questmen

In his Injunctions he exhorted "the curates, church-wardens, and questmen to erect and set up the Lord's Board after the form of an honest table."

Studies in the Book of Common Prayer 1900

By the canons of 1603 the churchwardens or questmen were to provide in every church a comely and decent pulpit, to be set in a convenient place within the same, and there to be seemly kept for the preaching of God’s word.

The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam 1846