Midwives licensed

In the articles to be inquired into in the province of Canterbury, anno 1571 (*Grindal Rem.*, Park. Soc. 174-58), inquiry to be made "Whether any use charms, or unlawful prayers, or invocations, in Latin or otherwise, and *namely, midwives in the time of women's travail of child*." In the oath taken by Eleanor Pead before being licensed by the Archbishop to be a midwife a similar clause occurs; the words, "Also, I will not use any kind of sorcery or incantations in the time of the travail of any woman." Can any of your readers inform me what charms or prayers are here referred to, and at what…