CHANCELLORS.
27 Item, whether is your Chancellor, Commissarie or Officiall learned in the Ecclesiasticall and civill lawes, and such an one as is xxvI. yeares old at the least, & hath taken some degree in schooles, and is reasonably well practised in the course of those lawes, & tou∣ching whose life and conversation, no evill report hath gone?
28 Item, whether your Chancellor, Commissarie, or any other exercising Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction in this Diocesse, their Regi∣sters, actuaries, Apparitors, or sumners have at any time wincked at, and suffered adulteries, fornications, incests, or other like offences to passe & remaine unpunished, or have commuted any penance with∣out speciall license of the Lord Bishop of the Diocesse?
29 Item, what persons are there in your parish that have beene married, that have beene divorced, and have married with others, for these three yeares last past? by whose sentence were they divor∣ced, and by whose license, and by whom were they so married? Declare your knowledge in the premisses, and what you have cre∣dibly heard.
30 Item, whether doth your Chancellor, Commissarie or Offi∣ciall for his exercising the Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction of the Dio∣cesse, give any yearely rent, summe or summes of money, or other consideration for the same, to any person or persons whatsoever?
31 Item, is there in your parish any other matter or cause of the cognizance of the Church above not expressed, worthy present∣ment in your judgement? if any such matter or cause there be, you are charged likewise to present the same, as you are the rest by ver∣tue of the same Oath.