That presentment to the ordinary was the common and usual way, not only of recovering church rates, but any thing of value that belonged to the parish and was unjustly detained, the act-books and other documents of the time plentifully show.  Thus in Archbishop Parker’s Visitation Articles for the diocese of Canterbury in the year 1569, he requires all churchwardens to report to their ordinaries “whether there be any money or stoke, appertaininge to any paryshe churche, in anye manne’s handes, that refuse or differeth to paye the same [etc.]."[130] The wardens of Melton Mowbray record under the year 1602 an item for charges at the court at Leicester against a parishioner “for not payinge his levi for the churche."[131] Those of Ashburton, Devon, itemize in 1568-1569 two shillings “for a zytation to those that wold nott pay to the power."[132] As the wardens of East Tilbury were going about among the parishioners demanding money of each one according to the rating inscribed on an assessment roll which they carried with them, one Garrett, a constable, discontented that he himself should be rated as high as four shillings, seized the roll and refused to produce it.  This, of course, put an end to further collections.  For this he was presented by the vicar before the consistory court at Stratford Bow Chapel.  Here he alleged that the rating “was very unequally made.”  But the judge warned Garrett to appear in court the following Tuesday to answer for his contempt.  Further he was to pay his four shillings to the wardens and bring to the judge the wardens’ certificate that he had done so.  On the day appointed Garrett was present in court with the vicar and wardens.  The decree of the court is headed:  “Negotiu[m] reparac[i]o[n]is eccl[esi]e de East Tilburie,” and is so characteristic of the thoroughgoing and searching manner in which ordinaries supervised the administration of parish affairs that we cannot forbear to quote a large part of it in full.  “Touchinge the same Wm Garrett,” the registrar inscribes in the act-book, “the churchwardens do here testifie that he hathe payd his iiij s. w[hi]ch he was rated at...& they saye they have receyved it.  Towching the churchwardens & the repayre [of] the church,” the scribe continues, “the Judge doth order that the minister, Mr Howdsworth, [and seven others named, including wardens, sidemen and constables]...p[ro]cure workmen of all trad[es], & then sett downe under their hand in writing what chardg it will be to repayer the church sufficiently in all thing[s] wharein it is decayd, as namely, tyling, paving, masonns worke, carpenters worke & glasing...and when they have under the workmens hand founde what will repayer the churche in every p[ar]ticuler, then shall they all nyne assemple themselves in the church [on a day named]...and make a rate to that proportion w[hi]ch shall remayne above the rate already allowed of...and they shall certify in Stratford bowe Chappell bothe of the vew making by the workmen, of the gathering