1 Have you a fair chalice or communion-cup of silver, for the wine, with a large cover or paten of silver for the bread, when they are consecrated and delivered by the priest? Have you a flagon of silver, or good pewter at least, for the wine which is brought to the church, and set upon the communion-table? And are there no common tavern pots, no wicker, stone, or leathern bottles used for that holy purpose? Have you a comely and a large surplice, and where two ministers are a surplice for each of them, with wide and long sleeves; and what might it cost by the yard, or is now worth? Is it kept clean, and whole, and fair, as it ought to be? Have you a hearse to carry your dead upon to their graves, if need be? And, generally, have you all other things which, after the custom of your country or the place where you live, the parishioners are bound to find, maintain, and keep? 4. Be there any new pews or seats erected in your church Pews. or chancel, in places where none were before, or old altered, or taken away? By whom, and by what authority? [And is there any striving or contention for sitting in pews, and by whom'?] 5. Whether is your church-yard well fenced with walls, Churchpales, and rails, as hath been accustomed? Is it decently yard. kept, without abuse and noisomeness? If not, whose default is it? 6. Whether is the mansion-house of your parson, vicar, or Houses. minister, with all housing thereunto belonging, well and sufficiently repaired? Whether have you any alms-house or church-house in your parish; are they well maintained, and employed to those godly uses whereunto they were intended? 7. Whether have you a terrier, or ancient true note of all Terrier of glebe and the glebes, grounds, and portions of tithes belonging to your thes. parsonage or vicarage? Was it taken by the view of honest men in your parish? In whose hands is it? Is there a true and perfect copy thereof laid up in the bishop's registry? If none such be made, you the churchwardens and sidemen, together with the parson, vicar, or curate, are to make dili f Struck through in the MS. I. CHAP. gent inquiry of the premises, as they are or have been known by metes, bounds, and inclosures, &c., and to make, subscribe, and bring in the said terrier at the time of this your presentment, or within a time after to be prefixed. Incumbents. 8. Whether is your church full or vacant of an incumbent? If vacant, who receiveth the fruits thereof? and who serveth the cure? and by what authority? and whether is it a parsonage, vicarage, donative, or appropriations? 9. Whether hath there not any part of the said glebe, or other grounds thereunto belonging, been concealed, aliened, exchanged, or by collusion gotten and recovered from the incumbent ? 10. Whether be any of the profits, tithes, or other commodities of the church, taken and converted to the use and benefit of patrons, or such as pretend themselves to be so, and by them received and delivered? And how long have they been so detained or taken, to your knowledge? 11. Whether have any bells, ornaments, or other utensils of the church, been aliened? 12. Whether hath any encroached upon the church-yard? Is there any lease, &c.? Have any trees there growing been felled? The minis ter's example to others of good life. His degree. CHAP. II. CONCERNING THE CLERGY, THE SERVICE, THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER FIRST. Whether does your parson, vicar or minister, in his teaching, living, and doing, make himself an example unto others of godliness? Doth he so behave himself that, in the judgment of indifferent persons, he declareth his sayings and doings to search principally for the honour of God and His Church, the health of those souls that are committed to his cure and charge, the quietness of his parishioners, and the wealth and honour of this realm ? 2. Whether is he a graduate of one of the Universities of this kingdom, or not? If yea, then of what degree? Was Here the Chapter has originally ended, the remaining queries having been subsequently entered in the margin of the manuscript. coming to he admitted into holy orders by any corrupt means of gift or His order. promise? Came he to his benefice by any compact for Uncorrupt money, or for releasing the patron's or any other's tithes, his benedirectly or indirectly, as you have credibly heard? fice. 3. Is he a preacher licensed either by the bishop, or by His lione of the Universities of this realm, under their writing and cence to preach. seal; and have you seen any such licence? In case he be no such allowed preacher, doth he presume to preach, or expound the Scripture in his own cure, or elsewhere, which the canons of this Church doth wholly forbid? And doth he not, for want of his own licence, procure a sermon every month at least to be preached in his cure by them that are duly licensed, as before? or in default thereof, doth he read some of the homilies set forth and prescribed for that purpose? ber of his 4. Whether hath he more benefices than one? If he hath, The numwhat is his other benefice, and how far distant? How often benefices and how long is he absent in the year? When he is absent, and cures. hath he an allowed preacher to supply his cure? Is his curate allowed by the ordinary under his hand and seal? Curates. Doth he serve two cures in one day? What is his curate's name, and how long hath he been curate? And who was your curate before, and what has become of him? DIVINE 5. Whether doth your minister, distinctly and reverently, Saying every Sunday and holiday at least, upon their eves, and upon SERVICE other days appointed by the Book of Common Prayer, (espe- upon days appointed. cially on Wednesdays and Fridays,) say, sing, or celebrate divine service, both morning and evening, at fit and usual times of the day? 6. Doth he upon Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, add The litany. over and above unto the ordinary service of the morning, the litany and suffrages, according to the laws and canons provided, devoutly and distinctly, saying it in the middle alley of the church after the manner prescribed by the injunctionsi? 7. When upon Sundays and holidays established by law, The and upon the whole week before Easter, together with Ash- second See the canons of 1571 in Sparrow's Collection, p. 237; and those of 1604, numbers 46, 47, 49, 52, pp. 291, 292, 293. This clause has originally stood thus, after the manner accustomed 73. service. II. CHAP. Wednesday, and the days wherein St. Paul and St. Barnaby are commemorated, this is done, doth he read the second service, with the epistle and gospel, according to the Book of Common Prayer after the former service, which is the morning prayer and the litany, be ended? And when he readeth the second service, either upon Sundays, holidays, or any days before mentioned, doth he leave his former and ordinary seat or pulpit, and go unto the north side of the holy communion table, and standing there, begin with the Lord's Prayer, &c., according to the form prescribed, until the sermon time, and if there be no sermon, until the end of the service? The time mon. 8. When there is any sermon together with the service, of the ser- doth it come in orderly and in due place, namely, after the reading of the gospel and the profession of the Christian faith in the last service, as is prescribed in the book? The ser sermon. 9. When the sermon is ended doth he return unto the vice after holy table, and there proceed and make an end of the whole service, as he is likewise directed to do in the communionbook? Omitting any part service. Reading vice. 10. Whether doth he, in regard of his own long prayer or any other respect, diminish the divine service or prayers of the Church; as for instance, doth he leave out the Nicene Creed, or doth he not rehearse the gospel, or read the commandments upon any Sunday and holiday, &c., whereby the parishioners may lose the fruit, knowledge, and belief of such things, which it most of all concerns them to have? 11. Further, whether doth he not only upon Sundays and daily ser- holidays, and the days before mentioned, but upon every day also, say the daily morning and evening prayer, either privately at home, or publicly in the church, as he is bound to do, (having no urgent cause to hinder him,) by the preface to the communion-book established by law, inasmuch as he is a public person appointed to offer up unto God the daily prayers of the Church for His people? other prayers or Adding no 12. Doth he add unto the public prayers and service of the Church, any prayers of his own, or other men's framing? hymns, Doth he substitute of his own head and appoint any other and using no other psalms, hymns, or lessons, in the place of those which are appointed by law? And doth he not at any time use to say than is any common or open prayer, and to administer the Sacraprescribed. form of service ments otherwise or in any other manner and form, than is prescribed in the said liturgy of our Church? tion of the ceremo 13. Doth he, as well in reading or singing of service, as in Observaadministering any of the Sacraments, in solemnizing matrimony, in visiting the sick, burying the dead, and churching nies. of women, observe all the orders, rites, and ceremonies prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer, in such manner and form only as is there enjoined, without any omission, or addition, or alteration whatsoever ? the sur plice, and 14. Doth he in the time of public and divine service, as Wearing well morning and evening, and at all other times of his ministration, when any Sacrament be administered, or any other never omitting rite and ceremony of the Church solemnized, use and wear it. the surplice, without any excuse or pretence whatsoever? And doth he never omit the samek? 15. Whether doth he in due time and place, that is to say, Bidding immediately before the reading of the offertory in the second the holidays and service, bid the holidays and fasting days, if any be the week fasting days. following, whereby the people may religiously prepare themselves for the celebration thereof? And are the said holidays and fasting days observed accordingly1? secration 16. Doth he take upon him, being but a deacon only, and The connot yet admitted into the sacred order of priesthood, to conse- and absocrate the holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, or to pronounce lution. the absolution of sins, either in the preparation to matins and evensong, or in the administration of the Lord's Supper, or in the visitation of the sick, after confession? end of the The 17. Doth he rehearse the 'Gloria Patri,' &c., at the end of The doxoevery psalm? And doth he, between the lessons and the logy at the Creed, at matins, use and say 'Te Deum' or 'Benedicite,' and psalms. 'Benedictus' or 'Jubilate;' and between the lessons and the hymus Creed at evensong, 'Magnificat,' or 'Cantate Domino,' and after the 'Nunc Dimittis,' or 'Deus misereatur nostri,' in the words that are prescribed in the service-book only, and no other, or otherwise? m lessons. 18. Doth your minister, or any other person, baptize any Adminis |