1 HAve you any Church for Divine service, or hath it been, or is it demolished, the parishioners forced to repair unto their neighbours for Sacraments, and Sacramentals? If so; by whose default, usurpation, or impietie is it done?

2 Is your Church, though remaining, yet ruined or de­cayed in any part of the frame, fabrick, structure, walls, roof or otherwise, within or without? If so; wherein? how much? by whose fault is it?

3 Is your Church leaded, tiled, stated, not shingled, or thatched with straw or reed, all through or in part?

4 Have you a steeple of stone, brick, or timber adjoyning to your Church, in good state and reparations? wherein have you any bells hanging, and how many? or do they hang in some low shed, under a roof of boards and timber? or have they been taken down and sold away? when, and by whom?

5 Is your Church-floore decently paved with fair smooth stone, brick, or paving-tile, whole and not broken in pieces? or is it onely floored with earth? When the ground is broken up for burials (which was not wont to be) is it again renewed, levelled, paved? if not, by whose default is it? And the money taken by the Church-wardens for such burials, how is it accounted for, and expended?

6 Is your Church sweetly and cleanly kept; dust, cob-webs, and the like nusances, being weekly carried forth? Are the walls whited and kept fair? Are the seats and pews built of an uniformitie? or do they hinder and incumber their neighbours, in hearing Gods word and performing Divine service?

7 Do men and women sit together in those seats, indifferently and promiscu­ously? or (as the fashion was of old) do men sit together upon one side of the Church, and women upon the other?

8 Is your Chancell divided from the nave or body of your Church, with a partition of stone, boards, wainscot, grates, or otherwise? wherein is there a decent strong doore to open and shut (as occasion serveth) with lock and key, to keep out boyes, girls, or irreverent men and women? and are dogs kept from coming to besoil or profane the Lords table?

9 Is your Chancell well paved with fair stone, brick, or paving-tile? doth it altogether lie upon a flat, or hath it ascents up unto the altar?

10 Is your Church scaffolded every where or in part? do those scaffolds so made, annoy any mans seat, or hinder the lights of any windows in the church? Is your Chancell surrounded with seats, wherein your Parishioners common­ly use to sit, which take up the room too much, and incroch upon the proprietie of the Minister?

11 Are the lights and windows of your Church and Chancell clear, not dammed up, well monioned, well glased, and kept clean:

[Page]12 Be the doores of your Church strong and decently made with good locks and keyes? and be they kept shut, except at time of Divine service, or other necessary cause of ingresse, to keep out passengers, carriers of burdens, chil­dren playing, or the like?

13 Doth any man teach children to reade or write in your Church or Chan­cell?

14 Be furniture for souldiers, ladders, buckets, or any timber or imple­ments brought into the Church, and there disposed of as in a store-house? Are any meetings for Rates, Taxations, Levies, or the like, made in the Church, especially at the Communion-table, by Parishioners?

1 HAve you any appropriated Church-yard? or doth your Church stand in open fields, without any surroundry or inclosure?

2 Are dead bodies buried in such open and unfenced places, if any such be?

3 If you have a severall Church-yard, is it well inclosed and fenced, not onely with mounds, ditches, or hedges; but with walls, or pales, or the like? if otherwise, by whose default is it?

4 The graves there, be they conveniently covered, made seven foot deep, kept from scraping of dogs, rooting up of hogs, fouling and polluting other­wise, as the resting-places of Christians ought to be kept?

5 Though the surface of the soil, and the grasse there growing (if any such be) are the Ministers; yet it being consecrated ground, is not to be profaned by feeding and dunging of cattel.

6 Is it therefore all or in part at any time, let or hired out to be employed for pinfolds of sheep, stalls for oxen or horses, booths or standings for chap­men, at any time of any fair or market, or to dry clothes there, tanned lea­ther, or the like? For of the base-court of the Temple said our Saviour, Have these things hence.

7 Much lesse is it to be unhallowed with dancings, morises, meetings at Easter, drinkings, Whitsun-ales, Midsummer-merrymakes, or the like, nor by stool-ball, foot-ball, wrastlings, wasters, or boyes sports. If such ab­use hath been committed, say by whom, whose procurement, countenance, or abetting.

8 Is your Church-yard or any part thereof, made a laystall or dunghill? or be any such impious nusances laid neare unto the pale or mounds thereof? let the offenders be named upon inquiry, and presented.

9 Hath any neighbouring quidam or great man, encroched upon any part of the Church-yard, inclosing it to his garden, hop-yard, stable-yard, or so? pre­sent him or them so transgressing.

10 Be there any houses fronting or abutting your Church-yard, the dwel­lers wherein do annoy, soil and profance the Church-yard, by washing of bucks, emptying of sinks, chamber-pots, or the like, by casing of nature either way within that place, our under and against the Church-walls?

[Page]11 If timber-trees have been felled which grew in the Church-yard, by the Minister, Church-wardens, Parishioners or others, and sold, let the de­linquents be presented.

12 Is there a mansion-house and glebe belonging to your Parsonage or Vi­carage? If none house, by whom, and how long since was it ruined? if there be an house, is it kept in good reparations, water-tight, and wind-tight, by the incumbent? (Whereof the Archdeacon properly and principally should take no­tice.)

13 If there be a glebe belonging to the incumbent, hath any part thereof been leased out by the Patrone, incumbent, and Diocesan? of what quantity is it? hath there been upon survey a Terrar thereof made; as also of pensions or portions of Tithes in other parishes, due to yours? and is this returned in­to the Bishops registry?

14 Have any Monuments or Tombes of the dead in your Church or Church-yard been cast down, defaced, ruined? have any Arms or Pictures in glasse­windows been taken down, especially of our Saviour hanging on the crosse, in the great east-window, and white glasse or other set up in place thereof? have any leaden or brasen inscriptions upon grave-stones been defaced, pur­loyned, sold? by whom?

1 IS there in your Church a Font for the Sacrament of Baptisme, fixed un­to the Lords free-hold, and not moveable? of what materials is it made? where is it placed? whether neare unto a Church-doore, to signifie our entrance into Gods Church by Baptisme? is it covered, well and cleanly kept? at time of Baptisme is it filled with water clean and clear? or is some bason, bowl, or bucket filled with water set therein?

2 Have you a comely and convenient Pew of wainscot, for your Minister to reade Divine service in? and another to preach in? doth it stand in the face of the congregation, as much as conveniently may be, so that they may behold, and heare, and understand the Minister, in what he readeth, preacheth, or pray­eth? Have you a cloth and cushion for either, to be laid upon the desk?

3 Have you a Bible of the largest volume and biggest letter? a Service-book in folio, with the reading-psalmes; the order of Consecrating Bishops, of ordaining Priests and Deacons? be they well and fairly bound and embos­sed? and at end of Divine service, are they clasped or well tied up with fair strings, to keep out dust and soil, and to prevent tearing of the leaves?

4 Have you two fair large Surplices for your Minister to officiate Di­vine service in, that the one may be for change when the other is at wash­ing, and also serve for him that at Communion assisteth the chief Minister; that no part of Divine service may be done but with and in ministeriall vest­ments?

5 Of what assise be the Surplices, large or scantling? of what cloth, course or fine? what are they worth, if they were to be sold? For not cheapnesse but decentnesse is to be respected in the things of God.

[Page]6 Have you a Register-book, for the Christnings, marriages, burials, of parchment, well bound and kept in a chest for Church-utensils? are the names and surnames, the day, moneth and yeare duly and truly registred, to remain upon record, for clearing of many doubts and questions that may other­wise arise? and is a transcript thereof brought into the Bishops register yearly, within a moneth after the Annunciation or 25 of March?

7 Is your Communion-table, or Altar, of stone, wainscot, joyners work, strong, fair and decent? what is it worth in your opinion, were it to be sold?

8 Have you a Covering or Carpet of silk, satten, damask, or some more then ordinary stuff, to cover the Table with at all times, and a fair clean and fine linen covering, at time of administring the Sacrament?

9 Have you a Chalice or Communion-cup with a cover, of silver, and a fla­gon of silver or pewter (but rather of silver) to put the wine in? which is to be consecrated, and not to be brought into the Church and set on the Table in leather or wicker-bottles, or tavern-wine-pots, which being of vulgar, com­mon and profane imployments, ought not to be presented in the Church, or at the Lords table.

10 Have you a plate or patten fair and deep, of the same materials, for the bread? as also a corporas cloth or napkin of fine linen, to cover the bread con­secrated, (which cannot all at once be contained in the patten,) and to fold up what is not used at Communion? Are all these sacred Vtensils, clean kept, washed, scowred, rubbed, as often as need or conveniency requireth?

11 Is your Communion-table enclosed and ranged about with a rail of joyners and turners work, close enough to keep out dogs from going in and profaning that holy place, from pissing against it, or worse? and is there a doore of the same work, to open and shut? do any persons presume to enter thereinto, except such as be in holy Orders?

12 Is the Communion-table fixedly set, in such convenient sort and place within the Chancell, as hath been appointed by Authority, according to the Practice of the ancient Church, that is, at the east-end of the Chancell, close unto the wall, upon an ascent or higher ground, that the officiating Priest may be best seen and heard of the Communicants, in that sacred action?

13 Whether is the Communion-table removed down at any time, either for, or without Communion, into the lower part of the Chancell, or body of the Church? by whom, at whose instance, direction or command is it done?

14 Is the Wine for the Communion white, or reddish, which should resem­ble bloud, and doth more effectually represent the Lords passion upon the crosse, whereof the blessed Sacrament is a commemorative representation?

15 If the consecrated wine fail, or sufficeth not, doth your Minister, before he give it to the Communicants, consecrate that also which is newly supplied, as the former? or doth he give it as it cometh from the tavern, without bene­diction? For there is no Sacrament, untill the words of Institution be pro­nounced upon it; This is my bloud, &c.

16 Doth he in stead of wine, give water unto any person that is abstemious and naturally cannot indure wine? If any such be, such persons abstaining altogether from water or any other Element not ordained by Christ, ought to be taught that they are rather to communicate of the blessed Cup in their hum­ble vote and desires, then that the Minister or they should presume against our Saviours expresse Institution. For onely Institution maketh a Sacrament. And as the popish half-communion is sacriledge, so this is presumption, to change the Element appointed and used by Christ.

1 IS your Minister a Parson, Vicar, or a Curate?

2 If a Curate, what is his stipend? if a Vicar, who is the appropriatour? and what is the vicarage and parsonage impropriate worth by the yeare?

3 If he be a Parson imparsonated, is he a graduate? of what degree in schools is he? is he a double or single-beneficed man? doth he reside and exe­cute his place himself? what means doth he allow his Curate, if he resideth not?

4 If he be non-resident upon one or both his benefices, by what qualificati­on is he exempted and dispensed withall? what allowance doth he make to­wards hospitality and relief of the poore? how often in a yeare doth he repair unto his benefice, to his cure of souls? how often doth he preach unto or in­struct his flock personally?

5 Doth your Minister or Curate serve any more cures then one? if so; then how farre are they in distance asunder? can he do it conveniently?

6 For his person and deportment; is he stayed, grave, humble, modest, peaceably and religiously disposed? is he of honest life and conversation in the world? doth he endeavour and do his best to accord, and keep his Parishioners in peace, to take up and compound differences amongst his neighbours, accord­ing to solemn promise at his Ordination?

7 Or is he a brabler, brawler, contentious, seditious party; a tavern-hunt­er, an ale-house-haunter, a drunkard, using unlawfull and forbidden games? is he riotous or unseemly in his apparel beyond his means, not fitting his cal­ling, above his degree in schools, contrary to the statute of this land?

8 More particularly, doth he commonly go in silk, satten, velvet, or plush? are his clothes rather horsmens coats and riding-jacquets, then priests clokes? doth he wear long shaggy hair, deep ruffs, falling-bands down to his shoul­ders, or useth he other indecent apparel, rather fitting a swaggerer then a priest?

9 Doth he practice any mechanicall trade, solicite causes in law, use com­mon buying or selling of horses, sheep, or other cattel? is he a defamed usurer or broker? doth he commonly in person go to market to sell his corn or commo­dities, to buy his beef, mutton, &c. out of the shambles, fitting for his ser­vants, not himself, who hath had imposition of Episcopall hands, and is to meddle with divine imployments?

10 These and other misdemeanours (if any be in the ministery) are to be ta­ken notice of, and presented, out of a sincere honest desire of reformation, not out of spleen, malice, suggestion, or otherwise. For most commonly, Mini­sters, though indeed scandalous and debauched, are accounted honest, quiet, painfull, religious men, till the Parishioners fall out with them about tithes, detained or defrauded by tort, a wicked modus, or ill laudable custome, &c. Then the utmost that malice can invent, is aspersed on them.

11 Is there any Minister or Priest living in your parish, who having been admitted into holy Orders, hath relinquished and forsaken his calling, and li­veth in the course of a farmer or lay-man, using some trade, taking some farm? &c.

12 Is there any in your parish, who having been silenced or suspended by Authority, continueth in that course without seeking reconciliation, or endea­vouring to be satisfied for conformity? how doth he live, and imploy his time? what means and maintenance hath he, and from whom?

[Page]13 Or doth your Minister animate and encourage such men in perverse cour­ses, by frequenting their company, staying the publication of any suspensions or excommunications, by not denouncing in his parish-church every half-yeare, such as being excommunicated, persevere, without seeking to be reconciled and absolved?

14 Hath he concealed, or not taken notice of any conventicles or meetings, preachings, prayers, prophesyings or exercises in private houses, to the con­tempt of Authority, depraving the book of Common prayer, the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, and to the fomenting and encouraging of Separatists, and the like?

15 Doth your Minister labour by conference to reclaim any Recusants (if any such be in your parish) and to bring them from heresie or schisme, into the faith, profession, body and bosome of the Church, whether Popish or Prote­stant Recusants, who in that state be in hazard of salvation?

16 Hath any of your parish unreverently used your Minister? or said vi­olent hands upon him, or disgraced his office and calling by word or deed?

1 IS Divine Service orderly performed in your Church upon appointed times, as the book of Common prayer prescribeth?

2 Do your Parishioners come late to Church, and not at the beginning of Divine Service, to make their humble confession unto almighty God? who by coming late, deprive themselves of the benefit of Absolution, and do be­come unprofitable hearers and petitioners in that holy action. Do any depart before Service is done, and the blessing pronounced by the Priest?

3 Doth any parishioner or forreiner come into the Church with an hawk on his fist, and an hawking-pole in his hand, with spaniels coupled, to the di­sturbance of the auditory, profanation of the Church, contempt of God and his Service? a course never practised, no not amongst Pagans.

4 Do any of your Parish sixteen yeares old or upward, absent themselves commonly from Church? or do they use any gaming or exercise in Church­time? do they go into taverns, innes, or ale-houses, to bowse, or tipple upon Sundayes and Holy-dayes, in time of Divine Service?

[Page] 5 Do any keep open shops, sell wares ordinarily on Sundayes or Holy­dayes?

6 Be there any Recusants in your Parish? do they keep any priest or school-master in their houses, who refuse to come to Church and receive the Commu­nion? doth he or they labour to seduce or draw others from the Church and profession established, not contenting themselves with their own opinions?

7 Have any in your Parish retained, sold, or dispersed books unlawfull and scandalous, written by Papists, or Puritane sectaries?

8 Do any of your Parish leave their own Church, Minister and Service, and repair to other Churches ordinarily, where a more sanctified (in their opinion) Minister preacheth powerfully to their edification?

9 Is there any in your Parish who refuse to come to Church, have their children baptized, receive the Communion of their Minister, because he is no Preacher?

10 Is any of your Parish a common blasphemer of Gods holy Name, a common swearer, drunkard, usurer, foul-mouthed speaker? &c. Have any such not been presented? have they been admitted to the Sacraments?

11 Be there any in your Parish who deny, or perswade others to denie, the Kings authority over all persons, in all causes within his Realms?

12 Do any write or publickly speak against any thing in the Book of Com­mon prayer, the Confession of the Church made in 1562; or against any of the Rites and Ceremonies used & authorized in the Church for Divine Ser­vice; or against the Hierarchicall government thereof, by Archbishops, Bi­shops, Archdeacons, &c. affirming it unlawfull, Antichristian, against Gods word, and that the government by Pastours, Doctours, Lay-elders is the Sceptre of Jesus Christ?

13 Do your Parishioners at their entrance within the Church-doores, use that comely and decent deportment which is fitting for Gods house, where God, whom heaven and earth cannot contain, is said to dwell, and doth ma­nifest his goodnesse and mercy to man out of his word? Do they uncover their heads, sit bare all Service-time, kneel down in their seats, bowing to­wards the Chancell and Communion-table, and use those severall postures, which fit the severall acts and parts of Divine Service?

14 That is, Do they reverently kneel at Confession, Absolution, the Lords Prayer, the Church-prayers and petitions or Collects, as becometh suiters unto God? do they stand at the Creed, as avowing their belief in the face of heaven and earth, men and angels; at the Hymnes, and Doxologie or Glory be to the Father, &c. against the oppugners of the Trinity (which in the Primitive Church was repeated at the end of every Psalme, and ought so to be in ours) do they stand also at the reading of the Gospel, and bend or bow at the glorious, sacred, and sweet name of JESUS, pronounced out of the Gos­pel read?

15 Do your Parishioners accompany the Minister in his perambulation in Rogation-week, not onely to set out, and continue the known bounds of the Parish, but especially upon view and sight, to consider the fruits of the earth then in prime; and upon the increase or empayring of the same, to give God thanks for his goodnesse, and to procure by prayer the continuance thereof on the one, or to deprecate his anger for the other, and intreat his future blessing upon the same? For what the eye seeth, the heart rueth, and more effectually apprehendeth.

16 Doth your Minister officiate Divine Service in due place, upon set times, in the habit and apparel of his Order, with a Surplice, an Hood, a Gown, a Tippet; not in a Cloak, or sleevelesse Iacquet, or horsemans coat? for such I have known.

17 Doth he use the Absolution to be pronounced on penitents, not as it is a declaration of forgivenesse, but as a prayer, altering the words of the Common prayer-book, as some have presumed to do?

[Page] 18 Doth he reade the Psalmes, the clerk and people answering? doth he reade the first, and second Lesson, and the Psalmes, properly appointed for set dayes, according to the book of Common prayer, not as it happeneth upon open­ing of the book, or as he fancieth, or maketh choice of? Doth he plainly and di­ligently onely reade the Chapters, or doth he expound, or comment upon them, and draw uses from them to his Auditory?

19 Doth he in stead of Collects and Prayers of the Church, substitute prayers of his own devising, motion, or effusion; or alter any words of the Collects appointed?

20 Doth he upon Wednesdayes and Frydayes ordinarily, and at other ex­traordinary times appointed by the Ordinary, reade and pray the Letanie? and doth he especially on Sundayes, reade the second or latter Service at the Com­munion-table, (as the ancient tradition of the Church was to do, after the dismission or Missa of the Catechumeni, Energumeni, and Poenitentes) and not in his Pew or reading-seat, though there be no Communion; and this as well before as after the Sermon?

21 Doth he catechize, at least half an houre before Divine Service, his Parishioners in the afternoon, as he is enjoyned? (but not enjoyned to preach a popular Sermon.)

22 Doth he commonly or of set purpose, in his popular Sermon, fall upon those much disputed and little understood Doctrines, of Gods eternall Prede­stination, of Election antecedaneous, of Reprobation irrespective without sinne foreseen, of Free will, of Perseverance, and not-falling from grace: points obscure, unfoldable, unfoordable, untraceable, at which that great Apo­stle stood at gaze, with Oh the height and depth of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgements, and his wayes past find­ing out? Rom. 11.33.

23 Are his Sermons long, beyond the compasse of an houre? be his prayers before and after Sermon drawn out at length, to equall, if not exceed his Ser­mon? or doth he (as he should) conform himself unto the words which are re­commended as a form, Can. 55. consisting of Prayer for all estates and men, and of Praise or Thanksgiving for the living and the dead, by way of com­memoration, that the righteous may be had in everlasting remembrance, God be glorified in and for them, and the living incited to follow them?

IN the Primitive Church, this Sacrament was frequented and celebrated daily, especially in times of persecution; that being suddenly seised on, they might not depart without their viaticum. Afterward it fell down to every Sun­day: in processe they became Mensurna, monethly: and in latter times, devo­tion slaking, men were confined to at least thrice in one yeare, especially at Easter; which is the limitation in our Church.

1 Is this blessed Sacrament therefore administred in your Church every Sunday; or every moneth, upon the first Sunday in the moneth; or at least thrice in the yeare, whereof Easter is one time?

2 Is any publick notorious scandalous offender admitted thereto without satisfaction made unto the Church, reconcilement with enemies, confession of his faults, and promise made of amendment?

3 To which end and intent, doth the Minister admonish his Parishioners, to reform themselves, that they receive not their own damnation, as not dis­cerning the Lords body?

4 Doth he especially exhort them to make confession of their sinnes, to him­self, or some other learned, grave and discreet Minister, especially in Lent, against that holy time of Easter; that they may receive comfort and abso­lution, so to become worthy receivers of such sacred mysteries?

5 He is not to admit boyes or girls thereto, under sixteen yeares of age, nor any young person who hath not rendred an account of his faith, and is not confirmed by the Bishop: Is this observed or not? For better performing whereof, is there yearly a particular note taken of every houshold in the Pa­rish, how many persons in each houshold there are, which be capable of receiving the Communion?

6 Are the names of such as intend to receive, taken by the Minister over night, or the day before, they repairing unto him, that he may examine or instruct them, they pay their offerings, and not disquiet that sacred action in the Chancell or Church, by collecting of them then or there, and that he may proportion the multitude of receivers according to the capacity of his Chancell, and not be pestred or crowded with multitudes, who thereby may be occasioned and desire to sit in their pews in the Church, and not come up and draw neare unto the Altar or holy Table, as they are bound to do?

7 Before the Communicants ascend up into the Chancell out of their seats in the Church, that exhortation is to be said, which in the Communion-book beginneth, We be come together at this time, &c. And then this exhortation, Dearly beloved, we are come together, &c. When after this exhortation, the Com­municants are come up into the Chancell, before they dispose themselves to [Page] kneel in their severall places, (which are orderly and decently to be appointed for them) this is to be said, You that do truly and earnestly repent you of your sinnes, &c. Is this order of the Communion-book observed? if not, let it be amend­ed hereafter.

8 Doth he first receive himself in both kinds (for I have known where the Minister hath unorderly received last) upon his knees, at the Altar, having consecrated the bread and wine by the solemn and powerfull words of our Sa­viour, and none other?

9 Doth he next to himself give it to Clergy-men, if any be present, that they may assist him in giving the Cup; and afterwards to every Communicant, not standing, sitting, or going up and down, but humbly expecting till it be brought and given unto him, in such places of the Chancell as the Ordinary hath already appointed, or shall hereafter think fit? doth he receive it from the Minister, meekly kneeling upon his knees, which is the fitting posture for Communicants?

10 Doth he deliver bread and cup, severally to each Communicant, and not in grosse to all, or some part, using the words, The body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for thee: The bloud of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for thee? At pronunciation of which words directed unto them, each severall Communicant was wont in the Primitive Church to say, Amen, as profes­sing his consent unto, and approbation of the truth thereof: Which words can­not be used, being spoken not severally, but in grosse to many at one time.

11 Is the bread and wine of the best sort, fine, clean, sweet, not musty, or unsavoury? which beside the profanation, of my knowledge hath been occa­sion to some of turning Papists; who could not swallow it in disrelishment, and abhorred such negligence and contempt of Christs institution in their Mi­nister.

12 And whereas it offendeth many, that we sometimes call the Lords Ta­ble an Altar, and dispose of it Altar-wise; that we use the phrase of Sacrament of the Altar: in oppugning whereof, it hath been charged with Popery, and constantly (but ignorantly) affirmed, that in the Primitive Church it was not named an Altar for CCC yeares after Christ: to give satisfaction herein, and hereabout, both to Priests and people, I avow, upon certain knowledge out of my poore reading, That for all the time articulate, the word Table is not above thrice used, but ever Altar; and of Ecclesiasticall writers, within that time, onely Dionysius Areopagita hath it, and that but once, and occasionally: Which assertion (I am sure) cannot be refelled: and therefore if we will (as we professe to do) follow the course and practice of the ancient, Primitive, Apostolicall Church, we ought not to traduce or be offended at the name, thing, or use of Altar, whereat a manifold Sacrifice is offered to God.

1 ARe there in your Parish any adulterers, fornicatours, incestuous per­sons, bawds, receivers, close favourers, conveyers away, or which suf­fer to depart any incontinent persons unpunished, any blasphemers, common swearers, drunkards, ribauds, usurers, malicious slanderers, scolds, or sow­ers of discord, or any defamed of any the said crimes?

2 Do any refuse to pay to the reparations, ornaments, and other things re­quired in your Church, as they are cessed by a lawfull Vestry? or any dwelling out of your Parish, which hold land in your Parish?

3 Have all women in your Parish delivered of childe, come at convenient time

[Page]3 Hath the Perambulation of the circuit of your parish been observed once every yeare? if not, whose default is it?

4 Have there been any secret Conventicles or meetings in your Parish, by any Priests, Ministers, or others, tending to the depraving of the form of Prayer, doctrine, or government of the Church?

5 Have any in your Parish given the Church-wardens, or Side-men, or any of them, evil words for doing their dutie according to their oath and con­science, in making presentment for any fault?

6 Do any in your Parish profane any Sunday or Holy-day by any unlawfull gaming, drinking or tipling in taverns, innes, or ale-houses, in the time of Common-prayer or Sermon, or by working or doing the work of their trades and occupations? Do any in your Parish buy or sell, or keep open their shops, or set out any wares to be sold on Sundayes or Holy-dayes, by themselves, their servants or apprentices? or have they any other wayes profaned the said dayes? And hath the Kings declaration concerning the lawfull sports and recreations been published among you, yea or no? if so, when was it done, in what man­ner, and by whom?

7 Is the fifth day of November observed & kept in your Parish, with prayer and thanksgiving unto God, in such form as is by publick Authority appoint­ed for the day? And likewise the day of the Kings inauguration?

8 Doth any married woman within your Parish after child-birth neglect to come to Church, according to the book of Common Prayer, to give thanks to God for her safe deliverance, vailed in a decent manner, as hath been anciently accustomed? And doth she then kneel in some convenient place nigh to the Communion-table, while the priest (standing by her) giveth thanks for her? And if there be a Communion, doth she then offer her accustomed offerings, and receive the holy Communion?

9 Do all fathers, mothers, masters and mistresses, cause their children, ser­vants and apprentices to come to the publick catechizing on Sundayes and Ho­ly-dayes, to be instructed and taught therein? And those that do not their du­ties herein, in not sending them to it, or not coming, or not learning and an­swering, you shall present their names.

10 Do all your Parishioners of what sort soever, according as the Church expressely them commandeth, draw neare, and with all Christian humility and reverence come to the Lords table, when they are to receive the holy Commu­nion? And not (after the most contemptuous and unholy usage of some, if men did rightly consider) sit still in their seats or pews, to have the blessed body and bloud of our Saviour go up and down to seek them all the Church over?

11 Do you know, or have heard a fame of any offence committed by any of your Parish before your time, and heretofore not presented? and have you pre­sented the same?

1 HAve you a fit Parish-clerk, aged twenty yeares at the least, of honest life, able to reade and write? Is your Sexton an honest man of conversati­on? Doth he duly perform his office, in ringing the Bells to service, and knells, &c. doth the keep the Church clean; the doores locked?

[Page]2 Do you and other Church-wardens do your diligence in not suffering any undecent behaviour in the Church, against order, canons, law: as in not being uncovered, standing, kneeling, talking, prating, going in and out the Church in Divine Service, or the like; in not permitting any idle or refractory person to walk, play, abide in the Church-yard, or Church-porch in time of Service?

3 Do you or they visit and take notice of misdemeanours in ale-houses, tap-houses, tobacco-shops, or taverns, in time of Divine Service, and present their names and offences?

4 Do you or they permit any playes, sports, wrestlings, drinkings, or other profane usages, in the Church, Chappell, or Church-yard?

5 Do you, or have any of you, meddled with setting, placing, displacing, removing the Communion-table up and down, of your own heads, without the Minister; or with him, not by order from the Bishop?

6 Do you know of any Parishioner, or forreiner, who hath committed, or attempted such an act? If you can learn them, present their names.

7 Do any threaten, trouble, molest you, for doing your duties?

1 IS there any School-master in your Parish, who teacheth publick Gram­mar, to write or reade; or in private houses? who are they? in whose hou­ses do they teach? with licence from the Ordinary, or without?

2 Do any teach in your Church or Chancell? which is to the profanation of that place.

3 Doth any Recusant keep a School-master in his house, who cometh not to Church, nor receiveth the Sacrament, or is refractory to the Church-orders?

4 Doth any publick School-master teach the children of Recusants or Se­ctaries?

5 Doth the School-master instruct his scholars in religion, the points of Catechisme set forth in the Communion-book?

6 Doth he orderly bring his scholars to Church upon Sundayes and holy­dayes, to Prayer and Sermons?

7 Is any maintenance given to free and publick Schools, detained or invert­ed? by whom is it practised?

8 What Chirurgian and Physician have you in your Parish? is he a gradu­ate, licenced by either Vniversitie?

9 What ignorant persons have left their trade, and taken upon them to pra­ctise Physick or Chirurgery?

10 What Midwives have you, and how, or by whom licenced?

11 How long have the above specified, used such practice? what good or hurt are they reported to have done?

1 WHat peculiar or exempt Iurisdictions be claimed or executed in your Parish?

2 Be there any Ecclesiasticall Iudges, or any Clerks and ministers under [Page] them, who do take or exact any extraordinary Fees, against the Canons, or Tables which set forth those Fees, which have come to your knowledge?

3 Are there to this purpose, two Registers or Tables containing the severall rates of Fees due to each Officer, the one publickly proposed in the Consisto­ry-court, the other in the Registry, that every Subject may take view and notice thereof?

4 Do Clerks or others take any thing by way of gratuity for expedition?

5 Do you know, or have you heard of any payment, composition, or promise made to any Ecclesiasticall Officer, for conniving at any fault committed, for sparing any person, for misdemeanour of Ecclesiasticall cognizance, concealing of any excommunication? what summes have come to your knowledge, or be of publick fame? who are the delinquents?

6 What commutation hath been given? by whom? to whom? for what offence? how hath it been employed?

7 Do any Ecclesiasticall Iudges speed any act privately of themselves?

8 What number of Apparitours be there in the severall Iurisdictions? in what manner is the Countrey grieved or overburdened by them?

9 What bribes or exactions have any of them taken?

10 Distinct and punctuall answer must be made to every Article.

11 If you know of any other Ecclesiasticall crime, you are to present it upon oath, although it be not here expressed: for better knowledge whereof, you are diligently to peruse the book of Canons and Statutes, enabling Or­dinaries or their Officials to punish offences there specified.

12 The Ministers of every Parish may ioyn in presentment with the Church-wardens and Side-men: for they are intentionally the persons who should have chief care of the premised particulars. To which intent, the Mi­nister and Church-wardens should meet and conferre together often, but espe­cially to make their presentments of these or the like courses in their Parish. For misdemeanours unknown must go uncorrected. The Bishop is no Ubiqui­tary, that he can discover every thing done: but what is presented, if it be not punished, it is his fault.