592 Ve IIISTORY of the PuRiTAN.s. Chap, V. K. Charles L.every year ?Doth he pray for the king with his whole title ? r_). Doth he pray for the archbifhopsand bithops ?Doth he obferve all the orders, rites, and ceremonies, prefcribed in the book of common_ prayer, and adminifiring the facrament ?Doth he receive the facra- ment kneeling himfelf, and adminifter to none but fuch as kneel ?---_ Doth he admit to the facrament any notorious offenders or fchifmaticks? ---Do the (hangers of other parifhes come often, or frequently toyour church ?-Dothyour minifter baptize with the fign of the eras ?Is your minifter licenced, and by whom ? Doth he wear the furplice while he is reading prayers and adminiflring the facraments ? Doth he catechize and inflrutt the youth in the ten commandments ?' --Doth he folemnize marriage without the bans? Doth he in rogation -days ufe the preambulation round the parifh ?Doth he every fix months de- nounce in the parifh, or publickly declare the names of] all fuch as perfe- xere in the fentence of excommunication, not feeking to be abfolved ? --. Doth he admit anyexcommunicate perlons into the church without a cer- tificate of abfolution ? Is your minifter a favourer of recufants ? . Is he noted to be an incontinent perfon ; a frequenter of taverns, ale.. boules; a common gamefter, or player at dice ?Hath your minifter read the book of fports in his church or chapel ? Doth he read the fe- cond fervice at the communion -table ? Doth he ufe conceived prayers before or after fermon ? With regard to church-yards, are they confecrated ? Are the graves dug eaft and weft, and the bodies buried with their heads to the well ? Do your parithioners at going in and out of the church, do reverence towards the chancel ? Cant. Doom. Do they kneel at confefíïon, Hand up at the creed, and bow at the glorious P 9 6 name of Jefus ? &c. with divers articles of the like nature. IUlifhief9' The weight of thefe inquiries fell chiefly upon the puritans, for within Ibem. thecompafsof two years and four months, no lets than fifty able and pious minifters were fufpended, filenced, and otherwife cenfured, to the ruin of -their poor families, for not obeying one or other of there articles ; among whom were the reverend Mr. rohn Allen, Mr. , fohn Ward, Mr. William Fowel, Mr. `John Carter, Mr, Afhe, Mr. WilliamBridges, Mr. yeremiah Burroughs, Mr. Greenhill, Mr. Edmund Calamy, Mr. Hud/on, Pech, Ray- mond, Green, Mott, Kent, Alen, Scott, Beard, Moth, Manning, War- ren, Kirrington, and others, in the diocefe of Norwich. In other diocefes were Mr. fonathan Burre, Mr. WilliamLeigh, Mr. Matthew Brownrigge, Mr, G. Huntley, Vicars, Proud, Workman, Crowder, Snelling, &c. fome of whom fpent their days in filence; others departed their country into parts beyond fea; and none were releafed without a promife to conform to the bifhops injuntlions editis & edendis, i. e. already piublqhed, or here- after by bepublifbed. Bilhop
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