[61] Hale, Crim.  Prec., 241-2:  “Contra Hayward, puellam.  Presentatur, for that she beinge but a yonge mayde, sat in the pewe with her mother, to the greate offence of many reverend women.”  The child (as the vicar who made the presentment continues should have sat at her mother’s “pewe dore.” 1617).  Cf. Barnes’ Eccles.  Proc., 122-3 (Janet Foggard cited for that “she beinge a yonge woman, unmarried, will not sit in the stall wher she is appointed ...").  Cf.  Hale, op. cit., 210 (One Clay and his wife “will not be ordered in church by us the church wardens [etc.]..”. 1595).

[62] Examples will be found in the act-books cited supra.

[63] Hale, Crim.  Prec., 149 (1566).  Cf. ibid., 163 (The divine service not “reverently, plainelye and distinctlye saide...” 1576).

[64] Hale, op. cit., 182 (1584).  Cf.  Whitgift’s Articles for Sarum diocese in 1588, art. viii:  “Whether your ministers used to pray for the quenes majestie ... by the title and style due to her majestie.”  Cardwell, Doc.  Ann., ii, 14.

[65] Dean of York’s Visit., 320 (1596).

[66] Hale, op. cit., 159 (1575).

[67] 3 Rep.  Hist.  MSS.  Com., 275 (A vicar presented by churchwardens in the commissary’s court at Poddington-apud-Ampthill for not catechising the youth, etc., though required to do so by one of the wardens. 1616).  For not presenting their minister when he neglected to catechise on the Sabbath, the wardens of St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, London, had to pay divers fees to the chancellor.  Brooke and Hallen, Registers of St. Mary Woolchurch Haw (1886), Wardens Acc’ts, s.a. 1593.

[68] Accordingly, by a later entry in the book we see that the warden brought in court a certificate that the surplice had been bought and worn by the vicar. Manchester Deanery Visit., 59.  For a precisely similar injunction see ibid., 62 (Wardens of Eccles).

[69] See p. 15 supra.

[70] For presentments of vicar’s (etc.) offences see pp. 31 ff. infra.

[71] L.G.  Bolingbroke; The Reformation in a Norfolk Parish, Norf. and Norw.  Arch.  Soc., xiii, 207-8 (1593).

[72] Dean of York’s Visit, 231 (1594).

[73] Ibid., 315.  See also ibid., 225 and 229.

[74] Ibid., 339 (1602).

[75] See Queen’s Inj. of 1559, art. xviii.  Also art. xviii of Archbp. (of York) Grindal’s Inj. of 1571, Parker Soc., Remains of Grindal, 132.  Also Cardwell, Doc.  Ann., i, 337, etc.  For the enforcing of the obligation by the ordinary, see numerous examples in Canterbury Visit., xxv, 22 (1585); 32 (Controversy in 1584 between two parishes as to bounds); 37 (1594).  Also ibid., xxvi, 24, 25, et passim.  Other examples in Hale, Crim.  Prec., 162, where a parishioner of Burstead Parva (Essex) is cited at a visitation for ploughing up a dole (a balk or unploughed ridge), which marked the boundary line between Burstead and Dunton parishes.  Cf. Canterbury Visit., xxv, 15, where three parishioners are presented for covering up a parish procession linch (1617).