ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF WITHIN THE Diocese of LONDON, IN THE SECOND TRIENNIAL Visitation of the Right Honourable, and Right Reverend Father in God WILLIAM Lord Bishop of London.  
HOLDEN In the year of our Lord God, 1631.  
Printed at LONDON. M. DC. XXXI.   

The Oath to be ministered to the Churchwardens and Sworne-men.  
YOu shall swear that you and every of you shall diligently inquire of the Articles given you in charge; and without any affection, favour, hatred, hope of reward & gain, or fear of displeasure, or malice of any person, you shall present all and every such person and persons that now is, or of late was within your Parish, as hath committed any incest, adultery, fornication, or simony, and any misdemeanour or disturbances committed or made in any Church or Chapel, in time of Common Prayer, Preaching, or divine Service there used, to the disturbance thereof: and also that have committed or done any other offence, fault, or default, presentable in the Ecclesiastical Court, according to the Articles now delivered to you. Wherein you shall deal uprightly and according to truth, neither of malice presenting any contrary to truth, nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any, and so conceal the truth: having in this action God before your eyes, with an earnest zeal to maintain the truth, and suppress vice. So help you God, and the Contents of this Book.   

The charge of the Churchwardens and Sworne-men set down for the better performance of their duties, and discharge of their Oaths.  
THey are not to bring in any Bills unto the Arch-deacons Courts upon the Articles to be enquired of in their Visitation, by reason of my Lord's Visitation, but only now during the said Visitation, to make their presentments upon these Articles. They are therefore charged, that after their Oath taken, and their return home, they do require their Minister to read over both the book of Canons or Constitutions set forth by his Majesty, in the Convocation holden in the year of our Lord God 1604. and also these Articles unto them, and to consider of every particular Article, and of the offences by them to be presented, as also of such persons in their Parish as shall be noted to offend in the same: and so the Churchwardens and Sidemen assembling themselves together within some convenient time, are to make their Bill answering every Article by itself, before the time hereafter appointed them, which Bill shall be signed with the hands of all the Churchwardens and Sidemen, with conference had with their Minister upon the said Bill of presentment, who according to the 26. Canon, is to see that the said Churchwardens do their duties, in presenting, upon the penalty in the 26. Canon prescribed. These Bills for their better ease, and saving of travel and charges, shall be brought by one of the Churchwardens upon the _____ day _____ next _____   

Articles to be enquired of within the Diocese of London, in the Visitation to be holden in the year of our Lord 1631.  

Concerning the Clergy.  
INprimis, Whether doth your Minister, before or after his Sermons, use to pray for the King's Majesty, King Charles, Queen Mary, Frederick the Prince Elector Palatine, and the Lady Elizabeth his wife, and all their Princely Progeny, giving unto the King 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? And also for all Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ecclesiastical persons?  
2 Whether is the prescript form of Divine Service used by your Minister upon Sundays, Holidays, and other days appointed by the Book of Common Prayer, at fit and usual hours? And whether doth your Minister duly observe all the Orders, Rites, and Ceremonies prescribed in the said Book of Common Prayer, without omission or addition, as well in reading public prayers and the Litany, as also in administering the Sacraments in such manner and form, as by the Law now established is enjoined?  
3 Whether doth your Minister administer the holy Communion so often, and at such times, as that every Parishioner may receive the same at least thrice in every year, whereof once at Easter?  
4 Whether doth your Minister receive the same himself on every day that he administereth it to others, kneeling at the same, and 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 Law is appointed, and causeth sufficient warning thereof to be given before? And doth he deliver the Bread and Wine to every Communicant severally?  
5 Whether doth your Minister use the administration of the Lords Supper, Baptism, Instruction of children, Solemnisation of Matrimony, Visitation of the sick, Burial of the dead, the Commination and Churching of women, under such words, rites and ceremonies as are set forth & prescribed by the said book of Common prayer and no other?  
6 Whether hath your Minister 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, or vehement suspicion known in the Parish?  
7 Whether hath your Minister received people of other Parishes to his Church to the Communion and divine service; And whether his Parishioners have gone to other Churches and places to hear Service or receive the Sacrament? If yea, than you shall present every offender herein.  
8 Whether hath your Minister, Churchwardens and Sidemen presented unto my Lord Bishop or his Chancellor within forty days after Easter, the names of all the Parishioners, as well men as women, which being above sixteen years of age received not the Communion, at, or about Easter before, according to the 112. Canon? If not, you shall present whether that presentment should have been brought in by yourselves, or your predecessors, and specify the names of every one that should have made such presentment for Easter last passed?  
9 Whether doth your Minister use to sign the children with the sign of the Cross upon the children's foreheads when they are baptised, according to the book of Common prayer? 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 by his default without baptism? And hath he baptised any children that were not borne in the Parish?  
10 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? And doth he in his absence make allowance for the poor?  
11 Whether doth your Minister, being a Preacher, preach usually in his own Cure with you once every Sunday, or how hath he been negligent in that behalf?  
12 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 licenced, or doth contribute towards a licenced Preacher?  
13 Whether hath your Minister any other Benefice? and whether doth he supply his absence by a Curate that is sufficiently licenced to preach in that Cure 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 usually himself?  
14 Whether is your Curate licenced to serve by the Bishop of this Diocese, or his Chancellor? and whether doth your Minister or Curate serve any more Cures than one? If yea, then what other Cure doth he also serve?  
15 If your Minister be not licenced to preach as aforesaid, whether doth he read Homilies, or rather take upon him to expound the Scriptures, either in his own Cure or elsewhere, contrary to the 49. Canon? And doth he or his Curate read an Homily every Sunday, or some part thereof, when there is no Sermon?  
16 Whether hath any person been admitted to preach within your Church or Chapel, but such as you have well known to be licenced: whom have you so admitted? You shall present their names, and how often have any such been admitted to preach, and by whose procurement?  
17 Whether have you caused every strange Preacher licenced or not licenced, to subscribe his name, according to the 50. and 52. Canons? And if he were licenced, then by whom was he licenced?  
18 Whether doth your Lecturer and Preacher read divine Service, and minister the Sacraments in his own person twice every year, observing all the Ceremonies in the Book of Common Prayer established? And doth any man read a Lecture in your Church that is beneficed out of the Diocese, or if he be beneficed in the Diocese, is he by that Lecture kept from his Cure: or hath he no benefice at all?  
19 Whether doth your Minister wear the Surples whilst he is saying the public Prayers and administering the Sacraments, and a hood according to his degree of the University?  
20 Whether doth your Minister every Sunday and Holiday before Evening prayer for half an hour or more, examine and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of your Parish, in the ten Commandments, the Articles of Belief, and in the Lord's Prayer?  
21 Whether hath your Minister without licence from the Bishop of the Diocese, or his Chancellor, solemnised Marriage betwixt any parties, of the Banes not being three several Sundays or Holidays first published in time of divine Service, in the several Churches or Chapels of their several aboades, according to the book of Common prayer: or without licence, in time prohibited, albeit the Banes were so published? Or at any time except betwixt the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon? And if any have been otherwise married or licenced to be married by any authority other then aforesaid, especially since the last triennall Visitation by any of our Commissaries, Archdeacon's, or their Officials, you shall present the Minister so marrying, the parties so married, and the Authority whereby this was done, and you shall present whether you know or have heard of any Licence of marriage granted by any Archdeacon or his Official, since the last triennial Visitation, and to whom such Licence was granted.  
22 Whether doth your Minister upon Sundays at Morning prayer declare unto the Parishioners what Holidays and fasting days are appointed to be kept the week following?  
23 Whether doth your Minister in the Rogation days, use the perambulation of the Circuit of the Parish appointed by law? And in the same perambulation move the people to give thankes to God for his benefits, using such Psalms, Prayers, and Homilies as are to that end set forth?  
24 Whether doth any man (being neither Minister nor Deacon) read Common Prayer openly in your Church or Chapel, or use any other ministerial duty in the Church that belongeth to a minister or Deacon, and what is his name that so doth or hath so done?  
25 Whether doth your Minister every six months denounce in his parish all such of his Parish as do persevere in the sentence of Excommunication? And whether hath he admitted any person Excommunicate, into the Church, without a Certificate of his absolution from the Ordinary? And hath he stayed or forborn to denounce any Excommunication or suspension that hath been sent unto him?  
26 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? And whether they or any of them do refuse such conference with your Minister?  
27 Whether is your Parson, Vicar, Lecturer, or Curate, too much frequent, or overmuch conversant with, or a favourer of Recusants, whereby he may be suspected not to be sincere in his Religion?  
28 Whether hath your Minister, or any other taking upon him the place of a Minister, Preached, Baptised children (unless in case of necessity) solemnised Marriage, Churched any women, or ministered the holy Communion in any house or houses? If yea, then where, when, and how often hath he so offended in any of the premises?  
29 Whether, when any person hath been dangerously sick in your Parish, your Minister (having knowledge thereof) hath not resorted to every of them, to instruct and comfort them in their distress, according to the manner and form appointed in the Book of Common Prayer? And whether, when any Parishioner hath been passing out of this life, your Minister hath slacked to do his last duty in that behalf?  
30 Whether your Minister hath at any time refused or delayed to bury any corpse that hath been brought to the Church or Church-yard, convenient warning having been given to him thereof before, in such manner and form as is prescribed in the book of Common Prayer? And hath he buried any in Christian burial, which ought not to be so interred?  
31 Whether hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint any public or private Fasts, Preaching or Lecturing, 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?  
32 Whether your Minister useth buying and selling, or trading, or to hedge, ditch, or go to plough, or hath solicited other men's suits for gain, or employed himself about other such business not beseeming or fitting his calling?  
33 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 Layman, or neglecting his vocation, liveth idly, and serveth no Cure, nor preacheth as a Lecturer authorized in any one certain place? If yea, than you shall present his name and the place of his abode.  
34 Whether is your Minister reputed to be an incontinent person, or to keep in his house, or frequent the company of any man or woman that are suspected, either to be of evil religion or bad life? Or whether is he a common haunter of Taverns, Alehouses, or any suspected place? Or whether doth he board or lodge in any of them? Or is a common Gamester, or player at Dice, Cards, Tables, or other unlawful games? A common swearer, a drunkard, or one that applieth not himself in his Study, or faulty in any other crime punishable by Ecclesiastical censures, whereby he is offensive and scandalous to his Function or Ministry?  
35 Whether doth your Minister use the form of thanksgiving to women after their Childbirth? Or hath he admitted any woman begotten with child in Adultery, to be churched, either publicly or privately, without licence from the Lord Bishop of London, or his Chancellor?  
36 Whether doth your Minister baptise any children in any Basin or other vessel then in the Ordinary Font, being placed in the Church, or doth put any Basin into it?  
37 Whether your Minister or any other that hath taken holy Orders now licenced or suspended, or other person or persons, either of the Ministry or Laity, within or near your Parish, of your knowledge or as you have heard, hath been at, or use to meet in any Barns, Fields, Woods, private house or houses, and held private conventicles or meetings, either in your Parish or in any other Parish? And whether hath your Minister or any other publicly or privately preached or spoken in eregation of the book of Common Prayer, or in any thing depraved the same; or against the present estate of the Ecclesiastical government established by authority, affirming the same to be unlawful, Popish or Antichristian?  
38 Whether at any such meeting do they or any of them preach, confer, or agree upon any private orders for divine Service, Prayers, Preaching or expounding the Scriptures, or use any other Prayers, Preaching, or form of Divine Service, than such as is in the Book of Common Prayer, and by the Laws established appointed, or be drawers or persuaders of others to any such Schismatical conventicles? If yea, you shall present them all and every one of them, specifying their names, surnames, and quality or addition, and places of abode.  
39 Whether his Majesty's Instructions lately sent to your Parish concerning Lecturers, celebration of divine Service, catechising, and Sermons be duly observed, if not, you shall present by whom, and when, any of the said Instructions have been transgressed.  
40 Item, you shall carefully and héedefully observe and inquire, whether your Ministers in their Sermons preached by them in your public Churches and Congregations, do raise and deliver out of the texts chosen by them, such pertinent notes as tend to teach obedience, and to edify the understanding of their auditory, in matters of faith and religion, without intermeddling with any State-matters, not fit to be handled in the Pulpit, but to be discussed by the wisdom of his Majesty, and his Councillors of State? And if you find any faulty herein, you shall present him.   

Concerning the Church.  
WHether have you in your several Churches and Chapels the Book of Constitutions or Canons Ecclesiastical?  
2 Whether is there in your Church or Chapel one parchment Register Book, provided for Christen, Marriages, and Burials? And whether is the same duly and exactly kept according to the Constitutions in that behalf provided? And is the mothers christian name therein registered as well as the Fathers; and a transcript thereof brought in yearly within one month after the 25. day of March into the Lord Bishops principal Registry?  
3 Whether have you provided the Book of Common Prayer lately commanded by his Majesty's authority only to be used, and the Book of Homilies, & two service Books, & a large Bible of the last edition?  
4 Whether have you in your Church or Chapel 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 silk, or some other decent stuff, and a fair Linen cloth to lay thereon at the Communion time? And whether is the same 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 is the same Table so used out of divine service, or in it, as it is not agreeable to the holy use of it, by sitting, throwing hats on it, writing on it, or is it abused to other profane uses?  
5 Whether are the ten Commandments set upon the East end of your Church or Chapel, where the people may best see and read them, and other sentences of holy Scripture written upon the walls likewise for the same purpose?  
6 Whether have you a convenient seat for your Minister to read Service in, 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 Silver, and a cover agreeable for the same, with all other things and ornaments necessary for the celebration of divine Service and the administration of the Sacraments, and a strong Chest for the Alms of the poor, with three locks and keys, whereof the Minister to keep one key, and another Chest for the keeping of the ornaments of the Church and Register Book?  
7 Have you a fair paper-booke wherein every Preacher (which is a stranger) shall write his name, the day he preached, and by whose authority he is licenced.  
8 Whether are your Church or Chapels with the Chancels thereof, and your Parsonage or Vicarage house, and all other houses thereto belonging, in good reparations, and decently and comely kept, as well within as without, and the seats well maintained, as in the Canons is appointed? If not, then through whose default, and what defects are?  
9 Whether your Churchyard be well and sufficiently repaired, fenced and maintained with walls, rails, or pales, and by whom? And if part be to be maintained by any particular persons, than you shall present how much, and what part every such person hath, or is to maintain and repair?  
10 Whether any person hath encroached upon the ground of the Churchyard? If any hath, than you shall present him, and specify what quantity of ground he hath so encroached, and how the old and former fences stood, and how they nowstand and are fenced, and with what matter or stuff.  
11 Whether have you in your Church any ancient or true note, or terrier of all the glebe lands, meadows, gardens, orchards, houses, stocks, implements, tenements, and portions of tithes, lying within or without your Parish, which belongs to your Personage or Vicarage? If there be any, whether it is well kept and preserved for the good of the succeeding Incumbents, and in what particular place it is kept? And whether a true copy thereof under the hands of the Ministers and Churchwardens hath been transmitted into the Lord Bishops principal Registry? and when? if you have none, you shall make one, and bring it in with your presentment, subscribed as afore.   

Concerning Ecclesiastical Officers.  
WHether do you know, or have heard of any payment, composition or agreement, to or with any Commissary, Archdeacon, or his Official, or their Registers or other inferior Officers Ecclesiastical, within this Diocese, for suppressing or concealing of any presentment, excommunication, or other Ecclesiastical censure, of, or against Recusants, or any other offenders, or for not certifying of Recusants to the Ordinary, or for not serving of Process without a sum of money, or other consideration, received or promised to any of them in that respect, and by whom?  
2 Whether the Archdeacon, Commissary, Official, or any other using Ecclesiastical jurisdiction within this Diocese, their Registers or Actuaries, Apparators, or Summoners have at any time winked at, and suffered any Adulteries, Fornications, Incests, 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 do the Commissaries, Archdeacon's, or any their Officials, hear any matters of Office or correction, privately in their Chambers, without the presence of the sworn Register, or his Deputy, or hath discharged any man's penance for money, without the consent of the Lord Bishop, according to the Constitutions, or do send any writing under their own hands to your Church, without the Registers presence at the doing of it, either for Marriage of any couples, or for ending or ordering of any matter or penance?  
4 Whether hath any Commissary, Archdeacon, Official, or any other exercising Ecclesiastical jurisdiction within this Diocese, or any Register, Apparator, or Minister belonging to the same Ecclesiastical Courts, exacted extraordinary or greater fees than heretofore of late hath been accustomed? And whether is there a Table of the rates of all fees set up in their several Courts and Offices? Or whether they or any of them have any way abused themselves in their Offices, contrary to the Law and Canons in that case provided?  
5 Whether any Commissary, Archdeacon, or Official, hath, or doth commute or change any penance or corporal punishment for any money, and what money such Commissary, Archdeacon, or Official, hath received, and of whom? when and what the offence was, for which any such sum of money was received or appointed to be paid, and set down the particulars of the premises, and what Court any of them have kept since the first day of july last passed, upon what days, and in what Church and place?  
6 What number of Apparators hath every several judge Ecclesiastical: and wherein, and in what manner is the Country overburdened and grieved by the said Apparators? And whether doth any of the said Apparators cause any parties to appear in the said Courts, without first a presentment or citation obtained from the judge of the Court.   

Concerning Schoolmasters.  
WHether the Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters within your Parish, openly, or privately in any Noble or Gentleman's house, or in any other place, be of good and sincere Religion, life and conversation, and be diligent in teaching and bringing up of youth: and whether they have been examined, allowed and licenced for Schoolmasters, by the Lord Bishop of London, or his Chancellor? 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 Prayer?  
3 Whether the Schoolmaster, or Schoolmasters, either private or public, do teach their Scholars the Catechism authorised by public authority, at the least once every week, and do instruct and examine them in the same, or do teach any other Catechism: and what Catechism is it that they do so teach?  
4 Whether your Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters, or any of them been 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 of his Majesty, and his laws Ecclesiastical, by public authority allowed?  
5 Whether your Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters, or any of them, under pretence of Catechising their Scholars, which is a most godly order carefully by them to be observed, do keep Lectures, readings or expositions of Divinity in their houses, having repair unto them of people, not being of their own family and household?  
6 What Recusant Papists are there in your Parish, and whether do any of them, or any other keep any Schoolmaster in their house which cometh not to Church to hear Divine Service, and receive the Communion, what is his name, and how long he hath taught?  
7 Whether your Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters, within your Parish, do teach his or their Scholars any other Grammar then that which is commonly called the King's Grammar, set forth by the Authority of King Henry the eight, teaching the prescript form thereof?  
8 Whether are your Schoolmasters negligent in instructing their Scholars in the Catechism and grounds of Religion, and in bringing them to the Church to hear Divine Service and Sermons?   

Concerning Parish Clerks.  
WHether have you a fit Parish Clerk, aged twenty years at least, of honest conversation, and sufficient for reading and writing? and whether he be paid his wages without fraud, according to the most ancient custom 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? And whether he hath presumed to take upon him the execution of the said place or Clerkeship, before he hath taken the oath of supremacy before the Lord Bishop of London or his Chancellor? and hath his approbation from the said Lord Bishop or his Chancellor?  
2 Is he diligent in his office, and serviceable to the Minister, doth he take upon him to meddle with any thing above his office, as Churching of women, burying the dead, or such like?  
3 Is the Church clean kept, the doors locked at fit times? Is any thing lost or spoiled in the Church, and are the Communion Table, Font, Books, and ornaments of the Church kept fair and clean?   

Touching Churchwardens and Sidemen, and other Church Officers.  
WHether the Churchwardens and Sidemen do every Sunday and Holiday diligently search who absenteth himself or herself from Church, and whether do they suffer any to abide in the Church-porch or Churchyard in the time of Common Prayer or Sermon? And you shall present such as have been or shall be found to been absent?  
2 Whether the Churchwardens and Sidemen, or any of them have (for money, reward, favour, or affection) forborn to present any that were or been negligent in coming to Church, or whom they have found as idle persons abroad, either in the Churchyard or streets, in the time of Common Prayer or Sermon on the Sabbath day or Holy days, or any that did not receive the Communion yearly at the feast of Easter, or within some convenient time after?  
3 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?  
4 Have you admitted any to preach within your Church or Chapel which was not sufficiently licenced, and how often? And have you with your Minister taken diligent care that no strangers do usually come to your Church, from their own parish?  
5 Whether have you or your predecessors Churchwardens there, suffered, since the last Visitation of the Lord Bishop of London, any Plays, Feasts, Banquets, Church-ales, Drink, Musters, and showing of Arms, or any other profane usages to be kept in your Church, chapel, or Churchyard? Were you chosen by the consent of the Minister and Parishioners?  
6 Whether hath your Minister, Churchwardens and Parish Clerke or Clerks, taken care that all excommunicated persons be duly published in the Church, as the law requires? And likewise had care that no excommunicated persons be admitted to the Communion, nor suffered to be present at Divine service and public prayers in your Church? you shall truly present every one that hath neglected this duty, or been stack therein.  
7 Whether the Churchwardens at the end of their year, give up in writing a just account before the Minister and Parishioners, of their receipts and disbursements, and deliver the residue by Bill indented to the next Churchwardens? And whether at any time heretofore the Churchwardens, or the Ministers, or the Parishioners, or any of them to your knowledge, or as you have heard, have withheld, or detained in their custody, or have sold, wasted, spent, or otherwise alienated any Lead, Bells, or Bell-metall, or other of the Church goods or stock of money? and let them specify their names, and the value and quantity of such things as were so sold, made away, or detained, and how long since?   

Concerning Parishioners, and others of the Laity.  
WHether any in your Parish, or elsewhere near about the same, to your knowledge, or as you have heard, hath affirmed, that the King hath not the same Authority in all causes Ecclesiastical, which the Kings & Christian Emperors had in the Primitive Church? or that have impeached or gainsaid his Royal Supremacy?  
2 Whether do you know, or have credibly heard of any within your Parish that deprave the Christian Religion, and namely, as it is established by public authority, and professed within the Church of England? And whether hath any person, as you have heard, affirmed that the Church of England is not a true Catholic and orthodox Church, and doth not teach and maintain the Catholic Faith, and doctrine of the Apostles?  
3 Whether any have said or affirmed, that any thing in the Book of Common Prayer or in the Book of Articles set forth by the Convocation Anno Domini, 1562. Or any of the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England, in or by the same appointed, are corrupt, wicked, Antichristian, superstitious, unlawful, or repugnant to the Scriptures? or that any of the said Articles may not with a good conscience be subscribed unto, or any of the said ceremonies may not with a good conscience be approved, used, or subscribed unto?  
4 Are there any that do not reverently behave themselves during the time of Divine Service, devoutly kneeling when the general Confession of sins, the Litany, the ten Commandments, and all prayers and Collects are read, and using all due and lowly reverence when the blessed name of the Lord jesus Christ is mentioned, and standing up, when the Articles of the Belief are read, or which do cover their heads in the Church during the time of Divine Service, unless it be in case of necessity, in which case they may use a nightcap?  
5 Whether have any affirmed, preached, or taught, that the form of making and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, or any thing therein contained, is repugnant, or not agreeable to the Word of God? Or that the Bishops, Priests, and Deacons so made, are not to be accounted for Bishops, Priests, or Deacons, or aught to been ordained in any other form? Or that the government of the Church by Archbishops, Bishops, or others that bear any Office therein, is Antichristian, or not agreeable to the Word of God?  
6 Whether any person have lurked or tippled in Taverns, or Alehouses on Sundays, or other Holidays, or used his or their manual Craft, Trade, or Mystery, or any bodily labour, or kept their shops open upon the said days, or any of them, especially in the time of Divine Service, or suffered his or their servants to sell any wares or victuals in that time, or to offend in any of the promises?  
7 Whether are there any in your Parish, that (since the Lord Bishop of London his last Visitation) have or do profane the Lords Day, called Sunday, or other Holiday, contrary to the orders of the Church of England, in that behalf prescribed, which hath not heretofore been openly punished for the same, and what be their names?  
8 Whether hath any person in your Parish brawled, quarrelled or stricken, or used any violence unto, or with your Minister, or any other person in the Church or Church-yard, or used himself disorderly in the Church by filthy and profane talk, or any other rude and immodest behaviour?  
9 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 do give the children baptised any name absurd, or inconvenient for so holy an action: Or whether any which have not communicated, be admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers, contrary to the Law?  
10 Whether is there any in your Parish, that do 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.  
11 Whether do all Fathers, Mothers, Masters and 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 do not their duties herein, you shall present their names.  
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? or coming to Church, do departed before the end of divine Service or Sermon, what be their names, and of what degree, state, or trade of life are they? you are to present them all of each sort.  
13 Whether do any of the inhabitants within your said Parish entertain within their house any sojourners, lodgers, or any common resorters and guests, who refuse to frequent divine Service, or receive the holy Communion, as aforesaid? what be their names, and of what quality or condition are they?  
14 Whether any of the said Popish Recusants be of insolent behaviour, not without public offence, or do boldly busy themselves in seducing, or withdrawing others, either abroad or in their own families, by instructing their Children in Popish Religion, or by refusing to 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?  
15 How long the said Popish Recusants have obstinately abstained either from divine Service, or from the Communion, as is aforesaid, whether any long time, or only since his Majesty's Reign, and how long?  
16 Whether there be any Popish Recusants married: the child of any Recusant christened, or any Recusant buried within your Parish, by any other than the Minister of the Parish, where, when, and by whom, and what certificate you have received thereof? or whether the child of any Recusant remain unbaptized above one month, or be not baptised in the Parish Church?  
17 You shall present how the children of such as refuse to come to Church are brought up, under what Schoolmaster or Tutor, where, and in what School or place, what those children's names are, how long their Parents have been married? by whom, when and in what place, and by what authority were they married, and what Certificate you have received of their marriage?  
18 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 excommunicated? And whether any do familiarly use the company of such as do obstinately stand excommunicate, knowing the same, and what be their names?  
19 Whether do all persons above the age of sixteen years, usually resort to hear divine Service upon Sundays and Holidays approved? and whether hath each one of your parishioners (being above the age of 16. years as aforesaid) received the holy Communion thrice this last year, chief once at Easter in your Parish Church kneeling? If no, than you shall present their names which have not so done.  
20 Whether have any in your Parish been married within the prohibited degrees forbidden by law, and expressed in a certain table published by authority in Anno 1563? If yea, than you shall present their names. And whether have you the said Table publicly set up in your Church, and fastened to some convenient place?  
21 Whether doth any heretofore divorced or married and not divorced, keep company at bed and board as man and wife with any other man or woman, then with the person that he or she was married unto, and what be their names? If the parties, now so living together, say that they be married? when and where were they married, and how long have they so continued together?  
22 Whether have you in your Parish to your knowledge or by common fame and report, any which have committed adultery, fornication or incest, or any bawds, harborces, or receivers of such persons, or vehemently suspected thereof, which have not been publicly punished to your knowledge? If yea, then specify the names of them all.  
23 Whether have you any in your Parish which are by common fame and report, or vehement suspicion, reputed and taken to be common drunkards, blasphemers of Gods holy name, common and usual swearers, filthy speakers, railers, sowers of discord among their neighbours, or speakers against Ministers marriages, Usurers, contrary to the Statute made in the 37. year of King Henry the eight, or simoniacal persons? you shall not fail to present their names.  
24 Whether have any in your Parish received or harboured any woman with child, that was not before a householder in your Parish? If yea, whether you know that she was married, and to whom, where, and when? and specify her name also, and from whence she came.  
25 Whether have any in your Parish received or harboured any woman gotten with child out of wedlock, and suffered them again to departed without penance first inflicted upon them by their Ordinary? You shall truly present as well the party harbouring as harboured, and all that helped to convey them or her away? And who is suspected to have committed adultery or fornication with her?  
26 Whether the parties offending in any of your Parishes in the sin of fornication, adultery, or incest, bawdry, or keeping of a bawdy house, or vehemently suspected of these or any other Ecclesiastical offences, have for them, or any one of them been presented since the Lord Bishop of London his last visitation, to any Commissary, Archdeacon, or his Official, their Surrogates or Deputies? and whether for such their offences they have done public penance before the Congregation in their own Parish Church in time of divine Service? And if any so presented have not done such penance, what be their names, what the offence was? and of what Parish they then were of, and where they, or any of them do now remain and dwell?  
27 Whether any person or persons suspected or detected heretofore of incontinency, and therefore departing out of your Parish, is now returned again? or in what place else is he or she now abiding, as you know, or have heard? And whether he or she hath done any penance, and what penance, or else escaped without penance? and by what & whose means? You shall present the whole truth in that behalf.  
28 Whether there be any person or persons Ecclesiastical or Temporal, within your Parish, or elsewhere within this Diocese, that have retained and kept in their custody, or that read, sell, utter, disperse, carry, or deliver to others, any English or Latin Books or Libels, set forth or printed, either on this side or beyond the Seas, by Papists or Sectaries, against the King's Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical, or tending to Popery, Puritanisme, or any other Sect, error or heresy, 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, that you know or have heard of, what their names and surnames are?  
29 Whether there been any in your Parish, who are known or suspected to conceal or keep hid in their houses, any Masse-bookes, Portesses, Breviaries, or other Books of Popery or superstition: or any Chalices, Copes, Vestments, Albes, or other ornaments of superstition uncancelled or undefaced, which is to be conjectured they keep for a day as they call it?  
30 Whether have you any in your Parish to your knowledge, or as you have heard, which heretofore being Popish Recusants & Sectaries, have since conformed themselves, and come to Church to hear Divine Service, and receive the Sacrament: If yea, than who they are, and how long sithence have they so conformed themselves? And whether do they still abide in that conformity?  
31 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? And whether any possess the goods of any person deceased, without authority from the Ordinary? You shall not fail to present the Executors, and all others faulty & culpable therein.  
32 What person or persons do you know that have died in your parish since the Lord Bishops last Visitation, that had goods or debts in other parts of the Diocese of London out of the jurisdiction in which the party died, or that died in any other Archdeaconry or jurisdiction of this Diocese, and had goods in your Parish? and whether the Executor to such person or any other, meddled with such deceased goods by authority of the Commissary or Archdeacon's Official, and not by the authority of the Lord Bishop of London or his Chancellor?  
33 Is there any Legacy given to the Church, or to other good and godly uses, as relief of the Poor Orphans, Poor Scholars, Poor Maiden's marriages, Scholars, Highways, and such like, which is not yet performed? If there be any such, you shall present what you know or can learn thereof, and by whose default the same is not performed.  
34 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, or refuse to receive the holy Communion at his hands for the same respect? And whether any other Minister hath received to the Communion any of your Parish? and specify the names both of the Minister and Parishioner. And whether do any in your Parish refuse to have children baptised in your Parish Church, according to the form prescribed in the book of Common Prayer?  
35 Whether there be any Inne-kéepers, Alewives, Victuallers, or Tiplers, that suffer or do admit any person or persons into their houses to eat, drink or play at Dice, Cards, Tables, Bowls, or such like games, in the time of Common Prayer or Sermons on Sundays or Holy days?  
36 Whether have you any Butchers or other, that commonly use to sell meat or other things in the time of Common Prayer, Preaching, or reading of Homilies?  
37 Whether any Markets or selling of wares be used or suffered in any Churchyards on the Sabbath day by common Packmen and Pedlars going about, or any Butchers, or others?  
38 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 prayer, making a schism or division (as it were) between the use of public Prayer and Preaching?  
39 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 & Collects are read, in the time of the Litany, when the ten Commandments are read, and at the receiving of the holy Communion, etc. And what be their names?  
40 Whether there be any married women or others within your parish, which after childbirth refuse, contemn or neglect to come to the Church to give God thanks for their safe delivery, and to have the prayers publicly appointed on that behalf by the Book of Common prayer to be used?  
41 Whether any do keep their Children unbaptized longer than is convenient, unless that it be for the sickness of the Child, or other urgent occasion?  
42 Whether any do carry their Child or Children from the parish they are borne, into other parishes to be baptised, and so refuse their own parish? And to what other parish: and who baptised any child or children so carried from your parish: and whose child was it?  
43 Whether any do bring strange Ministers into their own houses to baptise their children privately according to their own fantasies, or receive any child or children borne elsewhere, to be baptised in your parish? If you know any such, than who received any such, & whose child or children were so baptised: and what was the name of the child, & who baptised it? And whether you know of your own knowledge that the Parents were married together, and where, when, and by whom.  
44 Whether do you know, or have heard, of any Patron or Aduensoner in your Parish that have made a gain by any colour, deceit, or simoniacal pact, in bestowing his Benefice for gain: for, or receiving money or promise of the Lease of the whole part, or by reserving his own tithes, or any pension to himself or any other?  
45 What Almshouses, Hospitals, or Spitals for poor people have you in your Parish, that are not of the foundation or patronage of the King: and who was the founder or Patron thereof: And whether the said Almshouses, Hospitals, or Spitals in your Parish being under our rule and governance, be well and godly used, according to the foundations and ancient ordinances of the same, and whether there be any other placed in them then poor, impotent, and needy persons, that have not wherewith or whereby to live?  
46 How many Midwives have you in your Parish which do exercise that office, how long they have so done, and by what authority? and what be their names? Of what skill they are accounted to be of in their office and vocation?  
47 How many have you in your Parish that do practise as Physicians or Chirurgeons, and are so reputed? How long they have so done, by what authority, of what skill are they accounted to be of in their profession?  
48 Have you any in your Parish, which have used any Enchantments, Sorceries, Witchcrafts, or Incantations, which are not made Felony by the Statutes of this Realm, or any Charms: or which do resort to any such for help or Counsel?  
49 Whether do you know of any other matter of Ecclesiastical cognisance worthy the presentment in your judgement, heretofore in these Articles not expressed, and which is fit to be reform in Ecclesiastical censure? If you do, you shall likewise present the same by virtue of your oaths?   

Admonition.  
FIrst, for that in great Parishes, where diverse do come in great multitudes to receive the Communion, whereof some do stand excommunicate: To avoid this inconvenience in every parish, the Minister and Churchwardens shall keep a Book of all excommunications brought unto them, and from what Court, and of the day, month, and year it was received; and of the parties names so excommunicated, and for what cause, and of the day, month, and year of the Denunciation, and likewise of the Absolution, to the end that all persons may be drawn to conformity, and none admitted to be partakers of Common Prayer and the Sacraments, who do stand Excommunicate, when they offer themselves ready to receive the same.  
That in the time of Divine Service and Sermons, all persons behave themselves reverently and attentively, and that all men do sit and continue uncovered, with their Hats off, the whole time of Divine Service and Prayers.  
That from time to time diligent inquiry be made what children are borne in every Parish, and where, when, and by whom every child is baptised: And if in case of necessity any child or children be found to be baptised privately in any house, that upon due Certificate thereof, the same shall be published in their own parish Church, where the Child or Children were borne, the next Sunday after notice thereof so taken, that upon such necessity the said Child or Children were so baptised, and that rightly, that the Parish may take notice thereof.  
And concerning your Transcript of the names of all persons Baptised, Married or Buried, you shall observe the form prescribed in the Book of Articles ministered in the last Triennial Visitation of the Lord Bishop of London, viz. Anno 1628.  
AT the delivery of your Bill of Presentment, at the time and place above set down, you are likewise in the said Bill, to set down the names of all such as have been buried at any time since the _____ day of july last past _____ being Men, Maids, or Widows: and likewise the Minister, Churchwardens, and Sidemen of every parish, must in the end of the said Bill of Presentment, set down beside their presenting, which they make of all Recusants and non-Communicants, this Note following.  

Recusants' men.—  
Recusants women.—  
Non-Communicants of both sex.—  
Communicants of both sex in the whole Parish.   
So setting down the number of every one, the Minister, Churchwardens and Sidemen must put their hands to this Note.