ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF, IN THE GENERAL VISITATION OF THE ARCHDEACON of the diocese of gloucester: Holden in the year of our Lord GOD, 1624. In the 21. year of the reign of our most gracious sovereign Lord james, by the grace of God, King of Great britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. printer's or publisher's device LONDON:¶ Printed for Nathaniel Butter. 1624. The Tenor of the Oath to be ministered to the Church-wardens and Sworne-men. YOu shall swear, that vpon due consideration of the Articles, delivered you in charge to present unto; You shall particularly present all the wants and Defects; and also all Offences and Offenders therein enquired of: wherein you deal truly and faithfully: So help you God. LEVIT. 19.12. ye shall not swear by my Name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the Name of thy God. Articles to be inquired of, within the Archdeaconry of the diocese of gloucester, in the Visitation to be holden in the year of our Lord God, 1624. ¶ Articles concerning the clergy. WHether hath your Minister red the Constitutions set forth by his majesty, once every year, vpon some sundays or holidays in the afternoon before divine service; according, as by the Canons he is bound? 2 Whether doth your Minister use to pray for the Kings majesty, King james, the Prince, and all their royal progeny, giuing unto him such style and title of supreme governor, in all causes and over all persons, as well ecclesiastical as temporal, as by law are due unto him, exhorting their Parishioners to yield him obedience, according to the same: and also in their said Sermons, do pray for all Archbishops, Bishops, and other ecclesiastical persons, according to the 55. Canon? 3 Whether is the prescript form of divine service used by your Minister vpon sundays, holidays, wednesdays and Fridayes, according to the book of Common Prayer? And whether doth your Minister duly observe all the orders, rites and ceremonies prescribed in the said book of Common Prayer, as well in reading public Prayers, the litany, as also in administering the Sacraments in such manner and form, wearing the surplice, as by the book of Common Prayer by Law now established is enjoined? 4 Whether doth your Minister administer the holy Communion so often and at such time, as that every Parishioner may receive the same at the least thrice in every year, whereof once at Easter, as by the book of Common Prayer is appointed? And whether doth your Minister receive the same himself on every day, that he administereth it to others, kneeling at the same, and administereth it to none but such as do kneel at the receiving thereof, and use the words of the institution, according to that book, at every time that the bread and wine is received, in such manner& form, as by the promise of the 21. Canon is directed, or wherein is he faulty: and whether is warning given by him before-hand, for the Communion, as 〈◇〉 Canon requireth? 5 Whether hath your Minister admitted any notorious offenders or schismatics to the Communion, contrary to the 26. and 27. Constitutions, without satisfaction, by due course of Law before enjoined them, or rejected any from the Communion, who were not by public presentment, or other open scandal infamous and detected of some notorious crime, by common same published in the Parish? 6 Whether the Minister, together with the Churchwardens& Questmen, do take diligent heed and care, that not onely all, and every of your Parishioners do receive thrice in every year, as aforesaid, but also that no strangers of any other Parish do forsake their own Minister and Parish to receive with you, contrary to the 28. Canon? 7 Whether doth your Minister use to sign the Children with the sign of the cross when they are baptized, according to the book of common Prayer, and the thirtieth Canon? and whether he hath deferred or wilfully refused to baptize 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, contrary to the 68. and 69. Canons? 8 Whether is your Minister continually resident with you vpon his bnfice, or for how long time hath he been absent: and where is he resident for the most part, and what other bnfice hath he? 9 Whether doth your Minister being a Preacher, preach usually, according to the Constitutions, either in his own Cure with you, or else in some other Church or chapel near adjoining wherein no Preacher is: according to the 45. Canon: or how hath he been negligent in that behalf? 10 Whether is your Minister a Preacher allowed: If yea, then by whom: if no, whether doth he procure Sermons to be preached amongst you once in every month at the least, by such as are lawfully licenced, according to the 46. Canon, or doth contribute toward a licenced Preacher, if his living will bear it? 11 Whether hath your Minister another bnfice: and whether doth he supply his absence by a Curate, that is sufficiently licenced to preach in that Cure of his, whereon he himself is not resident: or otherwise, in case he doth not find a Preaching Minister there by reason of the smallness thereof, whether doth he preach at both his benefice usually himself, according to the 47. Canon? 12 Whether is your Curate licenced to serve by the Bishop of this diocese, or by any other, and by whom? whether doth your Minister or Curate serve any more Cures then one, contrary to the 48. canon: if yea, then what other Cure doth he also serve? 13 If your Minister be not licenced to preach, as aforesaid, whether doth he red homilies, or rather take vpon him to expound the Scriptures, either in his own Cure, or elsewhere, contrary to the 49. canon? If yea, then you are to present him,& specify the place where he hath so preached. 14 Whether hath any person been admitted to preach within your Church or chapel, but such as you haue well known to be sufficiently licenced: whom haue you so admitted? you shall present their names, and how often haue any such been admitted to preach, and by whose procurement? And whether haue you caused every strange Preacher, licenced or not licenced, to subscribe his name, together with the day when he preached, according to the 50.& 51. canons: and if he were licenced, then by whom he was so licenced: And whether haue they, or any other preached in your Church, not being soberly and decently appareled, according to the 74. canon? 15 Whether doth your Lecturer& Preacher read divine service, and administer the Sacraments in his own person, twice every year, observing all the ceremonies in the book of common prayer established, according to the 56. canon? 16 Whether doth your Minister wear the Surplice, whilst he is saying the public prayers, and ministering the Sacraments: and if he be any Graduate, whether then doth he also wear vpon his Surplice, during the times aforesaid, such a hood as by the orders of his university is agreeable to his degree, according to the 58. canon? 17 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 his parish in the ten Commandements, the Articles of belief, and the Lords Prayer, as also the catechism, last set forth in the book of Common Prayer, whereby the children of the parish may be prepared for Confirmation, according to the 90. canon? 18 Whether hath your Minister, without licence from the Archbishop, the Bishop of the diocese, or his Chancellor solemnized marriage betwixt any parties, the Banes not being three several sundays or holidays first published in time of divine service, in the several churches or chapels of their several abode, according to the book of Common Prayer, and the 62. canon, and that also betwixt the houres of eight and twelve in the forenoon, contrary unto the 102. canon? 19 Whether hath your Minister since the last Canons published, solemnized any marriage betwixt any persons, being under the age of one and twenty years, although the banes be thrice asked, before such time as the Parents haue made known unto him their consent thereunto, contrary to the 99. and 100. canons: and whether hath he married any of another 〈…〉 who are they, and by what authority, and when? 20 Whether doth your Minister vpon sundays at morning prayer, declare unto the Parishioners, what holidays, and fasting dayes are appointed to be kept the week following, according to the 64. Canon, whereby they may be put in mind to prepare themselves accordingly, and to repair to Church to public prayer, as by law they are bound? 21 Whether doth any Minister in the Rogation dayes 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, Homilies, as are to that end set forth? 22 Whether doth any man( being neither Minister nor Deacon) read. Common Prayer openly in your Church or chapel, or administer the Sacrament of baptism, or solemnize Matrimony, or take vpon 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: and what is his name that so doth? 23 Whether doth your Minister every six moneths denounce in his Parish all such of his Parish, as do persevere in the sentence of excommunication, not seeking to be absolved? and whether hath he admitted any person excommunicate into the Church, without a Certificate of his absolution from the Ordinary, or other competent judge, under his seal, according to the Canons? 24 Whether doth your Minister being a Preacher, endeavour and labour diligently with mildness& temperance to confer with, and thereby to reclaim the Popish Recusants in his Parish from their errors, if there be any such there being? and whether is he painful in visitation of the sick, according to the book of Common Prayer,& the canons in that case provided? 25 Whether is your person, Vicar, Lecturer, or Curate, too much frequent, or over conversant with, or a favourer of Recusants, whereby he may be suspected not to be sincere in Religion? 26 Whether doth your Minister, or any other, taking vpon him the place of a Minister, preached, baptized children( unless in case of necessity) solemnized marriage, churched any woman, or ministered the holy Communion in any private house or houses: if yea, then where: whom, and how often hath he so offended in any of the premises? 27 Whether hath your Minister taken vpon him to appoint any public or private fasts, or prophesies, not approved or established by Law or public authority, or hath he attempted vpon any pretence either of possession, by fasting and prayer to cast out divels, contrary unto the 72. canon? 28. Whether hath your Minister, or any other person or persons within your Parish, used to meet in any private house or other place, and to hold private conventicles, contrary to the 73. Canon? if yea, then you shall present them all and every one of them. 29 Whether doth your Minister use such decency and comeliness in his apparel, as by the 74. Constitution is enjoined him, as well at home, as when he goeth abroad. 30 Whether do you know in your Parish, any, that having heretofore taken vpon 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 a lay man, neglecting his vocation? If yea, then you shall present his name, and the place of his abode. 31 Whether is your Minister noted or defamed to haue obtained his bnfice by Simony, or reputed to be an Incontinent person, or doth keep any man or woman in his house, that are suspected either to be of evil Religion or of bad life: himself to be a common drunkard, or to be a common hunter of taverns, Ale-houses, or other suspected places, a common Gamesler, or player at Dice, or other unlawful Games, a common Sweater, or notorious person, or faulty in any other crime, punishable by ecclesiastical censures, whereby he is offensive and scandalous to his Function or Ministry. 32 Whether doth your Minister use the form of thanksgiving to women after their Child-birth, and whether hath he admitted any thereunto, that was begotten with child, in adultery or fornication, without licence of his Ordinary, and whether haue any married wives refused to come to Church, according to the book of Common Prayer, to give God thankes after Child-birth? If any be faulty herein, you shall present their names. 33 Whether doth your Minister baptize any children in any basin or other vessel then in the ordinary Font, being placed in the Church, according to the 81. Canon, or doth use to put any basin into it? Articles concerning the Church. WHether haue you in your several Churches& chapels the book of Constitutions, or Canons ecclesiastical, ready to be red by your Minister, according to his majesties pleasure, published by his Highnesse authority under the great seal of England? 2 Whether is there in your Church or chapel one Parchment Register book provided for christenings, marriages and Burials: and whether is the same duly and exactly kept according to the constitutions in that case provided, and a transcript thereof brought in yearly, within one month after Easter, into my Lord Bishops principal Register Office? And whether doth your Minister vpon every Sunday, read the names of all such 〈…〉 been married, christened, or butted in the week before? 〈…〉 Bible of the last Translation, the book of common prayer, lately commanded by his majesties authority onely to be used: and the book of Homilies, and two Psalters; and whether you haue in your Church or chapel a Font of ston, set up in the ancient usual place, a convenient and decent Communion Table, standing vpon a frame with a carpet of silk, or some other decent stuff: and a faire 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 heard in his Prayer, and Administration: and that the greater number may Communicate; And whether are the ten Commandements set vpon the East end of your church or chapel, where the people may best see and read them, and other sentences of holy Scriptures, written an the walls likewise for the same purpose? 4 Whether haue you a convenient seat for the 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& Ornaments necessary for the celebration of divine service, and Administration of the Sacraments; and a strong chest for the alms of the poor, with three locks and keys, and another chest, for the keeping of the Ornaments of the Church and Register book. 5 How many Bells are there at this present hanging in the Belfrée of your parish church? and how many haue there been heretofore? whether any of your said Bells haue been taken down and sold, or made away, and what other Church goods are now wanting in your said Church? 6 Whether are your Church or chapels with the Chancels thereof, and your Parsonage or Vicarage house, and all other Housing thereto belonging, in good reparations, and decently, and comely kept, as well within as without, the seats well maintained, your Churchyards, well fenced, and kept without abuse, according to the 85. canon? If not, then through whose default, and what defects are? All these things in these Articles to be prepared, according to the canons under the Title appertaining to Churches. 7 Whether haue you since the last metropolitical Visitation of the most reverend Father, the now( Lord Archbishop of Canterbury taken a true Terriar of all the Glede-Land, Houses, Tenements, Orchards, Gardens, and portions of Tithes)( whether within your Parish or without) belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage, and delivered the same into the office of the Register of this diocese? Articles concerning whoremasters. WHether the schoolmaster or schoolmasters within your Parish, openly or privately, in any Noble or Gentlemans house, or in any other place be of good and sincere Religion, life and conversation, and bee diligent in teaching and bringing up of Youth, and whether they haue been examined, allowed, and licenced for schoolmasters, by the Ordinary in that behalf: and how many several schoolmasters haue 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 your Schollers, 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 Schollers the catechism authorised by public authority, at the least once every week, and do instruct and examine them in the same, and do teach any other catechism, and what catechism it is that they do so teach? 4 Whether your schoolmaster or schoolmasters, or any of them be known or suspected to read unto their Schollers privately, any unlawful books, or privately to instruct them in their young yeeres, either in popery, superstition, or disobedience, or contempt to his majesty and his laws ecclesiastical by public authority allowed? 5 What Recusant Papists are there in your Parish: and whether do they or any of them keep any schoolmaster in their house, which cometh not to Church, to hear divine service, and receive the communion: what is his name, and how long hath he taught? 6 Whether the schoolmaster or schoolmasters within your Parish, do teach his or their Schollers any other grammar then that which is called the Kings grammar, set forth by the authority of King Henry the Eight, teaching the prescript form thereof, whereby the Schollers may perfectly understand their grammar rules and constructions? Articles concerning Parishioners and others of the laity. WHether is there any within your parish, that hath or doth impugn the Kings majesties supremacy, and authority in causes ecclesiastical, or do any way, or in any part impeach the same, being restored to the crown by the laws of this realm established in that behalf? 2 Whether is there any in your Parish, that denieth the Church of England, by Law established under the Kings most excellent majesty, to be a true and apostolical Church, teaching and maintaining the doctrine of the Apostles? 3 Whether is there any in your Parish, that doth impugn any of the Articles of Religion, agreed vpon in Anno. 1562. and established in the Church of England? 4 whether is there any in your Parish, that impugneth or speaketh against the Rites and Ceremonies established in the Church of England, or the lawful use of them? you shall present their names. 5 Whether are there any in your Parish that do impugn the government of the Church of England, under the Kings most excellent majesty by Arch-bishops, Bishops, Arch-deacons, and the rest that bear office in the same; affirming that the same is Antichristian, or repugnant to the word of God? 6 Whether is there any in your Parish, that impugn the form of consecrating and ordaining of Arch-bishops, Bishops, Priests or Deacons: affirming that the same is repugnant to the word of God, or that they who are so ordered in the same form are not lawfully made. 7 Whether is there any in your Parish that doth hold or frequent any conventicles or private meetings, and there do confer, to agree vpon any private orders, other then such as are by the Canons set forth by public authority, to be by them or any others in church-government observed? 8 Whether any persons haue lurked and tippled in taverns or Ale-houses on sundays or other holidays, or used his or her manual craft or trade, to keep their shops open vpon the said dayes, or any of them, and especially in the time of divine service. 9 Whether are there any in your Parish that do or haue profaned( since his majesties last general pardon) the Lords day called Sunday, or other Holiday, contrary to the orders of the Church of England, prescribed in that behalf? 10 Whether hath any person in your Parish, quarreled, strike, or used any violence unto, or with your Minister, or any other in the Church or Church-yard, or used himself disorderly in the Church by filthy and profane talk, or any other rude or immodest behaviour? 11 Whether is that due reverence and humble submission used in your Church or chapel in the time of divine service, as by the 18. Constitution is prescribed? and whether each one in the Church or chapel do apply and order himself there, in time of divine service, as by the latter part of the same Constitution is commmendably enjoined? 12 Whether the Churchwardens and Questmen from time to time, we their diligence, in not suffering any idle persons or loiterers, to abide either in the church-yard or church-porch in service or Sermon time, but causing them either to come into the Church, to hear divine service, or to depart, and not to disturb such as are hearers there? 13 Whether the Churchwardens do provide against every Communion, with the advice of the Minister, a sufficient quantity of sine 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 mettall? 14 Whether haue any in your parish been Godfathers or Godmothers to their own Children? or whether your Minister, or any Godfathers or Godmothers haue used or do use any other form, answer, or speech in baptism, then is in the book of Common Prayer appointed? Or whether any which haue not communicated, be admitted to bee Godmothers contrary to the 29. canon? 15 Whether is there any in your Parish, that do refuse to haue their children baptized, or themselves to receive the Communion at the hands of your Minister, because he is no Preacher? you shall present their names. And if your Minister sithence the publishing of the said book of canons, haue received any such persons( being not of his own Cure, to the Communion, or baptized any of their children, you shall likewise present him. 16 Whether do all Fathers, Mothers, Masters and Mistresses, cause their children, seruants and apprentices, to come to the catechism vpon 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. 17 Whether haue you or your predecessors, churchwardens, there suffered( since the last pardon) any plays, feasts, banquets, churhales, drinkings, or any other profane usages, to be kept in your Churih, chapel, or churchyard, or bells to be rung superstitiously vpon holidays or eves, abrogated by the book of Common Prayer, contrary to the 68. canon. 18 How many inhabitants within your parish, men or women, above the age of 16. years, do refuse to frequent divine service established by public authority of this realm, or to receive the Holy Communion, or are negligent therein: what be their names: and of what degree, state, or trade of life are they? you are to present them all of both sorts. 19 Whether do any of the Inhabitants of 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; of what quality or condition are they? 20 Whether are any of the said popish Recusants of insolent behaviour not without public offence: or do boldly busy themselves in seducing and withdrawing others either abroad, or in their own families, by instructing their children in popish Religion, or by refusing 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? 21 How long the said popish Recusants haue obstinately abstained either from divine service or from the Communion, as is aforesaid: whether of any long time, or onely since his majesties reign, and how long? 22 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 haue they stood excommunicated? 23 Whether were you the Churchwardens and Questmen chosen by the consent of the Minister& Parishioners in Easter week, according unto the 89. and 90. Canons, and whether haue the Churchwardens before you, given up a just account for their time, and delivered to you their successors, whatsoever money, or other things of right belonging to the Church, which was in their hands, according to the 89. Canon? 24 Whether do all persons above the age of sixteen yeares, usually resort to hear divine service vpon sundays and holidays approved,& whether hath each one of your Parishioners( being above the age of 16. yeares as aforesaid) received the holy Communion thrice this last year, chiefly, once at Easter, in your Parish Church kneeling, if not, then you shall present their names which haue not so done. 25 Whether haue you a fit parish clerk, aged twenty yeares 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 person or Vicar, or by whom, according to the 91. Canon? Is the Parish clerk approved by the Ordinary, and doth he keep the Church clean and the doors locked, is he diligent and serviceable to the Minister? 26 Whether haue any in your Parish been married within the prohibited degrees forbidden by the law, and expressed in a certain Table, published by authority in Anno. 1563. if yea, then you shall present their names,& whether haue you the said Table publicly set in your Church, and fastened to some convenient place? 27 Whether doth any heretofore divorced, keep company with any other at bed or board, as man and wife? what be their names? when and where they were married? and how long they so continued? 28 Whether haue you any in your Parish to your knowledge, or by common famed and report, which haue committed adultery, fornication, or incest; or any Bawds, Harbourers, or receivers of such persons, or publicly suspected thereof, which haue not been publicly punished to your knowledge? if yea, then with whom? And whether are there any which are by common famed& report reputed and taken to be common drunkards, blasphemers of Gods most 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 Henry the eight, Symonicall persons, fighters, brawlers, or quarellers in Church or Churchyard? you shall not fail to present their names. 29 Whether haue any in your Parish received or harboured any woman gotten with child out of wedlock, and suffered them again to depart without pennance first inflicted vpon them by the Ordinary: You shall truly present as well the party harbouring as harboured, and who is suspected to haue committed incontinency with her. 30 Whether any person or persons suspected or detected heretofore of incontinency, and therefore departing out of your Parish for a season, is now returned again; or in what place else is he or shée now abiding, to your knowledge, or as you haue heard; you shall not fail to present the whole truth in that behalf. 31 Whether there be any person or persons, ecclesiastical or temporal, within your Parish, or elsewhere within this diocese, that haue retained or kept in their custody, or that read, sell, utter, disperie, 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 Kings 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? 32 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 or superstition, or any Challices, Copes, Vestments, Albes, or other Ornaments of superstition, vncancelled or undefaced, which is to be conjectured, they do keep for a day, as they call it? 33 Whether any of your Parishioners having a Preacher to their person, Vicar, or Curate, do absent themselves from his Sermons, and resort to any other place to hear other Preachers. 34 Whether there be any Inkéepers, Alewiues, 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 sundays or holidays, or any Butchers or others 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 vpon sundays, there be showing of any wears before Morning Prayer be done? And whether any Markets and selling of wears be used or suffered in any Churchyards on the sabbath day, by common Packmen and peddlers, going about, or any Butchers? 35 Whether hath your Minister or any of your Parish, without the consent or privity of the Ordinary, caused any to do pennance, or be punished, either openly or otherwise, for any crime punishable by ecclesiastical laws onely: and what be the names of the parties that haue been so punished, and in what manner? 36 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 of 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 vpon 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 red? and at the receiving of the holy Communion, &c. And what are their Names, that haue at any time shewed themselves undutiful, and vnreuerend in that behalf? 37 Whether there be any married women or others within your Parish, which after Child-birth refuse or contemn to come to the Church, to give God thanks for their safe delivery, and to haue their prayers publicly appointed in that behalf, by the book of common prayer? 38 Whether any within your Parish, do resort into barns, 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 conventicle? 39 Whether any do keep their Children vnbaptized longer then is convenient: unless that it be for sickness of the child, or other urgent occasion? And whether any do carry their children from the Parish they are born in to other Parishes to be baptized, and so refuse their own Parish: or do bring strange Ministers into their own houses, to baptize their children privately, according to their own fantasies? 40 Whether haue you known or heard any fiddlers or Minstrels, or any other persons, which go under the name of musicans, and Waiters, which either at Weddings, Charchings, or any other Feasts, or meetings, haue sung, or use to sing any Songs, Ballads, or rhymes, tending to the disgrace of Religion, or the Ministers thereof: or tending to profaneness, or the corruption of good manners? You shall truly present the names of such, if you know them, or can learn them: as also the names of the householder, or householders, in whose house or houses they haue sung such Songs, as also the particular names of them, before whom they haue sung them. 41 Whether do the surveyors of your highways, look diligently to the mending of the Churchwayes: and whether the said ways be at the time of the year sufficiently mended, that the Parishioners may conveniently come to Church, from all places of the Parish in Winter time. 42 Whether do you know of any other matter, of ecclesiastical cognizance, worthy the presentment in your iudgement, above not expressed, which you hold fit to be reformed? And if you do, you shall likewise present the same by virtue of your Oath. AT the delivery of your bill of Presentment, you are likewise in the said bill to set down the names of all such as haue been butted at any time, since the last Visitation, being Men, Maides, or widows. And likewise the Minister, Churchwardens, and Sidemen of every Parish, must in the said bill of Presentment, set down besides 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 set down the number of every one, the Minister, Churchwardens and Side-men, must put their hands to this note. And the old Church-wardens are to be chosen Side-men.