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Examples will be found in the act-books cited supra. Hale, Crim. Hale, op. cit., 182 . 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. Dean of York's Visit., 320 . Hale, op. cit., 159 . 3 Rep. Hist.
Soc., i, s.a. 1586-7, where is recorded an expense item for a payment to "Mr. Chauncelor" for entering a presentment for collections for the poor. See act-books above cited. Also Hale, Crim. Prec., 165, et passim. Barnes' Eccles. Proc., 118, et passim. Norf. and Norw. Arch. Hale, Crim. Cf. Grindal's Inj. at York, 1571, in Cardwell, Doc. Ann., i, 337. Cf.
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. Those of Ashburton, Devon, itemize in 1568-1569 two shillings "for a zytation to those that wold nott pay to the power."
Cf. also Grindal's Injunc. for the Province of York , art. 17, Remains of Grindal, Parker Soc., 132 ff. See Visitations of the Archdeacon of Canterbury, Archaeologia Cantiana, xxvi , 24 . Mr. Arthur Hussey has published copious extracts from the act-books of these visitations extending over a considerable period in vols. xxv-xxvii of the Arch. Cant. For perambulations see p. 27 infra.
The act-books teem with such presentments as the following: one Holaway refuses to give to the poor-box, "and is found able by the parish." Thomas Arter will give but a half-penny to the poor. Arter appears and "saithe that he is not of the wealthe that men takithe him to be." The judge commands him to pay a half-penny every week, and dismisses him.
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