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authority_n	act_n	person_n	power_n	4,318	5	5.0707	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00118	Articles to be enquired of, in the Kynges Maiesties visitacion.	Church of England.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII).	1547 (1547)	STC 10116.5; ESTC S112543	4,821	14

❧ ❧ ARTICLES to be enquired of in the Kynges Maiesties Visitacion FIrst whether that the Bishop Archedeacons and other hauynge iurisdiccion Ecclesiasticall haue caused onely to be song or sayde the English Procession in their Cathedrall churche other churches of their Diocesse Item whether your Bishop Chauncelor Commissarie Archedeacon or Officiall be propense and light in excommunicating of men for a litle Lucre. Item whether they or any of them for one mans trespasse haue taken away from the people and the whole parishioners their diuine seruice as for violatyng suspending the churche yeardes and suche lyke Item whether thei do take excessiue somes of money for consecratinge agayne either of the church yeardes or of any other ornamentes for the vse of alters or of belles where is no nede of consecracion but is supersticiouse and lucratiue Item whether that they or any of them take any great exactions for institucions inducciōs assignations of pencions or for any other mater Ecclesiasticall Item whether they do lightly call any Persons before them ex officio and put thē to their purgacion without vrgent suspicion or infamy proued Item whether the Bishop haue not preached without dissimulacion agaynste the vsurped power of the Bishop of Rome and setfurth the kynges of Maiesties Iurisdiction to bee the onely supreme power in all his realmes and dominions Whether the Bishop haue personally preached in any of your churches or any wher with in this diocesse and how ofte in the yere Item whether he and hys officers haue diligētly executed for their part our late Kynges Iniunctions and his letters missiues for a due order in the religion of Christe and caused the sayde Iniunctions and letters to be diligently put in execution thorough his Diocesse Item whether he hath learned and discrete officers vnder him that do without any respect of persones punyshe suche crymes as apperteyneth to Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction Item whether he or any of his officers do take any money or other gifte to hyde cloke adultery or any other notorious vyce that ought by them to be punished Item if any commutacion of penaunce haue ben made to a pecuniary some to what purpose thesame hathe bene conuerted and what good dedes hathe bene done with thesame and specify thesame deedes Item whether the bishop hath suche chaplaines aboute hym as been hable to preache thee woorde of God and do thesame purely and sincerely and howe ofte in the yere how many they be and what be their names ITem whether Persones Vicars Curates and euery of them haue iustly and truely without dissimulaciō preached agaīst the vsurped power and pretensed aucthoritie iurisdiccion of the Bishop of Rome Item whether thei haue preached and declared that the Kynges Maiesties power aucthoritie and preeminence is wythin thys Realme and the dominiōs of thesame the moste supreme and highest vnder God Item whether any persone hath by writyng Cyphryng Printyng preachyng or teachynge dede or acte obstinately holden and stand with to extoll set furthe maintein or defende the aucthoritie iurisdiccion or power of the Bishop of Rome or of his Sea heretofore claimed and vsurped or by any pretense obstinatly or maliciously inuēted any thyng for the extollyng of the same or any parte therof Item whether they haue declared to theyr Parishioners the articles concernyng the abrogacion of certayn superfluous holy dayes and dooen their indeuoure to perswade their sayed Parishioners to kepe and obserue thesame articles inuiolably and whether any of those abrogated daies hath sithens thesayed abrogacion been kept as holy dayes contrary to thesaid articles and by whose occasion they were so kept Whether there do remayne not taken doune in your Churches Chapelles or els where any misused Images with Pilgrimages clothes stones shoes offerynges kissynges Candelstickes trindilles of waxe and suche other like and whether there do remayne not delayed and destroyed any Shrines coueryng of Shrines or any other monumēts of Idolatrie Supersticiō and Hypocrysy Whether thei haue not diligently taught vpon the Sondaies and holy daies their Parishioners and specially the youth their Pater noster the Articles of oure faythe and the Tenne commaundemētes in English and whether thei haue expounded and declared the vnderstandyng of thesame Whether thei haue diligently duely reuerently ministered the sacramētes in their cures Whether such beneficed men as be lawfully absent from their benefices doo leaue their cure to a rude and vnlearned persone and not to an honest well learned and expert Curate Whether thei haue prouided laied in some conuenient place of the churche where thei haue cure a bible of the largest volume in Englishe Whether Persones Vicars Curates Chaūtery Priestes and other stipendaries be commō haunters and resorters to Tauernes and Ale-houses geuing themselfes to excessiue drinkyng riotyng and plaiyng at vnlawfull games and apply not themselfes chiefly to the study of scripture teachyng of youthe or some other honest and Godly exercise Whether thei be resident vpon their benefices and kepe hospitalitie or no and if thei be absēt or kepe no hospitalitie whether thei do make due distribucion emonges the poore Parishioners or no. Whether they hauing yerely to dispēd in spirituall promociōs an C. l. do not find cōpetenly one scolar in any vniuersitie or at some grāmer scole and for asmany C. l. as euery of them may dispend so many scolars likewise be founde by them and what be their names that thei so find Whether thei kepe their Chauncelles Rectories Vicarages and all other houses apperteynyng to them in due reparacions Whether thei haue euery lent required their Parishioners in their confession to recite their Pater noster tharticles of our faith the Tēne commaundementes in Englishe Whether thei haue coūsailed or moued theyr Parishioners rather to praye in a toungue not knowen then in Englishe or to put their truste in any prescribed numbre of prayers as in saiyng ouer a numbre of beades or other like Whether thei haue preached or caused to bee preached purely and syncerely the word of God the faith of christ in euery of their cures euery quarter of the yere once at the least Exhortyng their Parishioners to the workes commaunded by scripture and not to workes diuised by mānes phantasies Whether in their sermōs they haue exhorted the fathers and Mothers Masters and gouernors of youth to bryng theim vp in some verteous study or occupacion Whether thei haue exhorted the people to obediēce to the kynges Maiestie and his officers and to charitie and loue one to another Whether thei haue moued the people to read and heare the scripture in Englishe haue not discoraged theim from readyng and hearyng of thesame suche as be not prohibited so to do Whether thei haue declared to their parishioners that thei ought to knowe and vnderstande the Pater noster the Articles of our faith ten cōmaundemētes in Englishe before thei should receiue the blessed Sacrament of the aulter Whether thei haue taught the people the true vse of