[118] Ibid. 184 (A child not baptized at the parish church); 189 ("A child christened, and not known where"); 190 (Same).  Hale, Crim.  Prec., 216 ("Keeping her child unbaptized a whole moneth.” 1597). Ibid., 183 (Curate of Blackmore, Essex, suspended from the celebration of the rites because “there was tow children... which died unchristened by his necligence.” 1584).

[119] Warrington Deanery Visit., 189; 190 ("His wife churched not known where").  Hale, ubi sup., 167.

[120] Warrington Deanery Visit., 185 (Office of judge against James Woswall:  “His children come not to bee catechised").  See Canons of 1571 (Parents and masters to be presented for not regularly sending children or apprentices to learn the catechism), Cardwell, Syn. i, 120.

[121] See Queen’s Visit.  Art. of 1559 in Cardwell, Doc.  Ann., i, 211.  Hale, Crim.  Prec., 226 (One Robinson presented for not going to his minister to be examined in the principles of religion of which he was ignorant). Barnes’ Eccles.  Proc., 122-3 (An offender “lackeinge the catechism dyde thrust in amongest others and receyvid ...”  Another was “repulsed from the Communion because he coulde not saye the 10 commaundements, in whome we can perceyve no towardnes to learne them").  Also Hale, ubi supra, 146, 159, etc.

[122] Presentments for not receiving are numerous in the act-books.  A few references are, Dean of York’s Visit., 219 ff. E.g., at Goathland 20 persons are presented by name.  See also Hale, Crim.  Prec., 163, 171, 176, etc., and the other act-books heretofore cited.  Also canons, injunctions and visitation articles of the time, e.g., Canons of 1571 (Vicars, etc., to present all over fourteen who have not received) in Cardwell, Syn., i, 120.  Grindal’s Inj. for York, 1571 (All above fourteen to receive in their own churches at least three times a year), Cardwell, Doc.  Ann., i, 336.

[123] See Heywood Townshend, Proc. in the Last Four Parl. of Eliz., Debates, passim.

[124] J.E.  Foster:  Ch’wd’ns Acc’ts of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge (1905), 225 (Item for paper book to write in all names of the parish at Easter. 1590-1). Ibid., 202 (Item to a scribe for writing names of communicants).  Thos.  North, Chronicle of St. Martin, Leicester, Ch’ivd’us Acc’ts, 171 (Item same as above. 1568-9).

[125] E. Freshfield, Vestry Minutes of St. Christopher-le-Stocks, Append., 71.

[126] Ibid., 7.  For similar vestry orders see Vestry Minutes of St. Margaret, Lothbury, London (also edited by Dr. Freshfield), pp. 1 (1571) and 15 (1583).  Also G.W.  Hill and W.F.  Frere, Memorials of Stepney Parish, 43 (1602), and 51 (1605/6).

[127] Burn, Eccles.  Law, i (ed. 1763), 274, sub voce Church, says:  “And if any of the parishioners refuse to pay their rates, being demanded by the churchwardens, they are to be sued for, and to be recovered in, the ecclesiastical courts, and not elsewhere.”