• [Page 4]as also a Register Book of Parchment wherein to Enter the Names of all those that are Christened, Married or Buried within your Parish,
  Can. 70.
  expressing the day, month and year of all such Christenings Mar­riages and Burials, and is the transcript thereof yearly within one month next after the 25th of March brought into the Bishops Register?

• 1. IS your Church-yard sufficiently fenc'd with Walls or Rails,
  Can. 85.
  hath any Person Encroach'd upon the same, have any Trees growing there been cut downe without allowance from the ordinary?
• 2. Is the house of your Parson, Vicar, or Curate with all the out-houses of it kept in good and suf­ficient Repair, have any of the said houses been defaced or pull'd downe without Licence from the Ordinary? and by whom? hath any Person En­croached upon any Garden, Yard, or Close, be­longing to your Parsonage or Vicaridge house? or cut up any Trees growing thereon, or changed or removed the ancient marks and bounds of the same?
• 3. Have you a true and perfect Terrier of all your Glebe Lands,
  Can. 87.
  Tythes and other possessions belonging to your Church by the view of honest men of your Parish by the appointment of the Bi­shop, so as the Parson or Vicar be one, and are the same laid up in the Bishops Registry as is re­quired by the Canon?
• 4. Have any of the ancient Glebe-Lands be­longing to your Parsonage or Vicaridge been taken away or alienated by Lease Sale or Exchange with­out [Page 5] Licence from the Ordinary and the Free consent of the Incumbent, have any Inclosures been made in your Parish to the detriment of your Church.

• 1. IS your Minister a Priest or Deacon Episco­pally ordained according to the Laws of the Church of England?
  Injunct. Eliz. 26.
• 2. Is he resident among you, has he a Curate, what is the allowance of the Curate? or doth he officiate in any other Church? how far distant is it from your Church, doth he Marry any private­ly in a house,
  Can. 62.
  without Banns or Licence?
• 3. Is divine Service duly performed on the Lord's day and Holydays? is the Litany read Wednesdays and Fridays weekly,
  Can. 15, 59, 61, [...], 69.
  doth your Minister on Sun­days instruct the Youth in the Church Catechism and prepair them for confirmation by the Bishop? doth he delay the Baptising of any Infant in dan­ger of Death, or are there any Infants or more aged persons in your Parish unbaptized? or doth he admit the Parents of the Child or those who have not received the Sacrament to be the God­father or Godmother?
• 4. Doth your Minister before Sermon use to pray for their present Majesties King William and Queen Mary and the rest of the Royal progeny,
  Can. 55.
  and ex­hort the People to Obedience to them, and all other Magistrates in authority under them?
• 5. Doth your Minister constantly Preach in your Church or Chappel one Sermon every Sunday,
  C [...] [...]
  , or if he doth not, doth he procure a Sermon to be Preached by some other Minister, or one of the [...]

• [Page 8]2. Doth he keep your Church lock'd? doth he Toll or Ring the Bell before the beginning of Morning and Evening Prayer, and when any is dying, doth he upon notice Toll the Bell, that the Neighbours be thereby warned to recomend the dying Person to the Grace and Favour of God?

• 1. DOth any in your Parish practise Physick, or Chirurgery, or any Woman exercise the Of­fice of a Midwife, without allowance or Licence from the Ordinary?
• 2. Doth any keep a publick or private School in your Parish without a Licence from the Bishop or his Chancellors? Doth he Teach the Schollars in the Catechism of the Church of England, doth he cause them upon Sundays and Holydays orderly to repair to the Church or Chappel, and see that they behave themselves quietly and humbly during time of Divine Service.
• 3. Is there any Hospital Alms-house or Free-school founded in your Parish; is the yearly Revenue or Stipend ordered as it ought to be?

• 1. WHether are there any Ecclesiastical Officers exercising Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction within this Diocess,
  Can. 135.
  who do take or exact any extraordinary Fees for any Cause.
• 2. Whether are there placed by the Register two Tables containing the several Rates and Sums of
  Can. 136.
  [Page 9] all Fees due to the Judge and other Officers of your Courts, one in the usual place and consistory where the Court is kept, the other in his Registry in such sort as every man may come to view the same without difficulty? and whether doth the Chancel­lor Arch-Deacon or Minister exact or extort any greater Fees or Sums of Mony than in the said Ta­bles are contained?
• 3. Whether the Chancellor Arch-Deacon or Of­ficial, or any other Person useing Ecclesiastical Ju­risdiction, speed any Act in any Cause privately of themselves, and not in the presence of some publick Notarie or Actuary?
• 4. Whether doth the Chancellor Arch-Deacon or Official Commute or change any penance or Cor­poral punishment for any Mony without the consent of the Bishop? and what Mony have they or any of them received for such commutation and of whom, when and what was the Offence for which any such Sum of Mony was received or appointed to be paid?

• 1. ARe your Church-Wardens duly elected ac­cording to the Custome of your Parish,
  Can. 89.
  and have the last Church-Wardens given up their Ac­counts, and delivered the Monys remaining in their hands to the Succeeding Church-Wardens, together with other things belonging to your Church?
• 2. Do they against every Communion provide Bread and Wine at the Parish Charges,
  Rubr. Com. Can. 20.
  do they suffer no misbehavior or disorder by Servants or Children within your Parish,
  [...]
  in sitting or leaning on the Communion Table, or by suffering Minstrels [Page 10] Morrice Dauncers, Hauks or Hounds to be brought into your Church?
• 3. Do they suffer no idle Persons to walk,
  Can. 19.
  talk or stand idle either in the Church, Church-Porch or Church-yard during the time of Divine Service and Sermon, but causing them either to come into the Church or else to depart? and do they often see where there be any tipling or drinking in any Inn Ale-house or Victualling house within your Parish during the time of Divine Service,
  Can. 90.
  and pre­sent all such as are found thus tipling together with the Master or Mistris of the said house?
• 4. Do your Church-Wardens present all Offen­ces in your Parish at the Visitation, and does any Man trouble or molest him for doing his Duty?
• 5. Have you (the Church-Wardens and Sidemen Sworne to give in true answer unto all these Ar­ticles of Enquiry in all their several Titles) taken sufficient time to draw up your presentments and therein consulted your Minister for his faithful assistance?
  [...]

For know you assuredly that as the true dis­charging of your Office is the cheif means where­by publick disorders and offences in your Parish may be reform'd and punished, so if you wilfully refuse to present such crimes and faults as either you know to have been committed, or otherwise have heard of by publick fame; that in such ca­ses the Bishop and his Officers are to proceed against you in their Ecclesiastical Courts as in cases of wilful omission and Perjury.