[96] Manchester Deanery Visit., 63 ("They [ministers of Manchester] be nott dutifull in visitinge the sicke").

[97] “And if the churchwardens and swornmen be negligent, or shall refuse to do their duty ... ye shall present to the ordinary both them and all such others of your parish as shall offend....”  Archbp.  Grindal’s Inj. at York, 1571, Remains of Grindal, Parker Soc., 129.

[98] Or judge acting by delegation from the ordinary.

[99] “Against the Reader [of Denton Chapel] ... doth not Reade the Injunctions....” Manchester Deanery Visit., 60. “Qui [wardens of Belby] dicunt, the Articles being diligentlie redd unto them [etc.]...” Dean of York’s Visit., 221 (1591). Ibid., 341.  Cf. Queen’s Inj. of 1559, Art. xiv.

[100] Hale; Crim.  Prec., 193.  Cf.  Grindal’s Inj. at York, 1571:  “Ye [the ministers] shall openly every Sunday ... monish ... the churchwardens and sworn men of your parish to look to their oaths [etc.] ...” Remains of Grindal, 129.  Also Whitgift’s Articles of 1583, Cardwell, Doc.  Ann., i, 406 (Ministers to warn parishioners once a month to repair to church).

[101] Canterbury Visit., xxv, 36.

[102] Cf.  Canons of 1597:  “De recusantibus et aliis excommunicatis publice denunciandis.”  Cardwell, Syn., i, 156.  Also Croke’s Eliz.  Rep., Leache’s ed. (1790), i, Pt. ii, 838, where a plaintiff sues for damages because defendant, a curate, maliciously erased the original name in an instrument of excommunication and inserted plaintiff’s name, “and read it in the church, whereupon he was inforced to be absent from divine service, and to be at the expence to procure a discharge for himself” (1599). Canterbury Visit., xxvii, 219 (Rector of Swalecliffe presented for keeping back and not announcing excommunications “sent out of this court.” 1596).

[103] Canterbury Visit., xxvii, 219 (Rector suffering excommunicates to come to his church during service).  See also infra, p. 47.

[104] Canons of 1585 and 1597, Cardwell, Syn., i, 144 and 155-6 respectively.

[105] See in Hale, Crim.  Prec., 206-7, the elaborate formula of confession prescribed for Wm. Peacock of Leighton, Essex, in 1592.  He was to “publiquely after the minister ... confesse [etc.] ...”

[106] Hale, op. cit., 160 (Margaret Orton’s penance for adultery.  “And ther was redd the firste parte of the homilie againste whoredome & adulterie, the people ther present exorted to refraine from soche wickedness...").

[107] See pp. 12-13, and p. 27, supra.

[108] Barnes’ Eccles.  Proc., 114 (Parishioner in a Durham parish presented for absenting himself “twice at morning prayer, and verrey often at eveninge prayer.” 1579).  Houghton-le-Spring Acc’ts, s.a., 1596, Surtees Soc., lxxxiv (1888), 271 (Giving in a bill of presentment for those absent from morning and from evening prayer).