ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF, In the Metropolitical Visitation of the most Reverend Father in God, RICHARD, by the providence of God, Lord Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan.  
In the year of our Lord God, 1633.  
LONDON, Printed by John Norton. 1633.   

The Advertisement.  
THe Minister and Churchwardens are to call unto them the Neighbours of the Parish, and out of them to make choice (according to the custom of the place) of two of the discreetest parishioners to be Sidemen, and they altogether are to read over these Articles diverse times. Then, after they have duly considered of them, they are to write their answer or presentment unto every Article particularly and truly, according to their consciences. Lastly, they are all of them to bring their presentments to the Visitation, and there the Churchwardens and Sidemen upon their oaths (but the Minister according to the Canon in that behalf) are to deliver them up under their hands.   

The oath to be ministered to the Churchwardens, & Sworne-men.  
YOu shall 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, and defamed of any such offence, fault or default: wherein you shall deliver 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.   


Touching the Church, Church-yard Parsonage, and Vicarage-house.  
FIrst, whether your Church, chapel, and Chancel be well and sufficiently repaired in the walls and roof, the Seats convenient, the floor paved, the windows glazed, your Bells in tune, and all these cleanly kept, and the mansionhouse of your Parson or Vicar, with the building thereunto belonging, be likewise well and sufficiently repaired, and your Churchyard well fenced with walls, rails, or pails, and cleanly kept.  
2 Whether hath your Church or Church-yard been abused and profaned by any fight, chiding, brawling or quarrelling, any plays, Lords of misrule, summer Lords, morris-dancers, pedlars, bowlers, bearwards, butchers, feasts, schools, temporal courts, or Leets, Lay juries, musters, or other profane usage in your Church or Church-yard, any bells superstitiously rung on holidays or their eves, or at any other time without good cause allowed by the Minister and Churchwardens: have any trees been felled in your Churchyard, and by whom?  
3 Whether are your Almshouses and Church-house sufficiently repaired, mayntaned, and to godly and their right use employed?  
4 Whether have you in your Church all things necessary for common prayer, as the Bible in the largest volume, the book of common Prayer lately authorized by his Majesty, the book of Homilies allowed, two books of common prayer, a convenient Pulpit for the preaching, a decent seat for the Minister to read Service in, conveniently placed, a strong chest, with three locks and keys, one for the Minister, the other for the Church wardens for the keeping of the Register book of the Christen, Marriages, and Burials, and a poor man's box, with three locks, conveniently seated near the Church door.  
5 Whether have you in your Church, a font of stone for baptism set in the ancient usual place: a decent table for the communion conviently placed, covered with silk, or other decent stuff in time of divine Service, and with a fair linen cloth over that, at the administration of the communion?  
6 Whether have you all such bells, ornaments and other utensels as have anciently belonged to your Church, a communion-cup o● silver with a cover, a fair standing pot or two of pewter, or purer metal for the wine, upon the communion table, a comely Surplice with sleeves, a Register book of parchment, for christen, marriages, & burials, a book for the names of all christen, marriages, & burials, a book for the names of all strange preachers, subscribed with their names, and the name of the Bishop, or other, where they had licence?  
7 Whether is the Alms for the poor duly distributed, and are the names and surnames of all persons married, christened and buried, and of their parents, with the day and year entered in your parchment Register book?  
8 Whether are the ten Commandments set up in your Church or Chapel, and other chosen sentences of holy Scripture upon the walls in convenient places, and the table of the degrees prohibited in marriage, set forth 1563?  
9 Whether have you in your Church or Chapel the book of the Canons agreed upon in the convocation holden at London Anno Dom 1603. and confirmed by his Majesty's royal authority, and whether your Minister have read the same in your Church or Chapel once every year, according to his Majesty's Injunctions in that behalf?   

Touching the Ministry, Service and Sacraments.  
Whether is the common prayer said or sung by your Minister both morning & evening, distinctly and reverently every Sunday and Holiday, and on there eves, and at convenient and usual times of those days, and in most convenient place of the Church for the edifying of the people?  
2 Whether doth your Minister observe the orders, rites, & ceremonies prescribed in the book of common prayer, in reading holy Scriptures, prayers & administration of the Sacraments, without diminishing (in regard of preaching or any other respect) or adding any thing in the manner or form thereof?  
3 Whether doth your Ministér on wednesdays and friday's not being holidays, at the accustomed hours of service, resort to the Church, and say the ordinary prayers and Litany prescribed? And doth your Clerk or Sexton give warning before by tolling of a bell on those days?  
4 Whether any Minister leaving the use of the Font, do in your Church or Chapel christian or baptise in any Basins, or other profane vessels: or whether your Minister do baptise or christian any out of the face of the Church & Congregation, without special cause, or without Godfathers or Godmothers: And whether any person or persons be admitted to answer as Godfathers & Godmothers at the christening of any child, except he or she have before received the holy communion: And whether doth your Minister in the baptising of children, observe the orders, rites, & ceremonies appointed & prescribed in the book of common prayer, without addition, omission, or other innovation?  
5 Whether do you know any Parents that keep children unchristened, or that were not christened at their own Parish Church or Chapel, & for what cause they remain yet unchristened, or have not been christened at their Parish Church or Chapel: or do you know have heard or vehemently suspect any parents, whose children have been christened by any Popish Priest, or otherwise than by the laws of the Church of England is allowed?  
6 Whether doth your Minister as oft as he administereth the communion, first receive it himself: whether doth he use any bread and wine newly brought, before the word of institution be rehearsed, and the bread and wine present on the Table: doth he not deliver the bread and wine to every communicant severally in such sort as is prescribed?  
7 Whether doth your Minister give warning publicly in the Church at Morning prayer the Sunday before he administereth the communion, for the better preparation of the parishioners? and whether doth he administer the Sacraments so often as that every parishione, may receive thrice in the year at the least, whereo. Easter to be one?  
8 Whether hath your Minister administered the Communion to any but such as kneel, or do you know any that refuse to kneel: hath he administered to any that are under Ecclesiastical censure, as for refusing to be present at public Prayer, or who hath depraved the Book of Common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments, or the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed, or the Articles of religion agreed upon, or the Book of ordering Deacons, Priests and Bishops, or against his Majesty's Supremacy: or hath committed other the like enormities, and what be their names?  
9 Whether have your Minister more Benefices than one: if he have, how far distant are the●…, how often is he absent in the year? when he is absent from your parsonage or vicarage, hath he a licenced Preacher for his Curate?  
10 Whether your Churches or Chapels be or have been destitute of a Curate? And how long, and by whose default? And whether any Curate have served, or do serve without licence of the Ordinary?  
11 Whether do you know any Popish Priests, Seminary, jesuite, or runagate persons, that do preach, say Mass, or minister any Popish Sacrament ●r Ceremonies, or else do resort secretly or openly into your Parish: And whose house do they resort unto, and of whom are they harboured, and what be the names of such Popish Priests, Seminaries, jesuites, or Runagates, and such as so harbour and relieve them?  
12 Whether your Parson, Vicar or Curate, or any other person in your parish be a favourer of the Romish Church or religion, or any other Sect or Schismatical opinion, or hath or doth maintain or teach any doctrine, contrary or repugnant to God's Word, or to any of the Articles agreed upon by the Clergy in the Convocation holden at London, An. Dom. 1562. And whether they have taught publicly or secretly any doctrine tending to the discredit and dispraise either of the Book of Common Prayer, or of the Preachers, and Ministers of the Word and Sacraments, or of the received order for government by Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Archdeacon's, and other officers in the Church of England, or make any other innovation? And whether have they permitted any man so teaching or making such innovation, and not made the same known.  
13 Whether is your Minister an allowed Preacher: if he be, doth he every Sunday in your Church or some other next adjoining, where no Preacher is, preach?  
14 Whether doth your Minister being no Preacher allowed, presume to expound the Scripture in his own Cure, or elsewhere: doth he procure every month a Sermon to be preached in his cure by preachers lawfully licenced, and on every Sunday when there is no Sermon, doth he or his Curate read some one of the Homilies prescribed?  
15 Whether your Minister do openly every Sunday after he have read the second Lesson at Morning & Evening prayer, admonish and warn the Churchwardens, & Swornemen to look to their charge, & to observe who offend in absenting themselves negligently or wilfully from their Parish-church or Chapel, or unreverently use themselves in time of divine Service?  
16 Whether is your Curate allowed by the Ordinary under his hand and seal to serve for your Cure, and whether doth he serve two Churches or chapels in one day? whether is he Deacon▪ at the least, and what stipend hath he for serving the Cure?  
17 Whether doth your Minister always in saying public prayer & administering the Sacraments, wear a decent surplice with sleeves, and being a graduate, doth he always wear therewith a hood by the order of the University, agreeable to his degree  
18 Whether hath your Minister or any other Preacher in your church, preached any thing to confute or impugn any doctrine delivered by any other Preacher, & hath he & they prayed for Christ's Catholic Church, the King's Majesty, the Lords Archbishops and Bishops, etc. as is prescribed, Canon 55?  
19 Whether hath or doth any preach in your Church, which refuseth to conform himself to the Laws, Rites, & Ordinances established, or which hath not first showed a sufficient licence.  
20 Whether doth your Minister in his sermons four times in the year at the least, teach and declare the King's Majesty's power within his Realms to be the highest power under God, to whom all within the same own most loyalty and obedience, and that all foreign power is justly taken away?  
21 Whether doth your Minister every Sunday and Holiday half an hour before Evening prayer or more, or at some other convenient time at Evening prayer examine and instruct the youth in the ten Commandments, the Belief, the Lords Prayer, & the Catechism, set forth in the Book of Common prayer, and whether do the Churchwardens assist the Minister herein?  
22 Whether hath your Minister married any which have not been three several Sundays or Holidays asked in your Church in the tune of divine service, without licence or without a ring: or hath he with licence or without, married any, whereof neither dwelled in your Parish?  
23 Whether hath your Minister with licence or without, married any, at any other times than between the hours of eight and twelve in the Forenoon, or in any private house, or when there is no licence, before the Parents and Governors (the parties being under the age of 22. years) have testified their consents?  
24 Whether hath your Minister declared to the people every Sunday at the time appointed, what Holidays and Fasting-days be that week following: doth he being a Preacher confer with all recusants, and persons excommunicate or suspended? being no Preacher doth he procure a sufficient Preacher to reclaim them thereby?  
25 Whether doth your Minister keep a note of all persons excommunicate, and once every six months doth he denounce them which have not obtained their absolution, on some Sunday in seruicetime, that others may be admonished to refraive their company?  
26 Whether your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, be diligent in visiting the sick and comforting them, and whether they bury their dead in such christian and comely manner as is prescribed in the Book of Common prayer, and whether any Lay man, other than a lawful Minister, hath taken upon him to bury the dead contrary to order?  
27 Whether hath your Minister refused to baptise any child brought to the Church, or to bury any corpse brought into the Church or Church-yard, or to Church any woman, having had convenient warning thereof?  
28 Whether hath your Minister being truly informed of the danger of death of any infant unbaptized, and being desired to go to the place where the child is, to baptise it, neglected to go, by means whereof the child hath died unbaptized?  
29 Whether doth your Minister at any time preach or administer the communion in any private house, except when they are so impotent that they cannot go to Church, or very danger ously sick?  
30 Whether do any Chaplains in your parish preach, or administer the Sacrament in any Chapel not consecrated, or in any house having no Chappoll allowed by Law, and do the Lords and Masters where such Chapels are, resort often to the Parish-church, and there receive the Communion once at the least every year?  
31 Whether hath your Minister held or appointed any public fast not appointed by Authority, or been present at such: doth he or any other in your Parish hold any lecture or exercise, or attempt by fasting, or prayer, or otherwise, to cast out any Devils, without the privity and allowance of the Bishop under his hand and seal?  
32 Whether hath there been any secret Conventicles or meetings in your Parish by any priests, ministers, or others, tending to the depraving of the form of prayer, doctrine or government of the Church?  
33 Whether doth your Minister wear decent apparel, doth he in public go in his Doublet and Hose, without a Coat, or Cassock, or Cloak, and doth he wear any unseemly & lightcoloured apparel or stockings?  
34 Whether doth your Minister make accustomed resort to any Taverns, or Alehouses, except for his honest necessities: or doth he board or lodge in any such place, doth he use any base or servile labour, or frequent drinking, riot, dice, cards, tables, or any other unlawful games: is he contentious with his neighbours, or a hunter, hawker, swearer, dancer, usurer, suspected of incontinency, or doth give evil example of life?  
35 Whether is there in your Parish any Minister or Deacon who hath forsaken his calling, using himself in his course of life as a mere Lay man?  
36 Whether is his Majesty's declaration lately published for quieting and silencing the controversies lately stirred up to the disturbance of our Church with new questions, strictly observed by your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or whomsoever else preacheth in your Church?  
37 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, Curate or Lecturer, catechise the youth of the Parish in your Church, every Sunday after dinner by question and answer; and apply his afternoon preaching and exhortation, to the instructing and edifying of the congregation in that kind of catechising?  
38 Whether have you in your parish any weekeday Lecture, or not? And if you have, by whom is the same performed; whether by one particular man thereto licenced, or by sundry neighbour Ministers, and whether are the public prayers always read, before such lecture and sermons, in his surplice and hood, according to his Majesty's instructions lately set forth?  
39 Whether are there any within your parish (under the degree of Noblemen and men qualified by law) who do keep any private Chaplains in their houses?   

Touching Ecclesiastical Courts.  
FIrst, whether the Chancellor, Commissaries, or any other using Ecclesiastical jurisdiction in this Diocese, their Registers, or Actuaries, Apparitors or Summoners, have at any time been corrupt in their places, or taken any excessive fees, or winked at & suffered any Adulteries, Fornications, Incests, or other faults, or offences to pass, & remain unpunished & uncorrected, or have commuted any penance without special licence of the Bishop?  
2 Whether do you know that there hath been any commutation of penance, allowed of by the Ordinary in your parish: and whether hath your Minister publicly signified it to his Congregation, what sums of money have therefore been paid, and whether have the said sùmmes of money, or part thereof been distributed by your Minister and Churchwardens to the poor, or otherwise employed to some such godly & charitable use, as was prescribed by the Ordinary?  
3 Whether do you know any householder, or other person whatsoever, within your parish or Chappelry that is deceased, that hath made his last Will and Testament, and the same not hitherto been proved, nor administration taken from the Ordinary or other judge competent?  
4 Whether hath your Chancellor, Commissary, or other exercising Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, heard any matter of office privately in their chamber, without their sworn Registers, or their Deputies presence, or in their absence, of such other person as the Law doth allow for an actuary in such a case?   

Touching Schoolmasters.  
FIrst, whether have you in your Parish any Schoolmaster, who teacheth either in public School, or private house, whether is he reputed to be of sound Faith and Religion, doth he resort duly to Church, and receive the Communion, or doth he give any evil example of life, is he allowed by the Ordinary under his hand and seal: or doth your Minister or Curate teach, and is he allowed in like manner?  
2 Whether doth your Minister or Schoolmaster, who teacheth the Catechism by Authority set forth, doth he when there is any Sermon or divine Service, bring his scholars to Church and see them quietly and reverently ordered, doth he examine them after their return, what they have learned of the Sermon?  
3 Whether doth he at other times teach them such sentences of holy Scripture, as may induce them to all godliness, doth he teach the Grammar set forth by King Henry the eight, continued by King Edward the sixth, and Queen Elizabeth?  
4 Whether hath your Schoolmaster an Usher under him, are they both diligent, is your Usher allowed by the Ordinary, doth your Schoolmaster direct his Usher the form & manner of teaching, and doth he weekly take account of him, and the Scholars under his charge, how they have profited, and what they have learned, and out of what Authors?  
5 Whether hath either of them spoken, writ, or taught against any thing whereunto he formerly subscribed, as the King's Supremacy, the Articles of Religion, Book of Common prayer, or any thing therein contained?   

Touching the Parish Clarke, and Sexton.  
FIrst, whether have you a parish Clarke appointed by the Minister, sufficient for his place, of the age of twenty years at the least, is he of honest conversation, can he read, writ, & sing, is he diligent in his office, and serviceable to his Minister in the time of divine Service and otherwise?  
2 Whether doth your Clerk meddle with any thing above his office, as Churching of women, burying the dead, reading of prayers, or such like?  
3 Whether doth your Clerk or Sexton keep your Church clean, the doors safe locked, is any thing (by his default) lost or spoilt in the Church, doth he suffer any untimely ringing, or any profane exercise to be committed in your Church?  
4 Whether doth your Clerk or Sexton, when any is passing out of this life, neglect to toll a bell, having notice thereof: or the party being dead, doth he suffer any more ringing than one short peal, & before his burial one, and after the same another.  
5 Whether doth any of your parish refuse to pay unto the parish Clarke or Sexton such wages as are unto them due, & have been accustomably paid?   

Touching Parishioners.  
FIrst, whether hath any in your parish spoken against, or any way impugned the Kings Majesty's supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical, the Truth and Doctrine of the Church of England, the form of God's worship contained in the book of common prayer and administration of the Sacraments?  
2 Whether there be any person or persons known or vehemently suspected to have written, printed, or by any means published, & dispersed, or otherwise to have, or to have had in his or their use or keeping, any Popish books or libels, or any of those slanderous or schismatical, & seditious libels, or other books, that impeach the cook of common prayer, or the Religion, & Ecclesiastical government, or any other part thereof, established by Law in this Realm, or doth impeach the credit or estate of any Ecclesiastical person or governor within the same?  
3 Whether hath any in your parish spoken against or impugned the Articles of Religion, agreed upon in Anno. Do. 1562. the rites and ceremonies established in the Church, the government by Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Arch-deacons, and others that bear office in the same?  
4 Whether hath any in your Parish spoken against or impugned the form of making and consecrating Bishops, Priests, or Deacons, or have any separated themselves from the society of the congregation, and combined in a new Brotherhood, or depraved the Sinods of the Church of England held by the King's Authority?  
5 Whether hath any in your Parish maintained or defended any such Ministers or Schoolmasters as refuse to subscribe to the order of the Church, have they affirmed that such Ministers and adherents may make Rules & Orders in causes Ecclesiastical, without the King's Authority?  
6 Whether doth any in your Parish profane, violate or misspend the Lords day, commonly called Sunday, or Holidays apppointed in the Church of England, using any offensive conversation, or worldly labour in those days, or any of them: or is there any that wilfully refuse, or negligently hath absented himself from divine prayers on Sundays or Holidays?  
7 Whether doth any in your Parish, in the time of divine Service, use to sit with his hat on his head: or is there any who hath not reverently kneeled when the general Confession, Litany, & other prayers are read, & which have not stood up at the saying of the Belief.  
8 Whether hath any in your Parish disturbed the Service or Sermon, by walking, talking, or any other way, or departed out of the Church during the Service or Sermon, without some urgent cause, or loitered about the Church or Church-porch?  
9 Whether there be any in your Parish, man or woman, being about fifteen year of age, that hath not received the holy Communion, thrice at the least every year, & namely at Easter last, or thereabouts for once: & whether any abandoning his or their Parish Church, have received the holy Communion in any other Parish Church or Chapel, or private place?  
10 Whether hath any parent been urged to be present, or admitted to answer as Godfather for his own child, or hath any Godfather or godmother made any other answer or speech, than is prescribed by the Book, or have any been admitted for Godfathers or Godmothers, at Baptism, who have not first received the Communion?  
11 Whether do all Fathers, Mothers, Masters, Mistresses, come & cause their children, servants, and apprentices to come duly to the Church, and according to the Ministers direction is be instructed and catechised, or who be they that have not obeyed the Minister herein?  
12 Whether have any persons married together within the Degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity prohibited, set forth in a Table, apppointed to be placed in every Church: or have any married or contracted themselves under the age of one & twenty years, without the consent of their Parents, or Governors, if their parents be dead?  
13 Whether have any persons, once lawfully married, forsaken each other, or do live asunder otherwise than by Law is permitted: or do any, being divorced or separated, marry again the former wife or husband yet living?  
14 Whether hath any of your parish unreverently used your Minister, or have any laid violent hands upon him, or disgraced his office and calling, by word or deed?  
15 Whether have you in your parish any popish recusant, or maintainer of popish doctrine, or suspected to keep or disperse schismatical books, or to favour any heresy or error?  
16 Whether have you any common resorters to your Church, which are not of your parish, abandoning their own parish Church, or do any such receive the communion amongst you: what be their names, and of what parishes are they?  
17 Whether hath any in the time of divine Service upon any Sunday or Holiday opened their shops, exercised their trade, or used any gaming, been in any Tavern or Alehouse, or otherwise ill employed?  
18 Whether are there in your Parish any adulterers, fornicators, incestuous persons, bawds, receivers of defamed persons, close favourers, conveyors away of such, or which suffer to departed any incontinent person unpunished, or are there in your parish any blasphemers, common swearers, drunkards, ribawds, usurers, malicious slanderers, scolds or sowers of discord, or any defamed of the same crime?  
19 Whether do any in your Parish administer the goods of the dead, without authority, or suppress their will or testament: have any Executors neglected to perform their wills, especially in paying of Legacies given to the Church, to the poor, or to any other charitable or godly uses?  
20 Whether do any refuse to pay to the reparations, ornaments, & other things by Law required to be in your Church, as they are seized by Law: or are any dwelling out of your Parish, which hold land in your Parish, that refuse the like payment or seasement?  
21 Whether have any not being of your Parish been christened, churched, buried, or received the Communion, or been married out of your Church, both parties dwelling in your parish?  
22 Whether have all women in your Parish delivered of child, come at convenient time after to Church, to give thanks, & have they been Churched according to the form of the Book of common Prayer?  
23 Whether hath the Perambulation of the circuit of your Parish been observed once every year, if not, by whose default is it?  
24 Whether hath any in your Parish given the Churchwardens or Sidemen or any of them evil words for doing their duty according to their oath and conscience, in making presentment for their default?  
25 Whether there be any man or woman in your Parish, that useth witchcraft, sorcery, charms, or unlawful prayer or invocations in Latin or English, or otherwise upon any Christian body or beast, or any that resorteth to the same for counsel, or help, and what be their names?  
26 Whether there be any, that pretending themselves to be Physicians or Surgeons, do take upon them to practise Physic, or Chirurgery, not being lawfully licenced thereunto, or which refuse to show their said licence to the Minister, or Curate, and Churchwardens of your Church or Chapel, when they shall be hereunto required?   

Touching Churchwardens, and Sworne-men.  
FIrst, whether do any in your Parish take upon them to be Churchwarden or Side-man, which is not lawfully chosen by the Minister & Parishioners, according to the Canon, or do any continue the office longer than one year, except they be chosen again, or that it be a custom of your Parish for a Churchwarden to continue two years, and are all such officers chosen yearly in Easter week?  
2 Whether do your Churchwardens within one month at the most after their year ended, before the Minister and Parishioners, give up a just account of all such money, & other things as they have received & bestowed, have they delivered all remaining in their hands belonging to their Church or Parish, by Bill indented, to be delivered to the next Churchwardens?  
3 Whether have the Churchwardens, with the advice of the Minister, from time to time provided a sufficient quantity of fine white bread, & wholesome wine for the number of communicants?  
4 Whether do the Churchwardens and Sworne-men, before every visitation, and at other times when there is just occasion, meet and confer about their presentments, & the answering of their Articles, & who hath (after notice given him of the time & place) carelessly absented himself?  
5 Whether the forfeiture of twelve pence, for absence from Church, apppointed by Statute, to the use of the poor, be taken, & levied by the Churchwardens, & employed according to the said Statute: and whether is the said forfeiture taken of all persons which stand wilfully suspended or excommunicated?  
6 Whether have any Churchwardens lost, sold, or detained any Goods, Ornaments, Bells, Rents, or Implements of the Church?  
7 Whether do you the Churchwardens & Sidemen, about the midst of divine Service, usually walk out of the Church, & see who are abroad in any Alehouse, or elsewhere absent, or evilly employed, & have you presented all such offenders to the Ordinary?  
8 Whether do you know, or have heard a fame of any offence committed, or duty omitted by any of your Parish before your time, & heretofore not presented by the former Churchwardens to the Ordinary, or as yet not reform, and have you presented the same?  
9 Finally, do you know of any matter or cause which is a breach of the laws Ecclesiastical here not expressed, & have you presented the same?   
FINIS.