Articles concerning the Clergie.

1 WHether is Common prayer read by your Minister in your Church or Chappel distinctly and reuerently vp­pon all Sundayes and Holy dayes, and in such order as is set foorth by the Lawes of this Realme in the booke of Common prayer, without any kind of alte­ration, omitting or adding any thing, and at due and conuenient houres?

2 Whether doth your Minister vpon Wednesdayes & Frydayes (not be­ing Holy dayes) read in your Church or Chappell, publikely the Letanie and other prayers appoynted in the said booke for those dayes: and whether doth he read the Commination against sinners, in such order and forme as it is there also prescribed?

3 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, in the administration of the Lordes Supper, or of Baptisme, when he solemnizeth Matrimonie, bu­rieth the dead, churcheth women, &c. vse the formes and prayers prescribed in the Communion booke, without omitting or altering any part of them, and without any of his owne additions?

4 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, read publike prayer & ad­minister the Sacramentes ordinarily himselfe, vsing such rites and ceremo­nies as are prescribed in the booke of Common prayer: as namely whether doth he kneele at the receiuing of the holy Communion, and administer the same to none but to such as do kneele at the receiuing therof: make the signe of the Crosse vpon the childes forehead in the administration of Baptisme: Baptise any without Godfathers and Godmothers: vse the Ring in mar­riage: and generally whether doth he in the discharging of al these dueties, and when he readeth Common prayer eyther vpon Sundayes, Holy dayes, Wednesdayes and Frydayes weare a Surplice?

5 Whether doth your Minister vpon Sundayes at morning prayer de­clare vnto the parishioners what Holydayes and Fasting dayes are appoyn­ted to be kept the weeke following; whereby they may be put in minde to prepare themselues, and to repaire to the Church to publike prayer, accor­ding to the lawes of the Realme?

[Page]6 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or either of them reiect at any time those women (being married) which do come to church to giue God thankes after their childbirth, or refuse or neglect to visit y^e sicke, or to burie the dead, according to their duties prescribed in the booke of common prayer?

7 Whether doth your minister in the Rogation dayes of procession vse the perambulation of the circuite of your parish, appoynted by Law: and whe­ther doth he in the sayd perambulation moone the people to giue thankes to God in the beholding of his benefites, for the increase and aboundance of his fruites vpon the face of the earth: and sing or say the two Psalmes, begin­ning, Prayse the Lord O my soule. &c. with the Letanie & suffrages there­vnto belonging: and at certaine conuenient places reade the Homily of thanksgiuing to God, alreadie deuised, and diuided into foure partes, with­out addition of any superstitious ceremonie heretofore vsed?

8 Whether doth any man, being neither Minister nor Deacon, read com­mon prayer openly in your Church or Chappel, or administer the sacrament of baptisme, or solemnize matrimony, or take vpon him to practise any other ministeriall dutie 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, licensed to preach by lawfull authoritie according to Law? if he be, how many Sermons doth he preach yeerely: if he be not, how many doth he procure to be preached by others: who hath preached them, and whether were they Preachers lycen­sed, as is before expressed?

10 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, euery Sunday & Holy day when there is no Sermon, read distinctly and plainely some part of the Homilies prescribed and set foorth by Law.

11 Whether doth the Parson, Vicar, or Farmour of the Benefice in your parish cause or suffer any Curate or Minister, either to read seruice, &c. or to preach, before he the said Curate (being no preacher) be examined & admitted by the Ordinarie in writing: and before he the said Curate being a preacher be thereunto admitted according to Law, and before they shew their sayd se­uerall licences vnto the Churchwardens?

12 Whether doth your Preacher in his prayer which he maketh at the en­traunce into his Sermon, vse at all times the prayer for his Maiestie, for our geacious Queene, the Prince, and all the rest of the royall progenie, with his whole title; as, King of England, Scotland, Fraunce, and Ireland, de­fender of the fayth, &c. and of all causes, and ouer all persons within his high­nesse dominions, as well ecclesiasticall as temporall, next and immediatly [Page] vnder God, supreme gouernor. And whether doth he in like manner then pray for the Archbishops and Bishops, as by law is also appoynted?

13 Whether your Minister doth serue two Cures in one day?

14 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, euery Sunday and Holy day openly in the Church earnestly call for, heare, and instruct all the Children, Apprentises, and Seruants of both sexes, that be of conuenient age within your Parish, or at the least so many of them by course as the time will serue, and as he may well heare & instruct one houre at the least, before or after euening prayer, in the ten Commandements, the Articles of the be­liefe, and the Lords prayer: and diligently examine & teach them the Cate­chisme, as it is now allowed and set foorth in the booke of Common prayer?

15 Whether is there any man in your parish, being neither your Parson, Vicar, nor Curate, that taketh vpon him to preach or read Lectures eyther in priuate houses, or publikely in your church or chappell, who is not licen­sed to preach or read there: or who doth not once a yeere at the least admi­nister the Sacraments in your sayd Church or Chappell, where he so prea­cheth or readeth, according to the booke.

16 Whether your Minister hath or doth receiue to the holy Communion any persons which be not of his owne parish, without testimonie from the Minister of the place where they dwell, what they be, that it may appeare that they be not persons excommunicate, or otherwise infamous.

17 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, reiect any from the holy Communion, who is not by publique fame, or by presentment of the Church-wardens detected for a notorious Fornicator, Adulterer, or other wicked lyuer, or disturber of his neighbours by whom publique offence is giuen: and whether he receiue any such person so infamed or presented, to the holy Communion before publique penaunce inioyned by his Ordinarie be by him first performed, to the satisfaction of the Congregation according to the Law in that case prouided?

18 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or any other Minister or Preacher, baptise in your Parish-church or Chappell, any Infants, not in the Font according to the antient custome, but in a Bason, and vrge the parentes of the sayd Infant to be present, in place of Godfathers for their children?

19 Whether doth your Parson Vicar, or Curate, once euery quarter of the yeere read his Maiesties Iniunctions openly and deliberately before his parishioners at one time or at two seuerall times in one day, according as in the sayd Iniunctions it is prescribed?

[Page]20 Whether hath your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or any other Minister, publiquely or priuately preached, declared, or spoken any thing in your pa­rish in derogation of the booke of Common-prayer, which is set foorth by the lawes of this Realme, dispraysing, or deprauing the same, or any thing therein contayned; or against the present estate of the Ecclesiasticall go­uernement, established by the same authoritie, or agaynst any office, function, or part thereof, affirming the same to be vnlawfull?

21 Whether hath your Parson or Vicar, more Benefices then one? yf he hath not, whether is he resident vpon that one? yf he be not resident, where doth he remayne? and whether doth he leaue a sufficient Minister and Prea­cher to supply his absence, allowyng something yeerely towardes the reliefe of the poore? and what doth he so allow?

22 Whether is your Parson or Vicar, who hath two Benefices within this Dioces; or one Benefice in this Dioces, & an other foorth of the same, resident one halfe of the yeere on one of them, and the other halfe yeere, or the greater part thereof vpon his other Benefice: and whether doth he leaue the Benefice in your parysh prouided of a sufficient Preacher to serue it: and hath an especial care of some conuenient hospitality to be kept in his absence according to his ability, and the proportion of that lyuing?

23 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, keepe a iust and perfect note of all such as do communicate in your parish, and do not rather, regar­ding their priuate gayne, receiue their offeringes at Easter, delyuer them Tokens, enter them into their booke, and so certifie as communicantes those who neuer receiued?

24 Whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, keepe any man or wo­man in their houses, that are suspected to be eyther of euill religion, or of bad life: or whether be they or any of them incontinent persons themselues, or giuen to drunkennes, or to be haunters of tauerns, alehouses, or suspected places, common Dicers, Carders, Tableplayers, Swearers, Dauncers, or otherwise suspected persons of any notorious crime, or light and vnseeme­ly behauiour, or giue euill example of lyfe, or vse disordered or vnseemely apparrell, eyther in cullours, guardes, or light fashion?

25 Whether there be any Ministers or Priestes within your parish, which liue idlely without any care, neyther seruing in any place, nor hauing any place of reading or preaching, and so become offensiue to their calling, and what be their names who so lyue, and how long haue they been with you?

Articles concerning the Church.

1 WHether haue you in your parish Churches and Chappels all things necessarie and requisite for Common prayer and administration of the Sacramentes, especially the booke of Common prayer with the new Kalender, two Psalters (all set foorth by his Maiesties especiall commaun­dement and Proclamation onely to be vsed, printed by his Highnesse Prin­ter, the which you were by your Archdeacons commaunded from mee, to haue bought before Whitsontide last,) the English Bible in the largest vo­lume of the edition set foorth by the Bishops, and lately imprinted by the Kinges Printer; the Table of the ten Commaundements, a conuenient Pulpit well placed, a comely and decent Table standing vpon a frame for the holy Communion, with a faire Linnen cloth to lay vpon the same, and some couering of Silke, Buckram, or other such like for the cleane keeping thereof; a faire and comely communion Cuppe of Siluer, and a couer of Siluer for the same, which may serue also for the ministration of the com­munion Bread, a decent large Surples with fleeues, and a strong Chest or Boxe for the almes of the poore, with three lockes and keyes to the same, and all other thinges necessarie in and to the premisses?

2 Whether there haue growne in your Church since the last Visitation in the yeere 1601. any contention betwixt any of the parishioners, touching the placing or displacing of any in any seate or pew in the Church: and whe­ther there hath been any Pew buylded since the foresayd yeere 1601. in any your Churches, without the expresse leaue and consent first had of the Ordi­narie of the Dioces, and by whom haue any such been built.

3 Whether is your Church or Chappell, and the Chauncell well and suf­ficiently repaired and kept without abuse of any thing: whether doth your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or the Proprietarie or Farmer of your Parso­nage or Vicarage in your parish keepe the Parsonage or Vicarage house with all other the edifices thereunto appertaining in good and sufficient re­parations: and whether is your Church-yard well fenced and cleanly kept without any lapstall or other annoyances,

4 Whether your Church be a Parsonage or a Vicarage presentatiue or bonatiue, or otherwise serued by a Curate: whether did they euer heereto­fore heare or know that it was a Parsonage or Vicarage, and how came it to be decayed from being presentatiue, to be in the state it now is, and when was it first decayed, from being a benefice presentatiue, as you remember.

[Page]5 Whether your Foules or Baptisteries be remooued from the place where they were wont to stand, towardes the lower end of the Church: or whether any persons, leauing the vse of them, do christen or baptise in Ba­sons, or other vessels, not accustomably vsed in the Church before time: or do vse any kind of Lauor with a remooueable Bason, or haue taken downe the old and vsuall Font heretofore vsed in your perish?

6 Whether is there in your Parish a sufficient Register booke of Parch­ment of marriages, christnings, and burials, prouided at the charge of the Parish: whether are all the names of those that haue been either christened, married, or buried, since the beginning of her lace Maiesties raigne newly written into the sayd Parchment booke? Whether doth the Minister euery Sunday read the names publikely of those that were either christned, mar­ried, or buried the weeke before? Whether haue you a publike Chest with three lockes, for the Minister and the two Church-wardens to keepe the sayd Booke in: and whether haue you brought a transcript of all the names of such as haue been christned, marryed, and buried this last yeere into M. Blackwell my Register his office, as you are bound to do euery yeere here­after, within a month after the Feast of Easter, by the Constitutions.

Articles concerning Ecclesiasticall Officers.

1 WHether the Chancelor, Archdeacon, Commissarie, Officiall, or any other vsing Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction in this Dioces, their Regi­sters or Actuaries, Apparators, or Summoners, haue at any time winked at and suffered any adulterers, fornicators, incests, or other faultes or offences presented vnto them, to passe and remaine vnpunished, and vncorrected for mony, rewardes, bribes, pleasure, friendship, or any other partiall respect?

2 Whether doth the Chancellor, Commissaries, Archdeacons, or any other Officials, heare any matters of office, or correction priuately in their cham­bers without the presence of the sworne Register or his deputie▪ or do dis­charge any mans penance, for money, without the consent of the L. Bishop, according to the constitutions; or doe sende any writing vnder their owne hands to your Church, without the Registers presence at the doing of it, eyther for marryage of any couples, or for ending or ordering of any matter or penance?

3 Whether the Chauncelor, Officiall, or Commissarie, haue caused for, or caused the Church-wardens to make, bring, or to pay for any more Billes of presentment, then once in euery yeere; or do call for their quarter Billes, or make the Church-wardens pay for them?

Articles concerning Schoolemaisters.

1 WWhether the Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters within your pa­rish openly or priuately in any Noble or Gentlemans house, or in any other place, be of good and sinceere religion, life, and conuersation, and be diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth: and whether they haue been examined, allowed, and licensed for Schoolemaisters by the Ordina­rie in that behalfe?

2 Whether your Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters do themselues re­ceiue the holy Communion as often as they ought to do: and whether do all their Schollers, which be of age sufficient, and of copacitie by instruction, to receiue the Lords Supper, come to the Communion either in your Church or where their Parents dwell once euery yeere, and be diligent to heare Common prayer?

3 Whether your Schoolemaster or Schoolemasters do orderly on Sun­dayes with their Schollers, come to the Church of their parish where they teach, and there see their Schollers placed in some conuenient place, so as they do not disquiet the minister or parish in time of diuine seruice, but may exercise themselues godly in reading and hearing the Seruice & Sermons, and in answering with the congregation in reading of publike prayer?

4 Whether the Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters either priuate or publike do teach their Schollers the Catechisme authorized by publike au­thoritie, at the least once euery weeke, and do instruct and examine them in the same: or do teach any other Catechisme, and what Catechisme it is that they so do teach?

5 Whether your Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters, or any of them be knowne or suspected to read vnto their Schollers priuately any vnlawfull Bookes: or priuately to instruct them in their young yeeres either in pope­rie, superstition, or disobedience, or contempt to his Maiestie and his lawes Ecclesiasticall by publike authoritie allowed?

6 Whether your Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters, or any of them vn­der pretence of Catechising their Schollers, which is a most godly order, carefully by them to be obserued, do keepe lectures, readinges, or exposition in diuinitie in their houses, hauing repaire vnto them of people not being of their owne family and househould?

7 Whether the Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters within your parish, do teach his or their Schollers any other Grammer then that which is com­monly called the Kinges Grammer, set foorth by the authoritie of King Henrie the eight?

Articles concerning the Parishioners and others of the Laitie.

1 WHether all Householders in your parish cause their children, ser­uants, and apprentises, both mankind & womankind, being aboue seuen yeeres of age, and vnder twentie, which haue not learned the Cate­chisme, to come to the Church on Sundayes and Holy dayes at the time ap­poynted for Cetechising, and there diligently and obediently to heare, and what be the names of those that do not cause their children, seruants, and ap­prentises so to come to the Church to be instructed and examined?

2 Whether the Churchwardens do delyuer to the Archdeacon at his Visitation, a note of all those who do not sende their children and seruantes to be catechized?

3 Whether any do worke, or keepe any shoppe open vpon Saboth dayes, or vpon any Holy dayes appoynted by the lawes of this Realme to be kepe Holy day, or vse any worke or labour, or open shew of their wares in any of those dayes?

4 Whether you your selues, or the Churchwardens in the yeeres before you, haue suffered any vnmarryed women being begotten with child, to goe out of your parish before she hath by you or them been presented to your Ordinarie: or any man defamed of whoredome, to depart vnpunished, vpon direction appoynted by the Ordinarie? And foorth of whose houses haue they gone away with child vnpunished, and what be the names of such vn­marryed women which haue been deliuered within your parish this three yeeres last past, haue gone away without doing of penance?

5 Whether the parish Clarke be appoynted according to the law, by the Parson or Vicar of the parish, with the allowance of the Ordinarie: and whether he be not obedient to the Parson, Vicar, or Curate: and whether he be able to read, and whether he keepe the Bookes and Ornaments of the Church faire and cleane, and cause the Church, and Quire, the Communion Table and the Font, to be kept cleane and decent against the Seruice time, the Communion, Sermon, and Baptisme?

6 Whether there be any person or persons ecclesiasticall or temporall, within your parish or else whese within this Dioces, that haue retayned and kept in their custody, or that read, sell, vtter, disperse, carry, or deliuer to o­thers any English Bookes or Libels, set forth either on this side or beyond the Seas, by Papistes or Sectaries against the Kings supremacie in cau­ses ecclesiasticall, or against true Religon and Catholike doctrine now pub­liquely [Page] professed in this Church, or the gouernment or discipline of the Church of England, now within this Realme receiued and established by common authoritie, and what their names and surnames are?

7 Whether there be any in your parish who are noted, knowne, or sus­pected to conceale or keepe hidden in their houses any Masse bookes, portes­ses, breuiaries, or other bookes of popery and superstition, or any Challices Copes, Vestments, Albs, or other ornaments of superstition, vncancelled or vndefaced, which it is to be coniectured they do keep for a day, as they cal it?

8 Whether there be in your parish any popish or sectary recusant or recu­sants, which for any cause whatsoeuer, forbeare to come to Church to com­mon prayer, or to heare Gods word preached, pretending it vnlawfull to come to our assemblies, as the Church of England now standeth, established by his Maiesties authoritie, and what their seuerall name or names are, and how long they haue been recusants?

9 Whether any do refuse to receiue the holy Communion at their owne Ministers handes, either because he is not a Preacher, or because he duly ob­serueth the order of ministration appoynted by the booke, and who they be that do go from their owne parish, to receiue at any other ministers hands?

10 Whether any of your parishioners hauing a Preacher to their Parson, Vicar, or Curate, do absent themselues from his Sermons, and resort to any other place to heare other preachers?

11 Whether all the people of your parish aboue 16. yeeres of age, and especially householders, hauing no lawfull excuse to be absent, doe resort with their seruantes and children to their parish Church or Chappell on the Holy dayes, and on the Sundayes to morning and euening prayer, and who they be that either negligently or wilfully absent themselues, or do vnreue­rently behaue themselues in the Church, or vse any gaming or pastime a­broade or in any house, or sitte in the streete or Church-yard, or in any ta­uerne, or alehouse, vpon the Sunday, or Holyday, in the time of Common prayer, Sermon, or reading of the Homilies, or any of them, either before or after noone?

12 Whether the forfeyture of xii. pence for euery time of absence from the Church vpon euery Sunday and Holyday, appoynted by a Statute made in the first yeere of the late Queene Elizabeths raigne, to be leuied and taken according to the same Statute (the tenor whereof is sette downe in the beginning of this Booke) by the Churchwardens of euery person that offendeth, and by them be put to the vse of the poore of the parish if it be not so le [...]ed, by whose fault it is?

[Page]13 Whether there be any Inkeepers, Alewiues, Victuallers, or Tip­lers, that suffer or do admitte any person or persons in their houses to eate, drinke, or play at Dice, Cardes, Tables, Bowles, or such like games, in the time of Common prayer or Sermon, on the Sundayes or Holydayes: or any Butchers, or other that commonly vse to sell meate or other thinges in the time of common prayer, preaching, or reading of Homilies? and whe­ther in any Faires or common Markets fallyng vpon the Sundayes, there be shewing of any wares before morning prayer be done: and whether any markets and selling of wares be vsed or suffered in any Church-yards on the Sabboth day by common Packmen or Pedlers going about, or any Butchers?

14 Whether the Church-wardens of the last yeere, hath giuen to the Parson or Vicar and the parish, a iust account of the Church goodes that were committed to their charge, according to the custome that hath been afore time vsed: and what Church goodes they or any other haue sold, and to whom, and whether to the profite of your Church or no: and what hath been done with the mony thereof comming?

15 Whether the Church-wardens and Swornmen, since the fourth day of August 1601. haue of any priuate corrupt affection concealed any crime or other disorder in their time done in your parish, and haue not presented the same to the Bishop, Chauncelor, Archdeacon, Commissarie, or such o­ther as had authoritie to reforme the same? and whether they or any of them, at any such time as they should haue been at diuine seruice on Sundayes and Holy dayes, and should there haue obserued others that were absent, haue beene away themselues, at home, or in some Tauerne or Alehouse, or else about some worldly businesse, or at bowles, cardes, tables, dice, or other gaming, without regard of their office and duetie in that behalfe?

16 Whether your Minister and you the Church-wardens, or any other in your parish haue in your regestries made any orders, or do vse to call any parties before you for any cause to be ordered by the Ecclesiasticall lawes, and so do vse a kind of Presbiterie or censuring ouer your neigh­boures, vnder pretence of your vestrie meetings?

17 Whether any of your parish, being of conuenient age, haue not recei­ued the holy Communion thrice this last yeere at the least, and namely at Easter last, or thereaboutes for once, and what their names are, or which at their receiuing haue not signified the same before to your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, that he might conueniently examine them: and who haue refused to come to him to be examined?

[Page]18 Whether there be any in your parish that doth administer the goodes of those that be dead without lawfull authoritie; or any that suppresse the last will of the dead, or any Executors that haue not fulfilled their testators last will, in paying of legacies giuen to the Church, or to other good and godly vses; as to the reliefe of pouerty, to Orphanes, poore Schollers, poore Maydens marriages, High-wayes, and such like, and by whom are they so deteyned?

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 seauen and thirtieth yeere of the raigne of King Henrie the eight, for the reformation of Vsurie, and reuiued by an Act made in the thirteenth yeere of the raigne of our late Queene Elizabeth, taking aboue the rate of ten poundes for the lending of an hundred poundes by the yeere: and what be the names of such offenders?

20 Whether hath your Minister, or any of the parish, without the consent or priuitie of the Ordinarie, caused any to do penance, or be punished eyther openly or otherwise, for any crime punishable by the Ecclesiasticall lawes onely, and what be the names of the parties that haue been so punished, and in what manner?

21 Whether there be any amongst you that do vse Sorcerie or Witch­craft punishable by the Ecclesiasticall lawes, or that be suspected of the same: and whether any vse any Charmes or vnlawfull Prayers: and whether any do resort to any such for helpe and councell, and what be the names, both of such as vse it, and of such as resort to them for helpe?

22 Whether any couples that be marryed in priuate houses within these three yeeres last past, haue been knowne, or suspected to haue been marryed by any popish Priest or otherwise, after any other order then is appoynted 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, bawdes, or receiuers of naughtie and incontinent per­sons, or harborers of women with child which be vnmarryed, conueying or suffering them to go away before they do any penance: or any that be vehe­mently suspected of any such faultes, or that be not of good name and fame touching such crimes and faultes of drunkards, or ribawdes: or any that be malitious, contentious, or vncharitable persons, raylers, scoulders, or sow­ers of discord betweene nighbours, and especially raylers against ministers and against their marryage, and what be all their seuerall names?

[Page]24 Whether there be any in these partes, that haue been marryed within the degrees of affinitie or consanguinitie, by the lawes of God forbidden: or any that being diuorced or seperated for the same, do yet notwithstanding cohabite and keepe company still together: or any that being marryed with­out those degrees, haue vnlawfully forsaken their wiues or husbandes, and marryed others: Any that being diuorced or separated a sunder, haue mar­ryed againe: any that haue marryed without Banes three seuerall Sun­dayes or Holy dayes solemnely asked, & without lawfull license thereunto: or any couples married that liue not together, but slaunderously liue apart?

25 Whether there be any in your parish who will come to heare the Ser­mon, but will not come to the publike prayer appoynted by the booke of Common prayer, making a schisme or diuision (as it were) betweene the vse of publike prayer and preaching? And whether there be any, who being pre­sent at publike prayer, do not deuoutly and humbly kneele vpon their knees, at such times as by the Booke of common prayer they are appoynted; to wit, when they make a generall confession of their sinnes: when all prayers and Collects are read: in the time of the Lettenie: when the tenne Com­maundements are read, and at their receiuing of the holy Communion, &c. and what are their names that haue at any time shewed themselues vndueti­full and vnreuerent in this behalfe?

26 Whether the Minister and Church-wardens haue suffered any Lord of Mis-rule, or Summer lord or ladyes, or any disguised persons: any play­ers, or May-games, or any Moris-dauncers at any time to come vnreue­rently into the Church or Church yard, and there to daunce or play, or shew them selues disguised in the time of Common prayer, and what they be that commit such disorder, or that accompanied or maintayned them: or any Playes to be played in the Church?

27 Whether there be any marryed women or others within your Parish, which after chyldbirth, refuse or contemne to come to the Church to giue God thankes for their deliuery, and to haue the prayers publikely appoynted in that behalfe by the booke of common prayer?

28 Whether any within your Parish do resort vnto Barnes, Fieldes, Woodes, priuate Houses, or to any extraordinay exposition of Scriptures, or conferences together, or that be drawers or perswaders of others to any such scismaticall conuenticles.

29 Whether any do keepe their chyldren vnbaptized longer then is con­ueuient, vnlesse it be for sicknesse of the child, or other vrgent occasion: And [Page] whether any doe carry their children from the Parish they are borne in, to other Parishes to be bapitzed, and so refuse their owne Parish: or do bring strange ministers into their owne houses to baptize their children priuatly, according to their owne fantasies;

30 Whether any notorious Recusant, who obstinately refuseth to be par­taker with the Church of England in publike prayer, and hearing of the word of God preached, who is for his disobedience and contempt excom­municated, and dyeth excommunicate, be buryed in Christian buriall, not hauing before his death sought to be absolued, and testified the same his sub­mission to some honest and discreete man, who shall vpon his oath signifie to the Bishop of the Dioces, whereby his Lordship may giue order to the Or­dinarie, before whom he was excommunicate for his absolution.