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<P>ARTICLES To be inquired of by the Church-wardens and &s;worne-men, in the ordinarie vi&s;itation of the Reuerend Father in God, <HI>LANCELOT</HI> Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>ELIE,</HI> within the Dioce&s;&s;e of <HI>Elie, Ann.</HI> 1613.</P>
<P>AT CAMBRIDGE Printed by Cantrell Legge. 1613.</P>
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<HEAD>The tenor of the Oath of the Church-<HI>wardens and &s;worne-men.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOu &s;hall &s;weare, that vpon due con&s;ideration of the&s;e Articles giuen you in charge, you &s;hall pre&s;ent euery &s;uch per&s;on of or within your Pari&s;h, as you &s;hall know to haue committed any offence, or omitted any dutie men|tioned in any of the&s;e Articles, or which are publikely defamed, or vehemently &s;u&s;pected of any &s;uch offence or negligence. So helpe you God by the contents of his holy Go&s;pell.</P>
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<HEAD>Articles.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Touching the Church.</HEAD>
<P>_WHETHER is your Church or Chappell, with the Chauncell thereof, and euery part of either of them, well and &s;ufficiently repaired, the windowes well gla&s;ed, the floares paued plaine and euen, without du&s;t, or any thing noi&s;ome or vn&s;eemely?</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether is your Churchyard well fenced with walles, rayles, pales, as hath beene accu&s;to|med: if not, who&s;e default is it?</P>
<P N="3">3. Whether hath there beene any fighting, chiding, brawling, or quarrelling, any plaies, fea&s;ts, temporall Courts or Leets, lay Iuries, mu&s;ters, or other prophane v&s;age in your Church or Churchyard: any bels &s;uper&s;titiou&s;ly rung on holy dayes or their Eues, or at any other time, without good cau&s;e allowed by the Mini&s;ter and Churchwardens: haue any trees beene felled in your churchyard, and by whom?</P>
<P N="4">4. Whether is the man&s;ion hou&s;e of your Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, with all the buildings therunto belonging, your Pari&s;h Almes-hou&s;e, and church hou&s;e &s;ufficiently repaired, maintained, and to godly and their right v&s;es employed?</P>
<P N="5">5. Whether haue you in your church the Bible in the large&s;t volume, the booke of common prayer lately authori&s;ed by his Maie&s;tie, the books of Homilies allowed, the two P&s;alters, a conuenient pulpit for the prea|ching, a decent &s;eat for the mini&s;ter to &s;ay &s;eruice in conueniently placed, a &s;trong che&s;t with an hole in the lidde, and three locks and keies, one for the Mini&s;ter, the other for the Churchwardens, for the Almes of the poore, and the keeping of the Regi&s;ter booke of the Chri&s;tenings, mari|ages, and burials?</P>
<P N="6">6. Whether haue you in your Church a Font of &s;tone for bapti&s;me, &s;et in the auncient v&s;uall place, a decent table for the Communion con|ueniently placed, couered with &s;ilke or other decent &s;tuffe in time of di|uine &s;eruice, and with a faire linen cloath ouer that at the admini&s;tration of the Communion?</P>
<P N="7">7. Whether haue you all &s;uch bells, ornaments, and other vten&s;ils as haue aunciently belonged to your Church, a communion cup of &s;iluer with a couer, a faire &s;tanding pot or &s;toope of pewter or purer mettall, for the wine vpon the communion table, a comely &s;urple&s;&s;e with &s;leeues, a Regi&s;ter booke of parchment for chri&s;tenings, marriages, and buri|als,
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booke for the name of all &s;trange preachers, &s;ub&s;cribed with their names, and the name of the Bi&s;hop or others where they had licence?</P>
<P N="8">8. Whether is your almes for your poore quarterly at the lea&s;t di&s;tri|buted by you the church-wardens and the Mini&s;ter in the pre&s;ence of &s;ixe of the chiefe Pari&s;hioners to your poore? And are weekely the names and &s;urnames of all per&s;ons married, chri&s;tened, and buried, and of their Parents, with the day and yeare, entred in your &s;aid parchment booke, and is euery leafe beeing full, &s;ub&s;cribed by you the Mini&s;ter and churchwardens?</P>
<P N="9">9. Whether are the tenne commandements &s;et vp in the ea&s;t ende of the church, and other cho&s;en &s;entences of holy Scripture vpon the wals in conuenient places: are all your &s;eates in your church in good repaire, cleanly kept, conueniently placed, and the Pari&s;hioners in them, or el&s;e|where orderly &s;et, and is there no contention or &s;triuing for any &s;eat or place among them?</P>
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<DIV2 N="ministry" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>Touching the Mini&s;trie, Seruice, and Sacraments.</HEAD>
<P>WHether is the common prayer &s;aid or &s;ung by your Mini&s;ter both morning &amp; euening di&s;tinctly &amp; reuerently, euery Son|day and holy-day and on their Eues, and at conuenient and v&s;uall times of tho&s;e dayes, and in mo&s;t conuenient place of the church for the edi|fying of the people?</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter ob&s;erue the orders, rites, and cere|monies pre&s;cribed in the booke of common prayer, in reading the holy Scriptures, prayers, and admini&s;tration of the Sacraments, without dimi|ni&s;hing, in regard of preaching or any other re&s;pect, or adding any thing in the matter or forme thereof?</P>
<P N="3">3. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter on wedne&s;dayes and fridaies, not being holydaies, at the accu&s;tomed houres of &s;eruice re&s;ort to the church and &s;ay the Letanie pre&s;cribed, and doth your clarke or &s;exton giue war|ning before by tolling of a bell on tho&s;e dayes?</P>
<P N="4">4. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter as oft as he admini&s;treth the com|munion, fir&s;t receiue it him&s;elfe. Whether doth he v&s;e any bread or wine newly brought, before the words of in&s;titution be rehear&s;ed, and the bread and wine pre&s;ent on the table, doth he not deliuer the bread and wine to euerie communicant &s;euerally?</P>
<P N="5">5. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter giue warning publikly in the church at morning prayer the Sonday before hee admini&s;treth the communion for the better preparation of the pari&s;hioners?</P>
<P N="6">6. Whether hath your Mini&s;ter admitted to the communion any
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notorious &s;inner openly knowne or defamed, or any who hath openly and maliciou&s;ly contended with his Neighbour, before repentance and reconciliation made and done by appointment of the Ordinarie?</P>
<P N="7">7. Whether hath your Mini&s;ter admitted to the communion any church-warden or Side-man, who hath wittingly and willingly neg|lected, contrarie to his oath, to pre&s;ent any publike offence or &s;candall, beeing mooued to pre&s;ent either by &s;ome of his neighbours, the Mini|&s;ter, or his Ordinarie?</P>
<P N="8">8. Whether hath your Mini&s;ter admini&s;tred the Communion to any but &s;uch as kneele, or doe any refu&s;e to kneele: hath he admini&s;tred to a|ny who refu&s;eth to be pre&s;ent at Publike prayer: or who hath depra|ued the Booke of common prayer, admini&s;tration of the Sacra|ments, or the Rites and Ceremonies pre&s;cribed, or the Articles of Reli|gion agreed vpon, or the Booke of ordering Prei&s;ts and Bi&s;hops; or again&s;t his maie&s;ties Supremacie; or haue any beene for the&s;e cau&s;es re|pelled, and haue they repented in writing, or otherwi&s;e, and what be their names?</P>
<P N="9">9. Whether hath your Mini&s;ter more Benefices then one, if he haue, how farre di&s;tant are they, how often is he ab&s;ent in the yeare: when he is ab&s;ent, hath he an allowed preacher for his Curate?</P>
<P N="10">10. Whether is your Mini&s;ter an allowed Preacher, if he be, doth he euery Sunday in your church, or &s;ome other neere adioyning, where no Preacher is, preach one Sermon euery Sunday?</P>
<P N="11">11. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter beeing no Preacher allowed, pre|&s;ume to expound the Scripture in his owne Cure, or el&s;e where doth he procure euery moneth a Sermon to be preached in his cure by Preachers lawfully licen&s;ed, and on euery Sunday when there is no &s;ermon, doth he or his Curate read &s;ome one of the Homilies pre&s;cribed?</P>
<P N="12">12. Whether is your Curate allowed by the Ordinarie, vnder his hand and &s;eale, to &s;erue for your cure, and whether doth he &s;erue two churches or chappels in one day?</P>
<P N="13">13. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter in &s;aying the publike prayers, and admini&s;tring the Sacraments, weare a decent &s;urple&s;&s;e with &s;leeues, and beeing a graduate, doth he weare therewith a hood, by the order of the Vniuer&s;ities, agreeable to his degree?</P>
<P N="14">14. Whether hath your Mini&s;ter or any other Preacher in your church, preached any thing to confute and impugne any Doctrine deli|uered by any other Preacher, and hath he and they praied for Chri&s;ts catholike church, as is pre&s;cribed by the canon?</P>
<P N="15"><PB REF="4">15. Whether hath or doth any preach in your church, which refu&s;eth to conforme him&s;elfe to the Lawes, Rites, and ordinances e&s;tabli&s;hed, or which hath not fir&s;t &s;hewed a &s;ufficient licence?</P>
<P N="16">16. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter in his &s;ermons, foure times in the yeare at the lea&s;t, teach and declare the Kings Maie&s;ties power within his Realmes to be the highe&s;t power vnder God, to whom, all within the &s;ame owe mo&s;t loyaltie and obedience, and that all forraine power is iu&s;t|ly taken away?</P>
<P N="17">17. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter euery &s;unday and Holyday, halfe an houre before euening prayer or more, examine and in&s;truct the youth in the ten commandements, the Beleefe, the Lords prayer, and the cate|chi&s;me &s;et forth in the Booke of common Prayer?</P>
<P N="18">18. Whether hath your Mini&s;ter maried any which haue not bin three &s;euerall Sundayes or Holidayes asked in your Church in the time of Di|uine &s;eruice, without licence, and hath he with licence or without marri|ed any, wherof neither dwelt in your Pari&s;h, or with any licence but on|ly from the Bi&s;hop of Elie, or his Chancellers, or from his grace of Can|terbury?</P>
<P N="19">19. Whether hath your Mini&s;ter with licence or without, married a|ny at any other times then betweene the houres of Eight and Twelue in the fore-noone, or in any priuate hou&s;e, or when there is no licence, be|fore their Parents and Gouernours (the parties beeing vnder the age of 21. yeares) haue te&s;tified their con&s;ents?</P>
<P N="20">20. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter declare to the people euery Sunday at the time appointed, what Holydaies and fa&s;ting-dayes be the weeke following? doth he beeing a Preacher, conferre with all Recu&s;ants and per&s;ons Excommunicate or &s;u&s;pended? beeing no Preacher, doth he pro|cure a &s;ufficient Preacher to reclaime them thereby?</P>
<P N="21">21. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter keepe a Note of all per&s;ons excom|municate, and once euery &s;ixe moneths doth he denounce them which haue not obtained their ab&s;olution, on &s;ome Sunday in &s;eruice time, that others may be admoni&s;hed to refraine their company?</P>
<P N="22">22. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter hauing notice giuen him, diligently vi&s;it the &s;icke (the Di&s;ea&s;e not beeing infectious,) doth he in&s;truct and comfort them, doth he then mooue them to make their Te&s;taments, and remember the poore, and other workes of charitie, and the pa&s;&s;ing Bell tolling, doth he then neglect his la&s;t dutie?</P>
<P N="23">23. Whether hath your Mini&s;ter refu&s;ed to baptize any Childe brought to the Church vpon any Sunday or holiday, or to burie any
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Corps brought into the Church or churchyard, or to church any women hauing had conuenient warning thereof?</P>
<P N="24">24. Whether hath your Mini&s;ter beeing truely enformed of the dan|ger of death of any Infant vnbaptized, and beeing de&s;ired to goe to the place where the child is, to baptize it, neglected to goe, by meanes whereof the child died vnbaptized?</P>
<P N="25">25. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter at any time preach or admini&s;ter the Communion in any priuate hou&s;e, except when any are &s;o impotent that they cannot goe to Church, or verie dangerou&s;ly &s;icke?</P>
<P N="26">26. Whether hath your Mini&s;ter held or appointed any publik fa&s;t, or beene pre&s;ent at &s;uch, doth he or any other in your Pari&s;h hold any lec|ture or exerci&s;e, or attempt by fa&s;ting or prayer, or otherwi&s;e, to ca&s;t out any Deuills, without the licence of the Bi&s;hop vnder his hand and &s;eale?</P>
<P N="27">27. Whether hath there beene any &s;ecret conuenticles or meetings in your pari&s;h by any Prie&s;t, Mini&s;ters, or others, tending to the depra|uing of the forme of prayer, doctrine, gouernment of the Church?</P>
<P N="28">28. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter in his iourney, weare a cloake with &s;leeues called a prei&s;ts cloake, without gards, welts, long buttons, or cuts?</P>
<P N="29">29. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter weare a wrought night-cap abroad, or a peccadilly, with a broad falling band, or doth hee weare any cut or pinckt apparell, doth he in publike goe in his Dublet and Ho&s;e, without a coat or ca&s;&s;ocke, and doth he weare any light coloured &s;tockings?</P>
<P N="30">30. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter re&s;ort to any Tauerns or Ale-hou|&s;es, except for his hone&s;t nece&s;&s;ities, or doth hee boord or lodge in any &s;uch place, doth he v&s;e any ba&s;e or &s;eruile labour, drinking, ryot, dice, cards, tables, or any other vnlawfull games? is he contentious, a hunter, hawker, &s;wearer, dauncer, &s;u&s;pected of incontinencie, or giue euill exam|ple of life?</P>
<P N="31">31. Whether is there in your pari&s;h any Mini&s;ter or Deacon, who hath for&s;aken his calling, v&s;ing him&s;elfe in his cour&s;e of life as a gentle|man or other lay man?</P>
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<HEAD>Touching Schoole-ma&s;ters.</HEAD>
<P>WHether haue you in your Pari&s;h any Schoole-ma&s;ter, who teacheth either in publike Schoole, or priuate hou&s;e, doth he giue any euill example of life, is he allowed by the Ordinarie, or doth your Mini&s;ter or Curate teach, and is he allowed in like manner?</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether doth your Mini&s;ter or Schoolema&s;ter, who teacheth, teach the catechi&s;me by authoritie &s;et forth, doth he when there is any
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&s;ermon or diuine &s;eruice, bring his Schollers to church, &amp; &s;ee the~ quietly and &s;oberly ordered, doth he examine them after their returne what they haue learned of the &s;ermon?</P>
<P N="3">3. Whether doth he at other times teach them &s;uch &s;entences of holy Scripture as may induce them to godline&s;&s;e, doth he teach the Grammar &s;et forth by King <HI>Henrie</HI> the eight, continued by King <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;ixt, and Queene <HI>Elizabeth</HI>?</P>
<P N="4">4. Whether hath he &s;poken, writ, or taught again&s;t any thing where|unto he formerly &s;ub&s;cribed, as the Kings &s;upremacie, the Articles of re|ligion, Booke of common prayer, or any thing therein contained?</P>
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<HEAD>Touching the Pari&s;h Clarke and Sexton.</HEAD>
<P>WHether haue you a Pari&s;h Clarke &s;ufficient for his place, of the age of 20, yeares at the lea&s;t, is he of hone&s;t conuer&s;ation, can he read, write, and &s;ing, is he diligent in his office, and &s;eruiceable to his Mini&s;ter, and not giuen to ouermuch drinke?</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether doth your Clarke meddle with any thing aboue his Of|fice, as churching of women, burying of the dead, reading of Prayers, or &s;uch like?</P>
<P N="3">3. Whether doth your Clarke or Sexton, keep your church cleane, the doors &s;afe locked, is any thing by his default lo&s;t or &s;poiled in the church, doth he &s;uffer vn&s;ea&s;onable ringing, or any prophane exerci&s;e in your Church?</P>
<P N="4">4. Whether doth your Clarke or Sexton, when one is pa&s;&s;ing out of this life, neglect to toll a Bell hauing notice thereof: or the partie beeing dead, doth he &s;uffer any more then one &s;hort peale, and before his buriall one, and after the &s;ame another?</P>
<P N="5">5. Whether doth any of your Pari&s;h, refu&s;e to pay vnto the Pari&s;h Clarke or Sexton &s;uch wages as are vnto them due, and haue been accu|&s;tomably paid?</P>
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<HEAD>Touching Pari&s;hioners.</HEAD>
<P>WHether hath any in your Pari&s;h &s;poken again&s;t, or any way impug|ned the Kings Maie&s;ties &s;upremacie in cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall, the Truth and Doctrine of the Church of England, the forme of Gods wor|&s;hip contained in the booke of common praier, and admini&s;tration of the Sacraments?</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether hath any in your Pari&s;h &s;poken again&s;t or impugned the Articles of religion agreed vpon in <HI>An.</HI> 1602. the Rites, and ceremonies e&s;tabli&s;hed in the Church, the gouernment by Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Deanes, Archdeacons, and others that beare office in the &s;ame?</P>
<P N="3"><PB REF="5">3. Whether haue any in your pari&s;h &s;poken again&s;t or impugned the forme of making and con&s;ecrating Bi&s;hops, Prie&s;ts, or Deacons, or haue any &s;eparared them&s;elues from the &s;ocietie of the congregation, and combined in a newe Brotherhood, or depraued the Synod lately held by the Kings authoritie?</P>
<P N="4">4. Whether hath any in your pari&s;h maintained or defended any &s;uch Mini&s;ters or Schoolema&s;ters as refu&s;e to &s;ub&s;cribe to the order of the Church, haue they affirmed that &s;uch Mini&s;ters, and their adherents may make rules and orders in cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall, without the Kings authoritie?</P>
<P N="5">5. Whether doth any in your pari&s;h prophane, violate, or mi&s;pend the Sabbath, or holy daie, or any part of them, v&s;ing any offen&s;iue con|uer&s;ation, or worldly labour in tho&s;e dayes, or any of them?</P>
<P N="6">6. Whether hath any in your Pari&s;h in the time of diuine &s;eruice co|uered his head, albeit he hath an infirmitie, in which ca&s;e a cap or night-quoife is allowed, or is there any who hath not reuerently kneeled when the generall confe&s;&s;ion, Letanie, and other prayers are read, and which haue not &s;tood vp at the &s;aying of the beleefe?</P>
<P N="7">7. Whether hath any in your Pari&s;h di&s;turbed the &s;eruice or Sermon by walking, talking, or any other way, or departed out of the church during the &s;eruice or Sermon without &s;ome vrgent cau&s;e, or loitered a|bout the church or church porch?</P>
<P N="8">8. Whether doth all pari&s;hioners receiue the holy communion thri&s;e euery yeare at the lea&s;t, whereof the fea&s;t of Ea&s;ter to be one, and haue all beeing of the age of 16. yeares, dulie receiued, or not?</P>
<P N="9">9. Whether hath any Parent beene vrged to be pre&s;ent or admitted to an&s;weare as Godfather for his owne childe, or hath any Godfather or Godmother made any other an&s;wer or &s;peech then is pre&s;cribed by the Booke, or haue any beene admitted for &s;uch at Bapti&s;me, who haue not fir&s;t receiued the communion?</P>
<P N="10">10. Whether doe all Fathers, Mothers, ma&s;ters, mi&s;tri&s;&s;es come, and cau&s;e their children, &s;eruants, &amp; apprenti&s;es to come duely to the church, and according to the mini&s;ters direction to be in&s;tructed and catechi&s;ed, or who be they that haue not obeyed the mini&s;ter herein?</P>
<P N="11">11. Whether haue any per&s;ons married together within the degrees of con&s;anguinitie or affinitie prohibited, &s;et forth in a table, appointed to be placed in euery church, or haue any married or contracted them|&s;elues vnder the age of 21. yeares, without the con&s;ent of their Parents or Gouernours, if their Parents be dead?</P>
<P N="12"><PB REF="6">12. Whether haue any per&s;ons, once lawfully married, for&s;aken each other, or doe liue a&s;under without the authoritie of the Ordinarie, or doe any beeing diuor&s;ed or &s;eparated, marrie againe, the former wife or husband yet liuing?</P>
<P N="13">13. Whether haue any beene married in the times wherein marriage is by law re&s;trained, without lawfull licence, <HI>viz.</HI> from the Saturday next before Advent Sunday, vntill the Fourteenth of Ianuarie: and from the Saturday next before Septuage&s;ima Sunday, vntill the Monday next after low Sunday: and from the Sunday before the Rogation weeke, vntil Tri|nitie Sunday?</P>
<P N="14">14. Whether hath any of your Pari&s;h vnreuere~tly v&s;ed your Mini&s;ter, or haue any laid violent hands vpon him, or di&s;graced his Office and cal|ling, by word or deed?</P>
<P N="15">15 Whether haue you in your Pari&s;h any dweller or &s;oiournour, a maintainer of Popi&s;h Doctrine, or &s;u&s;pected to keepe &s;ci&s;maticall books, or to fauour any here&s;ie or errour?</P>
<P N="16">16. Whether haue you any common re&s;orters to your Church, which are not of your pari&s;h, or doe any &s;uch receiue the Communion among&s;t you: what be their names, and of what pari&s;hes are they?</P>
<P N="17">17. Whether haue any in the time of &s;eruice opened their &s;hops, ex|erci&s;ed their trade, v&s;ed any gaming, beene in any Tauerne, or Alehou&s;e, or otherwi&s;e ill imployed?</P>
<P N="18">18. Whether are there in your pari&s;h any Adulterers, Fornicators, ince&s;tuous per&s;ons, bawdes, receiuers, clo&s;e fauourers, conueyers a|way, or which &s;uffer to depart any incontinent per&s;on vnpuni&s;hed, any bla&s;phemers, common &s;wearers, drunkards, ribauds, v&s;urers, maliti|ous &s;landerers, &s;colds, or &s;owers of di&s;cord, or any defamed of the &s;aid crimes?</P>
<P N="19">19. Whether doe any in your pari&s;h admini&s;ter the goods of the dead without authoritie, or &s;uppre&s;&s;e their will or Te&s;tament, haue any Exe|cutors neglected to performe their Wills, e&s;pecially in paying of Lega|cies giuen to the church, to the poore, or to any other charitable, or god|ly v&s;es?</P>
<P N="20">20. Whether doe any refu&s;e to pay to the reparations, ornaments, and other things required in your church, as they are cea&s;&s;ed by a lawfull ve&s;trie, or any dwelling out of your Pari&s;h, which hold land in your Pari&s;h?</P>
<P N="21">21. Whether hath any per&s;on &s;u&s;pended or excommunicated, beene &s;uffred co heare diuine &s;eruice, or the Sermon, to receiue the Sacra|ments,
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to be maried or churched, or haue any Excommunicants beene buried in chri&s;tian buriall?</P>
<P N="22">22. Whether haue any in your Pari&s;h beene chri&s;tened, churched, buried, or receiued the communion, or been maried out of your church, both parties dwelling in your pari&s;h?</P>
<P N="23">23. Whether haue all women in your pari&s;h deliuered of child, come at conuenient time after to church to giue thanks, and haue they beene churched according to the forme of the Booke of common prayer?</P>
<P N="24">24. Whether hath the preambulation of the circuit of your Pari&s;h beene ob&s;erued once euery yeare, if not, who&s;e default is it?</P>
<P N="25">25. Whether haue any in your pari&s;h giuen the churchwardens, or &s;idemen, or any of them euill words for doing their dutie, according to their oath and con&s;cience in making pre&s;entment for any fault?</P>
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<HEAD>Touching Churchwardens and Swornemen.</HEAD>
<P>WHether doe any in your Pari&s;h take vpon them to be churchwar|den or &s;ide-man, which is not lawfully cho&s;en by the Mini&s;ter, &amp; Pari&s;hioners according to the canon, or do any continue that office lon|ger then one yeare, except they be cho&s;en againe, and are all &s;uch Offi|cers cho&s;en yearely in Ea&s;ter weeke?</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether doe your churchwardens within one Moneth at the mo&s;t after their yeare ended, before the Mini&s;ter and Pari&s;hioners giue vp a iu&s;t account of all &s;uch money, and other things, as they haue receiued and be&s;towed, haue they deliuered all remaining in their hands belon|ging to their church or pari&s;h, by bill intended, to bee deliuered to the next church wardens?</P>
<P N="3">3. Whether haue the church-wardens with the advi&s;e of the the Mi|ni&s;ter, from time to time prouided a &s;ufficient quantitie of fine white bread and whole&s;ome wine for the number of communicants?</P>
<P N="4">4. Whether doe the church wardens and Swornemen, before euerie Vi&s;itation, and at other times when there is iu&s;t occa&s;ion, meete and con|ferre about their pre&s;entments, and the an&s;wering of the&s;e Articles, and who hath (after notice giuen him of the time and place) carele&s;ly ab&s;en|ted him&s;elfe?</P>
<P N="5">5. Whether the forfeiture of twelue pence for ab&s;ence from church, appointed by &s;tatute for the v&s;e of the poore, be taken and leuied by the church-wardens, and employed according to the &s;aid Statute: and whe|ther is the &s;ame forfeiture taken of all per&s;ons which &s;tand wilfully &s;u&s;|pended or Excommunicated?</P>
<P N="6">6. Whether haue any churchwardens lo&s;t, &s;old or detained any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word">
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ornaments, Bels, Rents, or implements of the Church?</P>
<P N="7">7. Whether doe you the Churchwardens and Side&s;men about the midde&s;t of Diuine Seruice, v&s;ually walke out of the Church, and &s;ee who are abroad in any alehou&s;e, or el&s;ewhere ab&s;ent, or euill employed, and haue you pre&s;ented all &s;uch to the Ordinarie?</P>
<P N="8">8. Whether doe you know, or haue heard a fame of any offence, co~|mitted, or dutie omitted by any of your Pari&s;h before your time, and heretofore not pre&s;ented to the Ordinarie, or as yet not reformed, and haue you pre&s;ented the &s;ame?</P>
<P N="9">9. Finally, doe you know of any matter or cau&s;e which is a breach of the lawes Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall here not expre&s;&s;ed, and haue you pre&s;ented the &s;ame?</P>
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