This appendix contains a list of visitation articles for the early Stuart Church, both printed and manuscript, which survive for twenty-six dioceses in England and Wales. Enquiries for cathedrals, dioceses, archdeaconries, peculiars and exempt colleges and hospitals are included, though not for the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. Articles are listed in alphabetical order of dioceses, first for the province of Canterbury, then for the province of York, accompanied by the full name of the ordinary or official issuing each set, information which is not always recorded on the titlepage of articles. Often archbishops of both sees issued a single set of articles for a number of dioceses during their metropolitical visitations, and these have been entered as separate items for each diocese in which the set was known to have been used. The appendix is as complete as possible, though I am certain that other sets await discovery; in total, and excluding printed variants or duplicate editions of the same enquiries, it records 401 sets of articles for the years 1603-1642: 59 of them relating to cathedrals, 195 to dioceses, 127 to archdeaconries, and 20 to peculiars.

The location of manuscript items appears in the footnotes; sets without footnotes are all printed, and their whereabouts can be traced through The Revised Short-Title Catalogue of Books…1475-1640, i. nos. 10133.7-10382, iii. nos. 10137.3C-10382, and Wing, Short-Title Catalogue of Books… 1641-1700(revised 2nd edition, 1994), i. nos. C4015BA-C4080A.

Where possible, printed enquiries are listed by date of use rather than date of publication. The former usually appears on the titlepage, in print or in manuscript, or else can be established from ecclesiastical records. Most of these manuscript additions are recorded in RSTC, and a few more are supplied in the footnotes here; the latter also note occasions when the date of visitation on the titlepage is inaccurate, and when a set of enquiries appears to have been recycled, or amended, for a forthcoming visitation. My inspection of the extant articles has not been exhaustive - though I have examined over 60 per cent of the 600+ sets, including duplicates, listed here, in RSTC and in Wing - and fiirther study will no doubt reveal more cases of annotated or modified sets of printed enquiries.

Finally, the footnotes list modern reprints or collations of these visitation articles, both in these two volumes and elsewhere.