ARTICLES, To be inquired of within the Diocese of London, in the third general Visitation of the reverend Father in God, Richard Bishop of London.  
HOLDEN In the year of our Lord God 1604. In the second year of the reign of our most gracious Sovereign Lord JAMES, by the grace of God of England, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the faith; and of Scotland the thirty eight, etc.  
Imprinted at London for Clement Knight. 1604.   

A Branch of the Statute made in the first year of the reign of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth, entitled, An Act for the uniformity of Common Prayer and service in the Church.  
THat from and after the feast of the Nativity of St. john Baptist next coming, all and every person & persons inhabiting within this Realm, or any other the Queen's majesties dominions, shall diligently and faithfully (having no lawful or reasonable excuse to be absent) endeavour themselves to resort to their parish Church or Chapel accustomed, or upon reasonable let thereof to some usual place where common prayer and such like service of God shall be used in such time of let, upon every Sunday and other days, ordained and used to be kept as Holy days, and then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of common prayer, preaching, or other service of God there to be used and ministered, upon pain of punishment by the Censures of the Church. And also upon pain that every person so offending, shall forfeit for every such offence twelve pence, to be levied by the Churchwardens of the parish where such offence shall be done, to the use of the poor of the same parish, of the goods, lands, and tenements of such offender by way of distress. And for due execution hereof, the Queen's most excellent Majesty, the Lords temparall, and all the commons in this present Parliament assembled, doth in God's name earnestly require and charge all the Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries, that they shall endeavour themselves to the uttirmost of their knowledge, that the true and due execution hereof may be had throughout their Diocese and charges, as they will answer before God for such evils and plagues, wherewith almighty God may justly punish his people for neglecting this good and wholesome Law.   

The tenor of the Oath ministered to the Churchwardens and Swornemen.  
YOu wall swear, that all affection, favour, hatred, hope of reward and gain, or fear of displeasure, or malice set aside, you shall upon due consideration of the Articles given you in charge, present all and every such person of or within your parish, as hath committed any offence or fault, or made any default mentioned in these, or any of these Articles, or which are vehemently suspected, or otherwise defamed of any such offence, fault, or default: 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 truth, and to suppress vice. So help you God and the contents of this Book.   

The Charge of the Churchwardens and Swornemen, set down for the better performance of their duties, and discharge of their Oaths.  
THey are straightly charged to hear all these Articles read over to them, and diligently to consider and inquire thereof, and for that the time is so short in this Visitation, that they shall not be able to make a perfect answer unto all them; and that notwithstanding there are many notorious faults presently worthy of presentment and reformation, they are charged after their return home, that together with their Minister they do read over all these Articles distinctly and leisurely, to the end they may consider of every particular Article, and of the offences in them contained, as of such persons in their parish as shallbe noted to offend in any of them: and after that, to assemble themselves in some convenient time together and to make their Bill, answering every Article by itself, before the feast of St. Martin next ensuing, being the 10 day of November: which Bill shall be signed with the hand of the Minister and of all the Churchwardens and Sidemen, and shall for their better ease be brought by one of the Churchwardens upon the _____ day of November next, unto the Church of _____ where for the saving of their travel and charges up to London, the judge and the Register will be ready to receive them.   

Articles to be enqired of within the Diocese of London in this Visitation holden in the year of our Lord God. 1604.  

Articles concerning the Clergy.  
1 whether is Common prayer read by your Minister in your Church or Chappel distinctly and reverently upon all Sundays and Holy days, and in such order as is set forth by the Laws of this Realm in the book of Common prayer, without any kind of alteration, omitting or adding any thing, and at due and convenient hours?  
2 Whether doth your Minister upon Wednesdays & fridays (not being Holy days) read in your Church or Chapel, publicly the Litany and other prayers appointed in the said book for those days: and whether doth he read the Commination against sinners, in such order and form as it is there also prescribed?  
3 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, in the administration of the lords Supper, or of Baptism, when he solemnizeth Matrimony, burieth the dead, churcheth women, etc. use the forms and prayers prescribed in the Communion book, without omitting or altering any part of them, and without any of his own additions?  
4 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, read public prayer & administer the Sacraments ordinarily himself, using such rites and ceremonies as are prescribed in the book of Common prayer: as namely whether doth he kneel at the receiving of the holy Communion, and administer the same to none but to such as do kneel at the receiving thereof: make the sign of the Cross upon the child's forehead in the administration of Baptism: baptize any without Godfathers and Godmothers: use the Ring in marriage: and generally whether doth he in the discharging of all these duties, and when he readeth Common prayer either upon Sundays, Holy days, Wednesdays and fridays wear a Surplice?  
5 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; whereby they may be put in mind to prepare themselves, and to repair to the Church to public prayer, according to the laws of the Realm?  
6 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or either of them reject at any time those women (being married) which do come to church to give God thanks after their childbirth, or refuse or neglect to visit the sick, or to bury the dead, according to their duties prescribed in the book of common prayer?  
7 Whether doth your minister in the Rogation days of procession use the perambulation of the circuit of your parish, appointed by Law: and whether doth he in the said perambulation moon the people to give thanks to God in the beholding of his benefits, for the increase and abundance of his fruits upon the face of the earth: and sing or say the two Psalms, beginning, Praise the Lord O my soul. etc. with the Litany & suffrages thereunto belonging: and at certain convenient places read the Homily of thanksgiving to God, already devised, and divided into four parts, without addition of any superstitious ceremony heretofore used?  
8 Whether doth any man, being neither Minister nor Deacon, read common prayer openly in your Church or Chappel, or administer the sacrament of baptism, or solemnize matrimony, or take upon him to practise any other ministerial duty in the church, that is prescribed to be executed particularly by such as are either ministers or Deacons; & what is his name that so doth?  
9 Whether is your Parson or Vicar a Preacher, licenced to preach by lawful authority according to Law? if he be, how many Sermons doth he preach yearly: if he be not, how many doth he procure to be preached by others: who hath preached them, and whether were they Preachers licensed, as is before expressed?  
10 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, every Sunday & Holy day when there is no Sermon, read distinctly and plainly some part of the Homilies prescribed and set forth by Law.  
11 Whether doth the Parson, Vicar, or farmer of the Benefice in your parish cause or suffer any Curate or Minister, either to read service, etc. or to preach, before he the said Curate (being no preacher) be examined & admitted by the Ordinary in writing: and before he the said Curate being a preacher be thereunto admitted according to Law, and before they show their said several licences unto the Churchwardens?  
12 Whether doth your Preacher in his prayer which he maketh at the entrance into his Sermon, use at all times the prayer for his Majesty, for our geacious Queen, the Prince, and all the rest of the royal progeny, with his whole title; as, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. and of all causes, and over all persons within his highness dominions, as well ecclesiastical as temporal, next and immediately under God, supreme governor. And whether doth he in like manner then pray for the Archbishops and Bishops, as by law is also appointed?  
13 Whether your Minister doth serve two Cures in one day?  
14 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, every Sunday and Holy day openly in the Church earnestly call for, hear, and instruct all the Children, Apprentices, and Servants of both sexes, that be of convenient age within your Parish, or at the least so many of them by course as the time will serve, and as he may well hear & instruct one hour at the least, before or after evening prayer, in the ten Commandments, the Articles of the belief, and the Lords prayer: and diligently examine & teach them the Catechism, as it is now allowed and set forth in the book of Common prayer?  
15 Whether is there any man in your parish, being neither your Parson, Vicar, nor Curate, that taketh upon him to preach or read Lectures either in private houses, or publicly in your church or chapel, who is not licenced to preach or read there: or who doth not once a year at the least administer the Sacraments in your said Church or Chapel, where he so preacheth or readeth, according to the book.  
16 Whether your Minister hath or doth receive to the holy Communion any persons which be not of his own parish, without testimony from the Minister of the place where they dwell, what they be, that it may appear that they be not persons excommunicate, or otherwise infamous.  
17 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, reject any from the holy Communion, who is not by public fame, or by presentment of the Churchwardens detected for a notorious Fornicator, Adulterer, or other wicked liver, or disturber of his neighbours by whom public offence is given: and whether he receive any such person so infamed or presented, to the holy Communion before public penance enjoined by his Ordinary be by him first performed, to the satisfaction of the Congregation according to the Law in that case provided?  
18 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or any other Minister or Preacher, baptize in your Parish-church or Chapel, any Infants, not in the Font according to the ancient custom, but in a Basin, and urge the parents of the said Infant to be present, in place of Godfathers for their children?  
19 Whether doth your Parson Vicar, or Curate, once every quarter of the year read his majesties Injunctions openly and deliberately before his parishioners at one time or at two several times in one day, according as in the said Injunctions it is prescribed?  
20 Whether hath your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or any other Minister, publicly or privately preached, declared, or spoken any thing in your parish in derogation of the book of Common-prayer, which is set forth by the laws of this Realm, dispraising, or depraving the same, or any thing therein contained; or against the present estate of the Ecclesiastical government, established by the same authority, or against any office, function, or part thereof, affirming the same to be unlawful?  
21 Whether hath your Parson or Vicar, more Benefices than one? if he hath not, whether is he resident upon that one? if he be not resident, where doth he remain? and whether doth he leave a sufficient Minister and Preacher to supply his absence, allowing something yearly towards the relief of the poor? and what doth he so allow?  
22 Whether is your Parson or Vicar, who hath two Benefices within this Diocese; or one Benefice in this Diocese, & an other forth of the same, resident one half of the year on one of them, and the other half year, or the greater part thereof upon his other Benefice: and whether doth he leave the Benefice in your parish provided of a sufficient Preacher to serve it: and hath an especial care of some convenient hospitality to be kept in his absence according to his ability, and the proportion of that living?  
23 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, keep a just and perfect note of all such as do communicate in your parish, and do not rather, regarding their private gain, receive their offerings at Easter, deliver them Tokens, enter them into their book, and so certify as communicantes those who never received?  
24 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, keep any man or woman in their houses, that are suspected to be either of evil religion, or of bad life: or whether be they or any of them incontinent persons themselves, or given to drunkenness, or to be haunters of taverns, alehouses, or suspected places, common Dicers, Carders, Tableplayers, Swearers, Dancers, or otherwise suspected persons of any notorious crime, or light and unseemly behaviour, or give evil example of life, or use disordered or unseemly apparel, either in colours, guards, or light fashion?  
25 Whether there be any Ministers or Priests within your parish, which live idly without any care, neither serving in any place, nor having any place of reading or preaching, and so become offensive to their calling, and what be their names who so live, and how long have they been with you?   

Articles concerning the Church.  
1 whether have you in your parish Churches and Chapels all things necessary and requisite for Common prayer and administration of the Sacraments, especially the book of Common prayer with the new Calendar, two Psalters (all set forth by his majesties especial commandment and Proclamation only to be used, printed by his highness Printer, the which you were by your Archdeacon's commanded from me, to have bought before Whitsuntide last,) the English Bible in the largest volume of the edition set forth by the Bishops, and lately imprinted by the kings Printer; the Table of the ten Commandments, a convenient Pulpit well placed, a comely and decent Table standing upon 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 Surples with fleeves, and a strong Chest or Box for the alms of the poor, with three locks and keys to the same, and all other things necessary in and to the premises?  
2 Whether there have grown in your Church since the last Visitation in the year 1601. any contention betwixt any of the parishioners, touching the placing or displacing of any in any seat or pew in the Church: and whether there hath been any Pew builded since the foresaid year 1601. in any your Churches, without the express leave and consent first had of the Ordinary of the Diocese, and by whom have any such been built.  
3 Whether is your Church or Chapel, and the Chancel well and sufficiently repaired and kept without abuse of any thing: whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or the Proprietary or Farmer of your Parsonage or Vicarage in your parish keep the Parsonage or Vicarage house with all other the edifices thereunto appertaining in good and sufficient reparations: and whether is your Churchyard well fenced and cleanly kept without any lapstall or other annoyances,  
4 Whether your Church be a Parsonage or a Vicarage presentative or bonative, or otherwise served by a Curate: whether did they ever heretofore hear or know that it was a Parsonage or Vicarage, and how came it to be decayed from being presentative, to be in the state it now is, and when was it first decayed, from being a benefice presentative, as you remember.  
5 Whether your Fowls or Baptisteries be removed from the place where they were wont to stand, towards the lower end of the Church: or whether any persons, leaving the use of them, do christian or baptize in Basins, or other vessels, not accustomably used in the Church before time: or do use any kind of Lavor with a removable Basin, or have taken down the old and usual Font heretofore used in your perish?  
6 Whether is there in your Parish a sufficient Register book of Parchment of marriages, christenings, and burials, provided at the charge of the Parish: whether are all the names of those that have been either christened, married, or buried, since the beginning of her lace majesties reign newly written into the said Parchment book? Whether doth the Minister every Sunday read the names publicly of those that were either christened, married, or buried the week before? Whether have you a public Chest with three locks, for the Minister and the two Churchwardens to keep the said Book in: and whether have you brought a transcript of all the names of such as have been christened, married, and buried this last year into M. Blackwell my Register his office, as you are bound to do every year hereafter, within a month after the Feast of Easter, by the Constitutions.   

Articles concerning Ecclesiastical Officers.  
1 whether the Chancellor, Archdeacon, Commissarie, Official, or any other using Ecclesiastical jurisdiction in this Diocese, their Registers or Actuaries, Apparators, or Summoners, have at any time winked at and suffered any adulterers, fornicators, 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?  
2 Whether doth the Chancellor, Commissaries, Archdeacon's, or any other Officials, hear any matters of office, or correction privately in their chambers without the presence of the sworn Register or his deputy▪ or do discharge any man's penance, for money, without the consent of the L. 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?  
3 Whether the Chancellor, Official, or Commissary, have caused for, or caused the Churchwardens to make, bring, or to pay for any more Bills of presentment, than once in every year; or do call for their quarter Bills, or make the Churchwardens pay for them?   

Articles concerning Schoolmasters.  
1 WWhether 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 Ordinary in that behalf?  
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 copacitie 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 your Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters do orderly on Sundays with their Scholars, come to the Church of their parish where they teach, and there see their Scholars placed in some convenient place, so as they do not disquiet the minister or parish in time of divine service, but may exercise themselves godly in reading and hearing the Service & Sermons, and in answering with the congregation in reading of public prayer?  
4 Whether the Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters either private or public do teach their Scholars the Catechism authorized by public authority, at the least once every week, and do instruct and examine them in the same: or do teach any other Catechism, and what Catechism it is that they so do teach?  
5 Whether your Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters, or any of them be known or suspected to read unto their Scholars privately any unlawful Books: or privately to instruct them in their young years either in popery, superstition, or disobedience, or contempt to his Majesty and his laws Ecclesiastical by public authority allowed?  
6 Whether your Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters, or any of them under pretence of catechizing their Scholars, which is a most godly order, carefully by them to be observed, do keep lectures, readings, or exposition in divinity in their houses, having repair unto them of people not being of their own family and household?  
7 Whether the Schoolmaster or Schoolmasters within your parish, do teach his or their Scholars any other Grammar then that which is commonly called the kings Grammar, set forth by the authority of King Henry the eight?   

Articles concerning the Parishioners and others of the Laity.  
1 whether all Householders in your parish cause their children, servants, and apprentices, both mankind & womankind, being above seven years of age, and under twenty, which have not learned the Catechism, to come to the Church on Sundays and Holy days at the time appointed for Cetechising, and there diligently and obediently to hear, 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?  
2 Whether the Churchwardens do deliver to the Archdeacon at his Visitation, a note of all those who do not send their children and servants to be catechised?  
3 Whether any do work, or keep any shop open upon Saboth days, or upon any Holy days appointed by the laws of this Realm to be keep Holy day, or use any work or labour, or open show of their wares in any of those days?  
4 Whether you yourselves, or the Churchwardens in the years before you, have suffered any unmarried women being begotten with child, to go out of your parish before she hath by you or them been presented to your Ordinary: or any man defamed of whoredom, to departed unpunished, upon direction appointed by the Ordinary? And forth of whose houses have they gone away with child unpunished, and what be the names of such unmarried women which have been delivered within your parish this three years last passed, have gone away without doing of penance?  
5 Whether the parish Clarke be appointed according to the law, by the Parson or Vicar of the parish, with the allowance of the Ordinary: and whether he be not obedient to the Parson, Vicar, or Curate: and whether he be able to read, and whether he keep the Books and Ornaments of the Church fair and clean, and cause the Church, and Choir, the Communion Table and the Font, to be kept clean and decent against the Service time, the Communion, Sermon, and Baptism?  
6 Whether there be any person or persons ecclesiastical or temporal, within your parish or else whese within this Diocese, that have retained and kept in their custody, or that read, sell, utter, disperse, carry, or deliver to others any English Books or Libels, set forth either on this side or beyond the Seas, by Papists or Sectaries against the King's supremacy in causes ecclesiastical, or against true Religion and Catholic doctrine now publicly professed in this Church, or the government or discipline of the Church of England, now within this Realm received and established by common authority, and what their names and surnames are?  
7 Whether there be any in your parish who are noted, known, or suspected to conceal or keep hidden in their houses any Mass books, portesses, breviaries, or other books of popery and superstition, or any Chalices Copes, Vestments, Albs, or other ornaments of superstition, uncancelled or undefaced, which it is to be conjectured they do keep for a day, as they call it?  
8 Whether there be in your parish any popish or sectary recusant or recusants, which for any cause whatsoever, forbear to come to Church to common prayer, or to hear God's word preached, pretending it unlawful to come to our assemblies, as the Church of England now standeth, established by his majesties authority, and what their several name or names are, and how long they have been recusants?  
9 Whether any do refuse to receive the holy Communion at their own Ministers hands, either because he is not a Preacher, or because he duly observeth the order of ministration appointed by the book, and who they be that do go from their own parish, to receive at any other ministers hands?  
10 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?  
11 Whether all the people of your parish above 16. years of age, and especially householders, having no lawful excuse to be absent, do resort with their servants and children to their parish Church or Chapel on the Holy days, and on the Sundays to morning and evening prayer, and who they be that either negligently or wilfully absent themselves, or do unreverently behave themselves in the Church, or use any gaming or pastime abroad or in any house, or sit in the street or Churchyard, or in any tavern, or alehouse, upon the Sunday, or Holiday, in the time of Common prayer, Sermon, or reading of the Homilies, or any of them, either before or after noon?  
12 Whether the forfeiture of xii. pence for every time of absence from the Church upon every Sunday and Holiday, appointed by a Statute made in the first year of the late Queen Elizabeth's reign, to be levied and taken according to the same Statute (the tenor whereof is set down in the beginning of this Book) by the Churchwardens of every person that offendeth, and by them be put to the use of the poor of the parish if it be not so le●●ed, by whose fault it is?  
13 Whether there be any innkeepers, Alewives, Victuallers, or tipplers, that suffer or do admit any person or persons in their houses to eat, drink, or play at Dice, Cards, Tables, Bowls, or such like games, in the time of Common prayer or Sermon, on the Sundays or Holidays: or any Butchers, or other that commonly use to sell meat or other things in the time of common prayer, preaching, or reading of Homilies? and whether in any Fairs or common Markets falling upon the Sundays, there be showing of any wares before morning prayer be done: and whether any markets and selling of wares be used or suffered in any Churchyards on the Sabbath day by common Packmen or peddlers going about, or any Butchers?  
14 Whether the Churchwardens of the last year, hath given to the Parson or Vicar and the parish, a just account of the Church goods that were committed to their charge, according to 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?  
15 Whether the Churchwardens and Swornmen, since the fourth day of August 1601. 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 and 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, dice, or other gaming, without regard of their office and duty in that behalf?  
16 Whether your Minister and you the Churchwardens, or any other in your parish have in your regestries made any orders, or do use to call any parties before you for any cause to be ordered by the Ecclesiastical laws, and so do use a kind of Presbytery or censuring over your neighbours, under pretence of your vestry meetings?  
17 Whether any of your parish, being of convenient age, have not received the holy Communion thrice this last year at the least, and namely at Easter last, or thereabouts for once, and what their names are, or which at their receiving have not signified the same before to your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, that he might conveniently examine them: and who have refused to come to him to be examined?  
18 Whether there be any in your parish that doth administer 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 last will, 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 maidens marriages, Highways, and such like, and by whom are they so detained?  
19 Whether there be any in your parish, that since the fourth of August 1601. hath or doth offend contrary to the Statute made in the seven and thirtieth year of the reign of King Henry the eight, for the reformation of Usury, and revived by an Act made in the thirteenth year of the reign of our late Queen Elizabeth, taking above the rate of ten pounds for the lending of an hundred pounds by the year: and what be the names of such offenders?  
20 Whether hath your Minister, or any of the parish, without the consent or privity of the Ordinary, caused any to do penance, or be punished either openly or otherwise, for any crime punishable by the Ecclesiastical laws only, and what be the names of the parties that have been so punished, and in what manner?  
21 Whether there be any amongst you that do use Sorcery or Witchcraft punishable by the Ecclesiastical laws, or that be suspected of the same: and whether any use any Charms or unlawful Prayers: and whether any do resort to any such for help and council, and what be the names, both of such as use it, and of such as resort to them for help?  
22 Whether any couples that be married in private houses within these three years last passed, have been known, or suspected to have been married by any popish Priest or otherwise, after any other order than is appointed by the Church of England?  
23 Whether there be among you any blasphemers of the name of God, great or often swearers, adulterers, fornicators, harlots, or whoremasters, 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 any that be vehemently suspected of any such faults, or that be not of good name and fame touching such crimes and faults of drunkards, or ribawdes: or any that be malicious, contentious, or uncharitable persons, railers, scoulders, or sowers of discord between neighbours, and especially railers against ministers and against their marriage, and what be all their several names?  
24 Whether there be any in these parts, that have been married within the degrees of affinity or consanguinity, by the laws of God forbidden: or any that being divorced or separated for the same, do yet notwithstanding cohabit and keep company still together: or any that being married without those degrees, have unlawfully forsaken their wives or husbands, and married others: Any that being divorced or separated a sunder, have married again: any that have married without Banes three several Sundays or Holy days solemnly asked, & without lawful licence thereunto: or any couples married that live not together, but slanderously live apart?  
25 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? And whether there be any, who being present at public prayer, do not devoutly and humbly kneel upon their knees, at such times as by the Book of common prayer they are appointed; to wit, when they make a general confession of their sins: when all prayers and Collects are read: in the time of the Lettenie: when the ten Commandments are read, and at their receiving of the holy Communion, etc. and what are their names that have at any time showed themselves undutiful and unreverent in this behalf?  
26 Whether the Minister and Churchwardens have suffered any Lord of Misrule, or Summer lord or ladies, or any disguised persons: any players, or May-games, or any Moris-dauncers at any time to come unreverently into the Church or Church yard, and there to dance or play, or show themselves disguised in the time of Common prayer, and what they be that commit such disorder, or that accompanied or maintained them: or any Plays to be played in the Church?  
27 Whether there be any married women or others within your Parish, which after childbirth, refuse or contemn to come to the Church to give God thanks for their delivery, and to have the prayers publicly appointed in that behalf by the book of common prayer?  
28 Whether any within your Parish do resort unto Barnes, Fields, Woods, private Houses, or to any extraordinary exposition of Scriptures, or conferences together, or that be drawers or persuaders of others to any such schismatical conventicles.  
29 Whether any do keep their children unbaptized longer than is convenient, unless it be for sickness of the child, or other urgent occasion: And whether any do carry their children from the Parish they are borne in, to other Parishes to be bapitzed, and so refuse their own Parish: or do bring strange ministers into their own houses to baptise their children privately, according to their own fantasies;  
30 Whether any notorious Recusant, who obstinately refuseth to be partaker with the Church of England in public prayer, and hearing of the word of God preached, who is for his disobedience and contempt excommunicated, and dieth excommunicate, be buried in Christian burial, not having before his death sought to be absolved, and testified the same his submission to some honest and discreet man, who shall upon his oath signify to the Bishop of the Diocese, whereby his Lordship may give order to the Ordinary, before whom he was excommunicate for his absolution.   

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 seventh of August 1604. being men, maids, or widows: and likewise the names of such as have been married by any Licence since that time, and out of what Court they have been granted, since the said seventh of August.   
FINIS.