[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).