Articles concerning parishioners and others of the Laitie.
1 VVhether all housholders in your parish cause their children, seruants and apprentises, both mankind and womankind being aboue seuen yeares of age, and vnder twentie, which haue not learned the catechisme, to come to the church on sundaies and holidayes at the times appointed for cate∣chising, and there diligently and obediently to heare, and what bee 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 church wardens do quarterly deliuer to the Archdeacon a note of al those who do not send their children & seruants to be catechised
3 VVhether any do worke or keepe any shoppe open vpon Saboth daies, or vpon any holidaies appointed by the lawes of this realme to be kept ho∣liday, or vse any worke or labor, or open shew of their wares in any of those daies.
4 VVhether you your selues or the Churchwardens in the yeares be∣fore you haue suffered any vnmarried women being begotten with child, to go out of your parish before she hath done penance, or any man defamed of whoredome to depart vnpunished, vppon direction appoynted by the or∣dinarie. And forth of whose houses haue they gone away with child vnpu∣nished, and how many vnmarried women which haue béene deliuered within your parish these thrée years last past, haue gone away without do∣ing of penance.
5 VVhether 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 hée be able to reade, and whether hée kéepe the bookes and ornaments of the Church faire and cleane, and cause the church, and quire, the communion table and the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to bee kept cleane and decent against the seruice time, the communion, sermon, and baptisme.
6 Whether there bee any person or persons ecclesiasticall or temporall within your parish or elsewhere within this Dioces, that haue retained and kept in their custodie, or that reade, sel, vtter, disperse, carrie, or deliuer to others any English bookes or libels, sette forth either on this side or beyond the seas, by papists or others against the Quéens supremacie in causes ecclesiasticall, or against true religion and catholike doctrine, or