sworn men shall present to the Ordinary every such person so refusing to give, discouraging others, or withdrawing his accustomed almose, that reformation may be had therein.  
18 Item, that for the retaining of the Perambulation of the circuit of every Parish yearly, the person, vicar, or curate, and churchwardens, with certain of the substantial men of every Parish, such as the Minister and Churchwardens shall think meet to require, shall in the days of the Rogations commonly called the cross week, or gang days, walk the accustomed bounds of every Parish, and in the same perambulation, or going about, the Minister shall use none other ceremony, than to say in English the two Psalms beginning Benedic anima mea domine: that is to say, the Ciij. Psalm, and the. Ciiij. Psalm, and such sentences of scripture as be appointed by the queens majesties Injunctions, with the Litany and Suffrages following the same, and reading one Homely already devised & set forth for that purpose, without wearing any surplices, carrying of Banners, or Handbels, or staying at Crosses, or such like popish ceremonies.  
19 Item, that the Minister & churchwardens shall not suffer any Lords of misrule, or Summer Lords, or Ladies, or any disguised persons, or othexs in Christmas, or at May games, or any Minstrels, Morris dancers, or others, at Rishbearing or at any other times, to come unreverently into any Church, or Chapel, or Churchyard, and there dance, or play any unseemly parts, with scoffs, jests, wanton gestures, or ribald talk, namely, in the time of divine service, or of any sermon.  
20 Item that no schoolmaster shall teach either openly or privately in any Gentleman's house, or in any other place, unless he be of good and sincere Religion and conversation, and be first examined, allowed, and licensed by the Ordinary in writing under his seal: he shall not teach any thing contrary to the order of Religion now set forth by public authority, he shall teach his scholars the Catechism in Latin lately set forth, and such sentences of scripture (besides profane chaste Authors) as shall be most meet to move them to the love and due reverence of God's true Religion now truly set forth by the queens Majesty, and to induce them to all godliness and honest conversation.  
21 Item, that no parish Clarke be appointed against the good will, or without the consent of the person, vicar, or curate, in any Parish, and that he be obedient to the person, vicar, and curate, especially in the time of celebration of divine service, or of the Sacraments, or in any preparation thereunto. And that he be able also to read the first Lesson, the Epistle, and the Psalms, with answers to the Suffrages as is used, and that he keep the books and ornaments of the church fair and clean, and 'cause the Church and Choir, the Communion table, the Pulpit, and the Font, to be kept decent, and made clean against service time, the Communion, Sermon, and Baptism, and also that he endeavour himself to teach young children to read, if he be able so to do.  
22 Item, that the Churchwardens and sworn men of every Parish shall halfeyearely from time to time present to the Ordinary the names of all such persons of their Parish, as be either blasphemers of the name of God, great or often swearers, adulterers, fornicators, incestuous persons, bawds, or receivers of naughty and incontinent persons, or harbourers of women with child, which be unmarried, conveying or suffering them to go away before they do any penance, or make satisfaction to the Congregation, or that be vehemently suspected of such faults, or that be not of good name and fame, touching such faults and crimes, or that be drunkards, or ribalds, or that be malicious, contentious, or uncharitable persons, common slanderers of their neighbours, railers, scolders, or sowers of discord between neighbours. And also all such as be Usurers, that is to say, all those, that lend money, corn, ware, or other thing, and receive gain therefore, over and above that which they lend.  
23 Item, that the Churchwardens, and sworn men of every Parish, shall likewise halfeyearly present to the Ordinary all such persons as either heretofore have married, and be not divorced, or hereafter shall marry within the degrees of affinity, or consanguinity, by the laws of God forbidden, so set out for an admonition in a Table lately appointed to be affixed in every Parish church of this province, or that being divorced or separated for the same, do yet notwithstanding cohabite, and keep company still together. And also all persons being married without those degrees, that have unlawfully forsaken their wives, or husbands, and married others, and if any man have two wives at once, or any woman two husbands at once, or if any being divorced or separated asunder, have married again: If any be married that have made a precontract. If any have married without banes thrice solemnly asked in the Church. If any couples be married that live not together, but slanderously live apart, or if any have married out of the parish church where they aught to have solemnized marriage, the churchwardens and sworn men shall likewise present the same halfeyearely to the Ordinary.  
24 Item, the Churchwardens and sworn men of every parish shall likewise halfeyearely present to the Ordinary the names of all such persons whatsoever, either of the Clergy or laity, that be favourers of the romish and foreign power, letters of true Religion; hearers or sayers of Mass, or of any Latin service, Preachers or setters forth of corrupt and popish doctrine, maintainers of sectaries, disturbers of divine service, keepers of any secret conventicles, preachings or lectures, receivers of any vagabond popish priests, or other notorious mislikers of true Religion, or maintainers of the unlearned people in ignorance and error, encouraging and moving them rather to pray in an unknown tongue than in English, or that stubbornly refuse to conform themselves to unity and godly Religion now established by public authority.  
25 And finally, the Churchwardens and sworn men of every Parish shall likewise halfeyearely present to the Ordinary, whether all these Injunctions given as is above, aswell to the Clergy, as to the laity, be duly observed and kept, and if they be not, then which and how many of the said Injunctions be not kept, and by whom, and in what point any person or persons do violate and break the same.  
All which Injunctions we do charge and command to be inviolably performed and observed of all persons whom they shall concern within our province of York, upon pain of contempt, and of excommunication, and other censures of the church by the ecclesiastical laws of this Realm in such like cases limited and appointed.   
FINIS.  
God save the Queen.   

Articles to be inquired of, within the Province of York, in the Metropolitical visitation of the most reverent father in God, Edmonde Archbishop of York, Primate and Metropolitan of England.  
In the xiij year of the reign of our most gracious sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith. etc.  
¶ Imprinted at London, by William Seres.  
Anno. 1571.   

Articles to be inquired of, within the province of York, in the Metropolitical visitation of the most reverent father in God, Edmond archbishop of York, Primate and Metropolitan of England.  
WHether common prayer be song or said, by your person, vicar or Curate in your several Churches or Chapels, distinctly and reverently, & in such order, as it is set forth by the laws of this Realm, without any kind of alteration, and at due and convenient hours. And whether your Minister so turn himself and stand in such place of your Church or Chancel, as the people may best here the same. And whether the holy Sacraments be likewise ministered reverently in such manner, as by the laws of this realm is appointed. And whether upon Wednesdays, and Fridays, not being holidays, the Litany and other prayers, appointed for the day, be said accordingly?  
2 Whether you have in your parish Churches and Chapels, all things necessary and requisite for common prayer▪ and administration of the Sacraments, specially the Book of common prayer with the new calendar, a Psalter, the English Bible in the largiest volume, the two Tomes of the homilies, the Paraphrases of Erasmus translated into English, the table of the ten commandments, a convenient Pulpit well placed, a comely and decent table, standing on a frame, for the holy Communion, with a fair linen cloth to lay upon the same, and some covering of silk, Buckram, or other such like, for the clean keeping thereof, a fair and comely Communion cup of silver, and a cover of silver for the same, which may serve also for the ministration of the communion bread, a decent large surplice with sleeves, a sure Coffer with two locks & keys for the keeping of the Register book, and a strong chest or box for the almose of the poor with three locks and keys to the same, and all other things necessary in and to the premises?  
3 Whether the form of commination against sinners, with certain prayers following the same, set forth in the latter end of the book of common prayer, to be used at divers times in the year, be by your Minister plainly and distinctly read in your Church or Chapel unto the people, between the Litany, and the commemoration or ministration of the holy communion, three times at the lest in the year, that is to say for order sake, yearly upon one of the three Sundays next before Easter, for the first time, upon one of the two Sundays next before the feast of Pentecost for the second time. And for the third time, upon one of the two Sundays next before the feast of the birth of our Lord, over and beside the accustomed reading thereof upon the first day of Lent?  
4 Whether in your churches and chapels, all Altars be utterly taken down and clean removed, even unto the foundation, and the place where they stood, paved, and the wall, whereunto they joined, whited over, and made uniform with the rest, so as no breach or rapture appear. And whether your Roodlofts be taken down, and altered so, that the upper parts thereof with the cellar or fit be quite taken down unto the cross beam, and that the said beam have some convenient crest put upon the same?  
5 Whether your Churches and Chapels with the chancels thereof be well and sufficiently repaired, and kept without abuse of any thing. And whether your churchyards be well fenced, and cleanly kept. And if any part thereof be in decay, through whose default it is so?  
6 Whether all and every Antiphonars, Mass books, Grailes, Portesses, Processionals, Manualles, legendaries, and all other books of late belonging to your Church or Chapel, which served for the superstitious Latin service, be utterly defaced, rend, and abolished, and if they be not, through whose default that is, and in whose keeping they remain. And whether all Uestments, Albes, Tunicles, Stoles, Phanons, Pixes, Paxes, Handbelles, Sacringbelles, Senseres, Crismatories, Crosses, Candlesticks, Holy water stocks, Images, and such other relics and monuments of superstition and Idolatry be utterly defaced, broken, and destroyed. And if not, where & in whose custody they remain?  
7 Whether your person, vicar, curate, or minister, do wear any cope in your Parish church or chapel, or minister the holy Communion in any Chalice heretofore used at Mass, or in any profane cup or glass, or use at the ministration thereof any gestures, rites, or ceremonies, not appointed by the book of common prayer, as crossing or breathing over the sacramental bread, and wine, or showing the same to the people, to be worshipped and adored, or any such like, of use any Oil and Chrism, Tapers, spittle, or any other Popish ceremony in the ministration of the Sacrament of Baptism?  
8 Whether any holy days or fasting days heretofore abrogated, or not appointed to be used, as holy days, or fasting days, by the new Calendar of the book of common prayer, be either proclaimed, and bidden by your Person, vicar or Curate, or be superstitiously observed by any of your parish, and what be their names, that so do observe the same, and whether there be any ringing or tolling of Bells to call the people together used in any of those days, more or otherwise, then commonly is used upon other days, that be kept as workedayes?  
9 Whether, when any man or woman is in passing out of this life, the Bell be tolled, to move the people to pray for the sick person, especially in all places, where the sick person dwelleth near unto the Church, and whether after the time of his or her passing out of this world, there be any more ringing, but one short peal before the burial, and another short peal after the burial, without any other superfluous or superstitious ringing. And whether on all Saints day after Evening prayer, there be any ringing at all, or any other superstitious ceremony used, tending to the maintenance of Popish purgatory, or of prayer for the dead, and who they be, that use the same. And whether there be any ringing, or knolling of bells on sundays or holy days, between morning prayer, and the Litany, or in any time of the common prayer, reading of the Homilies, or of preaching, except one Bell in convenient time to be rung or tolled before the Sermon, or any other ringing used upon Saintes éeves or festival days, saving to common prayer, and that without excess, and who doth ring or knolle otherwise?  
10 Whether your Person or vicar, have preached, or cause to be duly preached in your Church, his quarterly, or monthly Sermons, as by the queens Injunctions he is bound, and what be the names of such, as have preached for him, and whether he hath admitted any man to preach, not having sufficient licence, or hath inhibited or letted any from preaching, having sufficient licence?  
11 Whether any Person or Persons, not being ordered at the lest for a Deacon, or licensed by the Ordinary, do say common prayer openly in your Church or Chapel, or any not being at the lest a Deacon, do solemnize Matrimony, or administer the Sacrament of Baptism, or deliver unto the Communicants the lords Cup, at the celebration of the holy Communion, and what he, or they be, that so do. And whether the Person, vicar, or Fermer of your benefice, do cause or suffer, any Curate or Minister to serve your Church, before he be examined, and admitted by the ordinary, or his deputy in writing, and do show his licence to the Churchwardens, and whether any Curate do serve two Cures at one time, without the special licence of the Ordinary, or his deputy in that behalf, in writing first had?  
12 Whether your Person, vicar, or Curate, do every Sunday, when there is no Sermon, read distinctly and plainly some part of the Homilies, prescribed and set forth by the queens authority to be read, and every holy day, when there is no Sermon immediately after the Gospel, openly, plainly, and distinctly, recite to his Parishioners, the lords prayer, the Articles of the faith, and the ten Commandments in english, and whether any Minister not admitted by the Ordinary, or by other lawful authority, do erpounde any scripture, or matter of doctrine, by the way of exhortation, or otherwise, and thereby omit and leave of the reading of the Homilies?  
13 Whether your Person, vicar, or Curate do every Sunday and holy day, openly in the Church call for, here, and instruct all the Children, Apprentices, and servants of both sexes, that be of convenient age within your Parish, or at the lest so many of them by course, as the time will serve, and as he may well hear and instruct, for half an hour at the lest, before or at the evening prayer, in the ten Commandments, the Articles of the belief, and the Lords prayer, and diligently examine and teach them the Catechism, set forth in the book of common prayer. And whether for that purpose, he doth take the names of them all, and by course call certain of them by name every sunday, & holy day, to come to the teaching of the same Catechism?  
14 Whether all fathers and mothers, masters, and dames of your Parish, cause their children, servants and apprentices, both mankind and womankind, being above seven years of age, and under twenty, which have not learned the Catechism, to come to the Church on Sundays and holidays, at the times appointed, or at the lest such and so many of them, as your minister shall appoint, and there diligently and obediently to hear and to be ordered by the minister, until such time, as they have learned the same Catechism, and what be the names of those, that do not 'cause their children, servants, and apprentices, so to come to the church, to be instructed and examined, and how many of the said children, sruaunts, and apprentices be in your Parish, which being above seven years old, and under twenty years of age, can not say by heart the said Catechism, and what be their names and age, and with whom they devil.  
15 Whether your Person vicar, Curate, or other Minister in your Church or Chapel, hath admitted to the receiving of the holy Communion, any open and notorious sinner, or evil liver, by whom the congregation is offended, without due penance first done, to the satisfaction of the congregation, or any malicious person, that is out of charity, or that hath done any open wrong to his neighbour by word or deed, without due reconciliation first made to the party that is wronged?  
16 Whether your person, vicar, curate, or minister, hath admitted to the holy Communion any of his Parish, being above twenty years of age, either mankind or womankind, that cannot say by heart the ten Commandments, the Articles of the faith, and the lords prayer in English, and what be the names of such, as cannot say the same, or being above fourteen years, and under twenty years of age, that can not say the Catechism, set forth in the said book of common prayer. And whether he marry any persons, which were single before, that cannot say the Catechism. And whether he useth to examine his Parishioners at convenient times before he administer unto them, and namely before Easter yearly, to the intent he may know, whether they can say by heart the same, which is required in this behalf, or no?  
17 Whether your Priests and Ministers be peacemakers, and no brawlers, or sowers of discord, and exhort their Parishioners to obedience towards their Prince, and all other, that be in authority, and to charity and mutual love among themselves, whether they be diligent in visiting the sick, and comforting them, and do move them earnestly, especially when they make their Testaments, to consider the necessity of the poor, and to give to their box or chest, their charitable devotion and almose?  
18 Whether they neglect the study of the holy Scriptures and of the word of God, and whether such of them as be under the degree of a master of Art have of their own, at the lest the new Testament, both in English and Latin, and whether they do every day with good advisement confer one Chapter of the Latin and English together at the lest. And whether they have given due account thereof, and to whom?  
19 Whether any of your persons, vicar's, curates, or ministers be favourers of the romish or foreign power, letters of true religion, preachers of corrupt and Popish doctrine, or maintainers of sectaries, or do set forth and extol vain and superstitious religion, or be maintainers of the unlearned people in ignorance, and error, encouraging or moving them, rather to pray in an unknown tongue, than in English, or to put their trust in a certain number of prayers, as in saying over a number of beads, Lady Psalters, or other like?  
20 Whether any do preach, declare, or speak any thing in derogation of the book of common prayer, which is set forth by the laws of this Realm, dispraising the same, or any thing therein contained?  
21 Whether your persons, vicar's, & curates, have twice in the year upon some sunday within one month next after Easter and Michaelmas, read openly in the church, after the gospel be said, plainly without addition or change, a declaration of certain principal articles of religion set forth by both the Archbishops, and the rest of the Bishops of this realm for unity of doctrine?  
22 Whether your person, vicar, curate, minister, or reader, do church any unmarried woman, which hath been gotten with child out of lawful marriage, & say for her the form of thanksgiving of women after childbirth, except such an unmarried woman have either before her childbirth, done due penance for her fault to the satisfaction of the congregation, or at her coming to give thanks, do openly acknowledge her fault before the congregaion, at the appointment of the Minister, according to order prescribed to the said Minister, by the Ordinary or his Deputy, the same churching to be had always on some Sunday or holy day, and upon none other day?  
23 Whether any of your Persons, vicars, Curates, or Ministers, or any other Priest, or any lay man or woman, do wilfully maintain, or defend any heresies, false opinions, or popish errors, contrary to the laws of almighty God, and true doctrine, by public authority in this realm now set forth, and what be their names. And whether any keep any secret conventicles, preachings, lectures, or reding contrary to the law. And what be their names?  
24 Whether there be any in your Parish, that openly, or privately say Mass, or hear Mass, or any other kind of service, or prayer, than is set fourth by the laws of this Realm.  
25 Whether any popish Priests, or runnagat persons, mislikers, or depravers of true religion, that do not minister, or frequent common prayer now used, nor communicate at times appointed by the law, do resort secretly or openly into your Parish, and to whom, and of whom be they received, harboured, and relieved, and what be their names and surnames, or by what names are they called?  
26 Whether your Persons and vicars, be resident and devil continually upon their Benefits, doing their duties in preaching, reading, and ministering the Sacraments, and whether they keep hospitality, according as their livings will extend, And whether their houses and chancels be well repaired and upholden?  
27 Whether they or any of them have more Benefices than one, how many, and in what countries they be, and what be the names thereof?  
28 Whether they, when they be absent from their Benefices, do leave their cures to a rude and unlearned Person, and not to an honest, and well learned expert Curate, which can, and will teach the people wholesome doctrine, and whether in their absence they do procure learned men to Preach in their Churches, and Cures, at lest one Sermon every quarter of a year?  
29 Whether such Persons and Vicars as be not resident, neither keep hospitality, do relieve their poor Parishioners, and what give they yearly to them, and if they be not resident, and may dispend yearly twenty pounds or above, either in this diocese, or else where, whether do they distribute every year among their poor parishioners, at the lest the fortieth part of the fruits of their benefices, where they be not resident?  
30 Whether your Persons, vicars, Curates, and Ministers, keep well their Registers of all Weddings, Bury, and christenings within your Parish, and do present a copy of them once every year, by Indenture to the ordinary, or his officers. And whether they read the queens majesties Injunctions every quarter of a year once, or no?  
31 Whether they, or any of them, keep any suspected women in their houses, or be incontinent persons, given to Drunkenness, Idleness, or be haunters of Taverns, Alehouses, or suspected places, or be hunters, haukers, dicers, carders, Tablers, swearers, or otherwise suspected of any notorious crime, or give any evil example of life, and whether they (as they aught to do) occupy themselves in the reading, or hearing of some part of the holy scripture, or other good Author, or in some other godly or laudable exercise, meet for their vocation?  
32 Whether they, or any of them, do keep or suffer to be kept in their parsonage or Uicarege houses, any Alehouses, Tippling houses, or Taverns, or do cell Ale, Bear, or Wine?  
33 Whether your Persons or vicars, have bought their Benefices, or come to them by Simony, fraud, or deceit, or by any colourable pact, or other unlawful mean whatsoever, or be vehemently suspected or defamed thereof. And whether they keep in their own hands, or have dimised, and let to farm their Personages, and Uicareges, or their Glebe land, or Tithes, or any part thereof, and whether any such lease be made for the performance of any Simoniacal pact, made directly or indirectly, between the Incumbent and the patron, or between the Incumbent and any other person, for the presenting of the same Incumbent to that Benefice?  
34 Whether any patron of any Benefice, or other Person or Persons, having Thaduousion, or gift of any Benefice within this Diocese, have covenanted & practised with any priest or Minister, presented by him to any benefice, to have of him, or his friend, any some of ready money, for presenting him to the same, or have exacted by promise or bond any lease, either of the whole benefice, limiting the rent far under the just value, or of the Mansion house, Glebe lands, or any portion of the Tithes, and fruits of the same Benefice, paying little or nothing therefore, or having reserved their own Tithes, within the Benefice, free unto themselves, or else have extorted some yearly pension, or other yearly commodity to him, his child, servant, or friend, for preferring any to the same Benefice, or otherwise have made again by any colour, deceit, or Simoniacal pact, in bestowing the said Benefice, and whether any such patron or other Person be vehemently suspected or defamed of any such Simony, or Simoniacal pact?  
35 Whether the Church of your Parish be now vacant, and destitute of an incumbent, or not, and if it be, how long it hath been vacant, and who is the Patron, and whether he suffereth the benefice to lie vacant, and occupieth the glebe land, and taketh the tithes, and other fruits to himself, during the time of the vacation, or who else occupieth and taketh the same?  
36 Whether there be any lay or temporal man, not being within orders, or any child that hath, or enjoyeth any benefice or spiritual promotion?  
37 Whether any Priest or Minister be come into this Diocese, out of any other Diocese, to serve any cure here, without letters testimonial of the Ordinary, from whence he came, to testify the cause of his departing from thence, and of his behaviour there?  
38 Whether for the retaining of the perambulation of the circuit of your Parish, the person, vicar, or curate, churchwardens and certain of the substantial men of the Parish, in the days of the Rogations, commonly called the gang days, walk the accustomed bounds of your Parish, and whether in the same perambulation, and going about, the curate do use any other rite or ceremony, then to say or sing in English, the two Psalms, beginning, Benedic anima mea domino, that is to say, the. Ciij. psalm, and the. Ciiij. Psalm, and such sentences of Scripture, as be appointed by the queens majesties Injunctions, with the Litany, and Suffrages following the same, and reading one Homily, already devised and set forth for that purpose, without wearing any surplices, carrying of Banners, or Handbelles, or staying at Crosses, or other such like Popish ceremonies?  
39 Whether any Parish Clerk be appointed against the good will, or without the consent of the person, vicar, or curate, whether he be not obedient to the person, vicar, or curate, especially in the time of celebration of divine service, or of the Sacraments, or in any preparation thereunto. And whether he be able, and ready to read the first Lesson, the Epistle, and the Psalms, with answer to the suffrages as is used, and whether he keep not the books, and ornaments of the Church, fair and clean, and 'cause the Church and queer, the Communion Table, the Pulpit, and the Font to be made decent and clean, against service time, the communion, sermon, and baptism?  
40 Whether there be any man or woman in your Parish that resorteth to any Popish priest for shrift or auricular confession, or any that within three years now last passed, hath been reconciled unto the Pope, or to the church of Rome, or any that is reputed or suspected so to be, and whether there be any, that refuse to come to the Church to hear divine service, or to communicate according to the order now established by public authority, and what be their names?  
41 Whether there be any person or persons, ecclesiastical or temporal within your Parish, or else where, within this Diocese, that of late have retained, or kept in their custody, or that read, cell, utter, disperse, carry, or deliver to others any English books, set forth of late years at Louvain, or in any other place beyond the seas, by Harding, Dorman, Allen, Saunders, Stapleton, Martial, or any of them, or by any other English Papist, either against the queens majesties Supremacy in matters ecclesiastical, or against true religion, and catholic Doctrine now received, and established by common authority within this Realm, and what their names and surnames are?  
42 Whether there be any in your Parish, that useth to pray in English, or in Latin, upon Beads, or other such like thing, or upon any superstitious popish, Primer, or other like book, and what be their names?  
43 Whether the people of your parish, especially householders, having no lawful excuse to be absent, do faithfully, and diligently endeavour themselves, to resort with their Children and Servants, to their parish Church or Chapel, on the holy days, and chief upon the Sundays, to Morning and Evening prayer, & upon reasonable let thereof, to some usual place, where common prayer is used, and then and there abide orderly and soberly, during the time of common prayer, homilies, Sermons, and other service of God there used, reverently, and devoutly giving themselves to the hearing thereof, and occupying themselves at times convenient in private prayer, & who they be that either negligently or wilfully absent themselves, or come very late to the Church, upon the Sundays especially, or that walk, talk, or otherwise unreverently behave themselves in the Church, or use any gaming abroad, or in any house, or sit in the streets, or Churchyard, or in any Tavern or Alehouse upon the sunday, or other holy day, in the time of common prayer, Sermons, or reading of the Homilies, either before noon, or after noon?  
44 Whether the forfeiture of twelve pence, for every such offence, appointed by a statute, made in the first year of the queens majesties reign, be levied and taken according to the same Statute, by the Churchwardens of every person that so offendeth, and by them be put to the use of the poor of the parish, and if it be not, by whose default it is not levied. And what particular sums of money have been forfeited that way, and by whom since the feast of Easter in the year of our Lord. 1570. until the day of giving up the presentment concerning these Articles. And so from time to time, as the said Churchwardens and sworn-men shall be appointed to present in this behalf, and how much of such forfeitures have been delivered to the use of the poor of the parish, and to whom the same hath been delivered?  
45 Whether ye know any, that in the time of the reading of the Litany, or of any other part of the common prayer, or in the time of the Sermon, or of reading the Homilies, or any part of the Scriptures to the parishioners, any person have departed out of the Church without just and necessary cause, or that disturbeth the Minister, or preacher any manner of ways in the time of divine service, or Sermon. And whether any in contempt of their parish Church or Minister do resort to any other church or no?  
46 Whether there be any innkeepers, Alewives, Uitailors, or Tipplers, that suffer or do admit any person or persons, in their houses to eat, drink, or play at Cards, Tables, or such like games in the time of common prayer or Sermon, on the Sundays or holy days. And whether there be any Shops set open on Sundays or Holy days, or any Butchers or others, that commonly use to cell meat, or other things, in the time of common prayer, preaching or reading of the Homilies. And whether in any Fairs or common markets, falling upon the Sunday, there be any showing of any wares before the divine service be done? And whether any Markets or selling of any wares be used or suffered in any Church yards?  
47 Whether for the putting of the Churchwardens and sworn-men the better in remembrance of their duty in observing and noting such, as offend in not coming to divine service, your Minister or reader do openly every Sunday, after he have read the second Lesson at morning and evening prayer, monish and warn the Churchwardens and sworn-men to look to their charge in this behalf, and to observe who contrary to the said Statute offend in absenting themselves negligently, or wilfully from their parish Church or Chapel, or unreverently (as is aforesaid) use themselves in the time of divine service?  
48 Whether the Churchwardens of the last year have given to the parish a just account of the church goods and rents that were committed to their charge, according unto the custom that hath been afore time used, and what church goods they or any other have sold, and to whom, and whether to the profit of your church or no? And what hath been done with the money thereof coming?  
49 Whether the churchwardens, and sworn-men of the last year, have of any private corrupt affection concealed any crime, or other disorder in their time done in your parish, and have not presented the same to the Bishop, Chancellor, archdeacon, Commissarie, or such other as had authority to reform the same, and whether they or any of them, at any such time, as they should have been at divine service on Sundays, or Holy days, and should there have observed others, that were absent, have been away themselves at home, or in some Tavern, or Alehouse, or else about some worldly business, or at Bowls, Cards, Tables, or other gaming, without regard of their office and duty in that behalf?  
50 Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church, chancel, or chapel, or any part of any of them, any church porch, Uestrie, or Steeple, almose house, or such like, or have plucked down the Bells, or have felled or spoiled any wood or timber in any church yard?  
51 Whether your Hospitals, Spitals and almose houses be well and godly used according to the foundation and ancient ordinances of the same, whether there be any other placed in them, than poor impotent and needy persons, that have not wherewith, or whereby to live?  
52 Whether have ye Collectors for the poor of your Parish, whether do they their duty in gathering and distributing the almose of the parishioners, according to a statute thereof made in the fift year of the queens majesties reign, and make a just account thereof quarterly, what sums of money the Churchwardens or sworn men of the last year have levied, and delivered to the said Collectors of the forfeitures of such persons, as have not duly resorted to their Parish Church or Chapel, upon Sundays and Holidays, during the time that they were in office, bringing a true certificate in writing thereof from the said Collectors, at such time as ye give up your presentment?  
53 Whether there be any person or persons in your Parish of ability, that obstinately or frowardly refuse to give reasonably towards the help and relief of the poor, or do wilfully discourage others from so charitable a deed, and what be their names, and what sums doth any of them withdraw, which he or she before was wont to give, there being no just cause so to do?  
54 Whether there be any in your Parish, that minister the goods of those that be dead, without lawful authority, or any that suppress the last will of the dead, or any executors, that have not fulfilled their testators will, specially in paying of Legacies given to the Church, or to other good and godly uses, as to the relief of poverty, to Orphans, poor Scholars, poor Maids marriages; high ways, Schools, and such like?  
55 Whether there be any, which of late have bequeathed in their testaments, or otherwise any Ordinary hath appointed any jewels, Plate, Ornaments, cattles, or grain, or other movable stocks, Annuities, or sums of money for the erection or finding of any obits, diriges, trentales, torches, lights, Tapers, Lamps, or any such like use now by law forbidden, which are not paid out of any lands, and whereunto the queens Majesty, is not entitled, by any Act of Parliament, and if there be any such Legacy or appointment, what is the names of such testators, and of the executors of their Testaments, what is the quantity and quality of the gift, and to what godly and lawful use is the same converted and employed?  
56 Whether there be any money or stock appertaining to your Parish Church or Chapel, or to the poor of your Parish, in any man's hands, that refuseth or deferreth to pay the same, or that useth fraud, deceit or delay to make any account in the presence of the honest of the Parish for the same. And whether any such stock be decayed, by whose negligence, and in whose hands. And whether the store of the poor men's Box be openly, and indifferently given where need is, without partial affection?  
57 Whether the Schoolmasters which teach within your Parish, either openly or privately in any Noble or Gentleman's house, or in any other place there, be of good and sincere religion, and conversation, and be diligent in teaching and bringing up of youth, whether they be examined, allowed, and licensed by the Ordinary or his officer in that behalf, whether they teach the Grammar set forth by King Henry the eight of Noble memory, and none other, whether they teach any thing contrary to the order of religion now established by public authority. And whether they teach not their Scholars the Catechism in Latin, lately set forth, and such Sentences of Scripture, as shall be most expedient, and meet to move them to the love and due reverence of God's true religion, now truly set forth by the queens majesties authority, and to induce them to all godliness and honest conversation, and what be the names and surnames of all such Schoolmasters and teachers of youth within your Parish, as well of such as teach publicly, as those that teach in the houses of Noble men, Gentlemen, or other private men?  
58 Whether there be any among you that use Sorcery, Witchcraft, or enchantment, Magic, incantations or Necromancy, or that be suspected of the same, and whether any use any charms or unlawful prayers, or invocations in Latin, or otherwise, and namely Midwives in the time of women's travail of child, and what be their names?  
59 Whether there be among you any blasphemers of the name of God, great or often swearers, adulterers, fornicators, incestuous persons▪ Bawds or receivers of noughty and incontinent persons, or harbourers of women with child which be unmarried, conveying or suffering them to go away before they do any penance, or make satisfaction to the congregation, or any that be vehemently suspected of such faults, or that be not of good name and fame touching such crimes and faults, any drunkards, or ribalds, or any that be malicious, contentious, or uncharitable persons, common slanderers of their neighbours, railers, scolders, or sowers of discord between neighbours?  
60 Whether there be any in these parts, that have married within the degrees of affinity or consanguinity, by the laws of God forbidden, so set out for an admonition, in a table now appointed to be affixed in every Parish church within this Diocese, or any that being divorced or separated for the same, do yet notwithstanding cohabite and keep company still together, or any that being married without those degrees, have unlawfully forsaken their wives or husbands, and married others. Any man that hath two wives, or any woman that hath two husbands, any that being divorced or separated a sunder, have married again. Any married, that have made precontracts. Any that have made privy or secret contracts. Any that have married without baines thrice solemnly asked. Any cupples married, that live not together, but slanderously live apart. Any that have married out of the Parish church, where they aught to have solemnized their marriage?  
61 Whether the Minister and Churchwardens have suffered any Lords of Misrule or Summer Lords or Ladies, or any disguised persons, or others in Christmas, or at May games, or any Morris dancers, or others at rishe bearings, or at any other times, to come unreverently into the church, or churchyard, and there to dance, or play any unseemly parts with scoffs, jests, wanton gestures, or ribald talk, namely in the time of common prayer. And what they be that commit such disorder, or accompany or maintain them?  
62 Whether the archdeacon, Chancellor, Commissarie, official or any other using Ecclesiastical jurisdiction in this Diocese, their Registrares or Actuaries, Apparitors or Summoners, have at any time winked at and suffered any adulteries, fornications, incests, or other faults and offences, to pass and remain unpunished, and uncorrected, for money, rewards, bribes, pleasure, friendship, or any other partial or affectionate respect, or any of them have been burdensome to any in this Diocese, by exacting or taking excessive fees, excessive procurations, any rewards, or commodities, by the way of promotion, gift, contribution, help, redemption of penance, omission of quarter Sermons, obtaining of any benefices, or office, or any other like ways or means?  
63 How many Adulteries, incests, and Fornications, are notoriously known to have been committed in your Parish, since Easter. 1570. How many offenders in any such faults have been put to open penance, and openly corrected, and how many have been winked at, and borne withal, or have fined and paid money to the archdeacon, Chancellor, Commissarie, Official, or their deputies, or to the Deans, Registrares, or Summoner's, or any of them, for to escape open punishment, and correction: And what their names 〈…〉  
64 Whether the Deans Rurals, and Summoner's, 〈◊〉 of them do pay any annual rent, fee, or pension for their offices, and what they pay, and to whom?  
65 Generally whether there be among you, any notorious evil livers, or any suspected of any notorious sin, fault or crime, to the offence of Christian people committed, any that stubbornly refuse to conform themselves to unity and godly religion, now established by public authority, or any that bruiteth abroad rumours of the alteration of the same, or otherwise that disturbeth good orders, and the quietness of Christ's Church, and the Christian congregation.  

The tenor of the oath, ministered to the Churchwardens and sworn men.  
YOU shall swear by Almighty God, that ye shall diligently consider all and every the Articles given to you in charge, and make a true answer unto the same in writing presenting all & every such person and persons, dwelling within your Parish, as have committed any offence or fault, or made any default, mentioned ni any of the same Articles, or which are vehemently suspected or defamed of any such offence, fault or default, wherein ye shall not present any person or persons, of any evil will, malice or hatred▪ contrary to the truth, nor shall for love, favour, meed, dread or any corrupt affection, spare to present any, that be offenders, suspected or defamed in any of these cases, but shall do uprightly, as men having the fear of God before your eyes and desirous to maintain virtue, and suppress vice. So God help you.